Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

[Kristin Bott]

Additional details behind my +1 (was asked to explain why I seconded...)

I think that Gretchen has done a significant amount of work in
public-facing cartography / education and making both beautiful and
effective maps more accessible to folks outside of the usual / stock
audiences for such things (through: books she's written, blog posts,
Twitter, etc).

And, since part of the call for charter members involves diversity... to
continue singing the same old song (see Aleda Freeman nomination +1
follow-up; Tina Cormier nomination +1 follow-up) I don't believe that the
list of Charter Members is representative of the user community of OSGeo
projects; I believe we're skewed on a couple of demographic axes. One of
those is gender. Let's work on that.

Can provide more/additional justification/rationale/input/thoughts as
needed; let me know.

cheers -
-k.bott

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Kristin Bott <bo...@reed.edu> wrote:

> [pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]
>
> +1 this nomination.
>
> -kbott
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Codrina Maria Ilie <
> codr...@geo-spatial.org> wrote:
>
>> I second this nomination!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Codrina
>>
>> On 31/08/2017 03:25, Andy Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> +1!!
>>>
>>> — Andy
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to second the nomination.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>> On 30 August 2017 at 16:24, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org
>>>> <mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Forwarding Gretchen Peterson nomination by Sara Safavi. 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: Gretchen Peterson
>>>> Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:21:24 -0500
>>>> From:   Sara Safavi <s...@sarasafavi.com >>> s...@sarasafavi.com>>
>>>> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org
>>>> <mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nominee: Gretchen Peterson, gretc...@petersongis.com
>>>> <mailto:gretc...@petersongis.com> <mailto:gretc...@petersongis.com
>>>> <mailto:gretc...@petersongis.com>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to nominate Gretchen Peterson for OSGeo Charter
>>>> Membership. Gretchen is a cartographer, author, and educator whose
>>>> contributions to the community have impacted many of us - speaking
>>>> personally, I can say that everything I know about designing good
>>>> maps in QGIS, I learned from Gretchen. Most recently, Gretchen is
>>>> co-author of the book "QGIS Map Design".
>>>> ___
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>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>> <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Tina Cormier

[Kristin Bott]

All --

I've been asked to provide further details on my +1. Again, positive
attributes
 below
for your reference.

I was also impressed by Tina's involvement in this year's FOSS4G; I feel
that her numerous contributions at the conference (talks, workshop) work
speaks to her dedication to open source approaches and making those
approaches accessible to users. Notably, as R continues to grow in
popularity within the data/science community as an analytical platform, I
believe that OSGeo stands to gain if the community is able to be conversant
with R in addition to the other platforms/languages with which folks might
already be familiar. (I believe this plus Alex's nomination speaks to
Tina's fit under the "positive attributes" of *"support[ing] and
promot[ing] the use of free and open source geospatial software, education,
and data..."* as well as "*participation in or support of OSGeo activities"*
.

As to diversity, I believe that Tina's proficiency in R (in addition to
many other open source platforms) is a mark in her favor. And, to continue
singing the same old song (see Aleda Freeman nomination +1 follow-up) I
don't believe that the list of Charter Members is representative of the
user community of OSGeo projects; I believe we're skewed on a couple of
demographic axes. One of those is gender. Let's work on that.

Further discussion / opinions / information needed, let me know.

cheers -
k.bott



*Recommended membership selection criteria include:*


   - *Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To
   support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software,
   education and data in a collaborative manner.*
   - *Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities*
   - *The person should already have made a contribution to free and open
   source geospatial software, education or open data.*
   - *The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the
   Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way
   that gets the Foundation going.*
   - *Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively
   towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.*

*Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:*


   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions,
   diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.*
   - *Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g.,
   corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).*
   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including
   gender and race *


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Forwarding Tina Cormier nomination by Alex Mandel. 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 
>
> I would like to nominate Tina Cormier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
>
> Tina was a star of FOSS4G2017 in Boston, presenting a workshop (‘Geo
> with R? Yes We Can!’) and three talks (‘A Journey through R for Geo’, ‘R
> in the Z-dimension: Processing lidar data for free’, and ‘Two laptops
> and a bag of thumb drives: Knitting together a global community using
> FOSS4G’)
>
> She has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to
> Nepal, as well as her home country the USA. Workshop topics range from
> programming in R, using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source tools.
>
> Tina promotes open source actively on Twitter and is now working with
> OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts, and lidR package on improving user
> friendliness.
>
> Tina would be an asset to OSGeo as a remote sensing data scientist who
> works in academic research and industry, and helps represent women, R,
> LIDAR, and power user communities.
>
> -Alex Mandel
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination: Aleda Freeman

[Kristin Bott]

Hi, all --

I was asked to back up my second-ing of Aleda's nomination with a bit more
information, so. Doing that -- although I believe that Sara's testimonial
is more than sufficient to attest to Aledas *"support and promot[ion] of
the use of free and open source geospatial software..." * and references
her contributions to the use of FOSS in geospatial work. (list of "Positive
attributes
",
below)

As a member of the 2017 FOSS4G (B)LOC, Aleda has most certainly* "put in
time and effort on the Foundation... volunteering in some ... way that gets
the Foundation going" * and in doing so has demonstrated her dedication to
the goals of OSGeo and her ability to work as part of a collaborative,
hardworking team. Within the context of FOSS4G 2017, I think Aleda did a
commendable job coordinating events, people, and logistics; given how
active she has been in the open source geospatial community leading up to
the conference, I believe that Aleda is very likely to continue in her work
in support of open source geospatial efforts.

On promoting diversity: I don't believe that the list of Charter Members is
representative of the user community of OSGeo projects; I believe we're
skewed on a couple of demographic axes. One of those is gender. Let's work
on that.

If I can provide additional information / opinions, let know -- happy to do
so.

cheers -
-k.bott


*Recommended membership selection criteria include:*


   - *Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To
   support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software,
   education and data in a collaborative manner.*
   - *Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities*
   - *The person should already have made a contribution to free and open
   source geospatial software, education or open data.*
   - *The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the
   Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way
   that gets the Foundation going.*
   - *Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively
   towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.*

*Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:*


   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions,
   diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.*
   - *Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g.,
   corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).*
   - *Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including
   gender and race *


On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Forwarding Aleda Freeman nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
> nominations list has been updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Charter Member nomination: Aleda Freeman
> Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:10:49 -0500
> From:   Sara Safavi 
> To: Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Chief
> Returning Officer 
>
>
>
> Nominee: Aleda Freeman, aleda.free...@mass.gov  aleda.free...@mass.gov> - USA
>
> I would like to nominate Aleda Freeman for OSGeo Charter Membership. In
> addition to being a member of FOSS4G 2017's spectacular local organizing
> committee, Aleda has been an active member of the MA/Boston GIS community
> for over 20 years. As Web Services Manager at MassGIS Aleda was
> instrumental in making the agency's pivot from ESRI to GeoServer over a
> decade ago (and on a personal note, MassGIS's web portal was my first
> encounter with FOSS4G in use "in the wild", which had a significant impact
> on my younger self). Aleda is a devoted proponent of open source geo who
> puts a ton of effort & time into the community.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Tina Cormier

[Kristin Bott]

+1 for Tina

-kbott

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Maelle Vercauteren 
wrote:

> +1 for Tina Cormier.
> Best, Maë//e
>
>
> --
> Maëlle VERCAUTEREN DRUBBEL
> Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES
>
> Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT (CP 130 / 03)
> Campus du Solbosch
> Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50
> B-1050 Bruxelles
> Tél.: 02/650.68.14 Fax: 02/650.50.92 Local: DB6.143
>
> 2017-09-07 13:37 GMT+02:00 Andy Anderson :
>
>> I second the nomination!
>>
>> — Andy
>>
>> > On Sep 7, 2017, at 6:53 AM, Jeff McKenna 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Forwarding Tina Cormier nomination by Alex Mandel. 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 
>> >
>> > I would like to nominate Tina Cormier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
>> >
>> > Tina was a star of FOSS4G2017 in Boston, presenting a workshop (‘Geo
>> > with R? Yes We Can!’) and three talks (‘A Journey through R for Geo’, ‘R
>> > in the Z-dimension: Processing lidar data for free’, and ‘Two laptops
>> > and a bag of thumb drives: Knitting together a global community using
>> > FOSS4G’)
>> >
>> > She has taught workshops in countries all over the world, from Peru to
>> > Nepal, as well as her home country the USA. Workshop topics range from
>> > programming in R, using QGIS, to processing lidar with open source
>> tools.
>> >
>> > Tina promotes open source actively on Twitter and is now working with
>> > OSGeo-Live project on R quickstarts, and lidR package on improving user
>> > friendliness.
>> >
>> > Tina would be an asset to OSGeo as a remote sensing data scientist who
>> > works in academic research and industry, and helps represent women, R,
>> > LIDAR, and power user communities.
>> >
>> > -Alex Mandel
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ___
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>> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
>> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>
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>
>
>
> --
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> Coordinatrice du stage SIG Libres ARES
>
> Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT (CP 130 / 03)
> Campus du Solbosch
> Av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond

[Kristin Bott]

[pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]

+1 this nomination.

-kbott

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Jachym Cepicky 
wrote:

> +1
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, 18:32 Victoria Rautenbach <
> victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
>> > +1 jorge
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 5 September 2017 at 10:49, María Arias de Reyna <
>> delawen+os...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> +1
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
>> >>  wrote:
>> >> > Forwarding Lyzi Diamond nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
>> >> > nominations list was updated [1].
>> >> >
>> >> > Best regards,
>> >> > Vasile & Jeff
>> >> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>> >> >
>> >> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >  Forwarded Message 
>> >> > Subject:Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond
>> >> > Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:27:36 -0500
>> >> > From:   Sara Safavi 
>> >> > To: Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Chief
>> >> > Returning
>> >> > Officer 
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Nominee: Lyzi Diamond, lyzidiam...@gmail.com
>> >> > 
>> >> > - USA
>> >> >
>> >> > I would like to nominate Lyzi Diamond for OSGeo charter membership.
>> Lyzi
>> >> > is
>> >> > an engineer and an educator, and a great contributor to the open
>> source
>> >> > geo
>> >> > community on both fronts. With her work as co-founder of the
>> >> > international
>> >> > phenomenon, Maptime (maptime.io ), Lyzi gained
>> >> > recognition as a community leader dedicated to bringing cartography,
>> >> > geospatial technology, and mapping education to everyone. Since then
>> she
>> >> > has
>> >> > continued to work towards making geo-related information more
>> accessible
>> >> > to
>> >> > all. I often find myself referencing, and referring others, to Lyzi's
>> >> > blog
>> >> > posts, articles, tutorials, and talks as excellent resources.
>> >> > ___
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>> >> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
>> >> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jorge Sanz
>> > http://www.osgeo.org
>> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
>> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination: Aleda Freeman

[Kristin Bott]

[pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]

+1 this nomination.

-kbott

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Andy Anderson 
wrote:

> I second the nomination!
>
> — Andy
>
> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Jeff McKenna 
> wrote:
> >
> > Forwarding Aleda Freeman nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
> nominations list has been updated [1].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vasile & Jeff
> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject:  Charter Member nomination: Aleda Freeman
> > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:10:49 -0500
> > From: Sara Safavi 
> > To:   Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Chief
> Returning Officer 
> >
> >
> >
> > Nominee: Aleda Freeman, aleda.free...@mass.gov  aleda.free...@mass.gov> - USA
> >
> > I would like to nominate Aleda Freeman for OSGeo Charter Membership. In
> addition to being a member of FOSS4G 2017's spectacular local organizing
> committee, Aleda has been an active member of the MA/Boston GIS community
> for over 20 years. As Web Services Manager at MassGIS Aleda was
> instrumental in making the agency's pivot from ESRI to GeoServer over a
> decade ago (and on a personal note, MassGIS's web portal was my first
> encounter with FOSS4G in use "in the wild", which had a significant impact
> on my younger self). Aleda is a devoted proponent of open source geo who
> puts a ton of effort & time into the community.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ___
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

[Kristin Bott]

[pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]

+1 this nomination.

-kbott

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Codrina Maria Ilie  wrote:

> I second this nomination!
>
> Cheers,
> Codrina
>
> On 31/08/2017 03:25, Andy Anderson wrote:
>
>> +1!!
>>
>> — Andy
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Jody Garnett >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to second the nomination.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 30 August 2017 at 16:24, Vasile Craciunescu >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Forwarding Gretchen Peterson nomination by Sara Safavi. 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: Gretchen Peterson
>>> Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:21:24 -0500
>>> From:   Sara Safavi >> >>
>>> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer >> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nominee: Gretchen Peterson, gretc...@petersongis.com
>>>  >> >
>>>
>>> I would like to nominate Gretchen Peterson for OSGeo Charter
>>> Membership. Gretchen is a cartographer, author, and educator whose
>>> contributions to the community have impacted many of us - speaking
>>> personally, I can say that everything I know about designing good
>>> maps in QGIS, I learned from Gretchen. Most recently, Gretchen is
>>> co-author of the book "QGIS Map Design".
>>> ___
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>>>
>>>
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>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Jack Reed

[Kristin Bott]

[pardon the delay, catching up on email as the school year starts up...]

+1 this nomination.

-kbott

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> I second the nomination of Jack Reed.
>
> His contributions are indeed very valuable
> to OSGeo.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
>
> On 8/31/2017 8:14 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>
>> Forwarding Jack Reed nomination by Peter Löwe. 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 Jack Reed
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:00:33 +0200
>> From: "Peter Löwe" 
>> To: c...@osgeo.org
>> CC: pjr...@stanford.edu
>>
>> Dear CROs,
>>
>> I have the great pleasure to nominate Jack Reed (pjr...@stanford.edu):
>>
>> Jack works as a geospatial web engineer on increasing access to
>> geospatial data at the Stanford Libraries. A contributor to open-source
>> software, Jack is active in the geospatial, library, and open data
>> communities. He is co-founder of the GeoBlacklight and OpenGeoMetadata open
>> source projects which aim to provide better geospatial data discovery tools
>> and metadata sharing.
>>
>> Jack frequently attends FOSS4G conferences and was part of this years
>> spontaneous BoF for data librarians at FOSS4G Boston.
>>
>> I believe Jack will be a very valuable charter member for OSGeo.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G NA 2016 Report

[Kristin Bott]

Thanks for sharing the synopsis; I'm especially encouraged by (1) gender
(identity) parity in the planning committee (2) strong presence of
female-identifying folk at the conference and (3) continued financial
support for attendees.

I'd be curious what the gender split was across attendees v. speakers --
possibly something worth tracking across years of conferences to get a
sense of any shifts in attendee demographics.

cheers -
-k.bott


On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Mark Lucas  wrote:

> I had the pleasure of serving as the OSGeo representative for the 2016
> FOSS4G NA conference selection and planning.  I thought the team did an
> excellent job in selecting, planning and running the conference.  The team
> made the decision to not pursue a 2017 NA conference so as not to compete
> for resources with the OSGeo international conference.  Our efforts will
> focus on 2018 planning and selection for the next NA regional conference.
>
> On a personal note I was initially concerned about how the relationship
> with Location Tech and OSGeo would evolve.  Our teaming has resulted in yet
> another successful conference that I believe plays to the strengths of both
> organizations.  I was very pleased with the openness and collaboration that
> I witnessed.
> — Mark
>
>
> The synopsis from Andrea Ross is included below:
>
> FOSS4G NA 2016 Synopsis (please feel free to re-use this data)
>
>
>- The conference ran from May 2-5, at the Raleigh Convention Center,
>in Raleigh North Carolina. The code sprint & unconference ran May 6 & 7 at
>Red Hat’s headquarters, a few blocks from the convention center. A Tour of
>the NCSU OSGeo Research and Education lab took place on May 6th.
>- The conference featured 1 day of workshops, 3 days of sessions, a
>code sprint, an unconference, and social events every night. There were 93
>full length (35 minute) sessions, 36 short length (15 minute) sessions, 10
>workshops, and 3 keynotes. This represented an increase in full length. The
>rooms were generally always near full or slightly overflowing for
>particularly popular talks, despite them being big rooms.
>- The conference grew by 33% . There were 558 attendees. This level of
>increase is very positive, when so many other conferences are in decline.
>- Like 2015’s team, 50% of the 2016 committee were women. Also like
>2015, a significant proportion of speakers and attendees were women (in the
>30% range), which is great to see.
>- 23 people were at the conference who wouldn't have otherwise been
>without the financial support we gave them.
>- From the attendee survey, people were clearly thrilled about the
>conference... 99% positive feedback. (n=102). The one negative response
>said they were disappointed there was no lunch served. We’re not sure how
>they missed it! The venue, the strong program, and the positive &
>supportive atmosphere were the things people commented (positively) on 
> most.
>- People loved the keynotes, and especially Tamar Cohen's entitled
>Extreme Mapping.
>- The video recordings of sessions are being uploaded to Youtube, with
>dozens up, and more each day.
>- 90% of sponsors rated the value excellent. 10% rated it very good.
>The layout of the conference was especially appreciated as it meant plenty
>of traffic for sponsors at all times.
>
>
> This year’s conference was produced by Andrea Ross and the team at the
> Eclipse Foundation, the same as 2015. Sarah Cordivano served as Community
> Chair. Rob Emanuele was Program Committee Chair, repeating the same role he
> performed in 2015.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Second Call for Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee Members

[Kristin Bott]

*Second Call for Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee Members*
The mission of the Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee is to assist in making
sure that OSGeo continues to be an inclusive and welcoming organization; we
will accomplish this by (1) guiding policy around the CoC
<http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct> and other initiatives to increase
diversity and (2) dealing with reports of violations of the CoC. The CoC
committee will continue to iterate on the CoC, its implementation, and
committee membership in order to ensure that they represent, nurture, and
encourage diversity in our community.

The committee itself will be open and maintain an open mailing list (
coc-disc...@osgeo.org) and will maintain a smaller voting committee that
will handle CoC incidents and violations. This smaller committee will
consist of a total of 5 members also serving one year terms. The additional
3 members will be selected by the co-chairs.

If you are interesting in joining the voting committee, please email
co-chairs Camille Acey and Kristin Bott at
coc-private-ow...@lists.osgeo.org with
a short paragraph explaining why you'd like to join.  If you are
interesting in joining the general committee, just sign up here -
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coc-discuss

cheers
-k.bott
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Kristin Bott]

Hi, all --

Including the conference list on this, since I think it's relevant (and I
suspect that variations on this conversation are happening in multiple
corners).

re: implementation plans for the CoC. A group of folks met during State of
the Map in NYC earlier this month to talk about what an implementation plan
might look like. We are currently drafting language to present to the board
to form a CoC committee *as well as *drafting an implementation plan. Jeff,
we can most certainly have this done by 1 September 2015.

Responding to CoC concerns is not simple -- we're trying to create a
structure and a process that will make this as smooth as possible for all
involved.

If you have any questions / concerns about this, feel free to contact me,
off-list or otherwise.

cheers -
-kristin

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 I thank Sanghee for bringing this to the community.  I want to point out
 that having just a Code of Conduct, words, on a website is not enough,
 there needs to be a whole structure of how to handle this.  In bold
 letters I want to state publicly: there is currently no implementation
 plan for the OSGeo Code of Conduct.  This is not acceptable.  A few good
 volunteers have been discussing offline how to setup an implementation
 plan, as well as possibly even a new OSGeo committee for this, great,
 but, it is still in discussion stage.  Without some sort of plan,
 community members are already contacting me directly with reports, and I
 have no formal way to handle these reports.  (Sanghee was nice enough to
 help me solve this together publicly, but, this obviously cannot apply
 to all reports)

 I suggest, propose, that if there is no implementation plan for the Code
 of Conduct by the 1st of September, that the Code of Conduct is removed
 from all visible OSGeo pages, and is replaced with a simple Diversity
 statement.

 I am sorry for being direct here, but, as you can see, this needs to
 move forward, or not at all.

 -jeff


 --
 Jeff McKenna
 President, OSGeo
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna




 On 2015-06-24 7:22 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case.
 
  I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation 7 Reasons why
 you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of
 FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say,
 slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are
 those controversial ones.
 
  I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my
 presentation breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view.
 
  However since this is not the first time asking me to remove those
 slides from my presentation and OSGeo now have CoC, I think we’d better
 discuss this issue more openly to reach conclusions.
 
  I might be wrong and I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this
 from all around the world. Also I expect Conference Committee’s input as
 well, because this is the matter of OSGeo conference.
 
  I’m open to remove/amend/keep those slides after hearing other people’s
 opinions on this. Also I believe it’ll be a great chance for OSGeo to learn
 how to apply CoC in real cases.
 
  *Sidenote for defending myself:
  - Slide #6 is the part of Salvador Dali’s well known painting named
 “Lincoln in Dalivision”[2]
  - Slide #20 is the picture of famous girl group, Girls’
 Generation(SNSD)[3], which I believe as symbolic icon of wide spread of
 Korean culture(K-Culture) in/around Asia.
 
  All the best,
 
  Sanghee
 
  [0]http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct
  [1]http://2015.foss4g.org
  [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_Dalivision
  [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation
  ---
  Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
  Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!
  http://2015.foss4g.org
  Twitter: @foss4g
  Facebook: FOSS4G2015
  email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org
 
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

[Kristin Bott]

Kathleen Danielson's talk can be found here:
http://kathleen.getcourse.com/embed.html?course=74708aa8-d180-4482-bdff-da740e27eec9#/

Recorded sessions aren't up yet, but I know Darrell is working on it.

-k.bott

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Crap - I guess this means I better set up another incubation committee
 meeting :)

 There was a great talk at foss4g about burnout (anyone got a link?). I
 always try and respect the volunteers I am working with ...

 Rant: Please remember that YOU are a volunteer you are working with,
 respect your time appropriately.
 --
 Jody

 Jody Garnett

 On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jeff McKenna 
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 Jody, your response is perfect.  I do get upset too often (or actually, I
 take quite a lot, but eventually am set off).  I apologize for this, I will
 try to be better.  I am slowly improving.  But I could be better.

 To get myself back on track, I decided a few minutes ago (mentioned on
 the Board list) by doing some little things for OSGeo right now.  And
 you'll be happy to hear that one of them is Incubation-related: give a push
 with the pycsw team for the next steps (code review etc), as I am their
 mentor.

 Thanks again for being the voice of reason Jody.  Let's all do as Jody
 says, and I am sure these tricky points will work themselves out.

 -jeff



 On 2014-09-15 4:57 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

 Well I don't like you get upset Jeff, you are correct that patches
 speak louder than emails.

 If I could put a plug in for the incubation committee - we would really
 love some more volunteers. We have a couple projects waiting to get in
 and all we need is a mentor to be a friendly voice/email contact.

 The stuff we do at OSGeo can be very intimidating (starting a steering
 committee - gasp!) or require sensitivity (trade mark conflict). Having
 a mentor to email or Skype can be of great assistance.
 --
 Jody Garnett

 On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 Why is there this sudden need to point out things like this?  This
 is the part that makes my heart drop.  (and the underlying meaning
 of the subject of this email) Instead of pointing out issues, maybe
 those making these noises can spend that time on the marketing
 committee, or tackling on the membership issue.

 I personally have no problem with LocationTech, in fact I agree they
 play a very important role for businesses.  I do have a problem
 however with pointing out problems with OSGeo and our baby, FOSS4G;
 instead of pointing out problems, I feel those same people could be
 diving into helping OSGeo grow and pick up the ball themselves.

 -jeff





 On 2014-09-15 2:56 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

 Why is this not true? I think you are misinterpreting here Jeff.

 Membership in OSGeo is a single person. Yes this person can
 belong to a company or run their own company, but membership is
 still personal.

 Bart

 Sent from my iPhone

 On 15 sep. 2014, at 19:45, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com__ wrote:

 On 2014-09-15 1:22 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
 the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in
 Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses



 Daniel this statement is not true, regarding OSGeo.  OSGeo
 members are made up of all walks of life, and many are
 running private businesses all around the world.  I have
 visited their organizations/offices myself in my FOSS4G
 travels throughout the years.

 However I cannot change how you feel.

 This part is unfortunate, these strong statements made
 publicly, which I feel are made to divide our community.

 Let me reinforce: our OSGeo community and our FOSS4G events
 (of all sizes) are geared for everyone and anyone, with no
 sole focus on one type of community.  And as the President
 of OSGeo, I am happy to represent all of the members, of any
 kind :)

 -jeff


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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2014 Live Stream

[Kristin Bott]

The FOSS4G 2014 live stream site is up: https://2014.foss4g.org/live/ [1]

Starting *at 8am PDT tomorrow, 9/10* we will be livestreaming the
conference. (Yep, everything. All at once. Eight tracks of sessions, plus
invited speakers/keynotes. Herein lies a veritable firehose of geo.)

Recordings will be archived after the conference; we'll keep you posted on
details on that front.

Hope to see you in person, or virtually, tomorrow.

cheers -
-k.bott

Kristin Bott
member, 2014 FOSS4G Organizing Committee

[1] FOSS4G Live Stream: https://2014.foss4g.org/live/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Cast your votes! FOSS4G Map Gallery is live...

[Kristin Bott]

The 2014 FOSS4G Map Gallery (https://2014.foss4g.org/map-gallery/) [1] is
now live, featuring 88 maps for your cartographic enjoyment. We need your
input to award the 2014 People's Choice Award. (Yes, anyone can vote!)

After you have appreciated the work of your maptastic colleagues, share
your sharp-but-sweet critical eyes and your strong opinions to help us pick
the 2014 People’s Choice Award. To examine a map more closely and/or cast a
vote for it as a personal favorite, click on the map; a vote option will
appear in the lower right hand corner of the map. (Clicking on a map will
also allow you to view the map in different sizes and formats, by clicking
More.)

We will announce the recipients of the awards at the Gala Night (Thursday,
11 Sept); for now, you can learn more about the categories and our fabulous
judges. (https://2014.foss4g.org/map-gallery/map-gallery-awards/) [2]

Thanks for your input, and may the best maps win.

-k.bott

[1] https://2014.foss4g.org/map-gallery/
[2] https://2014.foss4g.org/map-gallery/map-gallery-awards/
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