Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
Yes, we are a multilingual community. At this moment, English is our common language for wordlwide communication, but at some moment in time, this might change to Chinese/Mandarin, or to Arabic perhaps?). In order to keep the community as accessible as possible, the use of Simple English is encou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Andrea Aime
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Thanks all for the feedback. > So my question is: > 1. Should our Code of Conduct/Diversity statement mention that we have a > multilingual community? > I believe it's still a good idea. > > 2. What should we recommend that all, and esp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
Thanks all for the feedback. So my question is: 1. Should our Code of Conduct/Diversity statement mention that we have a multilingual community? 2. What should we recommend that all, and especially native speakers do to make our community welcoming to non-native speakers? On 29/03/2015 8:58

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Thanks again for the quick response for this. You can see the logos other colleagues have created at the website Massimo has kindly created for us at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/epifanio/d241884f71aea858161d This the list, so far #GEO4ALL_1 #GEO4ALL_2 #GEO4ALL_3 #GEO4ALL_4 #GEO4ALL_5 #GE

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Blog post on Koorachundu Village Panchayat - OpenStreetMap Mapping Party.

2015-03-29 Thread Jaisen Nedumpala
2015-03-25 14:23 GMT+05:30 Maelle Vercauteren : > Congratulation to you and your entire team for this great initiative and > big effort ! It is a really good example of a local mapping effort to > address the lack of GIS data! Thanks for sharing! > Maƫ//e > Thanks.. :) > > 2015-03-22 4:52 GMT+0

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll logo ideas

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, It will be great if anyone can setup a simple webpage with all logos we have for doing a poll survey. The advantage is then we can send the survey link to the wider community and find the popular one easily. Irrespective of whichever logo is chosen, we will link this also to the mai

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Dirk Frigne
Just my 2c for a first statement (in non native English): People taking the effort to communicate something to our community want to contribute in the first place. They don't have always the skills to express themselves fluently in English, what makes it difficult for them. Native English speakers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Margherita Di Leo
sent from Android Il 29/mar/2015 11:23 "Andrea Aime" ha scritto: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Massimiliano Cannata < massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote: >> >> Hi all, Madi, >> The only issue with multilingual community to consider is that sometime non native language may express not per

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Andrea Aime
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Massimiliano Cannata < massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote: > Hi all, Madi, > The only issue with multilingual community to consider is that sometime > non native language may express not perfectly and their words could be > misunderstood. So I would suggest to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Hi all, Madi, The only issue with multilingual community to consider is that sometime non native language may express not perfectly and their words could be misunderstood. So I would suggest to include to native to be patient and open versus non native language... My 0.5 cent ;-) Il giorno dom 29

[OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-03-29 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Dear Cameron, All, thank you for your work on the diversity statement, I appreciate this initiative of OSGeo. I'm opening this thread to discuss one aspect of the statement, which is language diversity. The draft of the code of conduct currently reads: "We have a multi-lingual community and are c

[OSGeo-Discuss] Next steps for "Geo for All" expansion

2015-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, On behalf of "Geo for All" we are pleased to welcome you to FOSS4G India -2015 in Dehradun , India (June 9-10th, 2015). It is great pleasure that colleagues in our first OSGeo lab to be established in India at IIIT Hyderabad have played key role for this. Details at http://lsi.iiit