[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary reports from Interest Group on Agriculture Data

[Suchith Anand]

Dear All,

For those interested in AgriGIS research, the summary and slides from the 
Interest Group on Agriculture Data (IGAD) meeting are at

http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/igad-data-experts-shared-their-knowledge-expertise-rda-igad-pre-meeting-montreal-get

Please find the summary report from the RDA IGAD Pre-Meeting on Capacity 
Development in Agricultural Data Management  at
http://www.godan.info/blog-posts/capacity-development-agricultural-data-management-updates-rda-igad-pre-meeting-montreal

We look forward to expanding synergies and collaborations in Capacity 
Development with all interested.

Best wishes,

Suchith




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Capacity development and Open Innovation opportunities for all

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

I participated in the Group on Earth Observations Plenary meetings at GEO Week 
in Washington DC this week and had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas 
with colleagues from around the world.

I want to thank  the excellent work of the GEO Secretariat Team for the 
excellent GEO Week 2017 . I am happy to see that Capacity Development is a key 
focus for GEO and lot of activities happening.  Capacity Development needs to 
empower the developing world. Having Open Data alone will not help the 
economically poor countries/regions if the GIS tools needed to make use of Open 
EO data is expensive and proprietary. Free and Open Source GIS tools will 
enable developing countries to also benefit and be equal partners. It will help 
also create and accelerate local innovation opportunities in EO and location 
based technologies and stimulate local industry and accelerate new jobs 
creation in digital economy for value added services building upon technologies.

The startup community is especially open to the use of open software and open 
data avoiding licensing restrictions which may impact on their business plans, 
raise early start-up costs and restrict their ability to innovate allowing them 
greater branding freedom and product flexibility. There are now many excellent 
startups happening especially in Europe , USA  and  Asia  building upon Open EO 
data and we need to make sure these ecosystems prosper. It is important that 
there are no monopolies are created by any  existing properitery GIS vendors. 
There should be many platforms and systems to make sure there is vibrant 
innovation ecosystem. If there is only one big proprietary GIS platform to 
deliver all services (based on publicly funded and released EO data ), then the 
proprietary GIS vendor will become monopoly.  Hence, it is important there is 
lot of competition to ensure no monopolies are created.  If there is lot of 
competition then Governments and taxpayers as a whole will benefit from cost 
efficiencies, reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products.

There is already a fast growing ecosystem of SMEs and startups in open geo data 
services and this need to be supported by the right policy frameworks and 
instruments .  The right policy frameworks are needed to help create the 
conditions for creating and sustaining thousands of highly skilled jobs in the 
future.   I have highlighted the need for capacity development activities to 
empower everyone.

There was lot of mention of OSGeo and our various software projects in many 
sessions that I attended at Geo Week but I did not see any startups or 
companies from the Open Source Geo ecosystem at the GEO Week. There was also 
many interesting projects like Open Data Cube (ODC)  
https://www.opendatacube.org  that was presented  to support interactive data 
science and scientific computing which might be of interest  .

Open innovation is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are 
determined to make sure that everyone benefits. I really hope that we keep 
building the momentum on Capacity Development for enabling Open Innovation 
opportunities for all.

Best wishes,

Suchith




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Duarte Carreira]

Congrats to all, ex, new board members, and charters - 80% voted, even if 5
got distracted mid-way ;)

Vasile, I don't see how we're gonna manage without you as cro... biggest
thumbs up!

Jeff, great news!

Best regards,
Duarte Carreira
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Jeff McKenna]

Dear Vasile, and the whole OSGeo community,

Thank you for all of your effort Vasile, these Charter and Board 
elections required an unbelievable amount of effort, and you handled it 
so well.


This hasn't been easy for me.

But the support of the community for my nomination gives me strength, 
and a renewed energy to help the OSGeo community grow.  I will now 
retract my withdrawal, and accept the new position on the Board of 
Directors.  I really look forward to working with the new Board, and 
help the OSGeo community!


Congratulations to the new Board members Maria and Astrid, and thank you 
to those returning members Helena and Jody.  A special thank you to 
Venka, Anita, and Sanghee for their leadership and donating so much of 
their time to the OSGeo Board.  Finally, Vicky and Dirk are 2 of the 
most vocal OSGeo leaders that I know, and I am sure that they will be on 
the OSGeo Board soon - I know you will both continue to promote and 
represent OSGeo so well.


Let's continue to do great things for the whole world together as the 
OSGeo family!


-jeff






Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process.
Election figures are:

* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP.
Thank you all who voted!!

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of
our ladies candidates, elected or not.

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
possible.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

+ 1 from Uruguay (land of great "asados" too :-))


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 Maria Antonia 
Brovelli 
Enviado: jueves, 26 de octubre de 2017 17:52
Para: Vasile Craciunescu; OSGeo Discussions; charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: CRO
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

Dear Vasile, dear Community
I want first of all to thank the CRO for the great and committing work. You 
were really fantastic! Thanks!

And then,  congratulations, welcome and the best wishes to the new elected 
ones. Respect and love for the non elected for accepting to run this election. 
I hope to have you all (as the whole Community) helping us in the activities 
and the decisions of the Board.
Greeting from a wonderful FOSS4G Argentina.
Maria





Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


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Da: Vasile Craciunescu 
Data: 26/10/17 16:08 (GMT-03:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions , charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: CRO 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process.
Election figures are:

* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP.
Thank you all who voted!!

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our
ladies candidates, elected or not.

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as
possible.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

Hello OSGeo Community,

great news! We have 5 new OSGeo board members!

It is an honour and a pleasure for me to be elected for the OSGeo board. 
Thanks for your trust and your votes. I also want to congratulate Maria, 
Jeff, Jody and Helena for beeing elected.


Thanks to all other nominees for running in this election - Vicky, Dirk, 
Venka, Sanghee. It would also have been great to have you on the board. 
Maybe you join next year.


Thanks to all OSGeo board members that leave the board after two year 
now - Venka, Sanghee and Dirk.


And big thanks to the CRO and especially Vasile for your great job! For 
the next election we will organize that it will be less complicated & 
more fun.


I am looking forward to work on the OSGeo board.

Astrid

PS: Maria Arias de Reyna, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Jeff, Vicky and all 
others at FOSS4G-Argentinia - would be great to be with you and 
celebrate. Greetings to Argentinia



Am 2017-10-26 21:08, schrieb Vasile Craciunescu:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process.
Election figures are:

* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP.
Thank you all who voted!!

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of
our ladies candidates, elected or not.

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
possible.


Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017!

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Dear OSGeo community,

we're happy to announce that OSGeo has been ccepted as a mentoring organization 
in Google Code-in 2017 [1]!


"Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google 
Code-in: Our global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open 
source development. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for 
beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have.

Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as 
participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source project. 
Participants get to work on real software and win prizes from t-shirts to a 
trip to Google HQ!" [1]


It's to emphasize that OSGeo is one of the 6 new orgs accepted in this contest 
as Google doesn't accept
that many new orgs as in GSoC!


The GCI timeline can be ssen in [2]:

Thursday, October 26Mentoring organizations 
announced
Tuesday, November 28 (17:00 UTC)Contest opens for entries by 
student participants 2018
Monday, January 15 (17:00 UTC)  Deadline to claim new tasks
Wednesday, January 17 (17:00 UTC)   All student work must be 
submitted; contest ends
Thursday, January 18 (17:00 UTC)Mentoring organizations 
complete all evaluations of students’ work
Wednesday, January 31   Grand Prize Winners and 
Finalists announced

Basic information regarding our application can be found under [3].

If interested to volunteer as GCI mentor, then check [4].

More informations will come, stay tuned.

Kind regards
Helmut (on behalf of the GSoC/GCI admin team.

[1] https://codein.withgoogle.com/
[2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Mentors
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Santiago Higuera]

Dear all:
Congratulations to all candidates and, specilly, to the new board
members. Thanks a lot to Vasile, Jeff, Jorge and previous board
members.

Best wishes, 

Santiago Higuera

El jue, 26-10-2017 a las 22:08 +0300, Vasile Craciunescu escribió:
> Dear OSGeo community,
> 
> These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open
> seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
> order are:
> 
> * Astrid Emde
> * Jody Garnett
> * Jeff McKenna
> * Helena Mitasova
> * María Arias de Reyna
> 
> Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. 
> Election figures are:
> 
> * Membership: 390
> * Valid votes: 308
> * Not finished votes: 5
> * Not voted: 77
> 
> There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the 
> voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. 
> Thank you all who voted!!
> 
> The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:
> 
> * Vasile Craciunescu
> * Maria Antonia Brovelli
> * Michael Smith
> * Angelos Tzotsos
> * Astrid Emde
> * Jody Garnett
> * Jeff McKenna
> * Helena Mitasova
> * María Arias de Reyna
> 
> Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of
> our 
> ladies candidates, elected or not.
> 
> Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!
> 
> My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
> detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as 
> possible.
> 
> Best,
> Vasile
> CRO 2017
> 
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