[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2020 Board of Directors elections: campaign period

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo charter members,

We have five candidates for the board of directors [1]. We are grateful
to all of them for making themselves available for this job.

Without knowing the candidates and their proposals for the next two
years, it is difficult to vote. We invite you to look at candidate
manifestos [2].

Please use the Discuss mailing list to ask your questions or to raise
your concerns. The candidates will share their perspective on those topics.

If you missed our annual general assembly (which was online this year
[3]), this is your opportunity to "have your say".

Best regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2020 OSGeo Elections CROs)

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020_Candidate_Manifestos
[3]
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2020-osgeo-agm-first-virtual-annual-general-meeting/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] UPDATE: OSGeo 2020 Board of Directors elections: call for nominations

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo members,

--8<---
Sorry for the typo in the previous message. Please run sed
's/2019/2020/g' on top of it! The dates are now fixed.
--8<---

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

We have 4 vacant seats. Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos
Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any
of these board members wishing to stand in the 2020 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 the end of this week. Only Charter Members are
eligible for a seat on the Board and voting, but that 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: 2020-11-09 to 2020-11-20 (11 days)
* Campaign period: 2020-11-22 to 2020-11-29 (7 days)
* Vote for new Board members: 2020-12-01 to 2020-12-08 (8 days)
* The results will be announced on 2020-12-09.

All the information about the elections is available in the wiki [1].
You can see the progress of the nominations on [2] (soon as we receive
nominations).

Looking forward for your nominations!

Warm regards,
Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2020 OSGeo Elections CROs)[3]

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2020
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2020 Board of Directors elections: call for nominations

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo members,

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

We have 4 vacant seats. Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos
Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis have reached the end of their 2-year term. Any
of these board members wishing to stand in the 2020 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 the end of this week. Only Charter Members are
eligible for a seat on the Board and voting, but that 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: 2019-11-09 to 2019-11-20 (11 days)
* Campaign period: 2019-11-22 to 2019-11-29 (7 days)
* Vote for new Board members: 2019-12-01 to 2019-12-08 (8 days)
* The results will be announced on 2019-12-09.

All the information about the elections is available in the wiki [1].
You can see the progress of the nominations on [2] (soon as we receive
nominations).

Looking forward for your nominations!

Warm regards,
Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)[3]

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2020
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Election isn't over yet!

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo members,

That's true. The 2020 OSGeo elections are not over. Right after the
charter member election, we have the OSGeo Board election.

The board has already formally approved the new charter member
nominations. The board will welcome these new members at any moment. The
new charter members are able to participate in the next election for
board members: they can be eligible and can vote.

The nomination period for new Members of the Board of Directors is now
open and goes until 2019-11-20. Only Charter Members are eligible for a
seat on the Board and voting, but that anybody can nominate a board member.

Victoria Rautenbach, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos and Tom Kralidis
have reached the end of their 2-year term. So we have 4 vacant
seats on the Board. Any of these board members wishing to stand in the
2020 election must receive a nomination, like any other candidate.

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: 2019-11-09 to 2019-11-20 (11 days)
* Campaign period: 2019-11-22 to 2019-11-29 (7 days)
* Vote for new Board members: 2019-12-01 to 2019-12-08 (8 days)
* The results will be announced on 2019-12-09.

All the information about the elections is available in the wiki [1].
You can see the progress of the nominations on [2] (soon as we receive
nominations).

Looking forward for your nominations!

Warm regards,
Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)[3]

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2020
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2020 Elections - Review and voting period for new charter members

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo charter members,

Every year, as you know, we have invited more people to join our OSGeo
community. We need to know this new members and let them know that they
are welcome. This is a good opportunity to promote inclusiveness and
diversity within OSGeo.

Did you know, for example, that we have nominees from Tonga and from
Aotearoa? Do you know where this places are?

Please take a look at the nomination statements of the new candidates
and cast your vote today.

We can vote until Sunday midnight (UTC time). We have 245 votes
registered so far, from 454 voting members.

If you haven't receive the invitation, please contact the c...@osgeo.org.
We will resend the invitations, if necessary.

Warm regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2020 Elections

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear charter members,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start tomorrow on Oct. 5, 2020, with
the nomination period for new Charter Members.

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

Charter member nomination period starts: Oct. 5, 2020
Charter member nomination period ends: Oct. 18, 2020

Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Oct. 21, 2020
Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Oct. 28, 2020

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

Please, send your nomination to c...@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: 

Warm regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2020 OSGeo Elections CROs [3])

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2020
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer

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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2019 elections for the 5 open
seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors.

The results in alphabetical order are:

* Astrid Emde
* Codrina Maria Ilie
* Helena Mitasova
* Till Adams
* Vicky Vergara

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process - all
are deeply engaged in our community and inspired us by their example.

Election figures are:

* Membership: 462
* Valid votes: 302

The complete resulting Board for 2019/2020 is:

* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Codrina Maria Ilie
* Helena Mitasova
* Michael Smith
* Till Adams
* Tom Kralidis
* Vicky Vergara
* Victoria Rautenbach

The wiki page was updated with the results [1].

We would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part in the
elections. Special thanks go to Regina Obe who was very helpful to bring
LimeSurvey back to life on Saturday.

Congratulations to the new board members!

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)

[1]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#OSGeo_Foundation_Board_of_Directors

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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo board of directors election - voting period extended

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear OSGeo members,

The 2019 OSGeo board of directors election is still running.

Unfortunately, today our LimeSurvey instance was down, from early
morning (first problem reported at 5:56) until 18:00 (UTC time).

Fortunately, our SAC team was able (even on a Saturday) to put it back
online. Thank you to Markus and Regina (she did the magic!) for
recovering LimeSurvey.

Due to this inconvenience, we extended the voting period until tomorrow
night, Sunday, 2019-12-01, 23:59 (UTC time).

Please cast your vote, if you didn't do it yet.

Best regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo board elections - invitations sent

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear charter members,

The voting period for the OSGeo board of directors has already started,
according to the 2019 elections calendar [1].

The invitation was sent from our LimeSurvey instance, on Tuesday
morning. We updated more than 50 emails addresses since the previous
election.

Unfortunately, 15 emails were not delivered (for different reasons, but
mostly rejected by smtp filters). We resent them this afternoon. We hope
they will arrive to the destination.

In any case, if you didn't receive an invitation, please contact the CRO
at c...@osgeo.org. We will send the invitation using another smtp server.

Happy voting,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CRO [4])

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2019
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2019 Elections

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dear charter members,

This year OSGeo elections [1] will start tomorrow on Sep. 23, 2019, with
the nomination period for new Charter Members.

The nomination period for Charter Members will be open for the next four
 weeks, as stated in the Charter Membership process [2]. Candidate
review and voting will follow through our electronic voting system.

Charter member nomination period starts: Sep. 23, 2019
Charter member nomination period ends: Oct. 20, 2019

Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Oct. 21, 2019
Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Oct. 27, 2019

You can see the progress of the nominations on [3].

Please, send your nomination to c...@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: 

Warm regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CRO [4])

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2019
[2]
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/Membership%20Process.pdf
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2019
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the 2018 OSGeo Charter Member elections

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi Cameron,

Thanks for the feedback. The list is available at:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2018

You can reach the link from https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018

In the LimeSurvey form, there is a link for each nominee that points to
this list. Before you second a nomination, you can see why that person
was nominated. For those who have written profile, there is also a link
to that.

Have you tried the form? Please do it ASAP and tell us if we need to
improve something.

Thanks,

Jorge (CRO helper)

Às 21:08 de 19/10/18, Cameron Shorter escreveu:
> Vasile, Vicky, Jorge,
> 
> I can't seem to find a list of nominations for new charter members which
> descriptions about why they have been nominated. I've used such a list
> in the past to assess whether I'd vote for someone or not.
> 
> I suggest publishing on this page
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018, and if not too late, adding
> to the Limesurvey page.
> 
> Cheers, Cameron
> 
> 
> On 19/10/18 7:42 pm, OSGeo CRO wrote:
>>
>> Dear
>>
>> Cameron,
>>
>> As an existing OSGeo Charter Member, you have been invited to
>> participate in the 2018 Charter Member elections.
>>
>> To participate, please click on the link below.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
>>
>> CRO 2018
>>
>> 
> 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo invites you to Member Meetings in 2018 - next meeting in Bonn 19.3.2018

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi Astrid,

Thank you for promoting these events in 2018.

I've added a two hour slot in FOSS4G-Europe 2018 program [1] to have
this OSGeo member meeting in Guimarães, on 19 July, 2018. I've created a
wiki to allow participants to add topics in advance [2].

See you in Bonn,

Jorge Gustavo

[1] https://foss4g-europe.osgeopt.pt/program/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Member_Meeting_FOSS4G-Europe_2018

On 17-02-2018 13:10, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hello OSGeo Members,
> 
> the OSGeo board would like to invite you to participate in one of the
> "Member Meetings" being scheduled 2018:
> 
> - OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 in Bonn [3] (Member Meeting 19. March 2018)
> - FOSS4G North America [5]
> - FOSS4G Europe [6]
> - FOSS4G Dar es Salaam [7]
> - FOSS4G Asia [8]
> 
> Next meeting Monday March 19th at 18:00 in Bonn
> ***
> We are planning the next Member Meeting in Bonn on Monday March 19th at
> 18:00 UTC in BaseCamp [1].
> 
> We have chosen the location and time as in the same week will be the
> OSGeo Board Meeting (17./18.3) [2], OSGeo Code Sprint (18.-25.3.) [3]
> and FOSSGIS Konferenz (21.-24.3.) [4].
> 
> 
> About the idea of OSGeo Member Meetings
> ***
> We would love a chance to talk with you and hope you can attend one of
> the above events. This is a great possibility to come together with the
> charter members, to discuss and to get to know each other.
> 
> At FOSS4G Europe 2017 we had a wonderful board meeting, that many
> members were able to attend, resulting in a great discussion. We would
> like to build on this experience for 2018 and invite you to a member
> meeting at an event near you.
> 
> Format:
> * We would like to have a discussion on OSGeo topics for about 2 hours
> * Shall we define the topics / or we define them at the meeting?
> * Agenda for each meeting defined with your input on the wiki pages below
> * Format may be subject to change depending on numbers attending
> * Afterwards we would like to invite you for a drink and continue the
> discussion socially
> 
> Find out more about the events and see you in 2018!
> 
> Maybe we will meet already in Bonn in 4 weeks. Would be great!
> 
> Astrid Emde
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Member_Meeting_Bonn_2018
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Bonn_2018
> [3] http://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/
> [4] https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/
> [5] http://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-north-america-2018/
> [6] http://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/
> [7] http://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-2018/
> [8] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2018/
> 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nuno Oliveira

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 06-09-2017 16:08, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Forwarding Nuno Oliveira nomination by Andrea Aime. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
> 
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> 
> 
> 
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nomination for Nuno Oliveira
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:18:50 +0200
> From: Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
> To: OSGeo-CRO <c...@osgeo.org>
> 
> 
> 
> Name: Nuno Oliveira
> Country: Portugal
> Mail: nmco51...@gmail.com <mailto:nmco51...@gmail.com>
> 
> I would like to nominate Nuno Oliveira for OSGeo charter membership.
> Nuno is a relatively recent addition in the OSGeo Java tribe, and yet
> in this time he managed to be active in the GeoTools, GeoServer and
> GeoWebCache projects,
> showing at the same time good technical and communication abilities
> while also providing support on the user lists, along with GeoServer
> related presentations and workshops in local FOSS4G/INSPIRE conferences.
> He's also a member of OSGeo Portugal and helps
> organizing local events.
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Nyall Dawson

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

+1 for Nyall

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 01-09-2017 12:20, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Forwarding Nyall Dawson nomination by Martin Dobias. 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 Nyall Dawson
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:45:55 +0200
> From: Martin Dobias <wonder...@gmail.com>
> To: c...@osgeo.org
> 
> Hi there
> 
> I would like to nominate Nyall Dawson as a new Charter Member for OSGeo.
> 
> I have confirmed with him he is happy to be nominated.
> 
> Name: Nyall Dawson
> Email: nyall.daw...@gmail.com
> Country: Australia
> 
> Nyall is a great supporter of open source GIS and he is one of the
> leading developers in QGIS project. Within several years of
> involvement in QGIS community he has contributed an amazing range of
> new features, bug fixes and he is constantly improving the project
> with new ideas. Nyall runs a small consulting company called North
> Road (https://north-road.com/). You can follow him on github/twitter
> (@nyalldawson) and check out his mapping/QGIS blog at
> http://nyalldawson.net/
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 30-08-2017 13:51, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Forwarding Joana Simões nomination by María Arias de Reyna. 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: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:50:35 -0400
> From: Jorge Sanz <xurxos...@gmail.com>
> To: CRO <c...@osgeo.org>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: *María Arias de Reyna* <dela...@gmail.com <mailto:dela...@gmail.com>>
> Date: 24 August 2017 at 03:21
> Subject: Nomination Joana Simões
> To: CRO <c...@osgeo.org <mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>, Joana Simoes
> <joana.sim...@geocat.net <mailto:joana.sim...@geocat.net>>
> 
> 
> I want to nominate Joana Simões (in cc)
> 
> Joana is already a member of the OsGeo Pt board. She is a free
> software advocator and very active on all kind of activities around
> OsGeo and FOSS4G. She is currently working both for qGIS and
> GeoNetwork among many other OsGeo software.
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 29-08-2017 15:40, Pedro Pereira wrote:
> +1
> 
> Pedro Pereira
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com
> <mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans
> 
> 
> > Op 29 aug. 2017 om 01:43 heeft Vasile Craciunescu
> <vas...@geo-spatial.org <mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >
> > Forwarding Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination by Gérald Fenoy
> and Jachym Cepicky. 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
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017>
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject: Charter Member Nomination  for Jorge de Jesus
> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:02:50 +0200
> > From: Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr
> <mailto:gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr>>
> > To: OSGeo CRO <c...@osgeo.org <mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>
> > CC: jorge. dejesus <jorge.deje...@geocat.net
> <mailto:jorge.deje...@geocat.net>>
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> > it is a great honor for me to nominate Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus.
> >
> > Jorge is active and recognized for his work for years in the world
> of FOSS4G. He is currently working at Geocat and is involved in
> various Open Source ProjectS, amongst them the famous GeoNetwork and
> PyWPS. Jorge is someone with a clear vision and positive thinking.
> >
> > Jorge attends the FOSS4G on a regular manner and often make
> presentation and workshop there.
> >
> > I have faith in Jorge and feel that he is someone representative
> and that will be of big benefit for OSGeo.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best regards CRO,
> >
> > Gérald Fenoy
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Christmas card

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi,

I really would like to have a OSGeo Christmas card, to send to our local 
chapter members and to add it to my email signature.


Since some of us can make such wonderful maps, maybe someone can create 
an OSGeo Christmas card. Any volunteer out there? Maybe Till can create 
one that includes FOSS4G 2006 :-)


Regards,

J. Gustavo
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks for your constructive message. Ian was very constructive also.

Maybe I spend too much time coding and I miss a few emails. Did Jeff 
resign? What have we done to upset him so much?


Regards,

Jorge Gustavo

Às 13:29 de 16-12-2015, Jeroen Ticheler escreveu:

Thanks Ian for this email! I fully support what you are writing. It is
very much time to stop the negative sentiments around LocationTech,
FOSS4G conference offers that had LocationTech as a partner and so
forth. Constructive collaboration is all we need within OSGeo AND with
others in the (geo-)community.

I’ve heard negative sentiments about the FOSS4G 2017 selection process.
As a member of the Conference Committee I would like to state here that
I am convinced the LocationTech issue was not as decisive for most
members as people outside the committee seem to think. It was an aspect
discussed thoroughly, as were other aspects of the proposals.

I hope the Face to Face meeting end of January by the OSGeo board hosted
in our GeoCat office will be constructive and positive from all angles.
But at this stage I also call upon the OSGeo Board to come forward with
a statement that helps to unify the OSGeo community and give directions.
There seems to be a vacuum in the leadership right now with Jeff’s
sudden resignation that should be filled as soon as possible.

Greetings,
Jeroen


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On 16 dec. 2015, at 12:29, Ian Edwards > wrote:

/"there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech bashing going on"/

This negative "bashing" of other organisations has to completely stop
because it is having a massive negative impact on OSGeo.

We've recently lost a respected former board member (who has resigned
his charter member status) and the OSGeo president, both in relation
to how we've conducted ourselves in relation to other organisations in
the community.  These internal losses are not due to there being other
organisations in the geospatial world, nor how they are acting - but
instead our losses are due to how we ourselves are thinking and behaving.

OSGeo should positively support all elements of the geospatial
community including users, developers and also other organisations to
the fullest and best of our ability.  By doing this we become stronger
(instead of weaker) and will remain useful, relevant and of interest
to the community who will continue to invest their energy and efforts
with us and recognise our unique value and position.

In relation to LocationTech - similar divisions exist across the
entire Open Source world (take a look at LibreOffice and OpenOffice,
or MariaDB and MySQL).  The broard "FOSS4G" community (encompassing
both OSGeo and LocationTech) is not alone in facing this, and my hope
is that OSGeo can once again be a beacon to the rest of the open
source world and show how best to embrace these differences,
understand the strengths and weakness in both camps, and work together
for the positive benefit of our diverse community.


--
Ian Edwards

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Puneet Kishor > wrote:



> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Pat Tressel > wrote:
>
> If you want to point at a company as being the Evil Empire these days, you'd be 
more accurate pointing at Apple (cancelling licenses for Mac clones, suicides at Foxconn, 
restrictions on getting apps on iTunes, removing fitness tracker products from their stores 
because they might compete with the Apple Watch, etc. -- do a search for "apple anti 
competitive practices")

You were doing fine until above. The rest of your post is indeed
very relevant and useful and argues correctly for sanity instead
of knee-jerk accusations (until the above assertions, of course).

The point is, there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech
bashing going on, and it is getting to be tiring. Let's stick to
keeping OSGeo a fun, useful champion of free and open geospatial
without becoming anti-anything-free, partisan and possibly irrelevant.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which web project supports clipping/intersection?

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi Dan,

Maybe you can also check some more generic and powerful library like 
OpenLayers [1,2] or Leaflet [3].


To use OpenStreetMap data, you can start play with Overpass API [4].

It is also wise to clip the features on the server side; not on the 
client side.


I hope it helps,

J. Gustavo

[1] http://openlayers.org/
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers
[3] http://leafletjs.com/
[4] http://overpass-turbo.eu/

On 15-07-2015 22:10, Dan Ames wrote:

Hi all, as a long time desktop developer, I'm now building web mapping
applications and am feeling like a major newbie.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Is there a javascript library that can perform basic geoprocessing on
geoJSON features?

We're retrieving features from OpenStreetMap and need to clip/intersect
features...

Thanks in advance,

Dan


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Governance

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi,

+1 on the current decision model. If the discussions are made in an open 
fashion, as being done, everyone as the possibility to express the 
opinion and bring the new issues to the discussion. Maybe we need more 
people paying attention about what is going on, but we don't need 
another level on the hierarchy.


Regards,

Jorge

Em 27-05-2012 02:06, Stephen Woodbridge escreveu:

Hi Arnulf and the whole OSGeo Board,

+1 as a vote of confidence in the board and in this decision by them.
Please keep things moving and if you feel things need a broader
discussion I'm sure you will let us know. I do think notices of
decisions like your email are very helpful to keep us up to date with
what decisions are getting made, and making it clear, like you did, that
they are a notice to inform OR a request for comment should resolve
an confusion by potential readers.

Thank you for the update.

Best regards to all,
-Steve

On 5/26/2012 2:38 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:

Dear Members of OSGeo,
we have an important issue on governance coming up again and again. It
suggests that OSGeo Board decisions should be complemented by votes from
the Charter Members when important and strategic decisions have to
be taken. Something like this:

[snip]

For such important decisions, I think that it would maybe
worth making Charter members vote too, just like to get an
major orientation decided by 120 people instead of only 8.

[snip]

Initially this sounded like a good idea to me so we discussed this in
Denver and then again in Seattle at the last f2f board meetings plus on
the list and during regular IRC board meetings. We have come to a
different conclusion and want to explain why and ask for comments.

Introducing another level of voting introduces a hierarchy to OSGeo
which we have so far avoided and which we should - in my personal
opinion - continue to avoid. We have committees for all important areas
of work. If we lack a committee any member can suggest to form it. Most
decisions are taking in the committees and they are pretty open to
everything. Some committees function better, some not so - but this is
entirely up to the regular members who make up the committees.

We have a functioning board of directors for some of the day to day
operations and to approve or reject decisions taken by committees. This
is a health check and makes sure we do not go astray. The board is
recruited and elected by trusted Charter Members. This is their role and
it is their only role. There is not need for another role at this level.
If any regular member wants to become active, go for it. Same for ex
board members. Whenever they think the current board is wrong they can
say so. And they can suggest how to do it better, just like any regular
member.

Whenever a committee does not function but a decision has to be taken
the board steps up and takes over. This is one reason why we have the
board, to keep rolling. All other decisions, especially strategic and
important ones are taken by regular members who do things.

By introducing a new level of decisions - for example the Charter
Members - we gain nothing. Instead we introduce an artificial hierarchy
which does not help anybody. Instead it will discourage regular members
to speak up and become active. And it is anti do-ocratic because it is
easy to say yes or no to a motion but so much harder to formulate that
motion in the first place. We need people who creatively bring up new
things and not decide over what others have done.

Thank you for your attention,
Arnulf

PS:
Apart form this only very few Charter Members actually speak up at all -
a big thank you to those who do! Running a Charter and Board election is
always a major pain and takes weeks to complete. It is impractical to do
this more than once a year.



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