Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Friends of OSGeo vs. OSGeo partners: Definition ?

2018-04-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Not documented on the wiki, best record is the website meeting notes. 1) Partner any kind of formal relationship, does not have to be a MOU (for some reason this has become the "preferred way" not sure why). Examples include LocationTech (with a guest membership and representative), QGIS.org (seat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Call out] Diversity team volunteering

2018-04-19 Thread María Arias de Reyna
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:10 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: > María, congratulations for your concern in this. I think we still have > strong barriers regarding gender and language. The latter particularly > affects the "Third World" (to put it in some way). And all POC, WIT, LGBT+, > blind, women,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Call out] Diversity team volunteering

2018-04-19 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
María, congratulations for your concern in this. I think we still have strong barriers regarding gender and language. The latter particularly affects the "Third World" (to put it in some way). And all POC, WIT, LGBT+, blind, women, etc. inside it (that find it much more difficult to integrate/em

[OSGeo-Discuss] Friends of OSGeo vs. OSGeo partners: Definition ?

2018-04-19 Thread Peter Löwe
Hello list, OSGeo is currently listing its "friends and partners" as part of the new web presence: https://www.osgeo.org/partners/ What seems to be missing is an explicit definition of the requirements to become a friend or partner. From my knowledge, a requirement for partnership is the signi

[OSGeo-Discuss] The Open Source Geospatial Lab at the Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation, University of Leicester, UK

2018-04-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, The launch of the Open Source Geospatial Lab at the Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom [1] was formally announced by The President and Vice Chancellor of University of Leicester Professor Paul Boyle at the GISRUK conferen