Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 2013-09-22 00:35, Tamas Szekeres wrote: And so on (anyone is welcomed to add further experiences or ideas) Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board, could this be a special OSGeo committee? Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
2013/9/22 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board, could this be a special OSGeo committee? I'd suggest Mateusz an Jeff should also be invited (if they have time). Any other who is involved in packaging Windows stuff, please feel free to check in as well. Best regards, Tamas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 13-09-22 3:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board, could this be a special OSGeo committee? Thanks. Personally I'd treat OSGeo4W as a software project, with a PSC, committers, etc. We should do the same with OSGeo-Live actually, take it out of the Marketing committee and treat it as a sofware project which is what it si really is. Then projects (OSGeo4W and OSGeo-Live) can apply for incubation when they are resdy, etc. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for All education mission is now launched
Dear All, FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations., 833 delegates ) thanks to the countless hours of efforts put in by our dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy, Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark, Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only made FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/ a great success but also has given firm foundation for the Geo for All Education initiative . We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham. Thanks to the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds of volunteers worldwide that help make this excellent resource possible for the benefit of the wider community . Details at http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html Having free and open GI software is key for making possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education (without the need for high cost proprietary GI software ) and OSGeo Live is cen tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will now with full dedication and focus will carry on the Geo for All initiative to all across the world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education. By 2015, we will have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs established in universities in Africa alone and they will all be teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting work on Train the Trainer GIS program for school teachers all over the world. We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at ETH Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich is part is part of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, chair of Cartography . Details at http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by Professor Eduard Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic cartography. It is therefore the oldest university institute in cartography world-wide. In 2011, with the establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the scope of activities of the institute was expanded and its name was adapted. In cartography, the institute strives to maintain its leading position in topographic cartography (relief representation), thematic cartography, and atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases) by exploiting and further developing cartographic knowledge and adapting it to new interactive technologies and application domains. Geoinformation Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling, and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing the number and qua lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich OSGL is focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial Research. The lab website at http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new applications from universities in this week alone for establishing research labs, so we are well in track to keep bringing investment for staff and infrastructure to establish over 100 research labs in universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the time of the next FOSS4G conference ). We will be now working to setup a brand new website for our rapidly expanding education initiative and take this to the next level. Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013 a great success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able to make this possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept their pledges at FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/ Best wishes, Suchith (on behalf of Geo for All Team of FOSS4G 2013 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All education mission is now launched
Dear All, Glad to learn the great progress from FOSS4G 2013. It's pity that I couldn't attend due to other commitments in Malaysia. Just for your information, I will be presenting OSGEOLive and ICA-OSGEO lab network at Asian Geospatial Forum this Friday. Hope to raise more awareness and interest to join our lab networks from Asian region. Anne, Suchith, Venka, Maning and other OSGEO players in Asia, please work together to grow the network in this region. Cheers, Thuy -- Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu, MIEEE Associate Professor Open-Source Geospatial Research Lab School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus Course Director for MSc Geospatial Science for Development Management On 9/23/13 6:37 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations., 833 delegates ) thanks to the countless hours of efforts put in by our dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy, Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark, Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only made FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/ a great success but also has given firm foundation for the Geo for All Education initiative . We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham. Thanks to the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds of volunteers worldwide that help make this excellent resource possible for the benefit of the wider community . Details at http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html Having free and open GI software is key for making possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education (without the need for high cost proprietary GI software ) and OSGeo Live is cen tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will now with full dedication and focus will carry on the Geo for All initiative to all across the world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education. By 2015, we will have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs established in universities in Africa alone and they will all be teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting work on Train the Trainer GIS program for school teachers all over the world. We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at ETH Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich is part is part of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, chair of Cartography . Details at http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by Professor Eduard Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic cartography. It is therefore the oldest university institute in cartography world-wide. In 2011, with the establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the scope of activities of the institute was expanded and its name was adapted. In cartography, the institute strives to maintain its leading position in topographic cartography (relief representation), thematic cartography, and atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases) by exploiting and further developing cartographic knowledge and adapting it to new interactive technologies and application domains. Geoinformation Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling, and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing the number and qua lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich OSGL is focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial Research. The lab website at http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new applications from universities in this week alone for establishing research labs, so we are well in track to keep bringing investment for staff and infrastructure to establish over 100 research labs in universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the time of the next FOSS4G conference ). We will be now working to setup a brand new website for our rapidly expanding education initiative and take this to the next level. Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013 a great success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able to make this possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept their pledges at FOSS4G 2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/ Best wishes, Suchith (on behalf of Geo for All Team of FOSS4G 2013 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the
