[OSGeo-Discuss] ISPRS Forum on Openness and Innovation in Geomatics and Earth Observation

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear all,

Maria and I are organizing a one-day Forum on Openness and Innovation in
Geomatics and Earth Observation at the XXIV ISPRS CONGRESS 2020, 14-20 June
2020, Nice, France. http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/

There will be four sessions on the day. Each session will last an hour and
a half. It will start with a short keynote, followed by a discussion with 5
panelists. Session topics include Earth Observation openness: data and
software; Geospatial open source software and open standards; Open science
and citizen science; and Use cases of geospatial open data and software.

During the day, there will be tables and chairs set up in front of the
forum venue, and 'Open Geo Doctors' will answer questions and provide
suggestions about specific technologies. Conference delegates will approach
them one-on-one to find out more about a specific technology or topic, such
as QGIS, OpenStreetMap, OSGeoLive, WebGIS, etc.

If you would like to participate as an 'Open GEO Doctor' in this event,
please send an email to serenacoet...@gmail.com and maria.brove...@polimi.it
.

Regards,
Serena

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Register for the FOSS4G2019 BOF about the ISPRS Forum 2020

[Serena Coetzee]

Please register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-attendees-bof-forum-at-isprs2020-tickets-70153859081

Looking forward to seeing you!


On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 11:58, Serena Coetzee 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In order not to overlap with the GeoForAll meeting on Wednesday evening,
> this BOF was moved to earlier on Wednesday (28 August) 12:30 - 14:00 in the
> Modigliani restaurant where there will be a buffet, and we will initiate
> the discussion about the 2020 ISPRS forum over a lovely lunch, sponsored by
> the conference organizers. The restaurant is inside the conference venue,
> easy to find.
>
> Thanks a lot to Codrina and the conference organizers for helping us to
> find a different time and venue!
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
> University of Pretoria
> Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
> South Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>
> Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
> – whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
> Netherlands?
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
> Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
> Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:28 AM Serena Coetzee 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> there will be a BOF session [1] at the FOSS4G2019 in Bucharest, Romania,
>> so that we can initiate the discussion on how to shape the forum at the
>> ISPRS Congress next year. Some intitial ides are at the link in the email
>> below.
>>
>> The BOF will take place on Wednesday (28 August) 18:00 - 19:30 in the
>> Fortuna Est conference room.
>>
>> Looking forward to seeing you there!
>>
>> [1]
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2019_BirdsOfAFeather#OPEN_SCIENCE_AND_NEW_TECHNOLOGIES_FORUM_AT_IPSRS_2020_CONGRESS
>>
>> Regards,
>> Serena
>>
>> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
>> University of Pretoria
>> Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
>> Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
>> South Africa
>> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82
>> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>>
>> Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI
>> dataset – whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
>> Netherlands?
>> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
>> Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
>> Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:08 PM Maria Antonia Brovelli <
>> maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>> time ago I wrote about the possibility of organizing a one-day Forum at
>>> ISPRS 2020 about "Open Science and New Technologies". I highlighted the
>>> importance of this event, given that ISPRS Congress (
>>> http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) gather generally more than 3000 people
>>> and therefore it could be a good window for open
>>> data/software/education/science and so on. The Forum will be on Thursday 18
>>> June and we need now to decide the contents and the format of the Forum.
>>>
>>> I put in gdrive a document where interested people can add ideas (first
>>> sheet) and their name (second sheet) if they want to be involved in the
>>> Forum and attend the Congress and Forum
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWil0jrAHXsjGSu1rBDOrdxO47jIeaK8R95k1dYZYuM/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Thank you very much if you want to contribute.
>>> Best regards
>>> Maria & Serena
>>>
>>> http://cci.esa.int/HRLandcover
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> **
>>> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
>>> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
>>> Politecnico di Milano
>>>
>>> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>>>
>>> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,
>>> maria.brove...@polimi.it
>>>
>>> https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-556
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

[OSGeo-Discuss] Moved: Forum at ISPRS 2020 (June 2020) --> Join us for the BOF at FOSS4G2019

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear all,

In order not to overlap with the GeoForAll meeting on Wednesday evening,
this BOF was moved to earlier on Wednesday (28 August) 12:30 - 14:00 in the
Modigliani restaurant where there will be a buffet, and we will initiate
the discussion about the 2020 ISPRS forum over a lovely lunch, sponsored by
the conference organizers. The restaurant is inside the conference venue,
easy to find.

Thanks a lot to Codrina and the conference organizers for helping us to
find a different time and venue!

Regards,
Serena

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
– whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
Netherlands?
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>


On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:28 AM Serena Coetzee 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> there will be a BOF session [1] at the FOSS4G2019 in Bucharest, Romania,
> so that we can initiate the discussion on how to shape the forum at the
> ISPRS Congress next year. Some intitial ides are at the link in the email
> below.
>
> The BOF will take place on Wednesday (28 August) 18:00 - 19:30 in the
> Fortuna Est conference room.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you there!
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2019_BirdsOfAFeather#OPEN_SCIENCE_AND_NEW_TECHNOLOGIES_FORUM_AT_IPSRS_2020_CONGRESS
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
> University of Pretoria
> Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
> South Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>
> Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
> – whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
> Netherlands?
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
> Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
> Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:08 PM Maria Antonia Brovelli <
> maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>> time ago I wrote about the possibility of organizing a one-day Forum at
>> ISPRS 2020 about "Open Science and New Technologies". I highlighted the
>> importance of this event, given that ISPRS Congress (
>> http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) gather generally more than 3000 people
>> and therefore it could be a good window for open
>> data/software/education/science and so on. The Forum will be on Thursday 18
>> June and we need now to decide the contents and the format of the Forum.
>>
>> I put in gdrive a document where interested people can add ideas (first
>> sheet) and their name (second sheet) if they want to be involved in the
>> Forum and attend the Congress and Forum
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWil0jrAHXsjGSu1rBDOrdxO47jIeaK8R95k1dYZYuM/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Thank you very much if you want to contribute.
>> Best regards
>> Maria & Serena
>>
>> http://cci.esa.int/HRLandcover
>>
>>
>>
>> **
>> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
>> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
>> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>>
>> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
>> maria.brove...@polimi.it
>>
>> https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-556
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Forum at ISPRS 2020 (June 2020) --> Join us for the BOF at FOSS4G2019

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear all,

there will be a BOF session [1] at the FOSS4G2019 in Bucharest, Romania, so
that we can initiate the discussion on how to shape the forum at the ISPRS
Congress next year. Some intitial ides are at the link in the email below.

The BOF will take place on Wednesday (28 August) 18:00 - 19:30 in the
Fortuna Est conference room.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

[1]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2019_BirdsOfAFeather#OPEN_SCIENCE_AND_NEW_TECHNOLOGIES_FORUM_AT_IPSRS_2020_CONGRESS

Regards,
Serena

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
– whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
Netherlands?
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>


On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:08 PM Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:

> Dear All
> time ago I wrote about the possibility of organizing a one-day Forum at
> ISPRS 2020 about "Open Science and New Technologies". I highlighted the
> importance of this event, given that ISPRS Congress (
> http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) gather generally more than 3000 people
> and therefore it could be a good window for open
> data/software/education/science and so on. The Forum will be on Thursday 18
> June and we need now to decide the contents and the format of the Forum.
>
> I put in gdrive a document where interested people can add ideas (first
> sheet) and their name (second sheet) if they want to be involved in the
> Forum and attend the Congress and Forum
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWil0jrAHXsjGSu1rBDOrdxO47jIeaK8R95k1dYZYuM/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Thank you very much if you want to contribute.
> Best regards
> Maria & Serena
>
> http://cci.esa.int/HRLandcover
>
>
>
> **
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
> maria.brove...@polimi.it
>
> https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-556
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: [Geo4All] 2019 OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Serena Coetzee]

Hi all,

herewith a reminder of the upcoming deadline on Tuesday (9 July). Proposals
should be submitted to Maria Brovelli maria.brove...@polimi.it and Serena
Coetzee serena.coet...@up.ac.za.

Regards,
Serena

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
– whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
Netherlands?
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>


On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 6:34 PM Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:

> Dear All
> it is the time for a new exciting OSGeo UN Challenge.
>
> Proposals are invited for developing open geospatial educational material
> for two challenges:
>
> Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update
> Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace
> justice and strong institutions
>
> Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is sponsored by OSGeo.
>
> Deadline for submission is 9 July 2019 (with no extension).
>
> Information is available here:
>
>
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/
>
> Happy weekend!
> Maria and Serena
>
>
>
> **
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>
> https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-556
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Serena Coetzee]

Perfect.


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:

> Yes, I think this is a good alternative giving also more visibility to
> GeoForAll.
> Maria
>
>
>
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Mark Iliffe 
> Data: 19/06/18 18:39 (GMT+01:00)
> A: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> Cc: Serena Coetzee , Suchith Anand <
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>, ML osgeo discuss ,
> Rebecca Firth 
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Hi All,
>
> There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the
> Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event
> whereas the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> wrote:
>
> Dear Mark
>
> I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is
> doing.
>
> Best
>
> Maria
>
>
>
> **
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=P.zza+Leonardo+da+Vinci,+32+-+Building+3+-+20133+Milano+(Italy=gmail=g>
> )
>
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
> maria.brove...@polimi.it
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Da:* Serena Coetzee 
> *Inviato:* martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
> *A:* Mark Iliffe
> *Cc:* Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Dear Mark and all,
>
> as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could
> use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
>
> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
>
> University of Pretoria
> Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
> Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
> Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Suchith,
>
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in
> the DLOC!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
>
>
> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your
> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging
> student contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed
> as follows
> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>
> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and
> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short
> blogpost to the community after the event.
>
> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We
> look forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> --
> *From:* Conference_dev  on behalf
> of Mark Iliffe 
> *Sent:* 17 June 2018 20:31
> *To:* ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Hi All,
>
> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this
> August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>
> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
> presenters and keynotes and against.
>
> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
> workshop presenters.
>
> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by
> the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received
> 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could
use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe  wrote:

> Hi Suchith,
>
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in
> the DLOC!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
>>
>>
>> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your
>> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging
>> student contributions through Student awards at key events  .
>> Distributed as follows
>> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>>
>> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and
>> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short
>> blogpost to the community after the event.
>>
>> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We
>> look forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> --
>> *From:* Conference_dev  on
>> behalf of Mark Iliffe 
>> *Sent:* 17 June 2018 20:31
>> *To:* ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
>> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam
>> this August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>>
>> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
>> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
>> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
>> presenters and keynotes and against.
>>
>> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
>> workshop presenters.
>>
>> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed
>> by the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We
>> received 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as
>> we wanted to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka…
>> not have the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established
>> ones. Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance
>> I believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
>> balance right.
>>
>> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
>> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented
>> groups within our community - as a global community, we need to be as
>> diverse as the world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to
>> widen access and participation - this means working out how to achieve
>> that. Bluntly, if we want to have a conference with the same content and
>> people, we shouldn’t be holding this in Dar es Salaam.
>>
>> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring
>> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services
>> offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous
>> conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for
>> example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led
>> my committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.
>>
>> However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a
>> volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting
>> things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.
>>
>> In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively,
>> this pays for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop
>> days. The cost of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper
>> than previous workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop presenters, we
>> would have charged $100 and reclaimed the cost of the workshop presenter
>> ticket from there. We charged as low as we could, because we recognised
>> that for some attendi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

[Serena Coetzee]

Same here! The energy, the passion, the community spirit, the experience…it has 
all been said.

Regards,
Serena

On 09 Oct 2017, at 08:28, Silvia Franceschi  wrote:

Absolutely agree with this nomination!

+1 for Jeff

Silvia


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:20 AM, 林博文 > wrote:
I support the nomination of Jeff McKenna and I agree with Nicholas's 
Recommendation.

For a long time, he contributed to the spread of FOSS4G Softeware to Asia and 
Europe.
Tributaries Everyone in the Japanese community loves Jeff.
He is widely known to the world after contemplating the MS4W. When the OSGeo 
began, MapServer and MS4W played a contribution that could be said to be 
indispensable to WebGIS at the time.
And all that he experienced from that time to now forms his OSGeo mind.

Hayashi.


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2017-10-09 7:38 GMT+09:00 Vicky Vergara >:
I would like to second this nomination.
I can find words in my vocabulary to express al the traits that Jeff has for 
being in the board.
His energy is contagious.
His knowledge of OSGeo invaluable.
His love an care for OSGeo is like no one else I've met


Vicky



On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 4:48 PM, nicolas bozon > wrote:

It is my honor to nominate Jeff McKenna for the OSGeo Board of Directors 
election.

Most of you knows Jeff's energy and passion for everything OSGeo, and i would 
probably be mistaken trying to summarize his countless contributions over the 
years, at every level of our Foundation. His leadership and long involvement in 
the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities made him the Winner of the Solz Katz Award in 
2016, and i cannot add more. For those of you who may really not know Jeff yet, 
the User:Jeff_McKenna wiki page is a good read before you vote.

Jeff already served three times at the board and has a deep understanding of 
both the director role and the current OSGeo strategic plan. Experienced with 
OSGeo governance and bylaws, Jeff also knows a lot about projects and people. 
He is always ready to help build locally and to represent globally. 

Jeff is a great communicator and enthusiastic community leader, and i believe 
he will be an excellent OSGeo director again. Please let us all welcome Jeff 
back at the Board!


Best regards,

Nicolas Bozon


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Jeff McKenna agreed to be nominated and i decided to send the nomination 
directly to the Discuss list with cc to CRO, so it avoids Jeff to confirm to 
himself that he accepts the nomination. The Board Nominations page still need 
to be updated, could you please Vasile ? Sorry for shortening the nomination 
process in this special case.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Venkatesh Raghavan

[Serena Coetzee]

I would like to support/sedond Venka's nomination. Thanks, Venka, for agreeing 
to stand again!

Regards,
Serena

On 09 Oct 2017, at 09:13, Silvia Franceschi  wrote:

I support the nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan. 
Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again...

Silvia


On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Suchith Anand > wrote:
+1 for Venka's nomination.. Thank you Venka for agreeing to serve again .  
Venka has provided us excellent leadership reaching out to everyone. His 
contributions for geoeducation is an inspiration for all of us. Let us all 
welcome him back to the Board .

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Discuss > on behalf of Jeff McKenna 
>
Sent: 08 October 2017 5:21 PM
To: osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Venkatesh Raghavan

Forwarding nomination of Venkatesh Raghavan by Angelos Tzotsos. The
Board Nominations page has been updated:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 



-Jeff & Vasile
CRO 2017 Elections


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It is my pleasure and honor to nominate our President Venka Raghavan[1],
from Japan, for re-election for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Venka's
contributions to FOSS and FOSS4G are inspiring to our community. He is
the 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the term “FOSS4G” back
in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and
since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the globe.

Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He
is also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter. He has
served the OSGeo community for the last 2 years with great commitment
and passion from the position of the President.

A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His
influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential
FOSS4G leader there. Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium
every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based.

Venka is happy to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping the
foundation that he helped form at the beginning. So please welcome back
Venka to the Board of Directors.

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


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Bridget Fleming

[Serena Coetzee]

Well deserved, Brigdet!

Regards,
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On 10 Sep 2017, at 09:57, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear colleagues, 

On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to introduce 
Bridget Fleming from South Africa as our GeoAmbassador. Bridget Fleming is the 
regional chair of GeoForAll Africa (along with Serena Coetzee and Rania Elsayed 
) and has been actively expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. Bridget 
is a passionate advocate for using Geotechnologies in the classroom. She is the 
IEB (Independent Examination Board) geography national moderator and has 
authored a number of textbooks and digital classroom resources. She has 
recently returned to the classroom after a few years of running a start-up GIS 
company where she was involved in Geospatial education and training. She is on 
the National GISSA council (Education portfolio) and is the Chair of the 
Southern African Geography Teachers’ Association (SAGTA). She is presently HOD 
Geography at St John’s College  in South Africa. Bridget is also one of the key 
organisors behind the success of the recent SAGTA+FOSS4G Africa conference 
hosted by St John’s College in Houghton, Johannesburg. More details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/09/geoambassador-bridget-fleming/ 
<http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/09/geoambassador-bridget-fleming/>  

I am sure Bridget and colleagues will expand these ideas for the future. We are 
looking forward to building  strong research and teaching collaborations  
worldwide in Open Geospatial Science. We are proud to honour Bridget as our 
GeoAmbassador and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership

[Serena Coetzee]

+1

On 01 Sep 2017, at 14:26, Massimiliano Cannata  
wrote:

I warmly second the nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang.

Maxi


2017-09-01 13:51 GMT+02:00 Vasile Craciunescu >:
Forwarding Hae-Kyong Kang nomination by Sanghee Shin. 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 



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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:43:37 +0900
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Dear CRO,

I’d like to nominate Dr. Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership of OSGeo. As a 
researcher in KRIHS(Korea Research Institute of Human Settlements), she has 
carried out many open source GIS projects and produced multiple fruitful 
results including OpenGDS. She is a leader of OpenGDS projects, which is partly 
being adopted in UN Open GIS Initiative. Also she has played a key role in UN 
Open GIS Initiative as a chair of Spiral 3. And she has put many efforts to 
spread the open source GIS in Asia region. I believe she will be a great asset 
to OSGeo.

Kind regards,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Msilikale Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member

[Serena Coetzee]

I support the nomination. It will be good to have more OSGeo Charter members 
from Africa!

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Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
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On 26 Aug 2017, at 23:13, Andy Anderson <aander...@amherst.edu> wrote:

I second the nomination.

— Andy

> On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Polimi <maria.brove...@polimi.it 
> <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
> 
> I'm honored of nominating Msilikale  Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member.
> He is consulting the World Bank on Transportation and ICT by collecting in 
> Tanzania geospatial information on transportation,  education, and public 
> facilities and by training the government on Open Data. He has a huge 
> experience in community based projects (using FOSS) for flooding resilience 
> in informal settlements. 
> He has been working with the local community since 2011 helping them to 
> understand how to use the mapping equipment for collaborative projects.  
> After the experience in Tanzania, he also helped the creation of the first 
> community mapping in Mozambique. 
> Moreover, Msilikale is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Er Salaam. 
> I believe that his experience on collaborative mapping is fundamental for our 
> OSGeo Community.
> Many thanks and best regards,
> Maria 
> 
> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
>  
> <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies>
>  
>  
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> Politecnico di Milano
>  
> ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html 
> <http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html>, Board of Directors of 
> OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
> Advisory Board
>  
> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
>  
> Sol Katz Award 2015
>  
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brove...@polimi.it 
> <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Mark Iliffe as OSGeo Charter Member

[Serena Coetzee]

+1 from (South) Africa

Regards,
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On 27 Aug 2017, at 09:11, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

+1 

Mark has also contributed to the success of FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham.

Best wishes,

Suchith

From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Andy Anderson 
<aander...@amherst.edu>
Sent: 26 August 2017 10:13 PM
To: osgeolist
Cc: Cro; Iliffe Mark
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Mark Iliffe as OSGeo Charter Member

I second the nomination.

— Andy

On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Polimi 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:

I want to nominate Mark Iliffe as charter member of OSGeo.

Mark has a lot of experience both as researcher and as a consultant of 
important organizations, like World Bank.
His main activities have been in coordinating mapping in developing countries 
examining the emergent phenomenon of community mapping and volunteered.

Das Ramani Huria, one of the project which has been seeing him involved as a 
main actor, is considered as a best practice for developing (and probably could 
also be for developed) countries.

He is also invited delegate to the United Nations Committee of Experts on 
Global Geospatial Information Management (UN GGIM) as an expert on Volunteered 
Geographic Information and geography in emerging countries.

He organised the 2013 FOSS4G Conference as a member of the local organising 
committee and is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam.

OSGEO will greatly benefit of the presence of Mark in our community.
Thanks and best regards,
Maria

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GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair 
of the Capacity Building WG)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Rafael Moreno-Sanchez as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Serena Coetzee]

+1 from me as well!

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On 27 Aug 2017, at 20:22, Marco Minghini <marco.minghin...@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 for Rafael!

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Il 26 ago 2017 8:38 PM, "Andy Anderson" <aander...@amherst.edu 
<mailto:aander...@amherst.edu>> ha scritto:
+1

— Andy

> On Aug 26, 2017, at 1:16 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it 
> <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
> 
> I warmly second this nomination!
> Maria
> 
> 
> 
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
> 
> 
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> 
> Data: 26/08/17 10:02 (GMT+01:00) 
> A: c...@osgeo.org <mailto:c...@osgeo.org>, rafael.mor...@ucdenver.edu 
> <mailto:rafael.mor...@ucdenver.edu>, discuss@lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org> 
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Rafael Moreno-Sanchez as an OSGeo 
> Charter Member 
> 
> It is my pleasure to nominate Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez, from USA, as an 
> OSGeo Charter Member.  Rafael  is working at the Department of Geography and 
> Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, USA [1].
> 
> 
> Rafael is also very active contributor in the OSGeo’s GeoForAll initiative . 
> Rafael Moreno led the effort to establish the FOSS4G lab which opened in 2014 
> in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University 
> of Colorado , USA  to fulfill a growing demand for education, research and 
> service in Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial applications (FOSS4G) 
> development and applications by citizens, businesses, governments, educators, 
> students, researchers and geospatial working professionals in the Front Range 
> of Colorado and beyond at University of Colorado Denver and constantly 
> assisting educators and students.
> 
> Rafael also initiated and leads the GeoForAll's "Open Geospatial Science & 
> Applications" webinar series [2].  These webinars (and recordings) are viewed 
> by hundreds of people around the world and helped us to spread the ideas and 
> philosophy of Openness in GeoEducation and Research. We are very grateful for 
> his contributions and help.
> 
> Thank you Rafael for accepting my request for nomination and  for your 
> contributions to our community.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Suchith
> 
> [1] 
> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/
>  
> <http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/>
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> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

[Serena Coetzee]

My understanding is that we are able to go ahead with the current sponsorship 
from the OSGeo Board. Gavin?

Regards,
Serena

On 23 Feb 2017, at 16:29, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:

Happy to do so; if you know of any other events that should be listed please 
let me know.

My understanding was that the UN Hackathon required some more budget to go 
ahead (like beyond what OSGeo board was able to fund). Are you accepting 
sponsorship (or do you have another plan) to make up what is needed?

--
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On 23 February 2017 at 09:17, Serena Coetzee <serenacoet...@gmail.com 
<mailto:serenacoet...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Jody, 

There will be an OSGeo-UN Hackathon on Saturday 1 July - it is a 
'Postconference Codesprint / Hackfest / OSGeo-UN Hackathon’ to be hosted at the 
JCSE (Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering) see 
https://foss4g-africa.org/en/programme/ 
<https://foss4g-africa.org/en/programme/>. I have CC’d Gavin Fleming who is 
running with it, and can add more information. 

Also, I’ll appreciate if you could add FOSS4G Africa 2017 to the list under 
‘Event sponsorship’ at http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>. The conference website is at 
http://foss4g-africa.org <http://foss4g-africa.org/>. 

Regards,
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Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za <mailto:serena.coet...@up.ac.za> · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis <http://www.up.ac.za/cgis> · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 
<tel:+27%2082%20464%204294> · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 <tel:+27%2012%20420%203823>



On 22 Feb 2017, at 19:33, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it 
<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:

The Hackathon will be organized by Serena and colleagues. 


Serena, please, can you provide more pieces of info in such a way to advertise 
about it?


Best,

Maria





Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html 
<http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html>, Board of Directors of 
OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair 
of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015
 
P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 <tel:+39%2002%202399%206242> - Mob. +39-328-0023867 
<tel:+39%20328%20002%203867>,   
<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>maria.brove...@polimi.it 
<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>




 


Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
<mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> per conto di Jody Garnett 
<jody.garn...@gmail.com <mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>>
Inviato: mercoledì 22 febbraio 2017 16.19
A: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits
 
Website updated - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>

Maria do you have any more details I can link on to on the "OSGeo-UN 
Hackathon"? I know it was a fund raising target set in January and I would love 
to have more details to pass on here.



--
Jody Garnett

On 22 February 2017 at 09:33, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we will 
need volunteers to run them to ground.

I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:

- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities> (need to update this page for 
2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 <http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755> 
blog post).
- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship>

Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g? It 
sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.

How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a bit 
random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing 
committee.

--
Jody Garnett

On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning, here are 
some notes for the email list.

I would like to highlight two common themes:

The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with their 
time and resources (even before it comes to question of sponsorship).  We need 
to reach out to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear Jody, 

There will be an OSGeo-UN Hackathon on Saturday 1 July - it is a 
'Postconference Codesprint / Hackfest / OSGeo-UN Hackathon’ to be hosted at the 
JCSE (Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering) see 
https://foss4g-africa.org/en/programme/. I have CC’d Gavin Fleming who is 
running with it, and can add more information. 

Also, I’ll appreciate if you could add FOSS4G Africa 2017 to the list under 
‘Event sponsorship’ at http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>. The conference website is at 
http://foss4g-africa.org. 

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823



On 22 Feb 2017, at 19:33, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
wrote:

The Hackathon will be organized by Serena and colleagues. 

Serena, please, can you provide more pieces of info in such a way to advertise 
about it?

Best,
Maria




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html 
<http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html>, Board of Directors of 
OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair 
of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015
 
P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>maria.brove...@polimi.it




 


Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Jody Garnett 
<jody.garn...@gmail.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 22 febbraio 2017 16.19
A: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits
 
Website updated - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>

Maria do you have any more details I can link on to on the "OSGeo-UN 
Hackathon"? I know it was a fund raising target set in January and I would love 
to have more details to pass on here.



--
Jody Garnett

On 22 February 2017 at 09:33, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we will 
need volunteers to run them to ground.

I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:

- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 
<http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities> (need to update this page for 
2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 <http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755> 
blog post).
- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship>

Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g? It 
sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.

How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a bit 
random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing 
committee.

--
Jody Garnett

On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning, here are 
some notes for the email list.

I would like to highlight two common themes:

The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with their 
time and resources (even before it comes to question of sponsorship).  We need 
to reach out to new organizations that are benefiting from the work we do at 
OSGeo and are not engaging as part of our community.

There is lots that can be done for sponsors, beyond placing sponsor logos on a 
website. This is something I would ask us all to work on (foss4g global, 
regional events, projects and our foundation as a whole).

Here are those notes
--
Jody Garnett


Attending:
Anthony Calamito (Boundless)
Jody Garnett (OSGeo Board)
Simone Giannecchini(GeoSolutions) - 
Regina Obe (Pargagon Corporation / FOSS4G Boston)
Michael Smith (OSGeo Board / Treasurer)
Guido Stein (FOSS4G Boston)
Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat)
Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo)
1) Introductions

2) Review of what OSGeo currently offers sponsors:
Sponsorship 2017 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kvlIENiZ3REL6mOhAUuL5UvxfSUJPEcnWERWKfxJTvE/edit?usp=drive_web>
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 <http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755>
3) Ideas and Feedback

Simone (GeoSolutions)

Reaching out for sponsors is fine, by why approach the companies on this call, 
each of which already support OSGeo (often directly contributing time).

Q: Where are the organizati

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Nigeria OSGeo Local Chapter

[Serena Coetzee]

Welcome from our side as well, Ayo and Nigeria! You are most welcome to contact 
us. 

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za mailto:serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis http://www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: 
+27 12 420 3823



On 02 Jun 2015, at 10:23, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

Thanks Jeff.

Welcome Ayo and please join also the Africa focussed maillist  
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa  and also 
inform other universities in Nigeria to join and share ideas on our Education 
initiative. You can also contact our chairs for Africa: Serena Coetzee (South 
Africa) , Bridget Fleming (South Africa) and Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt) and 
they will be pleased to share experiences and guide you.

Also for info. I recieved update from Bridget Fleming yesterday about the 
success of GIS teacher courses using QGIS  that she is being doing and it is 
great to  know QGIS is being used extensively and with much success in many 
South African schools. I think this is great development that will inspire 
other school teachers not only in Africa but globally to also explore ideas for 
expanding geoeducation opportunities for thier students 

I understand from Bridget that there will be a conference info that she will be 
sending to the Africa maillists soon. So keep an eye of these developments and 
participate.

Best wishes,

Suchith

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On 
Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 3:42 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nigeria OSGeo Local Chapter

Thanks for this great news from Nigeria, Ayo!

I have added your chapter link to the list of local chapter initiatives:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters#Local_Chapter_Initiatives

I have also filed a ticket for your new mailing list, with you as the
administrator of that list: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1497

In your connections with local universities in Nigeria, please be sure
to promote the GeoForAll network to them (http://www.geoforall.org/),
made up of researchers promoting FOSS4G all around the globe.  They can
subscribe to the mailing list and introduce their activities (subscribe
at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs).

And possibly consider hosting a local FOSS4G event in Nigeria, why not?! :)

Please keep us all updated with your activities in Nigeria promoting
OSGeo, through this mailing list.

Thanks again!

-jeff


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




On 2015-05-31 8:25 PM, Ayo Akinseye DSS wrote:
 Hello All,
 
 I hold a Masters in GIS from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1997)
 and have worked on GIS projects in Nigeria ever since.
 My transition to Opensource software (operating systems, Server, Desktop
 and Web) began about 5 years ago. Over time  I have acquired most of the
 basic skills required for Opensource (java, python, javascript, html5,
 CSS etc) and have become an Opensource advocate of some sort (in public
 and private sectors in Nigeria).
 
 I have a group of people that we have held informal meetings and we are
 passionate about Open Source software, GIS, and our part of the world.
 We have people from all walks of life - academia, government and business.
 
 We have decided to set-up a Local OSGeo Chapter to assist our current
 drive of increasing FOSS4G and Opensource awareness in Nigeria.
 
 I have looked at the guidelines, OSGeo mission and according to
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Starting a page has
 been set-up at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ayolagos
 
 To grow our potential user base, we want to adopt the Ubuntu Linux model
 of distributing CDs/Flash drives with FOSS4G videos and software to
 interested people and organisations across our country. These costs will
 be borne by us. We would like to put the OSGeo logo on all these items.
 
 A training facility in Lagos Island, Lagos has given us access to one
 of their training rooms that can seat 50 people. The room has all the
 facilities required for workshops and trainings. This will form our
 Lagos base for now while we will look for other facilities in other
 parts of the country as we move along. We intend to start monthly
 workshops within the next 6 weeks. We intend to have movable banners at
 all our events, and would like to put OSGEO logo on these banners.
 
 We also have a couple of businesses (including our company) who have
 pledged at least 2 PCs in each of our offices which we will encourage
 potential users to come to use for specified periods, to mitigate the
 issue of users not having access

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear all, 

on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the 
Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with 
192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source software or 
open data related to addressing and/or geocoding, let me know. Anything that I 
receive by Wednesday evening, I could include in the presentation.

[1] www.upu.int

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis 
Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short codes for locations

[Serena Coetzee]

If it is ‘just’ a code for a location, why not use a latitude longitude? These 
days, people advertise their office locations on website with coordinates, 
along with the street address. Having to remember coordinates is not much 
different to remembering an alphanumeric code… 

The advantage of the Australian rural addressing and Saudi addressing schemes 
is that they can be assigned automatically (without political or cultural 
debate about the names) and can easily be transformed for use in a more formal 
setting later on.  

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis 
Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385


On Oct 31, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Doug Rinckes drinc...@google.com wrote:

Thanks for that document, Serena. Based on a quick scan, it seems to be aimed 
towards areas that already have an addressing system or are in the process of 
defining one. In contrast, I want to provide a solution for those people in 
locations that don't have addresses, and may not even be mapped. 

One solution is to map and assign addresses, but this takes time, money, and in 
some cases may not be politically desirable. For example, civil authorities may 
not want to map squatter camps or informal settlements because they feel it 
legitimises the settlement.

But that doesn't mean that those people shouldn't be able to tell someone where 
they are. My aim is to try to provide a location code that will work 
immediately, everywhere. Places with formal addresses won't have a need for 
such codes. For example, I live in Switzerland and it's unlikely to be useful 
here, with a few, mostly leisure based exceptions. But people living in say 
Kibera in Nairobi or Dharavi in Mumbai may find a code that gives an exact 
location a useful tool until formal street addresses are assigned and in 
widespread use.

I'm not trying to obsolete street addresses, but provide an option that works 
until street addresses come along.


Doug

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Serena Coetzee serenacoet...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Doug,

working on ISO’s international addressing standard, the feedback we got from 
numerous countries was that these types of codes are interesting as grid 
references but not useful as addresses. There are some interesting address 
assignment schemes/algorithms that allow one to automate address numbering 
along a road. See for example, the Australian rural address (see also US mile 
post marker address assignment) and the Saudi Arabian addressing scheme [1], 
but they have limitations for a global rollout.

[1] 
http://www.isotc211.org/address/docs/211n3188_Review_Summary_19160_Addressing.pdf

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis
Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385


On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com 
wrote:

This sounds very much like the Natural Area Coding (NAC) system:

http://www.nacgeo.com/

Interesting idea in theory, but in practice this has been around for over a 
decade and hasn't really taken off, quite likely because an alphanumerical code 
is not of much more use than pure geographic coordinates.

Or maybe it's like the case of rasters in a database [1] and this concept 
just needs a strong champion to sell us the idea and convince the world that we 
need it?

Daniel

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2006-October/013569.html

On 14-10-29 3:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
 Hi Doug,
 An interesting and potentially useful concept.
 It sounds like you are proposing a spatial standard. Have you approached
 the Open Geospatial Consortium about getting the standard endorsed?

 With regards to any code which you wish to produce and open source, I
 suggest considering bringing it under the umbrella of the Open Source
 Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
 Details about OSGeo incubation here:
 http://www.osgeo.org/incubator


 On 30/10/2014 1:08 am, Doug Rinckes wrote:
 I'm an engineer at Google, and I have just open sourced a geo project
 we've been working on for a while.

 I used to work on our maps, detecting missing road networks and in my
 spare time mapping roads in Papua New Guinea, Central and West Africa
 from the satellite imagery. But without street names or addresses, a
 road network isn't all that useful. People can't use it for
 directions, because they can't express where they want directions to.
 After talking with colleagues from around the world, I discovered
 that's it actually very common for streets to be unnamed.

 We thought that we should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short codes for locations

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear Doug, 

working on ISO’s international addressing standard, the feedback we got from 
numerous countries was that these types of codes are interesting as grid 
references but not useful as addresses. There are some interesting address 
assignment schemes/algorithms that allow one to automate address numbering 
along a road. See for example, the Australian rural address (see also US mile 
post marker address assignment) and the Saudi Arabian addressing scheme [1], 
but they have limitations for a global rollout. 

[1] 
http://www.isotc211.org/address/docs/211n3188_Review_Summary_19160_Addressing.pdf

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and 
Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South 
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis 
Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385


On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com 
wrote:

This sounds very much like the Natural Area Coding (NAC) system:

http://www.nacgeo.com/

Interesting idea in theory, but in practice this has been around for over a 
decade and hasn't really taken off, quite likely because an alphanumerical code 
is not of much more use than pure geographic coordinates.

Or maybe it's like the case of rasters in a database [1] and this concept 
just needs a strong champion to sell us the idea and convince the world that we 
need it?

Daniel

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2006-October/013569.html

On 14-10-29 3:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
 Hi Doug,
 An interesting and potentially useful concept.
 It sounds like you are proposing a spatial standard. Have you approached
 the Open Geospatial Consortium about getting the standard endorsed?
 
 With regards to any code which you wish to produce and open source, I
 suggest considering bringing it under the umbrella of the Open Source
 Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
 Details about OSGeo incubation here:
 http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
 
 
 On 30/10/2014 1:08 am, Doug Rinckes wrote:
 I'm an engineer at Google, and I have just open sourced a geo project
 we've been working on for a while.
 
 I used to work on our maps, detecting missing road networks and in my
 spare time mapping roads in Papua New Guinea, Central and West Africa
 from the satellite imagery. But without street names or addresses, a
 road network isn't all that useful. People can't use it for
 directions, because they can't express where they want directions to.
 After talking with colleagues from around the world, I discovered
 that's it actually very common for streets to be unnamed.
 
 We thought that we should provide short codes that could be used like
 addresses, to give the location of homes, businesses, anything. If we
 made them usable from smartphones, we can make addresses for anywhere
 available to anyone with a smartphone pretty much immediately.
 
 We had some specific requirements, including that these address codes
 should work offline, they shouldn't spell words or include easily
 confused characters. We wanted to be able to look at two codes and
 tell if they are near each other, and estimate the direction and even
 the distance. The codes should not be generated by a single provider,
 because what do you do when they disappear? Finally, it had to be open
 sourced.
 
 Open sourcing the project was important. We wanted to allow everyone
 to evaluate it so that we don't go implementing something that turns
 out to not be useful. If it does turn out to be useful, everyone
 (including other mapping providers) should be able to implement it and
 use the codes freely.
 
 I'm pre-announcing this to a couple of geo lists today, and I'll be
 sticking around for comments and questions. The following links
 provide more information:
 
 Github project: https://github.com/google/open-location-code
 Demonstration website: http://plus.codes http://plus.codes/
 Discussion list:
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-location-code
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/open-location-code
 
 Enjoy!
 
 Doug
 
 
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