[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes GeoCat as a Diamond Sponsor

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Press release:

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-welcomes-geocat-as-a-diamond-sponsor

OSGeo welcomes GeoCat as a Diamond Sponsor
---

Release date: 2024-01-10

GeoCat has committed to the highest level of OSGeo sponsorship with their
Diamond Sponsorship of the Foundation. GeoCat is a longtime international
leader in Free and Open Source Geospatial software and standards
implementation.

“With almost 20 years of OSGeo behind us, there is much to build on in the
decades ahead. We are proud to contribute at the highest sponsor level to
OSGeo’s mission, beyond the projects we are directly involved in.” says
GeoCat CEO Jeroen Ticheler. “Running the infrastructure, lowering the cost
of conferences, investing in existing and new community projects are all
vital to our community and to the world. We have supported this community
since our founding in 2007, and intend to do so for many years to come.”

“We welcome GeoCat as a Diamond Sponsor for 2024 and we would like to thank
GeoCat for their commitment all those years supporting the OSGeo mission”,
said OSGeo President Dr. Angelos Tzotsos. “It is brilliant to see companies
like GeoCat who have built successful businesses and services on the open
source geospatial tools, while contributing to OSGeo projects, helping to
ensure the ongoing sustainability of our community.”

Please visit osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor for more information
on becoming an OSGeo sponsor.

About GeoCat
---

Advanced software for publishing geographical data easily and efficiently

Solutions that help governments and companies visualize the world. That’s
what we like. Together we build the bridge from raw data to valuable
information about our living environment. With ‘open’ as the source of our
inspiration.

GeoCat offers cutting-edge, customized software and services that make
publishing geospatial data on the Internet easier and more efficient.
GeoCat are experts in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and
geospatial-enabled technologies.

GeoCat builds sustainable, standards compliant products following the Free
and Open Source Software philosophy and open standards. We help our
customers bridge to proprietary GIS software to enable hybrid
infrastructures. GeoCat products support Spatial Data Infrastructures for
organizations at the regional, national and international level.

Visit https://geocat.net for more information

About OSGeo
---

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial
technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open
philosophy and participatory community driven development.

The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent
legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and
advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and
provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving
cross-project collaboration.

Visit https://osgeo.org for more information.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2024 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

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(sorry for cross-posting)

Hi all: the 4th Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held
from 26-28 February 2024.  Full details on registration can be found at
[1] and [2].

As demonstrated in the past joint code sprints, this is a great
opportunity for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards in an agile/sprint
environment.

The OSGeo community is encouraged to sign up and participate!  Feel free
to add your project at [2].  Looking forward to seeing folks at this
upcoming sprint.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/events/2024-joint-ogc-osgeo-asf-code-sprint/
[2] 
https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/2024-Joint-OGC-%E2%80%93-OSGeo-%E2%80%93-ASF-Code-Sprint
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ZOO-Project graduates OSGeo Incubation

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Published at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/zoo-project-graduates-osgeo-incubation

Date: 2023-06-22


OSGeo is pleased to announce that ZOO-Project has graduated from incubation
and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. Gérald Fenoy, founder and chair of
the ZOO-Project Steering Committee (PSC), has been appointed as project
officer.

ZOO-Project is an open-source platform for implementing and developing
efficient tools for processing geospatial and non-geospatial data based on
the OGC standards.

Graduating incubation <https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation>
includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a
responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good
project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project
and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in
the viability and safety of the project.

The ZOO-Project Steering Committee collectively recognizes this as a big
progressive step for the project. ZOO-Project has been an active
contributor to various open source initiatives inside and outside OSGeo
such as FOSS4G, OSGeo Code Sprints, OGC Code Sprints, Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF
(Apache Software Foundation) Code Sprints, Google Summer of Code. The
ZOO-Project PSC says, “*We are excited about the future of the project and
have been working towards the incubation approval for a long time. It is
our honor to be an OSGeo incubated project”.*

OSGeo and ZOO-Project would like to thank Tom Kralidis, Dimitris Kotzinos,
Frank Warmerdam, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their assistance
during this Incubation process.

Congratulations to the ZOO-Project community!



About ZOO-Project

ZOO-Project is a Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation written in C,
Python and JavaScript. It is an open source platform which implements the
WPS 1.0.0, WPS 2.0.0, and OGC API – Processes – Part 1: Core standards
edited by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It provides a
developer-friendly framework for creating and chaining WPS compliant Web
Services. Additionally, it offers efficient tools for creating new
innovative web services and applications.

ZOO-Project is able to process geospatial or non geospatial data online.
Its core processing engine (aka ZOO-Kernel) lets you execute a number of
existing ZOO-Services based on reliable software and libraries. It also
gives you the ability to create your own WPS Services from new or existing
source code, which can be written in seven different programming languages.
That allows you to compose or turn code as WPS Services simply, with
straightforward configuration and standard coding methods.

ZOO-Project is very flexible with data input and output so you can process
almost any kind of data stored locally or accessed from remote servers and
databases. ZOO-Project excels in data processing and integrates new or
existing spatial data infrastructures, as it is able to communicate with
map servers and can integrate webmapping clients.



About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial
technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open
philosophy and participatory community driven development.

The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent
legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and
advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and
provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving
cross-project collaboration.

Visit osgeo.org for more information.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] osgeo.org update

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Thanks Regina.  When accessing the pycsw demo [1], I receive the following
error in my browser:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to demo.pycsw.org. Cannot communicate
securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

..Tom

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC_Service_Status#pycsw

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 4:26 PM Regina Obe  wrote:

> I've changed osgeo.org dns to cloudflare.
>
> Please check your osgeo.org sites to make sure they are working properly
> and
> report back to me if they are not.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2023 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

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(sorry for cross-posting)

Hi all: the 3nd Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held
from 25-27 April 2023.  Full details on registration can be found at
[1] and [2].

As demonstrated in the past joint code sprints, this is a great
opportunity for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards in an agile/sprint
environment.

The OSGeo community is encouraged to sign up and participate!  Feel free
to add your project at [2].  Looking forward to seeing folks at this
upcoming sprint.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/events/2023-open-standards-and-open-source-software-code-sprint
[2] 
https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/Open-Standards-and-Open-Source-Software-Code-Sprint
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2023 location and possible dates

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(sorry for the crosspost)

Hi all: FYI OSGeo, OGC and ASF are planning the 3rd annual joint code
sprint, building
on previous successful efforts [1][2].  The sprint will be hybrid in nature
(i.e. online and in person).

The sprint location will be in Switzerland (exact location TBA).  The
following dates are being considered:

1. 28 - 30 March
2. 25 - 27 April

We are looking for OSGeo community feedback on any preferences.

If you have a preference, please let me know by 08 January 2023.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/events/joint-ogc-osgeo-asf-code-sprint-2021
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/events/joint-ogc-osgeo-asf-code-sprint-2022
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo OGC Committee: call for participation

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Hi everyone.  As part of the new OSGeo MOU with OGC [1], we are in the
process of finalizing our membership agreement.

As an Associate Member of OGC, we are required to provide 2 representatives:

- business: The member contact for marketing and business-related issues,
such as membership renewal

- technical committee: The member representative to the TC and its working
groups.  In this case, OSGeo does
not have voting rights in the TC, but does have voting rights within
standards working groups

We are bootstrapping an OSGeo committee for OGC participation [2].  This
committee will decide on the above
roles and coordinate membership.

Please let me know if you are interested in participating in the committee
by end of day 22 July 2022.

Once the committee is established, we will have an initial meeting and
decide / finalize the representatives and next steps with OGC.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding
[2] https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/82
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC and OSGeo have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding

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(apologies for cross posting)

Hi all: FYI please find below the joint press release from OGC and OSGeo:

OGC: https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4709

OSGeo:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ogc-and-osgeo-sign-new-memorandum-of-understanding

This marks a significant milestone for OSGeo and OGC collaboration.  The
resulting MOU will provide
the framework and opportunity for increased OSGeo participation and
interoperability in FOSS4G.

A big thank you to the OSGeo Standards community and mailing list, as well
as the OGC MOU review team!!

Thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] upcoming WMO WIS 2.0 Introduction to Industry Workshop

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Hi all: FYI the World Meteorological Organization will be holding an industry 
workshop on 22 June 2022, which will focus on the next generation of WMO data 
exchange activities.  Topics that will be presented/discussed include the WMO 
Information System (WIS 2.0) architecture and implementation plan, as well as 
the "WIS 2.0 in a box" open source reference implementation.

More information and registration information can be found at:

https://community.wmo.int/meetings/wis2-introduction-industry-workshop

Thanks

..Tom

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

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(sorry for cross-posting)

Hi all: the 2nd Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held
from 08-10 March 2022.  Full details on registration can be found at [1].

As demonstrated in the initial joint code sprint, this is a great
opportunity
for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards in an agile/sprint
environment.

The OSGeo community is encouraged to sign up and participate!  Feel free
to add your project at [2].  Looking forward to seeing folks at the
upcoming sprint.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4659
[2]
https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/2022-Joint-OGC-%E2%80%93-OSGeo-%E2%80%93-ASF-Code-Sprint
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community program welcomes the Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) project

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Hi all: OSGeo is pleased to welcome the Mesh Data Abstraction Library
(MDAL) project to our
Community program.  MDAL is a translator library for more than 15
unstructured mesh geospatial
formats used mainly in meteorology and hydrology.

Please see [1] and [2] for the news item and Tweet.  Welcome to the
MDAL project!

Thanks

..Tom

[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-community-program-welcomes-the-mesh-data-abstraction-library-mdal-project/
[2] https://twitter.com/OSGeo/status/1410634600150360064
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community program welcomes the Open Data Cube project

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Hi all: OSGeo is pleased to welcome the Open Data Cube project to our
Community

program. The Open Data Cube project is an open source geospatial data
management and

analysis software project that helps harness the power of satellite data.


Please see [1] and [2] for the news item and Tweet.  Welcome to the ODC
project!

Thanks

..Tom

[1]
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-community-program-welcomes-the-open-data-cube-project
[2] https://twitter.com/OSGeo/status/1399833529509371907
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC CITE compliance testing

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Dirk: thanks for the info. I believe SAC has setup a Drone instance
[1] that we
can likely look into using these as a means for hosting and running CITE via
CI?  We also need to get a better idea of what CITE test suites are available
as Docker images.

Having said this, it would be great to programmatically run CITE testing as
part of CI workflow.  Let's continue the ideas and discussion on the -standards
mailing list?  This will benefit numerous projects and their standards
support as
part of our collaboration with OGC.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://dronie.osgeo.org


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:32 AM Dirk Stenger  wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am writing as being an active deegree (https://www.deegree.org/)
> developer but also being part of the OGC CITE team.
>
> We, the deegree community, are planning to update the test
> infrastructure to make sure that all new deegree releases are fully
> compliant to the OGC specs.
>
> I saw that OSGeo created a wiki page
> (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services) tackling this
> topic and that it was presented during the last AGM.
>
> As the deegree community is highly interested working closely together
> with OSGeo and OGC, a couple of questions came up:
>
> - I remember that OSGeo wanted to support integrating OGC CITE tests to
> project infrastructures making it easy to execute the CITE tests. Is
> there any documentation about the results? Maybe, the deegree community
> can also profit from the results and help to improve them.
> - Are there any other projects using automated OGC CITE tests? Maybe,
> the deegree community can cooperate with them which might help both
> sides to improve their CITE testing capabilities.
>
> Regards,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo OGC MOU update

[Tom Kralidis]

(sorry for the crosspost)

Hi all: as part of last week's Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2021,
Angelos, Scott Simmons and I met to discuss the state of the OSGeo/OGC
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).  As you may be aware, this was
identified for action at the last face-to-face Board meeting in 2019
at Bucharest.
Analysis and opportunities are described at [1].

The next steps will be to start developing an initial draft MOU for
community feedback.

We have identified a team to provide an initial review from OSGeo at
[1].  If you would like to review and/or provide feedback, please let me know.

Cheers

..Tom

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Establishes Category A Liaison with ISO/TC 211

[Tom Kralidis]

From 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-establishes-category-a-liaison-with-iso-tc-211/

In support of OSGeo’s continued commitment to standards and
interoperability, OSGeo and ISO/TC 211 have established a Category A
liaison, effective 31 July 2020. The liaison will enable OSGeo to make
effective contributions to ISO/TC 211 as well gain insight into
current and emerging ISO/TC 211 standards.

Angelos Tzotsos, President of OSGeo, commented, “Open Source
Geospatial Foundation is committed to support and promote open source
software and open standards. The liaison with ISO/TC 211 will
strengthen the voice of open source geospatial projects and provide
opportunities to contribute to open standards. We are looking forward
to working together with ISO/TC 211”.

”An ISO International Standard embodies the essential principles of
global openness and transparency, consensus and technical coherence”,
commented Agneta Gren Engberg, chair of ISO/TC 211. “These are
safeguarded through its development in an ISO Technical Committee,
representative of all interested parties, supported by a public
comment phase. ISO/TC 211 looks forward to the mutual benefits of the
liaison relation with OSGeo.”

Initially communicated at the OSGeo 2020 Annual General Meeting,
participation is open to anyone in OSGeo. Members wishing to
participate in ISO/TC 211 activities are encouraged and advised to
visit the OSGeo wiki
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ISO-TC211_Liaison#OSGeo_Participation)
for more detailed information.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open
geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation
devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven
development.

About ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 is a Technical Committee of the International Organization
for Standardization, focused on the standardization in the field of
digital geographic information, which aims to establish a structured
set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that
are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the
Earth.

ISO/TC 211 standards may specify, for geographic information, methods,
tools and services for data management (including definition and
description), acquiring, processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting
and transferring such data in digital/electronic form between
different users, systems and locations. The work shall link to
appropriate standards for information technology and data where
possible, and provide a framework for the development of
sector-specific applications using geographic data.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: as per [1], please find my Board candidate manifesto at [2].

Best of luck to all candidates -- thank you!

..Tom

[1] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020#Campaign_period_-_2020-11-26_-_2020-12-03_.287_days.29
[2] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020_Candidate_Manifestos#4._Tom_Kralidis.2C_Canada_.28OSGeo_profile.29
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsorship opportunities 2020

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: OSGeo sponsorship opportunities for 2020 have just been
announced in [1][2].

While it goes without saying that 2020 is unlike previous years, the
OSGeo community
continues to be resilient.  Support your favourite OSGeo projects,
initiatives and events
and leverage the benefits of becoming an OSGeo sponsor!

Thanks and stay safe.

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-sponsorship-opportunities-2020
[2] https://twitter.com/OSGeo/status/1276202667690397698
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[OSGeo-Discuss] W3C/OGC Joint Workshop Series on Maps for the Web

[Tom Kralidis]

(apologies for cross-posting)

Hi all: I hope everyone is doing well during these times.

FYI there will be a joint virtual W3C/OGC workshop on web mapping in
September 2020 [1][2].

This workshop series brings together experts in geographic standards
and Web map data
services, Web mapping client tools and applications, and Web platform
standards and browser
development, to explore the potential of maps for the Web.

It would be great to have a strong OSGeo/FOSS4G presence from our
fabulous projects. Given
the obvious synergies and web mapping based projects in our community,
this is a great
opportunity to showcase our projects and participate in discussions
with W3C/OGC on 'mapping'
out the future of maps for the Web.  Presentations, hack sessions and
position statements are
various ways of participating [3].

Note that the registration deadline has been extended to 15 July 2020.
Hoping to see some of
our projects at this exciting event!

Thanks

..Tom (part of the workshop program committee)

[1] https://www.w3.org/2020/maps
[2] https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/call-for-participation
[3] https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/call-for-participation#how-to-participate
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Certification Services for OGC Compliance and Reference Implementations

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: as announced on [1], does your FOSS4G project implement or is
compliant to Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications? Given OSGeo’s Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU)
with the OGC, OSGeo provides certification services for community,
incubating or official projects.

Please see the wiki [2] for more information on these services
provided for the community in support
of open standards and our ongoing collaboration with OGC.

Cheers

..Tom

[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time for me to move on from OSGeo

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Cameron: sorry to hear this, but happy for you.  Having
known/worked with you on/off
over many years (circa MapBuilder), I can say you have a great
capability for future
state/high level and architecture, as well as being ready to get into
the corners to deliver
just the same.

Thanks for your invaluable contributions and best of luck in your
future endeavors.

..Tom

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:46 AM Cameron Shorter
 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I've decided that I need to significantly step back from my involvement in 
> OSGeo activities.
> I've picked up my involvement in tech writing in open source, focused around 
> https://thegooddocsproject.dev and I need to drop some things.
> I've also moved my career toward tech writing.
>
> As such, I offer my retirement notice to all of the OSGeo committees that 
> I've been involved in. (Feel free to move me into the retired section of 
> committees.)
> I will hover around the edges of OSGeoLive, and OSGeoLexicon, and will be 
> available if people reach out to me directly.
> But I've been here for over a decade. It is time for me to try something new, 
> and create space for others.
>
> Good luck to everyone. OSGeo has done some great things and I'm sure will do 
> much more.
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: call for participation on OSGeo/OGC MOU review

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: FYI per below.

Thanks

..Tom

-- Forwarded message -
From: Tom Kralidis 
Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:03 PM
Subject: call for participation on OSGeo/OGC MOU review
To: 


FYI at the OSGeo Board 2019 face-to-face meeting in Bucharest,
one of the topics covered was the OSGeo / OGC Memorandum of
Understanding [1].  OSGeo and OGC agreed that it would be a good
time to review and update the MOU as required to reflect current
requirements and opportunities.

There are already a few of us that will be helping out on this activity, but
given that help is always welcome, if you would like to participate please
let me know.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My last letter as President

[Tom Kralidis]

María: thank you for your valuable contributions and looking forward to future 
collaboration. Best of luck!

..Tom

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 4, 2019, at 02:09, María Arias de Reyna  wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow OSGeoers,
> 
> I want to congratulate all the recently elected members of the Board,
> specially the new ones! I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did
> and contribute with your unique view to our organization. I want to
> thank all the people that helped me on this two-year journey and I
> hope I helped others on this journey too. OSGeo is evolving to be more
> inclusive, diverse and bigger than ever and I am proud of you all.
> 
> As some of you may know, some months ago I decided to go back into the
> barricades and far from public exposure. I think rotating positions
> inside a voluntary organization is something very healthy to do and
> gives you a unique perspective. That's why I decided to participate on
> a proposal for FOSS4G 2021 and not repeat elections again for the
> Board.
> 
> I hereby resign as President to let one of the current members of the
> Board take this position. I have always a strong advocate that this
> kind of positions should be taken by Board members, so I want to
> explicitly facilitate the transition. Our current vice-presidents
> Helena Mitasova and Angelos Tzotsos will fill the space until a new
> President is appointed.
> 
> I have to say I'm still a bit sad of the geographic, cultural and
> ethnic representation on the Board. I am sure we can change this on
> the following years. Until then, I am confident current members of the
> Board will do a great job representing you all.
> 
> See you all in Calgary in 2020!
> María, your former OSGeo President.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Tom Kralidis]

Thanks to outgoing board members and welcome new board members!

..Tom

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 6:43 AM Angelos Tzotsos  wrote:
>
> Congratulations to the new Board members and a big thank you to the previous 
> board members who served with us.
> It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:30 PM Jorge Sanz  wrote:
>>
>> Congrats to the new Board members and a big thank you to the rest of the 
>> nominees; the full group was amazing and I really hope you all find time to 
>> keep working with the foundation in the way that suits you better.
>>
>> Again Jorge and Anne thanks for your efforts this year as CRO \o/
>>
>> Cheers!!
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 11:40, Jorge Gustavo Rocha  wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear OSGeo community,
>>>
>>> These are the results from the 2019 elections for the 5 open
>>> seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors.
>>>
>>> The results in alphabetical order are:
>>>
>>> * Astrid Emde
>>> * Codrina Maria Ilie
>>> * Helena Mitasova
>>> * Till Adams
>>> * Vicky Vergara
>>>
>>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process - all
>>> are deeply engaged in our community and inspired us by their example.
>>>
>>> Election figures are:
>>>
>>> * Membership: 462
>>> * Valid votes: 302
>>>
>>> The complete resulting Board for 2019/2020 is:
>>>
>>> * Angelos Tzotsos
>>> * Astrid Emde
>>> * Codrina Maria Ilie
>>> * Helena Mitasova
>>> * Michael Smith
>>> * Till Adams
>>> * Tom Kralidis
>>> * Vicky Vergara
>>> * Victoria Rautenbach
>>>
>>> The wiki page was updated with the results [1].
>>>
>>> We would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part in the
>>> elections. Special thanks go to Regina Obe who was very helpful to bring
>>> LimeSurvey back to life on Saturday.
>>>
>>> Congratulations to the new board members!
>>>
>>> Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
>>> (your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#OSGeo_Foundation_Board_of_Directors
>>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC API Hackathon 2019 updates

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: nice seeing OSGeo presence at this event.  We've put
forth a report in [1] of progress of various projects.  Please feel
free to update the wiki if I've missed anything.  I'll forward the report
from OGC once it is made available.

It's an exciting time to be on the cusp of the next gen OGC API
efforts, and looking forward to continued collaboration with/from
OSGeo/FOSS4G projects moving forward.

Cheers

..Tom

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_API_Hackathon_June_2019#Updates
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] World Meteorological Organization reform

[Tom Kralidis]

Thanks Suchith.  This is an exciting way forward at WMO.  With more WMO
activities being managed in the open [1], as well as the increasing evolution
of WMO standards leveraging from the OGC and beyond, the barrier
to weather, climate and water data will continue to lower and be accessible
to/as/from geospatial tooling and workflows.  Stay tuned!

..Tom

[1] https://github.com/wmo-im

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 9:37 AM Suchith Anand
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> Might be of interest. WMO Reform aims has been published. The reform aims to 
> coordinate systems of observation and data management, to standardize 
> observations and measurements, to provide mechanisms for engaging with 
> partners beyond the WMO community and to harmonize services for decision 
> making and socioeconomic benefits. Details at
>
>
> https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/world-meteorological-congress-drives-more-integrated-earth-systems-strategy
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G projects at OGC API Hackathon

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi everyone: as part of our ongoing OSGeo/OGC coordination, and given
the synergy
of FOSS4G projects and OGC standards, we would like to coordinate/track our
presence at the OGC API Hackathon in June [1].  This will provide
value in terms of having a sense of FOSS4G projects involvement as part
of this important effort at OGC.  This will also help coordinate involvement
at future hackathons / code sprints at both OSGeo code sprints (i.e. perhaps
a dedicated interoperability theme) or OGC Hackathons.

I've put forth a wiki page to try to get a better idea of participation of
FOSS4G projects at [2].  If you are participating and registered to the event,
please feel free to sign up at [2].

Cheers

..Tom

[1] https://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_API_Hackathon_June_2019
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado

[Tom Kralidis]

The forthcoming OGC API Hackathon should help clarify much of these discussions.
Agree with Chris' endpoint patterns.  I would probably update the CSW
endpoints like:

/collections/search
/search

To be continued -- stay tuned!

..Tom

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 4:27 PM Stefan Keller  wrote:
>
> Dear Chris (dear all)
>
> Thanks, Chris, again for your detailed answer and explanation.
>
> We've implemented a tiny WFS3 server in Go and I'm just stumbled over
> the response requiring a “self-link” (rel=“self” which includes the
> collectionId).
> Is that really mandatory - and what's it used for?
>
> (Tell me where to move with this discussion if this list isn't the right 
> place).
>
> :Stefan
>
>
> Am Fr., 3. Mai 2019 um 16:41 Uhr schrieb Chris Holmes :
> >
> > Hey Stefan, I composed a pretty long message on my view on ideal 
> > relationship between STAC and CSW, I'll paste it in below. The main 
> > conceptual thing to me is that most CSW's have been about 'layer' level 
> > search, and image / 'asset' level search is actually different. In OGC 
> > history the 'ebrim profile' of CSW actually did the image / asset level 
> > search well. But in my opinion they are different enough that we shouldn't 
> > group them all in one thing. An asset level catalog could/should be 
> > equivalent to a 'data cube', and so should slot at the 'layer' level.
> >
> > As for schema.org, we've made attempts to align with it, but at the level 
> > where STAC is transformed into HTML output. See 
> > https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/blob/dev/catalog-spec/catalog-best-practices.md#stac-on-the-web
> >  for info on how we think about HTML & STAC, and in particular the 
> > sub-section on schema.org, etc.
> >
> > The in depth view I wrote on csw and stac is:
> >
> >
> > The ideal relationship between CSW, WFS and STAC is that WFS _is_ the api 
> > that all three use. STAC and CSW should just be specialized content - they 
> > use the same API response, but the JSON responses must comply with 
> > particular JSON Schemas. With STAC the core is id, geometry, datetime, 
> > links and assets - 
> > https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/blob/master/item-spec/item-spec.md#item-fields
> >  Any WFS Item that meets the STAC Schema could be considered part of STAC. 
> > STAC also includes an ecosystem of more particular types that build on that 
> > base. So the Electro-Optical extension has more fields that comply to a 
> > schema that can be added and queried. The goal is to encourage more bottom 
> > up communities of interest. But any of those can be queried from the STAC 
> > endpoint. That's the vision at least, and we're trying to align with WFS to 
> > do it, but there's more work needed, which I'll detail below.
> >
> > Then to me CSW should be a set of fields that describe a collection of 
> > data. So it'd have like title, license, keywords, spatial and temporal 
> > extents, etc. Could theoretically just use the same fields that CSW 3.0 
> > defined, and make those a JSON content type. Define the schema, and then a 
> > 'CSW 4.0' would just be a WFS 3 that serves up that content. WFS 3 still 
> > hasn't quite specified its query language afaik, so maybe CSW4 requires a 
> > particular richer query language. But it should be the same query language 
> > that is at least an option for WFS. Thus any WFS client could naively query 
> > a catalog, requesting the fields it needs and getting the response. A CSW 4 
> > client would be an extension to the WFS one that perhaps takes advantage of 
> > some more expectations. It could be possible that you would add like 
> > 'harvesting' extensions for CSW 4, but those should be generic WFS API 
> > mechanisms. So a CSW is a WFS endpoint that meets a set schema definition - 
> > whatever flavor of dublin core works best - plus it may also specify some 
> > required WFS API extensions that should be used.
> >
> > I do think there is an opportunity to combine WFS and CSW even more, by 
> > aligning the schema of CSW with the response in the 
> > /collection/{collectionId} endpoint in WFS. Like the way it defines 
> > extents, title, etc. should be the same as the CSW JSON response. Ideally 
> > CSW defines additional fields that are useful for defining a dataset, and 
> > then the WFS /collection/{collectionId} endpoint can use those same fields. 
> > This would make it so every WFS is 'harvestable' by a CSW. And then any WFS 
> > could supply a special /collections/csw endpoint, that exposes the metadata 
> > of all the other collections that are in that WFS.
> >
> > So basically CSW should be the summary of dataset / collection level 
> > metadata, available through the WFS API. And then STAC is 'asset' level 
> > metadata - references to other types of geographic files that can be 
> > downloaded. So one could easily see a service that implements all three:
> >
> > /collections/buildings/ (a standard WFS layer - a set of vectors)
> > /collections/landsat/ (a STAC (and EO 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ApacheCon geospatial track, Sept 9th.

[Tom Kralidis]

(Sorry for cross posting)

Hi all: per below from George/OGC. Feel free to contact George if you are 
interested I presenting at ApacheCon in September.

Cheers

..Tom

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

> From: George Percivall 
> Date: May 20, 2019 at 11:52:09 EDT
> To: Tom Kralidis 
> Subject: ApacheCon geospatial track, Sept 9th.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> We have an open slot for the ApacheCon NA 2019  Geospatial Track.   
> The call for presentations has closed. 
> We have great proposals including: Lucene/Elastic, GeoSpark, Flink/H3
> 
> I believe several OsGeo projects build on Apache projects.
> Would OSGeo be interested in making a presentation at  how you are using 
> Apache projects?
> I am contacting a couple organizations - first come, first serve.
> 
> ApacheConNA will be September 9-13, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
> The Geospatial Track is Monday Sept 9th.
> 
> Regards,
> George
> 
> ++
> 
> ApacheConNA 2019 Geospatial Track:  
> - September 9th, 2019, Las Vegas
> 
> Multiple Apache projects include geospatial information and processing.  The 
> Geospatial Track at ApacheCon is an opportunity to discuss geospatial 
> information implementations in Apache projects.   The track will consider a 
> range of geospatial implementations ranging from location as an attribute, to 
> projects which perform spatial analytics including handling of coordinate 
> reference systems (CRSs), geometries and arrays. Emphasis is invited on the 
> use of open standards including the recently updated CRS Well Known Text, 
> version 2 from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).  The geospatial track 
> will foster discussions leading to reduced development effort through reuse 
> and increased quality of geospatial information handling.  Discussions about 
> this track are invited on geospat...@apache.org 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] updates to bylaws

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: FYI we've made a revision to the bylaws [1][2] to reflect
the current state of board memberships as two year periods.  Please
see section 5.2 of the bylaws for more information.  This will be
presented at this year's AGM as well.

Cheers

..Tom

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws
[2] https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/34
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Tom Kralidis]

Scott: thanks for the info.  Note that there is also opportunity for remote
participation, if this can be considered (i.e. Gitter channnel, etc.).

Cheers

..Tom

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Scott Simmons wrote:


Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:05:39 -0600
From: Scott Simmons 
To: tomkrali...@gmail.com
Cc: Jeff Harrison ,
OSGeo Discussions , standa...@lists.osgeo.org,
"Harrison, Jeffrey G Agc" 
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

Jeff,

We will be releasing more information in the coming week or so as we finalize 
details for the hackathon.

Best Regards,
Scott

Scott Simmons
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mob +1 970 214 9467
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On Mar 31, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Tom Kralidis  wrote:

Jeff: thanks for the info.  I would imagine that this info will be forthcoming;
as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates accordingly.

..Tom

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Tom,

Thank you.  Looks very interesting.

Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed it. If 
there isn't one that's OK too.

Regards,
Jeff



On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com>> wrote:

(sorry for the cross-posting).

Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant
efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
of the future in the context of features, maps, coverages, processes,
catalogues and more.

If your project implements OGC clients/servers, this event provides
a great opportunity to help evolve and define the next generation of
these standards along with other developers.

For more information on the OGC API Hackathon, please see [1].

Cheers

..Tom

[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Tom Kralidis]

Jeff: thanks for the info.  I would imagine that this info will be forthcoming;
as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates accordingly.

..Tom

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison  wrote:
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> Tom,
>
> Thank you.  Looks very interesting.
>
> Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed it. If 
> there isn't one that's OK too.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
> > On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis  wrote:
> >
> > (sorry for the cross-posting).
> >
> > Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
> > June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant
> > efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
> > This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
> > of the future in the context of features, maps, coverages, processes,
> > catalogues and more.
> >
> > If your project implements OGC clients/servers, this event provides
> > a great opportunity to help evolve and define the next generation of
> > these standards along with other developers.
> >
> > For more information on the OGC API Hackathon, please see [1].
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > ..Tom
> >
> > [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Tom Kralidis]

(sorry for the cross-posting).

Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant
efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
of the future in the context of features, maps, coverages, processes,
catalogues and more.

If your project implements OGC clients/servers, this event provides
a great opportunity to help evolve and define the next generation of
these standards along with other developers.

For more information on the OGC API Hackathon, please see [1].

Cheers

..Tom

[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2018 Board of Directors elections results

[Tom Kralidis]

Thank you to CRO, the new and returning board members and the OSGeo community. 

It is an honour and a privilege to be elected. Thank you for your support and 
looking forward to more great things in OSGeo!

..Tom


> On Dec 4, 2018, at 01:14, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:
> 
> Please find below the link for the results wiki page
> 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2018_Results
> 
> -Vasile
> 
>> On 12/4/18 7:56 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>> Dear OSGeo community,
>> These are the results from the 2018 elections for the 4 open
>> seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
>> order are:
>> * Angelos Tzotsos
>> * Michael Smith
>> * Tom Kralidis
>> * Victoria Rautenbach
>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process!
>> Election figures are:
>> * Membership: 427
>> * Valid votes: 341
>> There were no scores to arbitrate.
>> The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2018/2019 is:
>> * María Arias de Reyna
>> * Astrid Emde
>> * Jody Garnett
>> * Jeff McKenna
>> * Helena Mitasova
>> * Angelos Tzotsos
>> * Michael Smith
>> * Tom Kralidis
>> * Victoria Rautenbach
>> Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!
>> The wiki page was updated with the detailed results [1].
>> That being said, I would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part in 
>> elections and for keeping OSGeo strong. This is really important! Of course, 
>> we had a few glitches along the way. Thank you for patience and to SAC for 
>> the quick response.
>> Special thanks go to my CRO helpers, Vicky & Jorge, for all the energy and 
>> hard work committed during this very busy period. Your support means a lot 
>> to me!
>> This is also my last post as member of OSGeo Board of Directors. It was a 
>> great pleasure and honor to serve the community from this position. I'm 
>> confided that the new board will do a great job. Best of luck!
>> Thank you all for caring for OSGeo,
>> Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
>> CRO 2018
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Vicky: thanks for the info, good question.

IMHO one possible option might be webinars/sprints
in which people register for and an online workshop
ensues.  For example, we did a pycsw webinar workshop in 2013
and the benefits continue to manifest (real world operational
implementations).  This would augment nicely the
workshops that typically happen at FOSS4G events, with the
added benefit of reaching out to more people.

..Tom

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:38 AM Vicky Vergara  wrote:
>
> Hi Tom
>
> Starting a nomination discussion :)
>
> I was reading:
> "continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for 
> anyone"
> which leads me to think of Education.
>
> Can you expand the topic on possible ideas that might be in your mind?
>
> And thanks for your manifesto.
>
> Regards
> Vicky
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:23 PM Tom Kralidis  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all: as per [1], please find my candidate manifesto at [2]
>>
>> Best of luck to all candidates -- thank you!
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018#Campaign_period_-_2018-11-19_-_2018-11-25_.281_week.29
>> [2] 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Tom_Kralidis
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: as per [1], please find my candidate manifesto at [2]

Best of luck to all candidates -- thank you!

..Tom

[1] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018#Campaign_period_-_2018-11-19_-_2018-11-25_.281_week.29
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Tom_Kralidis
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Matthew Hanson

[Tom Kralidis]

Seconded +1.

..Tom

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Jeff McKenna
 wrote:
> Forwarding Matthew Hanson nomination by Jeff Johnson. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
>
> I would like to nominate Matthew Hanson as a charter member of OSGeo.
>
> Matt has been contributing to open source geospatial projects for
> several years, starting with GeoNode and Gippy, and now is the primary
> maintainer of Development Seed's open source collection of tools
> called sat-utils and one of the main developers for Cumulus, the NASA
> cloud-based data distribution framework.  He has also started other
> open source projects for performing coastline extraction. He gives
> talks regularly at open source conferences including the last 5 FOSS4G
> events as well as several local FOSS4Gs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jeff Johnson
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

[Tom Kralidis]

Strongly seconded. To add, Sean's valuable contributions also include
early days of MapServer Python (MapScript) support.


..Tom

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:


Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:29:17 +0300
From: Vasile Craciunescu 
To: OSGeo Discussions 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

Forwarding Sean Gillies nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:11:39 -0500
From:   Sara Safavi 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 


I would like to nominate Sean Gillies for OSGeo Charter Membership. I 
feel Sean's substantial contributions to our community speak for 
themselves, but a quick summary: Sean is the creator of the Fiona & 
Rasterio Python libraries, as well as one of the main authors of the 
GeoJSON spec. Without Sean's work many of us would be crying over our 
keyboards every day!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

[Tom Kralidis]

+1

..Tom

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, María Arias de Reyna wrote:


Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:44:35 +0200
From: María Arias de Reyna 
To: Vasile Craciunescu 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions ,
OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

+1

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Vasile Craciunescu
 wrote:

Forwarding Steven Ottens nomination by Volker Mische. The 2017 member
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Steven Ottens
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:50:42 +0200
From: Volker Mische 
To: c...@osgeo.org
CC: Steven Ottens 

I'd like to nominate Steven Ottens as OSGeo Charter Member. He is a long
time member of the community, founder and former board member of the
OSGeo Dutch language chapter. He gave talks and workshops at several
FOSS4Gs and also contributed to projects like OpenLayers, MapBuilder and
MapQuery.

Cheers,
  Volker

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Quality of Service and Experience DWG Survey

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all:

The OGC Quality of Service and Experience (QoSE) Domain Working Group are
seeking to establish currently used methods and metrics for evaluating
Quality of Service in web services. As part of this chartered work we would
appreciate if those who are running or considering running spatial web
services could fill in the survey linked below.

https://goo.gl/forms/YurmlreQM9iPqbui1

Survey responses will be kept anonymous. If you have any questions please
contact us at qose@lists.opengeospatial.org and for more information see
the wiki http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/QualityOfService

Note that we welcome input from the geomatics sector at large, and the survey
is open to anyone, so feel free to circulate as desired.

Your input is most appreciated.

Thanks

..Tom (co-chair of the OGC QoSE DWG)

[1] http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/QualityOfService
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Micah Wengren

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: I would like to nominate Micah Wengren [1] for OSGeo Charter
Membership.  Micah is with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and has been a proponent of open source at NOAA (GeoNode,
GeoServer) since 2007. He has been a core committer to the GeoNode project
since 2014.

More recently, he has been active in the open data community, deploying,
developing, and supporting open source software for data discovery within
NOAA and in supporting other US Federal agencies through implementation of
the Federal GeoCloud interagency pilot project from 2012 to 2015.  Currently
he contributes to the open source software ecosystem of the US Integrated
Ocean Observing System (IOOS) [2] to publish ocean observations and forecast
products for US coastal waters.

Micah would be an asset to OSGeo charter membership given his background and
interest in FOSS4G.

..Tom

[1] https://github.com/mwengren
[2] https://github.com/ioos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Rich Signell

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: I would like to nominate Dr. Rich Signell [1] for OSGeo Charter
Membership.

Rich is a research oceanographer with the US Geological Survey and a strong
longtime proponent of data sharing and standards.

Rich's pragmatic approach and strong use of FOSS4G are evident in his numerous
contributions to a variety of FOSS4G projects (pycsw, OWSLib, etc.).  Also,
his vision and focus on integration/chaining, reproducible workflows via
Python notebooks and open process have greatly helped demonstrate and showcase
capabilities of FOSS4G and standards in the ocean, atmospheric and climate
modelling communities.

In closing, Rich is a believer (echo'ing nhv from awhile back) and would be
a great asset to OSGeo as a charter member.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://github.com/rsignell-usgs
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

[Tom Kralidis]

Thanks Mateusz: great idea and thanks for leading off.

I've made slight updates for pycsw. Should we
have a column for use of servers like AdhocVM[1] ?

..Tom

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



On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Mateusz Loskot wrote:


Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:31:11 +0100
From: Mateusz Loskot 
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for
update

Hi,

I've gathered some data about the current use of OSGeo infrastructure
by OSGeo projects, versus use of external services:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo

I'd like to ask members of individual projects to have a look and
apply corrections and updates wherever necessary.

Thanks all in advance!

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Margherita: thanks for the update -- this is great news!

Given pycsw is part of this year's OSGeo offering I'd like to sign up as a
mentor.  I've done so at [1], however I cannot see how to register as a mentor
on [2].  Is there a specific area I should be looking at/for?

Cheers

..Tom

[1] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors
[2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Margherita Di Leo wrote:


Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:33:53 +0100
From: Margherita Di Leo 
To: OSGeo Discussions ,
OSGeo-SoC 
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC
2017!

Dear OSGeo community,

We are proud to announce that OSGeo has been selected as a mentor
organization for the 2017 edition of GSoC! See all selected orgs here [1].

From now *until March 20*, potential student participants are invited to
discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations/OSGeo’s projects
(see the detailed timeline [2]).

Mentors are invited to let us know the project they intend to mentor, and
to register on the Google webpage [3]. *Before committing for mentorship,
please read and accept the mentor’s responsibilities * [4].

Once we have verified the correspondence between the mentors and the idea,
we will proceed to appointing them in our wiki page at [5] and connect the
mentors to the OSGeo organization on the Google website, from which it’ll
be possible for the mentors to evaluate the proposals. Mentors: please
offer guidance to the students that contact your software communities, and
offer them a code challenge in line with the project that they want to
apply for.

Would-be students: please read carefully the recommendations at: [6] and
browse the ideas page at [7]

*All: please subscribe the soc mailing list *[8].

Let’s begin!!

Cheers,

The OSGeo GSoC Team


[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/

[2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

[3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

[4]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#A_Mentor.27s_Responsibilities

[5]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors

[6]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students

[7] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas

[8] http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/soc


--
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

[Tom Kralidis]

Congratulations to the new Board! Kudos as well to the impressive list of 
nominees.

..Tom

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 5, 2016, at 04:59, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> 
> Dear OSGeo community,
> 
> These are the results from the 2016 elections[1] for the 4 open
> seats[2]  of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical
> order are:
> 
> * Angelos Tzotsos
> * Maria Antonia Brovelli
> * Michael Smith
> * Vasile Craciunescu
> 
> Thanks to all candidates to oging through the elections process.
> Election figures are:
> 
> * 78.8% participation (246 of 312)
> * 6 incomplete responses
> * 60 members not opened the voting
> 
> There were no scores to arbitrate. Thank you all who voted!!
> 
> The complete resulting Board for 2016/2017 is:
> 
> * Angelos Tzotsos
> * Anita Graser
> * Helena Mitasova
> * Jody Garnett
> * Maria Antonia Brovelli
> * Michael Smith
> * Sanghee Shin
> * Vasile Craciunescu
> * Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> Maybe it's my impression but is not the most diverse Board we've had?
> Anyway, I will update the wiki pages for the Board of Directors ASAP.
> 
> Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!
> 
> A warm thank you for the outgoing Directors Maxi and Dirk for all your
> efforts for the Foundation, looking forward to keep seeing your hard
> work for the community in many other fronts.
> 
> My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
> detailed results[3] as soon as possible. I want to give a big thank
> you to everyone for your cooperation but specially to Jeff McKenna for
> his always close look to all my actions fixing small issues and taking
> care of the job when I was absent. I will open a separate thread for a
> couple of discussions about this process and also a small
> retrospective and lessons learnt.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2016
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2016
> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2016_Results
> 
> -- 
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> http://www.osgeo.org
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGEO Board: Jeffrey Johnson

[Tom Kralidis]

I second Tim's nomination. Jeff (or jj0hns0n :) is passionate and committed
to FOSS4G.  He is very personable, forward thinking and would be a great
asset in serving on the Board.

..Tom

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

> Forwarding Jeffrey Johnson nomination for the Board of Directors by Tim
> Sutton
>
> All the best
>
> --
> Jorge Sanz
> CRO 2016
> -- Mensaje reenviado --
> De: "Tim Sutton" 
> Fecha: 13 sept. 2016 22:54
> Asunto: Nomination for OSGEO Board: Jeffrey Johnson
> Para: "OSGeo Chief Returning Officer" 
> Cc:
>
> I would like to nominate Jeffrey Johnson for a position on the OSGEO
>> board. Jeffrey is an extremely energetic and active proponent of FOSSGIS.
>> Among other things, Jeff is co-founder of the US QGIS User's Group and
>> co-maintainer of the GeoNode project. His friendly enthusiastic approach
>> and desire to marry business interests with his passion of FOSS GIS will be
>> a great asset for OSGEO. I believe that as an OSGEO board member, Jeff will
>> exert a positive influence on how the OSGEO project is managed and
>> perceived by members of the public at large.
>>
>> I have made contact with Jeffrey prior to sending this email and he is
>> happy to accept my nomination.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>> —
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Tim Sutton*
>>
>> *Co-founder:* Kartoza
>> *Project chair:* QGIS.org 
>>
>> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
>>
>> Desktop GIS programming services
>> Geospatial web development
>> GIS Training
>> Consulting Services
>>
>> *Skype*: timlinux
>> *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
>>
>> Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Angelos Tzotsos

[Tom Kralidis]

To clarify: I should have said I second Jeff's nomination.

..Tom

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkrali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I second Jorge's nomination.  Angelos' tireless dedication to OSGeo
> and versatility are a great fit for being on the Board in support of evolving
> and moving forward OSGeo.
>
> ..Tom
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Forwarding Angelos Tzotsos nomination to the board of directors by Jeff
>> McKenna
>>
>> Best,
>> Jorge
>> CRO 2016
>>
>> -- Mensaje reenviado --
>> De: "Jeff McKenna" <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>
>> Fecha: 8 sept. 2016 19:22
>> Asunto: Board nomination for Angelos Tzotsos
>> Para: <c...@osgeo.org>
>> Cc: "Angelos Tzotsos" <tzot...@gmail.com>
>>
>>> name: Angelos Tzotsos
>>> e-mail: tzot...@gmail.com
>>> country: Greece
>>>
>>> It is my pleasure and honour to nominate Angelos Tzotsos for the OSGeo
>>> Board of Directors.  As most of the community knows, Angelos is extremely
>>> dedicated, and passionately does whatever he can do help with all things
>>> OSGeo.  It is hard to list all of his activities, but he is most known as
>>> the chair of the OSGeo-Live team, as well as being a project steering
>>> committee member for the pycsw and ZOO-Project communities; Angelos is very
>>> active in many other OSGeo communities[1]. He is a senior researcher at the
>>> National Technical University of Athens, but you can see his smile at FOSS4G
>>> events all around the world.  Angelos is very easy going, approachable, and
>>> brings a get-things-done mentality; I feel strongly that he will do a great
>>> job representing the OSGeo community at the highest level.  Please welcome
>>> Angelos to the Board of Directors.
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos
>>>
>>>
>>> -Jeff McKenna
>>> President Emeritus, OSGeo
>>>
>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Angelos Tzotsos

[Tom Kralidis]

I second Jorge's nomination.  Angelos' tireless dedication to OSGeo
and versatility are a great fit for being on the Board in support of evolving
and moving forward OSGeo.

..Tom


On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> Forwarding Angelos Tzotsos nomination to the board of directors by Jeff
> McKenna
>
> Best,
> Jorge
> CRO 2016
>
> -- Mensaje reenviado --
> De: "Jeff McKenna" 
> Fecha: 8 sept. 2016 19:22
> Asunto: Board nomination for Angelos Tzotsos
> Para: 
> Cc: "Angelos Tzotsos" 
>
>> name: Angelos Tzotsos
>> e-mail: tzot...@gmail.com
>> country: Greece
>>
>> It is my pleasure and honour to nominate Angelos Tzotsos for the OSGeo
>> Board of Directors.  As most of the community knows, Angelos is extremely
>> dedicated, and passionately does whatever he can do help with all things
>> OSGeo.  It is hard to list all of his activities, but he is most known as
>> the chair of the OSGeo-Live team, as well as being a project steering
>> committee member for the pycsw and ZOO-Project communities; Angelos is very
>> active in many other OSGeo communities[1]. He is a senior researcher at the
>> National Technical University of Athens, but you can see his smile at FOSS4G
>> events all around the world.  Angelos is very easy going, approachable, and
>> brings a get-things-done mentality; I feel strongly that he will do a great
>> job representing the OSGeo community at the highest level.  Please welcome
>> Angelos to the Board of Directors.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos
>>
>>
>> -Jeff McKenna
>> President Emeritus, OSGeo
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting

[Tom Kralidis]

fwiw DemocracyOS [1] may be worth a look as well.

[1] http://democracyos.org/

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jeff McKenna
 wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I agree this is a good discussion.  By the way, Tim Sutton just pointed me
> to a decision making platform that QGIS is now using, I think it would be
> great to have an OSGeo instance (see below):
>
> 
>
> On 2015-10-17 6:53 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> did you consider using something like loomio - we found it very
>> frustrating dealing with decisions via email +1 / -1 etc system as it is
>> very hard to know when the decision is made, hard to back reference
>> decisions and people tend to start voting on things willy nilly without
>> having a well defined motion in place. We recently switched to using
>> loomio.org  which is a FOSS platform for shared
>> decision making. It separates the discussion from the vote(s) but puts
>> them side by side so you can see the context. It also lets you set a
>> deadline for making votes. Its really nice and natural to use. Maybe it
>> would be nice to have an OSGEO instance that all projects could use - we
>> just opted to use their hosted version under the philosophy that the
>> less stuff we have to manage ourselves the better…. Here is our QGIS
>> project on loomio:
>>
>> https://www.loomio.org/g/EKV14L8A/qgis
>
>
> 
>
> On 2015-10-18 9:16 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>> Along the lines of code hosting, do we want to think about some kind of
>> OSGeo hosted Slack-like service for the community / projects, eg
>> MatterMost, RocketChat, etc?
>>
>>
>> I wanted to start this as a separate topic although a lot of these
>> alternatives are based on git or gitlab so its a very related discussion.
>>
>> What would be useful to OSGeo projects?
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Open Source Python framework for working with OWS services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Tom Kralidis]

(disclosure: I'm one of the OWSLib devs and maintainer)

Hi Bruce: echo Jachym's comments.  OWSLib has been around for awhile and is
usually the first place Python folks run into for Python/OWS support on
the client side.  There are numerous significant activities/projects including:

- CKAN
- GeoNode
- US IOOS
- pycsw
- QGIS
- SciTools

...along with a considerable contributor footprint
(https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/graphs/contributors) and healthy/active
contribution rate via pull request, etc.

As well, OWSLib is available on many platforms like Debian, UbuntuGIS, Fedora,
etc. which make it packaging/deployment friendly for operational environments.

There are certainly rough edges (e.g. updating the unit tests against very
stable endpoints, Python 3 support), but IMHO it certainly does a great job
job of making OWS suck less (as coined by original authoer Sean Gillies in
the past).

..Tom


On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Jachym Cepicky wrote:


Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:46:16 +
From: Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
To: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au,
Discuss OSGeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org,
standa...@lists.osgeo.org standa...@lists.osgeo.org,
meteo@lists.opengeospatial.org meteo@lists.opengeospatial.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Open Source Python framework for working with
OWS services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Bruce,

OWSLib is IMHO most complex pythonish client implementation of various OGC
standards. Certainly, it's not covering all the standards with all their
versions up to 100%, but it's worth using and even more worth to contribute
to ;-)

Jachym

po 16. 3. 2015 v 2:08 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au
napsal:


(Apologies for cross posting)

Hello Colleagues,

We're looking around for a good, robust open source python framework for
working with OGC Web Services.

Our initial need is to automate the validation and testing of our internal
services, though I expect that our need will grow from there.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some effective libraries that work
with current versions of OWS?


We've come across OWSlib [1] and [2], but are not aware of how people are
finding its functionality.

Bruce

[1] http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/

[2] https://www.openhub.net/p/OWSLib




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Tom Kralidis]

Jachym: +1. Another thing to consider is maintenance.  How often should OSGeo 
projects
be assessed for freshness and change in rating?  Yearly?  2x/year?

Having said this adding projects should be more agile.

On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Jachym Cepicky wrote:


Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:27:14 +
From: Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
To: Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com
Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org,
incuba...@lists.osgeo.org incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

Vašku,

just side note: yes, whith the new Labs initiative OSGeo-Labs have to
change their name.

My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- labs and projects
and start with new OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating
system.

Than for current OSGeo-Labs OSGeo-project level 1 would make it (or
similar)

Jachym

po 2. 3. 2015 v 18:33 odesílatel Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com
napsal:



On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
wrote:


former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but
you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)



Hi Jachym,

do you think that with the renewal you can replace the name OSGeo Labs
by something else? Now we have also ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo Research and
Educational laboratories which might be often shortened to OSGeo Labs,
although I prefer OSGeoRELs for writing. The mainling list is
ica-osgeo-labs. Put perhaps it is not such an issue since the term Geo for
All (http://www.geoforall.org/) is now used more and more (well, the
linked website as OSGeo Labs in the title element).

Thanks for taking this into consideration,
Vaclav




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

[Tom Kralidis]

Agreed.  I think there is an opportunity for OSGeo to become more
agile in this manner (hobu's recent Proj4 tweet really provided a wake
up call for me [1]):

- review principles/value proposition of becoming an OSGeo project
- update the process to be more agile for all involved (note that this
should not come at the cost of software quality)

Looking at Apache's project list [2] as an example tells me there is
an opportunity to grow.

..Tom

[1] https://twitter.com/howardbutler/status/569577495688663040
[2] http://projects.apache.org/indexes/alpha.html


[Incubator] [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 11:50:47 PST 2015

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I concur, this subject came up at the osgeo code-sprint last week - it is
very difficult project projects like MetaCRS and JTS to consider graduating
from OSGeo due to our incubation requirements.

I would like to point out that projects should feel comfortable negotiating
a with the incubation committee. The MetaCRS projects may not be able to
demonstrate commercial viability using a range of contributing
organizations (our example in the checklist) but should be able to point
out the wide use downstream (so if PROJ goes under it is likely that the
work will in-fact continue).
--
Jody

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Jody Garnett

On 16 February 2015 at 05:47, Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
wrote:

 On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

 Hi,

 I would like to dig a bit more into the topic more fine incubation
 procedure and former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly
 forgotten in past, but you can find more at
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)

 I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing
 list), prepared wiki page (with confusing name):
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating

 Scope: to re-new OSGeo Labs, make the incubation process easier for all
 of us, with more little steps (except for one big). Projects could flow
 between the steps up and down, related to their current living phase.

 I hope, this would help to the community to get oriented, would allow
 more projects to join in. Work for incubation committee and mentors
 could be even less (some projects will remain in beta). It's also
 related to the certification topic (even not people, but software).

 Jachym


 This makes a lot of sense to me. I am involved with a lot of smaller
 projects that are valuable but unlikely to be able to stand on their own
 because the community is weak.

 pagc (geocoding) - this is all but dead as a project but out of it came a
 core piece of technology the has been moved into postGIS Geocoder

 pgRouting - driving directions and vehicle routing problems, we have
 contributed 8+ GSoC mentors to OSGeo over the past years, but it has been
 hard to get funding and volunteers to support ongoing development and
 project releases. We have looked at incubation, but we do not have a strong
 enough community to be able to graduate.

 It would be good to have a way to foster projects like this and to look
 for opportunities to merge smaller projects into larger ones that where
 their might be a good fit. I think that we need to better recognize that
 there will be projects that might not be able to stand on their own but
 that they may also be fertile ground for development of good technology and
 that mentoring and redirecting these projects could be a good way to
 harvest this.

 Anyway, something to think about ...

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript

[Tom Kralidis]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Jachym Cepicky
jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space
 for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based
 OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into
 account, if you wanted to interface with various OWS servers and it
 did always really great job. But to have something neutral, so that
 various projects could relay on it, should make sense (similar to what
 Proj4js is doing).


I've started csw4js in the same spirit [1] [2] however progress is
slow.  It would be great to have an all purpose lib like this and I'd
be glad to move csw4js into it.


 Shall we setup github repository, create mailing list at
 lists.osgeo.org and go on?


If there is interest (and hands), yes!  +1 from me.

 Any thoughts, comments?


Cheers

..Tom


[1] https://github.com/tomkralidis/csw4js
[2] 
http://www.kralidis.ca/blog/2014/04/28/csw-client-library-for-javascript-the-adventure-begins/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Jeffrey Johnson

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi: I second this nomination.

..Tom

 
 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl
 Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:10 AM
 Subject: nomination for Jeffrey Johnson
 To: c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
 
 
 I’d like to nominate Jeffrey Johnson for OSGeo charter membership.
 
 Jeff is truly passionate about open source geospatial and he brings a
 lot of skills to the table (deep technical skills, project management,
 business skills). He is one of the driving forces behind the GeoNode
 project [1], an open source geospatial content management system based
 on technologies such as pyCSW and GeoServer. In his professional
 career he was a Brigade Captain at Code For America and he worked for
 OpenGeo / Boundless up until recently. Jeff is also very involved in
 the OSM community.
 
 [1] http://geonode.org
 
 Best regards,
 Bart
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award

[Tom Kralidis]

Congratulations Venka!

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:07:19 +0200
From: nicolas.bo...@gmail.com
To: vas...@geo-spatial.org
CC: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz
Award

Congratulations Venka !


2012/10/26 Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org

Congrats, Venka!



Vasile



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On 25 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:



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 Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan was honored today with the 2012 Sol Katz Award

 for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the inaugural

 session of the FOSS4G-India 2012 (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/)

 conference in Hyderabad, India. The

 award was presented by Ravi Kumar and Vundavallu Aruna Kumar, Member of

 Parliament.  Venka received a memento on behalf of the OSGeo-India Chapter.

 Venka's dedication to FOSS4G and his community work around the world,

 promoting open source geospatial, is second to none.  He has been

 involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006, and we are

 lucky to have such a strong global voice in him.  The OSGeo foundation

 wishes to thank Venka for his wonderful dedication.



 Background



 The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is

 awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated

 leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have

 contributed significantly through their activities to advance open

 source ideals in the geospatial realm. The hope is that the award will

 both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one

 of its founders, for years to come.

 Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of

 work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities.

 In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain

 GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This

 software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world.

 Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one

 of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities

 that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were

 contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available

 today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list

 servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

 Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at

 ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

 for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will

 always live on in the GFOSS world.



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw 0.1.0 released

[Tom Kralidis]

 Thanks Angelos. From a quick look, I do not understand if this aims to be a 
 lighter, non-java replacement for GeoNetwork, or has a  different scope. Can 
 you please clarify this?

Paolo: different scope than GeoNetwork.  It's a standalone CSW implementation 
that assumes you have metadata created / managed / ready, in a non-java 
environment.

..Tom




  
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