Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Razy, I am not aware of one in NYC, but I would suggest you see if there is some social opportunity to hang out with the folks from OpenGeo or at least ask them if there are good local meetup opportunities in the geo space. There is a fairly quiet group in Boston and some interested folks in the

RE: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa) Thanks Frank, I appreciate the response, looking at the list I would be interest in the Education Committee, I'll join their mailing list first and get familiar

Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Razy Kased
Thanks Frank, I appreciate the response, looking at the list I would be interest in the Education Committee, I'll join their mailing list first and get familiar with their network. Also, I was looking at the local chapters, I'm in the United States in New York, is their no local chapter here? Jus

Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Razy, I also meant to emphasize that the local chapters are also always looking for keen volunteers to give presentations, organize events and lead/support local initiatives of various sorts. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters Best regards, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Frank Warme

Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Frank Warmerdam
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Razy Kased wrote: > Where can I learn more about each of the committees or other ways to > participate? Razy, There is a list of committees in the second box on the wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page * Board of Directors * Conference Committe

Re: Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Razy Kased
Where can I learn more about each of the committees or other ways to participate? Thanks, Razy On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17.11.2011 03:54, Daniel Morissette wrote: > > On 11-11-16 09:36 PM, Helena Mitasov

Participation in OSGeo (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa)

2011-11-17 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.11.2011 03:54, Daniel Morissette wrote: > On 11-11-16 09:36 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote: >> I would like to express my support for Martin's nomination. > [...] >> ... so he would be great to have on >> the conference and education committees. >> >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 11-11-16 09:36 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote: I would like to express my support for Martin's nomination. [...] ... so he would be great to have on the conference and education committees. Nothing against Martin's nomination, but I wanted to point out the fact that it is not a requirement t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa

2011-11-16 Thread Helena Mitasova
I would like to express my support for Martin's nomination. He is currently the most active developer of GRASS GIS, not only leading the development and contributing the code but also working with students at the university and as mentor for GSoC. He has done fantastic work with organizing local

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa

2011-11-15 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14.11.2011 18:35, Anne Ghisla wrote: > Dear all, > > I have the pleasure to nominate Martin Landa [0] for OSGeo charter > membership. > > Martin is a PhD student at Czech Technical University in Prague, > Faculty of Civil Engineering, study progra

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination: Martin Landa

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Ghisla
Dear all, I have the pleasure to nominate Martin Landa [0] for OSGeo charter membership. Martin is a PhD student at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, study program Geodesy and Cartography, and he also teaches open source GIS and programming. He's well known for h