Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 101 workshop at FOSS4G 2019

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi Jachym,

I can give you a helping hand to prepare the workshop materials.

Regards,
Zoltan

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, Jachym Cepicky wrote:


Hi all,

as promised in Guimar˙˙es, I just submitted the "OSGeo 101 -
Introduction to OSGeo" workshop to FOSS4 2019

I would like to start materials - there are two options: OSGeo custom
Gitea (login to OSGeo infrastructure needed), GITHub (3rd party
software, low barrier for contribution)

I suggest, we use GITHub (https://github.com/osgeo/) anybody dislikes this?

Right now, I'm the only workshop mentor, more volunteers are welcome
and I'll happily add you all the the submission, I just kicked this
think of

Thanks

Jachym

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] News: Astrid Emde Receives 2018 Sol Katz Award

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

Zoltan

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Martin Landa wrote:


st 5. 9. 2018 v 23:02 odesílatel Steven Ottens  napsal:
> Astrid Emde was honoured with the 2018 Sol Katz Award, presented on 29
> August 2018, during the gala dinner of the FOSS4G event in Dar es
> Salaam. This was the 14th year of the award.


Congratulations Astrid! Best regards, Martin

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Website 15th relaunch - members and local chapters

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Jody,

our local chapter (Hungary) is the "in Formation" category on the old 
OSGeo web page. We have no legal body, which blocks to be an official 
local chapter (AFAIK). I can't see two categoties of local chapters on the 
new home page. Can I add non-official Hungarian local chapter to the list?


Best regards,
Zoltan

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Jody Garnett wrote:


Great news coming out of the system admin meeting - the OSGeo website is
scheduled to go live Jan 15th!

The "staging" website is located here: https://staging.www.osgeo.org

1. Login with your OSGeo id 

2. Fill in your profile information, taking special care to provide a photo
and add yourself to your local chapter, along with any projects or
committees you take part in.

We especially need your help reaching out to local chapters.

* https://staging.www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/

While our map (click filter to toggle on the map) is filling up some of the
pages like OSGeo India are empty placeholders.

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this in 2017.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Patrick Hogan as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

Zoltan

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, Suchith Anand wrote:


It is my pleasure to nominate Patrick Hogan (USA)  as an OSGeo Charter Member.  
Patrick Hogan [1]  works for NASA, USA.

Patrick is also very active contributor  in the OSGeo?s Geo For All initiative  
. He along with Chris Pettit  leads the OpenCitySmart thematic [2] of GeoForAll 
. This initiative helped us bring together key colleagues and students from 
around the world to work on innovative ideas and solutions specific to urban 
management for the benefit of all.

We are especially grateful for Patrick?s efforts (in coordination with Maria 
Brovelli) in creating the NASA Europa Challenge initiative [3] which adds great 
momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and research 
worldwide. We are very grateful for his contributions and help.

Thank you Patrick for accepting my request for nomination and  for your 
contributions to our community.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/

[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart

[3] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nikos Lambrinos as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

Zoltan

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Suchith Anand wrote:


It is my pleasure to nominate Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) as  OSGeo Charter 
Member.  Nikos is a Professor of Geography Teaching and Director of Digital 
Analysis and Educational Design Laboratory at the Faculty of Education , School 
of Primary Education, Dept. of Science and New Technologies at Aristotle 
University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Nikos has made huge contributions to OSGeo's  Geo For All initiative and leads 
our Schools Thematic  and actively helping  educators and students worldwide in 
expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. Nikos initiated and is the Chief 
Editor of  the GeoForAll  monthly newsletters [1] , which has now established 
as one of the most powerful outreach instruments that we have to spread OSGeo 
and Open  philosophy ideas in  Geoeducation to new users every month. He also 
setup a amazing team of editors who are all contributing to make this possible 
by their tireless volunteer efforts.

Thank you Nikos for accepting my request for nomination and  for your 
contributions to our community.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] easiest setup on Windows

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Puneet,

I would offer your friends OSGeo4W. Apache, server and client side GIS are 
included (optionally installable), easy update/install.

PostgreSQL/PostGIS not included.

Regards,
Zoltan

On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, P Kishor wrote:


hello OSGeo,


I am helping some friends migrate their work to a real GIS (from a hodgepodge 
of AutoCad and MS-Excel spreadsheets). Unfortunately, for me, they use Windows 
(the last time I used Windows was 1997). I will try and convince them to start 
using some kind of Linux, at least for their geospatial needs, but assuming I 
can˙˙t, what is the easiest way to get them started with web mapping?

Fwiw, I am installing PostGIS for them and outfitting them with QGIS. So, the 
desktop/datastore part is covered. But I don˙˙t have time to build a full 
fledged Leaflet app. Is there something I can install on a Windows machine that 
will read data from PostGIS and serve it on the web, and allow some level of 
customization of the interface?

(Sadly, I don˙˙t even know what version of Windows they are using, but I recall 
it had a lot of bouncy windows so it must be one of the newer versions.)

Many thanks in advance,




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Maria Brovelli

[Siki Zoltan]

+1, too

Zoltan

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Andrea Ross wrote:

+1 for Maria. She has done some amazing work for quite some time & is a 
joy to work with.


Andrea

On 09/09/16 07:27, Luigi Pirelli wrote:

clap clap clap for Maria :)
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On 9 September 2016 at 12:08, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

Forwarding Maria Brovelli nomination to the board of directors by
Helena Mitasova

Best,
Jorge
CRO 2016



-- Forwarded message --
From: Helena Mitasova 
Date: 9 September 2016 at 05:07
Subject: nomination of Maria Brovelli
To: c...@osgeo.org
Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli 


Maria Brovelli
maria.brove...@polimi.it
Italy

I would like to nominate Professor Maria Brovelli for the board of 

directors.

She is very well know in the community for her passion for open source
software and open data,
leader of numerous initiatives, including the latest outreach to United 

Nations,

hosting FOSS4G Europe in 2015 and organizing several open source and
open data sessions
at the ISPRS congres in Prague in 2016.
Her leadership and contributions to OSGeo were recognized by Sol Katz
award in 2015
and she is on the advisory board and one of the regional directors of
GeoForAll initiative.
She advised many students who made significant contributions to
several OSGeo projects
including GRASS GIS and understands both the community building and
the software development issues.
I feel strongly that she will be able to take on the challenging tasks
and often complex
decision making that comes with the the board of directors membership
given her experience as
Vice Rector for the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano. See her page
for more information
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria

Helena
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter

[Siki Zoltan]

+1 too

Zoltan Siki

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Luigi Pirelli wrote:


+1 :)

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On 9 July 2016 at 11:07, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:

Forwarding Werner Macho nomination by Helmut Kudrnovsky.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


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Subject:Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter
Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:31:16 +0200
From:   Helmut Kudrnovsky 
To: c...@osgeo.org


Dear CRO,

I want to nominate Werner Macho as OSGeo charter member for the election
2016.

I asked him allowing to nominate, he confirmed.

Reason:

Werner is a long-standing active member of the QGIS community and
development team (e.g. coordinating translations, helping hands in the
mailing lists and much more).

He will be a value addition to the OSGeo charter.

Best regards
Helmut Kudrnovsky
OSGeo charter member
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

Zoltan

On Sat, 9 Jul 2016, Markus Neteler wrote:


I second this nomination.

Markus

On Jul 9, 2016 11:07 AM, "Vasile Craciunescu" 
wrote:


Forwarding Werner Macho nomination by Helmut Kudrnovsky.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


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Subject:Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter
Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:31:16 +0200
From:   Helmut Kudrnovsky 
To: c...@osgeo.org


Dear CRO,

I want to nominate Werner Macho as OSGeo charter member for the election

2016.


I asked him allowing to nominate, he confirmed.

Reason:

Werner is a long-standing active member of the QGIS community and

development team (e.g. coordinating translations, helping hands in the
mailing lists and much more).


He will be a value addition to the OSGeo charter.

Best regards
Helmut Kudrnovsky
OSGeo charter member
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

Zoltan

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:


Darrel YOU ARE WRONG BUT
osgeo is a great and successful community and this alone desrve the OSGeo
existence.

Before we only had project oriented communities (mapserver, grass,  etc).
But now we have a place in the network to get togheter with all projects
and users. Aren't we using stack of softwere instead of a single solution
very often?
FOSS4G is where we exchange ideas, create innovation and get fun also.

Some excellent work is done also in some working groups... incubation and
geo4all for example...

So you are WRONG!

BUT i have to agree that things could even be better :-)
In my opinion (and this is part of my manifesto even if i still have one
more year to serve the board):
- we need to redefine objectives of the association cause things have
changed (reault framework...)
- we need to better promote our valuable software and community (marketing.
..)
- we need to review and redefine rules so that they are transparent and
clear (communication... )
- we need to lower the rates of our international meetings to be more
inclusive
- we need a plan for investment (investment plan..)

So i call for a face2face meeting of 2 days of all the board members in the
next months to discuss all these points.
Apparently the last board was not able to set a date, but i'm keen that the
new board will be able to do it. It will aslo he agood starting point to
define our working plan...

The i call all of you charter member to help and do things... continuing in
shaking the community but also propose and act to make the world a better
place. Then if you think the world would be better without osgeo... well...
be part of the community is not mandatory :-)

Best
Proudly member of osgeo
Maxi
Il 25/Set/2015 21:57, "Darrell Fuhriman"  ha scritto:


The recent discussion on the board list
 that
came out of the question of the 2014 videos has got me thinking about a few
things again, and I want to try to get them out there.

Grab a mug of your favorite liquid and hunker down, because I put some
time and effort into this, and your own well considered reply is
appreciated.

Keep in mind that all of these comments are coming from my personal
perspective, which, like everyone˙˙s, is an incomplete picture of the whole.
Much of what I˙˙m going to say has been rolling around my head for a while,
so I˙˙m just going to put it out there.
I will start with a provocative thesis:

OSGeo lacks visionary unified leadership and without it will become
irrelevant.

Of course, making such a claim requires support. So let me break down the
statement.

˙˙Visionary leadership˙˙ is really two things, ˙˙vision˙˙ and ˙˙leadership.˙˙ I
will address each in turn.
OSGeo lacks vision
I looked at the list of ˙˙Goals˙˙ for OSGeo
. I wonder: when was
the last time these goals were evaluated for both success and relevancy?

Here is my own opinion of success of some of  these goals. (In the
interest of brevity, I haven˙˙t tried to tackle everything. That˙˙s left as
an exercise to the reader.)

Example 1
To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure,
funding, legal.

Allow me to break each of those examples down.
Infrastructure
It˙˙s true that OSGeo provides some infrastructure, such as Trac instance,
Mailman, SVN repos. If the budget is to be believed, we pay some $3,500/yr
to OSUOSL for said infrastructure. I wonder if such a service is necessary,
however. Issue tracking and source control are much better provided by
Github, which is free for organization such as ours.
I say this because a) that˙˙s money that could be better spent elsewhere
and b) supporting these services burns precious volunteer time (more on
that below).

There are clear cost savings available, which are not taken advantage of.
For example, OSGeo could be hosting FOSS4G infrastructure: conference
websites and registration, a central location for conference videos
(regardless of platform/provider). This neglect is especially galling given
that FOSS4G is OSGeo˙˙s sole source of income.
Funding

OSGeo does not fund projects. It has provided some funds to pay for Code
Sprints ˙˙ $15k in 2014 according to the budget
.
Legal

I see nothing that has been done on this front recently. Please feel free
to correct me.
Conclusion

OSGeo, where it actually does what it claims, has not adapted in ways that
could save money.

My grade: D
Example 2
To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without
data.

The geodata working group is dead. As near as I can tell by perusing the
mailing list archives, and the wiki, there has been no meaningful activity
in the past two years (maybe more).

My grade: F
Example 3
To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not
just foundation software) - 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Marco Minghini

[Siki Zoltan]

+1

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:


Dear all,
I strongly support the nomination of Mingo as a tireless person promoting
and diffusing OSGeo and open source in Italy and in the world.
Thanks to his participation in national and international researches and
his contribution in organizing OSGeo events (I remember the FOSS4G in
Nottingham and the FOSS4G-EU in Como) he took the OSGeo principles live.
He's a very active member that certainly deserves the status of Charter
Member.

Best regards,
Maxi

2015-08-24 12:15 GMT+02:00 Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org:


Forwarding Marco Minghini nomination by Maria Antonia Brovelli.

Best regards,
Vasile


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Subject: Charter member nomination
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:48:45 +
From: Maria Antonia Brovelli maria.brove...@polimi.it
To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
CC: Marco Minghini marco.minghin...@gmail.com, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
maria.brove...@polimi.it

Dear CRO

I want to nominate:


Marco Minghini


email: marco.minghin...@gmail.com


motivations:


It is my great pleasure to nominate Marco Minghini (known as Mingo) for
OSGeo Charter membership.  Mingo has been an active advocate of Open Source
GIS software and a regular presenter at FOSS4G events. Recently he was the
co-organizer of the very successful FOSS4G 2015 Europe at Como, Italy. He
has been working tirelessly to promote the development of Open Source
software and data in academia and within the COST Networks (an EU funded
inter-disciplinary network that involves almost 30 countries) where he is
an active member. In July he organized in Como an amazing Training School
FOSS4VGI - Using Free and Open Source Software with VGI: integration,
analysis and visualisation (supported by the COST Action TD1202 - Mapping
and the Citizen Sensor initiative), gathering students and young
scientists from all over Europe.  I have known and worked with Mingo for
many years, starting from his bachelor thesis; he was one of my brightest
students and is now an excellent researcher and promoter of Open Source
geo.  Those who know Mingo know his big bright smile and his endless
enthusiasm.  Please welcome Mingo as an OSGeo Charter member.

For the sake of simplicity I put him in CC, in such a way that he can
directly confirm to be interested in such nomination.

Best regards.
Maria


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoforAll Newsletter and First “GeoForAll” lab of the month - Open Source Geospatial Lab , Kathmandu University, Nepal

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Suchith, Nikos and Co-editors,

thanks for this excellent newsletter!

Zoltan

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Suchith Anand wrote:


Dear Colleagues,

We are very happy to inform that the first Geo4All newsletter is now ready at  
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Newsletter-vol.-1-no.-1.pdf

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Nikos Lambrinos (Aristotle University of 
Thessaloniki, Greece) for taking the initiative to start newsletter for 
GeoforAll and being the chief editor and his excellent team for making this 
newsletter possible. Thank you to Antoni, Ela, Emma, Sergio, Rizwan, Pavel, 
Alexey and Nikos for their help for the newsletter.

Thanks to the hardwork of our amazing colleagues and support from ICA, OSGeo, 
ISPRS ,  we have been growing rapidly (with over 100 Labs), it is timely that 
we have our newsletter to share the many developments, events, activities etc 
from all members. It is also our great pleasure to use this opportunity to 
highlight the contributions of one lab in each newsletter issue to help all of 
us learn more about our members, share ideas and build collaborations for the 
future.

It is my great pleasure, to introduce our colleagues at the Open Source 
Geospatial Lab , Kathmandu University, Nepal [1],[2] as our first ?GeoForAll? 
lab of the month. We are especially grateful for the work and relief efforts 
done (and still doing) after the terrible earthquakes by our colleagues in 
Kathmandu University lead by Dr Shashish Maharjan in these challenging 
circumstances and may God help them to help others in need. Their whole team 
along with many students and volunteers were key in helping the recovery 
efforts.

Our focus in addition to Universities and Higher Education is also on Teacher Training 
programs and accelerating the establishment of small GeoForAll labs (with access to internet) 
even in the poorest and remotest schools worldwide to enable quality education opportunities for 
all. These GeoForAll labs (tablets or low cost hardware based) in addition to help 
teach geoeducation will be help bring quality teaching and learning opportunities for all. 
Technology is a big leveller and enabler for the poorer sections of the society to also be part of 
the global economy and we should not allow creation of artificial barriers (being forced to buy 
high cost proprietary software) to deny this opportunity for the bottom billions. It is their right 
to also be part of the digital opportunities.

One of the important decisions made at Como meeting during FOSS4G 2015 Europe was to 
welcome Governments, Industry, SME's, NGOs etc who support GeoForAll's education mission 
and criteria to join us as Partners, so we have global network of Open 
Geospatial Science Research and Education ?Labs? and ?Partners? to expand more 
collaborations for the future. We will bring together all key players (Government 
organizations, Industry, SMEs, NGOs) on the common mission of education and opportunities 
for all.

In spite of all the economic  technological developments, it is a sad fact 
that thousands of schools globally (esp. in developing countries) even today do not 
have access to even a single computer. Many of these poor schools do not even have 
a proper library.  I am confident if we keep focus, we can achieve the target to 
enable digital education opportunities (tablets or low cost hardware based) in many 
of the poorest schools globally in just 10 years time and having this partnership 
with universities, governments, Industry, SMEs and NGOs is key for this. So even if 
till now many of these schools did not have access to any proper library or other 
learning resources, they will now have access to the best digital education 
resources available globally from wikipedia to MOOCs.

Thanks to the unique convergence of some key developments (hardware costs will 
keep decreasing, internet access will keep increasing even in developing and 
poor countries, availability of free and open source software, open education 
resources etc.), we are in the first time in history truly have a real 
opportunity for making quality education opportunities accessible for all. I 
have seen this already happening even in some poor government schools in rural 
India and also many examples in our GeoForAll community from gvSIG Batovi in 
Uruguay [3] to GIS at Schools [4] etc, has proved that it is possible if we 
have the will power and determination.

I am fully confident that if we are able to focus and bring together the 
amazing energies and reach of the wider community for our education mission, it 
will be game changer not just for Geoeducation but for the wider Education 
also. Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid of 
extreme poverty and enable broadly shared prosperity for all.


 Education + Empowerment = Geo4All

GeoForAll [5] aims to welcome ideas from the wider community on how we can work 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear All,

don't forget about the moral task of Charter members, to be an advocate of 
OSGeo and FOSS4G.


I would keep OSGeo membership, those who are not contributing code, 
documentation, etc. to a project, membership is the only way to express their

connection to OSGeo.
It is more than just to join a mailing list...

Thank you Vasile for the great summary.

Best regards,
Zoltan


On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Eli Adam wrote:


Vasile,


Great work pulling this together.

We keep calling this discussion things like Charter member elections
and addressing it during election periods.  I think that topic is
really something else, the nature and types of OSGeo Membership or
something similar.

If we evaluate our existing structure [1], I think that we can regard
Participants as a resounding success (there are 10,000+ involved on
the email lists, projects, events, etc).  Just as the Participants
are a success, I think that Members are a near complete failure [52]
[53] in their current form, I think that Charter Members are working
well enough in that they seem to be achieving their purpose of being
people dedicated to the OSGeo Mission, electing the Board and Charter
members, and preventing the unlikely scenario of a takeover.  Charter
membership seems to be fraught with all sorts of additional
connotation, confusion, differring perspectives, and debate.  Based on
this, I think that OSGeo should further our success with
participants, end membership since it failed, and refine Charter
so that is works better.

What OSGeo membership and Charter membership has been unclear to many.
Here is the explanation that I often give to people (some of whom have
been using and contributing to OSGeo projects for 5+ years):

Members simply self identify as members on the wiki.

Charter members are nominated and elected.  They do what they see fit
when they see fit to further/support the goals and mission of OSGeo.
It has also historically been a badge of honor for contributing good
work.

What a Charter Member is is a matter of endless debate but the very
practical purpose is simple: The real practical purpose of Charter
Members is to elect the Board of Directors (and more Charter Members).
It is to prevent hostile takeover of the organization (or the
organization's resources) since OSGeo other than voting for the Board
and Charter Members, is open to all who find it, figure out how to
participate, are inclined to participate, and feel welcome.

By offering to nominate you as a Charter Member what I really think is that:
1) you support the OSGeo Mission and Goals (promote Open Source GIS
software through the world)
2) you are sufficiently responsible and care enough to pay minimal
attention twice per year to vote for the OSGeo Board of Directors and
additional Charter Members
3) in the extremely unlikely scenario of a hostile takeover you would
first be aware of it and secondly vote to prevent it  --this is
really the sole purpose of Charter Members but it is so unlikely that
people forget this is the purpose and it is sort of a stupid purpose
(even if necessary).



In that regard, I think that the survey should include some questions like:

OSGeo Membership should be more open/closed  Agree or Disagree
1-10; 10 is strongly agree, 1 is strongly disagree

The primary purpose of OSGeo Membership is: a) increase participation
in OSGeo activities b) recognize substantial OSGeo contributors c)
give members a sense of identity and cohesion d)
other_

Maintaining some structure to prevent takeover of the organization
is: a) a waste of time and effort b) worthwhile even if guarding
against an unlikely event c) other_

Charter membership should be renamed to a) keep it as Charter b)
voting members c) electors d) other _

Charter membership should not be used as an honor or mark of prestige
instead those should be addressed by a) disagree, charter membership
is for prestige b) The Sol Katz Award c) we should have some other
badge system d) other 

The number of Charter members should be a) restricted to some low
number b) only be constrained by the number of good candidates
available c) other _

and other questions regarding the types and nature of OSGeo membership

I do believe that Charter members play an important role guarding
against the extremely unlikely risk of a takeover.  Other than that
very minor role which can be achieved by several methods, I think that
all OSGeo activities should be as open as possible to as many people
as possible.

Best regards, Eli

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/Membership
[52] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Category:OSGeo_Member  --
fewer than 1,000 people have bothered to register as Members
[53] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_member_page_instruction


On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote:

Dear Cameron, Arnulf, Jeff and Gert-Jan,

Thank you for your appreciations! It was an interesting 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Link to FOSS4G Europe 2014

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi all,

i was looking for some presentations held on FOSS4G Europe in Bremen.
Unfortunatelly the link [1] to the homepage of the conference is broken on 
the osgeo.org. The link has been changed to [2], it should be updated on 
the osgeo.org pages. I've changed the link on a osgeo pages, but I have 
not enough right to change it everywhere [3][4].

Please update the link, even on the home page of Jacobs University!

Thanks,
Zoltan

[1] http://www.foss4g-e.org/
[2] http://europe.foss4g.org/2014/
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1422
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2014
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] InterGeo

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Suchith,

I'll be there on tuesday (Intergeo) and wednesday (imaGIne).

Zoltan

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Suchith Anand wrote:


Is anyone  attending InterGeo next week  http://www.intergeo.de

If so, please let me know as it will good to have GeoforAll promoted. Thanks.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing 3rd Hungarian speeking FOSS4G community meeting

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear All,

the 3rd Hungarian speeking FOSS4G community meeting will be held on the 
21st of November 2014 at the Budapest University ot Technology and 
Economics. There will be presentations, discussions and workshops in a 
nutshell (one hour) on the one day event.


The (Hungarian only) web page of the event can be found here:
http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3

Best regards,
Zoltan
organizer of the event
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