Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] David Hastings has passed away

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Jeff, Dear list,
first of all, thanks a lot Jeff for forwarding this information to the 
community.

I have to present my apologize cause I had planned to send this email a long 
time ago.

I would like to personally present my apologies to the David's family and I 
hope he will rest in peace.

I was lucky enough to spend some great time with him in Vietnam then few years 
later in his own house when he hosted me in Denver during the international 
FOSS4G that happened there.

I remember working with him on his local GRASS setup with his so old keyboard, 
he was so proud about this keyboard.

Thanks for having shared your passion with us and to support the foundation in 
various and clever way.

With all my love.

Rest in peace


Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 14 nov. 2017 à 14:40, Jeff McKenna  a écrit 
> :
> 
> Very sad news indeed.  Even if you never got to meet David, you were all 
> affected: he was a huge part of the first FOSS4G event in Bangkok in 2004, 
> where Markus, Venka and myself spent so much time with him, talking, sharing, 
> which gave us strength for the next steps in creating a global FOSS4G event.  
> David owes much credit and respect from our global community for his tireless 
> vision.  David spent much time in all parts of Asia sharing his passion.  My 
> thoughts to his family.  Very sad.  -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am very sorry to convey this sad news on this list.
> 
> A dear friend and an early pioneer of the GRASS team,
> David Hastings passed away in the Hospital in Colorado
> on Monday 13 November as 11.25am.
> 
> David was a member of the GRASS-GIS Interagency Steering
> Committee (GIASC) since 1987. I think he was a member till he passed
> away, since  GIASC was never formally disbanded.
> 
> Besides his several other accomplishments, David is also an author of the
> Linux " GRASS HOWTO" [1].
> 
> David was diagnosed with a serious illness in May, 2016 and could
> not recover.
> 
> Thanks David for your contributions to GRASS, RIP.
> 
> Venka
> 
> [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/
> 
> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan
> Osaka City University, Japan
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Eli,
as you may have notice, Jeff has stepped down from his position of co-CRO when 
accepting the Nicolas’ nomination [1].

Jeff was involved in the charter member election process as co-CRO but he is no 
more so, I guess, there is no issue for the board election.

Best regards,

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-October/036449.html


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> Le 11 oct. 2017 à 16:04, Eli Adam  a écrit :
> 
> Nicolas,
> 
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:48 PM, nicolas bozon  wrote:
>> 
>> It is my honor to nominate Jeff McKenna for the OSGeo Board of Directors
>> election.
> 
> I don't think that you can nominate the CRO, nor can the CRO accept
> your nomination, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer.
> In some past years the CRO was a sitting Board member with a year
> remaining on their term thus avoiding this situation.
> 
>> 
>> Most of you knows Jeff's energy and passion for everything OSGeo, and i
>> would probably be mistaken trying to summarize his countless contributions
>> over the years, at every level of our Foundation. His leadership and long
>> involvement in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities made him the Winner of the
>> Solz Katz Award in 2016, and i cannot add more. For those of you who may
>> really not know Jeff yet, the User:Jeff_McKenna wiki page is a good read
>> before you vote.
>> 
>> Jeff already served three times at the board and has a deep understanding of
>> both the director role and the current OSGeo strategic plan. Experienced
>> with OSGeo governance and bylaws, Jeff also knows a lot about projects and
>> people. He is always ready to help build locally and to represent globally.
>> 
>> Jeff is a great communicator and enthusiastic community leader, and i
>> believe he will be an excellent OSGeo director again. Please let us all
>> welcome Jeff back at the Board!
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Nicolas Bozon
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> Jeff McKenna agreed to be nominated and i decided to send the nomination
>> directly to the Discuss list with cc to CRO, so it avoids Jeff to confirm to
>> himself that he accepts the nomination. The Board Nominations page still
>> need to be updated, could you please Vasile ? Sorry for shortening the
>> nomination process in this special case.
>> ---
> 
> The point is not to avoid Jeff confirming to himself that he accepts
> the nomination, it is to avoid the CRO running an election and
> counting votes when they are also standing for election. It is really
> the Board's (and CRO's) responsibility to ensure that this situation
> doesn't occur.  The Board should not appoint CROs who might accept a
> nomination and people who might accept a nomination should not accept
> appointment as CRO.  Maybe we should return to the tradition of the
> CRO being a sitting Board member with a year remaining on their term.
> CRO is a difficult job and much credit to those who do it.  Also,
> someone (other than me) should be paying attention to the basic
> process and raise these issues.
> 
> Best regards, Eli
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nominate Barry Rowlingson for Charter Membership

[Fenoy Gerald]

I support Barry’s nomination.

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 29 août 2017 à 04:13, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> We confirm that Barry Rowlingson accepted the nomination by Ian Turton. The 
> 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:  Nominate Barry Rowlingson for Charter Membership
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:04:31 +0100
> From: Ian Turton 
> To:   c...@osgeo.org 
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to nominate Barry Rowlingson for charter membership, Barry is a 
> university researcher and teacher who has supported OSGEO for many years 
> including being part of the LOC for the Nottingham FOSS4G conference. He is 
> also active on gis.stackexchange and twitter answering questions on spatial R.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ian
> 
> PS Am I supposed to spam discuss with this also?
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Fenoy Gerald]

I support Markus’ nomination.


Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 4 sept. 2017 à 09:53, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member 
> nominations listwas updated [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
> From: Moritz Lennert 
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
> 
> Dear CRO's,
> 
> I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is very 
> deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done invaluable 
> work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would be too long, but 
> besides introducing many new modules and also significantly improving the 
> internal libraries, he has done wonders in allowing GRASS GIS to work with 
> very, very large amounts of data.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Moritz
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi

[Fenoy Gerald]

I strongly support Natraj’s nomination.

He will be of great help for outreach activities.

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 3 sept. 2017 à 19:11, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> Forwarding Natraj Vaddadi nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 member 
> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:46:33 +0900
> From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Natraj Vaddadi 
> 
> 
> Dear CRO,
> 
> It is my great pleasure to nominate Natraj Vaddadi [1]
> as a Charter Member to OSGeo.
> 
> Although he is a late entrant to the OSGeo world, Natraj
> has been super active in promoting OSGeo technology and
> tools at educational institutions and non-profit organizations
> in India and Thailand. He has also participated in OSGeo events
> in India and Thailand and is mainly focused on technologies
> for field data collection. He is also working on preparing
> training documentation for OSGeo community projects
> (QGIS, ZOO-WPS etc). He also is doing indian language localization
> for geospatial software.
> 
> He conducts his training using FOSS4G tools. His keen interest in promoting
> OSGeo software makes him a great candidate for nomination as Charter
> Member for OSGeo.
> 
> I have obtained consent form Natraj before filing his nomination.
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vnatraj
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Rajat Shinde

[Fenoy Gerald]

I support Rajat’s nomination.

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 31 août 2017 à 01:22, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> Forwarding Rajat Shinde nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 member 
> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination for Rajat Shinde
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:03:55 +0900
> From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Rajat Shinde 
> 
> 
> Dear CRO,
> 
> It is my great pleasure to nominate Rajat Shinde  [1]
> as a new OSGeo Charter Member.
> 
> He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
> to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
> has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He actively participates in
> FOSS4G events in Asia. He is currently participating in GSoC project and
> contributing his time and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.
> 
> His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
> makes him an excellent choice for being an OPSGeo  Charter Member.
> 
> I have obtained consent form Rajat before filing his nomination.
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Rajatshinde
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro

[Fenoy Gerald]

I second this nomination.

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 30 août 2017 à 15:15, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> Forwarding Daniele Strigaro nomination by Massimiliano Cannata. The 2017 
> member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:  Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:29:24 +0200
> From: Massimiliano Cannata 
> To:   c...@osgeo.org 
> 
> Dear CRO,
> I'm pleased to nominate Daniele Strigaro [1] for Charter Membership. Daniele 
> is a young enthusiastic developer devoted to open source Geospatial. He 
> successfully contributed to the GRASS and istSOS community. He developed GIS 
> tools for flood risk, landslide susceptibility and glacier retreat analysis 
> and he has been working on the implementation of the istSOS software. In 
> addition, he experienced the web platforms development using the well-known 
> Javascript libraries (Leaflet, Openlayer) and different OGC compliant open 
> source software for data and map sharing.
> 
> I have contacted Daniele and after checking the Responsabilities of a Charter 
> member [2] he agreed to be nominated.
> 
> His contacts details are:
> 
> P.S.: sorry for my error in nomination procedure..
> 
> [1] https://github.com/danistrigaro 
> [2] 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Responsibilities_charter_membership_responsibilities
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Max
> 
> -- 
> *Massimiliano Cannata*
> 
> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
> 
> Responsabile settore Geomatica
> 
> 
> Istituto scienze della Terra
> 
> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
> 
> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana
> 
> Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio
> 
> Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14
> 
> Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09
> 
> massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch 
> 
> _www.supsi.ch/ist _
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

[Fenoy Gerald]

I second the nomination.

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 30 août 2017 à 16:43, Vasile Craciunescu  a écrit :
> 
> Forwarding Steven Ottens nomination by Volker Mische. The 2017 member 
> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination of Steven Ottens
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:50:42 +0200
> From: Volker Mische 
> To: c...@osgeo.org
> CC: Steven Ottens 
> 
> I'd like to nominate Steven Ottens as OSGeo Charter Member. He is a long
> time member of the community, founder and former board member of the
> OSGeo Dutch language chapter. He gave talks and workshops at several
> FOSS4Gs and also contributed to projects like OpenLayers, MapBuilder and
> MapQuery.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Volker
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination Arne Schubert as an OSGeo charter member

[Fenoy Gerald]

I would like to strongly support this nomination.

Thanks Astrid!

Gérald Fenoy
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> Le 24 août 2017 à 17:34, Astrid Emde (OSGeo)  a écrit :
> 
> Hello
> 
> I would like to nominate Arne Schubert for OSGeo charter membership.
> 
> Arne is active in the Mapbender Project & in the YAGA Development Team.
> 
> He was involved in FOSSGIS events and organized the OSGeo & OSM Subconference 
> at FrOSCon last week. He is a great value for OSGeo, FOSSGIS and FOSS4G.
> 
> He may get involved in GSoC next year and get involved in OGC Specs.
> 
> And one thing I do not want to keep secret is that he talks about Docker 
> every day ;)
> 
> Read more about Arne
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Atd
> 
> Astrid
> 
> -- 
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> Charter Member
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] who would be interested in a sponsorship benefits hangout?

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Jody,
thanks for your email.

I would appreciate to participate to this hangout.

Best regards,

> Le 31 janv. 2017 à 08:51, Jody Garnett  a écrit :
> 
> Thanks to both of you! I am traveling this week, but would like to set up 
> this chat for mid February (if you are available). The idea is to review our 
> existing "perks" and see which ones make sense, answer any questions, etc ... 
> 
> Should be fun.
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 30 January 2017 at 17:42, Regina Obe  wrote:
> Me too.
> 
>  
> 
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Guido 
> Stein
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 6:10 PM
> To: Jody Garnett ; OSGeo Discussions 
> 
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] who would be interested in a sponsorship 
> benefits hangout?
> 
>  
> 
> Happy to help if i can.
> 
>  
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 17:36 Jody Garnett  wrote:
> 
> I have been fielding questions from potential sponsors around the benefits 
> associated with sponsoring OSGeo (foundation/local chapters / events/ 
> initiatives ).
> 
>  
> 
> Who is available interested/available for a hangout with potential sponsors? 
> (I would like to have rep from foss4g and foss4g-e attend if they are 
> available).
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Europe 2017: Call for Sponsors

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear community,
we are glad to share with you the call for sponsors that has been sent for the 
FOSS4G-Europe 2017 conference ([1], [2], [3]).

The FOSS4G-Europe 2017 local organizing committee is calling for sponsors to 
help making the 2017 edition a great success. Supporting FOSS4G Europe in 2017 
is about giving back to the open source community as well as getting a unique 
opportunity to promote your geo business.

Sponsoring this event means:

• Engaging a premium audience of key geospatial industry stakeholders 
and potential customers,

• Demonstrating the strength of your corporate brand, products or 
services,

• Networking and building relationships

FOSS4G-Europe 2017 is a unique marketing opportunity and we believe it will 
provide your company or organization with great industry rewards.

A variety of sponsorship packages are available and the local organizing 
committee is happy to consider any customization to meet your needs.

We are open to your ideas for sponsoring any of the following items:

• Event lanyards or swag

• Ice Breaker event

• Coffee breaks

• Gala event 

Please contact sponsor-foss4ge2...@osgeo.org for any inquiry.

Best regards,

Gérald Fenoy & Nicolas Paparoditis
Chairs of FOSS4G-Europe 2017

[1] https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/Sponsors
[2] 
http://us14.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9dd5e894ee8c610b6a9b9da14=3529a022a8=31b17377cb
[3] 
https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/assets/pdf/FOSS4G-Europe-2017_Sponsorship-Packages.pdf
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Europe 2017: save the date!

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear OSGeo community,
we are glad to announce that the FOSS4G-Europe 2017 will be held in 
Marne-La-Valée in France from July 19 to 21.

The schedule is as follow:
  * July 18th: Workshops
  * July from 19th to 21th : Conference
  * July 22th: Code Sprint

In case you are willing to help in the organization, please feel free to add 
your name on this page [1].

More informations to come soon, by now make sure to save the date!

Best regards,

The FOSS4G-Europe 2017 LOC

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-eu_2017

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Paolo,
you should use the OSGeo’s Trac system [1] and fill a ticket there with your 
detailed request for mailing list creation.

Best regards,

side-note: you should be registered to a mailing list before you send an email 
to it.

[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/

> Le 4 févr. 2016 à 11:01, Paolo Cavallini  a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> whom should we ask to create a new mailing list?
> I tried mail...@lists.osgeo.org, sac-ow...@lists.osgeo.org, and
> s...@lists.osgeo.org but got no reply.
> All the best, and thanks.
> -- 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short course series on 'Open Science goes Geo'

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hello Jeffrey, 
I’m not sure this list is made for self promotion ...

what a shame ! / (maybe not 100% valid :) )

 Le 19 mai 2015 à 16:25, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com a écrit :
 
 
 shameless-plug
 
 A startup that I am involved with won a Horizon 2020 grant this round
 using open source geospatial tools including Glob3Mobile
 http://www.glob3mobile.com/
 
 http://hungarytoday.hu/news/hungarian-developed-smart-glasses-app-pilots-wins-substantial-eu-funding-37158
 
 /shameless-plug

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hello, 
well said Gert-Jan.

I would like to say that I feel that the Board is responsible to provide 
decision proposals, giving the full meaning / goals of each decision proposed 
(this is really important to me to be also more open in this part), clarifying 
the proposals may help for better understanding of the Foundation goals and 
should probably help in the past too, to make all the OSGeo Charter Members 
understanding where the Foundation is willing to go.

Then if we have clear defined goals bind to the proposals made then it is more 
fair to ask the Charter Member to vote or amend the decision taken by the Board.

I hope my point is clear,
Best regards,


Le 18 sept. 2014 à 08:14, Maria Antonia Brovelli maria.brove...@polimi.it a 
écrit :

 +1 for involving charter members
 Maria
 
 Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
 Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano
 
 
 ISPRS WG IV/5 Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications - 
 Co-chair - OSGeo Charter Member - ICA - OSGeo Advisory Board Member - SIFET 
 Scientific Commitee Member
 
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 e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it
 
 
 
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 Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members
 
 Il 17/09/2014 22:42, P Kishor ha scritto:
 
 also in this thread) is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers 
 chatting
 in your living room.
 
 Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice thing 
 to do.
 
 +1
 I share Puneet feelings.
 All the best.
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hi all,
sorry for coming so late in this thread but I would like to try rephrase what 
Bart said to the following:

On one hand you have a Foundation, let’s name it OSGeo, which is willing to be 
more professional at organizing the FOSS4G and searching for the help of a 
professional organization to do so. On the other hand you have a professional 
organization, let’s name it LocationTech, which proven to be devoted to the 
previous one and is willing to provide this help by providing bids for 
organizing the next FOSS4Gs.

So from here, I feel we should all keep calm and try to speak our mind in a 
constructive and when possible positive way.

Indeed, if we reread the first paragraph here, can we see anything bad in what 
is happening except solution (or at least kind-of).

Obviously, nothing is totally black or totally white anywhere, so we obviously 
have to take good care of the implications this may have in the futur and 
protect what we think have to be protected for being able to evolve safely as a 
Foundation. But please one more time, let us try to be more positive and let’s 
*move on* without facing the same issue again and again. I feel it started 
already.

Best,

Le 14 sept. 2014 à 08:51, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl a écrit :

 Okay then I have 2 follow-up questions for you and/or Jeff:
 
 1) do you acknowledge we have a problem with FOSS4G organising?
 
 2) what other solutions to this problem do you see and why are they better 
 than co-organising with Eclipse/LocationTech?
 
 Bart



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ivan Mincik

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hi Jorge,
you are doing well as this should be the way to go.
Got confirmation prior to nominate anybody.

With dedication to OSGeo,
Best,

Le 21 juil. 2014 à 22:58, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org a écrit :

 As per nomination procedure[1] I always ask first off-list for
 confirmation by the nominee, that's why I forward nominator mails to
 discuss, only after receiving it.



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

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hi Jeff,
I hope/guess/wish you know already that I will second Stephan which is to me an 
amazing guy in general and did so well to organize the *OSGeo Code Sprint* this 
year !

With dedication to OSGeo,
Best,


Le 21 juil. 2014 à 20:34, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com a écrit :

 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.
 
 -jeff
 
 
 
 On 2014-07-21, 8:32 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
 I forward Stephan Meißl nomination for the OSGeo Charter Membership 
 elections.
 
 Best Regards
 Jorge
 
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Helmut Kudrnovsky
 Date: 2014-07-19 0:29 GMT+02:00
 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl
 To: c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Stephan Meißl
 
 
 Dear CRO and OSGeo Community,
 
 as the nomination period for OSGeo Charter Member started right now
 [1], it's a honor for me to nominate Stephan Meißl [2].
 
 Stephan is a committer to MapServer [3] and also a member of the
 MapServer PSC [4].
 
 As well known in the OSGeo community, he has organized the wonderfull
 OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 [5] [6] in Vienna which was great step forward
 in community building between all the nice OSGeo projects.
 
 So I am convinced that Stephan will be very valuable OSGeo Charter Member.
 
 Best regards
 Helmut Kudrnovsky
 OSGeo Charter Member [7]
 
 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Schpidi
 [3] https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/blob/master/COMMITERS
 [4] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html
 [5] http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/
 [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
 [7] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Hellik
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A wonderful FOSS4G event...

[Fenoy Gerald]

Hi Jachym,
just the link [1] for everybody to stop wasting their time at searching for 
informations.

With sincere dedication to OSGeo,
Best regards,

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe 

Le 21 juil. 2014 à 22:15, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com a écrit :

 join conference-europe mailing list, we should continue there.



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

[Fenoy Gerald]

All,
nice to have this discussion brought on table, finally.

Some local chapters already collect fees for their membership.
So OSGeo may collect a percentage of perceived fees.
Obviously, this should be discussed and defined by local chapters.
It may lead to increasing the current membership price...

Best,

Le 23 juin 2014 à 16:57, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us 
a écrit :

 On 6/23/14 9:25 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
 Good food for thought Howard, can’t say I disagree with anything you say 
 here.
 
 The only thing we need to consider is that for some countries 50 or 70 USD 
 can still be a lot of money.
 
 All,
 
 I also agree whole heartily  with Howard.  
 
 Regarding the notion that the membership fees need to be different for 
 different areas on the globe, what about using a chapter mechanism to set the 
 membership fees according to the locally perceived best pricing model.  Might 
 help solidify local chapters by allowing them to capture a percentage of the 
 membership fees based on members and new members being pulled in through 
 their chapter.
 
 bobb
 
 Best regards,
 Bart
 
 On 23 Jun 2014, at 16:12, Howard Butler 
 how...@hobu.co
  wrote:
 
 
 On Jun 20, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
 
 Thanks Paul, Dimitris and Peter for your thoughts.
 
 Comments inline.
 
 On 20/06/2014 4:31 am, Paul Ramsey wrote:
 
 http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/individual_membership
 http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/individual_membership/dues
 
 
 
 Both simpler, and better for the bottom line of OSGeo, if you want to
 be a member, sign up as a member, collect your t-shirt, see you @
 foss4g.
 
 
 Yes Paul, pay for membership is simple, but I'd argue that the value of 
 OSGeo and OSGeo communities is the volunteer time we contribute, and pay 
 membership wouldn't capture that.
 
 This property is the nature of a professional organization, which in my 
 opinion, OSGeo clearly is. There are a number of strong reasons why small 
 annual fees for membership are very attractive. The first is there's no 
 struggling with members who've dropped off, haven't voted, are no longer 
 participating. Second, anyone who wants to associate themselves can simply 
 do so by paying dues. Finally, a consistent, if small, operating revenue. 
 
 The voting process has been an ad-hoc affair since the beginnings of the 
 organization. Every year it the rules are tweaked. Every year members 
 who've dropped off need to be nagged. Every year we end up just taking 
 everyone who's nominated anyway. It's a lot of overhead and volunteer cost 
 for very little gain.
 
 It is certain there are people who wish to be professionally associated 
 with OSGeo who are unable to become members because they haven't generated 
 enough public profile to be nominated. You can't nominate yourself. It's a 
 chicken and egg problem that simply dissolves with paid-but-small 
 membership dues.
 
 OSGeo's main revenue stream is the FOSS4G conference. It is an event run on 
 the backs of local chapter volunteers. Please correct me otherwise, but I 
 do not think any local chapter who has hosted FOSS4G has ever put in a 
 proposal to host it again. This well may eventually run dry. Or, it may run 
 dry for a year or two. 80-100k/year (~$50-70/year * 1500 persons) of 
 membership dues is plenty to keep the lights on through droughts and still 
 allow the organization to move forward. 
 
 At the inception of the organization, a driving factor toward our current 
 membership structure is because OSGeo is a volunteer organization, it 
 shouldn't require members to pay money. I think this is misguided. Every 
 other professional organization of which I'm a member requires membership 
 dues. As an IRS classification, a professional organization has a clear 
 path forward. 
 
 I am a professional open source Geo/GIS software developer. I want to 
 belong to a professional organization that represents me. I would be happy 
 to pay some nominal membership dues that a) signify my membership, b) 
 provide financial buffer for the organization to achieve its mission, and 
 3) clearly signal what the rules are to become a member.
 
 My $0.02.
 
 Howard
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

[Fenoy Gerald]

Alex, 
thanks a lot for such kind of answer.

In fact what I have in mind is more to provide a build suite, I definitely 
don't know how to name it.

Anyway, let say something that make you able to download this or that software 
and which will make sure that you will get everything required to build this 
specific project installed in your OSGeo4W environment. I think of cmake or 
mingw for instance.

I think about a tool which let you set some parameters where you can define the 
compiler version you want to use (or the path to the script which setup 
environment variables, we may also think of adding some optional command line 
options to this batch script (if required but, I'm pretty sure it is required). 

This way, you choose one software you want to build from source from the 
OSGeo4W, then all the dependencies will be setup (packages in their dev 
versions), the required tools are setup (if not already setup as another 
software requirement) then the build is done from the OSGeo4W installer. 
Obviously, the source code should still be available after the build finished. 
If we can provide such a thing it means that you can apply after build finish 
the patches you want to apply on one software before building it again with 
fixes.

I think it may be a great gain of time for Lazy Developers, as I am.

I hope my answer is clear enough this time.

Best regards,

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Le 21 sept. 2013 à 02:01, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com a écrit :

 On 09/20/2013 05:33 PM, Dave Patton wrote:
 On 2013/09/20 16:39, Alex Mandel wrote:
 
 Unlike OSGeoLive we can't supply VMs as that takes paid licenses for
 the software in question.
 
 Alex - could you please clarify what you mean by this statement.
 
 Thanks
 
 
 We can't give out Windows Virtual Machine(VM) images with Visual Studio
 already installed. The Licensing terms of Windows and Visual studio
 don't allow for that, even if the end user has a valid license its
 probably not legal. The only exception might be if we make a Windows
 Azure image that can be cloned on that platform, since I believe paying
 for an Azure instance automatically gives you the Windows License.
 
 Which is different from Ubuntu (what we build OSGeoLive on top of), free
 and open source software that is gratis too. We can build derivates all
 we want and hand them out.
 
 Were you thinking I meant something else?
 
 What we can do is create an installer or scripts that makes it easier to
 deploy a build environment on top of an already installed Windows, I
 defer this back to being a subcomponent of osgeo4w.
 
 Thanks,
 Alex
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013

[Fenoy Gerald]

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:
 
 
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 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
 
 
 - --
 Your Chief Returning Officers
 on behalf of OSGeo
 Arnulf Christl and Michael Gerlek
 with the help of Jakob Tworek
 
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2013
 
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