[OSGeo-Discuss] Geoff Zeiss

[Peter Batty via Discuss]

I wanted to share the sad news that Geoff Zeiss passed away last week.
Geoff was involved in the founding of OSGeo in 2005-6 and was a former
board member. He contributed a huge amount to the geospatial industry and
was just a great person. He will be greatly missed.

https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/geoffrey-zeiss-1086231686
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteering for the OSGeo Booth in Nottingham

[Peter Batty]

Hi Jeff, and all, I think it might be good to prioritize times when there
aren't conference sessions going on ... lunchtimes and end of day after the
sessions end. I suspect that during the sessions there won't be many people
around at the booths, and I imagine many of the other booths will not be
manned all day (that was how it was at Denver). If anyone has time to check
the conference schedule against the booth slots and highlight the priority
times that would be cool - maybe we should even re-align the time slots a
bit as it would probably make sense for people to take a full lunch slot or
end of day slot (rather than needing to fill two slots to get coverage over
a given lunchtime).

I'm tied up at work today but can have a look at the wiki over the weekend
if people think this approach makes sense (if nobody's got to it before
then). I'll sign up for a slot or two once I get a minute to look at the
program etc!

Cheers,
Peter.


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jeff McKenna <
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> If you will be attending FOSS4G-Nottingham please consider to help out
> at the OSGeo Booth, by signing up for a time slot here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_OSGeo_Booth#Signup_Schedule
>
> Additionally, if you have materials to bring, give a read to that page
> and make a note in the 'Equipment' or 'Handouts' section.
>
> Thanks everyone, for your teamwork!
>
> -jeff
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Member Nominations starting

[Peter Batty]

I will not be standing for re-election to the board, and have updated the
wiki. I will continue to be a member of the conference committee. I've
enjoyed my time on the board, and wish the current and incoming board
members well in moving OSGeo forward.

Cheers,
Peter.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Daniel Morissette
wrote:

> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Election_2013#Board_Election<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2013#Board_Election>indicates
>  that Peter Batty, Michael Gerlek, Mark Lucas and Jáchym Čepický
> are at the end of their term. It would be great if they could confirm
> whether they are interested in standing for re-election for another term.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 13-08-05 8:20 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>
>> Dear OSGeo,
>> the nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors has started. Please
>> take a minute to understand what the board actually does:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Director_Responsibilities<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities>
>>
>> A director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo business
>> in order to do a good job. The current board members will know best.
>> Maybe you could please also look over this page and add things that are
>> on your agenda but are not well reflected on this Wiki page.
>>
>>
>> To nominate a candidate for the board please first confirm with the
>> person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
>> Then send an email to c...@osgeo.org by 23:59 (your time zone) on Tuesday
>> 20 August 2013 consisting of the name, current country of residence and
>> a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board
>> member.
>>
>> Remember that only Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the Board
>> and for voting but that *anybody* can *nominate* a board member.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Your Chief Returning Officers,
>> Michael and Arnulf
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on
the organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time
but I do know there was a high number of workshops that were submitted, so
unfortunately half the submitters are going to be disappointed and think
that the committee made the wrong the choice.

Barry also stated that he wasn't involved in workshop selection, so you
really shouldn't all be reading lots into his side comment that the
workshops present good value - my interpretation is that was just a general
comment that was Barry's opinion and nothing to do with selection criteria.

Also the reality is that there are so many submissions that you can't give
specific reasons to everyone who was rejected why they didn't make it -
this would hugely increase the already large amount of time that all these
volunteers are putting into creating a FOSS4G event, and make a difficult
process even more difficult.

Just a few thoughts as a previous organizer :)

Cheers,
Peter.



On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Jeroen Ticheler  wrote:

> I concur with Markus.
> I was also surprised to see none of our GeoNetwork related workshops
> represented although they were always well received at previous
> conferences. It would have been nice if we'd had feedback on the reasoning
> behind that. Considering about half the national INSPIRE geospatial
> catalogs in Europe run on the product I consider it a relevant OSGeo
> product. Reading the thread, I note we should also put up a page with high
> GeoNetwork workshop fees instead of always providing them for free at
> FOSS4G conferences. I may actually start to consider that ;-)
> Jeroen
>
> On 10 mei 2013, at 10:12, Markus Neteler  wrote:
>
> > On 5/10/13, Barry Rowlingson  wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the
> >>> workshops were chosen.
> >>> I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of
> >>> "double" or even "triple" workshops.
> >
> > Yes, surprising also for me.
> >
> >>> Given the few available slots, I would have expected more
> >>> differentiation.
> >>>
> >>> Would be really keen to understand the process, if there is a simple
> >>> way to do so.
> >>
> >> The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee
> >> - I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list
> >> and personally to you two if that's necessary.
> >>
> >> The balance looks quite good to me, where there is duplication it
> >> seems to be different aspects of the same project - Postgis Intro and
> >> Postgis 3d have different audiences, for example. Its possible that
> >> other projects weren't represented in the proposals which would
> >> explain their absence.
> >
> > While I submitted an advanced GRASS GIS 7 workshop, I didn't even
> > receive a 'your proposal was not considered' notification.
> > A bit sad for a cofounder of OSGeo and participant of the first ever
> > FOSS4G Conf 2004 in Bangkok.
> >
> >> There are a few workshops from OpenGeo, but if
> >> you go to their website and see how much they charge for commercial
> >> training, you might see this as us giving people the opportunity to
> >> get some great training cheaply from some great trainers.
> >
> > ... well, not a convincing argument.
> >
> >> Anyway, our Workshop Team will address these issues later.
> >
> > Better sooner :)
> >
> > Markus
> > (FOSS4G trainer since 1996)
> >
> >> Barry
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?

[Peter Batty]

Cameron, as you know I am supportive of having a cookbook which as others
have said is a guide not a rulebook. In doing FOSS4G Denver, despite the
lessons learned wikis and plenty of good advice from various members of the
community, there were quite a few occasions where we (the LOC) missed
something or misunderstood something, and we felt we were reinventing a lot
of things. I think more of a checklist would be very helpful - things that
should be done when you're starting up the effort, what should be done a
year out, six months out, etc (and again there will be variations of
course, including the event size - the main global event is generally
planned further in advance than smaller regional events, etc).

So count me in for contributing.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Cameron Shorter
wrote:

> Jeff,
> I think Stephen summarises the intent of the cookbook well as a guide
> rather than a mandate.
> I see it also as a way to expand what you have been doing individually
> (collecting collective knowledge) into a self help which is not limited by
> the time constraints of one person. Initially when there was only 1 foss4g
> event per year it was possible for one person to be the core driver, but we
> now have scores of events per year.
>
> Bob,
> I'd anticipate there being subheading in the Cookbook for using the
> LiveDVD at FOSS4G events.
>
>
> On 7/09/2012 1:00 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Related to this, I've been wondering about how to go about setting up a
>> business specific LiveDVD.  Is there a possible synergy to be had with a
>> recipe derived DVD (collection?) ??.
>>
>> Bobb
>>
>>
>>
>>-Original Message-
   From: 
 discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.**org[mailto:
 discuss-
   boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
   Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:43 AM
   To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
   Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?
 Hello,
 I think the 'cookbook' is a great idea! It is about capturing our
   collective knowledge and experience, it not about limiting
   creativity or change. Just like in software when you have an
   individual contributor that has passion, vision and drive can
   create wonderful things, you also have to help the other
   contributors that are not so visionary to do a good job. The
   'cookbook' gives us a recipe for success, it is the basic stuff
   that you need to know to get the job done successfully. To
   continue with the analogy a visionary chef looks at the recipe
   and changes it to suit his creative talents.
 So it all depends on whether we "require" people to only follow
   the recipe or we use it as a guideline for people that are
   volunteering to help but may not have had past experience to get
   things done correctly.
 The cookbook is a great idea in my opinion.
 -Steve W
 On 9/6/2012 10:14 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
   > Hello Cameron,
   >
   > Making sure that a transfer of knowledge happens from one
   FOSS4G local
   > committee to the next is something that I've championed for a
   very
   > long time now - it is a thankless invisible task that not many
   are
   > aware is happening (archiving documents, pinging committee
   members
   > over and over to openly archive documents and logos and files,
   making
   > sure such critical parts of FOSS4G are kept - ribbon in logo,
   t-shirts
   > for attendees, hands-on workshops - to the point that local
   committees
   > kind of become annoyed with me).
   >
   > My vision of FOSS4G (credit here to original "FOSS4G Heroes"
   such as
   > Venka and Markus of course) has always been very simple: to
   spread the
   > Open Source Geospatial passion all around the world.  It has
   not been
   > about money or politics.  The result has been FOSS4G local
   committees
   > are free to take this passion and mold it into their own
   vision.
   > Events such as FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008 are proof of this.
   >
   > I worry that such a 'cookbook' will hinder this open passion
   and
   > vision for a local committee.
   >
   > The first drafts of such a cookbook came many years ago from
   Paul
   > Ramsey, from his 2007 experiences.  Since then I've heard
   rumblings
   > from Arnulf, Cameron and others.
   >
   > I guess it is time for such guidelines.  For sure we need a
   conference
   > Content Management System internal to OSGeo that is required
   for all
   > FOSS4G local committees to use (not external systems such as
   > Basecamp); this is critical.
   >
   >
   > -jeff
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   > On 12-09-05 7:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
   >> In an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Sol Katz award

[Peter Batty]

Hi all, as I said in my email yesterday, I had an open mind about what to
do and just wanted to put various options out there to get some feedback.

At the board meeting yesterday we agreed that we would still make the Sol
Katz award this year regardless, details still to be worked out in terms of
how/when/where the award will be given.

There will be a longer communication from the board regarding FOSS4G that
we'll get out by next week, reiterating the strengths of regional FOSS4Gs
and the fact that plans are well advanced for a great event in Nottingham
in 2013.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:

> +1
> The Sol Katz award is given each
> year, and has little to do with the person being there or not, or even
> what event it is at.  We didn't create this award so it can be given in
> some years and not in other years.
> Ravi Kumar
>
>
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> *To:* bo...@lists.osgeo.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:30 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] Thoughts on FOSS4G
>
> Hello Peter and the Board,
>
> I feel I must comment on this, so my comments are line below:
>
> On 12-07-12 11:35 AM, Peter Batty wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am aiming to attend the board meeting today but have various other
> > commitments that I'm trying to juggle. In case I don't make it, and just
> > to get the ball rolling, here are a few thoughts on follow ups from the
> > FOSS4G cancellation.
> >
> > I think we should put out some sort of communication from the board
> > about this - we can decide the exact forums, at least something to OSGeo
> > lists and on the OSGeo web site, probably get it to some media outlets
> > too. Unless someone else wants to volunteer, I'd be happy to draft
> > something based on discussion at today's meeting and any input anyone
> > else sends, and send that round for review.
>
> I agree, in fact I did send the LOC a public response right away.  It is
> important to not be negative at all, and thank them for all of their
> effort in this.
>
> I am also working with Venka (who is also a professor at CUMTB
> university in Beijing, his influence is strong there as well) and Dr.
> Song, both LOC members, to make sure we continue the FOSS4G passion there.
>
> >
> > A few points I would probably include something along the following
> lines:
> >
> > We are disappointed but not surprised that FOSS4G Beijing has been
> > cancelled. We have known for some time, as has anyone who follows the
> > OSGeo conference or board public mailing lists, that the local committee
> > was facing various challenges. But we wanted to give them the maximum
> > chance to try to pull together an event.
> >
> > FOSS4G has been successful being a truly global conference, taking a
> > major event around the world with most of the work done by local
> > volunteers. We've had great success with this approach, with great
> > events in Sydney, Cape Town, etc. But this approach has its risks too,
> > and we'll review our strategy in the light of what happened this year to
> > see what we can do to mitigate those risks. (I can see various ways of
> > approaching this section, definitely open to suggestions).
>
> The same negative thoughts circled before such amazingly successful
> events such as Sydney and Cape Town.  Yes there are risks, but we must
> take risks to spread the FOSS4G passion to other areas of the globe.
>
> >
> > But FOSS4G remains strong. The 2011 event in Denver was the largest yet,
> > with 900 people from 42 countries and great reviews. And plans for 2013
> > in Nottingham are already very advanced, we have a very strong team
> > organizing that and are looking forward to a great event there.
>
> Indeed the FOSS4G brand has never been so strong.  It is really all
> around the world.
>
> >
> > FOSS4G has also evolved into multiple regional events in addition to the
> > global one. We have had multiple successful FOSS4G events already this
> > year with NA and CEE, and Japan to come (include some info on number of
> > attendees etc).
>
> The FOSS4G-Japan event was a great success this year, it happened last
> month.  FOSS4G-India plans are in the works as well.  Really great times
> for the FOSS4G brand.
>
> >
> > A few thoughts that are probably outside this external communication:
> >
> > I think we should review our future strategy for FOSS4G in terms of
> > location rotation, global versus local, how it is organized, etc. But I
> > don't think there's a huge rush on this. We have a solid plan for 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 presentations

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

As Nicolas said, there are videos for most of the presentations at fosslc.
We also have slide materials from speakers who sent them in (roughly half I
would estimate). Unfortunately we still haven't got to posting those on the
web site, everyone involved has been busy and this slipped between the
cracks. If anyone would like to volunteer to help with that let me know, I
can point you in the right direction!

Cheers,
 Peter.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:07 AM, nicolas bozon wrote:

> Hello Ravi,
>
> Strangely this is not available on the OSGeo website, but some of the
> FOSS4G 2011 presentation videos (not all unfortunatelly) are available here:
>
> http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/category/event/foss4g2011
>
> According to this post:
> http://2011.foss4g.org/content/foss4g-follow
> there should be some of the presentations available on the foss4g 2011
> website or on SlideShare too, but i don't really know where all the PDFs
> are, sorry.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Best
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/3/26 Ravi Kumar 
>
>> Hi,
>> Please give links to FOSS4G 2011
>> presentations
>>
>> like earlier FOSS4G hope we have them on the web
>> Ravi Kumar
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G updates

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

A few updates on FOSS4G. Today is the final day to pre-register, so if
you've been wavering, hurry up and do it! We will have onsite registration
too, opening early Monday morning.

We've added a page to the web site on how to get to the conference and get
around in general:
http://2011.foss4g.org/content/getting-here

We've also added a cool interactive map using OpenStreetMap data and a
variety of open source tools at
http://2011.foss4g.org/content/foss4g-map

This was done by my friend and colleague Jason Sanford and he talks about
how he did it at
http://geojason.info/2011/the-2011-foss4g-map/
... it's a nice intro to a few of the newer open source tools out there.

Directions Magazine has coverage on FOSS4G today too:
http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/what-to-expect-at-foss4g-2011/197868

Looking forward to seeing lots of you in Denver next week!

Cheers,
Peter.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Local-chapters] OSGeo AGM on Friday September 16th

[Peter Batty]

Hi Maning,

Anyone is welcome to attend the OSGeo AGM, you don't need to register for
the conference. So hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Peter.

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:24 AM, maning sambale
wrote:

> I cannot attend the foss4g  but will be in Denver for OSM's State of
> the Map.  I am very interested to learn more about what the local
> chapters in other countries are doing as we start organizing our own
> in the Philippines.  Is the AGM still part of the conference?  Do I
> still need to register to the conf to attend the AGM/local chapter
> lighnitng talks?
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) 
> wrote:
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> > Dear Members of OSGeo,
> > we will have our OSGeo Annual General Meeting on Friday, September 16th
> > from 4 to 5 pm in the Grand Ballroom, right after the Closing Plenary of
> > the conference. The AGM will be a firework of lightning talks by the
> > Local Chapters, officers, chairs and members highlighting their
> > achievements within OSGeo in the last year and the objectives for the
> > next. Other than the typical AGM[1] it will be rather informal and fun.
> > The latter depends a lot on your participation which is why we send out
> > this email to remind you that this is your chance to speak up about what
> > you have done for OSGeo and how you achieved it. The goal is to learn
> > from each other and to better understand the scope of OSGeo and where we
> > can still improve it. This will also be valuable input for the board of
> > directors who will meet on Sunday for their annual face to face meeting
> > to decide how to realize all of these objectives.
> >
> > If you are interested in presenting please add yourself to this Wiki
> > list [2] and prepare a talk no longer than !four! minutes. That is 225
> > seconds of talking (the missing 14 seconds are for breathing and
> > switching to the next speaker). The rule is first come first serve with
> > final arbitration and ordering by the moderator (me). We will not be
> > able to allow for any overrun so please check your talk against the
> clock.
> >
> > If you have questions or doubts please feel free to ask on this list (or
> > contact me directly).
> >
> > If you are in a Local Chapter please make sure that at least your
> > representative is subscribed to the Local Chapters mailing list [3].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Arnulf Christl
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_general_meeting
> > [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2011
> > [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Handouts for FOSS4G presentation?

[Peter Batty]

Hi Steve, have just been having another conversation on this.

We (FOSS4G) are planning to have handouts for the workshops but not regular
presentations. If you want to do something yourself that's fine but my
inclination would be to put something online.

We will be recording presentations (slides plus audio) using FOSSLC and will
have those online afterwards. We also plan to have a way to put slides (or
handouts) online, we're just discussing a couple of options and will let you
know what we decide shortly.

If you have any other questions let me know.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Stephen Woodbridge  wrote:

> Does anyone know what the process is for handouts for FOSS4G presentations?
> Is the conference making copies for the audience? Do the presenters need to
> make copies? How do we know how many to make if we need to do this?
>
> Is the conference collecting presentations to put online or to publish? Who
> should we get the presentation to? in what format? by when?
>
> Sorry if this info has been already published somewhere, but I do not
> remember see it so a pointer to it would be good.
>
> Thanks,
>  Steve W
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Online registration for FOSS4G will close on September 7th (on site registration available from 12th)

[Peter Batty]

Online registration for FOSS4G 2011, including workshop enrollment, will be
available until Wednesday, September 7th at 6PM Denver local time ( -6 GMT).
On-site registration will be available starting at 7:30AM local time on
Monday, September 12th. Workshop enrollment will be available on-site as
well, subject to availability (we recommend you register in advance if
possible to ensure availability). Major credit cards--Visa, Mastercard,
American Express--will be accepted for on-site registration.


Cheers,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

[Peter Batty]

I would like to thank Tyler Mitchell for nominating me, and I am honored to
be standing with a great group of candidates, all of whom have a longer
history of involvement with OSGeo than I do, I think. I have put in a lot of
hours as FOSS4G chair over the past year though, so am trying to catch up to
some degree!

However, as a relative newcomer to open source geospatial software I feel
can bring some different attributes to the board, and I think that having a
variety of strengths and perspectives among the members of any board is a
good thing. In past lives I have been CTO at two of the top three (closed
source) geospatial software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld. This
background means that I am pretty well known in the broader geospatial
industry, so I often get invitations to do keynote talks at conferences or
contribute articles to publications, etc. This gives me a good platform to
spread the word about OSGeo, especially to audiences who are often fairly
uneducated about open source. My strong background in the closed source
world adds credibility when I tell this type of audience that they need to
look seriously at open source. This recent blog post is typical of the sort
of story I tell this kind of audience about my experience with open source:
http://bit.ly/qgI4lE. This post also talks a little more about the work I am
currently doing on development of web mapping applications for large
enterprises, especially utilities and telecoms, using various open source
products including PostGIS, MapFish and OpenLayers.

I already do this kind of outreach and will continue to do so whether or not
I'm on the board. But I think that being a board member would help add
weight to the story I could tell about open source at events like these.
Also as a board member I would like to help expand our outreach activities.
At FOSS4G this year we have a one day event for newcomers, and I think that
content and ideas from this could be packaged up and re-used elsewhere.
Earlier this year I participated with several others in delivering an open
source track at the GITA conference in the US, an established geospatial
conference that had historically been focused mainly on closed source
systems. I think we could get a much greater presence at small and large
events around the world by maintaining a set of good quality presentation
material, and a list of people interested in speaking, and proactively
reaching out to event organizers (who are usually looking for good content).

With my background and good connections in the industry I think I am also in
a good position to help attract more sponsorship / funding for OSGeo, to
help us maintain and expand our activities. My experience with FOSS4G this
year has made me think that there is more that we can and should do to help
future organizers avoid reinventing the wheel, and I would be interested in
continuing to work with Jeff McKenna, Tyler Mitchell and others on some
ideas on this area. One specific idea is to expand the Drupal based web site
we have put together for this year's FOSS4G, which with a little more effort
could handle the whole abstract submission and selection process in a much
more streamlined way than we were able to do it this year, save future
organizing teams a lot of effort and cut down the scope for errors in the
process. I also think that we should look seriously again at the idea which
has been discussed several times of having more regional FOSS4G events in
addition to the global one (though there are various things to think through
about how best to do this).

I have served on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations, including
6 years on the board of GITA, a North American organization focused on
geospatial education and conferences (who are also the conference organizers
for FOSS4G). I have also served on the boards or advisory boards of several
companies, and think I have a good ability to work with a broad range of
people and help get things done.

I appreciate your consideration of me as a candidate, and hope to see many
of you at FOSS4G in my adopted home town of Denver (I am from the UK
originally).

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
wrote:

> **
>
> With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it
> might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and
> its future direction.
>
> As a potential director:
> * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in
> order to grow?
> * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms?
> * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a
> presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org).
> * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a
> success?
> * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before?
> * Etc...
>
> I'm sure others have good questions too, but thought I'd share the ones on
> my mind based

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G program published and new web site launched

[Peter Batty]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the FOSS4G 2011 program. You
can view the program details
here.
Selection was very competitive - we had almost 300 submissions for around
150 sessions. So congratulations to those who made it, and commiserations to
those who didn't, but we hope to still see you in Denver for the conference!
We feel we have an excellent program lined up.

We have also announced our plenary
speakers.
They include several speakers new to FOSS4G, and several FOSS4G
veterans. *Michael
Byrne*, GIO of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), will talk about
their work on the National Broadband Map, which is based entirely on an open
source software stack, and implements some innovative ideas regarding open
data. *Peter Ter Haar*, Director of Products at the Ordnance Survey, the
national mapping agency of Great Britain, will talk about their experience
with open data initiatives over the past 18 months, as well as how they are
using open source. *Paul Ramsey* will talk on "Why do you do that? An
exploration of open source business models". *Steve Coast*, founder of
OpenStreetMap, will talk about the past, present and (mainly) future of
OpenStreetMap. We will have a panel on "Open x 4" discussing various aspects
of openness, chaired by *Matt Ball* and featuring *Arnulf Christl*,
President of OSGeo, *Steve Coast*, and *Carl Reed*, CTO of OGC. *Schuyler
Erle* and *Brian Timoney* have accepted the challenge of giving us a couple
of short and entertaining but also insightful presentations to close
proceedings on Wednesday and Thursday. And *Jeff McKenna* will be leading
the ever-popular web mapping performance shootout in the final session.
Check the full list  to see
all the plenary speakers.

We have also redesigned and re-implemented the web site. Nice features
include a searchable program schedule. Shortly we will also have the ability
to save items to build your own custom schedule. We have a few things still
on our to do list, so you'll see some more improvements and additions over
the next few weeks. Please let us
knowif you
have any feedback on the new website, including additional content or
features you'd like to see.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G speakers selected and program to be published shortly

[Peter Batty]

Hi Silvia, yes it is extended. We will be updating the web site today, sorry
it is not there yet. Thanks for checking, and hope to see you in Denver in
September.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Silvia Franceschi <
silvia.frances...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear Peter,
> just to be sure, is the deadline for the early registration really extended
> to June 30th?
> I checked the website (timetable) and there is still the 17th June.
>
> Thanks in advance for the reply
>
> Regards,
>
> Silvia
>
>
> On 06/08/2011 02:15 AM, Peter Batty wrote:
>
> After a lot of hard work from our program committee over the past few
> weeks, we completed the selection process today and sent out emails to
> everyone who submitted an abstract to notify them whether they were accepted
> or rejected. Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts, congratulations to
> those who were accepted and commiserations to those who weren't. We had
> almost 300 submissions for around 150 slots, so unfortunately there were
> lots of good submissions that we couldn't find a place for. We're excited
> that we have such a strong program.
>
> We're still finalizing some details on the program schedule and uploading
> everything to the web site (and re-vamping the site at the same time). We
> plan to have the program available online at http://2011.foss4g.org this
> Friday, June 10th. Since we're a little later than planned in publishing the
> program, we have also extended the early registration deadline to June 30th.
> We encourage you to register before then to get a $150 discount!
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G speakers selected and program to be published shortly

[Peter Batty]

After a lot of hard work from our program committee over the past few weeks,
we completed the selection process today and sent out emails to everyone who
submitted an abstract to notify them whether they were accepted or rejected.
Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts, congratulations to those who
were accepted and commiserations to those who weren't. We had almost 300
submissions for around 150 slots, so unfortunately there were lots of good
submissions that we couldn't find a place for. We're excited that we have
such a strong program.

We're still finalizing some details on the program schedule and uploading
everything to the web site (and re-vamping the site at the same time). We
plan to have the program available online at http://2011.foss4g.org this
Friday, June 10th. Since we're a little later than planned in publishing the
program, we have also extended the early registration deadline to June 30th.
We encourage you to register before then to get a $150 discount!

Cheers,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Notification of paper acceptance for FOSS4G running a little behind

[Peter Batty]

Hi all, we had intended to notify people of acceptance or rejection of paper
submissions for FOSS4G by last Friday, but things have been taking a little
longer than we anticipated. So please don't panic if you haven't heard
anything about your submission, nobody has! We are aiming to get everything
finished up this week, and get notifications sent and the program published
by beginning of next week. Apologies for the delay - but the good news is
that we have a great program coming together!

Cheers,
Peter.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction to geospatial open source event at FOSS4G

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

This has already been mentioned on the FOSS4G list, but I wanted to make
sure that everyone was aware that we'll be a doing a one day "introduction
to geospatial open source" event the day before the main conference starts,
in parallel with the pre-conference workshops. This will be aimed at a broad
audience, but in particular at users, developers and managers involved with
geospatial software / GIS who haven’t yet had significant involvement with
open source. It will work equally well as a standalone event, or as a way of
getting up to speed to get the most out of the full FOSS4G conference.

More details at http://2011.foss4g.org/intro-details/.

If you know of people who could benefit from this, please let them know!
We'll be publicizing it through various channels.

The event is being organized by Brian Timoney, who has previously run
several similar events locally. We have several speakers lined up already,
and we'll be looking over the abstracts submitted to the main conference
also, and may ask some people to participate based on those. If you have
suggestions or interest in participating feel free to contact Brian or
myself.

Cheers,
Peter.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G program community voting now open!

[Peter Batty]

Hi Bob,

No, there isn't a url with selection criteria. We are using the same process
as in previous years. The primary factor in selection is what the community
deems to be interesting, as indicated by the results of this poll. The
conference organizing committee uses that as input to decide on the final
program. One of the main things the committee will consider in making
adjustments is the balance of the program - we will use our judgment to
switch in or out some papers if we feel certain topics or projects are over
or under represented. And we will try to make sure there is a suitable mix
of introductory and advanced topics, etc. We've discussed selection criteria
on the committee and feel there are too many variables to be able document
anything very meaningful - it basically comes down to the judgment of the
committee, who represent a wide range of experience and backgrounds.

In previous years the poll results haven't been published, just the final
list of papers accepted by the committee, and this is our plan for this year
also. It's already a very difficult and time consuming task for the
committee to select (approximately) 120 papers from 300 very strong
submissions, even with the input from the community vote (which is something
unique to FOSS4G among conferences I've been involved with). So in common
with other conferences, we really can't afford to give individual feedback
or get into discussions with the 180 disappointed submitters on why they
weren't selected, that's just not going to be practical. I think that
publishing the vote results, which are the primary factor but still just
part of the evaluation, would would raise more questions than answers and
make the committee's job harder than it already is.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Peter.


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> Hi Peter,
>
>
>
> Can you tell me if there is a url where I can find the selection criteria?
>  Will we be able to see the results of this poll?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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>
>
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>
>
> Hi all,
>
> In response to a question I received, I wanted to let everyone know that
> papers that were submitted for the academic track only go through a separate
> review process and are not included in the community voting. A few abstracts
> were submitted for consideration in both the academic track and the regular
> program, and those are included in the community voting.
>
> Cheers,
>  Peter.
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter Batty  wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The community voting system is now open for FOSS4G 2011, at
> http://community-review.foss4g.org/ . Please try to take some time to
> review the abstracts and indicate your level of interest in each. The
> conference committee will use the results of the vote to help choose which
> presentations to accept, and to assign appropriately sized rooms based on
> level of interest. Voting will be open this week and next, closing on May
> 8th.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G program community voting now open!

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

In response to a question I received, I wanted to let everyone know that
papers that were submitted for the academic track only go through a separate
review process and are not included in the community voting. A few abstracts
were submitted for consideration in both the academic track and the regular
program, and those are included in the community voting.

Cheers,
 Peter.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter Batty  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The community voting system is now open for FOSS4G 2011, at
> http://community-review.foss4g.org/ . Please try to take some time to
> review the abstracts and indicate your level of interest in each. The
> conference committee will use the results of the vote to help choose which
> presentations to accept, and to assign appropriately sized rooms based on
> level of interest. Voting will be open this week and next, closing on May
> 8th.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G program community voting now open!

[Peter Batty]

Hi everyone,

The community voting system is now open for FOSS4G 2011, at
http://community-review.foss4g.org/ . Please try to take some time to review
the abstracts and indicate your level of interest in each. The conference
committee will use the results of the vote to help choose which
presentations to accept, and to assign appropriately sized rooms based on
level of interest. Voting will be open this week and next, closing on May
8th.

Cheers,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Final reminder: deadline for FOSS4G abstracts is imminent!

[Peter Batty]

Hi everyone,

One last reminder that the call for papers for FOSS4G closes this Friday,
April 15th. Thanks to all who have submitted already, if you haven't got
your abstract in yet I encourage you to do so!

http://2011.foss4g.org/presentations/

Cheers,
Peter.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 call for papers reminder

[Peter Batty]

Hello everyone,

This is just a friendly reminder that the call for papers for FOSS4G 2011 in
Denver closes on April 15, so you have a little over two weeks to get
abstracts in. The call for presentations is at
http://2011.foss4g.org/presentations/.

In case you haven't seen them yet, we already have a great lineup of
workshops and tutorials scheduled, for more information see
http://2011.foss4g.org/workshops/.

Cheers,
Peter.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

[Peter Batty]

Dave, there's a (non open source) augmented reality application for the
iPhone and Android that shows you what peaks you are looking at through your
phone camera.
http://peakar.salzburgresearch.at/

They say that all the data they use comes from OpenStreetMap (see the FAQ).

Not sure if this is solely using the compass or whether it does image
recognition also.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Dave Patton  wrote:

> On 2011/03/28 1:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>
>> Consider the following hypothetical problem:
>>
>> Assume we have a good elevation data set for a large region of the earth
>> --
>> say, an entire mountain range.  Now let's say we have a photograph taken
>> from the ground, the horizon of which shows the profile of a couple of the
>> mountains in that range.  Can you tell me where the photograph was taken
>> from?
>>
>
> Something I've been interested in is sort of the
> reverse problem - knowing where a photograph was
> taken(e.g. you have a GPS waypoint), and maybe
> even a bearing (e.g. from a compass), can you
> tell me what mountains are in the photograph?
>
> Because of the potential viewscape, having good
> elevation data for "an entire mountain range"
> may not be sufficient. For example:
> http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/photos/boise2.jpg
> That was taken On the Pinecone Lake Trail, near
> Squamish, B.C., Canada. The view looks past Hopefull
> Meadows over the Boise Valley, with Mount Baker
> (Washington State, USA) in the distance.
>
> --
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> CIS Canadian Information Systems
> Victoria, B.C.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 registration is now open

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

Registration for FOSS4G 2011 is now open, and we've posted some new details
about the overall program and social events: http://bit.ly/fDcc3k

Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone have an idea of what the registration fees will be for the FOSS4G conference?

[Peter Batty]

Hi Bob, I have a pretty good idea :), we are due to publish them very
shortly, watch this space. They will be comparable to last year, a little
lower for most options. The early conference registration is currently
planned to be US $499, will confirm that and get the rest of the price list
(for workshops etc) out within the next week or so.

Cheers,
Peter.

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>  Thanks
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Denver Call for Papers is open

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

In case you haven't seen, the call for papers for FOSS4G Denver is now open,
for both the regular and academic tracks. The deadline for submissions is
April 15th for the regular track and April 1st for the academic track. For
more details see:

http://2011.foss4g.org/blog/2011/2/3/call-for-presentations-under-way.html

Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] REMINDER: Call for Workshops/Tutorials for FOSS4G2011

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

Unfortunately the way the abstract submission for workshops was set up there
is no automatic email confirmation. We are sorting this out for the next
round of abstract submissions, for papers. In the mean time, if you
submitted a workshop proposal you should receive a confirmation email from
someone on the workshop committee by end of today. If you don't, please
email Ben, Jeff and me and we will check for you.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, andrea antonello <
andrea.antone...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there, same question here.
> One submits and there is no preview, no prompt, not notification email.
> Is there a way to be sure?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Alex Borrell 
> wrote:
> > Jeff, is there a list of workshops and tutorials received? How do I know
> > if you got any proposal?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alex Borrell
> > Mexico
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jeff McKenna
> >  wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a quick update that we haven't received many abstracts for
> >> workshops or tutorials yet, and the deadline is the 30th.  So please
> >> head to the online form to submit: http://2011.foss4g.org/workshops
> >>
> >> Also, an important note is that if your workshop submission is not
> >> accepted as a workshop, it will be considered for as a tutorial instead.
> >>
> >> -Workshop Committee 2011
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> **
> >> Denver, CO, USA. 14 January 2011. The Free and Open Source Software for
> >> Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce the Call for
> >> Workshops and Tutorials for the 2011 conference, being held September 12
> >> - 16, 2011, in Denver, CO, USA. FOSS4G is the premier international
> >> conference focused on open source geospatial software. Users and
> >> developers are encouraged to present their latest projects and software
> >> to demonstrate the power of open source geospatial solutions through a
> >> series of workshop sessions and tutorial presentations. Sessions may
> >> cover systems that are solely open source, or a combination of open and
> >> closed source solutions.
> >>
> >> Workshops
> >> -
> >>
> >> Workshops are 3 hour hands-on experiences with participants following
> >> along with the instructor, working directly with the application under
> >> discussion. All workshop rooms will be equipped a projector, and with
> >> computers for participants to use. Instructors will need to discuss
> >> pre-installation requirements with the Conference Organizing Committee
> >> if required.
> >>
> >> Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with
> >> past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of
> >> presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop.
> >> Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to
> >> take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs, etc. Due to
> >> the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop, instructors
> >> will receive a single complimentary registration to the conference for
> >> delivering a workshop.
> >>
> >> Tutorials
> >> -
> >>
> >> Tutorials are 90 minute sessions during the regular presentations
> >> portion of the conference. Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with
> >> computers. However, presenters may make use of delegate laptops and the
> >> FOSS4G LiveDVD. Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials. Any
> >> hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the
> >> presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description.
> >> Presenters making use of the LiveDVD will be expected to contribute to
> >> testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is properly
> >> installed. To discuss your requirements for LiveDVD, please contact the
> >> LiveDVD community: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us
> >>
> >> Topics of Interest
> >> --
> >>
> >> All submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be
> >> shown in the following topics:
> >>
> >>* Practical Introductions to FOSS4G software
> >>* Interoperability / Spatial Data Infrastructure
> >>* Integration between open and closed source solutions
> >>* Free and open geospatial data
> >>* Performance tuning
> >>
> >> Application form
> >> 
> >>
> >> Follow this link to submit your proposals:
> >> http://2011.foss4g.org/workshops Please add a 300 word abstract, in
> >> plain text format (pasting a text with style markup could make the
> >> process fail). The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is
> >> January 30.
> >>
> >> Communication
> >> -
> >>
> >> All workshop and tutorial applicants are encouraged to use the workshop
> >> mailing list to ask questions to the workshop committee:
> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops
> >>
> >> General FOSS4G 2011 questions and discussion should occur on the main
> >> conference mailing list:
> >> http://list

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Denver sponsor benefits update

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,


We received feedback from several people that this year's sponsor benefits
offered fewer conference passes than last year's. This was a mistake and we
have updated the brochure to bring this benefit in line with last year. You
can download the updated brochure from the same location:

http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2011/documents/FOSS4G2011DenverSponsorship.pdf


Thanks to those who spotted this!


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Denver update: sponsorship, logo, web site

[Peter Batty]

Hi Adrian, some good questions here and a good list of items for us to
consider. I have my own thoughts on all of them but would like to discuss
with the rest of the organizing team a little more before responding - will
get back to you sometime early in the new year.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Adrian Custer  wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 09:31 -0700, Peter Batty wrote:
> > The organizing committee has been working away on various tasks for
> > next September’s FOSS4G conference in Denver. We now have sponsorship
> > details sorted out – you can download the brochure at
> > http://bit.ly/gbWbey (PDF). We are offering a 10% discount for any
> > sponsors who commit by the end of January.
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> Thanks to all of you for your work on FOSS4g2011!
>
> Some questions below about whether you have settled on an explicit focus
> for your conference. It seems your choices during your organization work
> will invariably influence the nature of this conference as mainly either
> a gathering of free software hackers for fun and cooperation or as a
> platform for those of us vending our software projects. I wonder how
> much thinking and conscious decision making you have made on this issue.
>
> Will there be any limits on talks from the same organization, from the
> same vendor, or from members of the organizing and selection committees?
> In particular, how does this work in that sponsors at the
> $most_precious_metal sponsorship level are already guaranteed one slot?
>
> Also, are talk proposals once again going to be submitted to a
> popularity vote? In my analysis, that resulted in getting many talks
> from the well known projects and well known personalities rather than
> getting a wide distribution of talks favouring the, possibly whacky,
> smaller projects. All are interesting, of course, but lead to a
> different flavour for the gathering so I am wondering what you are
> hoping to produce.
>
> Thanks for the clarification,
>  ~adrian
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > We also have a winner in our logo contest, which you can see at our
> > web site which is now up at http://2011.foss4g.org/. We had over 800
> > votes in total, thanks to everyone who voted! The logo design was an
> > interesting process. Creating a logo is always tricky because you have
> > as many different opinions as people involved in the process! We used
> > a site called crowdspring, as you will know if you voted – multiple
> > people compete to create your logo, which we found worked very well.
> > And then they also have a voting process you can use if you like,
> > which I found very helpful to choose a winner from the multiple good
> > entries.
> >
> >
> >
> > And as mentioned above, our web site is now up and running - it will
> > have a lot more content added to it over the coming weeks. But check
> > out the timetable leading up to the conference – some significant
> > items coming up are the call for workshops which will be out in mid
> > January, and the call for papers which will be out at the beginning of
> > February.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter.
> >
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Denver update: sponsorship, logo, web site

[Peter Batty]

The organizing committee has been working away on various tasks for next
September’s FOSS4G conference in Denver. We now have sponsorship details
sorted out – you can download the brochure at http://bit.ly/gbWbey (PDF). We
are offering a 10% discount for any sponsors who commit by the end of
January.



We also have a winner in our logo contest, which you can see at our web site
which is now up at http://2011.foss4g.org/. We had over 800 votes in total,
thanks to everyone who voted! The logo design was an interesting process.
Creating a logo is always tricky because you have as many different opinions
as people involved in the process! We used a site called crowdspring, as you
will know if you voted – multiple people compete to create your logo, which
we found worked very well. And then they also have a voting process you can
use if you like, which I found very helpful to choose a winner from the
multiple good entries.



And as mentioned above, our web site is now up and running - it will have a
lot more content added to it over the coming weeks. But check out the
timetable leading up to the conference – some significant items coming up
are the call for workshops which will be out in mid January, and the call
for papers which will be out at the beginning of February.


Cheers,

Peter.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Foss4g sponsorship question

[Peter Batty]

Hi all,

The sponsorship information will be ready very shortly (should be within a
week). The deadline for the early sponsorship discount will be end of
January 2011, not beginning, so that people can have the choice to take the
money out of 2010 or 2011 budgets. Thanks for your interest, and if you have
any questions in the short term feel free to contact me directly.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Ames  wrote:

> Great question! I'd potentially be an early sponsor too, but need more
> detail. - Dan
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Jeroen Ticheler <
> jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi FOSS4G organizers,
>> I read there's a discount for early sponsors when committing before 1
>> january 2011. But there's no document telling us how and how expensive this
>> is... Time is running out :-(
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Sponsor_Page
>>
>> Cheers, Jeroen
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Please help us choose the logo for FOSS4G 2011 in Denver

[Peter Batty]

Hi everyone,

Please take a moment to review our contenders for the FOSS4G 2011 logo, and
vote for your favorites. More info at
http://geothought.blogspot.com/2010/12/help-us-choose-logo-for-foss4g-2011.html.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Towns listing

[Peter Batty]

You can try geonames: go to http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ and
download NZ.zip.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter  wrote:

> If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and
> district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these, but
> all are going to take lots of cleaning up.
>
> Cheers.
>
> P.
>
> Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population:
>
>
> http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx
>
> Local authoritys
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand
>
> Towns
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand
>
> Stats Meshblocks
>
> http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] offline maps

[Peter Batty]

The terms of service prohibit offline caching of Google Maps tiles. This is
one major advantage of OpenStreetMap, which does permit you to do this.

The terms are at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html

Relevant items are:

You must not ...


   10.3 pre-fetch, cache, or store any Content, except that you may store
   limited amounts of Content for the purpose of improving the performance of
   your Maps API Implementation if you do so temporarily, securely, and in a
   manner that does not permit use of the Content outside of the Service;

   10.6 use the Service in a manner that gives you or any other person
   access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content, including but not
   limited to numerical latitude or longitude coordinates, imagery, and visible
   map data;


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> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Arnie Shore  wrote:
> > A semi-minor point, re " ... Google prohibits offline caching of their
> data.
> > ... ":  Not axactly.  The major TOU restriction is that their images may
> be
> > used *only* with their API.
>
> Possibly. I haven't studied their terms in detail because I haven't
> run into a situation where I would violate them. But, yes, one should
> do their own due diligence on what is allowed and what is not.
>
> Anyway, the original thread is on how to make maps and data available
> without Internet access. I hope the OP now has enough information to
> know this is possible and relatively not-that-difficult.
>
> >
> > OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
> > code.
> >
> > AS
> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: "git" like for geodata management [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Peter Batty]

Hi,

Yes Smallworld did a lot of innovation in the area of version management and
long transactions some 20 years ago, I was quite involved in all that. The
technical paper you mention is at archive.org, a great resource for finding
web pages that have disappeared!
http://web.archive.org/web/20080519210011/http://cfis.savagexi.com/pages/technical_paper_4

This paper, which I was a co-author of, talks about long transactions as
well as query architectures:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070828091638/cfis.savagexi.com/pages/technical_paper_8

The whole list of Smallworld technical papers is at
http://web.archive.org/web/20080519210016/cfis.savagexi.com/pages/technical_papers

ESRI, Oracle and others adopted a number of the version management ideas
that Smallworld pioneered, but (IMHO) still don't have nearly as robust an
implementation as Smallworld does. If anyone has questions on this area, I'm
happy to try to answer them. If you're not familiar with Smallworld, there's
a bit more background on my blog at http://bit.ly/cDUid1

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:55 AM, STEPHEN STANTON wrote:

>
> I'm a bit surprised no-one mentions Smallworld. Weren't they at the
> forefront of version management almost 20 years ago?
>
> The following link to an interesting technical paper isn't currently
> working, but maybe it'll come back later:
> http://cfis.savagexi.com/pages/technical_paper_4
>
> Steve
>
> > On 09/24/2010 01:40 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> > > Ragi,
> > >
> > > I agree. I think that we have a way to go yet to have
> > something
> > > comparable to the ArcSDE / ArcGIS Multi-versioning and
> > version conflict
> > > detection functionality.
> > >
> > > The advantage that the ArcSDE solution has is that
> > edits are made
> > > directly within the database. This works well within
> > an Enterprise
> > > environment as described by Fabio earlier in this
> > thread.
> > >
> > > I may be wrong, but I think that git works on files,
> > but I haven’t used
> > > it myself. Can git detect changes to the spatial
> > representation of a
> > > feature within a binary file?
> > >
> > > Also, speaking as someone who implemented an
> > ArcSDE/ArcGIS
> > > Multi-versioned edit scenario several years ago, the
> > ESRI solution is
> > > far from perfect. It imposes very strict environment
> > management on the
> > > system managers, e.g.:
> > >
> > > * All versions of the software
> > used (client and server) must be at
> > >   precisely the same
> > version, service pack and patch;
> > > * The environment can only use
> > software that implements the
> > >   ArcObjects environment
> > (from experience, this rules out the use of
> > >   the ArcSDE Java and C
> > API’s);
> > > * Editors must be well trained
> > and knowledgeable in using both
> > >   ArcGIS and
> > Multi-versioned processes;
> > > * The Organisation needs to
> > think through their maintenance
> > >   processes to get best
> > advantage of the functionality; and
> > > * It doesn’t remove the need
> > for data maintenance people to talk to
> > >   each other about work
> > that is going on, as the software cannot
> > >   resolve all conflicts.
> > For example, if two editors make changes to
> > >   the spatial
> > representation of a feature, which one is correct? The
> > >   software will detect
> > the conflict, but the editors (or their
> > >   managers) will need to
> > resolve the issue of which version of the
> > >   feature’s spatial
> > representation is correct.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bruce
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

[Peter Batty]

Simon, been out for the evening and going to bed shortly! But you can get
more info on the shape file loader here:
http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.4/ch04.html#id2537558

Good luck!

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
 wrote:

>  Peter,
>
> Trying the QGIS+Grass option now. Lets see how that goes - experiences to
> date put into the same 'steep learning curve' category but I try it again
> using Giovanni's instructions. I will post my experiences about trying to
> get this to work.
>
>  Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au>
>
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
> Thanks for sticking with it, and also reporting on your pain, Simon.
> Knowing where your pain is will help us lower it for those in your
> train.
>
> P
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty
> Ltd)  
>  wrote:
>
>
>  Peter,
>
> Sort of answered my own question. Found the EXE in the binary directory of
> PostgreSQL.
>
> Tried to get the program to work but I could not get the file to import the
> shapefile into a database. I will need to spend more time working on coming
> to grips with PostgreGIS, PostGIS and others components. This option is not
> a 'quick fix' rather 'a alternative way of thinking' -- resulting in a high
> learning curve as I have to master each individual component and the nuances
> of how the 2-3 utilities interact. Thanks anyway.
>
> Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
>
>
> Peter Batty wrote:
>
> Simon, you could do this as a PostGIS query. To take the polygon case, if
> you loaded the data into a table in PostGIS called parcel (say), you could
> run a query something like the following (not guaranteeing this is exactly
> correct but something along these lines):
> select a.id, b.id,
> ST_distance(a.geom, b.geom),
> ST_distance(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom)),
> ST_azimuth(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom))
> from parcel a, parcel b
>
> This would give you ids, shortest distance, distance between centroids and
> angle between centroids. There are no doubt others here who can correct my
> SQL syntax :) !
> There is a simple utility to load a shape file into PostGIS.
> Cheers,
> Peter.
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty 
> Ltd)  
> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Everyone,
>
> My name is Simon and I am an environmental consultant. I use a variety of
> open source GIS systems and tools almost every day to analyse flora, fauna
> and vegetation data. I am interested in OSGeo both from the standpoint (or
> my underlying belief) that software and data should be free (you know how
> the mantra goes) and my desire to contribute to a broader community effort
> to develop appropriate software for users. I have been actively using
> OpenJUMP, Kosmo, OpenEV, EveryDWG and Sextante. I have tinkered with Ilwis,
> GRASS, Quantum (various versions) and a few others I have lost track of. I
> am currently using GVSIG+Sextante, which I find very useful and easy to use.
> I am an old user of ArcView 3.1+(numerous scripts/extensions).
>
> I have a common GIS problem but can not find any OSGeo project that has
> provided a set of tools to combat it. I need to establish the distance+angle
> between various geometries (points, lines, polygons) in same layer and in
> different layers. A specific problem I currently have is finding the minimum
> distance and angle between 200 odd polygons in the same layer. Each polygon
> has a unique id and I want to get a table with UID_A, UID_B,
> MINIMUM_DISTANCE, ANGLE. I know that ArcGIS and ArcView have this
> functionality, and script exist for old versions of ArcView, but I am
> looking for an Open Source alternative.
>
> Ideally such a tool would create the following data for each geometry
> type...
>
> POINTS -- UID_A, UID_B, DISTANCE, ANGLE
> LINES -- UID_A, UID_B, DISTANCE_AT_CLOSEST _POINT
> POLYGON --  UID_A, UID_B, MIN_DISTANCE, MAX_DISTANCE, HAUSDORFF_DISTANCE,
> CENTROID_DISTANCE, ANGLE_BETWEEN_CENTROIDS
>
> What I have found already...
>
> I have noted that Sextante can create a matrix of distances between points
> within the same layer. With rows and column representing the complete set of
> points being compar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

[Peter Batty]

Simon, for what you describe you just need PostGIS, nothing else. It comes
with a utility called pgAdmin that lets you type SQL statements and display
the results in a spreadsheet-like format (among other things).

If you do the standard PostGIS windows install from
http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/ I think it should include
pgAdmin, though I'm not 100% sure as I run on Mac. It's been a while since I
installed PostGIS, but I used the packaged install from enterprisedb at
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/download.do (this is for PostGreSQL but
it includes PostGIS). At that time the standard Mac installation was a
little more work, but the enterprisedb install was a one click deal (I was
amazed how easy it was!). There are a few different options for packaged
installers - another is OpenGeo
http://opengeo.org/products/suite/download/which includes more than
just PostGIS.

I'd look at the basic PostGIS installation first and if you hit issues with
that look at the enterprisedb or opengeo installers.

Others may be able to give you more specific suggestions for installing on
Windows.

Cheers,
Peter.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
 wrote:

>  Peter & others,
>
> With PostGIS what is the best option for installation to trial this option.
> Where would you enter the SQL query?
>
> If you go to the PostGIS page it pushes you to UDig. Does UDig have the
> functionality to send SQL statements to the database? Does PostGIS install
> if I install UDig or should I install in a set sequence, a bit like Giovanni
> suggested for Grass.
>
> Dumb question - "Is PostGIS-UDig" setup to operate as a desktop type
> system? Everytime I looked at UDig I got the impression it used web
> resources and was geared to enterprise solutions to multiple users to a
> online-resource repository.
>
> Alternatively is anyone aware whether gvSIG can query the database in this
> way with beantools or Jython? If so, how? I know gvSIG can connect to
> PostGIS?
>
>  Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au>
>
>
> Peter Batty wrote:
>
> Simon, you could do this as a PostGIS query. To take the polygon case, if
> you loaded the data into a table in PostGIS called parcel (say), you could
> run a query something like the following (not guaranteeing this is exactly
> correct but something along these lines):
>
>  select a.id, b.id,
> ST_distance(a.geom, b.geom),
> ST_distance(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom)),
> ST_azimuth(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom))
> from parcel a, parcel b
>
>  This would give you ids, shortest distance, distance between centroids
> and angle between centroids. There are no doubt others here who can correct
> my SQL syntax :) !
>
>  There is a simple utility to load a shape file into PostGIS.
>
>  Cheers,
> Peter.
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> My name is Simon and I am an environmental consultant. I use a variety of
>> open source GIS systems and tools almost every day to analyse flora, fauna
>> and vegetation data. I am interested in OSGeo both from the standpoint (or
>> my underlying belief) that software and data should be free (you know how
>> the mantra goes) and my desire to contribute to a broader community effort
>> to develop appropriate software for users. I have been actively using
>> OpenJUMP, Kosmo, OpenEV, EveryDWG and Sextante. I have tinkered with Ilwis,
>> GRASS, Quantum (various versions) and a few others I have lost track of. I
>> am currently using GVSIG+Sextante, which I find very useful and easy to use.
>> I am an old user of ArcView 3.1+(numerous scripts/extensions).
>>
>> I have a common GIS problem but can not find any OSGeo project that has
>> provided a set of tools to combat it. I need to establish the distance+angle
>> between various geometries (points, lines, polygons) in same layer and in
>> different layers. A specific problem I currently have is finding the minimum
>> distance and angle between 200 odd polygons in the same layer. Each polygon
>> has a unique id and I want to get a table with UID_A, UID_B,
>> MINIMUM_DISTANCE, ANGLE. I know that ArcGIS and ArcView have this
>> functionality, and script exist for old versions of ArcView, but I am
>> looking for an Open Source alternative.
>>
>> Ideally such a tool would create the following data for each geometry
>> type...
&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

[Peter Batty]

Simon, you could do this as a PostGIS query. To take the polygon case, if
you loaded the data into a table in PostGIS called parcel (say), you could
run a query something like the following (not guaranteeing this is exactly
correct but something along these lines):

select a.id, b.id,
ST_distance(a.geom, b.geom),
ST_distance(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom)),
ST_azimuth(ST_centroid(a.geom), ST_centroid(b.geom))
from parcel a, parcel b

This would give you ids, shortest distance, distance between centroids and
angle between centroids. There are no doubt others here who can correct my
SQL syntax :) !

There is a simple utility to load a shape file into PostGIS.

Cheers,
Peter.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
 wrote:

>  Hi Everyone,
>
> My name is Simon and I am an environmental consultant. I use a variety of
> open source GIS systems and tools almost every day to analyse flora, fauna
> and vegetation data. I am interested in OSGeo both from the standpoint (or
> my underlying belief) that software and data should be free (you know how
> the mantra goes) and my desire to contribute to a broader community effort
> to develop appropriate software for users. I have been actively using
> OpenJUMP, Kosmo, OpenEV, EveryDWG and Sextante. I have tinkered with Ilwis,
> GRASS, Quantum (various versions) and a few others I have lost track of. I
> am currently using GVSIG+Sextante, which I find very useful and easy to use.
> I am an old user of ArcView 3.1+(numerous scripts/extensions).
>
> I have a common GIS problem but can not find any OSGeo project that has
> provided a set of tools to combat it. I need to establish the distance+angle
> between various geometries (points, lines, polygons) in same layer and in
> different layers. A specific problem I currently have is finding the minimum
> distance and angle between 200 odd polygons in the same layer. Each polygon
> has a unique id and I want to get a table with UID_A, UID_B,
> MINIMUM_DISTANCE, ANGLE. I know that ArcGIS and ArcView have this
> functionality, and script exist for old versions of ArcView, but I am
> looking for an Open Source alternative.
>
> Ideally such a tool would create the following data for each geometry
> type...
>
> POINTS -- UID_A, UID_B, DISTANCE, ANGLE
> LINES -- UID_A, UID_B, DISTANCE_AT_CLOSEST _POINT
> POLYGON --  UID_A, UID_B, MIN_DISTANCE, MAX_DISTANCE, HAUSDORFF_DISTANCE,
> CENTROID_DISTANCE, ANGLE_BETWEEN_CENTROIDS
>
> What I have found already...
>
>- I have noted that Sextante can create a matrix of distances between
>points within the same layer. With rows and column representing the 
> complete
>set of points being compared.
> - I have also found QGIS has a fTools Plugin that allows you to
>"Measure distances between two point layers, and output results as a) 
> Square
>distance matrix, b) Linear distance matrix, or c) Summary of distances."
>QGIS 2009.
> - I suspect that GRASS would provide this functionality but can't get
>that package to work on my system (even WinGRASS), so if you point me here
>please also point me to a tutorial on getting the thing to work (this 
> system
>is not intuitive; My problem has been in establishing a repository and
>getting data into it for viewing, let alone analysis; it failed the age old
>test that if you can't even get the thing running in half an hour, the
>learning curve is going to be way too high to use in in normal business
>activities; I have tried - yes following their instructions - several 
> times,
>and spent several days reading manuals, wiki's,etc to no avail).
>
> BUT I can't find any tool that allows me to calculate the minimum distance
> between polygons and indicate the direction of the polygon.
>
> Anyone out there know of such a tool?
>
> Note: I am using Windows XP Pro SP3 and store all my GIS data as
> shapefiles.
> --
>
> Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Peter Batty]

terial to share with others at events or
> meetings, etc.  They don't tend to point out technical barriers to their
> projects success, they already know and love a project and just want to
> tell
> others about it.  Of course we all have our software feature wishlists of
> functionality but I don't think most of us expect OSGeo to be the venue for
> developing them.  Like Frank says, don't tell the projects what to do ;-)
>
> Not to say there aren't some powerful synergies to be gained at more
> technical levels through OSGeo and some projects are certainly getting used
> to depending on OSGeo services, but aside from requests to our systems
> admin
> group, I rarely hear end users, advocates or even developers say OSGeo
> needs
> to do anything further at a technical level (except maybe more
> benchmarking,
> live demo disks or binary package development).
>
> I'm sure there will be some more good discussion over the upcoming months
> as
> to focus and effort.  I see the education side as an obvious common goal,
> and marketing as well, but I'm curious to hear more about some of the more
> 'developer centric' ideas people have in mind. I'm keen to hear further
> ideas along Cédric's line of thinking too.
>
> By the way, the Marketing Committee has a mailing list, all are welcome to
> join to share ideas and volunteer.  It's been pretty quiet lately, so don't
> be shy and come and share your thoughts:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>
> Best wishes,
> Tyler
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Peter Batty

[Peter Batty]

I agree with others that we have a very strong group of board candidates
this year, and that is a great sign for the strength of OSGeo. I would like
to thank Tyler Mitchell for nominating me.
I don't have the long and illustrious background in open source that many
fellow nominees have, I have just got involved with open source geospatial
solutions in the past few years. But I feel I can bring value to the board
because I do bring a different perspective from most other board members and
board nominees. I have worked in the geospatial industry for over 20 years,
and have been CTO of two of the top three (closed source) geospatial
software companies, Intergraph and Smallworld (still the leader in utility
GIS, now part of GE). I am well known and well respected in the broader
geospatial community outside the open source world, I regularly speak at
conferences around the world and have a well read blog called geothought (in
fact I just gave the opening keynote talk at AGI GeoCommunity, the main GIS
conference in the UK, and have been tied up there for the past couple of
days which is why I have not been able to post this statement sooner). This
puts me in a good position to help increase awareness of OSGeo and I do this
regularly in my conference talks. As someone who has a background in closed
source software but has used open source geospatial software for my latest
startup, I am in a strong position to help explain to other closed source
software users why they should switch to open source solutions.

I have served on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations, including
the geospatial educational organization, GITA, best known for its
conferences; the executive management team of several small and large
companies; and the advisory boards of several startups. I have been involved
in organizing many conferences, small and large, including the recent
WhereCamp5280 in Denver, and was one of the leaders of the Denver bid for
FOSS4G 2010, and we will re-bid for 2011. I believe I am good at helping
organizations take a strategic view of where they want to go. I am from the
UK originally but have lived in the US for the past 15 years, and have had
global roles at both the large software companies I worked at, and have
traveled extensively in those roles, so I feel I have a good view of
geospatial users and markets around the world. From my experience working on
various boards, I think it is important to include people with a diverse
range of backgrounds and experience.

Tyler asked where people would like to see OSGeo in five years, and I would
answer somewhat differently to many of those who have made pretty detailed
responses. I would like to see that the number of organizations using open
source geospatial software has grown dramatically over the next five years,
and I would like to see a much larger ecosystem of companies providing
solutions using open source geospatial software, and helping fund continued
development. I believe it would be good for the geospatial industry as a
whole to see greater competition, and I think that open source solutions are
now mature enough that they can provide a much greater challenge to
established closed source solutions than they have in the past. In order to
do that we need to get additional people with commercial as well as
technical experience engaged in OSGeo, and I would help with that as a board
member. We need to also do this in a way that respects the spirit of the
community, but I believe we can do that (partly by looking to larger open
source communities than our own for lessons on how they have grown).

Thank you for your consideration, and please feel free to email me if you
have any questions.


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