I fully agree Anne, that it is always important to recognize other
contributions than just code. As I explained in my recent FOSS4G-Europe
keynote (and this was surprising to a lot of people they told me), the
current OSGeo President fits exactly into those 'other contributions
than code' realm. In fact I'd argue that there is no 'community' at all
for a project without those contributions - documenting, testing,
answering questions, asking questions, translating, packaging, giving
workshops...in general, 'educating' the others about the project. Very
very important! :) So yes, no shift needed really anymore, OSGeo
appreciates all and any contributions :)
-jeff
On 2014-08-01 12:23 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote:
I fully agree with Suchith on the importance of education, and am very
glad to see many nominations of ICA-OSGeo Labs' members.
I find that having many Charter members from the education domain means
that OSGeo is ready to recognise other contributions than code. This
makes me think of what Debian recently did:
https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019
Debian is maybe by design more code-oriented than OSGeo - anyway, I
like our common shift to recognise more kinds of contribution as
equally important.
Anne
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:00:26 +0100
Suchith Anand <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to second Ionuț Iosifescu's nomination. Ionut's has been
activily contributing to OSGeo's education and research by setting up
the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich and promoting
OSGeo education efforts in Europe.
We need more educators and academics like Ionut as charter members of
OSGeo. Though they might be not be very visible , they provide the
greatest service for our community through their dedication and
efforts in educating the new generation with the FOSS4G knowledge and
to take us to new heights for the future with their long term focus
in education.
I had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with Ionut in ICC
2013 in Dresden and earlier this year at GWF 2014 in Geneva and I
have been impressed with his work and contributions to our education
efforts. I believe Ionut will be a valuable OSGeo charter member.
Suchith
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț
Iosifescu
Forwarding Ionut Iosifescu nomination by Vasile
Cheers
Jorge
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vasile Craciunescu
Date: 2014-07-30 20:28 GMT+02:00
Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Ionuț Iosifescu
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <[email protected]>
Cc: Ionuț Iosifescu
I'd like to nominate Ionuț Iosifescu[1] for charter membership in
OSGeo. Ionuț is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cartography
and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich - Switzerland and an active advocate
of FOSS4G for many years. He contributed to projects like QGIS and
QGIS MapServer. I would also like to remember that he did some
important scientific contributions in the field of Cartographic Web
Services [2] and FOSS4G promotion for education and research by
setting up the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich[3]
(part of ICA-OSGeo network).
Best,
Vasile
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ionut
[2] http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:4541/eth-4541-02.pdf
[3] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
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