[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination for Michael Gerlek to OSGeo Board 2011
Thank you Aaron. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:18 PM, Aaron Racicot wrote: I would like to take this opportunity to nominate Michael Gerlek for the OSGeo Board. Michael (known to many as MPG) has been an active member of the OSGeo community from the very first planning meetings in 2006. He has been a Charter member of OSGeo since 2006 and has actively participated in many functions of OSGeo including leading the Visibility committee. Michael also co-founded CUGOS, the regional OSGeo chapter in the Pacific Northwest. He is actively involved in many open source GIS projects, and now dedicates himself to full time consulting work in the open source GIS space through his company Flaxen Geo Consulting. He has a long history in participating with the OGC and could bring unique experience in that arena to the board. Most importantly his participation in the OSGeo board would bring great industry insight, leadership experience, and a true dedication to furthering the OSGeo mission. I strongly encourage the OSGeo community to consider Michael as a valuable addition to the board and the OSGeo family. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mpg Thanks for your consideration. Aaron ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nominating Thierry Badard
Thank you Tyler. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:31 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: I nominate Thierry Badard to serve on the OSGeo Board of Directors. His involvement in OSGeo to date shows an encouraging commitment to advancing OSGeo's mission on many fronts. While primarily focused on the academic side through Laval University, he is also active with the OSGeo Francophone chapter and with several software projects (most notable GeoKettle). The combination of his global outlook, educational experience and, lately, with business exposure through his work with Spatialytics gives him a powerful perspective on bringing many groups of people together. I've met Thierry several times and had encouraging discussions about how to grow the organisation and continue supporting people and projects that are connecting through OSGeo. He also worked for IGN France, so has some inside understanding of a national mapping agency, which I believe, is an increasingly important part of OSGeo's user base. More from his Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thierrybadard Dr. Thierry Badard is professor in geoinformatics at the Department of geomatics sciences of Laval University in Quebec City (Canada). He heads the GeoSOA research group and is a full time researcher of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG). Former member of the steering committee of the CRG, he is also a regular researcher of the GEOIDE Network of Centres of Excellence in geomatics. He has more than 15 years of experience and he has been involved and has led national and international RD projects of importance. His research interest deals with geospatial (Web) Services Oriented Architectures (SOA), location-based and context-aware web services and apps, geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) and geo-analytical tools and the design of intelligent mobile applications for better decision support. He acts as a chair, editor and reviewer for numerous international journals and scientific conferences and has already an important record of scientific contributions. Dr. Th ierry Badard is also actively involved in the geospatial free and open source community. He is developer, administrator and project coordinator of the GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org), GeoMondrian (http://www.geo-mondrian.org), SOLAPLayers (http://www.solaplayers.org) and GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net), open source projects. He is an OSGeo charter member and acts as a member of the OSGeo conference committee and a reviewer for the OSGeo Journal. Till last year, he was in charge of the free software commission in the OSGeo Francophone local chapter. He is a founding co-chairs the OSGeo Quebec local chapter and a founding co-chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) commission on open source geospatial technologies (http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca). He has also recently co-founded Spatialytics, a new company specialised in open source GeoBI where he acts as CTO. For further details, please visit http://www.spatialytics.com and http:// geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nominating Mark Lucas
Thank you Tyler. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:43 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: I nominate Mark Lucas for the OSGeo Board of Directors. With over 25 years experience in the geospatial and remote sensing fields, he has lots to offer, especially his enthusiasm for OSGeo and helping teams work together. He works as Principal Scientist for http://www.radiantblue.com/ where OSSIM and open source geospatial are an increasingly important component. Mark is no stranger to both OSGeo and the Board, having helped found OSGeo at the first meeting and serving a term as a Director early in the life of the organisation. He oversees the OSSIM project and actively helps integrate open source within government. His perspective on gov't systems and open source adoption is the clearest pictures we can get. He has been crucial in writing reports and recommendations that have led to further adoption of open source within the U.S. defense and intelligence sector. His involvement in the geospatial business sphere provides good insight into where the industry is heading and how OSGeo can help encourage further uptake of our projects. I've spent enjoyable hours brainstorming with and working alongside Mark and think he is an excellent fit to help for another term on the Board. He also works with the Open Source Software Institute and more. I'm sure his skills at coordinating the launch of Titan rockets will help propel OSGeo f orward too! His profile on linkedin.com includes many telling recommendations, including Gary's encouraging comment about his previous term: Mark showed a capacity for collaboration and creating an environment for it with the founding of OSGeo that was crucial to getting the foundation running. He was one of the most active people involved, and without his positive energy we would not have accomplished as much as a team in creating that groundbreaking organization. His nomination from 2006 holds true today: http://www.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2006-March/000205.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination - Andrew Ross
Thank you Dave. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 11:02 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote: I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board. Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable technical and business skills which make him a great choice to become an OSGeo board member. His experience spans private, public, and academic organizations. He has been involved with OSGeo for five years, and has been a charter member of OSGeo for the past 3 years. In this time he has demonstrated considerable commitment to OSGeo, its projects, and organizations in the OSGeo ecosystem. This list represents some of Andrew's experience and qualifications and experience relevant to his nomination: - Founder of FOSSLC (http://fosslc.org) - a non-profit organization dedicated to education and business development with open source technologies - Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation - Ingres' Director of Engineering ( Geospatial Technology) - The development team at Ingres under his leadership contributed to OSGeo projects including GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, and others. - He arranged considerable financial support for OSGeo from Ingres, both direct (cash code contributions) and indirect (contracting people to make contributions to OSGeo projects). - Project founder, committer/architect for the open source video recording streaming suite called Freeseer - Organized multiple OSGeo related events including Geocamp 2008, Summercamp 2009, and a number of bootcamps. - Organized teams to record videos for past OSGeo events including FOSS4G2009, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, and more. - Mentor for dozens of programming interns as part of the Google Summer of Code, Talent First Network, UCOSP, and other student programs. - Teaching Programming using open source technologies at Carleton University since 2006 - 7 years experience as an architect and software developer at Nortel creating carrier grade products and services based on open source code - Very active member of the Ottawa OSGeo Chapter In addition to his considerable personal experience, Andrew's work with the Eclipse Foundation, FOSSLC, and other organizations provides access to an enormous amount of experience, specialized skills, and a wealth of contacts. His addition to the board would create even more opportunities for technology sharing/development and valuable business development. Thanks, Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination
Thank you Rafael. Nomination text updated at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 08:46 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote: I woul like to nominate Eduardo Patto Kanegae for the board for he is a power F4G user and advocate in Brazil since 2001. He had contributed with brazilian users with forum replies, weblog articles, MapServer/GIS trainings ( author of 'Introdução ao MapServer' MS4W package at http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html), translations and documentations such as ShapeLib Tools User Guide as well. Hi is currently preparing his new site/blog at www.webmapit.com http://www.webmapit.com. He would be a plus in the board, representing South American inspirations e expectations regarding F4G. Rafael Medeiros Sperb, Dr. *Laboratório de Computação Aplicada* Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar Universidade do Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI Rua Uruguai, 458, bloco 20, sala 215 Itajaí, SC - Brasil CEP 88302-202 (47) 3341-7960 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination -- Regina Obe
I nominate Regina Obe for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Regina is a member of the PostGIS steering Committee and has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2009. Regina has a particular strength that is very rare in the Open Source world and that is her dedication to making open source software and programming accessible to the often non-technical savvy GIS user. Regina (along with her husband Leo) have maintained the BostonGIS blog and the Postgres Online Journal for many years providing quick and understandable tutorials, guides, and cheat sheets for various projects with a particular focus on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, much of this has culminated in the recent publication of *Postgis in Action.* While Regina has a very strong technical background, I believe that Regina could help drive a focus on the usability and accessibility of OSGeo projects. Cheers, David -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS Web UI
Hi all, Here is GRASS GIS Web UI connected with OpenLayers widget http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/lsi/wgrass The app is under development and is released for initial testing. For testing purpose we fix a lat/lont location and concentrate on vector data Location Info: extent -180,-90,180,90 mapset PERMANENT you can import any grass vector data using v.in.ogr and display it in OL using d.vect For Listed GRASS modules: 1. Type on search box on top for list and select a module and hit enter or click search 2. you will get a menuForm of the selected GRASS module. 3. Fill all the attributes and click run to execute the grass module. You can also run any grass command v.* or r.* using this webUI which is unlisted please test it Any comments, suggestions, BUGS are always welcomed.. -- Thanks Regards Rashad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination -- Regina Obe
Thank you David. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 10:29 AM, David William Bitner wrote: I nominate Regina Obe for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Regina is a member of the PostGIS steering Committee and has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2009. Regina has a particular strength that is very rare in the Open Source world and that is her dedication to making open source software and programming accessible to the often non-technical savvy GIS user. Regina (along with her husband Leo) have maintained the BostonGIS blog and the Postgres Online Journal for many years providing quick and understandable tutorials, guides, and cheat sheets for various projects with a particular focus on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, much of this has culminated in the recent publication of /Postgis in Action./ While Regina has a very strong technical background, I believe that Regina could help drive a focus on the usability and accessibility of OSGeo projects. Cheers, David -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination: David Bitner
Thank you Perry. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 02:30 PM, Perry Nacionales wrote: David has been an active part of the Open Source Geospatial community for many years since helping to plan the 2005 MapServer Users meeting and helping to start the Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group (Now Twin Cities, MN OSGeo local chapter). David has been an active user and has helped to support the MapServer, PostGIS, OpenLayers, and GeoExt projects. David brings additional Board experience through serving on the Board of Directors of the Sahana Software Foundation which supports software (much of which leverages OSGeo software) used in emergency management and response. -Perry Nacionales pnaci...@gmail.com mailto:pnaci...@gmail.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination
Thanks Rafael and Daniel, I've added more details at my nomination section http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011#Eduardo_Kanegae Eduardo Patto Kanegae http://www.webmapit.com.br On 08/05/2011 10:11 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Thank you Rafael. Nomination text updated at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 08:46 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote: I woul like to nominate Eduardo Patto Kanegae for the board for he is a power F4G user and advocate in Brazil since 2001. He had contributed with brazilian users with forum replies, weblog articles, MapServer/GIS trainings ( author of 'Introduo ao MapServer' MS4W package at http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html), translations and documentations such as ShapeLib Tools User Guide as well. Hi is currently preparing his new site/blog at www.webmapit.com http://www.webmapit.com. He would be a plus in the board, representing South American inspirations e expectations regarding F4G. Rafael Medeiros Sperb, Dr. *Laboratrio de Computao Aplicada* Centro de Cincias Tecnolgicas da Terra e do Mar Universidade do Vale do Itaja - UNIVALI Rua Uruguai, 458, bloco 20, sala 215 Itaja, SC - Brasil CEP 88302-202 (47) 3341-7960 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination
ops. sorry the html mail. sending again On 08/05/2011 05:04 PM, Eduardo Kanegae wrote: Thanks Rafael and Daniel, I've added more details at my nomination section http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011#Eduardo_Kanegae *Eduardo Patto Kanegae* http://www.webmapit.com.br On 08/05/2011 10:11 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Thank you Rafael. Nomination text updated at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 08:46 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote: I woul like to nominate Eduardo Patto Kanegae for the board for he is a power F4G user and advocate in Brazil since 2001. He had contributed with brazilian users with forum replies, weblog articles, MapServer/GIS trainings ( author of 'Introdução ao MapServer' MS4W package at http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html), translations and documentations such as ShapeLib Tools User Guide as well. Hi is currently preparing his new site/blog at www.webmapit.com http://www.webmapit.com. He would be a plus in the board, representing South American inspirations e expectations regarding F4G. Rafael Medeiros Sperb, Dr. *Laboratório de Computação Aplicada* Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar Universidade do Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI Rua Uruguai, 458, bloco 20, sala 215 Itajaí, SC - Brasil CEP 88302-202 (47) 3341-7960 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination - Gérald Fenoy
I am pleased to nominate Gérald Fenoy for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Many of you will recognize Gérald in his ZOO-Project t-shirts at past FOSS4G events. He is a passionate person, and he gives his heart and soul to every project that he works on. Gérald was the initial contributor to the ZOO-Project (http://www.zoo-project.org) Open Source project, a popular WPS platform. Living in southern France, he is also active in several other local Open Source projects including PostGIS (he is the maintainer of the PostGIS.fr website http://www.postgis.fr/). Gérald is also a long-time MapServer user, and leverages MapServer (http://www.mapserver.org) in each and every project that he delivers. Throughout the years he has submitted several patches directly to the MapServer source code. A frequent traveler, Gérald is also very active in OSGeo communities all around the world, including OSGeo-Senegal (Africa), OSGeo-Japan, OSGeo-Vietnam, and OSGeo-China. Gérald frequently funds many OSGeo developers to add enhancements to their software for his projects (which often include committed enhancements to the GDAL and MapServer projects). He is a very active businessman for his company GeoLabs (http://geolabs.fr/) and he is very willing to help Open Source projects grow. Most importantly, Gérald is very accessible, and lives in IRC chat as the djay username. He is always quick to respond (and you can always know that his cigarette is hanging from his lips as he thinks of a response to your challenging question). Another important point is that he is very professional, always listening to feedback no matter if it is positive or negative, and then making appropriate changes. I feel that Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He brings a wealth of experience from the private sector that is always useful on any Board of Directors. In my recent talks with him he is very honored that I am nominating him for this position. It is my honor to do this for him. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay -- Jeff McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination - Gérald Fenoy
Thank you Jeff. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 04:50 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: I am pleased to nominate Gérald Fenoy for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Many of you will recognize Gérald in his ZOO-Project t-shirts at past FOSS4G events. He is a passionate person, and he gives his heart and soul to every project that he works on. Gérald was the initial contributor to the ZOO-Project (http://www.zoo-project.org) Open Source project, a popular WPS platform. Living in southern France, he is also active in several other local Open Source projects including PostGIS (he is the maintainer of the PostGIS.fr website http://www.postgis.fr/). Gérald is also a long-time MapServer user, and leverages MapServer (http://www.mapserver.org) in each and every project that he delivers. Throughout the years he has submitted several patches directly to the MapServer source code. A frequent traveler, Gérald is also very active in OSGeo communities all around the world, including OSGeo-Senegal (Africa), OSGeo-Japan, OSGeo-Vietnam, and OSGeo-China. Gérald frequently funds many OSGeo developers to add enhancements to their software for his projects (which often include committed enhancements to the GDAL and MapServer projects). He is a very active businessman for his company GeoLabs (http://geolabs.fr/) and he is very willing to help Open Source projects grow. Most importantly, Gérald is very accessible, and lives in IRC chat as the djay username. He is always quick to respond (and you can always know that his cigarette is hanging from his lips as he thinks of a response to your challenging question). Another important point is that he is very professional, always listening to feedback no matter if it is positive or negative, and then making appropriate changes. I feel that Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He brings a wealth of experience from the private sector that is always useful on any Board of Directors. In my recent talks with him he is very honored that I am nominating him for this position. It is my honor to do this for him. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay -- Jeff McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: 2 days left for board election nominations
OSGeo Members, Thank you all for the impressive line up of candidates for the OSGeo Board Election 2011 so far. It is great to see the interest and the tough choices that will have to be made. This is a reminder that you still have 2 days left to submit nominations, until 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 7th . Please submit your nominations consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. More details on the election process at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election A note to all nominees: start thinking of a little speech... on Monday you will be invited to write up a few lines (on this list and to be appended to your nomination text) to let other members know how you plan to contribute to the board and to OSGeo, and why charter members should vote for you. Have a great weekend Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms? * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org). * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a success? * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before? * Etc... I'm sure others have good questions too, but thought I'd share the ones on my mind based on my experience working alongside the board. Any thoughts? Tyler___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for OSGeo Board of Directors: Jeff McKenna
Thank you very much for this nomination Mike, I really appreciate these kind words. I would be honored to represent all OSGeo members on the Board of Directors, for 2011 to 2013. Indeed this is a great time to look back on my term on the Board from 2009 until now. I was thinking back to then, when I came across my nomination for the Board in 2009 (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2009#Jeff_McKenna). Thank you to Julien-Samuel Lacroix for helping me to represent OSGeo these past years on the Board. And what a great few years.: - I was very active in FOSS4G Sydney, Barcelona, and now Denver. - I traveled to OSGeo-Japan many times (enough that my usual order at a local restaurant is now a special listed on its menu as the Jeff Set) - I traveled to other local chapters like OSGeo-Vietnam and OSGeo-China - I worked with other OSGeo Board members living in countries like India, Germany, United States, Italy, and across Canada. I have always chosen to focus on the annual FOSS4G event, and I will continue to do so. One of my proudest achievements is bringing FOSS4G to communities around the world, including Cape Town, South Africa in 2008. I put my heart and soul into these events, and have done so since 2004. You will never see me as the visible face of these events, but scratch the surface and you'll find my comments, my recommendations, my guidance. As the chair of the OSGeo Conference Committee sometimes I am in a very hard position, being the messenger for wonderful hosting bids that are turned down that year (think of the Netherlands bid for 2010, or the Brazil bid for 2008). I enjoy working with and meeting all of these great OSGeo community people, and I appreciate each and every experience. But as you know times are changing: the OSGeo Foundation in 2006 is much different than the OSGeo Foundation in 2012. Revenues are scarce, everyone is much busier, Open Source is being used by anyone and everyone, and the calendar seems to move faster and faster. I feel we're now in a critical time for OSGeo. For those reasons the new Board of OSGeo will play an important role in how the Open Source geospatial industry moves forward in the coming years. Any why wouldn't I want to be a part of that on the OSGeo Board?! I would love to continue to do so. So my friends, as Lorenzo Becchi would say, a big hug. Thank you for your consideration. -jeff On 11-08-04 4:17 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote: I would like to nominate Jeff McKenna to the OSGeo Board of Directors. Jeff has been an OSGeo Board member, a founding member of OSGeo, OSGeo Conference Committee chair, MapServer PSC member, FOSS4g Workshop Committee member and founding co-chair of the OSGeo Ottawa chapter. Jeff is very active in the MapServer, GDAL, FOSS4G, and OSGeo communities. He is responsible for running the ever popular WMS Benchmarking effort. Jeff is a tireless advocate for open source, open collaboration and is a big (ha!) welcoming presences in the OSGeo community for many first-timers. Jeff is responsible for the very popular MS4W Mapserver distribution, which is a mainstay for windows users of MapServer. Jeff is a graduate of the prestigious COGS (http://www.cogs.ns.ca/) and is the president of Gateway Geomatics. He has worked extensively with many international OSGeo chapters over the years. And he is a damn nice guy. Mike --- Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
hi Tyler, Despite some thoughts below might not be new in north hemisphere, there goes my Latin American user vision: #OSGeo is already inside the minds of power GIS users and GIS developers, we already know like things work and how/what to be done to work. Now maybe is the time to make OSGeo more visible and understood by users ##ok, it's a long process but it has to begin. eg.: general population already knows that oh Linux? yes, I got. It's free of charge right? and some commercial users, after 2008 economical crisis plus web2/social networking boom, already got that it's not just a matter of cost, but also because free/opensource tool will not make a big change of architecture, basic concepts/structures without talking to users ( eg.: MapServer mapfile programming structure is almost the same since it was born, but in some commercial tools things may change a lot in minor/major releases) ##these same end-users ( including independent workers, commercial users) must to see that F4G platform can help SERVICES market: helping to cut costs on software acquisition ( smaller total project/service costs) and making service providers FREE from this or that software supplier ( and to help services market is help on job opportunities too... a cool social role of foss and foundations) ##and maybe one way to help on that is to make more SOLUTION cases visible. First step is to prove that existing foss technology works and this is done. The step to enforce is to 'sell the fish' that integration with commercial solutions is possible and support on foss communities can even be better/faster than commercial support centers. ##certification and stamp matters: for corporate communities/users is important to ensure that this or that software/solution have an OSGeo certified stamp. There are a lot of users that do not need more than one or two softwares. And most of them is always looking for work with only one, if possible. So, if the second tool the user will look for also has the osgeo stamp, user may feel better with that. In this sense, a certification program (eg. Linux LPI) for professional geo users is a plus too. ##interoperation: another oportunity maybe could be to insert OSGeo stamp/talks on other kind of events - not only on GIS events but also on business events ( logistics, environmental, agriculture, forestry, mining, etc) with less tech language and more 'executive' presentations ##inside corporate world, acronym like GeoBI, GeoETL, GeoEAI or GeoCRM can take attention of sponsors ( managers, directors). And this will also help on base techs projects advertising. ##OSGeo partnering with academia projects ( RD) and private/publich companies will always be welcome too. #for the power user who follow planet OSGeo is not hard to get the 1st contact with a new released tool. But, for the newcomers, a simple setup can take a month or months. How to help on that? More docs ( 'for dummy' guides, quick ref cards, process oriented manuals and not only function guide/reference guide) and tutorials and this include local references. ##and for translation tasks, I believe it's not only to do the translation. But to adapt texts, images, data and senses can be a plus on users influence ##tools such as surveys (online, magazines, collected on events) could help to map local gap's and user desire/needs #communication: I think local committees/communities should always be in talk to international foundation goals and tasks and vice-versa. Parallel initiatives such as local groups must be inserted/combined on OSGeo projects/tasks - we should sum efforts and not divide. So, it's important to highlight the benefits on working together OSGeo to these parallel heads. Ten or fifteen years ago I saw a lot of projects and services to be killed because the lack of free options or free cases. Now, we have a lot of options to replace or interoperate with. We need more visibility, more users enabled to call the attention of other users. best Eduardo Patto Kanegae http://www.webmapit.com 2011/8/5 Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org: With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms? * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org). * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a success? * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before? * Etc... I'm sure others have good questions too, but thought I'd share the ones on my mind based on my experience working alongside the board. Any thoughts? Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North America, so they are very thought provoking for me. Tyler - Original message - hi Tyler, Despite some thoughts below might not be new in north hemisphere, there goes my Latin American user vision: #OSGeo is already inside the minds of power GIS users and GIS developers, we already know like things work and how/what to be done to work. Now maybe is the time to make OSGeo more visible and understood by users ##ok, it's a long process but it has to begin. eg.: general population already knows that oh Linux? yes, I got. It's free of charge right? and some commercial users, after 2008 economical crisis plus web2/social networking boom, already got that it's not just a matter of cost, but also because free/opensource tool will not make a big change of architecture, basic concepts/structures without talking to users ( eg.: MapServer mapfile programming structure is almost the same since it was born, but in some commercial tools things may change a lot in minor/major releases) ##these same end-users ( including independent workers, commercial users) must to see that F4G platform can help SERVICES market: helping to cut costs on software acquisition ( smaller total project/service costs) and making service providers FREE from this or that software supplier ( and to help services market is help on job opportunities too... a cool social role of foss and foundations) ##and maybe one way to help on that is to make more SOLUTION cases visible. First step is to prove that existing foss technology works and this is done. The step to enforce is to 'sell the fish' that integration with commercial solutions is possible and support on foss communities can even be better/faster than commercial support centers. ##certification and stamp matters: for corporate communities/users is important to ensure that this or that software/solution have an OSGeo certified stamp. There are a lot of users that do not need more than one or two softwares. And most of them is always looking for work with only one, if possible. So, if the second tool the user will look for also has the osgeo stamp, user may feel better with that. In this sense, a certification program (eg. Linux LPI) for professional geo users is a plus too. ##interoperation: another oportunity maybe could be to insert OSGeo stamp/talks on other kind of events - not only on GIS events but also on business events ( logistics, environmental, agriculture, forestry, mining, etc) with less tech language and more 'executive' presentations ##inside corporate world, acronym like GeoBI, GeoETL, GeoEAI or GeoCRM can take attention of sponsors ( managers, directors). And this will also help on base techs projects advertising. ##OSGeo partnering with academia projects ( RD) and private/publich companies will always be welcome too. #for the power user who follow planet OSGeo is not hard to get the 1st contact with a new released tool. But, for the newcomers, a simple setup can take a month or months. How to help on that? More docs ( 'for dummy' guides, quick ref cards, process oriented manuals and not only function guide/reference guide) and tutorials and this include local references. ##and for translation tasks, I believe it's not only to do the translation. But to adapt texts, images, data and senses can be a plus on users influence ##tools such as surveys (online, magazines, collected on events) could help to map local gap's and user desire/needs #communication: I think local committees/communities should always be in talk to international foundation goals and tasks and vice-versa. Parallel initiatives such as local groups must be inserted/combined on OSGeo projects/tasks - we should sum efforts and not divide. So, it's important to highlight the benefits on working together OSGeo to these parallel heads. Ten or fifteen years ago I saw a lot of projects and services to be killed because the lack of free options or free cases. Now, we have a lot of options to replace or interoperate with. We need more visibility, more users enabled to call the attention of other users. best Eduardo Patto Kanegae http://www.webmapit.com 2011/8/5 Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org: With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms? * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org). * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a success? * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before? * Etc... I'm
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination - Andrew Ross
Thank you for the nomination Dave. I'm a simply guy. Top of my mind is working smart and working hard on creating financial prosperity for OSGeo and its ecosystem. With prosperity, much goodness such as great events, great technology development, thriving camaraderie and more is enhanced. Without it things become very hard and may not last. Thank you in advance for those considering voting for me. Andrew On 4 August 2011 23:02, Dave McIlhagga dmcilha...@dmsolutions.ca wrote: I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board. Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable technical and business skills which make him a great choice to become an OSGeo board member. His experience spans private, public, and academic organizations. He has been involved with OSGeo for five years, and has been a charter member of OSGeo for the past 3 years. In this time he has demonstrated considerable commitment to OSGeo, its projects, and organizations in the OSGeo ecosystem. This list represents some of Andrew's experience and qualifications and experience relevant to his nomination: - Founder of FOSSLC (http://fosslc.org) - a non-profit organization dedicated to education and business development with open source technologies - Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation - Ingres' Director of Engineering ( Geospatial Technology) - The development team at Ingres under his leadership contributed to OSGeo projects including GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, and others. - He arranged considerable financial support for OSGeo from Ingres, both direct (cash code contributions) and indirect (contracting people to make contributions to OSGeo projects). - Project founder, committer/architect for the open source video recording streaming suite called Freeseer - Organized multiple OSGeo related events including Geocamp 2008, Summercamp 2009, and a number of bootcamps. - Organized teams to record videos for past OSGeo events including FOSS4G2009, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, and more. - Mentor for dozens of programming interns as part of the Google Summer of Code, Talent First Network, UCOSP, and other student programs. - Teaching Programming using open source technologies at Carleton University since 2006 - 7 years experience as an architect and software developer at Nortel creating carrier grade products and services based on open source code - Very active member of the Ottawa OSGeo Chapter In addition to his considerable personal experience, Andrew's work with the Eclipse Foundation, FOSSLC, and other organizations provides access to an enormous amount of experience, specialized skills, and a wealth of contacts. His addition to the board would create even more opportunities for technology sharing/development and valuable business development. Thanks, Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
