[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: [Geo4All] Every Student a Mapper: How to Put Open Mapping in the Classroom

2017-09-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Tom, Thank you for sharing this important info which will be of interest to the wider OSGeo community May I request to put some links to open mapping resources and tutorials in the course structure https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html

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

2017-09-25 Thread 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

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

2017-09-25 Thread Tina Cormier
Hi All, I second Guido's sentiment - Thank you Vasile and Jeff for your hard work. I'm very excited to be joining OSGeo in a more active way! Cheers, Tina On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > fixed! thanks Sergio for spotting the typo :_) > > On 25 September

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

2017-09-25 Thread Jorge Sanz
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 >

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

2017-09-25 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
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

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

2017-09-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Congratulations and welcome to all new charter members. Great to see the geographic growth, spread and reach of the Foundation with each year. Thanks to everyone who contributed esp. Vasile , Jeff for their efforts as the CROs. Best wishes, Suchith

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

2017-09-25 Thread Guido Stein
Thanks Vasile and Jeff for all your efforts, I am very proud to be joining your ranks. -Guido On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:30 AM Jorge Sanz wrote: > 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

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 3.0.1 Released!

2017-09-25 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, Just forwarding a note about GeoMoose 3.0.1 being released. This is a “fix-it” release for some items that were identified after the the initial release of GeoMoose 3.0.0. bobb Hey Folks! With 3.0 in the wild for a little more than a month we've made some fixes and some updates

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Kickoff meeting (IRC) for the Code-in

2017-09-25 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Reminder of today's meeting On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Following Madi's announcement on the Google Code-in > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Google-Code-In-GCI-2017- > just-announced-And-we-want-to-participate-td5335036.html we're

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] About the selected election periods

2017-09-25 Thread Jody Garnett
I was looking in our bylaws and it actually has the language written down. So charter member -> member. Not sure why we got in the habit of not using this publicly. I guess the website maybe a chance to change our language publicly. See:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Please share the Philosophy of Openness in Geospatial Science and Education on GIS Day and other Geo events

2017-09-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Hristo, In fact, we decided not to have a sign in page or any forms etc as we wanted this to be a pledge of the hearts and minds. So just pass it to all colleagues and ask them to support the pledge in their hearts for Open Principles in GeoEducation and Science . So it is fully free and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] About the selected election periods

2017-09-25 Thread Tom Chadwin
> Good point. Perhaps a website account holder should be a "user"? If > not, then "voting member" might be the least bad option. > >> The bylaws use the term "member". Less is more. > >>> Of course we should still rename charter members (since that term > >>> means people who signed the original

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Board Nominations

2017-09-25 Thread Vasile Craciunescu
Dear all, It's time for the 2017 OSGeo Foundation Board Elections. The nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors start today [1]. Please take a minute to understand what the board actually does[2]. A director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo business in order to do a good

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

2017-09-25 Thread Vasile Craciunescu
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