Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Mikel Maron
I second the nomination. Mikel has been an active promoter for OSGeo in particular and recruited me to attend Lausanne in 2006 - introducing me, and many others, to the wonderful community and projects. Andrew OSGeo Charter Member, 2008 On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Forwarding Mikel Maron nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. The 2017 member > nominations list was updated [1]. > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017 > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: Charter Member Nomination for Mikel Maron > Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:27:40 -0700 > From: Jeffrey Johnson > To: c...@osgeo.org > CC: Mikel Maron > > Hi CRO, > > I would like to nominate Mikel Maron as a Charter Member of OSGeo > > Mikel has been a long time collaborator and contributor to Open Source > and Open Data geospatial projects including being one of the earliest > contributors to OpenStreetMap and providing leadership throughout its > history. He currently leads the Community Team at Mapbox and was > formerly a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the US State Department > helping to drive OpenStreetMap adoption across federal agencies. He is > co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, co-founder of Map > Kibera and GroundTruth Initiative and current Board member of the > OpenStreetMap Foundation. > > Best regards, > > Jeff Johnson > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 and...@fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?
I think there is a very strong connection to make between open-source and open data. Open Data is a broad concept that really means "access to data". Access is more than just a download, or a license - it also means having the tools and methods available for everyone to turn the data into something which is relevant to answering specific questions. It also means that data are available in accessible formats - ones that anyone can use without restriction. Though that's not the same as 'a standard'. Regarding the Public Geodata Committee, it's worthwhile to consider what unique role OSGeo can provide to improve the global and local situation. There are numerous catalogs of varying states of quality and maintenance - so it's unlikely a need to have *yet another catalog*. However a few issues that are open questions and could be interesting to work on and beneficial to the broader community: - *Geospatial support of common data catalog formats*. Notably DCAT has become prevalent thanks to the development & adoption of CKAN by many national governments. The spatial capabilities are nascent, so what would OSGeo recommend as better practices. Maybe also consider open-source implementations of DCAT publishing and consuming libraries so that more tools (e.g. QGIS) could publish or search and consume from DCAT-capable catalogs - *Guides and Patterns for data analysis with spatial tools. *What open-source libraries exist that enhance general data analysis tools such as R, Python, etc. What are the practices for someone new to geospatial who are using these tools find and incorporate geodata into their work? - *Geospatial data formats advocacy. *Stefan Keller is well known to pop up in any discussion of the Shapefile to tout the benefits of Geopackage. Can we vet that hypothesis and advocate for more geospatial tools to produce & consume modern formats like Geopackage? Having spent the past 10 years focusing my open-source development efforts specifically on the publishing, discovery and exploration of open data I'm a bit excited about the topic :) Andrew On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan < ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: > Jachym, > > I think it is better to confirm before attributing statements to > someone. > > Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out of OSGeo and least of > all Jeff. > Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public Geodata committee. > Perhaps > renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a start. We also have a new > "Open Geoscience Committee" [1] with great work being done in longterm > archiving of FOSS4G videos, for instance. > > What I would suggest is to strengthen tie-ups with OSM, HOT and perhaps > consider > building something like Data4All, emulating the success of out educational > outreach, > Geo4All. > > Best > > Venka > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee > > > On 10/17/2016 8:22 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > > I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on the > same board. I try to push open (geo)data topic as well, in or out of OSGeo > > J > > po 17. 10. 2016 v 13:17 odesílatel Jeff McKenna > napsal: > > > Hi Jachym, > > I have given talks on OSGeo and open data. I am sorry to hear that you > believe I said that about the foundation. I do believe we've discussed > this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you > heard this? I remember a discussion of adding open data into our > foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did. > > -jeff > > > -- > Jeff McKenna > President Emeritus, OSGeohttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna > > > > On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > > Hi Sanghee, > I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we > (OSGeo.org) are solely software foundation - therefore we do not care > about open data > > maybe things have changed? > > J > > po 17. 10. 2016 v 5:08 odesílatel Sanghee Shin > mailto:shs...@gaia3d.com> > napsal: > > Dear all, > > Can anybody share presentation file about the OSGeo and open data, > if any? I’m invited to give a keynote talk at ‘Open Data in Action > Conference’[1] in Korea and I don’t want to make the file from the > scratch. > > FYI, OSGeo Korea[2], R Korea[3], Open Data Institute(ODI) Seoul[4], > Open Knowledge(OK) Korea[5] will co-host the event on 15th Nov near > Seoul. The main theme of the conference is ‘Experiment on Open Data > based Society.’ Anybody who has similar interest can join this > conference. > > Kind regards, > 신상희 > > [1]http://event.r-kor.org/ > [2]http://www.osgeo.kr/ > [3]http://r-kor.org/ > [4]http://seoul.theodi.org/ > [5]http://okfn.kr/ > --- > Shin, Sanghee > Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company > http://www.gaia3d.com > > ___ > Discuss mailing > listDiscuss@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discu
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can you get to FOSS4G2009 on this date?
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Sydney we are finalising venue and date details and want feedback on > whether any specific dates are going to clash. > > If there are important Geospatial events for 2009 happening in your region, > could you please tell us when and where they are and what attendees are > likely to be effected. > (we are keeping track of these dates at: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Marketing_Plan#Related_Conferences ) > > The key dates we are considering are: > > 17 - 21 Nov 2009 > 23 - 27 Nov 2009 (US Thanksgiving is 26 Nov 2009. Is this a showstopper?) > 20 - 24 Oct 2009 I wouldn't say US Thanksgiving is a "showstopper", but I will assume would definitely prohibit many potential attendees from the US. There is a case to be made "why not have Thanksgiving in AU?!" but in reality the US holiday is so wrapped up with many families together that this kind of scheduling is unrealistic. So combining a potentially limiting holiday along with the long distance, both potentially dropping number of interested attendees, I would recommend against the conflict. My suggestion is the October 20-24 date - it's also far enough out that it doesn't even come up against Thanksgiving travel. Thoughts from other Americans? Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] registration at foss4g
I would suggest that a full outline of the process be added to the registration page, or as a confirmation of the web registration in a follow-up screen and email covering what to expect for the following steps. Obviously the 240 Early Bird registrants are highly motivated people that will follow-up on making sure their registration goes through. However, I would be concerned about future registrations that are equally confused and less motivated to wade through the 5 step process, potentially losing interested attendees. Looking forward to the great conference! Andrew On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Gavin Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the Hitchhikers' Guide states, Don't Panic! > > Some clarification of the process is in order, please bear with us... > > 1) Register on the conference website. i.e. choose a conference package. Then > hang back for a bit. > 2) The conference organisers, PeopleSA, are notified and they send you a form. > 3) You fill in the form and send it back. It specifies your choices for > accommodation, gala dinner, etc. that could not be captured on the conference > website. > 4) PeopleSA then send you an invoice for registration, accommodation (if you > choose from their offerings), gala dinner, etc. with a reference code. > 5) You then proceed to pay. If by credit card, then here, where you will be > asked for the reference code on your invoice: > http://www.psaevents.co.za/Events/Foss4g/registration.aspx. > > Early birds: You are being asked to send your forms back urgently so you can > get an invoice in short order. The hurry now is to secure accommodation as > part of the conference block booking. The hold on that is released this week. > There is nothing we can do about that. Cape Town is really bustling that time > of year and hotels won't keep blocks on hold any longer. There is every > likelihood that rooms at those hotels will still be available after the hold > is lifted and they WILL be at the conference rate. So, try to fill in your > form and pay this week as requested. But if you don't manage, you'll most > likely still get your hotel and if you pay within a month of invoice, you'll > STILL GET YOUR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATE. > > Hope that helps > > Gavin Fleming > FOSS4G2008 conference chair > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jeroen Ticheler > Sent: Tue 2008/06/24 05:06 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] registration at foss4g > > > > Hi Andrea, > I had the same thing :-) Had to fill out the form while I also > registered online. I guess the form is the formal sealing of the deal > although I was also confused a bit. You still need to register for > other workshops you want to attend and for the gala dinner. > Ciao, > Jeroen > > On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:45 PM, andrea antonello wrote: > >> Hi, that will sound strange, but indeed I have some problems in >> registering at Foss4g. >> >> I did my registration process with a workshop presenter code, which >> should mean I have full discount (do both workshop predenters have >> full discount?). >> Well, the registration ended up in... nothing. No "great, you >> subscribed" or similar. Now, after some time, this email comes (ok, >> the header tells me they had some problems) in which I am asked to >> send a fax and do my payment by means of today to get the early bird. >> Since one of the presenters probably will have to pay, I tried to >> understand from the website, tried to contact organisers and >> reviewers, but got no answer. >> >> Since no one else is bothering, I assume I'm the only one with this >> problem. >> So could someone with clear ideas in mind give me some feedback >> please? >> >> Thanks, >> Andrea >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
