Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award
Congratulations!! On 2012/10/26, at 2:00, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: -- 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. -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G meet/eat up inTokyo
Dear All, OSGeo Japan chapter will hold FOSS4G meet/eat up inTokyo on 10th Sep., just 2 days after State of the Map 2012 conference. Let's share our experiences and knowledges about FOSS4G tools and OSM data. Anybody who have interest in them should attend. OSGeo Japan community will welcome you with free lunch! So do not miss it! Here are the event details. Date 10th Sep. (Mon.) 2012 #The following day of Mapping party in Mt. Takao Time 13:00 to 16:00 (Japan time zone; UTC+9) Agenda 1- Welcome lunch 2- Self-introduction 3- Exchange our experience 4- Free talk Venue The University of Tokyo Building An, Komaba Research Campus 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=35.661004mlon=139.677649zoom=18 #The same venue of State of the Map conference. Fee Free Registration No registration is needed. Contact information OSGeo Japan japan.os...@gmail.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination: Hirofumi Hayashi
I second Hayashi-san's nomination. He has been one of the longest key contributors of community building in Japan since 2006. His effort definitely made Japan chapter what it is today. Toru Mori Representative of OSGeo Japan Chapter On 2012/07/31, at 2:46, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Hello OSGeo community, I am very happy to nominate Hirofumi Hayashi[1] for the Board of Directors of OSGeo. Hayashi is a super-active member of the OSGeo-Japan chapter, tirelessly working on planning and promoting FOSS4G events in that region. He is a member of the OSGeo-Japan Board, and anyone who has ever attended a FOSS4G-Japan event has been touched by his efforts, and of course his smile. At the project-level Hayashi is a member of the ZOO Project PSC (often works late at night to maintain its servers), has also committed several enhancements to the OSGeo4W installer, and contributed translation changes in several OSGeo projects. I believe Hayashi will be a great voice from the vibrant Japan chapter. Oh, I must not forget: Hayashi's daughter Natsuki was the now-famous hand model used in the FOSS4G-Japan 2008 mola-mola video! [2] [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Hhayashi [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHilajQkGM -jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting
I second to Ravi's proposal. Toru Mori OSGeo Japan Chapter On 2012/07/24, at 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote: Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by the charter member) in the Board election. Advantages: The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her more than once. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo meet up in Tokyo
Cameron, Thank you very much for the advice. We will contact the LOC and make use of the potential presenters list. I have got just one reply who wanted to attend both Tokyo (SotM) and Beijing (FOSS4G) for now. Anybody want to join the meet up in Tokyo? We, Japan chapter would like to know how many people would join there. Toru On 2012/07/21, at 12:57, Cameron Shorter wrote: Toru Mori, This sounds like a great initiative from Japan. I suggest that you touch base with the Beijing LOC and ask if you can have access to the list of people who have submitted presentations. You can then contact each of them and see if they would like to present at your conference. Also, Would you be interested in having someone present the OSGeo-Live presentation? It provides a comprehensive, high level description of the state of Open Source Geospatial Software. https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation/ (You might wish to translate this into Japanese) On 20/07/12 13:33, Toru Mori (森 亮) wrote: Dear OSGeo folks, Having received the announcement of Beijing conference cancellation, OSGeo Japan Chapter would like to provide a meet up opportunity where OSGeo folks can get together in Tokyo along with State of the Map (SotM) 2012. We can use the same venue as SotM on 10th Sep., just after SotM for free of charge. We already booked 4 small rooms (40 persons) and 1 big room (200 persons). Nothing particular agenda (presentation, workshop, code sprint, sushi party etc) has not been planned so far. We don't have extra budget for it, so we cannot pay travel and accommodation cost. Also we don't have enough human resources as other local chapters do. However, we want to have something international meet up in Far East Asia. All thoughts about the meet up are appreciated. And, we want to meet not only participants of SotM but also who have planned to visit Beijing. We want to know how many people show interest in attending our meet up and please tell us what you want to do there. We will arrange the plan hearing your voice. BTW, OSGeo Japan will hold FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2012 conference in November. This is annual conference for local audience with only few presentations in English from overseas guests that we are expecting to have at the annual meeting in November. Best, Toru Mori OSGeo Japan Chapter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo meet up in Tokyo
Dear OSGeo folks, Having received the announcement of Beijing conference cancellation, OSGeo Japan Chapter would like to provide a meet up opportunity where OSGeo folks can get together in Tokyo along with State of the Map (SotM) 2012. We can use the same venue as SotM on 10th Sep., just after SotM for free of charge. We already booked 4 small rooms (40 persons) and 1 big room (200 persons). Nothing particular agenda (presentation, workshop, code sprint, sushi party etc) has not been planned so far. We don't have extra budget for it, so we cannot pay travel and accommodation cost. Also we don't have enough human resources as other local chapters do. However, we want to have something international meet up in Far East Asia. All thoughts about the meet up are appreciated. And, we want to meet not only participants of SotM but also who have planned to visit Beijing. We want to know how many people show interest in attending our meet up and please tell us what you want to do there. We will arrange the plan hearing your voice. BTW, OSGeo Japan will hold FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2012 conference in November. This is annual conference for local audience with only few presentations in English from overseas guests that we are expecting to have at the annual meeting in November. Best, Toru Mori OSGeo Japan Chapter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapnik (GPX) vs MapServer/GeoServer (OGC)
Frans, I believe you are right. i want to bring FOSS4G to bigger one, all related to GIS.. but based on Open. I definitely second this. Without this concept, we would be isolated ourself from whole geospatial ocean. Toru Mori OSGeo Japan On 2011/11/18, at 8:53, Frans Thamura wrote: i raise this issue, FOSS4G means OSGeo product event ... is that right? Mapnik in FOSS4G Presentation = still product of GIS,, i want to bring FOSS4G to bigger one, all related to GIS.. but based on Open. F On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Mapnik and TileMill is already part FOSS4G. http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/sep/02/mapnik-and-tilemill-workshop-foss4g/ I think you better read last FOSS4G program. http://2011.foss4g.org/program Start googling before posting. Noli On 11/18/11, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all just wanna a little discussion around OSM's server, called mapnik. 1. why dont we bring mapnik to OSGeo. 2. mapnik using GPX, but any idea related to OGC's WFS or WMS... in this server, vs OGC's product in OSGeo (GeoServer,MapServer). -- Frans Thamura (曽志胜) Chief of Advisory Meruvian. Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider. Mobile: +628557888699 Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id) FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian Website: http://www.meruvian.org We grow because we share the same belief. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Yoicihi Kayama
Dear All, I'm also pleased to second his nomination. Yoichi Kayama is definitely one of the key persons in Japanese OSGeo community. Without his long term dedication to the local community, Japan Chapter would not be active as it is today. with regards, Toru Mori Representative, OSGeo Japan Chapter On 2011/11/09, at 0:40, Frans Thamura wrote: greeting also from osaka/japan, after invite at FOSS4G Tokyo 2 days ago i am shocked that OSGEo.JP is active ;) F On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Gérald Fenoy gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr wrote: Venka, Kayama make always impressive talks and workshop material. He promote a lot FOSS4G tools in Japan and attend all the FOSS4G conferences. To me it is always a pleasure to talk with him, I should say to learn from him because of his experience in many fields in geomatics. I'm pleased to second, one more time his nomination. Best regards, Le 8 nov. 2011 à 16:14, Venkatesh Raghavan a écrit : Dear All, It gives me great please to nominate Yoicihi Kayama as Charter Member. He is one of the most active members of OSGeo.JP. He has participated/contributed immensely to the local/international FOSS4G Community. Some of his major contributions are as below; 1) Japanese translation of QGIS and promoting QGIS to local governments in Japan. 2) Developing QGIS plugin for emergency routing for flood disaster 3) Regular and dedicated participation in FOSS4G conferences and Code Sprints 4) Initiating Special Interest Group in Japan Association of GIS 5) Inspiring Lightning talks at FOSS4G events in Japan 6) Mentoring young developers in getting started with FOSS4G tools 7) Excellent skills in multicultural communication 8) Contributing to other communities such as OSM and sinsai.info, PostgreSQL.JP etc. 9) For just being a nice guy. Best Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Gérald Fenoy gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Japan chapter re ceives “Japanese OSS Encourag ement Award” by IPA
Hi OSGeo friends, I am really happy to receive many emails from our community. It really is our milestone in promoting FOSS4G into the Japanese geospatial field. We will continue to invest effort in doing it, especially in eliminating technical and usability barriers including localization issue. Here are examples of our recent achievements. http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-mext/ - you can translate it into your local language using google translate feature on up right of the window. http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/OSGeo4W_jp And again, please join our local FOSS4G conference. No fee needed to register. Tokyo http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2010tokyo/ Osaka http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2010-in-osaka/ I hope to see you all and work together. Mori On 2010/10/16, at 0:09, Toru Mori（森亮） wrote: Hi OSGeo community, Today IPA (IT promotion agency Japan), a government agency, announced that OSGeo Japan Chapter will be awarded “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” prize on 28th October 2010. I , as representative of the chapter, am very pleased and honored to receive the prize! The Japan chapter was established in late 2006 and the local community has been growing steadily and dedicating effort to promoting FOSS4G. Please join our local conference, FOSS4G 2010 Tokyo/Osaka, held in this November to celebrate it with us over bottles of beer! http://www.osgeo.jp/ -- Press release by IPA (in Japanese) -- http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html -- About the award -- IPA grants “Japanese OSS Contributor Award” to a developer who has established and has been managing the development project which has the influence, to a superior developer who takes an active role in the global projects and to a contributor to spread the OSS. Also IPA grants “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” to the individual or the group which has a remarkable activity to develop and/or spread OSS. -- About IPA -- http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/about/index.html Toru Mori Yokohama Japan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Japan chapter receives “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award ” by IPA
Hi OSGeo community, Today IPA (IT promotion agency Japan), a government agency, announced that OSGeo Japan Chapter will be awarded “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” prize on 28th October 2010. I , as representative of the chapter, am very pleased and honored to receive the prize! The Japan chapter was established in late 2006 and the local community has been growing steadily and dedicating effort to promoting FOSS4G. Please join our local conference, FOSS4G 2010 Tokyo/Osaka, held in this November to celebrate it with us over bottles of beer! http://www.osgeo.jp/ -- Press release by IPA (in Japanese) -- http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html -- About the award -- IPA grants “Japanese OSS Contributor Award” to a developer who has established and has been managing the development project which has the influence, to a superior developer who takes an active role in the global projects and to a contributor to spread the OSS. Also IPA grants “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” to the individual or the group which has a remarkable activity to develop and/or spread OSS. -- About IPA -- http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/about/index.html Toru Mori Yokohama Japan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
