[OSGeo-Discuss] 2021 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo members and friends,

Thanks to all candidates for going through the election process and
thank you all for your participation in this election.

These are the results from the 2021 elections for the 5 open seats on
the OSGeo Board of Directors.

The results in alphabetical order are:

* Adam Steer
* Codrina Maria Ilie
* Marco Bernasocchi
* Rajat Shinde
* Vicky Vergara


Election figures are:

* 321 votes out of 497
* 65% participation

All candidates received a large number of votes recognizing their
engagement in our community.

Detailed number of votes for each candidate are available on the OSGeo
wiki [1].

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2021_Results


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Elections 2021 – voting period now open (17.12 – 24.12)

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo Charter Members,

email invitations for Board elections are now being sent out in batches
from our LimeSurvey platform.

Please vote as soon as you can, or contact c...@osgeo.org if you haven’t
received the invitation within the next hours. (Double-check your spam
folder, just in case.)

Make sure to review the manifestos of the 6 candidates before casting
your vote, and feel free to contact them on Discuss list if you wish to
know more about their vision and plans for OSGeo’s future.

The voting period lasts until Friday, December 24th , 23:59 GMT.

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Kind regards,
Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
(your 2021 OSGeo Election CROs)


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Board of Directors elections: campaigning period (until 2021-12-16)

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo members,

We are lucky to have 6 candidates [4] for the OSGeo Board of Directors
[1]. We are closing the nomination period now, to prepare and start the
campaign period.

First of all, we have to thank these volunteers for having accepted the
challenge!

Candidates are invited to write and share some ideas of what they intend
to do as directors, in our wiki at [4] and also by sending their vision
to our Discuss list discuss@lists.osgeo.org.

The campaign period will take place until 2021-12-16. The updated
election calendar is available at [2].

It is a wonderful opportunity to discuss all aspects of our Foundation.
We invite everyone to use the Discuss mailing list to ask candidates
about things you like to see improved.

Best regards,
Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021
[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] REMINDER: OSGeo 2021 Board elections: call for nominations (2021-11-25 to 2021-12-09)

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo members,

we need 4 more nominations for the vacant Board seats, ideally more!

We invite you to get in contact with fellow Charter members interested
in joining the Board, and contact us until Thursday, December 9th, with
your nomination.

You are welcome to contact current Board members to ask about workload,
responsibilities, and any information that new Board candidates may need
before accepting the nomination.

Looking forward for your nomination emails!

Warm regards,
Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:06:50 +0100
Anne Ghisla  wrote:

> Dear OSGeo members,
> 
> We need your help to identify the best of our community to be elected
> to the Board.
> 
> We have 5 vacant seats. Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena
> Mitasova, Till Adams and Vicky Vergara have reached the end of their
> 2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2021
> election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.
> 
> The nomination period for new Members of the Board of Directors is now
> open and goes until Thursday, December 9th. Only Charter Members are
> eligible for a seat on the Board and voting, but anybody can nominate
> a Board member.
> 
> Briefly, to nominate new Board members, you should:
> 
> 1. Please confirm with the person that they would like to stand for
> election as a Board member.
> 
> 2. Email you nomination to c...@osgeo.org, using the following
> template:
> 
> - Nominating person: 
> - Nominee name: 
> - Nomination statement:this person as member of the Board of Directors>
> 
> The updated calendar for the Board of Directors election is:
> 
> * Nomination period: 2021-11-25 to 2021-12-09 (15 days)
> * Campaign period - 2021-12-10 - 2021-12-16 (7 days)
> * Vote for new Board members: 2021-12-17 - 2021-12-24 (8 days)
> * The results will be announced on 2021-12-29.
> 
> All the information about the elections is available in the wiki [1].
> 
> You can see the progress of the nominations on [2] (as soon as we
> receive nominations).
> 
> Looking forward for your nominations!
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
> (your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)[3]
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021
> 
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021
> 
> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer



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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Board elections: call for nominations (2021-11-25 to 2021-12-09)

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo members,

We need your help to identify the best of our community to be elected
to the Board.

We have 5 vacant seats. Astrid Emde, Codrina Maria Ilie, Helena
Mitasova, Till Adams and Vicky Vergara have reached the end of their
2-year term. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the 2021
election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

The nomination period for new Members of the Board of Directors is now
open and goes until Thursday, December 9th. Only Charter Members are
eligible for a seat on the Board and voting, but anybody can nominate a
Board member.

Briefly, to nominate new Board members, you should:

1. Please confirm with the person that they would like to stand for
election as a Board member.

2. Email you nomination to c...@osgeo.org, using the following template:

- Nominating person: 
- Nominee name: 
- Nomination statement: 

The updated calendar for the Board of Directors election is:

* Nomination period: 2021-11-25 to 2021-12-09 (15 days)
* Campaign period - 2021-12-10 - 2021-12-16 (7 days)
* Vote for new Board members: 2021-12-17 - 2021-12-24 (8 days)
* The results will be announced on 2021-12-29.

All the information about the elections is available in the wiki [1].

You can see the progress of the nominations on [2] (as soon as we
receive nominations).

Looking forward for your nominations!

Warm regards,

Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)[3]

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021

[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Elections - Charter member review and voting closes today!

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo charter members,

please review and vote for the new charter members!
The vote closes today at 23:59 CET.

In case you didn't receive the invite, contact us at c...@osgeo.org.

Let me also mention the upcoming Board election, and invite you to
contact potential nominees right away! The full calendar is listed
below.

Thank you and warm regards,
Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)


On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:20:10 +0200
Anne Ghisla  wrote:

> Dear OSGeo charter members,
> 
> This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Nov. 1, 2021, with the
> nomination period for new Charter Members.
> 
> The nomination period for Charter Members will be open for two weeks.
> Candidate review and voting will follow through our electronic voting
> system.
> 
> Charter member nomination period starts: Nov. 1, 2021
> Charter member nomination period ends: Nov. 14, 2021
> 
> Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Nov. 15,
> 2021 Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Nov. 21,
> 2021
> 
[...]
> 
> Right after the Charter member elections, we'll proceed with Board
> elections. We invite you to be proactive from now on and start
> contacting potential candidates!
> 
> Important dates for Board election:
> 
> Board member nomination period starts: Nov. 25, 2021
> Board member nomination period ends: Dec. 9, 2021
> 
> Board member campaigning period starts: Dec. 10, 2021
> Board member campaigning period ends: Dec. 16, 2021
> 
> Board member voting period starts: Dec. 17, 2021
> Board member voting period ends: Dec. 24, 2021
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
> (your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs [3])
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2021
> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo 2021 Elections underway

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Hello everyone,

we already got the first nominations coming in, and would like to remind
you that the nomination period closes this Sunday, November 14.
You are invited to contact active OSGeo members who would be interested
in becoming Charter members, and send us their nomination email :)

Looking forward for many great candidates!

Kind regards,
Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs)

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:20:10 +0200
Anne Ghisla  wrote:

> Dear OSGeo charter members,
> 
> This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Nov. 1, 2021, with the
> nomination period for new Charter Members.
> 
> The nomination period for Charter Members will be open for two weeks.
> Candidate review and voting will follow through our electronic voting
> system.
> 
> Charter member nomination period starts: Nov. 1, 2021
> Charter member nomination period ends: Nov. 14, 2021
> 
> Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Nov. 15,
> 2021 Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Nov. 21,
> 2021
> 
> You can see the progress of the nominations on [2].
> 
> Please, send your nomination to cro at osgeo.org (not to this list)
> with the following information:
> 
> Nominating person: 
> Nominating e-mail: 
> Nominating profile page: 
> 
> Nominee name: 
> Nominee last name: 
> Nominee e-mail: 
> Nominee country: 
> Nominee wiki page (optional): 
> Nominee profile page: 
> Nomination statement:  this person as a Charter Member. Please include details about the
> positive attributes of the nominee, as suggested in [1]>
> 
> Right after the Charter member elections, we'll proceed with Board
> elections. We invite you to be proactive from now on and start
> contacting potential candidates!
> 
> Important dates for Board election:
> 
> Board member nomination period starts: Nov. 25, 2021
> Board member nomination period ends: Dec. 9, 2021
> 
> Board member campaigning period starts: Dec. 10, 2021
> Board member campaigning period ends: Dec. 16, 2021
> 
> Board member voting period starts: Dec. 17, 2021
> Board member voting period ends: Dec. 24, 2021
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
> (your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs [3])
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2021
> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Elections

[Anne Ghisla via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo charter members,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Nov. 1, 2021, with the
nomination period for new Charter Members.

The nomination period for Charter Members will be open for two weeks.
Candidate review and voting will follow through our electronic voting
system.

Charter member nomination period starts: Nov. 1, 2021
Charter member nomination period ends: Nov. 14, 2021

Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Nov. 15, 2021
Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Nov. 21, 2021

You can see the progress of the nominations on [2].

Please, send your nomination to cro at osgeo.org (not to this list) with
the following information:

Nominating person: 
Nominating e-mail: 
Nominating profile page: 

Nominee name: 
Nominee last name: 
Nominee e-mail: 
Nominee country: 
Nominee wiki page (optional): 
Nominee profile page: 
Nomination statement: 

Right after the Charter member elections, we'll proceed with Board
elections. We invite you to be proactive from now on and start
contacting potential candidates!

Important dates for Board election:

Board member nomination period starts: Nov. 25, 2021
Board member nomination period ends: Dec. 9, 2021

Board member campaigning period starts: Dec. 10, 2021
Board member campaigning period ends: Dec. 16, 2021

Board member voting period starts: Dec. 17, 2021
Board member voting period ends: Dec. 24, 2021

Warm regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs [3])

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2021
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM Geospatial Devroom - Live stream

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

the geospatial devroom in FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) just started!
You can follow us on the live stream:
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/

or later watch the video recordings that will be made available on
FOSDEM website.

All the best!

Anne


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

[Anne Ghisla]

Former admin here.

When I became admin in 2012, mentors money was added to OSGeo incomes.
I started a discussion with the Board and current mentors about it, and
the agreed outcome was that the mentors' money should specifically be
allocated for code sprint support. (See budgets from 2013 onwards, and
board list/IRC logs for extended information).

So it is misleading to say that OSGeo retains the money: it is
has been available to projects every year.

I welcome mentors to make use of this year's allocated money for code
sprints - for next year and onwards (assuming OSGeo will apply for GSoC
and gets accepted) the discussion can be reopened. I'm not an admin
anymore but I would be glad to contribute with information about past
decisions.

Best
Anne

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 06:59:21 +0200
Massimiliano Cannata  wrote:

> Jody,
> it was never an option to choose if donating the money or not. Someone
> decided on the past and this option was never asked to mentors...
> I assumed this was part of the game: get one slot by OSGeo and it
> retains the mentor's money...
> 
> But to me make sense to let project use them for their growing and
> promotion, for example I would use them to make t-shirt with istSOS
> and OSGeo logos for the community... :-)
> 
> Maxi
> 
> Il 29 ago 2017 4:21 AM, "Jody Garnett"  ha
> scritto:
> 
> Trying to hunt through my email, it has been a long time since I did
> GSOC. I think it was $500 to OSGeo for each project mentored (really
> not sure if that is still the case).
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 28 August 2017 at 18:45, Stephen Woodbridge
>  wrote:
> 
> > Really, that is news to me. I never knew we had that option. I
> > think we would have liked to fund some additional development for
> > the project or defrayed travel expenses for PSC members to go to
> > conferences to present papers on behalf of the project.
> >
> > What is the process for mentors to get the money?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   -Steve
> >
> > On 8/28/2017 9:36 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> >  
> >> Mentors can decide what to do with the money they earn through the
> >> GSOC program; in the past many mentors have accepted the t-shirt
> >> and donated the money to OSGeo. I know I donated money to OSGeo
> >> previously, but was not really specific about to any particular
> >> project.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jody Garnett
> >>
> >> On 28 August 2017 at 17:23, Vicky Vergara  >> > wrote:  
> >>
> >> So, then if I undertand correctly:
> >> Mentors money is not mentors money.
> >> Right?
> >>
> >> Vicky
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Jody Garnett
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> We are listing GSOC as a initiative, can the participating
> >> mentors make a decision?
> >>
> >> I have suggestions (such as a donate to the travel grant
> >> program for student travel) but it should be up to the
> >> participants.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:11 AM Massimiliano Cannata
> >>  >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I believe that GSoC people should make a proposal to be
> >> discussed at board level, of course hints from
> >> everyone is welcome...
> >>
> >> Maxi
> >>
> >> Il 26 ago 2017 7:02 PM, "Marc Vloemans"
> >>  >> > ha scritto:
> >>
> >> Dear Vicky,
> >>
> >> Before going into your question; decisions to spend
> >> money on codesprints or student conference
> >> attendance has not been part of the Marketing Committee remit.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the Board can decide on the what/where/how
> >> of this type of support?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Marc Vloemans
> >>
> >>
> >> Op 26 aug. 2017 om 18:51 heeft Vicky Vergara
> >>  >> > het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >>  
> >>> ​
> >>> Hello all
> >>> This thread started on the osgeo mentors list.
> >>> By suggestion of Margherita I tried to move it to
> >>> marketing, but it never arrived, so I am sending
> >>> to discuss..
> >>> Sorry I can not give you links to the different
> >>> responses, it so happens that OSGeo google mentors
> >>> mailing list is private (for what ever reason).
> >>>
> >>> Please have a look.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -- Forwarded message --
> >>> From: *Margherita Di Leo*
> >>> >
> >>> Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:01 

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GSoC 2016: Summary and results

[Anne Ghisla]

Dear all,

One more GSoC has come to an end, with an awesome array of successful
student projects:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/

We would like to warmly thank our mentors for the first-class support
to the students, defying timezones and language hurdles, so that each
student could comfortably learn and code in their chosen software
project. Also, thank you to all our students for their commitment and
the excellent results produced. Every year the bar is raised a notch!
And last but not least, a huge thank you to Google Open Source Team,
who made GSoC a reality for the 12th year in a row!

We wish all mentors a relaxing winter of code, and welcome our students
to stay around and enjoy open source community, this time without
deadlines :)

Until next GSoC, goodbye!

Anne and Madi
OSGeo GSoC Administrators
http://goo.gl/SfjlVb
https://goo.gl/photos/LSw49B5aonoZJ6S66



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2016 Results

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:20:17 +
SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA  wrote:

> Hi all. According to Google Summer of Code timeline results of GSoC
> 2016 program were announced by Agust 30. I'm proud to inform that the
> project we submitted was finally approved
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/#5397519550906368
> (Congratulations to Carlos, also to Oscar and Joaquín).  It will be
> good to know what other OSGeo projects were also approved.

Hello Sergio, all,

we were waiting for Google's wrapup post, and we'll post OSGeo's
summary of GSoC 2016 soon. You can already browse the page linked above
to know all about this year's results!

Best regards,
Anne and Margherita


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Help needed for setting up 9 new mail lists to support our new regional groups/subject thematics

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:17:29 +
Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 OSGeo Community,
 
 This is a call for help from those who have expertise in OSGeo mail
 lists to help us setup the following new mail list for our regional
 groups as part of our expansion. We have also now appointed new
 chairs for all 5 regions (North America, South America, Europe,
 Africa and Asia) to take forward our expansion plans.
 
 Details at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

Hi Suchith, all,

sorry for my delay in response. I just created a ticket that requests
the creation of all lists: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1477
Let's deal with administrative details in the ticket's comments.

Best regards,

Anne
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:23:05 -0800
Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:

 On 02/09/2015 04:23 PM, Cristiano Giovando wrote:
  Hello,
  
  We, at the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) [1] just started the
  organization application for Google Summer of Code 2015. Considering
  that some project ideas may be of interest to both OSGeo and HOT, we
  were wondering if you are planning to participate in GSoC this year
  and if you would like to coordinate on some projects?
  
  Here are some topics for developing ideas:
  
  - open source geospatial plugins for humanitarian response
  - development of Open Aerial Map [2]
  - spatial ETL, improvements to export tools [3]
  - mapping coordination platforms [4]
  - humanitarian/OSM version of OSGeo Live
  - map rendering based on the Humanitarian Data Model
  - mobile field mapping applications
  
  Please let us know if you are interested!
  
  Cheers,
  
  Cristiano
  
  [1] http://hot.openstreetmap.org
  [2] https://github.com/hotosm/OpenAerialMap
  [3] http://export.hotosm.org
  [4] http://tasks.hotosm.org
  
 
 Cristiano,
 
 Yes I believe OSGeo is currently working on applying to participate.
 The discussion happens on a dedicated email list.
 http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc
 
 Anne who is one of our organizers/lead mentors should have more info
 for you.

Hello Cristiano, all,

we are currently sorting out details of OSGeo application for GSoC, and
I definitely welcome collaboration with HOT team over the topics you
listed.
Once OSGeo applies and we get the results of Google selection, we can
set up a wiki page with shared ideas.

All the best for HOT team for its first GSoC!

Kind regards,

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board meeting 2015-02-05: summary and minutes

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all OSGeo members,

here is the outline of yesterday's Board meeting:

- Treasurer report
- Fund requests for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Students Awards initative, Geo4All
  website, Philadelphia Code Sprint and EGU Townhall meeting
- GSoC 2015
- Diversity

More updates on FOSS4G 2015 and 2016 have been deferred to Board
mailing list.

The full minutes are available here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-02-05#Minutes

Next meeting will likely be a preparation for Board Face to Face (F2F)
in mid March.

Kind regards,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:25:28 +0530
Faza Mahamood faza...@live.com wrote:

 Hi,
 Is OSGeo planning to apply as a mentor organisation in Google Summer
 of Code 2015? -Faza Mahamood

Hello Faza,

it is not confirmed yet, but an official announcement from the admins
is expected in around a week.

Stay tuned!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Minutes of Board meeting 2014-01-15

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

here are the minutes of last Board meeting:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-01-15#Minutes

The Board has been discussing about the following topics:

- OSGeo finances: current status, opening of US bank account,
  conference money transfers, IRS update
- FOSS4G Seoul update
- FOSS4G 2016 selection
- Budget 2015, SAC actions

See the wiki page for the revised minutes and the raw log of the
meeting. As usual, you are welcome to write to Board list for specific
comments or questions.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All Heros 2014

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:54:53 +0100
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 I want to join this praise thread. That list is full of passion (well
 and also Suchith). Working on to the education of new geospatial and
 open minded professionals deserve that Hero tag.
 
 Thanks!!

A warm thank you to the Heroes nominated by Suchith, and all the people
who actively work on the Education initiative for open geospatial. It
is pretty much uncharted territory in a crucial domain (as Suchith
said, we are reaching out to the world citizens of tomorrow!), so the
praise is double.

Thank you all for your contributions!

Kind regards
Anne

 2014-12-17 1:37 GMT+01:00 Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com:
  Thank you to all the Heroes of the community; Sergio, Maria, Lluis,
  and Rafael all deserve tons of praise, as well as Suchith himself
  for all his tireless work promoting GeoForAll.  I like this award
  idea, in this busy crazy world, it's nice to be thanked for doing
  the little things. Maybe a section of the GeoForAll site could be
  dedicated to the current GeoForAll heroes.
 
  -jeff
 
 
 
  On 2014-12-16 5:17 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
 
  Dear all,
 
  http://2013.foss4g.org/When i look back at 2014 and see the
  amazing work that all of you have done for , it gives me great
  inspiration for working hard for this mission in 2015 and  each
  and every one of you who have been contributing your efforts are
  *Geo for All Heros*.  But i thought it will be appropriate to
  acknowledge some of our amazing people whose work and efforts has
  inspired all of us a lot.
 
  *Sergio Acosta y Lara and colleague*s at gvSIG Batoví initiative in
  Uruguay who have done amazing contribution for widening high
  quality education opportunities for students all across Uruguay
  through the  wider CEIBAL Initiative http://www.ceibal.org.uy/
  by developing excellent educational tools that enables primary and
  secondary education students to understand space, to easily
  interpret maps and to learn free technologies. The video link
  (with English translation)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo speaks for itself the
  contribution of  CEIBAL and i hope this will inspire other
  developing and poor countries to invest in free and open
  technologies in primary and secondary school education, so that
  the students (esp. from poor backgrounds) will also get access to
  high quality educational resources and opportunities.
 
  *Professor Maria Brovelli* who is  respected by everyone in the
  FOSS4G community for not only her great research contributions but
  also for her kindness and compassion. Her background support and
  work on many initiatives from NASA Worldwind Europa Challenge to
  various Summer Schools and now working hard to host the
  FOSS4G-Europe in 2015, clearly shows her commitment for widening
  education opportunities in Geospatial for everyone.
 
  *Jason Sadler* from University of Southampton has worked hard to
  develop and maintain our Geo for All http://www.geoforall.org
  http://www.geoforall.org/ website. We all are grateful for his
  and other colleagues at Southampton's efforts and contributions
  for this. Also *Luca Delucchi *and *Vaclav Petras* who helped
  create the dynamic map for Geo for All labs.
 
  *Lluis Vicens* of SIGTE , University of Girona is the driving force
  behind the very successful Open Source GIS Summer School Initiative
  http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
which is now in its fifth year. By making available all the
  teaching materials for the Summer School to everyone through the
  website , its impact is not only for students who attend the
  summer school  but for everyone.
 
  *Dr Rafael Moreno* of University of Colarado, Denver, USA who has
  not only the driving force for the FOSS4G lab at University of
  Colarado http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
but also been working hard to provide geo education
  opportunities to more staff and students in other countries.
 
  So big thank you for all of you for your  contributions to Open
  Education and your work and contributions will keep inspiring all
  of us for the future. The fundamental principle of Geo for All
  is to  enable education opportunities for everyone and Openness in
  Education (Free and Open software, open standards, open data, open
  access to research publications)  provide great opportunities for
  widening education opportunities.
 
  Best wishes,
 
  Suchith


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: [location-iwg] Tour's away!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hi all,

LocationTech Tour 2014 is officially started, maybe one tour stop is
nearby, and you want to join the event?
It is the most direct way to get to know LocationTech people and
activities, and find what LT and OSGeo could do together, starting
from what single people and small groups have in common.

Have fun!
Anne

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:46:10 -0400
From: Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org
To: Location IWG location-...@locationtech.org
Subject: [location-iwg] Tour's away!


Dear All,

Announcement is up! Please help spread the good word.

https://www.locationtech.org/content/announcing-2014-locationtech-tour

Thank you!

Andrew


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 from me too.

Anne

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 04:22:48 -0700
Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Dear all,
 I second Chaitanya's nomination.
 Chaitanya is a cool FOSS GIS programmer and promoter. He is quite a
 popular trainer at FOSS4G India 2012. He helped in developing web-gis
 for Rajahmundry GIS project, with indic translation. OSGeo will be
 enriched with Chaitanya on it's charter. Cheers
 Ravi Kumar 
 
 
 On Friday, August 1, 2014 9:07 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan
 ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote: 
 
 
 On 2014/08/02 0:09, K S Rajan wrote:
 
 Dear Community,  I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open
 source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India
 Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of
 years, he has been actively sharing his technical knowledge at
 various FOSS4G training programmes conducted in India, has been a
 GSoC mentor and developing solutions. Chaitanya's profile can be seen
 at [1] I second the nomination of Chaitanya Kumar. He is a committed
 FOSS4G developer and a great trainer.
 
 Venka
 
 
 regards, 
 Rajan  [1] http://in.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyakumarch 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Charter Member Nomination - Jeremy Morley

[Anne Ghisla]

I second Jeremy's nomination!

Anne

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:07:42 +0100
Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 Dear All,
 
 It is my great pleasure to nominate Jeremy Morley for OSGeo Charter
 membership. I have known and worked with Jeremy for many years now
 and his help and support was key for expanding OSGeo in the UK. He is
 the cochair of OSGIS conference series and has been the co-chair of
 the very successful FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham.
 
 Jeremy is Theme Leader for Geospatial Science at the Nottingham
 Geospatial Institute.  He has worked in the academic GIS sector since
 the mid-90s. Jeremy has promoted and researched Open GIS standards
 (through the OGC TC since 2000), data (UK Location Programme User
 Group) and software (hosted the “EOGEO” workshops, predecessors to
 FOSS4G, in 2000  2004).  He has also been actively giving training
 programs (good example is the very successful GIS Open Source Summer
 School in Girona) , workshops, talks etc. He is also leading  new
 module on our MSc GIScience called  Geospatial Information Services
 at  fully using OSGeoLive. This is a good example for other
 universities to follow in the future for their Master, undergraduate
 programs etc.
 
 I am surprised that Jeremy is not already a charter member and i am
 sure not only the UK Chapter colleagues but also our Edu community
 will be happy to see him as a charter member.
 
 Suchith 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

[Anne Ghisla]

What, he is not a charter member? But he is already a chanting member :D

Anne

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:23:10 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 It's  a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now
 living in Norway). He is well known by usual FOSS4G attendants by his
 funny musicals (i.e. [3]) but Iván is much much more than a passionate
 geonerd. He is one of the main promoters of Open Data and
 OpenStreetMap in Spain (in fact he's currently the -exiled- president
 of the OSM.es association); he was for a period member of the Boards
 of Directors of the OSM Foundation and has leaded many activities
 around OSM and Open Data in Spain. He usually presents FOSS4G projects
 on conferences and is also well remembered by the Cake Test for Open
 Data (specially when he brings cakes to smaller-than-FOSS4G
 conferences).
 
 Iván is a great friend and I'm sure you'll agree he deserves joining
 the Charter Membership.
 
 Cheers
 
 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1nchez_Ortega
 [2] https://github.com/ivansanchez
 [3] http://vimeo.com/29203100
 [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/11/11/921/


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jorge Arévalo

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:02:54 +0200
Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote:

 I second this nomination,
 
 Jorge is one of the most active members of the Spanish speaking
 community and also a great code contributor.

+1 from me, I know Jorge from Google Summer of Code: he had been a
successful student and is a currently mentor for GDAL/PostGIS. Great to
see him among Charter member nominees!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Pirmin Kalberer

[Anne Ghisla]

+1

Anne

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:26:04 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Pirmin Kalberer nomination by Cameron.
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
 Date: 2014-07-25 10:34 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nominating Pirmin Kalberer for OSGeo Charter Membership
 To: CRO c...@osgeo.org
 
 
 I have known Pirmin through his very active role on the OSGeo-Live,
 where he has taken on the responsibility of packaging and supporting
 documentation for many Open Source GIS applications, including QGIS
 Server, TinyOWS, osgEarth and QGIS additions.
 
 He has also been involved across a range of projects, including QGIS,
 GDAL, OGR, Mapfish, MapLayers, Mapserver, TinyOWS, osgEarth,
 GIS-Knoppix, as well as with UbuntuGIS.
 
 More about his experience is at:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pirmin_Kalberer


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Silvia Franceschi

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 for Silvia's nomination!

Anne

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:33:17 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Silvia Franceschi nomination by Venka
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Venkatesh Raghavan
 Date: 2014-07-26 9:44 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nomination for Silvia Franceschi
 To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org, Silvia Franceschi
 
 
 Hi Jorge,
 
 It is my pleasure to nominate  Silvia Franceschi[1] [2] for OSGeo
 Charter membership.
 Active contributor to several FOSS4G projects and also international
 community particulatrly in Africa. She is a co-founder of HydroloGIS
 where she develops and uses
 JGrassTools, uDig, Geopaparazzi for practical applications.
 Her commitment and passion for all-things-FOSS4G is second to none.
 
 Venka
 
 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Silvia_franceschi
 [2]
 https://sites.google.com/a/hydrologis.com/hydrologis-environmental-engineering-en/azienda


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Simone Dalmasso

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 from me as well! I have the pleasure to work with Simone, as mentor
for GeoNode in Google Summer of Code 2014.

Anne

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:46:33 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Simone Dalmasso nomination by Angelos.
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Angelos Tzotsos
 Date: 2014-07-26 20:51 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nomination for OSGeo Charter Membership: Simone Dalmasso
 To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Simone Dalmasso
 
 I'd like to nominate Simone Dalmasso for OSGeo Charter membership.
 
 Simone Dalmasso is active in developing Open Source Geographic
 applications since 2007, in 2010 he got his Ph.D. in geomatics
 engineering at the Politecnico di Torino and ITHACA where he released
 the Extreme Rainfall Detection System. He started developing on
 GeoNode in 2010 and became GeoNode core developer in 2011. From 2011
 he moved to Rome at the UN World Food Programme (WFP) where he
 deployed the first WFP GeoNode instance. From 2013 he works at the
 European Commission - Joint Research Centre as responsible for the
 geographic open source web projects of the Institute for the Security
 and Protection of the Citizen - Geospatial Emergency Management
 Action.
 
 Angelos Tzotsos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Alexander Bruy

[Anne Ghisla]

I second Alex's nomination.

Anne

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:25:59 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Alexander Bruy nomination to the OSGeo Charter Membership
 by Alex Mandel
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Alex Mandel
 Date: 2014-07-22 18:38 GMT+02:00
 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination of Alexander Bruy
 To: c...@osgeo.org
 
 He is a well known contributor in the QGIS and OSGeo-Live realms, a
 leader in of OSGeo interests in Ukraine, a GSOC mentor, and a lead
 translator for many OSGeo projects into Russian and Ukrainian.
 
 Though I've never met him in person we run into each other all the
 time on IRC and mailing lists competing to help people use FOSS4G.
 
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Alexbruy
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nomination- Luciene Delazari

[Anne Ghisla]

I second Luciene's nomination. I know her from ICA-OSGeo Labs and from
her mentor role in GSoC 2014. Her contribution to OSGeo educational
initiatives is invaluable.

Anne

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:11:46 +0100
Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 It is my great pleasure to nominate  Dr Luciene Delzari (Federal
 University of Parana, Brazil) for OSGeo charter membership. 
 
 Dr Luciene Delazari is assistant professor in Cartography and GIS at
 the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Over the years Luciene
 taught many courses in Cartography and GIS, both at undergraduate and
 graduate level. She gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at
 universities and conferences in many cities around Brazil. She is
 leading Cartography and GIS research at Geodetic Science Program and
 published over 20 journal papers in this field. Her research
 interests and publications are in cartographic visualisation,
 interface design for cartographic products and automated cartographic
 design.  Luciene is the cochair of the Geospatial IG of the Research
 Data Alliance https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig.html   and
 also is coeditor for Special issue is on Open Geospatial Science and
 Applications of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.Her
 details are at http://people.ufpr.br/~luciene/site.htm Luciene has
 provided us huge support in our education efforts esp in establishing
 Open Source Geospatial Labs in Brazil and now is actively helping and
 supporting colleagues in other universities in Brazil and across
 South America to start Open Source Geospatial Labs in their
 universities. 
 
 I also had the opportunity of working with her when she visited
 Nottingham University for a one year visiting research fellowship.
 During her time at Nottingham, she actively contributed to Geo for
 All initiative and also helped build many collaborations in Open
 GIS. She also is supervising a Google Summer of Code student in
 schematisation plugin for QGIS . Now back in her university in
 Brazil, i am sure she will further build more momentum for OSGeo's
 education activities there.
 
 I believe Luciene Delzari will be an excellent OSGeo charter member
 and will help in further building up our global strength. Thanks.
 
 Suchith


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Vaclav Petras

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 from me too!

Anne

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:37:32 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Václav Petras nomination by Martin Landa
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Martin Landa
 Date: 2014-07-30 20:29 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nomination for Vaclav Petras
 To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Václav Petráš
 
 
 Hi,
 
 it is my pleasure to nominate Vaclav Petras [1] for OSGeo Charter
 membership. Vaclav started to actively contribute to the GRASS project
 during his studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I
 met him as the lecturer. Vaclav together with his colleague Anna
 Petrasova (formerly Kratochvilova) formed an excellent micro-team.
 They are eg. authors of QGIS plugin for working with Czech cadastral
 data. Vaclav is also author of several GRASS modules, he is currently
 working on Testing framework for GRASS GIS within Google Summer of
 Code project. He is studying for his PhD at NCSU under supervision of
 Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from him being a
 future charter member.
 
 Martin
 
 [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vaclav-petras/
 [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675372
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 for Nikos!

Anne

On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 10:44:17 +0200
Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 +1 for Nikos
 
 jachym
 
 2014-08-01 9:57 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com:
  Hi,
 
  2014-08-01 9:34 GMT+02:00 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
  js...@osgeo.org:
  Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos.
 
  I second this nomination! Martin
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova

[Anne Ghisla]

+1 for Anna, her contributions to GRASS are amazing! 

Anne

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:21:04 +0200
Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Forwarding Anna Petrášová nomination by Martin Landa
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Martin Landa
 Date: 2014-07-30 20:16 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nomination for Anna Petrasova
 To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Anna Petrášová
 
 
 Hi,
 
 it is my pleasure to nominate Anna Petrasova [1] for OSGeo Charter
 membership. Anna started to actively contribute to the GRASS project
 during her studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I
 met her as the lecturer. She quickly joined the GRASS development team
 and became a core developer with excellent results. She also
 participated in Google Summer of Code project, in years 2014 and 2011.
 Currently she is studying for her PhD at NCSU under supervision of
 Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from her being a
 future charter member.
 
 Martin
 
 [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/anna-petrasova/
 [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675371
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu

[Anne Ghisla]

I fully agree with Suchith on the importance of education, and am very
glad to see many nominations of ICA-OSGeo Labs' members.
 
I find that having many Charter members from the education domain means
that OSGeo is ready to recognise other contributions than code. This
makes me think of what Debian recently did:
https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019

Debian is maybe by design more code-oriented than OSGeo - anyway, I
like our common shift to recognise more kinds of contribution as
equally important.

Anne

On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:00:26 +0100
Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

 I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been
 activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up
 the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting
 OSGeo education efforts in Europe. 
 
 We need more educators and academics like Ionut as charter members of
 OSGeo. Though they might be not be very visible  , they provide the
 greatest service for our community through their dedication and
 efforts in educating the new generation with the FOSS4G knowledge and
 to take us to new heights for the future with their long term focus
 in education.
 
 I had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with Ionut in ICC
 2013 in Dresden and earlier this year at GWF 2014 in Geneva and  I
 have been impressed with his work and contributions to our education
 efforts.  I believe Ionut will be a valuable OSGeo charter member.
 
 Suchith
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
 [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz
 Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions
 Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu
 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț
 Iosifescu
 
 Forwarding Ionut Iosifescu nomination by Vasile
 
 Cheers
 Jorge
 
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Vasile Craciunescu
 Date: 2014-07-30 20:28 GMT+02:00
 Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Ionuț Iosifescu
 To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Ionuț Iosifescu
 
 
 I'd like to nominate Ionuț Iosifescu[1] for charter membership in
 OSGeo. Ionuț is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cartography
 and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich - Switzerland and an active advocate
 of FOSS4G for many years. He contributed to projects like QGIS and
 QGIS MapServer. I would also like to remember that he did some
 important scientific contributions in the field of Cartographic Web
 Services [2] and FOSS4G promotion for education and research by
 setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich[3]
 (part of ICA-OSGeo network).
 
 Best,
 Vasile
 
 
 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ionut
 [2] http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:4541/eth-4541-02.pdf
 [3] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
 
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 http://www.geo-spatial.org
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:55:16 +0200
María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
  wrote:
 
  It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female
  nominations for Charter members.  I just want to bring this to the
  attention of the whole community.
 
  Thanks all,
 
  -jeff
 
 
 Agreed.
 
 On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their
 gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers.
 (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just
 because I am female and not because I worked hard.)
 
 I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this
 stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in
 tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we
 should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)
 
 Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I
 know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really
 important?

I agree with Maria. This remembers me some past discussions while
creating OSGeo-Women mailing list.

At first we can say that no one is preventing women to enter OSGeo
jsut because they are women. But waiting the balance to change without
doing nothing is in my opinion not the way to go. Also forcing a female
quota like some countries do for elections is not the solution, because
it gives gender more importance than merit.

My idea is to give everyone the same possibilities, without giving
gender/language/etc predefined choices. Therefore I really like the idea
of talking about OSGeo in schools - and OSGeo education group is working
in that direction, even if not (yet?) to younger kids. Of course this
is an approach that will bring results in a long time, but I feel it is
the strongest.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:15:48 +0900
Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote:

 On 2014/07/22 4:19, Jorge Sanz wrote:
  Nomination of Johan van de Wauw by Jeff McKenna.
 I second Johan's nomination

+1 for me for Johan's nomination, I had the pleasure to share FOSDEM
2014 booth with him and have appreciated his proactivity on spreading
the open geospatial word, both there and online.

Best!
Anne


  -- Forwarded message --
  From: Jeff McKenna
  Date: 2014-07-21 19:26 GMT+02:00
  Subject: Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw
  To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
  Cc: Johan Van de Wauw
 
 
  It is my pleasure to nominate Johan Van de Wauw for OSGeo Charter
  membership.
 
  Active in the Belgium community, Johan has been working hard lately
  on helping with the OSGeo-Live project.  He is also active in the
  SAGA GIS community.  He also helps organize the FOSDEM conference
  in Europe.
 
  I had the pleasure of meeting Johan in Bremen recently, and I really
  like his raw enthusiasm and passion for all-things-FOSS4G.
 
  -jeff


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:34:18 -0300
Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 I also support the nomination for Stephan, by Helmut and Mike.
 Stephan does a lot of work for OGC standards support in the MapServer
 project, and he is a great representative of the Viennese community.
 He also somehow magically brought together the QGIS development team
 with the 'C tribe code sprint' to create one of the biggest and best
 code sprints in history, not an easy task!  He deserves much credit
 and praise.

I agree with Jeff, and strongly support Stephan's nomination.

Best!
Anne


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board meeting 2014-07-17: minutes

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

here are the minutes and logs of yesterday's Board meeting:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-07-17
(Minutes and motions are yet unapproved.)

There has been discussion over elections 2014, strategic funding, OSGeo
and Europe, and finally OSGeo's business model.

My comment is that this has been one of the (few) meetings where there
was less of the usual large consensus.
Therefore I feel important to get thoughts from OSGeo members other
than the current Board, as it is already happening in last emails. At
the moment we have no better way to collect opinions and comments
besides mailing lists and in-person discussions, that are notoriously
difficult to summarise. (A wiki page is good to summarise, but not to
discuss.) Nevertheless, I encourage members to speak up on these
important topics.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross posting,

let us warmly welcome the 23 accepted students and their mentors for
this round of GSoC!

We received over 60 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects -
choosing wich ones to accept has been a difficult task, and we apologise
for not being able to take all the outstanding ones.

We accepted the following students (in software's alphabetical order): 
* Cartaro: Naveen Panwar
* GDAL/OGR: Varun Saraf and Mikhail Gusev
* GeoNode: Vikas Mishra
* GRASS GIS: Vaclav Petras, Matej Krejci and Anna Petrasova
* gvSIG: Manuel Madrid and Oscar Martinez
* istSOS: Priska Pietra
* MapServer: Jessica Lapointe
* Neo4j: William Lyon
* Opticks: Roberta Ravanelli
* OpenStreetMap: Lukasz Gurdek
* OSSIM: Martina Di Rita
* Orfeo Toolbox (OTB): Martina Porfiri
* PostGIS: Mohit Kumar
* pgRouting: Manikanta Kondeti and Mukul Priya
* pyWPS: Anna Homolka
* Software packaging: Jerome Villeneuve Larouche
* QGIS: Nishith Maheshwari
* uDig/GeoTools: Silvia Franceschi

This list includes OSGeo projects (official and incubating) and
like-minded projects - let GSoC be a gathering of tribes, an occasion
to improve communication among all geospatial open source initiatives.

See the full list of OSGeo accepted proposals here:
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osgeo

We wish all students and mentors a great summer!

Anne, Hamish and Dustan
OSGeo GSoC Admins


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2014: student application period opens

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross posting,


in little less than one hour (March 10th, 19:00 UTC) Google Summer of
Code students application period will open [0].
The application period closes in two weeks, on March 21st.

Here [1] is a link to all common questions on GSoC, that cover the
basics about the program and also specific questions on how to apply
and what are the requirements for students and mentors.

OSGeo homepage on Melange shows the application template [2] that
students shall use and will contain the direct link for application
submission.

Our suggestions to students are summarized as follows:

- check the eligibility requirements first (see the link to common
  questions) 
- get inspiration and info from the OSGeo Ideas wiki page [3]
- if you are new, introduce yourself to the developer team you wish to
  join
- register on Melange and submit the application, even as draft, not
  later than next week. You are able to edit it or withdraw it anytime
  during the application period.

Interested students and mentors are welcome to ask for clarification on
the soc list s...@lists.osgeo.org or, if privacy is needed, to the
admins directly..

Let us remind that you don't need to already be an expert to take part
to GSoC - if you are unsure, just ask what are the required skills for
a given idea!


[0] GSoC homepage
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
[1] GSoC FAQ
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page
[2] OSGeo application template for students
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osgeo
[3] OSGeo Ideas
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas


Looking forward for great applications,

Anne, Hamish and Dustan
OSGeo GSoC Admins


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board meeting 2014-03-06: Minutes

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

yesterday the Board discussed the following items during its monthly
meeting:

- approval of 2014 budget
- updates on FOSS4G 2015 RFP
- support OSGeo townhall meeting at European Geosciences Conference
  (Vienna, April 27-May 2)
- OSGeo-Live progress

Please find the full minutes on the meeting's wiki page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-03-06

You are all welcome to contact the Board to propose items for the agenda
of next meeting, that will be on April, 10th.

All the best,

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Code for Resilience - call for mentors

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,


let me forward the call for mentoring related to Code for Resilience
(C4R), an initiative co-founded by the World Bank's Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and ICT Unit (TWICT), and Code
for Japan.

The initiative is partnering local technologists with disaster risk
management (DRM) experts to strengthen community resilience to natural
disasters through the creation of civic-minded digital and hardware
solutions.
http://codeforresilience.org/page/about
http://codeforresilience.org/blog

Read about Code for Resilience events held in Peshawar, Dhaka, and
three cities in Japan in this World Bank feature story
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/02/03/hackathons-tech-savvy-innovators-asia-disaster-resilience
or this write-up in DevEx
https://www.devex.com/en/blogs/2529/blogs_entries/82840?source=MostPopularNews_5

Stay up to date on the next hackathon events by following
@Code4Resilience on Twitter.


OSGeo is invited to participate as well: developers and contributors
can take part to local events, and/or participate to the third part of
the initiative, namely the Online innovation challenge. C4R organisers
look for mentors from various domains (web, app development..) - people
who can guide development and provide expertise.

This is an exciting opportunity to interface directly with some of the
developers who are hard at work building tools that address the
challenges we have identified as key to improving community resilience
to natural disasters.

Mentors will be required to provide skill-specific and/or sector
expertise to teams seeking counsel on how best to build their tool/app
to meet a specific disaster resilience need. The mentoring time frame is
from early March to mid-May.


The deadline for mentor registration is this Thursday - sorry for short
notice. If you wish to become a mentor, please send a mail to me and
Adele (in CC).


Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,

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[OSGeo-Discuss] GEOSTAT course 15-22 June 2014, Bergen, Norway: registrations are now open!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

let me forward the first announcement of the GEOSTAT 2014 Summer school.



The GEOSTAT 2014 Summer School for PhD students and R-sig-geo 
enthusiasts will be held this year at the Norwegian School of Economics 
(NHH), Bergen, Norway in the period 15-22 June 2014 (arrive Sunday to 
depart Sunday). The topics include: spatial and spatio-temporal data
and analysis in R, R as a GIS, spatial data modelling with raster
package, visualization of spatial and spatio-temporal data in Google
Earth, GRASS GIS and QGIS tutorials, and spatio-temporal geostatistics.

This summer school is limited to 50 participants (two parallel 
sessions). Selection of candidates is based on a ranking system, which 
is based on: time of registration, solidarity (participants further
away from the venue receive higher ranking), academic record, and 
contributions to open source projects. The registration costs for the 
summer school are typically between EUR 300 - 400; these cover the 
actual costs, no profits are made. The organizers provide no 
funding/scholarships to participants. Participants from ODA-listed 
countries, however, can apply for a subsidized price for registration
costs.

To register for this summer school please visit the event homepage at:

http://www.geostat-course.org/Bergen_2014

The registration deadline is 1st March 2014.

Lecturers:

* Roger Bivand: Representing and handling spatial and spatio-temporal 
data in R

* Robert Hijmans: Spatial modeling with environmental data (raster and 
dismo packages)

* Edzer Pebesma: Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics with R: an 
introduction

* Barry Rowlingson: QGIS + R tutorial

* Tomislav Hengl: plotKML tutorial (visualization of spatial and 
spatio-temporal data from R to Google Earth)

* Markus Metz: GRASS GIS 7 tutorial / update

* Benedikt Gräler: Spatio-temporal geostatistics: choosing and fitting 
models, interpolation (gstat tutorial)




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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 - ideas needed!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross posting,

this year, Google Summer of Code starts earlier than usual: the
applications for mentoring organisations are already open, and will
close on February 14th.

For who is new to Summer of Code, it is a global program that offers
students stipends to write code for open source projects. See more at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014

OSGeo is going to apply for GSoC 2014, and the first task is to set up
Ideas pages for all projects, before February, 14th. It is a little
more than a week!

The Ideas page is being built here, and shall contain links to all
the geospatial projects involved:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas
The links from past year are commented in the wiki page. If you have
trouble editing the wiki let me or Hamish know.

I encourage developers, teachers and students to start working on ideas
for GSoC and populate the Ideas pages of the related project.
Please forward this mail, or the link to OSGeo GSoC wiki pages, to all
the interested people and projects.

If you have questions, please send a mail to the dedicated mailing list
s...@lists.osgeo.org .

Thanks everyone in advance for your contribution to the Ideas pages -
let's do our best to get OSGeo accepted in GSoC 2014!

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014

Best regards,

Anne and Hamish
OSGeo GSoC Admins


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM '14

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:13:37 +0100
Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:04 -0400
 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:
 
  Hello everyone!
  
  I'm just curious if there is representation by OSGeo at the next
  FOSDEM event (https://fosdem.org/2014/).  I've never been, so I am
  just wondering if there is a geo part to the event, and if we have
  any OSGeo advocates involved in the event.
 
 Hi Jeff, all!
 
 Timing is perfect, because I got the mail this morning from
 FOSDEM organisers, and there will be an OSGeo stand! I have spoken
 about OSGeo participation with a few people at FOSS4G and planned to
 call for volunteers after the confirmation from FOSDEM.
 
  If there is already representation, I hope this thread can help you
  promote your talk and ask for more volunteers.
 
 Sure! I'll set up a wiki page in next days to start organising our
 presence, and will post the link in this thread.

Here it is:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014

I'll expand the TBD sections asap. In the meanwhile, feel free to
sign up at the bottom of the page, among possible participants.

Thanks and all the best,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM '14

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:22:27 +0100
Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com wrote:

 Anne,
 
 If you want some vonunteers, you may count me in.
 I want to represent OSGeo  at Fossdem.

Hello Dirk,

great! I look forward for your presence at the event.
You can add yourself to the list of participants:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014

Looking forward to discuss with you and all OSGeo friends at the
conference!

Anne

 On 17-12-13 21:13, Anne Ghisla wrote:
  On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:04 -0400
  Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:
 
  Hello everyone!
 
  I'm just curious if there is representation by OSGeo at the next
  FOSDEM event (https://fosdem.org/2014/).  I've never been, so I am
  just wondering if there is a geo part to the event, and if we have
  any OSGeo advocates involved in the event.
  Hi Jeff, all!
 
  Timing is perfect, because I got the mail this morning from
  FOSDEM organisers, and there will be an OSGeo stand! I have spoken
  about OSGeo participation with a few people at FOSS4G and planned to
  call for volunteers after the confirmation from FOSDEM.
 
  If there is already representation, I hope this thread can help you
  promote your talk and ask for more volunteers.
  Sure! I'll set up a wiki page in next days to start organising our
  presence, and will post the link in this thread.
 
  -jeff
  Best!
  Anne



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM '14

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:04 -0400
Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 Hello everyone!
 
 I'm just curious if there is representation by OSGeo at the next
 FOSDEM event (https://fosdem.org/2014/).  I've never been, so I am
 just wondering if there is a geo part to the event, and if we have
 any OSGeo advocates involved in the event.

Hi Jeff, all!

Timing is perfect, because I got the mail this morning from
FOSDEM organisers, and there will be an OSGeo stand! I have spoken
about OSGeo participation with a few people at FOSS4G and planned to
call for volunteers after the confirmation from FOSDEM.

 If there is already representation, I hope this thread can help you
 promote your talk and ask for more volunteers.

Sure! I'll set up a wiki page in next days to start organising our
presence, and will post the link in this thread.

 -jeff

Best!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Road Safety Software

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:46:41 +
simon.tremb...@cspq.gouv.qc.ca wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I am currently looking for an open source software that can do road
 safety analysis, something described like that private software:
 http://www.tes.ca/road_safety_software.html.
 
 It is very specialized but maybe someone can help me looking in the
 right direction.

Hello Simon,

I think it is possible to write an open source equivalent of this
software, using e.g. PostGIS or SpatiaLite functionalities. But this is
only half of the task.

In my experience, the most difficult part will be the collection of
traffic and incident data. I have no experience with this, but maybe
someone on the list can give a more informed answer.

 Thank you,
 
 Simon

Kind regards,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thanks to all webinar participants

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:49:11 -0700
Alex Mandel aiman...@ucdavis.edu wrote:

 I've had my eye on http://bigbluebutton.org/ for a few years, never
 had the time to get around to actually installing it in my server
 rack.
 
 Looks like they have a canned VM, so I could probably deploy a test
 instance next month and we could try it for a meeting.

That would be great.

I am available for testing it, and look forward for using it for future
webinars.

 Thanks,
 Alex

Thanks,
Anne

 On 10/18/2013 09:58 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote:
  Manuel and Suchith and OSGEO,
  
  Greatly appreciate your efforts! Though I was unable to attend the
  webinar today, I look forward to the audio recording when it
  becomes available.
  
  As for webinar software that satisfies Linux/Mac/Windows, not to
  mention iOS and Android/etc, I well appreciate the issue of finding
  the right software these days. 
  
  With the elegant Java solution diminishing, we are returned to the
  platform wars of old, especially now as mobile devices further
  drive these dynamics. So, our choices seem very difficult! Good
  luck with that!
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software 
  
  Thank you for your generous efforts with OSGEO, you are a bright
  beacon for the future! 
  
  -Patrick
  
   patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
   Project Manager
   NASA World Wind
   650.604.5656 (office)
   650.269.2788 (cell)
  
  -Original Message-
  From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
  [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Manuel
  Haro Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:52 PM To: Suchith Anand
  Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thanks to all webinar participants
  
  Thanks Suchit and Eduardo, I was attend the webinar and is really
  great effort and very good presentation.
  
  We are available and working to get this own solution platform and
  to have all this big efforts achieved.
  
  Regards and thanks
  
  
  Ing. Manuel Haro Marquez - Laboratorio de Software Libre COZCyT
  Proyectos de Software Libre y Abierto de la Agenda Digital
  manuel.h...@zacatecas.gob.mx   Tel: 9212816 Ext: 117 El
  conocimiento crece cuando se comparte***
  
  - Mensaje original -
  De: Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
  Para: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
  Enviado: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:05:47 -0500 (CDT)
  Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Thanks to all webinar participants
  
  Hi all,
  
  Thanks to Eduardo, we now have the stats for our first webinar
  
  Final numbers:
  Total Attended  Total RegisteredAttendance Rate
  255
  482 52,90%
  
  I have setup a webinar committee to plan and help implement a
  webinar system to accomodate all our requirements for the future.
  As our webinar initiative has no funding and fully based on
  volunteer efforts  we need volunteers who can help implement a new
  system for us. 
  
  We are open to all alternative arrangements but need people to come
  forward who can help us to develop and host the new webinar system
  to achieve our objectives. Until then, we will continue using
  existing facilities kindly provided to us by MundoGeo.
  
  Suchith
  
  
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
  [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
  [suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013
  4:20 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject:  Thanks to all webinar participants
  
  Hi All,
  
  Let me first thank Eduardo Freitas and GeoMundo for providing this
  webinar opportunity for the ICA-OSGeo lab network. I regret that
  some of you were not able to attend the Webinar. We will greatly
  appreciate if anyone can provide us with a webinar platform for
  rectifying this problem. I have requested Eduardo to provide the
  recording url of the webinar so everyone interested can view it.
  
  I would like to specifically thank all participants for joining our
  first webinar and Jeremy Morley for his excellent presentation.
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Annual General Meeting @ FOSS4G, Nottingham - Friday Sept 20th, 6pm - 7pm

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:44:30 +0200
María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
  wrote:
 
  Thanks for those OSGeo officers and local chapter chairs who have
  already volunteered to give an update during the Annual General
  Meeting (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013).
  Others: if you are attending FOSS4G-Nottingham, please consider
  sharing an update from your local chapter or committee in the
  meeting.
 
  -jeff

 Hi,
 
 just one stupid question: where is it gonna take place? Which
 building?

It will be in the Auditorium - I added this information on the wiki
page.

See you all there!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:31 +0200
Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also would like to add my big thanks to Arnulf, Michael and Jakob for
 their work, we definitely need automatic system for next time.

I support the move to automated election process too. Thank you Arnulf,
Michael and Jakob for your work.

New Board members, welcome aboard! I look forward for productive
collaboration with all of you. See you in Nottingham very soon!

Outgoing Board members, thank you for your dedication. You are welcome
to stay in touch with the current Board: your inputs are valuable as
they have always been.

Thank you to nominees and Charter members - let's meet in person in
FOSS4G, and of course anytime online.

All the best!
Anne

 Dne 8.9.2013 09:19, Fenoy Gerald napsal(a):
  Hello everyone, I would like to add my thanks to Arnulf for his
  dedication to OSGeo.
  
  I would like to thanks every charter members and congratulate all
  participants in this election, being nominated by such a great
  community is already a win.
  
  Now the work begin, Best regards,
  
  Gérald Fenoy
  
  Le 8 sept. 2013 à 02:03, Venkatesh Raghavan
  ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp a écrit :
  
  Congratulations and welcome to all the new Board Members. Thanks to
  outgoing Board members, nominees and Arnulf for managing the
  elections.
  
  Best
  
  Venka
  
  On 2013/09/08 7:15, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
  Great job!
  
  Thank you Arnulf, the election MC, and all the CM's for votes.
  
  Great board we've got.
  
  Mateusz  Loskot (Sent from mobile, apology for top-posting and
  broken quotes) On 7 Sep 2013 17:51, Arnulf Christl 
  arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net
  
  wrote:
  
  
  Dear OSGeo Members, the election 2013 has been completed and we are
  happy to announce the new board of directors [1].
  
  Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of
  the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were four seats open and they
  have been filled by (no particular order): * Jáchym Čepický * Jorge
  Sanz * Bart van den Eijnden * Gérald Fenoy
  
  Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and
  exposing themselves. All six candidates received excellent support
  with more then 60 votes each. Overall voting participation was 71%
  (128 out of 180) and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank
  you to all who voted!
  
  Your complete resulting Board is: * Anne Ghisla * Bart van den
  Eijnden * Cameron Shorter * Daniel Morissette * Frank Warmerdam *
  Gérald Fenoy * Jáchym Čepický * Jeff McKenna * Jorge Sanz
  
  With the election results published the new board of directors
  becomes effective as of now.
  
  Congratulations and please welcome the new and and re-elected OSGeo 
  directors!
  
  We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support
  of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations. We thank
  all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter
  Members for their contribution and votes.
  
  
  Best regards, Michael, Jakob and Arnulf
  
  [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Jáchym Čepický

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:25:10 -0400
Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote:

 Another vote of support for this nomination.
 
 Daniel

One more vote to Jáchym! I support him fully, given his relevant
contributions to the Board and to the organisation of FOSS4G events in
Central Europe.

All the best,

Anne

 On 13-08-14 12:22 PM, Michael Gerlek wrote:
  Seconded. He's done well, contributed smartly, and would be fine to
  continue on.
 
  -mpg
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
  Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:20 AM
  To: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org, c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
  Subject: Board nomination: Jáchym Čepický
 
  I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
  elections.  Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
  graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling.
  Coming
 from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much
 needed
  global perspective into the Board activities.  He is of course very
  active at the project level, and has been one of the community
  leaders helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.
 
  I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo
  Board.
 
  [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Gérald Fenoy

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:21:36 +0200
nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I second Gérald's nomination and strongly support it.
 I believe that he would be an excellent OSGeo director.

Let me also second Gérald's nomination. His worldwide perspective and
long time professional experience with open source geospatial software
is extremely valuable.
I met Gérald many times at FOSS4G events and every time we had
eye-opening discussions about OSGeo. I really hope to see him among
Board members.

 Dr.Nicolas Bozon
 
 Best

Best,
Anne

 
 2013/8/16 Peter Baumann p.baum...@jacobs-university.de
 
  very much supported from my side! I know Gerald personally as  an
  enthusiastic, competent, and consensus oriented person with strong
  visions.
 
  -Peter
 
 
 
  On 08/16/2013 11:00 AM,
  maria.brovelli@diiar-topo.**polimi.itmaria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.itwrote:
 
  Dear All
 
  I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of
  Directors elections.
 
  Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion
  since 2004. He has a very global and generic vision of both the
  Foundation activities and its software projects.
  Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he
  manages to leverage for both community and business related issues.
 
  Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the
  OSGeo projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo
  developers to add enhancements to their software, for using in his
  personal projects or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting
  company based in France (http://geolabs.fr).
 
  Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS
  plateform back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this
  innovative and incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to
  several projects through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer
  and PostGIS, with patches, translations, ideas and more.
 
  Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006,
  where he often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and
  helped many times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and
  Africa.
 
  Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in
  Europe and in Asia.
 
  Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
  brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding
  and open source good practices, but also about international
  collaborations and community management.
 
  More info on Gérald:
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_**Fenoyhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy
 
  Many thanks and best regards to All of You.
 
  Maria
 
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Annual General Meeting @ FOSS4G, Nottingham - Friday Sept 20th, 6pm - 7pm

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody. The goal is
to share details of the activities of the Foundation, from committees
and local chapters all around the world.

This year, AGM will take place in Nottingham, at FOSS4G venue. Save the
date: 

Friday, September 20th, from 6 to 7 PM

Please find details and updates on the dedicated wiki page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0900
Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote:

 Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive
 and kicking for the last 30 years.
 
 Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations
 in the year 2033.
 
 Cheers and Kampai!!
 
 Venka

Happy birthday GRASS!

Congratulations to the generations of developers, translators, testers,
users and enthusiasts that have build up such a long-lived open source
project. I am always impressed by the fact that some developers are
younger than the codebase!

Long live to GRASS spirit - let it be a reference for younger projects! 

Best,

Anne

 On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
  Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns.
  Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause..
  It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with.
  It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated
  FOSS4G events Ravi
 
 
  
From: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org
  To: GRASS-announce list grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org
  Cc: GRASS user list grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-discuss
  discuss@lists.osgeo.org; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS
  developers list grass-...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 30,
  2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of
  GRASS GIS! 
 
 
  Press release
  29 July 2013
  Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development
  Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of
  GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is
  a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software
  suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image
  processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D
  visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and
  commercial settings around the world, as well as by many
  governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS
  GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend
  for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is
  a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
  and can be freely downloaded at
  http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982,
  Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student,
  began development on a new computer program based on a master's
  thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID
  -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty
  years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system
  titled GIS Version 1 Reference Manual was first published by J.
  Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at
  the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research
  Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further
  expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name
  Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS
  community was established the same year with the first annual user
  meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early
  mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in
  1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of
  the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists
  archives for these early years are still available online. In the
  mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open
  GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become
  today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project
  coordination eventually shifted to the actual international
  development team made up of governmental and academic researchers
  and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run
  by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the
  first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
  A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at
  http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS
  development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at
  the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today
  GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain
  experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which
  stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from
  1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS
  6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now?
  Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like:
  * A new modern graphical user interface complete with
  integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools,
  * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing
  libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new
  modules in a quick and simple way,
  * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and
  tools for topological analysis and data cleaning,
  * Hundreds of new 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Dan Ames

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

I would like to nominate Dan Ames [DA] as Charter Member.

Dan is the founder of MapWindow [MW], an open source GIS in C#. He is
an active promoter of open source geospatial in environmental
research. I met him at iEMSs conference in Leipzig [i], where he chaired
the session about Geographic Information Systems and geoprocessing
workflows for environmental modelling, with great balance between pure
open source principles and research requirements.

I believe that Dan, as a trusted ambassador for open source geospatial
in academia, would be a valuable addition to the current Charter
Member pool.

[MW] http://www.mapwindow.org/
[DA] http://gisci.isu.edu/dames.html
[i] http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Dirk Frigne

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne from Belgium as Charter Member.

I met Dirk at FOSS4G-CEE in Romania this June [F], and have been
impressed by his wide perspective on the ecosystem of system providers. 

Dirk is founder of Geosparc, a software vendor and global service
company for FOSS4G solutions. Geosparc is the main sponsor of
Geomajas. He is the spiritual father of Geomajas, which is being
further developed by a team of specialists and community enthusiasts.

Dirk is active in the Benelux area, organising events such as OSGeo
Ghent 2013 [OG].

I believe that Dirk would be a very valuable addition to our current
Charter Member pool. He would also be the first Belgian Charter Member!

[F] http://2013.foss4g-cee.org/program/keynote-speakers
[OG] http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Nikos Ves

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:53:50 +0200
Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Name: Nikos Ves
 Email: vesnikos AT gmail DOT com
 Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vesnikos

I fully second Nikos nomination! His passion for open source geospatial
and helpfulness to new users is most appreciated. 

 I'd like to nominate Nikos Ves for OSGeo charter membership.
 Nikos is an agricultural engineer from Aristoteleio University of
 Thessaloniki (Auth), Greece. He got involved with GFOSS during his Msc
 courses, and since then he's promoting it in academic environment and
 research while helping others in whatever problems they have
 (orientation, suggestions of right tools, bug hunting).
 I met Nikos during the GRASS GIS Community Sprint in Genova, Italy
 where he managed to translate about 20% of GRASS to Greek. [0].
 He's very active in gis.stackexcange forums helping other members with
 their GFOSS problems, mainly with gdal, postgis and python [1].
 
 [0] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013
 [1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/6711/nickves

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Borys Jurgiel

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

I would like to nominate Borys Jurgiel from Poland as Charter Member.

Borys [0] is an active QGIS developer since 2008 [1,2].
He also enthusiastically popularizes FOSS and OSGeo world while making
presentations and training courses on QGIS. 

With Robert Szczepanek and Milena Nowotarska, he established QGIS
Polska [3] group, where they provide training courses and maintain
the Polish forum about QGIS together with other OSGeo projects [4],
where they take part to the discussions and answer to users' questions.
They all are of course part of the OSGeo Polish Chapter [5]. 

I feel that Borys would be a great Charter Member, because he is
effectively both a coder and a communicator.

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Borysiasty
[1] http://hub.qgis.org/users/89
[2] http://www.ohloh.net/p/3663/contributors/15734612775941
[3] http://www.qgis-polska.org/
[4] http://forum.quantum-gis.pl/index.php
[5] http://www.osgeo.org/pl

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Maxim Dubinin

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

I would like to nominate Maxim Dubinin from Russia as Charter Member.

I met Maxim at Lisbon QGIS Code sprint, and I noticed his attention to
details and solid belief in open source values.

He is the founder of GIS-Lab.info [1], the reference community of
GIS/RS specialists in Russia since 2001. He believes that information
sharing and creativity are key qualities to improve the world.
He is interested in bridging the gap between GIS and OSM community, for
example by bringing data from OSM to GIS and people from GIS to OSM.
[2]. He is most noticeably a stable QGIS contributor and translator
[3]. He founded NextGIS [4], so far the only opensource geospatial
solutions provider focusing on Russia.

I believe that he would be a great Charter member, thanks to his
long-time experience with open source geospatial, and his human
qualities altogether.
You can read more about him on his personal page on OSGeo Wiki [5].

[1] http://gis-lab.info/
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sim
[3] http://hub.qgis.org/users/337
[4] http://nextgis.org/
[5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Helmut Kudrnovsky

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:01:12 +0200
Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Name: Helmut Kudrnovsky
 Email: alectoria AT gmx DOT at
 Wiki: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Hellik

 Dear All,
 
 It is my pleasure to nominate Helmut Kudrnovsky from Austria as an
 OSGeo charter member.
 Honestly I had to double check the list of current charter members
 for I was really surprised not to find him there yet!
 Helli is an enthusiastic propagator of GFOSS, and a key resource for
 the GRASS GIS community, due his commitment on testing and improving
 the compatibility for MS Windows.
 Furthermore, he is always prompt in helping users in ML. I was lucky
 to meet him in person during EGU 2013 conference in Vienna and he
 helped us with the organization of our session on FOSS in Geosciences.

I second Helmut's nomination! His work may be less visible to Linux
developers, but is crucial for a great part of our users.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Vincent Picavet

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:34:38 +0200
Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would like to nominate Vincent Picavet as a Charter Member of OSGeo.

I fully second Vincent's nomination!

 I know Vincent personally as QGIS and PostGIS enthusiast and
 developer, and I share his ideas about OSGeo and it's environment,
 which I had the chance to know a little bit during our chats at both
 FOSS4G-CEE events (his idea it was, to rename it to FOSS4G-NSCNEE for
 Not-So-Central-Neither-Eastern-Europe, which I like).
 
 Vincent was always involved in open source world, particulary in the
 GIS field. He is a founding member of Francophone OSGeo local chapter
 and its current treasurer. He has initiated the first FOSS4G event in
 France (FROG2013) and organized other FOSS4G-related events in France
 (QGIS day 2011, PostGIS session 2011...)
 
 Vincent talked at a lot of international and local conferences on
 various FOSS4G subjects (among others about QGIS) and especially
 spatial databases (PostGIS).
 
 Vincent founded Oslandia in 2009 with Olivier Courtin, providing
 services around FOSS4G and focusing on quality and innovation for
 opensource GIS.
 
 Jáchym Čepický

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Alessandro Furieri

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 22:31:09 +0200
Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote:

 It is my honor to nominate Alessandro Furieri as OSGeo Charter Member.

I fully second Alessandro's nomination. 

 Name: Alessandro Furieri
 Contact email: a.furieri AT lqt DOT it
 
 Alessandro is an Italian developer working as a freelancer. In the
 FOSS4G world he is quite known as the main developer and maintainer of
 both the SpatiaLite and RasterLite projects (see:
 http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/). Furthermore, he is a QGIS
 contributor (the SpatiaLite data provider), and he contributed some
 code to GDAL/OGR as well (GML Topology advanced parser,
 SQLite/SpatiaLite driver).
 
 Alessandro is active in the Italian community: During the last three
 years he was the President of the very productive OSGeo's Italian
 Local Chapter - GFOSS.it
 (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Italiano_Chapter_Report_2012).
 
 Best regards,
 Markus Neteler

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Just van den Broecke

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:07:28 +0200
Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl wrote:

 I'd like to nominate Just van den Broecke for Osgeo charter
 membership. Just has invested a lot of his time in getting the Dutch
 language chapter of Osgeo set up recently (see http://osgeo.nl) . 
 
 He has worked with a lot of the OsGeo software projects and has also
 developed tools in the open source domain on top of this such as
 Heron Mapping Components (http://heron-mc.org) and Streaming ETL
 (http://www.stetl.org/en/latest/). 
 
 In 2012 he organised the Osgeo track at the GeoSpatial World Forum
 (GWF) and he is a regular visitor to FOSS4G and the Bolsena hacking
 event as well

I fully second Just's nomination. I know him in person from Bolsena
events, and since then I have valued his active involvement in open
source geospatial.

 Best regards,
 Bart

All the best,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Codrina Maria Ilie

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:10:41 +0200
Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote:

 I second this nomination!

I also second Codrina's nomination - I could not have used better words
to describe her passion for open source geospatial community.

 Best
 Markus

All the best,
Anne

 On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:
  Name: Codrina Maria Ilie
  Email: codrina AT geo-spatial DOT org
  Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/User:Codrina
 
  It is my honor to nominate Codrina as a Charter Member of OSGeo.
  Passionate about FOSS4G and Open Data, she is well known for her
  enthusiasm in Romania and Denmark.
 
  Earlier this year, I was planning on giving training in Copenhagen,
  I might have mentioned this on the OSGeo Board mailing list, and
  then I received a direct email from her introducing herself and
  asking if we should have an OSGeo meetup in Copenhagen when I was
  there.  Even though she recently moved from Romania to Denmark, she
  was somehow able to be the sparkplug to bring together a large
  group of Open Source geospatial passionate people in Copenhagen.
  (some of the locals even told me they were impressed with her for
  doing that)
 
  Little did I know that this meeting would also spark an invite to
  me to the (at the time) upcoming FOSS4G-CEE event in Bucharest,
  hosted by the geo-spatial.org / Romanian Chapter team.  I would of
  course end up attending the event, and watched as her and the
  geo-spatial.org family brought together hundreds of FOSS4G and Open
  Data enthusiasts from countries all over Europe.
 
  Codrina may not write code, but she has that rare passion, that
  strength, that guts, that allows her to network and share her FOSS4G
  knowledge.  She holds workshops, writes user guides, and organizes
  events, that bring together developers, decision makers, students,
  and users - these thankless tasks are so very important.  I've
  heard from others how she repeatedly attends hi-tech events with no
  other females present, introduces herself and starts promoting
  FOSS4G and Open Data.
 
  I feel this is an international leader to-be, someone who sees the
  world as a very small community, willing to travel to bring the
  community together.  It is my honor to help her grow and allow her
  to provide input to the shape of the OSGeo foundation.
 
  It is for all these reasons I am nominating Codrina to become a
  Charter Member of OSGeo.
 
  Yours,
 
  -jeff

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-CEE congratulations

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:04:46 -0300
Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 Very rude of me to forget: Markus' textbook-like history of FOSS4G
 keynote. He researched into our 30 year history, emailing people for
 details, digging into internet archives...it's really something that
 he has produced.  This is exactly opposite of a copy/paste
 presentation. Everyone should review it:
 http://www.slideshare.net/markusN/scaling-up-globally-30-years-of-foss4g-development-keynote-at-foss4gcee-2013-romania
 
 Again, thanks to the CEE local organizers (the fun geo-spatial.org
 team).  Enjoy your recovery mission.
 
 -jeff


I fully second Jeff's words!

Let me thank Vasile and the LOC for their excellent work - the
event schedule was full, but left enough time to let participants meet
and discuss freely. I met so many great people at the breaks and
evenings, and attended inspiring talks.

The momentum in Romanian open source geospatial group is a great
example for Local Chapters, both established and in formation. The
self-organisation, amount of material collected, level of ongoing
activities, contacts with institutions and education, is really
impressive.
I welcome all people interested in forming an local FOSS4G group to
take inspiration from their history, and ask them for guidance. I am
proud that the Romanian group is now an OSGeo chapter - we have all so
much to learn from such a passionate team.

We also had mini Board face-to-face meetings - Jeff, Jachym and me -
extended to anyone who sat at our table and shared a bit of
discussion. It has been so useful to have such a high-bandwidth chat! I
feel that as a Board member I have to listen a lot and collect all
thoughts, bring attention to interesting local activities, and see which
actions are better suited to be carried globally by OSGeo.


Thanks again for the great week in Romania!

Anne

 On 2013-06-25 1:50 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
  Hello everyone,
  
  I noticed several others have commented on the success of last
  week's FOSS4G-CEE event (maybe on another list, sorry I am terrible
  handling cross-posts with my email client, so I tend to send to one
  list at a time only): great reviews by Markus, Jachym, and Gerald.
  
  My brain is finally starting to come back online now, and I want to
  add to the praise for FOSS4G-CEE-Bucharest.  Some highlights:
  
  - wonderful event location (National library of Romania)
  - passionate vision of Vasile, the chair (he would get about 2
  hours of sleep each night and then be at the venue organizing
  before others arrive next morning, each day)
  - good sized event (~220 attendees)
  - focus on workshops for OSGeo projects (Cameron would be happy to
  hear that the LOC relied heavily on the wonderful OSGeo-Live
  project)
  - LOC really focused and stressed to the speakers and keynotes that
  the goal of this event is for the students, to learn, to share, to
  grow.  I was very impressed with this vision, and I hope other
  FOSS4G local committees take note.
  - Dirk Frigne's keynote on Open Source geospatial business models
  and our ecosystem was, such a highlight, and he should be asked to
  speak about this at every FOSS4G event.  It's a call to action and
  Dirk is a leader.
  - social events organized for each night, and a default location
  (pub's patio) was always available to meet at
  - most importantly: the Romanians were wonderful gracious hosts.  I
  was treated like royalty.  It was so very nice to experience such a
  beautiful country.
  
  Just like the recent FOSS4G-BA event, I found the CEE-Bucharest
  event to feel like the early days of FOSS4G, the energy, the
  passion, the excitement to share.  All of the LOC for CEE-Bucharest
  need a big pat on the back (and a week of recovery) for a wonderful
  international event.
  
  And hint: the momentum will continue...
  
  -jeff
  
  (what a great year of FOSS4G events we have on the calendar for
  2013. we should all be proud)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo upcoming events

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:38:10 +0200
Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi!
 
 If I google OSGeo events, the first page I end up on is a blank
 page [1]. The wiki page of the Conference committee [2] is updated at
 2012. I have found a conference archive [3] updated at 2006. My
 question is, is there a wiki page in which are listed all or most of
 the upcoming OSGeo related events?

Hi Madi!

the first link used to work, and is the most complete list of OSGeo
related events. Also on http://www.osgeo.org/ there is a blank space
where the upcoming events should be.
Frank, or any sysadmin, can you check what happened to events page?

 Thanks
 
 [1] http://www.osgeo.org/events
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
 [3] http://www.osgeo.org/conference/archives

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepts 22 students for Google Summer of Code 2013

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

let us warmly welcome the 22 accepted students for this round of GSoC!

We received over 30 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects,
and we accepted proposals from (in alphabetical order): GEOS, GRASS GIS,
gvSIG, istSOS, MapServer, Opticks, OSGeo4W, OpenStreetMap, OSSIM,
software packaging, pgRouting, QGIS and uDig/GeoTools.

The list includes OSGeo projects (official and incubating) and
like-minded projects such as OSM, pgRouting, uDig and istSOS - let GSoC
be a gathering of tribes, an occasion to improve communication among
all geospatial open source initiatives.

See the full list of OSGeo students here:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo

We wish all students and mentors a great summer!

Anne, Hamish and Dustan
OSGeo GSoC Admins



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo event june 13th Ghent Belgium

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 07 May 2013 17:27:44 -0300
Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 Interesting.  You should also consider having this listed on
 osgeo.org, by following the steps at
 http://www.osgeo.org/events/submit_events Please do submit it.

Here it is:
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1356

Looking forward for a great event in Ghent!

Anne

 On 2013-05-07 9:09 AM, Sofie Niemegeers wrote:
  Dear mr/mrs,
  
  We would like to announce an upcoming OSGeo event:
  
  start date/end date: june 13th 2013
  
  location: Ghent, Belgium
  
  description of the event:
  
  The first Flemish edition of the OSGeo conference explores the
  theme “Today’s OSGeo market: experiences from users and suppliers”.
  It will be an interesting opportunity to confront different points
  of view in order to establish the direction OSGeo is/should be
  heading for.
  
  The presentations of the day can be divided into three main blocks:
  1) Those that focus on the fundamentals of open source geospatial
  software, the basic concepts/definitions and goals
  2) Presentations that go into user experiences
  3) Suppliers’ presentations
  
  During the panel discussion afterwards, all participants (the
  audience included) will get a chance to discuss pending questions,
  concerns and give further information. Finally, all the information
  gathered during the day, will be distilled into a number of
  concluding remarks.
  
  Url with more details: www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013
  
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 06 May 2013 18:24:05 +0200
Stephan Meißl step...@meissl.name wrote:

 All,
 
 being involved in both communities I read this thread with high
 interest. I agree with the issues raised by Bruce, Jeroen, Daniel,
 etc. I guess my main issue is adding a competing set of standards
 within OGC without proper justification and thus weakening the
 overall position of OGC.

Hello all,

I share most of the points raised in this discussion, and could not
have said them better.

There is an agenda item about this topic at next Board meeting (9th of
May):
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-05-09

so I'd like to collect the opinion of as most OSGeo members as possible.

Stephan, Adrian: is there an effective way for OSGeo to address a
statement to OGC, beside the official requests for comments and our
Discuss list? 

Thanks for your thoughts,
Anne

 cu
 Stephan
 
 
 On 05/06/2013 05:11 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
  I am also of the opinion that single-vendor standards such as KML
  and this GeoServices REST API are turning OGC into a rubber-stamping
  organization and this is not what the geospatial community needs.
  Don't get me wrong, it is good to see these openly published, but
  the publication should be by their owners (Google and ESRI in those
  case) and not be rubber-stamped by OGC.
  
  What the geospatial community needs is an organization that provides
  direction around a consistent set of standards that guarantee
  interoperability between interchangeable software components.
  
  The suite of WxS services built over the last 10-15 years is
  somewhat on the way of achieving this, even if some pieces still do
  not interoperate as smoothly as we wish. Is OGC trying to tell the
  world that it no longer believes in WxS?
  
  OGC and its members need to decide whether they want the OGC logo
  to be perceived as the guarantee of interoperability, or just as a
  rubber-stamping organization with a large portfolio of inconsistent
  standards.
  
  Whether your source is open or closed is out of the question here,
  so I am not sure that a statement from OSGeo matters unless it is
  to point at this obvious slippery slope in which OGC is falling (a
  movement which started with KML a few years ago).
  
  Daniel
  
  
  
  On 13-05-06 3:41 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
  All,
  Having read this thread I support what has been said by Adrian,
  Bruce and others. If anything, acceptance of a set of standards
  that basically replicates what W*S standards already do will
  confuse customers. Maybe that is exactly what esri hopes to
  achieve, it definitely doesn't help our (the geospatial community)
  business. And as Bruce states, it will have serious impact on the
  OGC credibility. As OSGeo I can imagine that we then decide to
  start our own standardization process and build a standards brand
  around OSGeo products. Not a nice perspective, let's hope OGC
  won't go down that route.
  Jeroen
 
  On 6 mei 2013, at 01:08, bruce.bannerman.osgeo
  bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Cameron,
 
  My personal opinion is that if this proposal was accepted, it
  would be a bad move for OGC.
 
  Remember that OGC is a community and its Technical Committee
  membership are the people who vote on the acceptance of Standards.
  The TC comprises many different organisations.
 
 
  I do understand that OGC are trying to be inclusive in their
  processes and to try and cater for alternative approaches to a
  problem, much the same as OSGeo does in supporting multiple
  projects that essentially handle similar use cases (e.g.
  GeoServer, MapServer and Degree).
 
  I have also personally witnessed ESRI's commitment to helping to
  further the development of Open Spatial Standards through their
  work on OGC Working Groups and at OGC Technical Committee
  meetings.
 
  ESRI also have made a valid point in their response to the 'NO'
  vote for the GeoServices REST API that the OGC has already allowed
  alternate approaches with the acceptance of netCDF as a data
  format and KML as a combined data/presentation format.
 
  With the GeoServices REST API, I think that the approach proposed:
 
  - is very divisive for the OGC community.
  - essentially appears to propose an alternate way for working with
  spatial services that does not utilise or build on the W*S suite
  of services that have been developed through robust community
  processes for in excess of a decade.
  - does not provide REST bindings to the W*S suite of standards
  that have been widely implemented in a range of software.
  - will result in confusion within the user community that are
  trying to utilise 'OGC' services.
 
 
  If this approach were to be adopted, I believe that OGC will go
  too far down the alternate solution approach and will risk losing
  its public acceptance as one of the key leaders of open spatial
  standards.
 
 
  I'm interested in hearing other OSGeo members opinions as to how
  this proposal would affect their 

[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo GSoC] student application deadline: May 3rd!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

this is a reminder for students interested in participating to Google
Summer of Code, under OSGeo umbrella [0].

It is time to cast your application on Melange [1] before the deadline,
that is May 3rd, 19:00 UTC.
My suggestion is to submit it ASAP, to be safe in case of any server
problem close to the deadline.

You can get the conversion in your timezone, given that your computer
has the correct time zone setting, with the command

 date -d May 3 19:00 UTC

Feel free to share this mail on your communication channels (projects'
mailing lists, forums, social networks.. )

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Ideas
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo

All the best,

Anne
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: Student Proposals Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all!

students application period has opened a few hours ago, and will close
on May 3rd, 19.00 UTC.
Looking forward for great ideas, from the Ideas list or your own!

Anne
OSGeo GSoC Admin



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:05:08 -0700
From: Carol Smith car...@google.com
To: Google Summer of Code Announce
google-summer-of-code-annou...@googlegroups.com Subject: Student
Proposals Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013


Hi there,

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications from
students to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013. Please check out
the FAQs [1], timeline [2], and student manual [3] if you are
unfamiliar with the process. You can also read the Melange manual if
you need help with Melange [4]. The deadline to apply is May 3 at 19:00
UTC [5]. Late proposals will not be accepted for any reason.

[1] -
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#
[2] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
[3] - http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCstudentguide/
[4] -
http://en.flossmanuals.net/melange/students-students-application-phase/
[5] - http://goo.gl/ZSYyp

Cheers,
Carol


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[OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC: Mentor applications now open

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

mentor application period for Google Summer of Code is now officially
open!
Complete information about mentoring is available on OSGeo wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Administrative#A_Mentor.27s_Responsibilities

Mentor application period closes together with student application. We
encourage all OSGeo developers to review the list of ideas, and choose
the ones they are willing to mentor:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Ideas

Would-be mentors: don't hesitate to ask for clarification on soc list,
or directly to the admins.

All the best,

Anne
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted at Google Summer of Code 2013!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

Hamish, Dustan and I have the great pleasure to announce that OSGeo has
been accepted once again as a mentoring organization to the Google
Summer of Code program [0]! 

What to do now?
- OSGeo project representatives and guest projects: confirm your
  participation by replying to this email, on soc list
- Would-be mentors: have a look at Mentors Guide, discuss with
  previous years' mentors and wait for more instructions on how to
  register. All links and info can be found at [1]
- Would-be students: talk with the developers of your preferred
  project(s) and start working on your proposals. Have a look at the
  ideas pages for inspiration [2]
- All: feel free to discuss on soc mailing list on how to improve this
  year's SoC, and add your ideas to the wiki [3] 

Next item in calendar: Student application period opens - April 22nd [4]

[0] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013 
and http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Administrative
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Ideas
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Improvements
[4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

All the best!

Anne Ghisla, Hamish Bowman and Dustan Adkins
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Google Summer of Code] Deadline for filling Ideas pages - 28th of March

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

Mentoring organisations application time is now open, and will end by
28th of March.

All OSGeo developers are invited to discuss ideas and write them down
in the relevant projects' Ideas pages - see the list of 2012 Ideas here:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Ideas#The_ideas_pages

The whole page contains links and clarifications about Google Summer of
Code program.

Of course, projects that were not participating in 2012 are equally
invited to create a 2013 Ideas page.

It is important to fill the Ideas soon, because OSGeo application will
contain a link to these Ideas pages: the more we have, the more we show
we are willing to take part in GSoC 2013.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards!

Anne
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2013

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:23:14 +0100
Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 FYI

Hello all!

stay tuned for OSGeo updates on GSoC. It's a good time for mentors and
students to get in touch with their favourite projects and start
working on the Ideas pages.
More info on last year's OSGeo participation here:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012

All the best!
Anne

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Carol Smith car...@google.com
 Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM
 Subject: Google Summer of Code 2013
 To: Google Summer of Code Announce 
 google-summer-of-code-annou...@googlegroups.com
 
 
 Hi all,
 
 We're pleased to announce that Google Summer of Code will be
 happening for its ninth year this year. Please check out the blog
 post [1] about the program and read the FAQs [2] and Timeline [3] on
 Melange for more information.
 
 [1] -
 http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-google-summer-of.html
 [2] -
 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
 [3] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
 
 Cheers,
 Carol
 



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal: Request for Volume 12

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:25:30 -0800
Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't think I ever made the request for peer review articles for
 Volume 12 of the OSGeo Journal on this list. You can find the request
 here:
 
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Volume_12_-_Request_for_Peer_Review_Articles
 
 It is also here:
 
 http://geojournaleditor.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/volume-12-request-for-peer-review-articles/
 
 Please note: We are accepting submissions from private companies and
 other organizations, not just students. I look forward to reviewing
 the submissions!

Hello Landon,

do you also have fixed a deadline for submission? I find it helpful for
deciding if and when to work on the article.

Many thanks!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] African universities on google maps

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:49:21 +0100
Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:

 This just disturbed me:
 
 http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=694668
 
 NAIROBI, Sept 14 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Students from more than 90
 universities in 12 sub-Saharan African countries have come together
 for a two-week mapping exercise to put their university campuses and
 surrounding areas on Google Map.
 
  Are we all now shouting Why not OpenStreetMap? at our screens?
 Maybe the data can be used in OSM as well, I'm not sure what TCs are
 imposed on user-supplied Google Map data...

From my understanding of Google Maps TOS
http://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html

it is forbidden to (2b) redistribute, sublicense, rent, publish, sell,
assign, lease, market, transfer, or otherwise make the Products or
Content available to third parties, and (2g) use the Products to create
a database of places or other local listings information.

So I would say that is impossible to take the user contribted data from
Google Maps and import them into OSM. The alternative is to do the
mapping again in OSM...

Best,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board of Directors nomination: Anne Ghisla

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:56:27 +0200
Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 We would like to nominate Anne Ghisla (from Italy) to the Board of
 Directors.

Hello all,

thanks Margherita and Stefano for the nomination, and Italian chapter
for support! I am honored for it, and also understand that this role
deserves dedication and commitment.

My goal as Board member would be to understand how OSGeo is seen and
developed outside its home countries, which challenges is facing, and
what can be done to strengthen connections around the world.

From my experience with FOSS user groups and women lists I am part of,
I have understood that speaking about the positive aspects is not
enough. Often, some issues that seem small to me were actually
perceived as limiting to the audience. By further discussion, I managed
to find more decisive answers for the specific context and be a more
successful ambassador. 
I plan to bring this experience to the Board, so that OSGeo message
gets disseminated more effectively.

I am Italian, with Belgian origins, but I intend to join the Board
with a broader international perspective. I also look forward for
more nominations from currently under-represented but locally active
corners of the world.

I'm open to suggestions and comments, especially from long-time OSGeo
members, to improve my understanding of worldwide issues. Putting
together many points of view, I'll have a more accurate picture of the
current status of OSGeo, and will be able to make more informed
decisions.

Kind regards,
Anne
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 Anne is very active within the OSGeo community. Among others, We
 would like to mention some of her activities:
 
-  OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator in 2011 and 2012;
-  Member of Italian chapter GFOSS.it since September 2007,
 follower of Francophone chapter too;
-  Member of QGIS Release Team, Documentation Team and Ecology
 Toolbox Interest Group;
-  GRASS GIS core developer;
-  Co-founder of OSGeo Women Chapter.
 
 Some of the above items highlight that Anne has a strong commitment
 to the empowering of OSGeo, not only from a strict technnical point
 of view. We know her personally and can say she's a very reliable and
 helpful person. We really see her as an optimal candidate for the
 OSGeo Board of Directors.
 Currently she speaks several languages, such as Italian, French,
 Englishand a bit of German. She has worked in South Africa for a
 while and participated to several OSGeo meetups across Europe. Hence
 she has a quite international background, that allows her to mediate
 among different points of view of people coming from around the globe.
 Her skills and experience could contribute to make OSGeo organisation
 more international and diverse, in sync with the community.
 
 Kindest regards,
 
 Margherita Di Leo  Stefano Costa
 on behalf of the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:21 -0400
Mark Lucas mluca...@mac.com wrote:

 I would like to second the nomination for Daniel.  After having had
 the pleasure of working with him on the current board, I frankly
 can't imagine how we would function without him.  He is always a
 voice of reason and he has taken ownership of managing all of the
 financial tracking and planning that has made us successful.

Well said, Mark. Let me also second Daniel's nomination! 

Anne

 Mark
 
 
 On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Daniel Morissette
 dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote:
 
  Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be
  hard for me to not accept after reading it.  :)
  
  I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to
  continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help
  transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and
  most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the
  local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number
  of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to
  help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking
  communities.
  
  I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America
  already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign
  and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some
  continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees.
  It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each
  continent/region.
  
  Daniel
  
  On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
  Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members,
  I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of
  directors.
  
  I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of
  the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He
  has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related
  aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good
  English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different
  regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community.
  This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of
  directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to
  the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many
  down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to
  get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local
  community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project.
  
  It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so
  friendly asks for it.
  
  Thank you,
  Arnulf
  
  
  
  -- 
  Daniel Morissette
  http://www.mapgears.com/
  Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
  
  
  
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:20:58 -0300
Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 On 12-07-25 10:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
  
  Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick
  with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this.
  But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting
  so that we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
 
 I was just about to respond, as usual Arnulf you beat me to it :)
 
 Even though the IRC logs clearly show that I was in support of that
 change in 2010 at the time, I in fact now agree with Ravi, Venka,
 Mori-san (wow such strong international voices, we must listen to them
 I feel) - if voters want to show their strong support for a person by
 giving them all of their votes, then might as well let them.

I'd also prefer Schulze method over the current one - sorry for being
silent during election schedule. 
I am in favour to postpone changements to next election, unless most
voters prefer to change it for the current one.

 As a current nominee, the Board has my backing to change this now.
 
 PS. Come on community, let's see those other nominations!

pps. welcome back Jeff :)

Best!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did anyone else see this article on OSGeo?

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote:
 Il 09/07/2012 23:19, Landon Blake ha scritto:
 It was in GPS World:

 http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/gss-weekly/open-source-gis-12997?utm_source=GSSutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Geospatial-Weekly_05_17_2012utm_content=open-source-gis-12997

 pity for the usual FUD about lack of support.
 thanks for letting us know.

Yes, once more the reader is told that there is no valid support.
Maybe because the writer actually means people you can phone at night
and simply tell that the software is broken. It seems to me that this
kind of support assumes that the user doesn't know how the system
works, or worse, that it is normal that the user doesn't want to know.
I think that there are many issues with open source software that
require only few time of googling and a couple of emails to get to a
solution, and that in many cases the software is not so critical for a
person/company. If so, there are companies providing support So in the
end I think the article looks unnecessarily frightening at a
superficial read, and continues with the open source is for hackers
stereotype.

This readings urges me to continue spreading the word about FOSS[GIS]
and help users to become more conscious and informed wrt software
choice.

Best,
Anne
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Peter Löwe

[Anne Ghisla]

Dear all,

I'd like to nominate Peter Löwe [0] for OSGeo Charter Membership. 
He is active in Free and Open Source GIS development for more than a
decade, specifically in the field of remote sensing, but also on rule
based systems, crisis management, high performance computation...

He collaborated with FOSSGIS.de (he has been its very first
non-founding member), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, the
South African Metereological Service (where he successfully introduced
his team to GRASS GIS), Geomancers.net and RapidEye AG among others
[1].
He wrote several GRASS modules, available in Addons [2], and obtained
RapidEye data for i.atcorr module [3], been a developer of the GISIX
live-linux DVD [4]. Moreover, he won several research prizes with FOSS
GIS work [see details at 0,1]

I met Peter at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, and worked with him during
GRASS Community Sprint 2011 in Prague. He has been so far an effective
ambassador of OSGeo in corporate/academic environment, and he would
benefit from the official recognition of OSGeo community to achieve
further objectives.

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe 
[1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe 
[2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns
[3]
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/44358/grass/trunk/imagery/i.atcorr
[4]
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/fossgrass/papers/GISIX%20-%20a%20live%20Linux%20platform%20for%20FOSS%20GIS.pdf
 (PDF file)

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[OSGeo-Discuss] 22 students accepted for OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2012

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

let me warmly welcome the 22 accepted students and their mentors for
this edition of Google Summer of Code! 
This is a record for OSGeo GSoC, together with GSoC itself, that
accepted 1212 students.

In detail, we accepted ideas for 10 OSGeo projects:
 - QGIS: 4 students
 - gvSIG: 4 students
 - GRASS GIS: 3 students
 - Opticks: 3 students
 - pgRouting: 2 students
 - uDig: 2 students
 - GDAL: 1 student
 - Geoserver: 1 student
 - OSSIM: 1 student
 - PostGIS: 1 student

See the full list on OSGeo wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Administrative#Accepted_students

taken from
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012 --
filter by Organisation name == OSGeo

All the best!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted at Google Summer of Code!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

Wolf, Hamish and I have the great pleasure to announce that OSGeo has
been accepted as a mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code
program [0]! 

What to do now?
- OSGeo projects: confirm your participation by replying to this email
- Would-be mentors: have a look at Mentors Guide, discuss with
  previous years' mentors and register. All links and info can be
  found at [1]
- Would-be students: talk with the developers of your preferred
  project(s) and start creating your proposals. Have a look at the
  ideas page for inspiration [2]
- All: feel free to discuss on soc mailing list on how to improve this
  year's SoC, and add your ideas to the wiki [3] 

[0]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012
and http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2012/osgeo
[1]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Administrative
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Ideas
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Improvements

All the best!

Anne Ghisla, Wolf Bergenheim and Hamish Bowman
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2012 announced

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all!

GSoC 2012 has been announced [1,2] and OSGeo is going to apply as
mentoring organisation, like it did successfully in past years. 

What's up now? OSGeo projects that plan to take part in GSoC are
invited to put together an Ideas page on their wiki and add a link to
it on our central Ideas page [3,4], make a call for mentors on their
communication channels, and welcome would-be students as contributors.

Would-be students can browse the Ideas pages of previous years and
contact former students and mentors. We also suggest them to that they
introduce themselves and start contributing to the project they have
chosen, in order to get in touch with the project's community and get
familiar with the codebase.

All: take a look at the calendar [5] and spread the word about OSGeo
GSoC in real and virtual places around the world!

all the best,
Anne
OSGeo GSoC administrator

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
[2]
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-on.html
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Ideas
[5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Candidature: Margherita Di Leo

[Anne Ghisla]

Dear all,

I'd like to nominate Margherita Di Leo, aka madi [0], as Charter Member.

Margherita is about to complete her PhD program in hydrology and for her
daily work uses and teaches geospatial open source software and
develops GRASS GIS in particular. She is an active and enthusiast
promoter of the benefits of open source over proprietary software in
research. She constantly helps university students in the installation
of OSGeo software on various platforms, and promotes OSGeo Live, even
overseas! [1].
She participated as student at the GSoC program 2011 with OSGeo/GRASS
GIS. 

She is involved in several activities to promote open source,
organizing conferences such as Linux Day within the Linux User Group,
giving talks on the topic of geospatial open source software. Since
2009 she is active member of GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGeo local chapter,
and is currently involved in the organising committee of GFOSSDAY 2011
[2, in Italian].

I believe she would be a great asset for OSGeo, as a contributor,
enthusiastic promoter as well as a further step towards fair gender
representation within OSGeo! 

best regards, 
Anne
 
[0] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi 
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/madi468/lecture-ossim-licensed 
[2] http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2011/comitato_tecnico 

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Luca Delucchi

[Anne Ghisla]

Dear all,

I would like to nominate Luca Delucchi [0] as Charter Member.

For years, he's an active promoter of open source GIS and open data. He
is power user, contributor and translator for GRASS GIS, QGIS, Mapnik,
and webGIS developer using open source tools. He is one of the major
OpenStreetMap contributors and promoters in Italy [1,2] and is member
of GFOSS.it (Italian OSGeo local chapter). Luca gives presentations and
courses on open source geospatial topics all around Italy. 

His contributions for the widespread adoption and improvement of open
source geospatial software, together with endless perseverance in
promoting data openness, make him a valuable candidate for charter
membership.

Thanks!
Anne Ghisla

[0] http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lucadelu/edits
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lucadelu
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [OGC Press Release] Take the 'Business Value of OGC Standards' Survey! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:05:05 +1100
Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote:
 For those who haven't seen this.
 
 If you have the time, please take this survey. The results will be
 very useful.

Hello all,

I wonder how the prize can influence the participation to the survey.

Personally, I don't want to win a product which is deliberately closed
and whose interoperability with other products/systems is not a
priority. Isn't that putting it in contrast with OGC leading principles?

regards,
Anne
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 Bruce Bannerman
 
 
 
 -- Forwarded Message
 From: OGC Press Release annou...@opengeospatial.org
 Reply-To: annou...@opengis.org, annou...@opengeospatial.org
 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:54:14 +1100
 To: me...@lists.opengeospatial.org
 Subject: [OGC Press Release] Take the 'Business Value of OGC
 Standards' Survey!
 
 
 PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 For information about this announcement, contact:
 
 Contact:
 Steven Ramage
 Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
 http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact
 
 ---
 
 
 *** Win an Apple iPad 2 Tablet, an Apple iPod touch or Bose AE2
 headphones! ***
 
 The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC
 members and by the OGC Business Value Committee. Dr. Mu Xia at Santa
 Clara University and Dr. Kexin Zhao at the University of North
 Carolina at Charlotte developed the survey based on requirements from
 the OGC Business Value Committee to support their studies on standards
 effectiveness. The OGC Business Value Committee will use a summary of
 the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the
 OGC's open standards and improve its programs for geospatial
 standards development, compliance testing and outreach.
 
 We encourage everyone involved with geospatial or location data,
 software and services to complete the survey. This is an opportunity
 for technical and commercial colleagues to work together and highlight
 their business needs and requirements around open standards.  OGC
 membership is not a requirement, and you can participate even if the
 software you use or provide does not implement OGC standards.
 
 The survey takes about 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Individual
 responses will be seen only by the researchers and OGC staff. The
 researchers will summarize the data gathered from the survey, removing
 all references to individual responses, and make the summary available
 to OGC Business Value Committee members. An executive summary will be
 provided to survey respondents.
 
 The researchers have prepared two versions of the online survey. To
 take the survey, if you are a technology user, visit
 http://uncc.surveyshare.com/s/AQAIJDC. If you are a technology
 provider (a vendor or a system integrator) or a consultant, visit
 http://uncc.surveyshare.com/s/AQAIZBC. If you are not sure which
 version to use, contact us. Please also forward this message to others
 who might be interested in completing the survey.
 
 The survey period is 1st November through 18th December 2011.
  Prizes will be awarded at random to three individuals who
 complete the survey. The first person whose name is drawn after the
 survey has closed will receive an iPad 2 (16GB, WiFi), the second will
 receive an iPod Touch (8GB, 4th Generation) and the third will receive
 a set of Bose AE2 headphones.
 
 Thanks for your support!
 
 The members of the OGC Business Value Committee
 http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/businessvalue
 
 The OGC is an international consortium of more than 430 companies,
 government agencies, research organizations, and universities
 participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available
 geospatial standards. OGC Standards support interoperable solutions
 that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and
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 geospatial information and services useful with any application that
 needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2011 begins!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

It is a great pleasure to announce that we have 21 students accepted at
OSGeo Google Summer of Code [1] !
We wish them a productive summer, a real-world experience of open source
development with the guidance of their mentors and the community.

All the best!
Anne
OSGeo SoC Administrator

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011 -
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted as an organisation for Google Summer of code!

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all,

Wolf, Hamish and I have the great pleasure to announce that OSGeo has
been accepted again as a mentoring organization to the Google Summer of
Code program [0]!

So, what's next?

- OSGeo projects: let the admins know if you want to participate, by
replying to this email :)
- Would-be mentors: go to the SoC application, create a profile and
apply to become a mentor [1]
- Would-be students: talk with your preferred project(s) and start
building up your proposals. Please have a look at the ideas page. [2]
- All: feel free to discuss on soc mailing list on how to improve this
year's SoC, and add them to the wiki [3]

[0]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011
and http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/osgeo
[1]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Administrative#How_to_register_as_a_mentor
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Ideas
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Improvements

All the best,

Anne Ghisla, Wolf Bergenheim and Hamish Bowman
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Fedora Geo/GIS Spin

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 12:20 -0800, vijinair wrote:
 Hi
 
 Few more updates
 
 1. Gdal has been upgraded to 1.7.3 and committed to rawhide, will be
 available for EL6, F13/14 in a while. Some updates include:
   
 a. All the missing pdf manuals are there, now gdal-doc is a separate package
 b. Missing jni have been added
 c. Maven2 pom
 d. JPP-style depmap 
 e. Version-less symlink for gdal.jar
 
 2. grass will be updated to 6.4, currently working on it, will be available
 for the above platforms.
 
 3. There will be a new package called gdal-grass, gdal need to be compiled
 without grass support for bootstrapping. (after grass 6.4, this will be
 pushed to upstream)

Thanks a lot for your contribution, Viji!
For now I volunteer as tester, and have signed up on 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS

Let me know how I can help.

 Thanks
 Viji

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Making my pitch

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:09 +, Joanne Cook wrote:
 Dear All,

 In light of the request that Charter Member nominees state their case
 for nomination, here goes...

Hi all,

I follow the thread and toot my own horn [0] :)

To add more info to the presentation on the wikipage, I'm member of QGIS
Documentation and Release teams, and one of the core GRASS developers.

My participation within OSGeo started with Google Summer of Code 2008.
After two positive experiences as student and one as mentor, I would
like to come further behind the scenes, and make it a testing ground to
improve communication among the various foundation projects. It is also
a good entry point for students interested in experiencing how open
source works. Actually the rate of students who joined a project for the
first time during SoC and continued developing after it is quite low. As
SoC has been for me the gateway to OSGeo, I want to help to make this
happen more often. I think also of replicating the idea and make an
OSGeo $season of code, tailoring it to the Foundation's goals and
resources.

I'm co-founder of OSGeo Women chapter and also of Donne at
softwarelibero.it, a newborn group focused on women participation to
free software in Italy [1]. Within this latter group, that collects
people scattered among various distributions and associations, I noticed
how valuable are people who act as bridges among projects. A net of them
can be the best start for a profitable cross-project communication. My
primary goal as charter member is to be a node of this net, to encourage
an effective connection among foundation projects.

Let me end with a quote from Ravi [2]:
This is the Indian season for the 'Festival of Lights', known as
Deepavali, and may this OSGeo Charter member election, fill OSGeo with
new light.

best regards

Anne Ghisla

[0] http://xkcd.com/757/
[1] http://www.fsugitalia.org/donne/ (in Italian)
[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-November/008185.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentoring program @OSGeo[-women]

[Anne Ghisla]

On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:04 +0200, Alan Palazzolo wrote:
 Chris, I think your point is extremely valid, and is important to be said.
 
 But I don't think this is the goal or direction of mentoring
 specifically for women.  Given that there are underrepresented
 peoples, like women, in OSGeo (or IT at large), supporting a
 mentorship program that is based on the idea that women can be the
 better mentor for women is important.
 
 As you admit, there are barriers for specific groups, though totally
 artificial and social, they are still there and need to be addressed.
 By allowing a group, women in this case, to support themselves more
 and offer their experiences to other women, it does actually help
 break those barriers.
 
 I think this sort of program is really important, and would apply to
 any underrepresented group, such as visually-impaired, Ethiopians,
 Chinese, LGBT, impoverished, etc.  It is about creating more
 meaningful mentor opportunities, not discriminating or distinguishing
 between specific groups.
 
 On the flip side, I do think it's a fine line.  This is definitely a
 concern when you start to look at what resources are allocated and
 what the mission of organizations are.  I think it important to create
 a mentorship program for everyone because there is always a need, even
 for those that are not underrepresented.  And so it is important that
 resources reflect the idea of mentoring and creating a better
 community, and not specifically a certain group.

Hi all,

the topic is delicate, as it involves deeply personal beliefs. Good to
see that it evolves smoothly :)

Well said, Chris. When I wrote the mail I feared that the impression
could be let women help women and get rid of the guys' monopoly on the
scene. It's not the case, neither is the aim of D-W mentoring program,
that is open to male mentors as well.
What you said about feeling discriminated reinforces discrimination is
true when the scenario remains static. Let me add that the present
underrepresentation of women in OSGeo is not definitive, and the goal of
the first discussions on the topic is to raise awareness, express our
thoughts, maybe with wrong words. I'd be happy to see that the situation
is not as bad as in other fields, but I think that simply say that women
are not discriminated and let them show up when they want is expeditous.

Alan, I fully agree with your answer. I don't think that having the,
let's say, Greek chapter means discriminating against non-Greeks, and it
aliments the isolation of Greeks. OSGeo-women has been created as a
chapter, similar to local chapters. The final aim is to promote
participation of women in OSGeo and, as Chris said, get to a point where
we forget about the gender together with race/religion/etc..

That said, the mentoring program is not specific for women, so feel free
to use the idea wherever it can be useful.

cheers all, have a nice Sunday :)
Anne

 --
 Alan Palazzolo
 a...@zzolo.org
 
 
 
 On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Chris Puttick
 chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote:
  At terrible risk of going against the grain here, but I don't like
 discrimination, whatever its guise and whatever its motive. Call me
 idealistic, but it has been my experience that discrimination has only
 one outcome and that is discrimination. Me, I'm human; so far I've
 never worked or encountered a non-human intelligence so I cannot
 comment beyond humanity. But I can say I've worked with some great
 humans and some crap humans and some mediocre humans in a wide variety
 of sectors, and I observed no relationship between their
 greatness/crapness/mediocrity and their gender/sexual
 preferences/race/religion/musical tastes or even, despite my
 expectations, whether they or not they liked dogs.
 
  Adjustments in behaviour, organisational structures, language,
 special programmes et al. to favour one identifiable group over others
 serves only to discriminate against the others. It does nothing to
 resolve the real issue, which is the mistaken belief that all members
 of one identifiable group are inherently unable or less able to do a
 thing, or the similarly mistaken belief that the behaviour of one or
 two people from an established community towards you or your
 identifiable group is something you can then tar that other entire
 identifiable group with. In fact such affirmative action has the
 opposite result; it fosters discrimination by continually reinforcing
 the idea that one group needs help over another opposite group and,
 worse, reinforces the idea that these broad group distinctions are
 real rather than artificial constructs.
 
  It seems to me that the greatest cause of discrimination statistics
 is that idea that occurs when you see yourself as being part of an
 identifiable group and use that to guide your behaviour i.e. when you
 look to your groups' behaviours for guidance on what it is you might
 do with your life. Maybe my crazy brand of idealism is doomed to
 failure; maybe, 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mentoring program @OSGeo[-women]

[Anne Ghisla]

Hi all, and sorry for cross-posting,

I want to share with you what I found, surfing from link to link from a
mail sent to Systers ml.
I stumbled first on 
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange/Inequality-Choices-and-Hitting-a-Wall

but I felt it was not the case of OSGeo.
Then I found a link about the female representation in 2010 Google
Summer of Code - very encouraging:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/sixth-annual-summer-of-code-flexes-some.html

and finally a good seed for OSGeo-women:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange/FOSS-Mentoring-A-tribute-to-female-mentors

What about a mentoring program like Debian-women's?
http://women.debian.org/mentoring/

feedback is most welcome!

cheers,
Anne
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http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anne_Ghisla


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Video Bolsena 2010 OSGeo Code Sprint

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Just van den Broecke
j...@justobjects.nl wrote:
 Hi,

 I have created a video covering the OSgeo Code Sprint/Hacking event held in
 Bolsena, Italy last June 6-12. See

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vjx06Rlols

 This year I have tried to depict the developers and their work. There is
 still a video from last year which has (too much) emphasis on scenery/music.
 You can still watch the 2009 video:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxox3AsjH6Qfeature=related

 Bolsena http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2010 is a great
 event and I am grateful to have been part of it. Thanks Jeroen (Ticheler)
 for organizing!

great job Just! It reminded the nice time in Bolsena.
Thanks again Jeroen for organisation and all for the pleasant company
- and hopefully see you next year!

regards
Anne
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http://gis.fem-environment.eu/anne-ghisla/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo barriers to entry

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Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:
 Tyler,
 
 Perhaps this 'issue' is not so big after all...
 
 A comment that was made to me by a colleague after FOSS4G-2009 was that she
 thought that it was great to see such a high percentage of attendees were
 female; dramatically higher than she would have traditionally seen at a
 spatial / geoscience event in Australia.
 
 She commented further that this was a good reason to get more involved...

That's good news - but we should not miss that it's the experience of
only one person and that FOSS4G is not the perfect mirror of all OSGeo
activities.

Collecting other opinions on recent IRC chat on #osgeo, the issue is
potentially big. It's a cultural one. It is not OSGeo task to change
people's minds about women; but for sure raising awareness on known
gender discrimination in OSS is a good step forward. Looking forward for
more discussion and action on this specific topic, as well as on more
generic entry barriers.

all the best,
Anne

 Bruce
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
 [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
 Sent: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 9:07 AM
 To: OSGeo Discussions
 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo barriers to entry

 Thanks for the discussion Landon.  I'll leave Pandora well
 enough alone :)

 Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the
 real or perceived barriers people, in general, find to
 getting involved with OSGeo.   I'm sure that any barriers
 women would have might also affect others, so it might be
 useful to broaden the discussion so more participate.

 1 What barriers are there to joining OSGeo and its projects?
 2 How can we be more inviting?  Have you heard negative
 comments from potential members?  Are there any reasons you
 might not invite a colleague to join?
 3 How can we encourage more people to contribute to our
 projects or join  with the OSGeo mission?
 4 What areas in OSGeo and its projects need more helpers?
 5 What are the most interesting/compelling aspects?

 I'm sure there are more pointed questions but these are just
 off the top of my head.

 Best wishes,
 Tyler


 - Original Message -
 From: Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com
 Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:01 pm
 Subject: RE: RE: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
 To: tmitch...@osgeo.org
 Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org

 Tyler,

 I understand your wife's perspective completely. It seems
 reasonable
 to conclude that there are fewer women involved in OSGeo projects
 because there are fewer women involved in open source computing to
 begin with.
 



 
 
 
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list

[Anne Ghisla]

Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,

Wolf Bergenheim and I are happy to announce the creation of OSGeo-women,
a new mailing list dedicated to discussion around women in OSGeo
projects. The idea is born as a collaboration with Systers, the world's
largest email community of technical women in computing [0].

Discussions will focus on OSGeo members who wish to involve more women
in OSGeo projects. Any input for discussion and sharing of ideas as well
as project collaboration is welcome, as well as successful case
studies. 
The list is opened to OSGeo members of either gender.

best regards,

Anne Ghisla and Wolf Bergenheim

[0] http://www.anitaborg.org/initiatives/systers


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Markus Neteler

[Anne Ghisla]

Carissimo!

mille scuse per il ritardo e mille complimenti per la rielezione. Sono
certa che continuerai a fare un ottimo lavoro per OSGeo ;)

a prestissimo
anne

Il giorno ven, 25/09/2009 alle 22.35 +0200, Markus Neteler ha scritto:
 Dear charter members and community,
 
 I feel honored to be renominated again for the upcoming board election -
 this election is important to continue the work done for OSGeo and to meet
 the new challenges. This year we have a great choice between many new nominees
 and two board member standing for re-election.
 
 For those not knowing me: I am one of the founding members of OSGeo
 and involved in FOSS4G since 1993 (as user) and since 1998 (as developer)
 with most activities dedicated to the GRASS GIS project.
 
 I am very community oriented which means that I try to avoid making
 OSGeo any kind of elite group or the like. Moreover I work on integration,
 trying to connect people not knowing each other and trying to lower
 the barriers to contribute to OSGeo projects, be as ordinary user, be as
 power user or even more. Growing developers was the motto of one
 of the FOSS4G conferences which I like very much.
 
 If you are interested, you can find the collection of proposals I made
 in OSGeo, here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler
 ... some done, some in progress, some more to come :)
 
 Important for me is also the fact that most folks here are not
 native English speakers. Local chapters are important (I was involved
 in the establishment of the German and the Italian FOSS4G
 associations which later became OSGeo chapters) and need to
 be partially better connected to OSGeo-international. Furthermore,
 software needs to be translated to different languages. Here
 good progress was done but it needs to become easier to
 contribute. We'll work on that.
 
 Finally, I am interested (and contributed) to OSGeo-Edu and
 OSGeo-Geodata which I pushed a lot in the very beginning of
 OSGeo in 2006 to avoid a pure software foundation. I am sure
 that we could deliver a great portal to the existing community and
 especially newcomers with a good material collection. For OSGeo-Edu
 it has been started, for OSGeo-Geodata we may have a catalog in
 future.
 
 In this sense I'll continue to contribute!
 
 Best,
 Markus
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

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Dave Patton ha scritto:
 On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

 Anne Ghisla wrote:
 Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better?
 I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it
 is already active when a user adds external links to a page).

 Go for it.  If you find instructions, I can enable it.
 
 There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1]
 http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
 
 [1]
 http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

It is already active on new user registration, so maybe part of the spam
comes from human beings :S, then another way to limitate such spam is
ConfirmAccout extension [0], that requires sysops to confirm new users
one by one. This is extra load - but removing spam is extra load as well.

HTH,
best regards,
Anne

[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

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Arnulf Christl schrieb:

Rene A Enguehard schrieb:
 Deleting or banning the users won't stop them. What you need to do is
 look at where these people are coming from (IPs) and ban those directly.

 Cheers,
 René

Thanks for the tip, all blocked now.

Regards, Arnulf.

my 2 cents:
Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better?
I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it
is already active when a user adds external links to a page).

best regards,

Anne

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