Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

[Jody Garnett]

That is great Dirk.

One thing that always gets me in the AGM meeting is how little I know about
what is going on in our organization.  If you have any ideas about making
 local chapters activities more visible to our community it would be
appreciated.

Hopefully listing events local chapters are attending on the website can
help help in a small way, and email threads like this one.

--
Jody Garnett

On 24 October 2017 at 14:16, Dirk Frigne  wrote:

> Jody,
>
> This is exactly what we are doing with OSGeo.BE.
> Last edition (Mar 2017) we attended BeGeo[1], an event where more than
> 1000 GIS experts attend.
> In 2018 the event will be even attract more people.  We want to have a
> booth there, and are also organising one of the 9 parallel tracks [2]:
>
> I suggested as the title of the track: How open collaboration can help
> geospatial intelligence to the next level?
>
>
> Dirk
>
> [1] http://begeo.be/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BeursFolder2017.pdf
> [2] http://begeo.be/fr/
>
> On 24-10-17 22:54, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > I think it would be great of we promote events that OSGeo is attending
> > in an official capacity (like if a local chapter has a booth or
> > something). Guido has set up a number of guest appearances for OSGeo
> > (mostly partner events) in 2017 and we could of promoted our attendance
> > a bit more.
> >
> > Getting OSGeo present at more "normal" GIS events would be a great
> > outreach goal for 2018.
> >
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> > On 24 October 2017 at 13:32, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> > >
> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional
> > Geo-event coming together for this coming May.  It will have a
> > fairly high OSGeo footprint as well.
> >
> > The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for
> > 300-350 this time around.  What’s the best way to promote this type
> > of (somewhat fractional) OSGeo event in the OSGeo universe?  We’ll
> > have 15-20% OSGeo based presentations.
> >
> > bobb
> >
> >
> >> On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> >> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Yeah, the more we mull this over, the more I’m leaning towards a
> >> online Event form.  Centralized collection of the information is
> >> the hardpart, the next step would be to figure out how to
> >> disseminate.   The Online Form could be used to post to the
> >> appropriate list(s) and populate event calanders and news
> >> feeds. Some of this could be left up to the poster too, with
> >> dropdown/checklists in the form for the desired publication
> >> endpoints.  I still think there may need to be a vetting piece in
> >> front of the actual publishing though.  But since all info of this
> >> type could conceivably be funneled through this new Event form,
> >> then the vetting process could be automated to a fairly high
> >> degree, and it could be set up to work with multiple individuals
> >> with the vetting authority, even similar to TRAC . . . .
> >>
> >> bobb
> >>
> >>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Johnson  >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Should be able to, but ingesting from various different platforms
> >>> would be harder than just getting everyone to cross post to one
> >>> single
> >>> place for OSGeo.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jody Garnett
> >>> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

[Marc Vloemans]

Hey Bob,

Please contact me directly (no need to burden the list with noise). I can give 
some pointers, which at the same time will be the start of a checklist for 
future reference for other events. To be published in the Marketing wiki and 
announced on this list (better signal to noise ratio)

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 24 okt. 2017 om 22:32 heeft Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
>  het volgende geschreven:
> 
> All,
> 
> Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Geo-event coming 
> together for this coming May.  It will have a fairly high OSGeo footprint as 
> well.
> 
> The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for 300-350 
> this time around.  What’s the best way to promote this type of (somewhat 
> fractional) OSGeo event in the OSGeo universe?  We’ll have 15-20% OSGeo based 
> presentations.
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> Yeah, the more we mull this over, the more I’m leaning towards a online 
>> Event form.  Centralized collection of the information is the hardpart, the 
>> next step would be to figure out how to disseminate.   The Online Form could 
>> be used to post to the appropriate list(s) and populate event calanders and 
>> news feeds. Some of this could be left up to the poster too, with 
>> dropdown/checklists in the form for the desired publication endpoints.  I 
>> still think there may need to be a vetting piece in front of the actual 
>> publishing though.  But since all info of this type could conceivably be 
>> funneled through this new Event form, then the vetting process could be 
>> automated to a fairly high degree, and it could be set up to work with 
>> multiple individuals with the vetting authority, even similar to TRAC . . . .
>> 
>> bobb
>> 
>>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Should be able to, but ingesting from various different platforms
>>> would be harder than just getting everyone to cross post to one single
>>> place for OSGeo.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jody Garnett  
>>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

[Dirk Frigne]

Jody,

This is exactly what we are doing with OSGeo.BE.
Last edition (Mar 2017) we attended BeGeo[1], an event where more than
1000 GIS experts attend.
In 2018 the event will be even attract more people.  We want to have a
booth there, and are also organising one of the 9 parallel tracks [2]:

I suggested as the title of the track: How open collaboration can help
geospatial intelligence to the next level?


Dirk

[1] http://begeo.be/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BeursFolder2017.pdf
[2] http://begeo.be/fr/

On 24-10-17 22:54, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I think it would be great of we promote events that OSGeo is attending
> in an official capacity (like if a local chapter has a booth or
> something). Guido has set up a number of guest appearances for OSGeo
> (mostly partner events) in 2017 and we could of promoted our attendance
> a bit more.
> 
> Getting OSGeo present at more "normal" GIS events would be a great
> outreach goal for 2018.
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 24 October 2017 at 13:32, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> > wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional
> Geo-event coming together for this coming May.  It will have a
> fairly high OSGeo footprint as well.
> 
> The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for
> 300-350 this time around.  What’s the best way to promote this type
> of (somewhat fractional) OSGeo event in the OSGeo universe?  We’ll
> have 15-20% OSGeo based presentations.
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Yeah, the more we mull this over, the more I’m leaning towards a
>> online Event form.  Centralized collection of the information is
>> the hardpart, the next step would be to figure out how to
>> disseminate.   The Online Form could be used to post to the
>> appropriate list(s) and populate event calanders and news
>> feeds. Some of this could be left up to the poster too, with
>> dropdown/checklists in the form for the desired publication
>> endpoints.  I still think there may need to be a vetting piece in
>> front of the actual publishing though.  But since all info of this
>> type could conceivably be funneled through this new Event form,
>> then the vetting process could be automated to a fairly high
>> degree, and it could be set up to work with multiple individuals
>> with the vetting authority, even similar to TRAC . . . .
>>
>> bobb
>>
>>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Johnson >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Should be able to, but ingesting from various different platforms
>>> would be harder than just getting everyone to cross post to one
>>> single
>>> place for OSGeo.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jody Garnett
>>> > wrote:
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

[Jody Garnett]

I think it would be great of we promote events that OSGeo is attending in
an official capacity (like if a local chapter has a booth or something).
Guido has set up a number of guest appearances for OSGeo (mostly partner
events) in 2017 and we could of promoted our attendance a bit more.

Getting OSGeo present at more "normal" GIS events would be a great outreach
goal for 2018.

--
Jody Garnett

On 24 October 2017 at 13:32, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

> All,
>
> Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Geo-event
> coming together for this coming May.  It will have a fairly high OSGeo
> footprint as well.
>
> The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for
> 300-350 this time around.  What’s the best way to promote this type of
> (somewhat fractional) OSGeo event in the OSGeo universe?  We’ll have 15-20%
> OSGeo based presentations.
>
> bobb
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
> bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Yeah, the more we mull this over, the more I’m leaning towards a online
> Event form.  Centralized collection of the information is the hardpart, the
> next step would be to figure out how to disseminate.   The Online Form
> could be used to post to the appropriate list(s) and populate event
> calanders and news feeds. Some of this could be left up to the poster too,
> with dropdown/checklists in the form for the desired publication
> endpoints.  I still think there may need to be a vetting piece in front of
> the actual publishing though.  But since all info of this type could
> conceivably be funneled through this new Event form, then the vetting
> process could be automated to a fairly high degree, and it could be set up
> to work with multiple individuals with the vetting authority, even similar
> to TRAC . . . .
>
> bobb
>
> On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
>
> Should be able to, but ingesting from various different platforms
> would be harder than just getting everyone to cross post to one single
> place for OSGeo.
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jody Garnett 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

All,

Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Geo-event coming 
together for this coming May.  It will have a fairly high OSGeo footprint as 
well.

The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for 300-350 
this time around.  What’s the best way to promote this type of (somewhat 
fractional) OSGeo event in the OSGeo universe?  We’ll have 15-20% OSGeo based 
presentations.

bobb


On Oct 24, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
> wrote:

All,

Yeah, the more we mull this over, the more I’m leaning towards a online Event 
form.  Centralized collection of the information is the hardpart, the next step 
would be to figure out how to disseminate.   The Online Form could be used to 
post to the appropriate list(s) and populate event calanders and news feeds. 
Some of this could be left up to the poster too, with dropdown/checklists in 
the form for the desired publication endpoints.  I still think there may need 
to be a vetting piece in front of the actual publishing though.  But since all 
info of this type could conceivably be funneled through this new Event form, 
then the vetting process could be automated to a fairly high degree, and it 
could be set up to work with multiple individuals with the vetting authority, 
even similar to TRAC . . . .

bobb

On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Johnson 
> wrote:

Should be able to, but ingesting from various different platforms
would be harder than just getting everyone to cross post to one single
place for OSGeo.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jody Garnett 
> wrote:





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:05:05PM +0200, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:

> Some of us also had worked on transifex for other FOSS projects, so we had
> this knowledge to help us set up the whole process.

Yep, that's the "drug trap" as I call it.
It's the reason why Microsoft is "donating" licenses to schools.
Also the danger of GitHub.

Don't learn too much !

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

[Nicolas Roelandt]

Hi,

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, I didn't know about those
alternatives (and I presume that the rest of the team too, since no one
suggested them).
It is also the same bias as github, where everybody knows it so it is also
a bit more attractive too people.
Some of us also had worked on transifex for other FOSS projects, so we had
this knowledge to help us set up the whole process.


It is a bit late now to see how it works, ask SAC to provide an instance
and test its integration with sphinx.
But it will be studied if we plan to leave Transifex in the future.

Best regards,

Nicolas Roelandt
OSGeo-Live team.


2017-10-24 12:38 GMT+02:00 Sandro Santilli :

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:38:00AM +0200, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:
>
> > Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our
> > translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst
> > process).
> >
> > It offers machine translation.
> > It provides a review process.
> > It shows us what is changed in the English doc version.
> > It shows translation progress
>
> Sorry to mention as I understand it took a long time to set this up,
> but I'd add an additional point, that since 2013:
>
>   - It is proprietary software
>
> From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transifex:
>
> >> Transifex itself was originally an open source project, but the
> >> development of an open source version of the software was discontinued
> >> in 2013. [3][4]
>
> More info:
> https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/206#issuecomment-15243207
>
> A possible alternative owuld be Weblate:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblate (GPLv3+)
> The developers offer hosting plans (including gratis for free software):
> https://weblate.org/en/hosting/
>
> --strk;
>



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

[María Arias de Reyna]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) about
> a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this phrase "The
> deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October 2017". Of
> course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according with our
> official calendar. However, just to make sure no one is mislead by this
> phrasing, I will extend the voting period with 24 hours. Is my mistake and
> I would like to apologize for this as is adding more problems an an already
> complicated situation. Hopefully, more members will have the chance to
> vote. Until now, 277 from the total of 390 charter members voted. Later
> tonight I will also publicly sent my position to the board on the situation
> caused by Jeff's request to withdraw from elections.
>
>

If it counts for something, either if I am elected or not, I think you did
a great job on a very stressful situation.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

Big thanks to you Vasile! (I don't envy you... :-))

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/


De: Discuss  en nombre de Vasile Craciunescu 

Enviado: martes, 24 de octubre de 2017 12:31
Para: OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

Dear all,

I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!)
about a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this
phrase "The deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October
2017". Of course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according
with our official calendar. However, just to make sure no one is mislead
by this phrasing, I will extend the voting period with 24 hours. Is my
mistake and I would like to apologize for this as is adding more
problems an an already complicated situation. Hopefully, more members
will have the chance to vote. Until now, 277 from the total of 390
charter members voted. Later tonight I will also publicly sent my
position to the board on the situation caused by Jeff's request to
withdraw from elections.

Thank you for your patience!

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) 
about a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this 
phrase "The deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October 
2017". Of course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according 
with our official calendar. However, just to make sure no one is mislead 
by this phrasing, I will extend the voting period with 24 hours. Is my 
mistake and I would like to apologize for this as is adding more 
problems an an already complicated situation. Hopefully, more members 
will have the chance to vote. Until now, 277 from the total of 390 
charter members voted. Later tonight I will also publicly sent my 
position to the board on the situation caused by Jeff's request to 
withdraw from elections.


Thank you for your patience!

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nice turnout at the most recent Twin Cities OSGeo Chapeter (TCMUG) Meeting last night.

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

All,

We had a nice turnout at the last Twin Cities OSGeo Chapter (TCMUG) meeting.  
See 
here.

Based on discussion at the last meeting, the next meeting is tentatively 
scheduled for Nov. 30th, @ Barrel Theory Beer 
Company in downtown Saint Paul @4:30

Directions.

Let me know how this works for everyone.  The date is somewhat flexible, but 
the Thanksgiving holiday week is just before this date and a couple of the 
group will be out of town the week before that.


bobb


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:38:00AM +0200, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:

> Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our
> translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst
> process).
> 
> It offers machine translation.
> It provides a review process.
> It shows us what is changed in the English doc version.
> It shows translation progress

Sorry to mention as I understand it took a long time to set this up,
but I'd add an additional point, that since 2013:

  - It is proprietary software

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transifex:

>> Transifex itself was originally an open source project, but the
>> development of an open source version of the software was discontinued
>> in 2013. [3][4]

More info:
https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/206#issuecomment-15243207

A possible alternative owuld be Weblate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblate (GPLv3+)
The developers offer hosting plans (including gratis for free software):
https://weblate.org/en/hosting/

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