[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source Geospatial Foundation: The Modernization of the Canadian Spatial Reference System

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

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Subject: 	Open Source Geospatial Foundation: The Modernization of the 
Canadian Spatial Reference System

Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:53:28 +
From:   Jonathan Murphy 
Reply-To:   Jonathan Murphy 
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Hi OSGEO,

Members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation play a crucial role in 
the Canadian geomatics ecosystem.


There's an important online event on the upcoming modernization of the 
Canadian Spatial Reference System (CSRS), scheduled for March 27th. 
Presented by Catherine Robin of the Canadian Geodetic Service. This 
webinar is a part of Lidar CANEX 2024.


Such modernizations are rare, occurring approximately every 50 to 100 
years. For the first time since the widespread adoption of GNSS 
technology, we're transitioning to a unified reference system across 
federal and provincial governments.


Please share this invitation with your members. This is a free online 
event. Your members will appreciate being informed about this 
significant change.


The registration is 
here


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Please note: final call for speakers for GeoIgnite (May 13-15th), 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2024

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo committees,

OSGeo is proud to support our committees (including project steering 
committees), initiatives, and a growing number of projects. We have been 
pleased to see funding applied to day to day operations, improvements 
and a wide range of community building activities including events, code 
sprints, developer meetings and user conferences.


Our continued ability to offer financial support is due a successful 
FOSS4G 2023 and the generosity of our ongoing sponsors.


OSGeo Committees

To plan our 2024 budget, we are reaching out to all OSGeo committees to 
help plan for the year ahead.


As our budget forecasting includes communicating with sponsors we ask 
you to list any sponsorship opportunities you are aware of for 2024. We 
know that it can be difficult to ask for money. Please be clear with 
each sponsorship opportunity, and the visibility benefit you are able to 
offer sponsors.


Example:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget#2023

OSGeo Projects

Each year we are pleased to welcome new graduated projects to OSGeo. The 
Board starts planning by providing a set amount to all graduated 
projects who have:


1. Reported to the Board their activities of the last 12 months (e.g. 
during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting); and

2. Have sent a budget request.

While we have not determined the amount for 2024, last year each project 
was provided a $1000 USD operational budget. Funding allows each project 
committee to plan ahead, and support their team activities without 
hesitation.


Keep in mind that if any unforeseen event occurs during the year we are 
here to support you. Project teams have approached the board during the 
course of a year to respond to security vulnerabilities, or request 
legal advice, that was not anticipated during budget planning.


Projects with a more specific plan (to pursue a clear goal) are welcome 
to send a more detailed budget. Larger goals should be presented as 
clear sponsorship opportunities to your community, and OSGeo will do our 
best to help out also.


Tip: Keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization. We love to support 
community participation, for example attending the AGM or a 
cross-project code sprint.


Examples:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2023
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2023


OSGeo Community Projects

Projects working on incubation are asked to contact 
incuba...@lists.osgeo.org to be included in the 2024 incubation budget 
request.



Budget Meeting

To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2024, the Board will have a 
budget meeting in December 2023 to review 2023 expenditures, sponsorship 
and make financial decisions for the 2024 budget.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024

Budget requests should be submitted ideally by 20 December 2023 in 
advance of our next Board meeting.


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,
Angelos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [TOSprint] Join OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 at BIDS ‘23

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The registration for BiDS closes on Oct 23rd.
https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/registration

If you are planning to join the community sprint, please make sure you 
have registered both to BiDS and on the community sprint wiki page.


We hope to see you in Vienna.


On 6/19/23 12:18, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

OSGeo Community Sprint will come to Vienna (Austria) in November 2023 
[1] as part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event. Come 
join us!


When:

- Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00

Where:

- Venue: Austria Center Vienna [3] [15]


Interested? So read more about why & where & when...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of 
organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS 
software.


Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [4] has been 
organizing a yearly Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects, which 
has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint and all "Tribes" are 
included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS, 
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get 
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial 
problems & to have fun.


Our last face-to-face OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in 
Minnesota [5] in 2019.
In 2020, due to the pandemic, we canceled the Athens code sprint and 
organized a virtual code sprint [6].
In 2021 and 2022 we organized code sprints during FOSS4G events and 
joint code sprints with OGC and Apache Foundation.


2023 marks the return of the OSGeo Community Sprint which will return 
to Europe after Vienna (2014)[7], Paris (2016) [8] and Bonn (2018)[9]. 
This makes it possible to embed European developers and users. The 
tradition started in 2009 in Toronto [10]. Find a list of the history 
of code sprints at [11].



About BiDS
--

BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities 
and government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase 
latest technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of 
space and big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to 
discuss and present the most recent innovations and challenges 
encountered in the context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of 
BiDS will focus not only technologies enabling insight and foresight 
inferable from big data from space. Together, we want to emphasize how 
breakthrough space data driven technologies impact on society’s grand 
challenges, such as climate change and the green transition.


The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) [12] together 
with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) [13] and the Joint 
Research Center (JRC)[14], will take place at the Austria Center 
Vienna [15], and counts with the support of the partners FFG [16], 
Austria in Space [17] and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria [18].



OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 in Vienna
-
The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 6 to 9 
November 2023. We expect about 60 developers from all over the world 
to come from various OSGeo projects [4].


The code sprint will take place at Austria Center Vienna [3] [15], as 
part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event.



Accommodations
-
Working zones will be created for you in the dedicated room area. A 
wide variety of drinks and snacks will be provided by OSGeo and 
sponsors. Participation in the code sprint is free of charge. As a 
participant, you are responsible for your own accommodation.


Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue, many of which 
are within walking distance.


Registering for the OSGeo Community Sprint


In order to register for the OSGeo Community Sprint you need to 
register for the BiDS event [2]. More information about Big Data from 
Space and the registration link once opened, can be found under 
bigdatafromspace2023.org [2].


Afterwards, please don't forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our 
OSGeo Community Spint 2023 page:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Participants

This is an important step for planning of catering and coordination.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in 
one or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all 
about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, 
testing – all this is also important for projects so everyone is 
cordially

invited to attend the code sprint!

The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to seeing you 
there!


If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.
Would you like to sponsor the event? Read more about sponsoring the 
event [19]

Please contact tzotsos at osgeo.org directly.

See you in Vienna in November 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

We are planning to make a community meeting about the EU CRA, so we can 
discuss our action plan forward.


The meeting is planned for Tuesday 22 Aug 13:00 UTC in our Jitsi room:
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

Best,
Angelos

On 7/22/23 00:20, Adam Steer via Discuss wrote:

Hi OSGeo

The European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act has just come to the
attention of many non-EU folks as a potential dampener on open source
geospatial software development and usage. A summary from GitHub is here
(thanks Marco Bernasocchi for pointing it out):

https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/

  It's being discussed in the OSGeo board, and some responses from other
open source organisations have already been made, for example:
https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of the proposed
legislation on open source geospatial software development across the
globe  - so we can form an appropriate community response as soon as
possible. What are your thoughts?

Yes, we're late in gettung our attention on to this. Hopefully not too
late.

Thanks,

Adam

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OSGeo director


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [TOSprint] Join OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 at BIDS ‘23

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Dear OSGeo community,

OSGeo Community Sprint will come to Vienna (Austria) in November 2023 
[1] as part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event. Come join us!


When:

- Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00

Where:

- Venue: Austria Center Vienna [3] [15]


Interested? So read more about why & where & when...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of 
organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS software.


Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [4] has been 
organizing a yearly Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects, which 
has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint and all "Tribes" are 
included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS, 
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get 
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial 
problems & to have fun.


Our last face-to-face OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in 
Minnesota [5] in 2019.
In 2020, due to the pandemic, we canceled the Athens code sprint and 
organized a virtual code sprint [6].
In 2021 and 2022 we organized code sprints during FOSS4G events and 
joint code sprints with OGC and Apache Foundation.


2023 marks the return of the OSGeo Community Sprint which will return to 
Europe after Vienna (2014)[7], Paris (2016) [8] and Bonn (2018)[9]. This 
makes it possible to embed European developers and users. The tradition 
started in 2009 in Toronto [10]. Find a list of the history of code 
sprints at [11].



About BiDS
--

BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and 
government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase latest 
technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and 
big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to discuss and 
present the most recent innovations and challenges encountered in the 
context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of BiDS will focus not 
only technologies enabling insight and foresight inferable from big data 
from space. Together, we want to emphasize how breakthrough space data 
driven technologies impact on society’s grand challenges, such as 
climate change and the green transition.


The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) [12] together 
with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) [13] and the Joint 
Research Center (JRC)[14], will take place at the Austria Center Vienna 
[15], and counts with the support of the partners FFG [16], Austria in 
Space [17] and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria [18].



OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 in Vienna
-
The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 6 to 9 
November 2023. We expect about 60 developers from all over the world to 
come from various OSGeo projects [4].


The code sprint will take place at Austria Center Vienna [3] [15], as 
part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event.



Accommodations
-
Working zones will be created for you in the dedicated room area. A wide 
variety of drinks and snacks will be provided by OSGeo and sponsors. 
Participation in the code sprint is free of charge. As a participant, 
you are responsible for your own accommodation.


Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue, many of which are 
within walking distance.


Registering for the OSGeo Community Sprint


In order to register for the OSGeo Community Sprint you need to register 
for the BiDS event [2]. More information about Big Data from Space and 
the registration link once opened, can be found under 
bigdatafromspace2023.org [2].


Afterwards, please don't forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our 
OSGeo Community Spint 2023 page:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Participants

This is an important step for planning of catering and coordination.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in one 
or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all about 
programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing 
– all this is also important for projects so everyone is cordially

invited to attend the code sprint!

The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to seeing you there!

If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.
Would you like to sponsor the event? Read more about sponsoring the 
event [19]

Please contact tzotsos at osgeo.org directly.

See you in Vienna in November 2023!

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 Team

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023
[2] https://bigdatafromspace2023.org/
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.2343/16.4144
[4] http://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019
[6] 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Board meeting 2023-07-01​

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Thank you Besford for being pro-active, we were about to ask about this :)

Best regards,
Angelos

On 6/2/23 14:02, Besfort Guri FLOSSK wrote:

Dear Angelos,

Can we provide inside ITP a dedicated room for hosting in private this
meeting, if you need any support please let me know.

Best Regards,
Besfort

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 11:30 AM Angelos Tzotsos via Board <
bo...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:


Hi all,

This is the next meeting agenda.
This is a F2F meeting that will take place in Prizren during the day of
the code sprint.

Please add your topics and feel free to attend if you have an issue to
discuss with the Board:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01

Best,
Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Board meeting 2023-07-01​

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

This is the next meeting agenda.
This is a F2F meeting that will take place in Prizren during the day of 
the code sprint.


Please add your topics and feel free to attend if you have an issue to 
discuss with the Board:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01

Best,
Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2023

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings and 
user conferences.


OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to all 
committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan our 
budget for 2023.


In 2022, the Board assigned an initial amount of 500 USD to all 
graduated projects who have reported to the Board the activities of the 
last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and 
have sent a budget request.


Given the success of FOSS4G 2022 we are in the position to support our 
projects again as before. For 2023, the Board is planning to continue to 
offer a budget to all graduated projects with the exact amount to be 
determined.


To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2023, the Board is planning 
to have a budget meeting within January 2023 to review 2022 
expenditures, sponsorship and make financial decisions for the 2023 budget.


Projects with a more specific plan (to pursue a clear goal) are welcome 
to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed budget 
requests from 2022 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2022) A good idea is to 
focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending the AGM or a code 
sprint. Also, keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2023 



Project budget requests should be submitted ideally by 20 January 2023 
in advance of our next Board meeting.


Thank you and Happy New Year!
On behalf of the OSGeo Board,
Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2022 elections

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi,

The CRO report was sent to the board and approved:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-November/013158.html
https://www.loomio.com/d/ebEWmyus/approve-new-charter-members-for-2022-based-on-the-recommendation-of-cro

Congratulations to the new charter members!

On 11/14/22 20:08, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA via Discuss wrote:

Do we have any news on the results of the charter member elections?

Thank you,


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


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 15.0 status: beta2

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The second beta version of OSGeoLive 15.0 is available.
Please download [1], test and report any issues found [2]. Changelog 
available at [3].
For those who are working on the VM version, please continue testing and 
fixing bugs in beta1 VM.


Cheers,
Angelos

[1] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/15.0/osgeolive-15.0beta2-amd64.iso

[2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[3] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Standards] Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

Please consider registering for the joint code sprint with OGC and 
Apache Foundation.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,
Angelos

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Subject: 	[OSGeo-Standards] Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC 
OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:21:03 -0500
From:   Tom Kralidis 
To: OSGeo Discussions , standa...@lists.osgeo.org



(sorry for cross-posting)

Hi all: the 2nd Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held
from 08-10 March 2022. Full details on registration can be found at [1].

As demonstrated in the initial joint code sprint, this is a great
opportunity
for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards in an agile/sprint
environment.

The OSGeo community is encouraged to sign up and participate! Feel free
to add your project at [2]. Looking forward to seeing folks at the
upcoming sprint.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4659
[2]
https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/2022-Joint-OGC-%E2%80%93-OSGeo-%E2%80%93-ASF-Code-Sprint
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2022 - please send your budget requests for approval

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The board is planning a meeting to discuss the 2022 budget today.
Please do not forget to submit your requests.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 12/30/21 13:18, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

***

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,


OSGeo has been a proud supporter of project events, code sprints, 
developer meetings and user conferences.  Given the COVID-19 pandemic, 
2020 and 2021 have seen a shift to virtual events (for example, the 
OSGeo/OGC/Apache joint sprint in February 2021, as well as the global 
FOSS4G event).  It has been encouraging to see our energy, commitment 
and perseverance during this exceptional time.



OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to 
all committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan 
our budget for 2022.



In 2021, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to 
all graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 
months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and have 
sent a budget request.


For 2022, the Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all 
graduated projects with the exact amount to be determined.



Due to the successful FOSS4G 2021 and less money spent in 2021 we are 
in the position to support our projects again as before.



To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2022, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting within January 2022 to review 2021 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2022 
budget.



Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2021 e.g.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 



>)



We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.



Please add your project info to the budget draft at:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 



>



ideally by 20 January 2022 in advance of our next Board meeting.


When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.



Thank you and Happy New Year!


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2022 - please send your budget requests for approval

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

***

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,


OSGeo has been a proud supporter of project events, code sprints, 
developer meetings and user conferences.  Given the COVID-19 pandemic, 
2020 and 2021 have seen a shift to virtual events (for example, the 
OSGeo/OGC/Apache joint sprint in February 2021, as well as the global 
FOSS4G event).  It has been encouraging to see our energy, commitment 
and perseverance during this exceptional time.



OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to all 
committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan our 
budget for 2022.



In 2021, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to 
all graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 
months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and have 
sent a budget request.


For 2022, the Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all 
graduated projects with the exact amount to be determined.



Due to the successful FOSS4G 2021 and less money spent in 2021 we are in 
the position to support our projects again as before.



To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2022, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting within January 2022 to review 2021 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2022 budget.



Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2021 e.g.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 



>)



We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.



Please add your project info to the budget draft at:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 



>



ideally by 20 January 2022 in advance of our next Board meeting.


When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of 
our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.



Thank you and Happy New Year!


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Congratulations and welcome to our new charter members!

Best,
Angelos

On 12/13/21 8:53 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
Newsitem: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/

2021-12-13

OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021.

In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 
votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, 
then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board 
approved the new members in November 2021.


We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as 
OSGeo Charter Members:


Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana
Maia Williams (2021) Australia
John Duncan (2021) Australia
Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany
Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada
Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador
Julien Cabièces (2021) France
Loïc Bartoletti (2021) France
Ashish Kumar (2021) India
Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland
Linda Kladivová (2021) Czech Republic
Nick Bearman (2021) UK
Adrien André (2021) France
Nicolas Rochard (2021) France
Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka

We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members.

You find a list of all charter members [1].

OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is 
a summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]).


Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo 
Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021.


Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the 
nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4].


About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) 
organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The 
software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach 
and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and 
legal support for the open source geospatial community.


OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and 
other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to 
software, standards, data and education.


Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[2] 
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB

[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprint 2022

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo Community,

We have started discussions with OGC and ASF in order to co-organize a 
code sprint in March 2022.


From the discussions, the date options are the following:
1. March 1-3
2. March 8-10

Please vote on the following doodle:
https://doodle.com/poll/qee4kubtbfq69y6r?utm_source=poll_medium=link

Best,
Angelos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi Stefan,

OSGeo has now signed the open letter.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 10/4/21 10:51 PM, Stefan Blumentrath via Discuss wrote:

Hi,

Not sure how well known the "Public money, public code" campaign of the Free 
Software Foundation Europe (fsfe) is within the circles of OSGeo:
https://publiccode.eu/

FOSSGIS e.V. and GFOSS signed it and I have probably overlooked other OSGeo 
related organizations. But maybe it is relevant for OSGeo itself as well?
Though it has a European focus, the information material there is very good can 
be useful also in other parts of the world, when arguments for using Free and 
Open Source Software in or for public authorities are needed...

Check it out.

Cheers
Stefan



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for the OSGeo Annual Meeting 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

OSGeo Annual General Meeting 2021 was published as a video in advance. 
We hope to see you on 1 October 2021 14h UTC for the virtual event


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we again will have our Annual General 
Meeting (AGM) virtually this year. It will be during FOSS4G 2021. We 
would like to invite you to the AGM on Friday, October 1st 2021 from 14h 
to 15h UTC [1]


We are happy to meet you at our global FOSS4G conference again, even 
though it will be virtual, instead of face to face.


We have been active in advance and asked our community for short videos 
about the status of their project. We are happy to be able to publish 
the OSGeo Annual General Meeting video on the OSGeo YouTube channel [2]. 
It was amazing to get all the videos from local chapters, projects, 
committees and initiatives. We hope we did not miss any video. A big 
thanks to all the community members who provided a video and to Vicky 
Vergara who mixed them all together.


Now you are invited to watch the AGM 2021 video in advance of our 
meeting on Friday. If there are questions or topics for discussion we 
can follow up on the Virtual AGM on Friday.


This year's OSGeo annual general meeting (AGM) is dedicated to the 
memory of Malena Libman who passed away due to COVID-19. Her passing was 
a big shock and we miss her. She was meant to be the chair of this 
year's FOSS4G 2021 and she was a star of our community. Our thoughts and 
prayers are with her family.


We would also like to dedicate to the memory of Martin Isenburg who 
passed away after the editing of the AGM video. Martin was the creator 
of LAStools, LASzip, and PulseWaves. He was a giant in the LIDAR 
community. Our thoughts and prayers are also with his family.


Thank you to all people that contributed to the AGM and hope to see you 
on 1 October 2021 14h UTC for the virtual event


We also would like to invite you to subscribe to our OSGeo youtube 
channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw


We hope we can change the name soon to:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/OSGeo

[1] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXH-fcvrOg
[3] Martin Isenburg https://rapidlasso.com/author/downtownfarm/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for our OSGeo AGM 2021 virtual event on 1 October 2021 14h UTC

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hello OSGeo Community!

We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) during 
FOSS4G on Friday, October 1st 2021 from 14h to 15h UTC.


We are happy to meet you at our global FOSS4G conference again, even 
though it will be virtual, instead of face to face.


For 2021, we are introducing a new concept. We would like to publish the 
OSGeo annual update as a video, in advance of the AGM on the OSGeo 
YouTube channel [1]. This way, we will have time for an open discussion 
during the AGM slot at FOSS4G. Thus, all local chapters, projects, 
committees and initiatives are invited to prepare a short video of *1 
minute* to present their status report, updates, COVID-19 impact, future 
plans and last year’s achievements.


We hope you like the idea! However, you have to get active in advance, 
so please take a close look to the timeline below:


Timeline
- 2021-08-30: send us your video and update the AGM slides [2]
- 2021-09-10: AGM 2021 complete video will be published
- 2021-10-01: 11h Argentinian Time Zone (14:00 UTC) Join the AGM 2021 
meeting at FOSS4G [3] [4]


Your AGM video is going to be one minute of fame and shine for our 
community, so don't let it pass! It is important for all of us to know 
what is happening everywhere. OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to 
get a summary of all the amazing work we are doing!


Check this wiki page [5] for an overview of the AGM 2021 and for the 
upload link for your video that we will soon provide. In the wiki, you 
will find all the important information, but don’t hesitate to contact 
us if you have any questions.


Please, don’t forget to also add your information to the AGM slides [2], 
but make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. If you want to 
edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let us know and 
tell us which team you represent so we can provide write access.


Spread the information about the AGM 2021 and save the date!
We hope to see as many of you at the AGM in October.

Stay safe,

Angelos Tzotsos
President of OSGeo


[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw
[2] 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1brbBb7-sKRI6U4dZ7LKnBT_-NnWzyS2TaZqVXzy8RDo/edit#slide=id.p4

[3] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/
[4] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021=10=1=14=0=0=51=26=49=155=217=312=250=71=248=240

[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2021

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