Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Thanks Vasile! Maria 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 Sensi

[OSGeo-Discuss] website feedback survey

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks to everyone who participated in the foss4g sprint! The sprint was successful in creating content for the beta website. Our vendor, Get Interactive, has completed fixing issues reported. Their final task is producing a report based on community review and feedback. Please help: 1) Try out

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread Ravi Kumar
+1 Vasile We are Free and Open.. Extension is Nice, to erase a small lapse. Cheers Ravi On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Dear all, > > I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) about > a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contai

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Dirk Frigne
I know. I think the only way is to repeat the message. And keep asking. We are all busy with our daily activities, and OSGeo is just something on top, and we want to bring professional results to give new people the experience of reliable products, so we don't think at informing each other enough

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
That is great Dirk. One thing that always gets me in the AGM meeting is how little I know about what is going on in our organization. If you have any ideas about making local chapters activities more visible to our community it would be appreciated. Hopefully listing events local chapters are a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Marc Vloemans
Hey Bob, Please contact me directly (no need to burden the list with noise). I can give some pointers, which at the same time will be the start of a checklist for future reference for other events. To be published in the Marketing wiki and announced on this list (better signal to noise ratio)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Dirk Frigne
Jody, This is exactly what we are doing with OSGeo.BE. Last edition (Mar 2017) we attended BeGeo[1], an event where more than 1000 GIS experts attend. In 2018 the event will be even attract more people. We want to have a booth there, and are also organising one of the 9 parallel tracks [2]: I su

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
I think it would be great of we promote events that OSGeo is attending in an official capacity (like if a local chapter has a booth or something). Guido has set up a number of guest appearances for OSGeo (mostly partner events) in 2017 and we could of promoted our attendance a bit more. Getting OS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Geo-event coming together for this coming May. It will have a fairly high OSGeo footprint as well. The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for 300-350 this time around. What’s the best way to promote thi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

2017-10-24 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:05:05PM +0200, Nicolas Roelandt wrote: > Some of us also had worked on transifex for other FOSS projects, so we had > this knowledge to help us set up the whole process. Yep, that's the "drug trap" as I call it. It's the reason why Microsoft is "donating" licenses to sc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

2017-10-24 Thread Nicolas Roelandt
Hi, Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, I didn't know about those alternatives (and I presume that the rest of the team too, since no one suggested them). It is also the same bias as github, where everybody knows it so it is also a bit more attractive too people. Some of us also had worked on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread María Arias de Reyna
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Dear all, > > I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) about > a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this phrase "The > deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October 2017".

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread Jim Klassen
Yes, thank you.  +1 On 10/24/2017 10:34 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: > Big thanks to you Vasile! (I don't envy you... :-)) > > Sergio Acosta y Lara > Departamento de Geomática > Dirección Nacional de Topografía > Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas > URUGUAY > (598)29157933 ints. 20329/203

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Big thanks to you Vasile! (I don't envy you... :-)) 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

[OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

2017-10-24 Thread Vasile Craciunescu
Dear all, I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) about a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this phrase "The deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT Tuesday 25th October 2017". Of course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nice turnout at the most recent Twin Cities OSGeo Chapeter (TCMUG) Meeting last night.

2017-10-24 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, We had a nice turnout at the last Twin Cities OSGeo Chapter (TCMUG) meeting. See here. Based on discussion at the last meeting, the next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 30th, @ Barrel Theory Beer C

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

2017-10-24 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:38:00AM +0200, Nicolas Roelandt wrote: > Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our > translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst > process). > > It offers machine translation. > It provides a review process. > It