Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [GSoC 2022 - Call for Project Ideas] PostGIS Ideas

[Regina Obe via Discuss]

Below is the PostGIS GSOC 2022 ideas page

https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/GoogleSummerCode2022

Thanks,
Regina

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GSoC 2022 - Call for Project Ideas] Final Extension in Deadline for Submitting Ideas Page | New Deadline - Feb 19, 2022 1800 UTC

[Gérald Fenoy via Discuss]

Dear All,
You can find the ZOO-Project ideas for this year Google Summer of Code in the 
link bellow.

https://github.com/ZOO-Project/ZOO-Project/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2022-Project-Ideas

Thanks a lot for the effort Rajat!

Best regards,

Gerald Fenoy
Chair, ZOO-Project PSC

> Le 18 févr. 2022 à 16:38, Rajat Shinde via Discuss  
> a écrit :
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> We are extending the deadline till February 19th, 2022 1800 UTC. Please note 
> that this is the final extension. We sincerely hope to receive your Project 
> ideas page for the GSoC 2022 with OSGeo.
> 
> Thank you.
> Kind regards,
> OSGeo GSoC Admins Team
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:42 PM Rajat Shinde  > wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> This is regarding our earlier call for project ideas for Google Summer of 
> Code 2022 with OSGeo [1]. Please note that we are extending the deadline to 
> share the URL to the project ideas page by February 16, 2022.
> 
> Please follow [1] for instructions on preparing the Project ideas page.
> 
> (PS: Org Application period has already started (February 7, 2022 onwards) 
> and shall be open till February 21, 2022. Kindly share the news in your 
> project community. Thanks.)
> 
> As always, please feel free to reach us for further queries.
> 
> Stay safe!
> Kind regards,
> OSGeo GSoC Administration Team
> 
> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/announce/2022-January/000585.html 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] avoiding email filters- Poll: Change FOSS4G structure to have some continuity of organization and management

[Andrea Giacomelli via Discuss]

Dear Paul,

In my experience in the volunteer/activist work (since 2002), considering
either causes I have served for with steering committee roles (including
the Italian language OSGEO Chapter in 2007-2010), and having analyzed cases
of other organizations on national scales (e.g. large environment-related
NGOs in Europe)...

My opinion is that any community growing will lead to steps which can imply
"quantum shifts".

To keep the cause growing, these shifts need to handled with adjustments
and measures in the organizational model, in the scale of budgets and time
required etc., in validating people's expectations and priorities in time -
I have followed national environmental festival and exhibition for years,
and you can see how a cause can be more or less promoted on  different
scales. etc. how an thematic event can be professionally organized, but
become substantially de-voided of the intentions of the founding fathers of
the community focused on the same theme, etc...

Since 2010 I have been out of any operational role in OSGEO, GFOSS.it or
other similar organizations, but I keep a line of promoting free/open
source technologies, and open knolwedge. As far as I know, I think that any
model is ok, as long as the cause keeps growing, while there are cases
where the energy required to elaborate the vehicle to promote it (in this
case a conference) becomes more than the energy actually used to work...
(this is a sort of revamping of Northcote Parkinson's Law
).

In these cases, I also find it helpful to re-re-re-read this article

from 2010. Centralization and de-centralization, or federation (remember
CORBA?), or "grid conferencing" (rember grid computing?)we as
communities keep shifting between these paradigms...but at the end of the
day what is the difference?

Hope to see you in Florence, in person if you will be there because it is
socioeconomically sustainable for you, or via some form of connection (not
necessarily TCP/IP or HTTP based), and best regards from Southern Tuscany.

Andrea Giacomelli
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Il giorno ven 18 feb 2022 alle ore 19:50 Paul Ramsey via Discuss <
discuss@lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:

> I am, naturally of two minds about this.
>
> As Sanghee says, the act of pulling together a local conference can be one
> that draws together people from multiple parts of the local geo ecosystem,
> makes new connections that might never be made. Gathering up public,
> private, and NGO sponsors in your local area, and having them all
> experience the FOSS4G thing, something they might not have otherwise gotten
> to be a part of... it requires a local commitment, and local connections,
> to make it happen.
>
> Moving to a centralized system, where the locale is primarily a source of
> a venue, an interesting city and some novel culinary options, loses a lot
> of that. I appreciated the turn-key aspect of FOSS4G-NA when LocationTech
> was carrying the organizing load, but the event itself became denatured
> somehow. It lacked the organic connections it had when it was (earlier) in
> Minnesota or (later) in San Diego.
>
> There will be a loss.
>
> On the other hand (of course), this doesn't come for free. The very
> uniqueness and organicness flows from the "figuring things out on the fly
> and making the connections needed" that local organizers go through. The
> very thing that provides the magic spark, burns them down to the ground.
>
> And the supply of those people, is finite. We've gotten on a long time (at
> least 5 years longer than I would predicted!) with people continuing to
> step up and volunteer for the load. It may be that Covid and the "virtual
> conference" has been what finally killed the supply of enthusiasm. I know
> myself that part of the "fun" of volunteering for the grind was knowing the
> world was going to come to town. When the world is just "dialing in", the
> sense of reward is (I think) a lot lower for organizers. One of the
> ego-gratifying aspects of organizing the conference is being able to see
> your local contacts go "whoa, this is really real, I thought you were
> always just blowing smoke" as they wander through a hall full of 1000 open
> source geospatial advocates.
>
> Anyways, lots of words to no great conclusion. I think a central
> organization would be more "sustainable" but potentially deterimental to
> the ethos of the thing. Also, very very very very dependent on finding the
> right resource to actually do the centralized work. It could also be a
> disaster in the wrong hands and kill the whole thing dead forever.
>
> ATB,
> P
>
>
> > On Feb 17, 2022, at 9:25 PM, Eli Adam