Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Member to the OSGeo community!

2017-12-02 Thread Jody Garnett
t; Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: David Hastings has passed away

2017-11-14 Thread Jody Garnett
That is sad news Jeff, is it appropriate to make a blog post expressing our condolences and highlighting his contributions that you mention :( -- Jody Garnett On 14 November 2017 at 05:40, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > Very sad news indeed. Even if you never go

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Alternative to CLA: Developer Certificate of Origin

2017-11-05 Thread Jody Garnett
es that > > committer has the rights to submit > > this work under the same license and agrees to a Developer Certificate of > Origin > > (see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information). > > > > So this is typically a git-centric mechanism. > > > > Ev

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] twitting

2017-11-04 Thread Jody Garnett
>> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > > Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > Salzmannstraße 44, > 81739 Münch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] twitting

2017-11-03 Thread Jody Garnett
professional criticism. Candidates, were asked about their experience and track record as part of election process. -- Jody Garnett On 3 November 2017 at 13:06, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > > ​Hello all > > Back from a trip from Argentina, had to catch up on the social

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

2017-10-30 Thread Jody Garnett
questions) but it will be a careful balance. -- Jody Garnett On 30 October 2017 at 09:57, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I understand the way you are feeling and I know that are reasons for that. > I remember that I had some hard time when I d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

2017-10-30 Thread Jody Garnett
ation in earning that trust. -- Jody Garnett On 29 October 2017 at 07:17, Sanghee Shin <shs...@gaia3d.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected > board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around thi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

2017-10-29 Thread Jody Garnett
e (mid next week most > probably). > > Best, > Vasile > CRO 2017 > > [1] > http://www.geo-spatial.org/file_download/29668/osgeo_board_elections.csv > [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2017_Results > > On 10/26/17 10:08 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

2017-10-26 Thread Jody Garnett
mbership. - As a candidate seeking reelection I would like to vote +0 to accept the election result as provided. - If required, due to electronic voting rules in our bylaws I am willing to change this vote to a +1. Once again Vasile you have done an exemplary job and I thank you for runn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

2017-10-25 Thread Jody Garnett
> > > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017 > > [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process > > [3] http://www.osgeo.org/about > > [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes > > [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Responsibilities > > > > ___ > > Board mailing list > > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] website feedback survey

2017-10-25 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] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
are attending on the website can help help in a small way, and email threads like this one. -- Jody Garnett On 24 October 2017 at 14:16, Dirk Frigne <dirk.fri...@geosparc.com> wrote: > Jody, > > This is exactly what we are doing with OSGeo.BE. > Last edition (Mar 2017) we attended

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

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
OSGeo present at more "normal" GIS events would be a great outreach goal for 2018. -- Jody Garnett On 24 October 2017 at 13:32, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) < bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote: > All, > > Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Ge

[OSGeo-Discuss] managing casual contributors

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
place. While I have noticed a real shift, what are other project teams experiencing and do you have any good practices you would like to pass on? -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
wrote: > Jody, > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > [...] >> > > >> Initiatives: >> >>- Website/rebranding - temporary initiative >>- OSGeo-Live >> >> >>-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
s > > Given the number of the projects in that list, perhaps it would be easier > to organize separate meetings (or video calls), asking projects and board > members to attend. > > I volunteer to follow up with the project officers and arrange those > meetings if the board approv

[OSGeo-Discuss] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-22 Thread Jody Garnett
ttee or initiative? -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Jody Garnett
clear way to deliberate the current election that would not be viewed as a personal attack, or dismissed as campaigning. -- Jody Garnett On 18 October 2017 at 10:23, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote: > &

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

2017-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
I would be willing to give it a shot. Dirk here is a comic <http://chickennation.com/website_stuff/cant-waste-vote/web-700-cant-waste-vote-SINGLE-IMAGE.png> from australia so it is blunt. It allows voters a way out of choosing between their heart and their head. -- Jody Garnett On 17 O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017: roles and positions

2017-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
> > One of the questions asked to our nominees to write down in their > Manifesto is "which role you wish to fulfil in the Board". > > Apparently a though question, since not answered by some candidates. > I think that if we named a position it would be premature, the board when formed would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
trict them to voting members (and even more hesitant to require voting members to participate.) -- Jody Garnett On 16 October 2017 at 21:20, Ravi Kumar <manarajahmundry2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jody, > > "While I like the idea of greater charter member involvemen

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

2017-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
That is some bold thinking Dirk, I like it. I would want to be careful to establish the relationship appropriately; and be pretty much guided by the local chapters on this one. One advantage to being a local chapter can be as a separate legal entity. I guess for local chapters that want to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
>>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi List, >>> happy to note that 'FOSS4G being Costly/Unaffordable', is discussed. >>> To make it fun, spice is added on the TERM HANGOUT.. >>> >>> May be the next board will have FOSS4G for Business, where in 5* &g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections Debate

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for organizing, I will try to attend. Here is a link to 14:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10=17=2017=14=0=0=0> providing a local time for participants. -- Jody Garnett On 16 October 2017 at 16:01, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] what is open source

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
hat the transparency and fairness is the quality of open source that is being sought in open standards, open data, open education and open science. -- Jody Garnett On 16 October 2017 at 14:56, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > The focus on licensing does not mention the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] what is open source

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
words or links on "community driven" that you would consider suitable starting points? We have some text in our handout that is okay, but may be too focused on on insiders. -- Jody Garnett On 16 October 2017 at 11:52, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) < bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
ated and celebrating. It is one thing I really appreciated about the slower pace of this years foss4g-europe event, think it was the first time I got to see Andrea Amine slow down enough to talk to. Thanks again for bringing interesting questions to this years elections. -- Jody Garnett On 15 October

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-16 Thread Jody Garnett
times means Efficiency', may not, 'play > ball', with this Idea. > > Cheers.. and All the best to the Hopefuls > > Ravi Kumar > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Okay I checked that the report i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
email list thread: f2f meeting follow up <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2017-August/010526.html>: On 21 August 2017 at 11:23, Jody Garnett wrote: *I saw this thread get into the details of the RFP - for that we have* *volunteers on the conference committee. My goal as a board

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

2017-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
afford it'.. costs (of participation) are > so high that many might not afford.. If selected to the board HOW do you > wish to correct this.. > > Ravi Kumar > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas for a future OSGeo Board

2017-10-14 Thread Jody Garnett
. -- Jody Garnett On 14 October 2017 at 15:14, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de> wrote: > Cameron Shorter: > >I've had a number of people reach out to me privately, related to the > >upcoming OSGeo Board elections. > > Cameron, any idea why a number of people aren't

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] elections 2017: proposal to postpone opening of the polling stations

2017-10-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Vasile, I was concerned we had stuffed things up by not acting in a timely fashion I am glad the election is not disrupted. I concur that the board has no input into the process, unless asked by the CRO to review candidates flagged for discussion (which did not occur.) -- Jody Garnett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] elections 2017: proposal to postpone opening of the polling stations

2017-10-13 Thread Jody Garnett
; Gert-Jan > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

2017-10-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Hey Jeff, Takes a lot of courage to step up in general, and even more to step up an apologize in public. Respect Jody On 13 October 2017 at 08:33, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Your questions are great, and I think I tackled most of them in my >

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

2017-10-12 Thread Jody Garnett
The website is now updated: http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/members/voting_members.html -- Jody Garnett On 29 September 2017 at 17:43, Venkatesh Raghavan < ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: > Dear All, > > Warm welcome to all our new Charter Members. > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

2017-10-12 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for facilitating this discussion Get-Jan, comments inline. Some of you talk about being an inclusive organization. > > For the geographical and probably cultural aspect of inclusiveness, do you > think the Board should have it's roots in as much continents / languages as > possible, so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board members candidates manifestos please

2017-10-11 Thread Jody Garnett
too far. I am particularly thankful for Venka stepping up as president - and like the use of the vice-president role to share this responsibility. Helena and Dirk have been effective in this capacity and their contributions greatly appreciated. -- Jody Garnett On 11 October 2017 at 09:59, Gert-Jan

[OSGeo-Discuss] what is open source

2017-10-10 Thread Jody Garnett
ied in our community in the areas of open education, open data and open science. -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] anyone good at word or libre office?

2017-10-09 Thread Jody Garnett
We have gotten a number of requests for a word template for business cards; I do not personally know word enough to make my own template. If anyone has word experience and would like to help please give me (or the marketing email list) a shout, we would love to hear from you. -- Jody Garnett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board nomination period over

2017-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Ah so you are going for midnight, I had assume 12:00 GMT was noon. I think there was a good foss4g presentation on the dangers of making assumptions about time representation. -- Jody Garnett On 8 October 2017 at 09:16, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > Nominati

[OSGeo-Discuss] board nomination period over

2017-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Reviewing the email the nomination period ended today: *Send an email to c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org> CCing the candidate by 12:00 GMT on Sunday 08.10.2017* I have sent in at least one nomination, and I hope others have as well. -- Jody G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-GSoC poster/flyers

2017-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Sounds good, and that is great you were able to dynamically link. Does that work only for images, or can you dynamically link to SVG files as well. -- Jody Garnett On 7 October 2017 at 21:46, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > Jody > > If we can merge this Thursday i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-GSoC poster/flyers

2017-10-07 Thread Jody Garnett
9 (089) 4161 7698-1 > Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 > > Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 > CEO: Daniel Kastl > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/dis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Astrid Emde

2017-10-02 Thread Jody Garnett
I really appreciate Astrid's kindness and leadership on the OSGeo Marketing team, she would be a great asset to our organization as a director. -- Jody Garnett On 2 October 2017 at 11:34, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > Forwarding nomination of Astrid Emde by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Agreed! Arne we did capture the individual page examples here ( https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/collateral/presentation/template). Perhaps you can use those as a background for the different template pages? -- Jody Garnett On 28 September 2017 at 18:59, Helena Mitasova <h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > On 2017-09-28 4:41 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > > On 2017-09-28 12:34 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: > >> On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > >>> In this weeks meeting we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
are produced by differ project teams or if they share a codebase? -- Jody Garnett On 22 September 2017 at 10:16, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to grab a couple quotes from the other email thread: > >- Maria: *Our projects are much more

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

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
motion). Congratulations to our new charter members, and thanks to Vasile & Jeff for running this years nomination process. -- Jody Garnett On 25 September 2017 at 01:35, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Dear members of the OSGeo community, > > After a period

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-27 Thread Jody Garnett
No worries :) Actually we have done "working groups" for short term task based things like "sponsorship", same deal - just volunteers :) -- Jody Garnett On 27 September 2017 at 10:55, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > > I will rename t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-27 Thread Jody Garnett
for gsoc, or if you want a folder for student outreach (covering gsoc and the code-in?) -- Jody Garnett On 27 September 2017 at 08:34, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > Hi Jody, & all > > The GSoC Mentors have being working on the poster, > https://github.com/pgR

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-27 Thread Jody Garnett
Small update, examples for osgeo japan <https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/osgeo-jp> and osgeo korea <https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/osgeo-ko> are now in their own top-level folders. -- Jody Garnett On 21 September 2017 at 23:17, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Election 2017] Board Nominations

2017-09-26 Thread Jody Garnett
ouches on this aspect of being a director the "if any" does indicate the full weight of responsibility. -- Jody Garnett On 25 September 2017 at 01:56, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > It's time for the 2017 OSGeo Foundation Board Elections. &g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-26 Thread Jody Garnett
respectful of everyone's time (this review has taken three weeks :-D ). -- Jody Garnett On 26 September 2017 at 10:21, Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > Kind regards, > Marc Vloemans > > > Op 22 sep. 2017 om 08:17 heeft Jody Garnett <jody.garn

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

2017-09-25 Thread Jody Garnett
any loss or damage > arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof. Computer systems of > this Authority may be monitored and communications carried out on them > recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system and for other > lawful purpose. > _

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-22 Thread Jody Garnett
r phrasing to use when restoring the home page to "choose-a-project". It will be challenging to word in a way that communicates well. (I also note the above quotes would be excellent for a "why open source" page) -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 06:02, Jody Garnett

[OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-22 Thread Jody Garnett
If you have any skill with InkScape, Scribus or LibreOffice the marketing committee would love to request your help reviewing, adapting and applying this content for community use. -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
when doing so. In the above list we should probably add SQLServer® for example, and a footnote to the page. -- Jody Garnett On 21 September 2017 at 12:10, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > On jeudi 21 septembre 2017 11:20:54 CEST Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
s it is up to each project steering committee what they want to do. -- Jody Garnett On 21 September 2017 at 08:45, Daniel Kastl <dan...@georepublic.de> wrote: > I think "Switch2osm" is a very good example how to help migrating to > non-proprietary tools: https://switch2o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
Comments inline: > Thank you Ben, this is absolutely correct: we have an amazing vibrant > community, and we need a front-end website that fosters and promotes OSGeo > projects (especially those in OSGeo incubation as well as OSGeo Community > projects) and OSGeo initiatives such as the Summer of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
is our key way to make this less intimidating and more personal and supportive. -- Jody Garnett On 21 September 2017 at 04:02, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > On 21/09/17 19:54, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > >> In fact, publishing blog posts comparing c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
ge short listing all the projects that one can migrate to from MapInfo. -- Jody -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 14:33, Sandro Santilli <s...@kbt.io> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 01:19:48PM -0700, Jody Garnett wrote: > > > The reason I want to keep the names (don't care about

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
, and these discussions, are far more effective than the blog posts at communicating how OSGeo can be useful. -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 20:18, Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > An observation from my end: > > this apparently has become an argum

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Maria, and I apologize for getting upset. I would like a chance to listen to people and determine a course of action together. -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 12:59, Maria Antonia Brovelli < maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote: > This is my last mail on this topic

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
e respectful of the contributors working on the website/rebranding and during the foss4g sprint. -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 02:41, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de> wrote: > Dear OSGeo community > > I want to bring you a discussion on a github ticket about linking to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
erefore no needs at all to put the names and links to proprietary > software. > Please again remote them. > I'll open a loomio vote of the Board about that. > Have a good evening > Maria > > > > > Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung > > > Messaggio origina

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
ink and just have text because the website is not for me). - It also occurs to me to be respectful of trademark; listing competitors is a good practice but it can be done with respect. Maria of course no offence is intended to volunteers (myself) included. Thanks for participating in this discu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
from" can help. -- Jody Garnett On 20 September 2017 at 09:49, Maria Antonia Brovelli < maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote: > Dear Jody > Personally I agree with Helmut and I don't see any necessity of putting > "similar proprietary software" on our web pag

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Tom, you kind of confirm that listing software (program, application,technology) right direction - even if it hurts my heart. You are correct that "someone looking to migrate" is the primary audience of this. Indeed the other email thread has a tradeoff of providing a "Similar Proprietary

[OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
tware’ > (or we could alternatively use ‘application’ or 'program') > The QGIS Project is the umbrella organisation/collaboration/social > construct/enterprise that encompasses and coordinates the individual > software/applications/programs > I think the important thing for us as a ma

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the discussion on the bug report. Please keep in mind that this website is written by us, but it is not intended for us - it is intended for the vast majority of the GIS industry that has honestly not heard about open source yet. These sections are optional, if one of our open source

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

2017-09-18 Thread Jody Garnett
But practice tried to lower the bar for being an osgeo member to ... signing up on the wiki. - http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/getting_started.html -- Jody Garnett On 18 September 2017 at 13:06, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > The bylaws use the term "member&

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

2017-09-18 Thread Jody Garnett
e governance of OSGeo? > > If that is the case, why would we entrust the important task of electing > the board to those who may not be interested in the governance of the > organisation? > __ > Steven > > > On 18 Sep 2017, at 15:39, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote

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

2017-09-18 Thread Jody Garnett
iam-webster.com/dictionary/charter%20member>). I know "voting member" does not sound quite as fun. -- Jody Garnett On 18 September 2017 at 05:23, Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good suggestion Maxi, I agree > > We might also want to consider whether

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Carolyn Bennett

2017-09-14 Thread Jody Garnett
I would like to second this nomination, and recognize Carolyn's dedication to our community in pulling together such an amazing event. It is great to see individuals bridge the gap between local government and our open source community. -- Jody Garnett On 9 September 2017 at 06:36, Jeff McKenna

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Neil Revello

2017-09-14 Thread Jody Garnett
I would like to second this nomination, the global foss4g event is a massive undertaking for any member of our community. Organizing this event shows a great dedication to OSGeo and our mission. -- Jody Garnett On 10 September 2017 at 04:38, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Ben Tuttle

2017-09-09 Thread Jody Garnett
f Johnson > > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

2017-09-08 Thread Jody Garnett
I wonder if we could use the charter members list rather than the discuss list (or is that email list private?) -- Jody Garnett On 8 September 2017 at 02:54, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net> wrote: > Hi all, > It is great to see the OSGeo community being so active a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

2017-09-08 Thread Jody Garnett
The other point in favour of email is the discussion aspect, with the board only reviewing -1 votes we are relying our the discussion list to review candidates. -- Jody Garnett On 8 September 2017 at 07:36, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote: > Agree, I don't think I'd like a nominati

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2017 membership process reminder

2017-09-07 Thread Jody Garnett
is great to see our community growing! -- Jody Garnett On 7 September 2017 at 13:44, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > A reminder that today is the last day for nominations, so that means > "anywhere on Earth" today you can still sub

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

2017-09-07 Thread Jody Garnett
/rebranding most notably with the cartography employed for the website and style guide. -- Jody Garnett On 30 August 2017 at 17:10, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to second the nomination. > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 30 August 2017 at 16:24, Vasile

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Anujit Vanasarochana from Thaialnd

2017-09-07 Thread Jody Garnett
enting a diversity of humanity including gender and race * This is a reference to my own ignorance of Dr. Anujit Vansarochana activities and no slight is intended or implied. I have tried to search the discussion email list, geoforall email list and osgeo wiki to learn more. -- Jody Garnett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Kampart Piyathamrongchai from Thailand

2017-09-07 Thread Jody Garnett
erence to my own ignorance of Dr. Kampart Piyathamrongchai activities and no slight is intended or implied! -- Jody Garnett On 7 September 2017 at 00:16, 林博文 <haya...@apptec.co.jp> wrote: > Hi, > > +1 for nomination of Dr. Kampart Piyathamrongchai

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies

2017-09-06 Thread Jody Garnett
aside: Looks like Ben has an entry on the wiki https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bencaradocdavies and is active in the OSGeo Live project as well. -- Jody Garnett On 6 September 2017 at 21:48, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Forwarding Ben Caradoc-Davies nominatio

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies

2017-09-06 Thread Jody Garnett
*name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies *country:* New Zealand *contact email:* b...@transient.nz *nomination:* Ben Caradoc-Davies is a longstanding member of the GeoServer community - first with his role at the Australian research group "CSIRO" and more recently as a independent contractor from is native

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nuno Oliveira

2017-09-06 Thread Jody Garnett
I would like to second Nuno's nomination, he has been a really positive influence on the GeoWebCache OSGeo community project and it speaks to Nuno's dedication that he has earned commit so efficiently. -- Jody Garnett On 6 September 2017 at 08:08, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Kampart Piyathamrongchai from Thailand

2017-09-03 Thread Jody Garnett
do many project together using Open Source > > Software. I am sure he will continre to promote OSGeo. > > He > > > > His OSGeo member page is https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Meogeo > > <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Meogeo>. > > His email is p.kampan.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Gretchen Peterson

2017-08-30 Thread Jody Garnett
I would like to second the nomination. -- Jody Garnett On 30 August 2017 at 16:24, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Forwarding Gretchen Peterson nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member > nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. > > Best regards, >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Hostile Takeover" -- what do we mean by this?

2017-08-30 Thread Jody Garnett
veryone to look at the larger page, some of this is covered >> under guidence for candidate selection. >> >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> On 30 August 2017 at 08:54, Kevin Smith <smit...@draconic.ca> wrote: >> >>> Maybe something like "maintain t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member

2017-08-30 Thread Jody Garnett
that goes well beyond his role at Azavea (although they are a pretty fearless bunch). I especially like quiet enthusiasm for individuals and projects that inspire those around him. -- Jody Garnett On 30 August 2017 at 08:33, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote: > Forwa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Hostile Takeover" -- what do we mean by this?

2017-08-30 Thread Jody Garnett
I do not think we need to get the wording perfect, we have have multiple bullet points to cover this requirement. I encourage everyone to look at the larger page, some of this is covered under guidence for candidate selection. -- Jody Garnett On 30 August 2017 at 08:54, Kevin Smith <s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-29 Thread Jody Garnett
It is okay Vicky it has been a good discussion and we all learned a lot :) Thank you for asking. -- Jody Garnett On 29 August 2017 at 18:58, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > I arrived to OSGeo on 2015, and first time mentor on that year, so I didnt > know of pa

[OSGeo-Discuss] cartographer and analysts view point requested

2017-08-29 Thread Jody Garnett
to the graphics designer. We need that first hand experience. -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Trying to hunt through my email, it has been a long time since I did GSOC. I think it was $500 to OSGeo for each project mentored (really not sure if that is still the case). -- Jody Garnett On 28 August 2017 at 18:45, Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote: > Really, tha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Mentors can decide what to do with the money they earn through the GSOC program; in the past many mentors have accepted the t-shirt and donated the money to OSGeo. I know I donated money to OSGeo previously, but was not really specific about to any particular project. -- Jody Garnett On 28

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Hostile Takeover" -- what do we mean by this?

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
) - stronger language is needed here. -- Jody Garnett On 28 August 2017 at 09:41, Sara Safavi <s...@sarasafavi.com> wrote: > Hi discuss, > > In the notification emails from CRO to new charter member nominees, the > following is included (emphasis mine): > > *"(Charte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Hostile Takeover" -- what do we mean by this?

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
‎ >Responsibilities: as per action from >http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-08-14) (undo > > <https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Membership_Process=edit=78405=79316> >) > > -- Jody Garnett On 28 August 2017 at 09:41, Sara Safavi <s...@sarasafavi.com&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Flickr OSGeo group admins wanted

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks happy to help. Looks like others know more about Flickr / Photos than me. Perhaps the new owners of yahoo will be more responsible. On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:07 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy to help. > > I had considered using google photos more

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Flickr OSGeo group admins wanted

2017-08-28 Thread Jody Garnett
r join requests. > > [1] https://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeo/ > [2] https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/ > > Best regards, > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

2017-08-26 Thread Jody Garnett
re subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "OSGeo GSoC Mentors" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to osgeo-gsoc-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017

2017-08-25 Thread Jody Garnett
ic). > > >- Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including >gender and race > > The nomination process is one of the opportunities we have to work on diversity. Thanks to everyone for taking part, you can watch the list of new member nominations take sha

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