Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jorge Arévalo

2014-07-24 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
I second this nomination, Jorge is one of the most active members of the Spanish speaking community and also a great code contributor. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
I also would like to second this nomination. Iván is a truly geonerd in all things GEO and NERD (he is one of the guys that holds an @geonerd.org email accounts so this is LITERAL) and also contributes with his unique perspective to everything that catches his attention. The FOS[S|D]4G world

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Moisés Arcos

2014-07-24 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
I second this nomination. Moises is one of the MVP of the Community in southern Spain and keeps doing an incredible job spreading the FOSS4G word all around the Spanish speaking community. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Moisés nomination by María

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread María Arias de Reyna
I can't believe he is not part of osgeo yet. He has done much more than some of us here! On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: I also would like to second this nomination. Iván is a truly geonerd in all things GEO and NERD (he is one of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread Codrina Maria Ilie
I strongly support Ivan's nomination! I was glad to meet him at FOSS4G CEE 2013 when he gave the great OGCGISAPILOLINSPIREOMGESRIRESTWTFEPICWIN keynote :) All the best, Codrina P.S. Surprised his not already a Charter Member. On 7/24/14, 9:35, María Arias de Reyna wrote: I can't believe he

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Zoltan Siki

2014-07-24 Thread Jachym Cepicky
I second Jachym 2014-07-24 0:32 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com: Dear all, 2014-07-23 23:48 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org: It is my honour to nominate Zoltan Siki for OSGeo Charter membership. Zoltan has been a longtime advocate for OSGeo by being very active in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Oliver Tonnhofer

2014-07-24 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
Unbelievable olt is not an OSGeo Charter member yet - i secund this nomination. Marco Lechner Am 23.07.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Jorge Sanz: Forwarding Oliver Tonhofer nomination by Cameron Shorter Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Shorter Date: 2014-07-23

[OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript

2014-07-24 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into account, if you wanted to interface with various OWS servers and it did always really

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Oliver Tonnhofer

2014-07-24 Thread Jachym Cepicky
second this nomination 2014-07-24 10:20 GMT+02:00 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de: Unbelievable olt is not an OSGeo Charter member yet - i secund this nomination. Marco Lechner Am 23.07.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Jorge Sanz: Forwarding Oliver Tonhofer nomination by Cameron

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript

2014-07-24 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
Lately I’ve been looking into JSONIX [1][2] and I’ve successfully used it for WPS. I think this could be an option for the format level support. Best regards,, Bart [1] http://confluence.highsource.org/display/JSNX/Jsonix [2] https://github.com/highsource/jsonix On 24 Jul 2014, at 10:48,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for David Fawcett

2014-07-24 Thread Pericles Nacionales
I second David Fawcett ' nomination. He's been an invaluable member of the OSGeo - Twin Cities and the open source community in general. -Perry Nacionales On Jul 23, 2014 5:01 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding David Fawcett nomination by David Bitner Cheers Jorge --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 23 de julio de 2014 19:37:40 Jeff McKenna escribió: I second the nomination for Iván. [...] I like being around him any chance I get. Does this mean you still haven't got a chance to visit me in Norway? Shame on you, Jeff, shame on you. :-P -- Iván Sánchez Ortega

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread Jeff McKenna
ha, good point! :) -jeff On 2014-07-24, 8:04 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Does this mean you still haven't got a chance to visit me in Norway? Shame on you, Jeff, shame on you. :-P ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoPrisma still active? Alternatives?

2014-07-24 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I've found GeoPrisma (http://geoprisma.org) being a promising web mapping application for access control to geospatial data via a proxy. Now it seems to be abandoned since over a year. Is this true? Are there alternatives (in Python, Ruby or Java)? --Stefan

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for David Fawcett

2014-07-24 Thread Lime, Steve D (MNIT)
I'll second Dave's nomination. Besides the work Dave Bitner mentions, Dave has been a regular presenter at state GIS/LIS meetings on topics ranging from MapServer to Python. More recently he was one of the key technical resources in the launch of a new state-level geospatial data portal

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jukka Rahkonen

2014-07-24 Thread Lime, Steve D (MNIT)
Big thumbs up on Jukka's nomination and an equally big thanks for all the work he does supporting users within the MapServer community. I wasn't aware of breadth of his involvement and that is indeed impressive! Steve -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Jeff McKenna
It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread María Arias de Reyna
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Jo Cook
I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:55:16 +0200 María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Hi, thank you Jeff for having raised this matter, I find it really interesting for the sake of pure data analysis and discussion. I agree with Maria except one single point: is it really important? I think it is. As Maria points out, I agree it is not from OSGeo side that the problem should be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript

2014-07-24 Thread Tom Kralidis
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Ciao Andrea, On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Andrea Giacomelli pibi...@gmail.com wrote: quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? (take for instance this mailing list as a proxy). When you subscribe this ML you're not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Andrea Giacomelli
quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? (take for instance this mailing list as a proxy). best Andrea http://www.pibinko.org 2014-07-24 17:16 GMT+02:00 Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com: Hi, thank you Jeff

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Andrea Giacomelli
right...I said for instance to identify a population - does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? in the 2007-2010 times for GFOSS.it we used to ask about gender (or rather: it was easier to detect the information for members of the Italian

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Funded projects using FOSS4G tools with respect to water management

2014-07-24 Thread Mauricio Miranda
Wow!!! Thank you so much folks! With all these examples plus what I've found digging the internet I have around 20 use cases of FOSS4G applied to water management around the world. I guess that's good enough, I'll show the people that FOSS4G rocks! Thanks again, Mauri

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Jo wrote: As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. Having heard too many sad stories from across the software industry, and having seen a couple first-hand, that totally makes my day. We’re doing something right, folks. Thanks. -mpg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ivan Mincik

2014-07-24 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
+1 On 07/22/2014 02:16 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: I second Ivan's nomination. Venka On 2014/07/22 5:03, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi all, I would like to nominate Ivan Mincik [1] for OSGeo chareter membership. Ivan is very active at Slovakia, working with, promoting and providing support to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Jeffrey Johnson

2014-07-24 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
+1 from me too! On 07/23/2014 03:02 PM, Paolo Corti wrote: I also second this nomination. Jeff is incredibly active in the GIS Python community, and one of the most proficient and prolifitor contributor to the GeoNode project p On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Tom Kralidis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw

2014-07-24 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
On 07/21/2014 10:19 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Nomination of Johan van de Wauw by Jeff McKenna. Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff McKenna Date: 2014-07-21 19:26 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org Cc: Johan Van de

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl

2014-07-24 Thread Stephan Meißl
Wow, I'm absolutely overwhelmed. Many thanks for all your support, this is really encouraging. cu Stephan On 07/21/2014 01:32 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: I forward Stephan Meißl nomination for the OSGeo Charter Membership elections. Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message --

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Alejandro Díaz

2014-07-24 Thread Jorge Sanz
Forwarding Alejandro Díaz nomination by María Arias de Reyna Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: María Arias de Reyna Date: 2014-07-23 22:11 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination for Alejandro Díaz To: Alejandro Díaz , CRO c...@osgeo.org, Jorge Sanz Alejandro is an

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello

2014-07-24 Thread Jorge Sanz
Forwarding Andrea Antonello nomination by Luca Delucchi Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Luca Delucchi Date: 2014-07-24 8:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Andrea Antonello nomination To: c...@osgeo.org I would like to nominate Andrea Antonello as Charter Member. He is long time

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Pieter De Graef

2014-07-24 Thread Jorge Sanz
Forwarding Pieter De Graef nomination by Dirk Frigne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com Date: 2014-07-24 11:05 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Pieter De Graef as Charter member To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: managementsupp...@geosparc.com,

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Christian Mayer

2014-07-24 Thread Jorge Sanz
Forwarding Chris Mayer nomination by Marc Jansen Best regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc Jansen Date: 2014-07-23 20:38 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Christian Mayer for OSGeo charter membership To: c...@osgeo.org Hi Jorge, hi CRO, I'd like to nominate

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Steven Feldman

2014-07-24 Thread Sanghee Shin
+1 I strongly support this nomination. I’m very surprised that Steven is not a charter member. Best, Sanghee 2014. 7. 24., 오후 9:06, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org 작성: Forwarding Steven Feldman nomination by Anne Ghisla Best regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Paragon Corporation
I agree with Jo and Maria. I've always felt welcome in OSGeo primarily because I share many interests and philosophies with many of you. I think gender quotas will in long run do more damage than good. I'd hate to think people think I am where I am because of my gender or that people let me get

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thank you everyone for responding (María, Jo, Anne, Madi, Andrea, mpg, Cameron, and Regina). I agree that the OSGeo community is always welcoming, and thank you for confirming that there is no issue with the election/nomination process. It is sometimes hard when I receive direct messages with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez

2014-07-24 Thread Schuyler Erle
Wat. Why is he not a member of OSGeo already? Thanks Iván for the musicals. Also the software. Seconded! SDE On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi all, It's a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now living in Norway). He is well known by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jukka Rahkonen

2014-07-24 Thread Pericles Nacionales
I know right? +1 for Jukka. On Jul 24, 2014 3:28 PM, Andrea Aime andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it wrote: What, Jukka is not yet charter member??? Of course +1 Cheers Andrea On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Jukka nomination by Even Rouault Best

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello

2014-07-24 Thread Eli Adam
I second this nomination. I know Andrea mostly through his work on Geopaparazzi [0]. You can find more about Andrea's contributions through his github account [1] or his involvement in email lists [2][3] Best regards, Eli [0] https://geopaparazzi.github.io/geopaparazzi/ [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Eli Adam
Reclaiming Like a girl to no longer be an insult highlights that language is an important part of our interactions. While on campaigns, here are another two specifically on tech and gender, both with major corporate backing [0][1]. Circling back to OSGeo Charter Member nominations, Jeff received