Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GRASS-user] Helena Mitasova awarded 2018 Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize

Congratulations Helena!! Venka On 4/5/2018 7:23 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: Congratulations Il gio 5 apr 2018, 08:11 Helmut Kudrnovsky ha scritto: forwarding: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2018-April/078052.html -

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

Dear All, Congratulations and best wishes to our new board members! Many thanks to Vasile for his immaculate managing the arduous task as CRO. Thanks also to Jeff and Jorge for providing support to the CRO I would also like to express my thanks to all previous board members. It was a pleasure

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

+ 1 Maxi, Bruce. Venka On 10/22/2017 7:03 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: +1 Maxi. I’m very sorry to see this Jeff. As a community, we need to look closely at what we allowed to happen during this process. We cannot afford to chase away very talented and passionate people. Jeff is but one of

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

rds On 18 October 2017 at 18:07, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> wrote: Hi Venka, all, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Eli Adam <ea...@co.lincoln.or.us> wrote: Hi Venka, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: Hi E

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

Hi Ravi, Thanks for the question and your suggestion below; I have expressed my opinion in the conference and board mailing list where this matter as been discussed on several occasion. I think there is still some scope for considering ways and means to enhance affordability. Maybe by, a)

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

Hi Gert-Jan and all, On 10/13/2017 1:00 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: I hope that Dirk, Venga and Jeff will take the opportunity to add their manifestos as well before the end of this campaign week. My write-up for the up-coming board election is now available at

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

Hi Eli, First of all, thanks to Jorge for volunteering to be co-CRO and fixing the CRO alias promptly. Regarding your other comment reproduced below; The Board did not appear to review this topic at their last meeting, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05, so perhaps it is of

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

On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral material which I have had a chance to place in github: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo A belated question, but why not use https://git.osgeo.org/ that Sandro and others helped

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

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] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

Hi Ben, Many thanks for your inspiring email and for bringing the focus back to the community. As Jeff has also elucidated, the greatest strength of the OSGeo Foundation is the community that all of us have helped nurture. Ben, I eagerly look forward to welcoming you as  as OSGeo Charter

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

Dear All, If the aim is only to help new users who are not aware of Free and Open Source Geospatial Software, it could be better to have a dedicated page which allows new user to input keywords (e.g. the present software they are using, of the OGC standards compliance they are looking for etc.)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar

+1 for Eylul Best Venka On 2017/09/08 7:11, Monia Molinari wrote: +1 for Eylul Regards, Monia Molinari Il 07 Set 2017 20:19, "Maria Antonia Brovelli" ha scritto: I second this nomination. Eylul is a brilliant developer of FOSS4G applications (including NASA

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2017 Results!

Hi Margherita and All, Thanks to you and the OSGeo GSoC Admin-team [1], all our mentors and to the students who have all put great effort and a lot of time to arrive at this wonderful result. Best Venka [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Contacts On

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: New Member Nominations 2017 second

Dear All, I would like to second the following nominees as Charter Member - Rémi Cresson - Guido Stein - Anujit Vansarochana - R.C. Prasad Best Venka On 9/6/2017 10:41 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding the list of seconded nominees by Luca Delucchi. Best, Vasile

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Khalifa Abacar Sarr

+1 for Khalifa Abacar Sarr nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/4/2017 6:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Khalifa Abacar Sarr nomination by Gérald Fenoy. The 2017 member nominations list was updated [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member Nomination: Gowtham Gollapalle

+1 for Gowtham Gollapalle nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/4/2017 2:26 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Gowtham's nomination [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nicolas Roelandt for OSGeo charter membership

+1 for Nicolas Roelandt nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/4/2017 4:15 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Nicolas' nomination [1]. Apologies to Nicolas for missing that. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Michael Terner

+1 for Michael Terner's nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/4/2017 2:19 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: We confirm that Michael Terner accepted the nomination by Sara Safavi and Regina Obe. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership

+1 for Hae-Kyong Kang nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/1/2017 8:51 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Hae-Kyong Kang nomination by Sanghee Shin. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

+1 for Steven Ottens nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 8/30/2017 11:43 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Steven Ottens nomination by Volker Mische. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member nomination for Daniele Strigaro

+1 for Daniele Strigaro nomination as Charter Member Venka On 8/30/2017 10:15 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Daniele Strigaro nomination by Massimiliano Cannata. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Patrick Hogan as an OSGeo Charter Member

+1 to Partick Hogan nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 8/29/2017 10:28 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: We confirm that Patrick Hogan accepted the nomination by Suchith Anand. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Rafael Moreno-Sanchez as an OSGeo Charter Member

+1 to Rafael Moreno-Sanchez nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 8/29/2017 10:12 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: We confirm that Rafael Moreno-Sanchez accepted the nomination by Suchith Anand. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

+1 for Veronica Andreo nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/2/2017 6:17 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: I would also like to second Veronica's nomination Angelos On 08/29/2017 05:27 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: I second Veronica's nomination. Markus On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Vasile

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

+1 for Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination as Charter Member. Venka On 9/5/2017 8:53 AM, Pedro Venâncio wrote: + 1 for Jorge. Best regards, Pedro Venâncio Em 04/09/2017 14:36, "Jorge Sanz" escreveu: +1 jorge On 29 August 2017 at 01:43, Vasile Craciunescu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination Arne Schubert as an OSGeo charter member

+1 for Arne Schubert's nomination as Charter Member. On 8/28/2017 8:54 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: We confirm that Arne Schubert accepted the nomination by Astrid Emde. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Narumasa Tsutsumida

Dear All, I second the nomination of Tsutsumida-san. He is an enthusiastic researcher with experience in the industry. His has made several innovative contributions in furthering the use of Open Source Geospatial software in the field of Remote Sensing and geostatistics. He also a regular

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need official info about OSGeo best presentation awards at FOSS4G-2017

with a bit more detail might be appropriate, though. I’ll talk with Charlie about writing one. — Andy On Sep 4, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: Dear All, Can anyone point me to the *official* announcement for the OSGeo best oral and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Need official info about OSGeo best presentation awards at FOSS4G-2017

Dear All, Can anyone point me to the *official* announcement for the OSGeo best oral and poster (student?) presentation awards at FOSS4G-Boston 2017. Thanks in advance. Best Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

On 9/4/2017 4:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member nominations listwas updated [1]. I strongly support the nomination of Markus Metz. Best Venka P.S. Amazed that MarkusM was not a Charter Member already. Best regards,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Jack Reed

I second the nomination of Jack Reed. His contributions are indeed very valuable to OSGeo. Best Venka On 8/31/2017 8:14 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Jack Reed nomination by Peter Löwe. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Membership Nomination: Daniele Oxoli

I strongly support and second this nomination. His research outputs [1], provide a clear evidence of his dedication and contributions towards the spread of Free and Open Source GIS. Best Venka [1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniele_Oxoli On 9/1/2017 8:58 PM, Vasile Craciunescu

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

I would like to second this nomination. Dr. Kampanart is deeply committed to OSGeo and and a strong member of the OSGeo.TH community. Best Venka On 8/31/2017 11:59 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Kampart Piyathamrongchai nomination by Sittichai Choosumrong. The 2017 member

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination to reinstate Bart van den Eijnden as an OSGeo charter member

On 8/29/2017 6:56 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Bart van den Eijnden nomination by Angelos Tzotsos. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. I second this nomination. +1 Venka P.S. Great to have Bart back as CM Best regards, Vasile & Jeff 2017 OSGeo Elections

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

Hi Angelos and Even, Thanks for enlightening us with very thoughtful and pertinent points and comments. It would be great to have a broader view on this and hope to hear from others in our community. Best Venka P.S. Even, congratulations on your 10 years + 2 days since your first commit to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Andrea Aime for Sol Katz Award 2017!!

Hi Andrea, Hearty congratulations on receiving the Sol Katz 2017 Award. Well well deserved for your immense contributions for our community. Best Venka P.S. This will make beer in Korea even more tastier!! ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Collaboration is the way forward: Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

...@osgeo.org -Original Message- From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> Date: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 2:41 AM To: Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com>, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Collaboration is the way forward: Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

Hi Marc, Many thanks to LocationTech for supporting OSGeo events and code sprints. As discussed with you at FOSS4G-Europe last month, we could consider going beyond the "informal" partnership between LocationTech and OSGeo Foundation and having a MoU. I think this would help to answer some of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

Hi Helmut and Maxi, Thanks for expressing your concerns about listing of projects and badges on the beta website as a part of the OSGeo "website/rebranding" initiative. As mentioned by Helena, earlier on this thread, the listing of projects and display of project badges on the beta website is

[OSGeo-Discuss] Richard Stallman's keynote at FOSS4G-Boston today

Dear All, I am sure that all those of you who are attending FOSS4G-Boston are having a great time. Ricchard Stallman 's keynote is scheduled for today. If someone has the opportunity, please remind Stallman that it was the chance meeting with me on the flight from Hanoi-Bangkok in 2004 that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

On 8/16/2017 8:37 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote: I agree completely with Helena. It has to be fixed with the highest priority. Same here. Venka . Da: Discuss per conto di Helena Mitasova Inviato:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - for software projects on beta website

On 8/15/2017 12:37 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: Thank you to everyone who responded! You can see the results here: - http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ Just a quick observation. "OSGEO" needs to be changed to "OSGeo" at various places (e.g. "About OSGEO", "More About OSGEO, "OSGEO

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo website/rebranding May Update

On 6/9/2017 10:21 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 10:15:18AM +0100, Steven Feldman wrote: An alternative is to make the score card as `Google Form and then embed that in a page - that gives us a nice spreadsheet as the ‘back end’ without any extra effort Please let's try

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released

Hi Angelos and the OSGeo-Live Team. Congratulations on the release of OSGeo-Live 10.5!! Many thanks to the the OSGeo-Live Team for their relentless efforts in promoting OSGeo software. Best Venka On 2017/04/11 6:05, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released 10 April 2017 Version

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

Maxi also made an excelling presentation on related topic at FOSS4G-Asia 2017. The presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/cannata/massimiliano-cannata-keynote-foss4gasia-2017 Best Venka On 2017/03/20 22:08, Jeff McKenna wrote: Actually Maxi and I did a recent thorough research

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India event

Thanks, Ravi. Also great to see FOSS4G and OSGeo names appear in major Indian newspapers [1]. Best Venka [1] https://plus.google.com/109741136460742479583/posts/52GH2nWxnxe On 3/3/2017 11:29 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Ravi, Great to hear how the 60 students took to QGIS and other tools

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

Hi Margherita, Thanks for this great news and all you efforts. I hope to see great GSoC proposals this year too! Best Venka On 2/28/2017 5:33 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear OSGeo community, We are proud to announce that OSGeo has been selected as a mentor organization for the 2017

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G in Ecuador?

On 12/7/2016 10:50 PM, Dan Little wrote: This is literally the most Jeff McKenna question every asked on the mailing list. Agree with that! Guillermo, best of luck for organizing FOSS4G-EC. Let us know if you need any help. You can also think of an wiki-page like our friends are done for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

? Best Venka Cheers, Codrina On 21/10/16 02:27, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Regarding "Public Geodata Project", I expressed my views in the recent e-mail [2]. I would be happy to work together with anyone who would like to take up on forming the "Data4All" initiative with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

Maxi, Cameron and all, Perhaps the term "Education Committee" could be replaced with Geo4All as it represents the educational outreach project of OSGeo. Mapbuilder which is listed as an Foundation project has retired [1] and and can be removed or shown "Past Project". Regarding "Public Geodata

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

Jachym, I think it is better to confirm before attributing statements to someone. Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out of OSGeo and least of all Jeff. Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public Geodata committee. Perhaps renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

Hi Jorge, Many thanks for all you hardwork as CRO. On 10/6/2016 5:03 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: I've taken the liberty to update the list removing Maxi and Dirk and adding Maria and Angelos with e-mails you used on this thread. Was that the board-private list? Best Venka If you want to use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

members not opened the voting There were no scores to arbitrate. Thank you all who voted!! The complete resulting Board for 2016/2017 is: * Angelos Tzotsos * Anita Graser * Helena Mitasova * Jody Garnett * Maria Antonia Brovelli * Michael Smith * Sanghee Shin * Vasile Craciunescu * Venkatesh Ragha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GSoC 2016: Summary and results

Anne and Madi, Many thanks for your immaculate management of GSoC 2016. Congratulations to all students and thanks to mentors for their time and effort. Best Venka On 9/2/2016 11:27 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote: Dear all, One more GSoC has come to an end, with an awesome array of successful

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

forward to see many of you next week in Bonn! Have fun, Seven (aka Arnulf) On 04.08.2016 08:10, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Hi All, Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below 25 August @ 17:30 in the plenary Chamber It would be great to have volunteers from local

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM (Annual General Meeting) in Bonn

Hi All, Please note the time and location of this year's OSGeo AGM in Bonn as below 25 August @ 17:30 in the plenary Chamber It would be great to have volunteers from local chapters, committees, to give a very brief update on activities and outcomes. Please sign up here:

[OSGeo-Discuss] REMINDER: final day for Sol Katz Award nominations

Today is the final day for nominating a leader in our community for the Sol Katz Award: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1715 Venka On 2016/08/01 16:56, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, I would like to remind you that the deadline for sending your nomination for the 2016 Sol Katz Award is until

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Charter Member elections results

Dear All, Congratulations and warm welcome to all our new charter members. Vasile, thanks for your hardwork as CRO. Best Venka On 8/1/2016 11:19 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Dear members of the OSGeo community, After a period of ten days to vote, we close the elections system to confirm

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

/Sol_Katz_Award Best Venka On 2016/07/22 8:05, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award Past Awardees: * 2015: Maria Brovelli * 2014: Gary Sherman * 2013: Arnulf Christl * 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan * 2011: Martin Davis * 2010: Helena

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 22 accepted GSoC students @ OSGeo!

Congratulations and best of luck for all the accepted teams. And many thanks to Madi and Anne for managing the OSGeo GSoC 2016. Best Venka On 2016/04/23 19:23, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear All, this year OSGeo welcomes 22 students withing the Google Summer of Code 2016! They were awarded

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vote on the new OSGeo Seal

On 2016/03/21 9:23, Jody Garnett wrote: Can we delegate to Anita as the organizer? +1 Venka On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:09 PM Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Vote closed... though, we have a tie result. How should we proceed further? -Vasile On 3/20/16 1:42 PM, Anita

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

Congratulations to Patrick and the WorldWind team! Hope the WorldWind team will consider joining in as an OSGeo software project in the near future. Best Venka On 3/19/2016 2:58 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote: Bravissimo! Maria Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung Messaggio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

On 3/16/2016 3:00 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: I think that nicolas ideas are fully right. Website is one of the best marketing tool. Maybe making one committee from two dormient make one awake... could we consider to join webcom and marketing in a new one? I also think that merging web and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

Hi Sanghee, Thanks for filling us in with the details of the UN OpenGIS meeting in Brindisi. Many thanks to you, Maria and Maxi for your great job in presenting about OSGeo and Geo4All at the meeting. Look forward to close collaboration and strengthened partnership between UNGeo and OSGeo.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2016: OSGeo accepted as mentor org!

Hi Madi and Anne, Thank you for the wonderful news and for all the hardwork that you put into getting OSGeo accepted as mentor organization. Best Venka On 3/1/2016 5:02 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear all, We are happy to announce that OSGeo has been accepted once again as mentor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

ard-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> Date: Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Board <bo...@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: Re: [Board] Funding code Sprints De

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Raghavan Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 3:35 PM To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Board Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints Dear All, Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar sponsors

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Dear All, Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past. I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [otb-developers] OTB Users meeting and hackfest 2016

Hi Rashad, Congratulations to the OTB team on their 10 Anniversary!! Great to know about the OTB hackfest in Toulouse. When the dates are fixed, please also send new item about the OTB hackfest to to the OSGeo blog {1]. Best Venka [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html On

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ​​OSGeo Seal Design Contest

On 2016/02/11 4:15, Jody Garnett wrote: I found this link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_seal) a helpful starting point. Also this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_%28emblem%29 Best Venka -- Jody Garnett On 10 February 2016 at 10:13, Anita Graser wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2015 @ OSGeo results presented at FOSDEM - our report

Hi Madi and Anne, Thanks for all you hard work and for sharing your report. I am sure FOSDEM has definitely been a great event this year too. Look forward for your continued support with managing GSoC 2016. Best Venka On 2/5/2016 12:44 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear All, at FOSDEM

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Foundation turns 10!

On 2016/02/04 1:47, Yves Jacolin wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2016 1:46:08 Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, Today OSGeo turns 10! (in my time zone). Happy birthday to us!! Cheers! Venka Happy birthday OSGeo! :) I missed the link to the virtual cake at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Foundation turns 10!

Dear All, Today OSGeo turns 10! (in my time zone). Happy birthday to us!! Cheers! Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Our huge thanks to Jeff McKenna

Dear All, Jeff McKenna has tendered his resignation from the position of President and Board of Directors on personal grounds. Jeff is a pillar of OSGeo, being a lively presence at Open Source Geospatial events since the early days of MapServer User Meetings [1]. He was also a key person at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

On 2015/12/16 18:37, Pat Tressel wrote: MailChimp is a very popular product. If you have a provable accusation against them -- that they were acting **independently of the account administrator** to alter lists, then that would be significant. As Rob has stated, MailChimp did not do something

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

Jeff, Many thanks for the great job you are doing in representing OSGeo with selfless dedication and for sharing your vision with all of us. I wish you great fun and safe travel for representing OSGeo at the GISConf in Moscow [1] that is coming up this weekend. Best Venka [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

Hi Jody, On 2015/11/12 20:01, Jody Garnett wrote: I have gotten a number of private emails expressing concerns about LocationTech being involved in several of the foss4g bids. I guess I had the opposite concern last year when there was the joint OSGeo / LocationTech foss4gna conference. I was

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

Hi Jody, This is a new and important initative. So, let us wait till we finish a couple of online/offline meetings before we decide on the rules and first order business. I am sure, with the excellent members that have signed up, we will arrive at a good decision if we allow everyone a bit of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

Hi Jeff, We could send a request (if you have not done so already) to Dr. Kyoung-Soo Eom to join the committee too. This could speed-up collaboration UN-GGIM-Working-Group and OSGeo. Best Venka On 10/31/2015 4:58 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi everyone, At the last OSGeo board meeting we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

If bi-monthly would be too much of work, I would suggest quarterly reports for the OSGeo Committee Chairs with target committees as listed in [1] and not individual software PSC. Just a short report (half page) report on main activities and issues could suffice. Communicating with the membership

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

On 2015/10/16 2:14, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: My 0.01 cent, actually I don't think we have obtained permission to use it... as nobody own it. Looking at it the other way I think it could be said that the community owns it. my 0.01 yen ...OSGeo is the expression of FOSS4G, like the PSC of a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

I think the OSGeo-Live project that you are leading can be safely (re)-named as FOSS4G-Live as it has a wonderful array of software projects that are not under the OSGeo umbrella as yet. Venka On 2015/10/08 5:08, Cameron Shorter wrote: +1 for "OSGeo conference". Adding a perspective from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

Hi Andrea, Nice meeting you at FOSS4G-2015 at Seoul. Best Venka On 2015/10/10 0:11, Andrea Ross wrote: Dear Everyone, Please pardon me for those who already know this news. I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives since the early days (FWIW, I am a charter member

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Welcome to a new Europe Lab: Institut de recherche appliquée et développement de la HEIG-VD

Hi Sanghee, On 10/8/2015 5:46 PM, Sanghee Shin wrote: Hello Suchith, I couldn’t find Citizen Science thematic mailing list. Would you please check it out? https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-GeoCrowd It was not "citizenscience" but "GeoCrowd". Wiki page at [1] [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul presentation files are available now.

Sanghee, Thanks to you and your team for getting the presentation slides online. Would it be possible to have the keynote speeches online too? Best Venka On 2015/10/06 18:32, Sanghee Shin wrote: Dear All, FOSS4G Seoul team is very pleased to announce that FOSS4G Seoul presentation files

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoforall intro slides

Hi Anita, On 2015/10/07 6:38, Anita Graser wrote: Hi, Do we have any standard intro slides for geo4all? Planning to spread the word here in Vienna. http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2 Hope it is of use. Best Venka rote: Hi, Do we have any standard intro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

Dear All, Jeff has put all that has to be said in his e-mail below. Many thanks to our outgoing Board members for their valuable time and relentless efforts for the Foundation. Looking forward to working with the new board and members in keeping the OSGeo flag flying high. Best Venka On

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul is ALL OVER! Thank you so much!!

Hi Sanghee, Huge thanks to you and your team in putting up a wonderful event that was enjoyed by one and all. Great conference, great organization and we had a great time. Best regards, Venka On 2015/09/21 12:14, Sanghee Shin wrote: > Dear All, > > FOSS4G Seoul has been completed

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All BoF tomorrow! (16/09/2015)

Dear All, I would like to remind you all about the Geo4All BoF scheduled as blow Description: BOF for anyone interested to be a part of Geo4All Initiative When/Where: 16 September, 2015 Wednesday 12:20-13:20 Room 10, FOSS4G 2015 Venue Hope to see many of you at the meeting.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Dirk Frigne

On 2015/09/08 20:13, Oliver May wrote: I strongly support this nomination. Dirk is a real Open Source (Geo) advocate, his passion seems virtually limitless, furthermore he has the ability to pass his enthusiasm on to others. +1, Dirk has been with the community since the early days and his

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Charter Member elections results

On 2015/09/09 3:48, Jeff McKenna wrote: The full list of charter members has also been updated: http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/members/voting_members.html And a special thanks to Mike Adair, who has retired as a charter member. Thank you Mike for all these years giving to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Anita Graser

On 2015/09/09 11:55, Maria Brovelli wrote: I support Anita nomination. We need more ladies involved in the FOSS4G board! +1 for Anita's nomination to the OSGeo Board. She has made invaluable contributions for the community. Best Venka Cheers! Maria

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Charter Member elections results

Daer All, Congratulations and warm welcome to all the new Charter Members. Vasile, thanks for your hard work in seeing the elections through. Best Venka On 2015/09/08 6:12, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Dear members of the OSGeo community, After a period of week to vote, we close the elections

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Yuichiro Nishimura

On 8/31/2015 9:13 AM, haya...@apptec.co.jp wrote: +1 for Yuichiro Nishimura + 1 Venka Best regards, Hayashi (2015/08/31 4:42), Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Yuichiro Nishimura nomination by Yoichi Seino. Best regards, Vasile Forwarded Message Subject: Nomination

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Go Yonezawa

I would like to second the nomination of Go Yonezawa. Best Venka On 8/31/2015 4:40 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Go Yonezawa nomination by Daisuke Yoshida. Best regards, Vasile Forwarded Message Subject: the Charter Member 2015 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:13:54

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Kenya Tamura

+1 for Kenya Tamura's nomination. Venka On 8/31/2015 1:55 PM, Ko Nagase wrote: Dear list, I am not a charter member now, but I would like to second the nomination for Kenya Tamura. He is one of the most famous persons in "Education GIS" field in Japan and I think that his joining as a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Mayumi Kubo

On 8/30/2015 6:24 PM, Maria Brovelli wrote: +1! Maria +1 Venka See you at FOSS4G Seoul: http://2015.foss4g.org/ Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] About deadline for submission to Academic Track at FOSS4G Seoul 2015

to spread this information and look forward for excellent submissions, an exciting Academic Track and great FOSS4G-2015 event in Seoul. Best Venka [1] http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/academic-track/ -- Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan Osaka City University Chair, FOSS4G-2015 Academic Track Committee

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

On 2015/03/05 7:25, Vaclav Petras wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity to modify the

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