Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GRASS-user] Helena Mitasova awarded 2018 Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Congratulations Helena!!

Venka

On 4/5/2018 7:23 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

Congratulations

Il gio 5 apr 2018, 08:11 Helmut Kudrnovsky  ha scritto:


forwarding:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2018-April/078052.html

-

https://gi-science.blogspot.com/2018/04/helena-mitasova-awarded-2018-waldo.html

"The Austrian Academy of Sciences through its Commission for GIScience is
awarding the GIScience Prize named after Prof Waldo Tobler to a scientist
having demonstrated outstanding and sustained contributions to the
discipline worthy of inspiring young scientists in Geoinformatics and
Geographic Information Science, and having accomplished significant
advances in research and education.

The received nominations were reviewed and assessed by an external panel of
peers, who unanimously recommended to award the 2018 prize to Prof Helena
Mitasova (North Carolina State University)."


congratulations!

kind regards
Helmut

OSGeo charter member
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Congratulations and best wishes to our new board members!
Many thanks to Vasile for his immaculate managing the arduous
task as CRO. Thanks also to Jeff and Jorge for providing support
to the CRO

I would also like to express my thanks to all previous
board members. It was a pleasure working with all
of you on the board for the last two years.

Best

Venka

On 10/27/2017 9:18 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:

+ Vasile for a well conducted election. Wonder, is this the highest voting
percentage we ever got.!

Congrats to all those who made it to the board.

Ravi Kumar

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Vasile Craciunescu 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+ 1 Maxi, Bruce.

Venka

On 10/22/2017 7:03 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:

+1 Maxi.

I’m very sorry to see this Jeff.

As a community, we need to look closely at what we allowed to happen during 
this process.

We cannot afford to chase away very talented and passionate people. Jeff is but 
one of them.

I have not been impressed by our actions.

Bruce


On 22 Oct 2017, at 08:20, Massimiliano Cannata  
wrote:

Dear Jeff,
I hope your withdrawal is not accepted.

With a community of hundreds of charter members I wouldn't care so much of the 
respectable opinion of a couple of people and I would let the board take the 
responsibility to take a decision.

I don't see anything irregular in your participation, did anyone cheat? I'm 
sure this is not the case...
Then, any lesson learned is useful to improve the process in the future...

I bet the charter members who voted for you want you to stand for respect of 
their votes.

Maxi

Il 21 ott 2017 2:34 PM, "Jeff McKenna"  ha 
scritto:

Dear CRO,

Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election.  I am sorry to cause all 
of the problems so clearly explained by so many here publicly this election.

I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for volunteering 
their time for the OSGeo community.

Yours,

-Jeff McKenna



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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

ction I could not see a clear way to
deliberate the current election that would not be viewed as a personal
attack, or dismissed as campaigning.


--
Jody Garnett

On 18 October 2017 at 10:23, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote:

HI Eli,

If I recall correctly, we answered you that Jeff immediately resigned
from
his position as CRO and he has not been involved at all in any Board
elections CRO activity so everything is correctly handled except

(and we

apologized for that) the lack of a Trac ticket for the alias change.

Thanks Jorge.  I know those are the events that happened, however, I
never saw the Board deliberate and consider whether that is acceptable
or not.  In my opinion, it is not, however I'm not on the Board, nor
is one Director's opinion a position of the Board.  In the absence of
any Board action on the legitimacy of the CRO accepting a nomination,
I was left to conclude "that this issue is of no concern to the
Board."

Has the Board deliberated or considered this?  Did they take a
position?

The reason to have a process and follow it even when you maybe don't
"need" it, is so that you also follow the process when you *do* need
it.

Best regards, Eli


Kind regards



On 18 October 2017 at 18:07, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

Hi Venka, all,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us>
wrote:

Hi Venka,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan
<ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

Hi Eli,

First of all, thanks to Jorge for volunteering to be co-CRO
and fixing the CRO alias promptly.

Yes, thanks Jorge.


Regarding your other comment reproduced below;

The Board did not appear to review this topic at
their last meeting,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05, so perhaps

it

is
of no concern to the Board.


The question of review this topic at the 2017-10-05 board meeting
did
not
arise
as the nomination for our ex-co-CRO was filed on 2017-10-08.

Thanks for fixing my mistake, I misunderstood the dates and

thought

that nomination for our ex-co-CRO was filed on 2017-10-01.  Sorry

to

suggest that it was of no concern to the Board when it is actually
unknown.

It appears that voting has now started and I don't see any Board
threads on the legitimacy of the CRO accepting a nomination,
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2017-October/thread.html


I would like to assure you that I share your concern about the
proper
process.

Great, I hope that the Board follows the proper process.  I'll

stop

making noise and allow the proper process to work.


Should I now conclude that this issue is of no concern to the Board?

Best regards, Eli



Best regards, Eli


Best

Venka




On 10/12/2017 1:58 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

Hi Eli,

I did it yesterday without having a ticket involved. My bad

sorry.

I confirm that the CRO alias is now sending emails only to Vasile
and
me.
--
Jorge Sanz
https://jorgesanz.net

Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity and typos

El 11 oct. 2017 18:36, "Eli Adam" <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us>

escribió:

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Fenoy Gerald
<gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr>
wrote:

Dear Eli,
as you may have notice, Jeff has stepped down from his position

of

co-CRO when accepting the Nicolas¹ nomination [1].

I didn't find that thread while scanning through the archive.
Thanks
for pointing it out to me.

Jeff was involved in the charter member election process as

co-CRO

but

he is no more so, I guess, there is no issue for the board

election.

Was the c...@osgeo.org email alias updated?  I didn't notice a

ticket

for that.  I'm impressed that there is so little concern about

the

proper process.  The Board did not appear to review this topic at
their last meeting,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05, so perhaps

it

is
of no concern to the Board.

Best regards, Eli

Best regards,

[1]


https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-October/036449.html


Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay

Le 11 oct. 2017 à 16:04, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> a

écrit :

Nicolas,

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:48 PM, nicolas bozon
<nicolas.bo...@gmail.com>

wrote:

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

Directors

election.

I don't think that you can nominate the CRO, nor can the CRO

accept

your nomination,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer.
In some past years the CRO was a sitting Board member with a year
remaining on their term thus avoiding this situation.

Most of you knows Jeff's energy and passion for everything OSGeo,
and i
would probably be mistaken trying to summarize his countless

contributions

over the years, at every level of our Foundation. His leadership

and

long

involvement in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities made him the

Winner

of

the

Solz Katz Award in 2016, and i cannot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Ravi,

Thanks for the question and your suggestion below;

I have expressed my opinion in the conference and
board mailing list where this matter as been discussed
on several occasion.

I think there is still some scope for considering ways
and means to enhance affordability. Maybe by,

a) Alternating between business focused (big convention
center plus all the frills of a Tech Expo) and an R
focused (low cost venue, no-frills, low-cost-carrier model)

b) Have dual pricing for high-medium and low income
countries as was practiced in FOSS4G-2015

We have had some valuable inputs from chairs of our
previous event. The new board  should try to have a broader
feedback (Lime survey maybe?) from our charter members to
look for some innovative ways of handling the issue of affordability
of our global event.

Best

Venka



On 10/16/2017 3:59 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:

Hi List,
happy to note that 'FOSS4G being Costly/Unaffordable', is discussed.
To make it fun, spice is added on the TERM HANGOUT..

May be the next board will have FOSS4G for Business, where in 5* comforts
that might make business easy for OSGeo.
Will also have, 'FOSS4G Developers', where in young students/Reserchers can
have a great conference.

  Some fine tuning may make, Say , 1st 2 days 5 Star.. Next two affordable.
But in a world where, 'COST some times means Efficiency', may not, 'play
ball', with this Idea.

Cheers.. and All the best to the Hopefuls

Ravi Kumar


On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Jody Garnett 
wrote:


Okay I checked that the report is not published yet (sigh). I really
appreciated Jeff's answer, and agree that regional foss4g events are seeing
great success and are much more affordable.

To answer your question:

*'Do you agree that FOSS4G is turning out to be a hangout for those who
can afford it'*..

I have never agreed that FOSS4G is a hangout - I continue to view it as
our most effective outreach event.

*costs (of participation) are  so high that many might not afford.. *

I very much agree with this, indeed I was only able to attend the Lausanne
event by the kindness of people letting me sleep on their hotel floor. I
have tried to return the favour each time the event took place in my home
city.

*If selected to the board HOW do you wish to correct this...*

This is a tricky one, in part because I do not have to imagine - here is
my own recommendation from the bo...@osgeo.org email list thread: f2f
meeting follow up
:

On 21 August 2017 at 11:23, Jody Garnett 
wrote:

*I saw this thread get into the details of the RFP - for that we have*
*volunteers on the conference committee. My goal as a board member is to*
*work on strategy, as the conference committee knows best about the RFP*
*wording and process.*

**Q: *Based on the affordability report, and resulting discussion, did we
as **the board have any direction to ask the conference committee to
steer in?*

*My own feedback:*


*1) I was pleasantly surprised that the ticket cost of foss4g has not **changed
significantly over the course of the events (indeed our most **expensive
event was Sydney and our cheapest Korea).*

*I do not see any guidance to provide here (this was surprising to me).*

*2) Attendance continues to increase limiting appropriate venues*

*I do not see any guidence to provide here, our community and event is 
**growing.
I think once we get around 3000 people we may be forced to settle **down
to consider a fixed location, but at 1000-2000 we can still move it *
*around.*

*3) regional events are killing it*

*I do not see any guidence to provide here, our community and events is *
*growing. **The hope is this takes some of the strain from the global
event, allowing **it to focus on outreach and advocacy more.*

*4) hard for students to attend (also journal, etc...)*

*There was a strong hope that travel grant program could help out a lot **here,
that would make me sad as this was intended to work towards **diversity.*

*While there may be guidance here I am not close enough to the academic **world
to provide useful direction.*

*5) diversity*

*The original intention of the travel grant was to bring diversity
awareness **to our osgeo events (to apply regional events are asked to
set a diversity **target which travel grant can help towards). During
foss4g I attended a **diversity presentation that advocated creating a
safe space.*

**Guidance: *Trial the use of providing a safe space in the 2018 bid.*

*Similar recommendations online include:*
*- make female speakers a priority (not just in selection, but before hand*
*in promotion, one-on-one mentoring etc...).*
*- providing child care (this helps families attend)*

*Since these haver not been advocated by members of our community I am
only **comfortable providing guidance on providing a safe space. Perhaps
some of **these ideas can be tried out at regional conferences first.*

*6) time of year*

*The events 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Gert-Jan and all,

On 10/13/2017 1:00 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote:

I hope that Dirk, Venga and Jeff will take the opportunity to add their 
manifestos as well before the end of this campaign week.


My write-up for the up-coming board election is now available
at 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos#Venkatesh_Raghavan



= And one to all of you:

Some of you talk about being an inclusive organization.

For the geographical and probably cultural aspect of inclusiveness, do you 
think the Board should have it's roots in as much continents / languages as 
possible, so preferably 1 Board member from every continent (not counting for 
Antarctica, ha!)


I think the board should strive to incorporate multicultural perspectives,
where ever that may come from (could even come from someone
working at the permanent Antarctica basecamp, ha!).

Cheers and best of luck to all the nominees.

Best

Venka



  

  


Wishing you all the best and success in your campaigns,

  

  


Gert-Jan

  

  

  


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos

  

  


Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Sanghee Shin
Verzonden: donderdag 12 oktober 2017 10:14
Aan: OSGeo Discussions
Onderwerp: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: Sanghee Shin

  


Dear All,

  


I’ve posted my manifestos here: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos#Sanghee_Shin

  


Thanks for the nomination.

  


Kind regards,

신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
www.gaia3d.com

  





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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Eli,

First of all, thanks to Jorge for volunteering to be co-CRO
and fixing the CRO alias promptly.

Regarding your other comment reproduced below;

The Board did not appear to review this topic at
their last meeting,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05, so perhaps it is
of no concern to the Board.


The question of review this topic at the 2017-10-05 board meeting did 
not arise

as the nomination for our ex-co-CRO was filed on 2017-10-08.

I would like to assure you that I share your concern about the proper
process.

Best

Venka



On 10/12/2017 1:58 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

Hi Eli,

I did it yesterday without having a ticket involved. My bad sorry.

I confirm that the CRO alias is now sending emails only to Vasile and me.
--
Jorge Sanz
https://jorgesanz.net

Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity and typos

El 11 oct. 2017 18:36, "Eli Adam"  escribió:


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Fenoy Gerald 
wrote:

Dear Eli,
as you may have notice, Jeff has stepped down from his position of

co-CRO when accepting the Nicolas’ nomination [1].

I didn't find that thread while scanning through the archive.  Thanks
for pointing it out to me.


Jeff was involved in the charter member election process as co-CRO but

he is no more so, I guess, there is no issue for the board election.
Was the c...@osgeo.org email alias updated?  I didn't notice a ticket
for that.  I'm impressed that there is so little concern about the
proper process.  The Board did not appear to review this topic at
their last meeting,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05, so perhaps it is
of no concern to the Board.

Best regards, Eli


Best regards,

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-October/036449.html


Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay


Le 11 oct. 2017 à 16:04, Eli Adam  a écrit :

Nicolas,

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:48 PM, nicolas bozon 

wrote:

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

Directors

election.

I don't think that you can nominate the CRO, nor can the CRO accept
your nomination, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer.
In some past years the CRO was a sitting Board member with a year
remaining on their term thus avoiding this situation.


Most of you knows Jeff's energy and passion for everything OSGeo, and i
would probably be mistaken trying to summarize his countless

contributions

over the years, at every level of our Foundation. His leadership and

long

involvement in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities made him the Winner of

the

Solz Katz Award in 2016, and i cannot add more. For those of you who

may

really not know Jeff yet, the User:Jeff_McKenna wiki page is a good

read

before you vote.

Jeff already served three times at the board and has a deep

understanding of

both the director role and the current OSGeo strategic plan.

Experienced

with OSGeo governance and bylaws, Jeff also knows a lot about projects

and

people. He is always ready to help build locally and to represent

globally.

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


Best regards,

Nicolas Bozon


---
Jeff McKenna agreed to be nominated and i decided to send the

nomination

directly to the Discuss list with cc to CRO, so it avoids Jeff to

confirm to

himself that he accepts the nomination. The Board Nominations page

still

need to be updated, could you please Vasile ? Sorry for shortening the
nomination process in this special case.
---

The point is not to avoid Jeff confirming to himself that he accepts
the nomination, it is to avoid the CRO running an election and
counting votes when they are also standing for election. It is really
the Board's (and CRO's) responsibility to ensure that this situation
doesn't occur.  The Board should not appoint CROs who might accept a
nomination and people who might accept a nomination should not accept
appointment as CRO.  Maybe we should return to the tradition of the
CRO being a sitting Board member with a year remaining on their term.
CRO is a difficult job and much credit to those who do it.  Also,
someone (other than me) should be paying attention to the basic
process and raise these issues.

Best regards, Eli



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral
material which I have had a chance to place in github:

https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo


A belated question, but why not use https://git.osgeo.org/ that Sandro 
and others helped to set up?


Venka



Please have a look, the marketing committee is reviewing this material for
sign-off.

Highlights
- styleguide-osgeo.pdf

showing
how everything fits together
- print  -
contains everything that was ready to print for foss4g, including our
multi-page brochure and the one-page information hand outs produced by our
project teams.
- social media

-
with collateral for facebook, twitter and linkined, and an example of
trying the templates for osgeo japan

- logo 
and subbrands
 -
keep in mind many of these are examples which were not used

If you have any skill with InkScape, Scribus or LibreOffice the marketing
committee would love to request your help reviewing, adapting and applying
this content for community use.
--
Jody Garnett



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the demographics [1].

Can you please correct the typo below too


United Kindom (6) · United Kingdom (10)


[1] http://bl.ocks.org/jsanz/raw/779f9b9954b92461fa50/

Best

Venka


On 9/26/2017 1:47 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

fixed! thanks Sergio for spotting the typo :_)

On 25 September 2017 at 17:03, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote:


Warm welcome from me too. And also great thanks to Vasile and Jeff. Jorge,
there seems to be a misspelling with USA and UK (in Charter Members by
country): United Kindom (6) ·United Kingdom (10) ·United States of
America (80) ·United States ofa America (1)​


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
--
*De:* Discuss  en nombre de Jorge Sanz <
js...@osgeo.org>
*Enviado:* lunes, 25 de setiembre de 2017 11:29
*Para:* OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
*Asunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination
results

Thanks for the hard job Vasile and Jeff and a warm welcome to our new 78
elected members.

I've updated also the small report on CM demographics available here
http://bl.ocks.org/jsanz/raw/779f9b9954b92461fa50/

Cheers!

On 25 September 2017 at 10:35, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:


Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of three weeks, we close the membership process to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- were nominated by an existing charter member;
- were seconded by at least one charter member;
- no veto votes registered.

Hence, it is our pleasure to welcome our 78 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 390 individuals.
Congratulations!

New members, we encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will inform the board for formal acceptance of the list, update the
official list[6], pass to the secretary the revised contacts, and subscribe
the new members to the charter-members list[7]
as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
CRO 2017 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becomi
ng_an_OSGeo_Advocate
[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Ben,

Many thanks for your inspiring email and for
bringing the focus back to the community.

As Jeff has also elucidated, the greatest strength of
the OSGeo Foundation is the community that all
of us have helped nurture.

Ben, I eagerly look forward to welcoming you as  as OSGeo
Charter Member [1].

Best

Venka

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


On 9/21/2017 8:25 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

On 2017-09-21 8:02 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

On 21/09/17 19:54, María Arias de Reyna wrote:

In fact, publishing blog posts comparing closed and FLOSS is also very
helpful. If you are doubting what kind of software to use, a good
comparison with table feature comparisons is very handy But that
should be outside the project page, because we are not begging for
users. We are strong projects on our own, we don't need to keep
continuously comparing to the closed alternatives for users to know
what we do.


Uplifting tweet of the week:

"Jon Kuperman‏ @jkup
Stop treating open source like a product you purchased and start 
treating it like a team you belong to."

https://twitter.com/jkup/status/909887066103676928

Referring to proprietary GIS on the OSGeo website risks misleading 
users that OSGeo projects are just competing products. We offer 
something that proprietary GIS never can: the opportunity to join a 
community of peers.


Kind regards,



Thank you Ben, this is absolutely correct: we have an amazing vibrant 
community, and we need a front-end website that fosters and promotes 
OSGeo projects (especially those in OSGeo incubation as well as OSGeo 
Community projects) and OSGeo initiatives such as the Summer of Code. 
Period.  Full stop.  This is what our community is good at, and why we 
are so desired today.  From experience I can tell you that this 
struggle, that is being put forth here, will just separate our 
community (you can see it is already) and make the community weaker.


Let us help our OSGeo community grow.   Don't worry about competing 
organizations (trust me they are fine, they have big money for 
marketing and teams of people working on that), just focus on OSGeo 
and our wonderful community.


I am setting up an OSGeo "Website Management Team" now, to help bring 
the focus on the OSGeo community, manage the website (and WordPress 
theme), security, backups, content etc, and will propose this to 
OSGeo's Systems committee and OSGeo Board; for the longterm 
maintenance of the website.  I imagine during this maintenance process 
we will be removing these unnecessary promotions, and focus on the 
OSGeo community (us). We'll leave promotion of other things for those 
with the big money ha, as they have the big funding for their 
products, as you mentioned.  We will focus on the OSGeo community.


Thanks Ben,

-jeff



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

If the aim is only to help new users who are not aware of
Free and Open Source Geospatial Software, it could be
better to have a dedicated page which allows new user
to input keywords (e.g. the present software they are using,
of the OGC standards compliance they are looking for etc.)
and returning the results pointing to appropriate OSGeo
software).

If I understood correctly, I think this is what Sandro has been
suggesting and I like this approach.

As I already commented on the github ticket 1], I do not think
it is necessary to have an item such as "similar proprietary software"
or "Migrate From XXX" (also, we should rather propose "Migration *form* 
YYY to Free and Open Source

tool", where YYY would be the user input keyword).

Also, some of the names of Proprietary products are registered as 
trademarks,
and it could be better to avoid using these names directly on the OSGeo 
website.


Best

Venka

[1] https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100

On 9/21/2017 5:15 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Jody Garnett wrote:


How much of your initial concern was providing a link? Or is it just
displaying the name (switching to MapInfo for the example here). It would
be kind of nice if the it behaved like a keyword, and linked to the project
page short listing all the projects that one can migrate to from MapInfo.

It's different degrees of annoyance. I guess a brand-less and
link-less list of names of proprietary products would not be too
"offensive" for me (assuming spam filtering lets it pass) but I'd
still prefer an hidden keyword. Something that you never see written
but is recognized by the search engine to give you back a similar
software: you search for  you get .

The "like Photoshop, only better" motto I like even when it contains
the name because it explicitly bashes it :)

--strk;
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Eylul

Best

Venka

On 2017/09/08 7:11, Monia Molinari wrote:

+1 for Eylul

Regards,

Monia Molinari




Il 07 Set 2017 20:19, "Maria Antonia Brovelli" 
ha scritto:


I second this nomination. Eylul is a brilliant developer of FOSS4G
applications (including NASA WWW) and an activist of open data.
Cheers
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: Vasile Craciunescu 
Data: 07/09/17 18:24 (GMT+01:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar

Forwarding Candan Eylül Kilsedar nomination by Marco Minghini. 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 
Subject: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar
Date:Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:49:27 +0200
From:Marco Minghini 
To:  OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
CC:  Candan Eylül Kilsedar 



Dear CRO,
I would like to nominate Candan Eylül Kilsedar as an OSGeo Charter
Member. She is currently a PhD student at the GEOlab (Geomatics and
Earth Observation lab) of Politecnico di Milano. She is a young and very
active open source GIS developer, who also participated in GSoC this
summer working on NASA Web WorldWind API. She developed or took part in
developing many open source Web GIS projects (see e.g.
http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/app/
,
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/migrate
,
http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/ViaRegina/
,
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/buriedtorrents/
,
http://osm.eoapps.eu/) in the lab.
She was also a member of the LOC at FOSS4G Europe 2015 in Como and
assistant of the LOC at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn, and since 2016 she is the
President of PoliMappers (https://polimappers.github.io/
), supporting mapping using FOSS4G for
humanitarian purposes.
I know Candan Eylül for many years now and her dedication to open source
GIS development and promotion are terrific. Please welcome her as a
Charter Member.

Marco

Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy)
+39 02 23996409 
marco.mingh...@polimi.it >
@MarcoMinghini 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2017 Results!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Margherita and All,

Thanks to you and the OSGeo GSoC Admin-team [1],
all our mentors and to the students who have all
put great effort and a lot of time to arrive at
this wonderful result.

Best

Venka

[1] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Contacts


On 2017/09/07 16:40, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

it is our pleasure to announce that 13 GSoC students have successfully
completed the program this year! You can find out more at:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4660070039158784/#projects

We would like to wholeheartedly thank all the mentors who dedicated their
invaluable time and experience to this program, you are the core of GSoC!
Thanks also to our students, we are sure you learnt a lot and also had some
fun, and we hope you decide to remain in the OSGeo community becoming
active developers and the future generation of GSoC mentors!

If you participated this year as a student or as a mentor, please take the
time to leave us your feedback, as we try to improve the experience each
year. We created a page
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Improvements where
you can leave your comments and suggestions, please feel free to expand it,
or to contact us directly to discuss your ideas. We are also collecting
your questions and topics that you would like us to bring to the mentor
summit (13-15 October, where Rohith Reddy and Margherita Di Leo will
represent OSGeo).

Our activities don’t end here! You’ll soon receive our call to participate
to a virtual meeting to discuss about OSGeo’s participation at “Google
Code-in”, a program addressed to kids aged 13-17. We are very excited about
that!

Meanwhile, read more at: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/

That’s all for now! Stay tuned..

Your OSGeo-GSoC Admins




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: New Member Nominations 2017 second

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

I would like to second the following nominees as Charter Member

- Rémi Cresson
- Guido Stein
- Anujit Vansarochana
- R.C. Prasad

Best

Venka


On 9/6/2017 10:41 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Forwarding the list of seconded nominees by Luca Delucchi.

Best,
Vasile


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: New Member Nominations 2017 second
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:18:08 +0200
From: Luca Delucchi 
To: Jeff McKenna , Vasile Crăciunescu 



Hi guys,

I was think to second some of the nominations modifying the wiki page
but this is not possible.

I would second these nominations (if it is possible doing with this 
email)

- Arne Schubert
- Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus
- Veronica Andreo
- Eva Jelínková
- Paulo van Breugel
- Bart van den Eijnden
- Tõnis Kärdi
- Vinayaraj Poliyapram
- Nyall Dawson
- Markus Metz

Thanks



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Khalifa Abacar Sarr

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Khalifa Abacar Sarr nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/4/2017 6:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Khalifa Abacar Sarr nomination by Gérald Fenoy. 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 
Subject: Khalifa
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:38:48 +0200
From: Fenoy Gerald 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO, I would like you to forward this email to the discuss 
mailing list to officialise the following nomination.


—
Dear all,
I am glad to nominate Khalifa Abacar Sarr [1] for OSGeo Charter Member.
Khalifa is very passionate and an active promoter of OSGeo in Senegal 
where he is leading various GIS initiatives targeting West Africa. He 
contributes to GIS system by providing solutions for waste management 
system at country level using Open Source softwares. Khalifa is in 
between business and research, indeed, despite he is now involved in a 
company he is still getting a lot of activities on his own to give 
courses at the university of Dakar and others. He likes very much 
keeping good relation with student and have them involved in the 
development of new application. He likes to create relation between 
people that know and people that search to learn to make them sharing 
their knowledge.


I think that Khalifa can be areal asset for OSGeo.


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Khasaar
—

Best regards,

side-note: thanks for the hard work CRO!

Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member Nomination: Gowtham Gollapalle

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Gowtham Gollapalle nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/4/2017 2:26 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Gowtham's 
nomination  [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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






On 01-Sep-2017 15:29, Ravi Kumar  wrote:

It is a pleasure to nominate Gowtham.G for OSGeo Charter.

Gowtham Gollapalle has a company promoting Open Source GIS products
of OSGeo.
https://www.kaiinos.com/

He has his part in many projects of OSGeo India including
mana-rajahmundry.org 
the 1st Open Geospatial Data website for society.

He and his team has contributed to forwarding OSGeo aims in various
forums including FOSS4G events of OSGeo India.

V.Ravi Kumar
Charter member OSGeo.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nicolas Roelandt for OSGeo charter membership

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Nicolas Roelandt nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/4/2017 4:15 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Nicolas' 
nomination  [1].  Apologies to Nicolas for missing that.


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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




On 2017-08-24 9:12 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to nominate Nicolas Roelandt for OSGeo charter membership.
Nicolas is one of the latest additions to the OSGeo-Live PSC and has 
a great future in FOSS4G. Nicolas was also a valuable member of the 
FOSS4G Europe 2017 LOC.


Best,
Angelos




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Michael Terner

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Michael Terner's nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/4/2017 2:19 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
We confirm that Michael Terner accepted the nomination by Sara Safavi 
and Regina Obe. 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: Michael Terner
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:33:35 -0500
From: Sara Safavi 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 



Nominee: Michael Terner, m...@appgeo.com 

I would like to nominate Michael Terner for OSGeo Charter Membership. 
I imagine I will not be the only person nominating Michael this year, 
but I would be remiss if I did not. Michael, of course, co-chaired 
FOSS4G 2017, and his leadership was an integral part of the event's 
massive success. Having known Mike for many years, I can speak 
personally to his passion for and dedication to growing the open 
source geospatial community.




On 8/25/17 5:29 AM, Regina Obe wrote:
> Name: Michael Ternier
>
> I would like to nominate Michael Ternier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
> Michael has been a strong supporter of OSGeo projects for a number 
of years.
> The company, AppGeo, which he co-founded has been using FOSS4G tools 
for a
> number of years  and have been sponsors of several OSGeo events. 
He's given

> talks on building your product around FOSS4G software.
>
> Just recently he was the Co-Chair of FOSS4G 2017 where he did much 
of the
> legwork of putting out the proposal, doing the budget, garnering 
funding
> from many sponsors (I think FOSS4G2017 hit a record on sponsorship), 
and

> also making everything come together.
>
> He has something special that we are short on in OSGeo, and that is the
> ability to bring the conversation of FOSS4G to the business decision 
makers

> and how it can streamline their business processes.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Hae-Kyong Kang nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/1/2017 8:51 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Hae-Kyong Kang nomination by Sanghee Shin. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:43:37 +0900
From: 신상희 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: 강혜경 , 강혜경 



Dear CRO,

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


Kind regards,

신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com

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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Steven Ottens nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 8/30/2017 11:43 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Steven Ottens nomination by Volker Mische. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


Best regards,
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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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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Daniele Strigaro nomination as Charter Member

Venka

On 8/30/2017 10:15 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Daniele Strigaro nomination by Massimiliano Cannata. 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 for Daniele Strigaro
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:29:24 +0200
From: Massimiliano Cannata 
To: c...@osgeo.org 

Dear CRO,
I'm pleased to nominate Daniele Strigaro [1] for Charter Membership. 
Daniele is a young enthusiastic developer devoted to open source 
Geospatial. He successfully contributed to the GRASS and istSOS 
community. He developed GIS tools for flood risk, landslide 
susceptibility and glacier retreat analysis and he has been working on 
the implementation of the istSOS software. In addition, he experienced 
the web platforms development using the well-known Javascript 
libraries (Leaflet, Openlayer) and different OGC compliant open source 
software for data and map sharing.


I have contacted Daniele and after checking the Responsabilities of a 
Charter member [2] he agreed to be nominated.


His contacts details are:

P.S.: sorry for my error in nomination procedure..

[1] https://github.com/danistrigaro 
[2] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Responsibilities_charter_membership_responsibilities





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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 to Partick Hogan nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 8/29/2017 10:28 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
We confirm that Patrick Hogan accepted the nomination by Suchith 
Anand. 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


On 8/26/17 11:30 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
It is my pleasure to nominate Patrick Hogan (USA)  as an OSGeo 
Charter Member.  Patrick Hogan [1] works for NASA, USA.


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


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


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


Best wishes,

Suchith

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


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

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



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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 to Rafael Moreno-Sanchez nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 8/29/2017 10:12 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
We confirm that Rafael Moreno-Sanchez accepted the nomination by 
Suchith Anand. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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


On 8/26/17 11:02 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
It is my pleasure to nominate Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez, from USA, as 
an OSGeo Charter Member.  Rafael is working at the Department of 
Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado 
Denver, USA [1].



Rafael is also very active contributor in the OSGeo’s GeoForAll 
initiative . Rafael Moreno led the effort to establish the FOSS4G lab 
which opened in 2014 in the Department of Geography and Environmental 
Sciences at the University of Colorado , USA to fulfill a growing 
demand for education, research and service in Free and Open Source 
Software for Geospatial applications (FOSS4G) development and 
applications by citizens, businesses, governments, educators, 
students, researchers and geospatial working professionals in the 
Front Range of Colorado and beyond at University of Colorado Denver 
and constantly assisting educators and students.


Rafael also initiated and leads the GeoForAll's "Open Geospatial 
Science & Applications" webinar series [2].  These webinars (and 
recordings) are viewed by hundreds of people around the world and 
helped us to spread the ideas and philosophy of Openness in 
GeoEducation and Research. We are very grateful for his contributions 
and help.


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


Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/ 



[2] http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Veronica Andreo nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/2/2017 6:17 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

I would also like to second Veronica's nomination

Angelos

On 08/29/2017 05:27 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

I second Veronica's nomination.

Markus

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
 wrote:
Forwarding Veronica Andreo nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 
member

nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

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


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Subject: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:59:39 +0200
From: Moritz Lennert 
To: c...@osgeo.org

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Veronica Andreo as charter member.

Veronica is a very active member of the GRASS GIS community and 
provides
very valuable work in documentation, bug fixing, user support, etc. 
She is

also very active diffusing OSGeo/FOSS4G principles through conferences,
workshops, and other forms of training.

Best wishes,
Moritz



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination as Charter Member.

Venka

On 9/5/2017 8:53 AM, Pedro Venâncio wrote:

+ 1 for Jorge.

Best regards,
Pedro Venâncio


Em 04/09/2017 14:36, "Jorge Sanz"  escreveu:


+1 jorge

On 29 August 2017 at 01:43, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:


Forwarding Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination by Gérald Fenoy and
Jachym Cepicky. 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  for Jorge de Jesus
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:02:50 +0200
From: Fenoy Gerald 
To: OSGeo CRO 
CC: jorge. dejesus 


Dear All,
it is a great honor for me to nominate Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus.

Jorge is active and recognized for his work for years in the world of
FOSS4G. He is currently working at Geocat and is involved in various Open
Source ProjectS, amongst them the famous GeoNetwork and PyWPS. Jorge is
someone with a clear vision and positive thinking.

Jorge attends the FOSS4G on a regular manner and often make presentation
and workshop there.

I have faith in Jorge and feel that he is someone representative and that
will be of big benefit for OSGeo.

All the best,

--

Best regards CRO,

Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay





--
Jorge Sanz
http://www.osgeo.org
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination Arne Schubert as an OSGeo charter member

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Arne Schubert's nomination as Charter Member.

On 8/28/2017 8:54 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
We confirm that Arne Schubert accepted the nomination by Astrid Emde. 
The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


Best regards,
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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination Arne Schubert as an OSGeo charter member
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:34:44 +0200
From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
To: OSGeo Discussions , OSGeo CRO 



Hello

I would like to nominate Arne Schubert for OSGeo charter membership.

Arne is active in the Mapbender Project & in the YAGA Development Team.

He was involved in FOSSGIS events and organized the OSGeo & OSM 
Subconference at FrOSCon last week. He is a great value for OSGeo, 
FOSSGIS and FOSS4G.


He may get involved in GSoC next year and get involved in OGC Specs.

And one thing I do not want to keep secret is that he talks about 
Docker every day ;)


Read more about Arne
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Atd

Astrid



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Narumasa Tsutsumida

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

I second the nomination of Tsutsumida-san.
He is an enthusiastic researcher with experience
in the industry. His has made several innovative
contributions in furthering the use of Open Source
Geospatial software in the field of Remote Sensing
and geostatistics.

He also a regular speaker at several FOSS4G event
and sessions in Japan.

Best

Venka

On 9/6/2017 6:47 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
Forwarding Narumasa Tsutsumida nomination by Hirofumi Hayashi. The 
2017 member nominations list has been updated [1].


Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Narumasa Tsutsumida (Japan)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 12:01:32 +0900
From: 林博文 
To: c...@osgeo.org 



Dear CRO,

I wish to nominate Narumasa Tsutsumida [1] as a Charter Member of OSGeo.

Tsutsumida-san is very active in the OSGeo.JP community conducts 
research and education using Open Source Geospatial Software.
He is also a resource persons at workshops and seminars organized by 
OSGeo.JP.


He is deeply involved in promoting OSGeo and is a great candidate as a 
Charter Member.


I have obtained consent form Tsutsumida before nominating him.
This mail address n...@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp 



Best regards

Hayashi

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Naru




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need official info about OSGeo best presentation awards at FOSS4G-2017

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Andy, Charlie,

Thanks. Please consider writing an official one.
The Japan Local Chapter is considering to invite
Award winning students from Asia for the
local FOSS4G-Osaka event and it will be very
useful to for the organizers if there is
a more "official" announcement (or blog post)
about the FOSS4G-Boston student awards.

The official announcement of student awards could
also be sent as a news item for OSGeo website.

FYI, the official page of awards at FOSS4G-2015
is available at [1]

Best

Venka

[1] 
http://2015.foss4g.org/winners-of-osgeo-student-awards-for-foss4g-2015-seoul/


On 9/4/2017 9:48 PM, Andy Anderson wrote:

Hi, Venka,

There has been no “official” announcement, which one might expect would be 
hanging off http://2017.foss4g.org.

I did tweet an announcement:

https://twitter.com/GeoObservatory/status/899278134540947456

I suppose a blog post with a bit more detail might be appropriate, though. I’ll 
talk with Charlie about writing one.

— Andy


On Sep 4, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> 
wrote:

Dear All,

Can anyone point me to the *official* announcement for
the OSGeo best oral and poster (student?) presentation awards at
FOSS4G-Boston 2017.

Thanks in advance.

Best
Venka




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Need official info about OSGeo best presentation awards at FOSS4G-2017

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Can anyone point me to the *official* announcement for
the OSGeo best oral and poster (student?) presentation awards at
FOSS4G-Boston 2017.

Thanks in advance.

Best
Venka


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 9/4/2017 4:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member 
nominations listwas updated [1].


I strongly support the nomination of Markus Metz.

Best

Venka

P.S. Amazed that MarkusM was not a Charter Member already.



Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
From: Moritz Lennert 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO's,

I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is 
very deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done 
invaluable work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would 
be too long, but besides introducing many new modules and also 
significantly improving the internal libraries, he has done wonders in 
allowing GRASS GIS to work with very, very large amounts of data.


Best wishes,
Moritz

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Jack Reed

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I second the nomination of Jack Reed.

His contributions are indeed very valuable
to OSGeo.

Best

Venka

On 8/31/2017 8:14 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Jack Reed nomination by Peter Löwe. 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 Jack Reed
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:00:33 +0200
From: "Peter Löwe" 
To: c...@osgeo.org
CC: pjr...@stanford.edu

Dear CROs,

I have the great pleasure to nominate Jack Reed (pjr...@stanford.edu):

Jack works as a geospatial web engineer on increasing access to 
geospatial data at the Stanford Libraries. A contributor to 
open-source software, Jack is active in the geospatial, library, and 
open data communities. He is co-founder of the GeoBlacklight and 
OpenGeoMetadata open source projects which aim to provide better 
geospatial data discovery tools and metadata sharing.


Jack frequently attends FOSS4G conferences and was part of this years 
spontaneous BoF for data librarians at FOSS4G Boston.


I believe Jack will be a very valuable charter member for OSGeo.



Best regards,
Peter




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Membership Nomination: Daniele Oxoli

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I strongly support and second this nomination.
His research outputs [1], provide a clear evidence
of his dedication and contributions towards the
spread of Free and Open Source GIS.

Best

Venka

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniele_Oxoli


On 9/1/2017 8:58 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Daniele Oxoli nomination by Maria Brovelli. 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: OSGeo Charter Membership Nomination: Daniele Oxoli
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:54 +
From: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
To: c...@osgeo.org , Vasile Craciunescu 
, vasile.craciune...@gmail.com 


CC: daniele oxoli 



Dear Vasile


I strongly support the nomination of Daniele Oxoli as a 
young enthusiast advocate of open source GIS software, promoting OSGeo 
and open source through his active participation as presenter (FOSS4G 
Como 2015, Paris 2017) as well as assistant of the local organizing 
committee during OSGeo events (FOSS4G Eu in Como 2015 and also Bonn 
2016).
I have known Daniele since years, starting from his master thesis, and 
he has always demonstrated tireless dedication to research and 
promotion of open source principles.
He is currently employed as researcher and PhD student at Politecnico 
di Milano where he is continuing providing excellent solutions with 
FOSS4G as well as introducing undergraduate students to the use and 
philosophy of open source and open data (he is the Vice President of 
the PoliMappers Association). Moreover, he is also contributing in 
software development through the implementation of a QGIS plugin 
dedicated to spatial statistics (Hotspot Analysis).

Please, welcome Daniele as an OSGeo Charter member.

Cheers
Maria

P.S. I already spoke with Daniele (in CC) and he is happy with the 
nomination.




Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies 





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

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



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



*SolKatzAward2015*

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob.+39-328-0023867, 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Kampart Piyathamrongchai from Thailand

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I would like to second this nomination.
Dr. Kampanart is deeply committed to
OSGeo and and a strong member of
the OSGeo.TH community.

Best

Venka


On 8/31/2017 11:59 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Kampart Piyathamrongchai nomination by Sittichai 
Choosumrong. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: nomination of Kampart Piyathamrongchai from Thailand
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:38:04 +0700
From: sittichai choosumrong 
To: c...@osgeo.org 



Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Kampart Piyathamrongchai  as OSGeo chart 
member from Thailand.


I have known him more than 10 years ago when I was studies in Naresun 
University and now we work together in Naresuan University as a 
lecturer, researcher.We do  many project together using Open Source 
Software. I am sure he will continre to promote OSGeo.

He

His OSGeo member page is https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Meogeo 
.

His email is p.kampan...@gmail.com 

Best regards
Sittichai



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination to reinstate Bart van den Eijnden as an OSGeo charter member

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 8/29/2017 6:56 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Bart van den Eijnden nomination by Angelos Tzotsos. The 
2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


I second this nomination.

+1

Venka

P.S. Great to have Bart back as CM



Best regards,
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2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

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

-- Forwarded message --
From: *Angelos Tzotsos* >

Date: 24 August 2017 at 09:16
Subject: Nomination to reinstate Bart van den Eijnden as an OSGeo 
charter member

To: OSGeo CRO >


Name: Bart van den Eijnden
contact e-mail: bart...@osgis.nl 

I would like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden to return to his charter 
member status.
Bart is a valuable member of the OSGeo family, has served as a Board 
member in the past and I am honored to propose his return.




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Angelos and Even,

Thanks for enlightening us with  very thoughtful and pertinent points
and comments.

It would be great to have a broader view on this
and hope to hear from others in our community.

Best

Venka

P.S. Even, congratulations on your 10 years + 2 days since
your first commit to GDAL project!! Many thanks!

On 8/19/2017 9:39 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

Hi Angelos,

thanks for turning those discussions into a positive way forward and your 
proposal sounds
good to me. A few comments below.


I would like to propose a way forward:

1. We should *only* promote projects that are somehow affiliated with OSGeo
(as other Free and Open Source organizations do eg. Apache, Eclipse)

Makes sense. When you promote something on your website, you are somewhat 
responsible
for it, so you must ensure that it meets some minimum criteria that are in the 
"OSGeo spirit"


A proposal for *new* rules:
* Has to have an OSI or FSF approved license and be found on the web in a
public place.

Sounds obvious, but we should probably rephrase that "Source code is released 
with an OSI
or FSF approved license and is available on the web in a public place."

I know at least one project that is Apache licensed but released only as 
binaries, which makes
it not very convenient to modify :-)


* Has to be useful on its own with normal data, and NOT require another
license to really use it

Is it something that is currently required for graduation ? I don't see this 
criterion mentioned
in
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

That one is probably tricky to write correctly. Stated like this, that would 
for example exclude
a Windows executable, since to use it you must own a Windows license... Even if 
you take a
Linux executable that is X/MIT licensed, it links against the GNU libc that is 
GPL licensed (but
as GNU libc is considered part of the OS, there's a provision in the GPL 
license to not apply
the GPL obligations to the code that links to it). Or if you take a Java 
program, it must run
within a JVM that comes with its own license. Same for Python, etc...

But beyond this nitpicking, that criterion can raise more fundamental debates:
* is the intent to exclude projects that would be open-source released plugins 
of a
proprietary software for example (the plugin could be an exporter from 
proprietary formats/
projects to open source ones for example) ?
* Or open-source released projects that would connect to a proprietary server 
(just saw in
LWN headlines that Debian is currently debating whether they should allow OSS 
software
that connect to proprietary services) ?
* What about a fully open-source project that connects to a proprietary service 
?

If I take the exemple of GDAL, the following situations can be found:
* it is X/MIT licensed but can link to a few GPL licensed lib  (poppler, GRASS, 
...)
* it can link to proprietrary licensed libs
* it can interact with proprietary services that have a public API, but don't 
require linking
against proprietary code
* other/most parts are fully useful on their own

So I think this question alone could deserve its own thread.


The project should need to officially apply for being included as OSGeo
Community Project, by answering a questionnaire (including information
gathering for the web site and provide a point of contact for maintaining
that information in the future)

+1

Relation question: if OSGeo website promotes a community project, should the 
website of
this project  (or github page if no dedicated website) links to OSGeo one ? I'm 
not even sure
this is a requirement for a graduated project.

Even




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Andrea Aime for Sol Katz Award 2017!!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Andrea,

Hearty congratulations on receiving the Sol Katz 2017 Award.

Well well deserved for your immense contributions for our

community.

Best

Venka

P.S. This will make beer in Korea even more tastier!!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Collaboration is the way forward: Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the update. I am still not yet fully
aware about what was discussed at the Boston f2f
or the LocationTech meeting that you attended.

As I said in my email,, it is better to clearly and
officially formulate the partnership between
LocationTech and OSGeo..

My first priority as a President of OSGeo foundation
would be to address the concerns raised by our
charter members as we continue to move forward
with our  relationship with LocationTech or other
organizations.

Best

Venka


On 8/18/2017 8:34 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

Venka,

This is something we discussed quite a bit at both the Boston F2F and at
the LocationTech meeting that I was invited to attend. It was agreed that
we all wanted to work together on the MoU but to also work closer together
on the process so it reflects interests and concerns on both sides. Norman
Barker will be attending some OSGeo board meetings to continue the
discussions and I will be attending some LocationTech meetings as well. We
need to keep discussing this both at the meetings and on the list to
continue forward with what is already a very good working relationship.

Mike


Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
treasu...@osgeo.org










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From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh
Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
Date: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 2:41 AM
To: Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com>, Helmut Kudrnovsky
<hel...@web.de>, OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Collaboration is the way
forward: Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly
Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.sm...@usace.army.mil>


Hi Marc,

Many thanks to LocationTech for supporting
OSGeo events and code sprints.

As discussed with you at FOSS4G-Europe last month,
we could consider going beyond the "informal" partnership
between LocationTech and OSGeo Foundation and having
a MoU. I think this would help to answer some of the questions
that Helmut has raised and avoid any misunderstandings
in the future.

I had sent you some suggestions on drafting an MoU that you can
go through and perhaps, find time to discuss f2f with OSGeo board
members attending FOSS4G-Boston.

Best

Venka

On 2017/08/18 6:23, Marc Vloemans wrote:

Dear Helmut,

I am also a charter member. And much more in our ever-growing and
evolving community.

LocationTech is a partner of OSGeo, we work on various joint projects,
LocationTech is sponsor of OSGeo code sprints, we work together for many
years on FOSS4G North Amerika. We do valuable complementary work
regarding community and market development.

All this has been achieved over the years incrementally and by the
efforts, care and vision of many directly involved. An achievement, that
by raising a discussion as you propose

Your confusion thus confuses me (besides Chair of the Marketing
Committee, former Board member of OSGeoNL, member of the LOC FOSS4G
2016, Chair of FOSS4G North Amerika and  Director Ecosystem
Development Eclipse Foundation with special focus on its Industry
Working Group LocationTech.

Your comments are actually turning back the clock.

If you may remember, in the recent past some very unfortunately
misunderstandings have created a we/them atmosphere. The present FOSS4G
in Boston proves we are as an inclusive community moving forward.
Towards unimaginable opportunities.

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans



Op 17 aug. 2017 om 15:19 heeft Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de> het
volgende geschreven:

(Taken from
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53.html)Blocked

"Note the LocationTech badge is not not showing correctly"

now I am, as an OSGeo charter member, really really confused about
this.

What I'm really missing here is an open discussion and decision making
how we, as an organisation OSGeo, going forward to promote projects

>from other organisations.

What is the added value for OSGeo to promote locationtech projects?
Will locationtech also promote OSGeo projects? Why not promote projects

>from any other org? Who will decide which project or other org will be

promoted?

Too many open questions without any sound background for me as an
OSGeo charter member.

Kind regards
Helmut
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Collaboration is the way forward: Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Marc,

Many thanks to LocationTech for supporting
OSGeo events and code sprints.

As discussed with you at FOSS4G-Europe last month,
we could consider going beyond the "informal" partnership
between LocationTech and OSGeo Foundation and having
a MoU. I think this would help to answer some of the questions
that Helmut has raised and avoid any misunderstandings
in the future.

I had sent you some suggestions on drafting an MoU that you can
go through and perhaps, find time to discuss f2f with OSGeo board
members attending FOSS4G-Boston.

Best

Venka

On 2017/08/18 6:23, Marc Vloemans wrote:

Dear Helmut,

I am also a charter member. And much more in our ever-growing and evolving 
community.

LocationTech is a partner of OSGeo, we work on various joint projects, 
LocationTech is sponsor of OSGeo code sprints, we work together for many years 
on FOSS4G North Amerika. We do valuable complementary work regarding community 
and market development.

All this has been achieved over the years incrementally and by the efforts, 
care and vision of many directly involved. An achievement, that by raising a 
discussion as you propose

Your confusion thus confuses me (besides Chair of the Marketing Committee, 
former Board member of OSGeoNL, member of the LOC FOSS4G 2016, Chair of FOSS4G 
North Amerika and  Director Ecosystem Development Eclipse Foundation 
with special focus on its Industry Working Group LocationTech.

Your comments are actually turning back the clock.

If you may remember, in the recent past some very unfortunately 
misunderstandings have created a we/them atmosphere. The present FOSS4G in 
Boston proves we are as an inclusive community moving forward. Towards 
unimaginable opportunities.

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans



Op 17 aug. 2017 om 15:19 heeft Helmut Kudrnovsky  het volgende 
geschreven:

(Taken from https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-August/035453.html)

"Note the LocationTech badge is not not showing correctly"

now I am, as an OSGeo charter member, really really confused about this.

What I'm really missing here is an open discussion and decision making how we, 
as an organisation OSGeo, going forward to promote projects from other 
organisations.

What is the added value for OSGeo to promote locationtech projects? Will 
locationtech also promote OSGeo projects? Why not promote projects from any 
other org? Who will decide which project or other org will be promoted?

Too many open questions without any sound background for me as an OSGeo charter 
member.

Kind regards
Helmut
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Helmut and Maxi,

Thanks for expressing your concerns about listing
of projects and badges on the beta website as a
part of the OSGeo "website/rebranding" initiative.

As mentioned by Helena, earlier on this thread, the
listing of projects and display of project badges on the beta website
is an ongoing open discussion which requires valuable
inputs and insights such as those expressed in your
earlier mails.

I must put on record that I was not aware when/where/how
the matter of listing of projects in the beta website was discussed
and decided. Perhaps this was done in some of the committee
meetings that I could not participate. It is impossible for me to
attend various committee meetings due to time constraints.
Now that you have brought up you concerns in the OSGeo-discuss
list, look forward to having a broader discussion and strive to formulate
clear rules and procedures for listing projects on the OSGeo website.

I would also like to express many thanks to all involved in
creating our brand new website. I feel that the next appropriate
steps would be;

a) Migrate relevant and up-to-date contents form our existing website to
our new beta website

b) Discuss about the new stuff that we may wish to add and
formulate clear procedure and rules for doing the same

c) Add new stuff after step b) above

I also like the proposal of "freezing period" that Maxi suggested in a
related thread [1]. I suggest that discuss and decide on this matter after
we recover from the FOSS4G-Boston conference-lag (I am yet to get over my
FOSS4G-Europe conference lag!).

Best

Venka

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-August/035438.html


On 2017/08/18 6:23, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

Someone would answer that is a do-ocracy :-)

Apart from this, I also share the same concerns of Helmut and would like to
have a clear rule/strategy on this...

Best
Maxi

Il 17 ago 2017 9:19 PM, "Helmut Kudrnovsky"  ha scritto:


(Taken from https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-August/
035453.html)

"Note the LocationTech badge is not not showing correctly"

now I am, as an OSGeo charter member, really really confused about this.

What I'm really missing here is an open discussion and decision making how
we, as an organisation OSGeo, going forward to promote projects from other
organisations.

What is the added value for OSGeo to promote locationtech projects? Will
locationtech also promote OSGeo projects? Why not promote projects from any
other org? Who will decide which project or other org will be promoted?

Too many open questions without any sound background for me as an OSGeo
charter member.

Kind regards
Helmut
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Richard Stallman's keynote at FOSS4G-Boston today

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

I am sure that all those of you who are attending FOSS4G-Boston are
having a great time.

Ricchard Stallman 's keynote is scheduled for today. If someone
has the opportunity, please remind Stallman that it was the chance
meeting with me on the flight from Hanoi-Bangkok in  2004
that marked the beginning of FOSSS4G. We have come a long
way since then.

He wrote a motivating message [1] for FOSS4G-2004 held in Bangkok, 
Thailand.

Had he not insisted (and made me realize the importance) in adding "Free"
when he agreed to write his message, our conference would perhaps
taken some other name.

Best

Venka

[1] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/message.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 8/16/2017 8:37 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

I agree completely with Helena. It has to be fixed with the highest priority.

Same here.

Venka

.


Da: Discuss  per conto di Helena Mitasova 

Inviato: mercoledì 16 agosto 2017 13:29
A: Paulo van Breugel
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; Helmut Kudrnovsky
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

Jody, I have to go so I don't have time to write more but this needs to be 
fixed instantly to avoid massive backlash against the new website. After so 
much effort it would be heartbreaking to have a negative reaction just because 
we would be perceived  as providing advertising platform for projects which are 
not really free and open source (I guess we will hear more about this from 
Stallman tomorrow).

Helena

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Paulo van Breugel 
> wrote:


On 8/16/17 9:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
We could ask the OSGeo live project what procedure they use, at the moment we have 
asked on the disc...@osgeo.org mailing list for open 
source projects to fill in a google form so we would have content to try out the 
website with.

There is a very clear distinguishing of OSGeo projects on the website:

a) Sort order is OSGeo projects > OSGeo Community > Other
b) Only OSGeo projects are available from the menu directly,
c) When listed OSGeo Projects, and OSGeo Community projects are badged with the 
appropriate logo


When I use the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly, I am 
seeing the page with all projects, with projects in what seems to be random 
order (and with some of the OSGEO projects, like GRASS, on the last page). Only 
when I click on 'projects' in the menu am I presented with the projects grouped 
in Osgeo projects, osgeo community, others. Wouldn't it be preferable to use 
that page as landing page when using the link 
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly?


This is going to be an interesting week collecting feedback when lots of the 
website is not working as designed quite yet (examples tagging and sorting). To 
be fair the vast majority of project descriptions were entered last weekend so 
this is our first chance to try things out with actual content :)



--
Jody Garnett

On 16 August 2017 at 02:36, Helmut Kudrnovsky 
> wrote:


Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 06:28 Uhr
Von: "Jody Garnett"
Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

Not sure it is much of an explanation - our vision as a group is to empower 
everyone with geospatial - and there is a lot of open source >spatial to 
promote.

By the same vision live.osgeo.org[http://live.osgeo.org] 
includes all kinds of projects :)

The key idea is to help people new to our world to go through the choose a 
project pages and discover projects that meet their needs.

The website is a beta, we now have enough projects to test out these ideas and see 
what issues we can find.  There is a meeting tomorrow >with the vendor that 
should be productive (a hands on training session[https://wiki.osgeo.org
/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint#Website_Training] for any one attending foss4g).

I'm following the new website and branding process a little bit by the mailing 
lists.

is there anywhere a documented discussion or a documented and approved decision 
about how the project selection to be listed on the OSGeo website is done? I 
can't find anyone.

To be inclusive is one side; not to distinguish OSGeo projects from other 
software projects from other initatives (e.g. locationtech) or GIS vendors 
without any supplement words in the OSGeo website, I'm feeling unconformable 
with it.

Kind regards
Helmut

OSGeo charter member




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - for software projects on beta website

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 8/15/2017 12:37 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Thank you to everyone who responded!

You can see the results here:

- http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/


Just a quick observation.

"OSGEO" needs to be changed to "OSGeo" at various places
(e.g. "About OSGEO", "More About OSGEO, "OSGEO Projects" etc)
on the beta website.

Best

Venka


- http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/service-providers/
- http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/resources/

I especially love the mix of individuals and firms for the service
providers - great to the faces of those making a living as part of our
community.

If you encounter a difficulty with how the website works please check the issue
tracker  to see if it has been
reported (if so add a comment) or report it yourself. .



--
Jody Garnett

On 9 August 2017 at 14:26, Jody Garnett  wrote:


Final call for projects to fill in information for the beta website,
please have content in by Friday August 9th for inclusion in the beta
website as shown at foss4g next week.

The data collection forms are here:

- Software Projects 
- Service Providers 
- Resources 

If you have already provided your content - thank you. Please review the
result online osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects. We can make any
corrections needed if you stop by the OSGeo booth.

A reminder that this website is open to *all* open source spatial
projects, so if your project is spatial please fill in the form to be
listed.
--
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo website/rebranding May Update

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 6/9/2017 10:21 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 10:15:18AM +0100, Steven Feldman wrote:

An alternative is to make the score card as  `Google Form and then embed that 
in a page - that gives us a nice spreadsheet as the ‘back end’ without any 
extra effort

Please let's try to exist independently from Google :)

+1

Venka


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Angelos and the OSGeo-Live Team.

Congratulations on the release of OSGeo-Live 10.5!!

Many thanks to the the OSGeo-Live Team for their
relentless efforts in promoting OSGeo software.

Best

Venka

On 2017/04/11 6:05, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released


10 April 2017

Version 10.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection
 has been released, ready for the FOSS4G-Europe 2017
conference in Paris Marne-la-Vallée, France


Download

Download the OSGeo-Live 10.5 image at http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html


Release Highlights Applications

- Supporting isohybrid ISO images with UEFI
- GRASS 7.2.0
- QGIS 2.14.11
- GDAL 2.1.3
- GeoServer 2.10.1, now with NetCDF plugin
- PostGIS 2.3.2
- GEOS 3.5.1
- MapServer 7.0.4
- pycsw 2.0.2
- GeoMoose 2.9.2
- OTB 5.8.0
- SAGA 2.3.1
- ZOO-Project 1.6.0
- pgRouting 2.3.2
- 52nSOS 4.3.9
- MapProxy 1.9.0
- rasdaman 9.3.0
- Deegree 3.3.18
- retired Cartaro


Known Issues and Errata

Post release issues are listed here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/10.5

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual
Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which
can be trialled without installing anything. It includes:

- Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and
pre-configured
- Free world maps and sample datasets
- Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
- Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
- Translations to multiple languages

Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org

Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

Credits

Over 180 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting
and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged
software.

Developers, packagers, documenters and translators include:

Activity Workshop, Alan Boudreault, Alex Mandel, Alexandre Dube, Amy Gao,
Andrea Antonello, Angelos Tzotsos, Anton Patrushev, Antonio Santiago,
Argyros Argyridis, Ariel Núñez, Astrid Emde, Balasubramaniam Natarajan,
Barry Rowlingson, Ben Caradoc-Davies, Ben Caradoc-Davies, Benjamin Pross,
Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Bu Kun, Cameron Shorter, Dane Springmeyer,
Daniel Kastl, Danilo Bretschneider, Dimitar Misev, Edgar Soldin, Eike
Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Erika Pillu, Etienne Dube, Fabian Schindler,
Fran Boon, Frank Gasdorf, Frank Warmerdam, François Prunayre, Friedjoff
Trautwein, Gabriele Prestifilippo, Gavin Treadgold, Gerald Fenoy, Guillaume
Pasero, Guy Griffiths, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan
Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Edwards, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak,
Jane Lewis, Javier Rodrigo, Jim Klassen, Jinsongdi Yu, Alan Beccati, Jody
Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, John Bryant, Jorge Sanz, José Vicente Higón,
Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Larry Shaffer,
Luca Delucchi, Mage Whopper, Marc-André Barbeau, Manuel Grizonnet,
Margherita Di Leo, Mario Carrera, Mark Leslie, Markus Neteler, Massimo Di
Stefano, Micha Silver, Michael Owonibi, Michaël Michaud, Mike Adair, Milan
P. Antonovic, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nicolas Roelandt, Oliver
Tonnhofer, Patric Hafner, Paul Meems, Pirmin Kalberer, Regina Obe, Ricardo
Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto Antolin, Robin Lovelace, Ruth Schoenbuchner,
Scott Penrose, Sergio Baños, Sergey Popov, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot,
Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Stefan Steiniger, Stephan Meissl, Steve
Lime, Takayuki Nuimura, Thierry Badard, Thomas Gratier, Tom Kralidis,
Trevor Wekel, Matthias Streulens, Victor Poughon, Zoltan Siki, Òscar Fonts,
Raf Roset, Anna Muñoz, Cristhian Pin, Marc Torres, Assumpció Termens,
Estela Llorente, Roger Veciana, Dominik Helle, Lars Lingner, Otto Dassau,
Thomas Baschetti, Christos Iossifidis, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Maria
Vakalopoulou, Agustín Dí­ez, David Mateos, Javier Sánchez, Jesús Gómez,
Jorge Arévalo, José Antonio Canalejo, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos,
Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Roberto Antolí­n, Samuel Mesa, Valenty González, Lucía
Sanjaime, Andrea Yanza, Diego González, Nacho Varela, Mario Andino,
Virginia Vergara, Christophe Tufféry, Etienne Delay, Hungary, M Iqnaul Haq
Siregar, Andry Rustanto, Alessandro Furieri, Antonio Falciano, Diego
Migliavacca, Elena Mezzini, Giuseppe Calamita, Marco Puppin, Marco Curreli,
Matteo De Stefano, Pasquale Di Donato, Roberta Fagandini, Nobusuke Iwasaki,
Toshikazu Seto, Yoichi Kayama, Hirofumi Hayashi, Ko Nagase, Hyeyeong Choe,
Milena Nowotarska, Damian Wojsław, Alexander Bruy, Alexander Muriy, Alexey
Ardyakov, Andrey Syrokomskiy, Anton Novichikhin, Daria Svidzinska, Denis
Rykov, Dmitry Baryshnikov, Evgeny Nikulin, Ilya Filippov, Grigory
Rozhentsov, Maxim Dubinin, Nadiia Gorash, Pavel, Sergey Grachev, Vera,
Alexander Kleshnin, kuzkok, Xianfeng Song, Jing Wang, 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Maxi also made an excelling presentation on related topic
at FOSS4G-Asia 2017. The presentation is available at

http://www.slideshare.net/cannata/massimiliano-cannata-keynote-foss4gasia-2017

Best

Venka

On 2017/03/20 22:08, Jeff McKenna wrote:
Actually Maxi and I did a recent thorough research into OSGeo project 
use of infrastructure, by each project, and it was published as a 
paper (or soon to be).  In the short term I know Maxi has submitted it 
as a talk for FOSS4G-Europe.  It's good to take a step back and review 
old processes.  Actually we hope that that was a start of a regular 
OSGeo project 'health checkup', which obviously is very needed.  For 
example, it was quite shocking how many current OSGeo projects are 
functioning without any regular Project Steering Committee meetings, 
or even a visible Project Steering Committee.  I am sure Maxi will be 
sharing those results at FOSS4G-E.


-jeff



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India event

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Thanks, Ravi.

Also great to see FOSS4G and OSGeo names appear in major
Indian newspapers [1].

Best

Venka

[1] https://plus.google.com/109741136460742479583/posts/52GH2nWxnxe



On 3/3/2017 11:29 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Hi Ravi,

Great to hear how the 60 students took to QGIS and other tools "like 
fish takes to water", well said! Thanks for sharing the passion.


-jeff



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Margherita,

Thanks for this great news and all you efforts.

I hope to see great GSoC proposals this
year too!

Best

Venka

On 2/28/2017 5:33 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

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] FOSS4G in Ecuador?

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 12/7/2016 10:50 PM, Dan Little wrote:

This is literally the most Jeff McKenna question every asked on the
mailing list.

Agree with that!

Guillermo, best of luck for organizing FOSS4G-EC.
Let us know if you need any help. You can also
think of an wiki-page like our friends are done
for FOSS4G-EU 2017 [1] and requesting for
who maybe interested to join FOSS4G-EC to
add their names to the wiki. Once the dates
are fixed, you could send a upcoming event item for
the OSGeo website [2].

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Europe_2017
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/events/submit_events



On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Jeff McKenna
 wrote:

Hi Guillermo!

Great news about FOSS4G-Ecuador plans, this is wonderful.  There are very
few limitations and rules for holding a FOSS4G in your country, and that is
why it has spread around the whole world so fast! :)  You should quickly
purchase the domain http://foss4g.ec and then start thinking of your logo:
really the only consistent part of FOSS4G (besides the FOSS4G spirit) is the
ribbon in the logo, which symbolizes sharing and the flow of ideas and
innovation in the community - check here for some past ideas
http://foss4g.org but there are many more out there.  Another great example
is the FOSS4G-SOTM Argentina 2017 logo: http://www.foss4g-ar.org/

In terms of Latin America and FOSS4G, it is great to see so many events
popping up for 2017 (Argentina, Brazil, Peru,...).  I also try to help these
events along, so I will be happy to join your local committee meetings
remotely and provide any help along the way - my pleasure!

So yes please share the FOSS4G spirit in Ecuador and plant the seed for our
future generations! :)  Thank you Guillermo! (and talk soon)

-jeff

--
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President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
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On 2016-12-06 5:48 PM, Guillermo Pizarro wrote:

Hello everybody,

I have a question: If I want to organize "FOSS4G in Ecuador" (latin
american country), what I have to do? or who should I speak with?

Regards,
Guillermo Pizarro






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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Codrina,

On 2016/10/21 17:09, Codrina Maria Ilie wrote:

Dear Venka, all

I would gladly join forces in a Data4All initiative with OSM, HOT and 
other Open Data communities, as well.


That's great! Shall we start with setting up a wiki page and
inviting others to join the Data4All initiative?

Best

Venka



Cheers,
Codrina


On 21/10/16 02:27, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:


Regarding "Public Geodata Project", I expressed my views in
the recent e-mail [2]. I would be happy to work together with
anyone who would like to take up on forming the "Data4All"
initiative with OSM, HOT and others in the Open Data
community.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Maxi, Cameron and all,

Perhaps the term "Education Committee" could be replaced with
Geo4All as it represents the educational outreach project of
OSGeo.

Mapbuilder which is listed as an Foundation project has
retired [1] and and can be removed or shown
"Past Project".

Regarding "Public Geodata Project", I expressed my views in
the recent e-mail [2]. I would be happy to work together with
anyone who would like to take up on forming the "Data4All"
initiative with OSM, HOT and others in the Open Data
community.

Best

Venka

[1] 
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.jp/2008/07/end-of-life-for-community-mapbuilder-we_29.html

[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-October/016812.html

On 10/21/2016 4:53 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

Hi Maxi,

I'm not sure our software incubation checklist is the correct criteria 
to apply to "OSGeo Outreach Projects".


--

The education committee is a huge success story of OSGeo, attracting 
educators from around the world who are promoting Open Source to 
future generations. OSGeo should be promoting this community.


OSGeo-Live likewise has hundreds of contributors, provides a easy way 
for new users to find out about Open Source projects, and maintains a 
high level of quality. It should be promoted. Note, we have considered 
taking OSGeo-Live through graduation. Checklist here:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist

One concern I have is that OSGeo-Live includes more projects than just 
those incubated. A casual observer would naturally deduce that if 
OSGeo-Live has reached incubation quality, then all included packages 
should have also reached such quality. This assumption is incorrect 
and should not be promoted by OSGeo, and is a reason for OSGeo-Live 
not to be officially recognised as an OSGeo incubated project.


--
The OSGeo Data Committee is a great idea, but has lost impetus. This 
might be a candidate for dropping from the home page. Possibly we 
should be pointing people to Open Street Map or similar.


Warm regards, Cameron

On 21/10/2016 12:20 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

dear Board,
in the OSGeo landing page (www.osgeo.org ) in 
the "OSGeo projects" frame are listed the so called "Outreach Projects".


To my understanding and knowledge these listed projects (Public 
Geospatial Data, Education and Curriculum, OSGeo Live) have not been 
nor incubated nor graduated.


I'm therefore asking for clarification, and in the case my 
understanding is correct, to immediately remove these projects from 
the landing page.


Two of them are actually committee, at the same level of the other 
OSGeo committee, that in my opinion should be equally promoted and 
listed togheter.


Best,
Maxi



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Jachym,

I think it is better to confirm before attributing statements to
someone.

Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out of OSGeo and least of 
all Jeff.

Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public Geodata committee. Perhaps
renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a start. We also have a new
"Open Geoscience Committee" [1]  with great work being done in longterm
archiving of FOSS4G videos, for instance.

What I would suggest is to strengthen tie-ups with OSM,  HOT and perhaps 
consider
building something like Data4All, emulating the success of out 
educational outreach,

Geo4All.

Best

Venka

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

On 10/17/2016 8:22 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on the
same board. I try to push open  (geo)data topic as well, in or out of OSGeo

J

po 17. 10. 2016 v 13:17 odesílatel Jeff McKenna <
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> napsal:


Hi Jachym,

I have given talks on OSGeo and open data.  I am sorry to hear that you
believe I said that about the foundation.  I do believe we've discussed
this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you
heard this?  I remember a discussion of adding open data into our
foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did.

-jeff


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



On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

Hi Sanghee,
I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we
(OSGeo.org) are solely software foundation - therefore we do not care
about open data

maybe things have changed?

J

po 17. 10. 2016 v 5:08 odesílatel Sanghee Shin > napsal:

 Dear all,

 Can anybody share presentation file about the OSGeo and open data,
 if any? I’m invited to give a keynote talk at ‘Open Data in Action
 Conference’[1] in Korea and I don’t want to make the file from the
 scratch.

 FYI, OSGeo Korea[2], R Korea[3], Open Data Institute(ODI) Seoul[4],
 Open Knowledge(OK) Korea[5] will co-host the event on 15th Nov near
 Seoul. The main theme of the conference is ‘Experiment on Open Data
 based Society.’ Anybody who has similar interest can join this
 conference.

 Kind regards,
 신상희

 [1]http://event.r-kor.org/
 [2]http://www.osgeo.kr/
 [3]http://r-kor.org/
 [4]http://seoul.theodi.org/
 [5]http://okfn.kr/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jorge,

Many thanks for all you hardwork as CRO.

On 10/6/2016 5:03 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

I've taken the liberty to update the list removing Maxi and Dirk and
adding Maria and Angelos with e-mails you used on this thread.


Was that the board-private list?

Best

Venka



If you want to use any others let me know and I'll update accordingly.

Best regards

On 6 October 2016 at 09:57, Jachym Cepicky  wrote:

Hi,

congrats to all board members

one note:

* 6 incomplete responses

I think, it's due to the fact, that the "submit" button was "under" the
visible area on some monitors - I had little issues to find out, how to
submit my votes (did it finally btw)

Cheers

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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Welcome to Angelos and Maria as new board members.
Congratulations to Mike and Vasile on their relection.

Sincere thanks to Maxi and Dirk for all the time and
effort in serving the foundation as Board members.

Thanks to Jorge and Jeff all their hard work in getting
2016 Board elections through.

Best

Venka

On 2016/10/06 4:49, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

Dear Jorge and dear Community
Many thanks for your trust in me. We will need all your help for making OSGeo 
even stronger and greater than it currently is.
I want to thank Jorge once again for his valuable effort and Dirk and Maxi for 
having served so enthusiastically and tirelessly the Board for the benefit of 
the Foundation and the Community.
Cheers!
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
 Messaggio originale 
Da: Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org>
Data: 05/10/2016 12:00 (GMT+02:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: CRO <c...@osgeo.org>
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

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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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GSoC 2016: Summary and results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Anne and Madi,

Many thanks for your immaculate management of GSoC 2016.
Congratulations to all students and thanks to mentors for
their time and effort.

Best

Venka



On 9/2/2016 11:27 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote:

Dear all,

One more GSoC has come to an end, with an awesome array of successful
student projects:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/

We would like to warmly thank our mentors for the first-class support
to the students, defying timezones and language hurdles, so that each
student could comfortably learn and code in their chosen software
project. Also, thank you to all our students for their commitment and
the excellent results produced. Every year the bar is raised a notch!
And last but not least, a huge thank you to Google Open Source Team,
who made GSoC a reality for the 12th year in a row!

We wish all mentors a relaxing winter of code, and welcome our students
to stay around and enjoy open source community, this time without
deadlines :)

Until next GSoC, goodbye!

Anne and Madi
OSGeo GSoC Administrators
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dirk, Arnulf,

Thanks for following up about the AGM.
I will be available to moderate the session.

I also request Local chapter representatives, PSC members
and others to add their names to the AGM page [1] and
make a short presentation about their activities.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2016

Best

Venka

On 8/17/2016 12:41 AM, Dirk Frigne wrote:

I think Venka will moderate this session. But he mentioned he would be
travelling from 4/8/16 until the Bonn conference.

I will add his name on the list, and be prepared to backup if necessary.

Dirk.

On 16-08-16 17:17, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

Venka,
thanks for starting this! It would be great if somebody from the board
would volunteer to moderate the session. I am happy to help out but
would prefer someone official to lead this session.


All,
please add your name to the agenda and prepare a couple of slides (or
even consider talking freely) highlighting what your OSGeo project,
local chapter or initiative did in the last year. This is always a great
inspiration for others even old honks like me because there is such an
amazing diversity of things going on around Open Source geospatial.


Looking forward to see many of you next week in Bonn!

Have fun,
Seven (aka Arnulf)


On 04.08.2016 08:10, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

Hi All,

Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below
25 August @ 17:30  in the plenary Chamber

It would be great to have volunteers from local chapters, committees, to
give a
very brief update on activities and outcomes.

Please sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2016

Best

Venka


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi All,

Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below
25 August @ 17:30  in the plenary Chamber

It would be great to have volunteers from local chapters, committees, to 
give a

very brief update on activities and outcomes.

Please sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2016

Best

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[OSGeo-Discuss] REMINDER: final day for Sol Katz Award nominations

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Today is the final day for nominating a leader in our community for the 
Sol Katz Award: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1715


Venka

On 2016/08/01 16:56, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

Dear All,

I would like to remind you that the deadline for
sending your nomination for the 2016 Sol Katz
Award is until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8=4=2016=23=59=59.


More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Best

Venka

On 2016/07/22 8:05, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

Dear All,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
(GFOSS) will be given 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.

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
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
provided both source code and applications freely available to the
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8=4=2016=23=59=59.


A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. 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.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
are not eligible.

More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Past Awardees:

 * 2015: Maria Brovelli
 * 2014: Gary Sherman
 * 2013: Arnulf Christl
 * 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
 * 2011: Martin Davis
 * 2010: Helena Mitasova
 * 2009: Daniel Morissette
 * 2008: Paul Ramsey
 * 2007: Steve Lime
 * 2006: Markus Neteler
 * 2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2016

 * Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Markus Neteler
 * Steve Lime
 * Paul Ramsey
 * Sophia Parafina
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Martin Davis
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Gary Sherman
 * Maria Brovelli

Best

Venka




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Charter Member elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Congratulations and warm welcome to all our new charter
members.

Vasile, thanks for your hardwork as CRO.

Best

Venka

On 8/1/2016 11:19 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of ten days to vote, we close the elections system to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- received a greater number of positive votes than negative.
- received more than a 5% of positive votes over the total number of 
votes.


Hence, it's my pleasure to welcome our 33 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 312 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, I encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will update the official list[6], publish the detailed elections 
results, pass to the secretary the revised contacts, and subscribe the 
new members to the charter-members list[7]

as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile
CRO 2016

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2016
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2016
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5] 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate

[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

I would like to remind you that the deadline for
sending your nomination for the 2016 Sol Katz
Award is until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8=4=2016=23=59=59.


More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Best

Venka

On 2016/07/22 8:05, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

Dear All,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
(GFOSS) will be given 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.

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
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
provided both source code and applications freely available to the
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8=4=2016=23=59=59.


A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. 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.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
are not eligible.

More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Past Awardees:

 * 2015: Maria Brovelli
 * 2014: Gary Sherman
 * 2013: Arnulf Christl
 * 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
 * 2011: Martin Davis
 * 2010: Helena Mitasova
 * 2009: Daniel Morissette
 * 2008: Paul Ramsey
 * 2007: Steve Lime
 * 2006: Markus Neteler
 * 2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2016

 * Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Markus Neteler
 * Steve Lime
 * Paul Ramsey
 * Sophia Parafina
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Martin Davis
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Gary Sherman
 * Maria Brovelli

Best

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
(GFOSS) will be given 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.

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
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
provided both source code and applications freely available to the
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8=4=2016=23=59=59.


A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. 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.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
are not eligible.

More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Past Awardees:

 * 2015: Maria Brovelli
 * 2014: Gary Sherman
 * 2013: Arnulf Christl
 * 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
 * 2011: Martin Davis
 * 2010: Helena Mitasova
 * 2009: Daniel Morissette
 * 2008: Paul Ramsey
 * 2007: Steve Lime
 * 2006: Markus Neteler
 * 2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2016

 * Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Markus Neteler
 * Steve Lime
 * Paul Ramsey
 * Sophia Parafina
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Martin Davis
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Gary Sherman
 * Maria Brovelli

Best

Venka

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 22 accepted GSoC students @ OSGeo!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Congratulations and best of luck for all the accepted teams.
And many thanks to Madi and Anne for managing the OSGeo
GSoC 2016.

Best

Venka

On 2016/04/23 19:23, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

Dear All,

this year OSGeo welcomes 22 students withing the Google Summer of Code
2016! They were awarded out of 39 proposals received! Check out their
projects here [1]. Besides the guidance of their mentors, I'm sure they
will receive the support of the community at large.

Best wishes,


[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vote on the new OSGeo Seal

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2016/03/21 9:23, Jody Garnett wrote:

Can we delegate to Anita as the organizer?

+1 Venka



On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:09 PM Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:


Vote closed...  though, we have a tie result. How should we proceed
further?

-Vasile

On 3/20/16 1:42 PM, Anita Graser wrote:

Last chance to cast your vote! Voting closes at midnight today.

Best wishes,
Anita



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Congratulations to Patrick and the WorldWind team!

Hope the WorldWind team will consider joining in
as an OSGeo software project in the near future.

Best

Venka

On 3/19/2016 2:58 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

Bravissimo!
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


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Da: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" 
Data: 18/03/2016 17:03 (GMT+01:00)
A: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

Dear OSGeo,

NASA World Wind wins two of the three awards
at the ESA Big Data from Space, BiDS'16 conference.
http://congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16m05/introduction

(Yann Voumard is an ESA developer working on WorldWind)

You can win too!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick

From: Yann Voumard >
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:08 AM
To: NASA World Wind / ESA
Subject: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

We won best demo and best poster :)

Best DEMO, Best POSTER, Best SESSION

Dear Attendees,

Voting results are:

BEST DEMO

NASA WORLD WIND: THE EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION

BEST POSTER

INNOVATIVE WAYS OF VISUALIZING META DATA IN 4D
USING World Wind OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES

BEST SESSION

EXPLOITATION PLATFORMS 1 (PLENARY 2), CHAIR: F. JOCTEUR



Thank you,

BIDS'16 Organising Committee



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 3/16/2016 3:00 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

I think that nicolas ideas are fully right. Website is one of the best
marketing tool.
Maybe making one committee from two dormient make one awake... could we
consider to join webcom and marketing in a new one?


I also think that merging web and marketing committees would make a lot
of sense.

Best

Venka


Maxi
Il 15/Mar/2016 21:39, "Jody Garnett"  ha scritto:


Thanks Cameron & Nick, could you start outlining a "reboot" on the wiki
and grab an agenda item for next months board meeting? We also have a
hangout/workparty for board members (and officers?) in case you want some
companionship shaping the wiki page.


--
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On 15 March 2016 at 04:38, nicolas bozon  wrote:


Dear Cameron, Marketing Committee, OSGeo Directors,


As a member of the so called "dormant" Marketing Committee, i would be
glad to help revitalising it.

In fact it hasn't been a satisfactory nor confortable situation to be a
member of such a forgotten commitee since 2012.
So i'd like to volunteer for championing such committee reboot, and
propose to help define strategic changes, recruit new members and tackle
some of the administrative tasks.
I can also chair the Committee if needed, and if this is appropriated for
gathering the troops. Cameron, I am not Santa (but 'Klaus' only:)), but I'd
be very glad to learn from your experience and we may try to enhance things
together.

However,i think the commitee's mission and role should be revised,
probably indepth modified, and aligned with the new OSGeo plans.
My main point is that the mandate of the OSGeo Marketing Committee must
go way beyond the funding of OSGeo events and the managment of consumables
or swag, as it mostly did (or not) until now.
OSGeo Live is one of our best marketing tool to showcase some of the
Foundation's software projects, but not to promote and market the
Foundation itself IMHO.
OSGeo Live must of course be kept inside a new marketing plan, but the
latter shouldn't be built on DVDs and events only.

According to me, improving OSGeo Marketing globally is one of the most
important and urgent action to be taken according to the new strategic plan
defined by the Board.
It must help OSGeo to be presented as more matured, more inclusive, more
professional, and fully considered by the broader geospatial community.

I believe such reborn Marketing Committee should work closely along with
the Board of Directors, the Website Committee and a few motivated
contributors, in order to:

- Define a consitent OSGeo identity from existing material (including
revised graphic guidelines, new shapes and colors aligned with identified
needs and recent web trends, new scalable vector graphics, web fonts ...)
- Refine the OSGeo web identity (including main site redesign through the
developement a new drupal theme, responsive webdesign, efficient and
reusable visuals...)
- Enhance OSGeo web content and presence (including blog, journal,
newsletter and bring more activity on various social networks)
- Market the OSGeo brand online and at all kind of events (including
consumables management, viral marketing, direct marketing...)

Such actions could be prioritized and voted by the Committee's members,
coordinated by the commitee's chair according to the Committee members, and
aligned with the allocated budget and volunteered time.

I sincerly hope we can reboot and improve our Marketing Committee
together, in order to grow and market our Foundation better.
Let us talk, decide and act now ! Enough rest for MarkCom' !

Best regards,

Nick

2016-03-15 8:42 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter :


OSGeo needs help distributing money to worthy causes. We need an OSGeo
Santa Clause.

The current state of play is:
* The OSGeo Board has allocated budget for an OSGeo marketing committee
to distribute.

* But, our OSGeo Marketing committee has imploded. (I was the last
chair, a few years back). It seems no one is interested in the
administrative tasks of giving away money, doing the administrative work of
writing cheques, being accountable, deciding which requests get funded
verses which don't based on a set of guidelines.

My take is that handing out money to worthy marketing causes can't be
too important, as it is not bugging anyone enough to want to step up and
volunteer to fix it. But I'd be delighted to proven wrong, and see some
people volunteer to step up to revitalise the OSGeo marketing committee. If
you are possibly interested, please speak up. I'd be happy to help you get
started.

A first task would be to consider this request from Bob.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 9/03/2016 6:29 am, Jody Garnett wrote:

Sounds like an amazing event, marketing committee should have a budget
to work against shortly (it is an agenda topic for this week and you can
see the budget

on the wiki ).

Cameron is 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Sanghee,

Thanks for filling us in with the details of the UN OpenGIS
meeting in Brindisi.

Many thanks to you, Maria and Maxi for your great job
in presenting about OSGeo and Geo4All at the meeting.

Look forward to close collaboration and strengthened
partnership between UNGeo and OSGeo.

Best

Venka


On 2016/03/14 10:47, 신상희 wrote:

Dear All,

As mentioned in this mail, UN OpenGIS Initiative(now renamed UNOGeo)
Technical Workshop was held last week for 5 days at Brindisi, Italia. If
you’re interested and want to know what’s going on there, please see Maxi’s
great report on this here:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/un/2016-March/14.html

And if I add something to Maxi’s report(since I also attended the UN
workshop there on behalf of Korea), this workshop was not an one time and
sudden event. I was very glad and surprised to see that UN already set the
clear vision to migrate to open source GIS from proprietary ones. And happy
to see that many of their plans are based on OSGeo projects. That’s why UN
officially invited OSGeo there. Last week’s workshop was just a start point
and I feel we’ll see many activities in UN regarding open source GIS in
near future. Thanks again for Maxi and Maria’s great works there.

Kind regards,

신상희

---

Shin, Sanghee

Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company

http://www.gaia3d.com

2016-03-13 20:09 GMT+09:00 Suchith Anand :


Dear Colleagues,

You all are invited to join a seminar ( join the live webcast)  on *"Geospatial
Information for United Nations"* to be delivered by Kyoung-Soo Eom, Chief
Geospatial Information Section, Department of Field Support, United Nations
at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Thanks to Prof. Maria Brovelli and
colleagues at Politecnico di Milano for organising this.

*Date & Time : 14th March 2016 at 15.30 (Italy time)* . Please check your
local times.

The event will be also available in streaming at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0

The UN Geospatial Information Section supports cartographic and geospatial
information needs of the Security Council and the UN Secretariat including
UN field missions, and oversees global GIS programmes at UN Headquarters
and in the UN field missions. It provides fundamental geospatial products
and applications, which can be for brevity summarized as Geographic
Information System (GIS) services, to: Security Council members, decision
makers, political analysts, information managers, planning & operation
teams, humanitarian affairs, economic & social affairs, safety & security
and logisticians with a wide array of geospatial services. It also supports
Member States in boundary making activities upon request. The UN Geospatial
Information Section, together with the Statistics Division, is providing
support to the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information
Management (UN-GGIM), as co-Secretariat.

Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom joined the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping
Operations (DPKO) in January 1999, and he identified the missed
opportunities in using geospatial information and GIS tools in order to
meet the operational needs to support effective decision-making of UN
peacekeeping operations.

In March 2005, Mr. Eom was appointed Chief of UN Geospatial Information
Section (formerly UN Cartographic Section), to which he brought the newly
established and successful GIS programme. In accordance with the Peace
Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the UN Secretary-General designated
Mr. Eom to serve as the Secretary of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary
Commission (EEBC), and he successfully provided all administrative and
technical service support to the EEBC activities in 2006-2008.

In his "Geospatial Information for United Nations" presentation at
Politecnico di Milano Mr. Eom will describe in details as follows:

1. What are the geospatial information and services requirements for
United Nations operations.
2. How geospatial information and services are supported for United
Nations operations.
3. Collaboration and partnership as well as vision, "Geo-enabled UN
operations"

This also builds upon the synergies of the *United Nations Technical
workshop * in Brindisi  (Italy) [1] last week to support *United Nations
Open Geospatial (UNOGeo) initiative*. Thanks to Massimiliano Cannata and
Maria Brovelli for thier efforts on this. We will be strongly supporting
and establishing collaboration with the United Nations for this
initiative.Both Maria and Maxi are members of the technical committee of
this new UNOGeo initiative and we congratulate them.

The possible contributions from OSGeo for this initiative are:
- expertise on open source software
- access to the incubation process
- bridge / connection with the private sector
- connection with OSGeo projects
- connection with Geo4All labs
- support in education, research and training


The keen interest in, and commitment to, OSGeo and FOSS4G by United
Nations agencies resulted in the organization of a 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2016: OSGeo accepted as mentor org!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Madi and Anne,

Thank you for the wonderful news and for all the
hardwork that you put into getting OSGeo accepted
as mentor organization.

Best

Venka

On 3/1/2016 5:02 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that OSGeo has been accepted once again as mentor
organization for GSoC 2016! See here [0] all accepted organizations.
Instructions on next steps will follow, stay tuned!!

Your GSoC admins,

madi & anne


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




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Mike,

I agree with you. My suggestion to spread out the code sprint was only
to ensure that the community has some idea some idea when
the sprint could be expected and when/how to request OSGeo
Foundation for support.

I would like to see more an more code sprints (also incubation sprints
etc.) being organized in the future being as and when the community
finds it necessary.

I think, we only need to ensure that the procedure to request for 
support and

guidelines to be followed are know to everyone in our community.

Best

Venka

On 2/22/2016 3:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

All,

I don't think there is a reason to have code sprints coordinate their times
to spread them out over the year. They should run when they need to run. We
don't have a cash flow issue that would require this.

And for the Paris Code Sprint, although a request was made, it does not
appear at this time that it will be needed with the carryover funding and
with the sponsorships.

I firmly agree that Code Sprints are one of the more important things that
the foundation does and if there are worthy candidates for funding, then I,
for one, would like to see our budget expand to cover these. What we have
now is just an expectation based on past support, but if new ones come along
that meet our guidelines, I don't see a reason not to support them no matter
the time period or if they exceed our current budget.

Mike


Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
treasu...@osgeo.org

From:  Board <board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh Raghavan
<ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
Date:  Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM
To:  OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Board
<bo...@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject:  Re: [Board] Funding code Sprints

 
  
Dear All,
  
  Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be

  possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
  sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.
  
  I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four

  periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
  and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
  conference.
  
  OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016), fits very

well
  for the  first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects
  and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].
  
  Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our

  largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
  OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
  an official event for the July-September period.
  
  Best
  
  Venka
  
  [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
  
  
  On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
  
  
  
Dear All,

this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within the board
directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.

Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without any
specific plan.
Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that as i
believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up advances and
was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources has been allocated.

With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the different
communities:

- who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. This
will give an idea of the number of expected requests.

- do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and eventually
what is your choice motivation?


Thank you,

Maxi



  
   
  
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Patrick,

On 2/22/2016 9:32 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote:

Venka,

Howdy! Any reason why the Paris Code Sprint couldn’t include the Europa 
Challenge criteria?


I am not sure that I understand what you mean by "include the Europa 
Challenge criteria".
Since the Europa Challenge is open to all [1], I do not see any reason 
why the project
team or individuals participating in the code sprint cannot send in 
their entries  for

the Europa Challenge.

I would encourage you (or Maria) to send the info about the Europa 
Challenge to the
Code Sprint ML [2] (I am not subscribed to the list). You request the 
organizers to

print the Europa Challenge brochure [3] and leave copies at the registration
desk of the Code Sprint venue to increase visibility amongst the Paris Code
Sprinters.

Best

Venka

[1] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
[3] 
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/sites/default/files/Europa_Challenge-Flyer.pdf


They would simply use the Europa Challenge criteria submit their results there 
in addition to the Paris Code Sprint!

Then that code sprint would be getting *double exposure* and have a shot at the 
NASA Crystal Bull, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

That’s two finish lines for the price of one sprint!

We will treat Code Sprinters as grad students or SME, no mentor required.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh 
Raghavan
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 3:35 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Board
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Dear All,

Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be
possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.

I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four
periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
conference.

OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016),
fits very well for the  first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup
of projects and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].

Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our
largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
an official event for the July-September period.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016


On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

Dear All,

this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within the board

directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.



Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without any

specific plan.

Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that as i

believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up advances and

was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources has been allocated.



With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the different

communities:



- who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. This

will give an idea of the number of expected requests.



- do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and eventually

what is your choice motivation?





Thank you,



Maxi










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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be
possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.

I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four
periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
conference.

OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016), fits 
very well

for the  first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects
and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].

Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our
largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
an official event for the July-September period.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016


On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

Dear All,
this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within the board
directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.

Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without any
specific plan.
Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that as i
believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up advances and
was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources has been allocated.

With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the different
communities:

- who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. This
will give an idea of the number of expected requests.

- do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and eventually
what is your choice motivation?


Thank you,

Maxi





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [otb-developers] OTB Users meeting and hackfest 2016

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Rashad,

Congratulations to the OTB team on their 10 Anniversary!!
Great to know about the OTB hackfest in Toulouse.

When the dates are fixed, please also send new item about the OTB 
hackfest to

to the OSGeo blog {1].

Best

Venka

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html

On 2016/02/20 12:23, Rashad Kanavath wrote:

FYI,

-- Forwarded message --
From: Mickael Savinaud 
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:51 PM
Subject: [otb-developers] OTB Users meeting and hackfest 2016
To: otb-develop...@googlegroups.com, otb-us...@googlegroups.com


Dear all,

As the previous year [1][2], we planned to organize a OTB users/hackfest
meeting in Toulouse. The event would be open to anyone, and would last for
2 or 3 days. This event marks also the tenth anniversary of Orfeo Toolbox
(the first commit has been done Thu, 5 Jan 2006 at 15:41:46 [3]).

The tentative program is as follows:

- *Day 1: Plenary session (general presentations from the OTB Team and
the users)*


- *Day 2: Technical session (tutorial, work groups)*


- *Day 3: Hackfest (adopt an OTB developer, code a amazing feature, fix
a bug)*


The following page on the wiki gathers information on the event and will be
updated regularly :
http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/OTB_Users_meeting_and_hackfest_2016

First thing to do is to *pick a date*, so we set up a small poll for
dates *between
end of **may and mid-june*. If you are interested in the event, please fill
in your availabilities :
https://framadate.org/VvKoBC1EFy1UiPk7

Don't hesitate to provide feedback on the previous edition, to help us to
improve the next event.

Many thanks, and see you soon in Toulouse!

Best Regards,
Mickaël

[1]
http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/OTB_Users_meeting_and_hackfest_2015
[2]
https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/report-from-the-first-otb-users-days-in-toulouse/
[3]
https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb.git/commit/6572210a37fe5903f0f091194092979bc3db4f9a



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ​​OSGeo Seal Design Contest

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2016/02/11 4:15, Jody Garnett wrote:

I found this link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_seal) a helpful
starting point.

Also this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_%28emblem%29

Best

Venka



--
Jody Garnett

On 10 February 2016 at 10:13, Anita Graser  wrote:


​Dear OSGeo community,

OSGeo just turned 10 and as a gift to ourselves, we would like to invite
the artistic minds in our community to develop the official seal for our
foundation (in line with our bylaws). This seal will be used on official
documents, such as the student award certificates at FOSS4G Events.

Anyone may submit artwork. We are looking for the best, so spread the word
to your family and friends.

The winning designer will receive a free pass to FOSS4G
​ ​
2016.

For more information, please visit
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Seal_contest#Contest_Parameters

Best wishes,
Anita

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2015 @ OSGeo results presented at FOSDEM - our report

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Madi and Anne,

Thanks for all you hard work and for sharing your report.
I am sure FOSDEM has definitely been a great event this year
too.

Look forward for your continued support with managing GSoC 2016.

Best

Venka

On 2/5/2016 12:44 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

Dear All,

at FOSDEM conference last weekend we presented the results of GSoC 2015 @
OSGeo. We prepared an extended summary that can be found at
http://geofemengineering.blogspot.it/2016/02/a-geospatial-report-of-fosdem16.html

Best regards,

madi & anne




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Foundation turns 10!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2016/02/04 1:47, Yves Jacolin wrote:

On Thursday, February 04, 2016 1:46:08 Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

Dear All,

Today OSGeo turns 10! (in my time zone).

Happy birthday to us!!

Cheers!

Venka

Happy birthday OSGeo! :)

I missed the link to the virtual cake at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672 :)

Venka
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Foundation turns 10!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Today OSGeo turns 10! (in my time zone).

Happy birthday to us!!

Cheers!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Our huge thanks to Jeff McKenna

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Jeff McKenna has tendered his resignation from the position of President
and Board of Directors on personal grounds.

Jeff is a pillar of OSGeo, being a lively presence at Open Source
Geospatial events since the early days of MapServer User Meetings [1].
He was also a key person at FOSS GRASS User Conference [2] where the
idea of having a joint conference combining GRASS GIS, MapServer and
other FOSS4G [3] communities was mooted which fruited in the form 
FOSS4G-2006

held in Laussane [4]. Jeff has been a constant companion and a source of
inspiration during our decade long OSGeo journey.

During his tenure on the OSGeo Board, Jeff has traversed across the globe
spreading the message of OSGeo and sharing his passion for FOSS4G. He has
gone to remote corners of our planet to get local chapters started and
patiently interacted with diverse audience ranging from under-graduate
students to top leaders from academia, industry and government. Jeff has put
community before self and worked relentlessly to bring worldwide reach to
our Foundation. Combined with his rare passion, Jeff possesses a unique 
knack
of understanding and assimilating different cultures which has greatly 
helped

in nurturing diversity in our communities.

Apart form his groundbreaking work in representing OSGeo globally, he has
also made time to produce excellent documentation and packaging for some of
our leading software products. Jeff's dedication and passion will continue
to motivate all members of our foundation.

The board received Jeff's request on 12 December 2015 and asked him to
reconsider his decision. At the 30 January, 2016 Face to Face meeting, after
careful consideration of his reply, the OSGeo Board has motioned and
unanimously accepted his resignation. The board also passed a motion to
formally express our sincere gratitude for Jeff's immense contributions to
the OSGeo Foundation in his capacity as President and Board Member.

Jeff McKenna continues his engagements with the OSGeo Foundation as a 
Charter
Member and as PSC members in several of the Foundation Projects. We look 
forward

to seek his advice and active participation in our future endeavors.

Thank you from all of us, Jeff and we look forward to your contributions 
to OSGeo

in the years ahead.

BoD, OSGeo Foundation

[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/Conferences
[2] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G
[4] http://2006.foss4g.org/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/12/16 18:37, Pat Tressel wrote:
MailChimp is a very popular product. If you have a provable accusation 
against them -- that they were acting **independently of the account 
administrator** to alter lists, then that would be significant. As Rob 
has stated, MailChimp did not do something by itself. The list was 
aggregated from previous lists and events in which people participated.


I have also received a similar unsolicited mail. I would like to know 
who has authorized
the aggregation and usage of email address from "previous lists and 
events in which
people participated". I think every event has a privacy policy and 
e-mail address provided
are only to be used for communicating about the specific event and not 
for aggregating for

future use.

Venka
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Jeff,

Many thanks for the great job you are doing in
representing OSGeo with selfless dedication
and for sharing your vision with all of us.

I wish you great fun and safe travel for representing OSGeo at
the GISConf in Moscow [1] that is coming up this weekend.

Best

Venka

[1] http://gisconf.ru/

On 2015/11/16 4:13, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Hi Cameron,

Thank you for your message.  It is very refreshing to speak on this 
topic openly here, as others would rather send me strong private 
messages questioning my sanity, and making threats.  I realize that 
many cannot be open on this topic for various reasons.


Let me assure everyone here that I only have one agenda, which is very 
rare these days, and that is to help the OSGeo foundation.  I am not 
muzzled by fear or threats, and I will stand up for the OSGeo 
foundation whenever that is required.  If by standing up for OSGeo's 
only event all year, FOSS4G, means that I am called "confrontational" 
and "obstructive", then yes you are fully right.


Some may not know this by reading this thread, but I have always been 
a big supporter of LocationTech.  I was involved in the beginning of 
LocationTech, involved in the sense of being one of the first 
subscribers to their mailing list, and I even have had many chats 
inside their #locationtech IRC channel, even answering questions from 
new LocationTech community members (technical readers will find it 
interesting to join their IRC channel now on freenode and see the 
first message that is displayed when entering their channel 
"LocationTech: location aware open source software friendly to 
commercialization.").  I have followed the development of that 
organization right from the beginning, where they smartly filled a 
void by aiming at the business/commercial side of Open Source 
geospatial (of course, recently they publicly pointed out to me, even 
questioned my sanity, that this was false, I am dreaming, that they 
have always focused instead on the same goals as OSGeo, but readers, 
do a google search for LT and press release, and you will see their 
early visions).  Which is why I asked now to hear the vision of 
LocationTech (I was not answered, but someone else pointed to an FAQ 
just made).  In any case, no I am not insane, I have always followed 
LocationTech closely.


I do travel to many OSGeo local chapters around the world, constantly, 
and especially to developing areas that are just becoming interested 
in Open Source.  In a few days I will again take 3 more planes and 
represent OSGeo at a growing community, again putting life on hold, 
including my health, my money, and my life in general, to go help grow 
the OSGeo community.  In this event I can bet that I will speak 
personally to over 100 developers, students, decision makers, and 
researchers; I bet I will personally talk to over 20 businesses 
looking at OSGeo. Those who know me well know that this is why I make 
those trips (I don't go for presentations etc.), it is that face to 
face representation that is so very important, especially in the long 
run.


As the leader of the OSGeo foundation, part of my role is to listen to 
all of the criticism about me; and I realize that the negative words 
you've used about me here for everyone to read, are not the first 
negative ones used at me in years past, nor will they be the last. In 
the big theater room that is the community, there will always be those 
that disagree with me, and I value their opinion as well.


Few in this community see me being so involved behind the scenes. New 
committees, new MoUs, FOSS4G local committees, all just pop up on the 
scene and grow, but few see me behind the scenes helping them form 
initially, and I am ok with that.  The core community members in the 
OSGeo foundation know that I support them in every way that I can.  I 
often am actively working 2 or even 3 years in advance of a FOSS4G for 
that region, talking with those regions members, getting them to think 
of the possibilities, years before the release of the call for 
hosting.  To you and others it looks like I have no innovation, no new 
ideas, I don't work with community leaders, because you don't see me 
working behind the scenes for OSGeo.  I am ok with that.  You can keep 
going on in thinking this way of me, but I am very proud of what I do 
for OSGeo, what I constantly try to do for OSGeo.  Long-time members 
of OSGeo know how I have failed in several proposals to past OSGeo 
boards, and to this day those so-called "failures" are my most proud 
moments.  But yes, you can always argue that I am not innovative and 
do not help OSGeo.


I am also not wired to think of "money" first.  I follow my heart and 
I try to do the best I can for OSGeo, for the OSGeo foundation, 
always, even if it doesn't make sense for me personally or for my 
career.  I do it, for the love of OSGeo.  I also realize that it is 
this fact, of how I am wired, that causes conflict with others 
(another example is 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jody,

On 2015/11/12 20:01, Jody Garnett wrote:

I have gotten a number of private emails expressing concerns about
LocationTech being involved in several of the foss4g bids. I guess I had
the opposite concern last year when there was the joint OSGeo /
LocationTech foss4gna conference. I was kind of embarrassed our behavior as
a community - would prefer to see us as welcoming and supportive
(especially as we had a first time organizer that could use our support).


Can you clarify what "our" in your e-mail points to?
I cannot understand "*our* behaviour as a community" and
"first time organizer that could use *our* support.

Venka
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jody,

This is a new and important initative.

So, let us wait till we finish a couple of online/offline
meetings before we decide on the rules and
first order business.

I am sure, with the excellent members that have
signed up, we will arrive at a good decision if
we allow everyone a bit of time.

Best

Venka

On 2015/11/03 15:05, Jody Garnett wrote:

Thanks for getting that set up Jeff.

To reiterate how we get things done, we are setting up committees for long
standing activities (such as interacting with the the UN). Committees will
do their thing and send a status update to the board (and discussion
list?). We ask that committees have a contact point on the wiki
 - can this UN committee sort that out
as a first order business?

We will also spin up short term working groups
 to perform a
specific activity and then finish (such as with this years sponsorship
drive).



--
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On 2 November 2015 at 14:32, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:


Hi Ela, Jeroen, Venka, everyone,

Thanks for signing up on the wiki.  We now have a new mailing list for our
discussions: subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un

I think we should aim to have our first (IRC) meeting by the end of this
month, to start planning this collaboration.

-jeff



On 2015-10-30 4:58 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:


Hi everyone,

At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a new committee,
focused on the UN/United Nations.  I have drafted an initial wiki page
for the committee, that gives some background.  Please, if you are
interested in helping promote Open Source geospatial at the UN with its
members states, definitely add your name to the wiki page.  We will
likely organize the first committee meeting sometime in November.  Thanks!

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee

-jeff





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jeff,

We could send a request (if you have not done so already) to
Dr.  Kyoung-Soo Eom to join the committee too. This could
speed-up collaboration UN-GGIM-Working-Group and
OSGeo.

Best

Venka

On 10/31/2015 4:58 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Hi everyone,

At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a new committee, 
focused on the UN/United Nations.  I have drafted an initial wiki page 
for the committee, that gives some background.  Please, if you are 
interested in helping promote Open Source geospatial at the UN with 
its members states, definitely add your name to the wiki page.  We 
will likely organize the first committee meeting sometime in 
November.  Thanks!


http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee

-jeff





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

If bi-monthly would be too much of work, I would
suggest quarterly reports for the OSGeo Committee
Chairs with target committees as listed in [1] and
not individual software PSC.

Just a short report (half page) report on main activities and
issues could suffice. Communicating with the membership
could also be done through the chairs. The 4 quarterly reports
could be published in the OSgeo Journal as annual report.

Best

Venka

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html



On 10/20/2015 8:13 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Many of our groups vary in activity, the project officers and committee
chairs are available at the boards request (always have been). By the same
token the OSGeo board is available if a committee or project PSC needs help
... they just add an agenda topic to the meeting.

Please do not feel as a board member that you have to be across all the
mailing lists.

I think we had a rough ride this last meeting with a few topics added at
the last moment without adequate communication on the mailing list. Both
topics went back to the mailing list. I know I always feel terrible as
incubation officer when I am not organized enough to present a topic to the
board - I assume other representatives are similarly motivated not to let
their "team" down.

Aside: If we are going to ask anyone to write a report I would rather do so
to communicate with the membership / outreach (as per OSGeo Journal).

--
Jody Garnett

On 19 October 2015 at 06:57, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote:


Dear Broad,
I was discussing this idea with Jachym and Venka some time ago and now I
would like to make my motion to the board in the next meeting, so I want to
start this discussion.

Board members cannot be subscribed to all the existing mailing lists and
be informed on every things is going on but to take some decision a wide
overview is required. At the same time committee's chair has the role of
leading the work group and organize discussions.

So the motion I would like to do is:

"Every committee chair have to report the main activities and actions to
the board at least every two months. The non submission of two consecutive
reports is an index of committee inactivity and lead to the board
discussion on need of replacing the chair and verify if the committee has
still sense or shall be withdrawn."

Please add your comments before of the next board meeting.


Best,
Maxi
--
*Massimiliano Cannata*

Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica

Responsabile settore Geomatica


Istituto scienze della Terra

Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design

Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana

Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio

Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14

Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09

massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/10/16 2:14, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

My 0.01 cent,
actually I don't think we have obtained permission to use it... as nobody
own it.
Looking at it the other way I think it could be said that the community 
owns it.


my 0.01 yen

...OSGeo is the expression of FOSS4G, like the PSC of a project is the
expression of the project community...
Exactly like QGIS look for creating a legal body foss4g did it in the past
with OSGeo, a federation foundation for all FOSS4G communities.

Maxi

2015-10-15 18:39 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett :


The foss4g brand has world wide recognition and is being used as great
outreach tool for several organizations (often based on the region). As an
organization we do not own the brand, and have obtained permission to use
it (as the polite thing to do).

One thing that is interesting is watching what the regional events put on
by local chapters are called. You can kind of see the effect of the brand
by which regions choose to mark their event "foss4g". I have personally set
up a "foss4g-au" event for example which was great fun for all involved.

Cheers,
Jody

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On 6 October 2015 at 08:12, Barry Rowlingson 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I think the OSGeo-Live project that you are leading can be safely 
(re)-named as

FOSS4G-Live as it has a wonderful array of software projects that are not
under the OSGeo umbrella as yet.

Venka

On 2015/10/08 5:08, Cameron Shorter wrote:

+1 for "OSGeo conference".

Adding a perspective from someone who marketed FOSS4G 2009.
Creating a marketing message is all about minimising words used, 
because "less words get read more".


When explaining FOSS4G to people outside our community you need to use:

"international conference for Free and Open Source Software for 
GeoSpatial (FOSS4G), presented by the Open Source Geospatial 
Foundation (OSGeo)."


vs

"international Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) conference"

This is a good question to put to the charter members for a vote at 
some point.


On 8/10/2015 1:39 am, Marc Peterson wrote:

From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Yes, you and I and everyone *on this mailing list* knows
the difference and the relationship between OSGeo and FOSS4G. But
there are people out there in geospatial who don't know either.

Emphatic +1

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Andrea,

Nice meeting you at FOSS4G-2015 at Seoul.

Best

Venka

On 2015/10/10 0:11, Andrea Ross wrote:

Dear Everyone,

Please pardon me for those who already know this news.

I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives since 
the early days (FWIW, I am a charter member since 2008), and it seems 
appropriate to share this here as well.


If you please, it is my wish you call me Andrea 
 from 
now on. Thank you.


Kind regards,

Andrea




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Welcome to a new Europe Lab: Institut de recherche appliquée et développement de la HEIG-VD

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Sanghee,

On 10/8/2015 5:46 PM, Sanghee Shin wrote:

Hello Suchith,

I couldn’t find Citizen Science thematic mailing list. Would you please check 
it out?

https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-GeoCrowd

It was not "citizenscience" but "GeoCrowd". Wiki page at [1]

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G


regards,

신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com


2015. 10. 8., 오전 7:41, Suchith Anand  작성:

May i also  invite everyone (esp. those who are new) that there are thematic 
lists also that we welcome you to join depending on your area of research 
interest etc , so we can work collaboratively for joint research, bids etc. If 
there are no thematics that is your interest, then please come forward and 
propose a new thematic (in Health, Marine etc etc) and be the chair and lead 
it. We can provide all background support needed for you. These thematics are 
key for expanding our research collaborations.

Citizen Science thematic
Theme Leaders - Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Brovelli (Italy)
Subscribe at maillist 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-citizenscience 


AgriGIS thematic
Theme Leaders - Didier Leibovici (France) and Nobusuke Iwasaki(Japan)
Subscribe at maillist 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis 



Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
Subscribe at mail list 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish 


OpenCitySmart Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
Subscribe at maillist 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience 



Teacher Training & School Education thematic
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK)
Subscribe at mail list 
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining 



Best wishes,

Suchith





From: Ingensand Jens [jens.ingens...@heig-vd.ch 
]
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 7:21 AM
To: Suchith Anand; Maria Antonia Brovelli; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org 

Subject: RE: Welcome to a new Europe Lab: Institut de recherche appliquée et 
développement de la HEIG-VD

Dear all,
  
thank you very much!
  
Best regards
  
Jens
  
HEIG-VD

Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
GIS Lab
School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD)
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Tel. :
+41 24 55 763 84
Email :
jens.ingens...@heig-vd.ch 
Internet :
http://www.heig-vd.ch 
Address :
Route de Cheseaux 1
CH-1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
  
  
  
  
  
From: Suchith Anand [mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk ]

Sent: Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2015 07:38
To: Maria Antonia Brovelli >; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org 

Cc: Ingensand Jens >
Subject: RE: Welcome to a new Europe Lab: Institut de recherche appliquée et 
développement de la HEIG-VD
  
Excellent news and Welcome to all colleagues from  HEIG-VD and we look forward to building close collaborations with you .
  
Best wishes,
  
Suchith

From: ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
 [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
] on behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli 
[maria.brove...@polimi.it ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 10:08 PM
To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org 
Cc: jens.ingens...@heig-vd.ch 
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Welcome to a new Europe Lab: Institut de recherche 
appliquée et développement de la HEIG-VD

Dear All
this is a lucky week! We are pleased to welcome the 104th Lab of the Network!
The Lab is in Switzerland, at the Institut de recherche appliquée et 
développement de la HEIG-VD.
  
Current projects of the Lab are:

BioSentiers - Development of an augmented reality application for biodiversity
GeoTile - Vector tiling
Urbangene - Analysis of urban aquatic biodiversity
POTSOL - Detection of surfaces that are suitable for the installation of solar 
panels. Determination of potential power production
Green roofs - Automated detection of 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul presentation files are available now.

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Sanghee,

Thanks to you and your team for getting the presentation slides
online. Would it be possible to have the keynote speeches online
too?

Best

Venka

On 2015/10/06 18:32, Sanghee Shin wrote:

Dear All,

FOSS4G Seoul team is very pleased to announce that FOSS4G Seoul presentation 
files are available now on the web.

Please go to http://2015.foss4g.org/ -> Schedule -> Programme Schedule or just 
visit directly 
https://www.meci.co.kr/societyevent/FOSS4G2015/program/program_1.asp?sMenu=pro1

Please be aware that presentation files are available only from whom agreed to 
share.

And FOSS4G Seoul videos are almost ready to be shared. We’ll upload all the 
videos and will announce soon again.

Thanks and regards,

신상희
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Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoforall intro slides

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Anita,

On 2015/10/07 6:38, Anita Graser wrote:

Hi,
Do we have any standard intro slides for geo4all? Planning to spread the
word here in Vienna.

http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

Hope it is of use.

Best

Venka
rote:
   
   
 Hi,
Do we have any standard intro slides for geo4all? Planning to spread the
word here in Vienna.
   
   http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2
   
   Hope it is of use.
   
   Best
   
   Venka
 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Jeff has put all that has to be said in his e-mail below.
Many thanks to our outgoing Board members for
their valuable time and relentless efforts for the Foundation.

Looking forward to working with the new board and members
in keeping the OSGeo flag flying high.

Best

Venka

On 2015/09/30 21:41, Jeff McKenna wrote:
A huge welcome to the new board members (Anita, Helena, Jody, Sanghee, 
Venka) thank you for volunteering your time to help the foundation. 
Please be sure to join the OSGeo Board mailing list now (subscribe at 
http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/board).


A big hug to both Nimalika and Dirk, for your continued leadership.  I 
had the privilege to meet again with Nimalika in Seoul (those meetings 
with leaders like her are why I step on a plane for 21 hours), and we 
also were able to see Dirk through Skype at the Annual General Meeting 
session in Seoul.  I cannot say enough about the work of both of them, 
for OSGeo.


Thank you to the departing board members: Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald 
and Bart.  I know that they will continue their leadership in OSGeo, 
that is for sure.


Vasile, well, he did a massive amount of work to manage this election 
process.  He gave so many opportunities and ways for charter members 
to speak up and give opinions.  And most importantly (a key part in 
leadership) he listened to everyone. Thank you Vasile for your 
dedication to the community.


-jeff




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul is ALL OVER! Thank you so much!!

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Sanghee,

Huge thanks to you and your team in putting up a wonderful event
that was enjoyed by one and all.

Great conference, great organization and we had a great time.

Best regards,

Venka

On 2015/09/21 12:14, Sanghee Shin wrote:
> Dear All, 
>
> FOSS4G Seoul has been completed successfully last week. We’ve got around 562 
> attendants from 46 countries. The number of final attendants was beyond my 
> expectation! One of the greatest news is that around 64% of attendants came 
> from Asia! It was really FOSS4G Big Bang from Asia!! 
>
> On behalf of FOSS4G Seoul team, I really appreciate all your attending, 
> supports and sponsoring. Without your great help & efforts this wonderful 
> event was not be possible. Also hope you’ve enjoyed the event and cherish the 
> great memories from Seoul. 
>
> Thank you so much and see you in Bonn, German next year!
>
> Warm regards, 
>
> 신상희
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All BoF tomorrow! (16/09/2015)

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

I would like to remind you all about the Geo4All BoF
scheduled as blow

Description: BOF for anyone interested to be a part of Geo4All Initiative
When/Where: 16 September, 2015 Wednesday 12:20-13:20
   Room 10, FOSS4G 2015 Venue

Hope to see many of you at the meeting.

Best

Vemka

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Dirk Frigne

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/09/08 20:13, Oliver May wrote:

I strongly support this nomination.

Dirk is a real Open Source (Geo) advocate, his passion seems virtually
limitless, furthermore he has the ability to pass his enthusiasm on to
others.


+1, Dirk has been with the community since the early days and
his experience with the industry as well as academia will be very
useful at the Board.

Venka



kind regards,

Oliver

2015-09-08 12:18 GMT+02:00 Vasile Craciunescu :


Forwarding Dirk Frigne nomination to the board of directors by Jeff
McKenna.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2015


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Dirk Frigne
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:13:38 -0300
From: Jeff McKenna 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: Dirk Frigne 

It is my pleasure to nominate Dirk Frigne
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf), from Belgium, for the OSGeo
Board. Dirk has that rare passion and vision for community, and speaks
strongly about building and maintaining a healthy OSGeo 'ecosystem' made
up of both the development community as well as professional service
providers.  A "do-er", he has built his company Geosparc
(http://www.geosparc.com/) and the OSGeo project geomajas into strong
and healthy entities.

Dirk also feels strongly about building local OSGeo communities.  He
recently helped form the new Belgium local chapter
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium), and he is actively trying to
formalize a European representation of OSGeo.

Dirk understands the industry today, our community, the software, and is
willing to help guide the growth of the foundation. I feel strongly that
he would be a wonderful addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors.

-jeff









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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Charter Member elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/09/09 3:48, Jeff McKenna wrote:
The full list of charter members has also been updated: 
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/members/voting_members.html


And a special thanks to Mike Adair, who has retired as a charter 
member.  Thank you Mike for all these years giving to the community.

Many thanks to Mike for his invaluable contributions during his
long tenure as charter member.

Jorge, thanks for your effort in summarizing out charter membership.

Best

Venka



-jeff



On 2015-09-08 3:09 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

On 9/8/15 8:43 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

Congratulations to all of the new charter members!  Wow, 281 vocal and
passionate leaders from all over the world.  Thank you for helping 
shape

the OSGeo foundation!


Please visit

http://bl.ocks.org/jsanz/raw/779f9b9954b92461fa50/

to get the full picture of our charter members distribution across the
world.

And of course thanks to Vasile, who did all this work on planes, 
trains,

and automobiles. :)


Jeff, let's not forget about the boat in Danube Delta :D




-jeff


Vasile




On 2015-09-07 6:12 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of week to vote, we close the elections system to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- received a greater number of positive votes than negative.
- received more than a 5% of positive votes over the total number of
votes.

Hence, it's my pleasure to welcome our 37 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 281 individuals.
Congratulations!

New members, I encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will update the official list[6], publish the detailed elections
results, pass to the secretary the revised
contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members list[7]
as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile
CRO 2015

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2015
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate 





[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Anita Graser

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/09/09 11:55, Maria Brovelli wrote:

I support Anita nomination. We need more ladies involved in the FOSS4G board!
+1 for Anita's nomination to the OSGeo Board. She has made invaluable 
contributions for the

community.

Best

Venka


Cheers!
Maria



See you at FOSS4G Seoul:
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Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; 
OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET

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e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it


Il giorno 08/set/2015, alle ore 07:20, Vasile Craciunescu 
 ha scritto:

Forwarding Anita Graser nomination to the board of directors by
Lene Fischer and Jeff McKenna.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2015


It is our pleasure to nominate Anita Graser
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:AnitaGraser), from Austria, for the
OSGeo Board.  Anita needs no introduction to the community, as she is
very visible through her work on the QGIS Steering Committee, as a core
contributor, and working very hard to promote Open Source geo through
workshops, tutorials, mailing lists, FOSS4G events, and just about every
possible way. She has a lot of experience managing and building
communities, and she is actually quite honoured to be considered for the
OSGeo Board.

Anita's presence on the Board would be a great addition to the foundation.

We excitingly nominate Anita for the OSGeo Board of Directors.

-Lene Fischer & Jeff McKenna

*Lene Fischer*

Associate Professor

*Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management*

University of Copenhagen

MOB +45 40115084

l...@ign.ku.dk 

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Charter Member elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Daer All,

Congratulations and warm welcome to all the new Charter Members.

Vasile, thanks for your hard work in seeing the elections through.

Best

Venka

On 2015/09/08 6:12, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of week to vote, we close the elections system to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- received a greater number of positive votes than negative.
- received more than a 5% of positive votes over the total number of 
votes.


Hence, it's my pleasure to welcome our 37 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 281 individuals.
Congratulations!

New members, I encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will update the official list[6], publish the detailed elections 
results, pass to the secretary the revised

contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members list[7]
as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile
CRO 2015

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2015
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5] 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate

[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Yuichiro Nishimura

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 8/31/2015 9:13 AM, haya...@apptec.co.jp wrote:

+1 for Yuichiro Nishimura

+ 1

Venka


Best regards,
Hayashi


(2015/08/31 4:42), Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Forwarding Yuichiro Nishimura nomination by Yoichi Seino.

Best regards,
Vasile

 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Yuichiro Nishimura
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:20:33 +0900
From: Yoichi SEINO 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
CC: nissy...@gmail.com

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Yuichiro Nishimura.

email: nissy...@gmail.com

Yuichiro Nishimura is a geographer and a teacher at university in 
Japan [1][2].

He is also the board member of OSGeo.JP and OSM Foundation Japan [3].
His research interest are time-geography, socio-economic geography,
GIS and society, critical GIS.
He is a very active user, trainer and promoter of OSGeo Software and 
Open Data.

He is often engaged in teaching OSGeo Software at several national and
international workshops.

I strongly nominate him as a Charter Member!

[1] http://nara-wu.academia.edu/YuichiroNishimura
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuichiro_Nishimura2
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/nissyyu

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Go Yonezawa

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I would like to second the nomination of Go Yonezawa.

Best

Venka

On 8/31/2015 4:40 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Forwarding Go Yonezawa nomination by Daisuke Yoshida.

Best regards,
Vasile

 Forwarded Message 
Subject: the Charter Member 2015
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:13:54 +0900
From: Daisuke YOSHIDA 
To: OSGeo-CRO 
CC: Go Yonezawa 

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Dr. Go Yonezawa for the Charter Member 2015 
election.


Dr. Yonezawa is an associate professor at Graduate School for Creative 
Cities, Osaka City University. Recently, he has being researched on 
spatio-temporal changes in urban cities in Vietnam utilizing 
FOSS4G[1], and he has taught various FOSS4G tools in his lectures and 
educated many master and doctoral students with GIS related topics. He 
especially has many contributions to Vietnam and other asian countries 
by organizing GIS related international symposium through his 
projects[2].  I strongly believe that he would contribute to promote 
OSGeo by educating students or public people with OSGeo products or 
related research projects.


[1] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas14/viewabstract.php?id=471
[2] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas14/

Best regards,

Daisuke YOSHIDA
Graduate School for Creative Cities
Osaka City University


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Kenya Tamura

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 for Kenya Tamura's  nomination.

Venka

On 8/31/2015 1:55 PM, Ko Nagase wrote:

Dear list,

I am not a charter member now, but I would like to second the nomination
for Kenya Tamura.
He is one of the most famous persons in "Education GIS" field in Japan
and I think that his joining as a charter member will give a positive effect.

Best regards,

Ko


2015-08-31 4:37 GMT+09:00 Vasile Craciunescu :

Forwarding Kenya Tamura nomination by Hirofumi Hayashi.

Best regards,
Vasile


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Kenya Tamura
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:08:03 +0900
From: haya...@apptec.co.jp 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
CC: 田村賢哉 

Dear CRO and OSGeo Community,


I would like to nominate Kenya Tamura as Charter Member for the 2015
elections.
Kenya Tamura [1] is very active in young generation of the OSGeo.JP
community
  and the force behind the Inoushachu NPO [2] which he started with some
  members and contribute many GIS trainig materials using FOSS4G tools
and others.[3]

Since 2010, He has started to learn about FOSS4G tools at Nara University
  and supported many events as a leader of volunteer students.
Currently He supports QGIS, OpengeoSuite and Cesium training in Japan.

He possess all the requisite qualities to be a OSGeo Charter
Member and will be a great asset to our Foundation in the future.

He is currently a board member of OSGeo.JP and has kindly consented for the
nomination.

Best regards
Hirofumi Hayashi
OSGeo Charter Member [4]

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[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Kenyat1989
[2] http://www.iknowshachu.org
[3] http://www.iknowshachu.org/?page_id=20
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Mayumi Kubo

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 8/30/2015 6:24 PM, Maria Brovelli wrote:

+1!
Maria

+1
Venka




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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; 
OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET

Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it
e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it


Il giorno 30/ago/2015, alle ore 09:34, 林博文  ha scritto:

Hi All,

I would like to second the nomination of Mayumi Kubo.

As Jeff said, she is very active member of OSGeo.JP and we are very happy if 
she become a Charter member of OSGeo.

Best regards
Hayashi


2015-08-29 1:24 GMT+09:00 Vasile Craciunescu :

Forwarding Mayumi Kubo nomination by Jeff McKenna.

Best regards,
Vasile


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination for Mayumi Kubo
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:48:06 -0300
From: Jeff McKenna 
To: c...@osgeo.org 
CC: Mayumi Kubo 

It is my pleasure to nominate Mayumi Kubo
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mayumi), from Japan, as an OSGeo Charter
Member.  Mayumi is a force in the OSGeo-Japan chapter, and is a current
member of its Board.  She helps organize the yearly FOSS4G-Hokkaido
event in her home region of Sapporo.  She also develops training courses
for QGIS and GRASS.  Mayumi is also very well known for helping develop
the "Sapporo Childcare Map" for parents to locate day-care centers,
through the Code For Sapporo project.

Mayumi is a very active leader, full of life and energy, so please
welcome her as a Charter member of OSGeo.


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[OSGeo-Discuss] About deadline for submission to Academic Track at FOSS4G Seoul 2015

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

On behalf of the Academic Track Committee of FOSS4G-2015 Seoul,
I would like to inform you the new (and Final) deadline for submission of
abstracts for presentation at the academic track.

Final Academic Abstract Submission will be closed on 15th, May 2015.
Final Academic Abstract Selection will be made on 15th, June 2015.
Final Full paper Submission of selected abstracts 15th, August 2015.

Only abstracts need to be submitted initially and full paper's need
to be submitted subsequent (by 15 Aug 2015) to the acceptance of
abstract.

We are planning to publish a digital version of the Academic Track 
Proceedings

and include it in the Conference Kit. Also, efforts are being made to bring
out FOSS4G-2015 Special Issue in collaboration with some academic journals
after the FOSS4G-2015 event concludes.

Details of the Academic Track are available at [1]. I request you to 
spread this
information and look forward for excellent submissions, an exciting 
Academic Track

and great FOSS4G-2015 event in Seoul.

Best

Venka

[1] http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/academic-track/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/03/05 7:25, Vaclav Petras wrote:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand 
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:


Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we
couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity  to
modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community Projects
to avoid confusion if that is acceptable to Vaclav, Jachym and others. Many
thanks.

Well, I'm not particularly fond of Community Projects as a name. Even

mature FOSS projects are community projects in one way or the other.
Unfortunately, I don't have other suggestion.


How about Nascent Projects?

Venka


Vaclav



Suchith


From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:26 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

(we are approaching 2 full years that this labs naming has been an
issue and discussed[1])

Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community
Projects.

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html

-jeff




On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:

Vaclav,

Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not

think on this  when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many
things were going on at that time!).

In universities, we generally use the Labs term to refer to

infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example
Botany Lab, Robotics Lab etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a
dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities worldwide  (which
includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure
(the physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier
to make use of the same terminology/structure of Labs which is widely
used in the university environment to get academics start the initiative in
their respective universities (also it is easier for them to convince their
higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new
term for this) .

So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new

OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating system for the
incubation as then there is no confusion in the future. Many thanks for
your consideration.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]

On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky [jachym.cepi...@gmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
To: Vaclav Petras
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; 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

mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com napsal:

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky 

jachym.cepi...@gmail.commailto: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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