Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova
+1 for Anna and Václav! -Vasile On 7/31/14, 8:21 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Anna Petrášová nomination by Martin Landa Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Landa Date: 2014-07-30 20:16 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Anna Petrasova To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Anna Petrášová Hi, it is my pleasure to nominate Anna Petrasova [1] for OSGeo Charter membership. Anna started to actively contribute to the GRASS project during her studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I met her as the lecturer. She quickly joined the GRASS development team and became a core developer with excellent results. She also participated in Google Summer of Code project, in years 2014 and 2011. Currently she is studying for her PhD at NCSU under supervision of Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from her being a future charter member. Martin [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/anna-petrasova/ [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675371 -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa -- - Vasile Crăciunescu geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge geoData http://www.geo-spatial.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. Cheers Jorge Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris Fecha: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:35:11 +0200 (CEST) De: Dimitris Kotzinos Para: c...@osgeo.org OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org CC: js...@osgeo.org, Nick Ves Dear CRO and all, we would like to nominate Dr. Nikos Alexandris for becoming an OSGEO Charter Member. Nikos has been a long advocate of Open Source GIS and OSGEO [1] and has been one very active person in supporting both since 2007 (and we know him since). He actually sees OSGEO as the means to actively cultivating a technologically advanced and socially aware geospatial way of thinking and acting. He has been actively involved in pushing Open Source GIS and OSGEO in both academic and industry-oriented settings and his passion has taken him recently from Greece up to India (TERI and Kurukshetra Universities) in order to promote specifically GRASS-GIS. He has participated in community sprints for GRASS-GIS, in the translation of the OSGEO web site to Greek and has been very active in the OSGEO Greek Chapter and the Greek Open Source community in general, especially by having participated in numerous events in Greece about Open Source in general and Open Source GIS specifically and has been interviewed about this for magazines. You can find more about Nikos at [2]. We think that Nikos gathers all the required qualities specified in the OSGEO nomination pages for a charter member. Dimitris, as the founder of the Greek OSGEO Chapter, considers Nikos a valuable member of the OSGEO Greek Chapter and OSGEO in general and as OSGEO Charter Members we both think that Nikos' passion and dynamism will bring a lot of energy to OSGEO and that he carries all the necessary qualities to serve OSGEO from many different positions. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris [2] http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress/cv/ Best regards, Nikos Ves Dimitris Kotzinos OSGEO Charter Members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova
+1 for both!! :-) On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote: +1 for Anna and Václav! -Vasile On 7/31/14, 8:21 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Anna Petrášová nomination by Martin Landa Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Landa Date: 2014-07-30 20:16 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Anna Petrasova To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Anna Petrášová Hi, it is my pleasure to nominate Anna Petrasova [1] for OSGeo Charter membership. Anna started to actively contribute to the GRASS project during her studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I met her as the lecturer. She quickly joined the GRASS development team and became a core developer with excellent results. She also participated in Google Summer of Code project, in years 2014 and 2011. Currently she is studying for her PhD at NCSU under supervision of Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from her being a future charter member. Martin [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/anna-petrasova/ [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675371 -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa -- - Vasile Crăciunescu geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge geoData http://www.geo-spatial.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
I second this nomination! On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. Cheers Jorge Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris Fecha: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:35:11 +0200 (CEST) De: Dimitris Kotzinos Para: c...@osgeo.org OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org CC: js...@osgeo.org, Nick Ves Dear CRO and all, we would like to nominate Dr. Nikos Alexandris for becoming an OSGEO Charter Member. Nikos has been a long advocate of Open Source GIS and OSGEO [1] and has been one very active person in supporting both since 2007 (and we know him since). He actually sees OSGEO as the means to actively cultivating a technologically advanced and socially aware geospatial way of thinking and acting. He has been actively involved in pushing Open Source GIS and OSGEO in both academic and industry-oriented settings and his passion has taken him recently from Greece up to India (TERI and Kurukshetra Universities) in order to promote specifically GRASS-GIS. He has participated in community sprints for GRASS-GIS, in the translation of the OSGEO web site to Greek and has been very active in the OSGEO Greek Chapter and the Greek Open Source community in general, especially by having participated in numerous events in Greece about Open Source in general and Open Source GIS specifically and has been interviewed about this for magazines. You can find more about Nikos at [2]. We think that Nikos gathers all the required qualities specified in the OSGEO nomination pages for a charter member. Dimitris, as the founder of the Greek OSGEO Chapter, considers Nikos a valuable member of the OSGEO Greek Chapter and OSGEO in general and as OSGEO Charter Members we both think that Nikos' passion and dynamism will bring a lot of energy to OSGEO and that he carries all the necessary qualities to serve OSGEO from many different positions. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris [2] http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress/cv/ Best regards, Nikos Ves Dimitris Kotzinos OSGEO Charter Members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Milan Antonovic
I also strongly support Milan's nomination. Best, Nick 2014-07-23 18:09 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org: 2014-07-23 11:48 GMT+02:00 Ing. Milan P. Antonovic milan.antono...@supsi.ch: Hi Jorge, Hi all, Thank you for nominating me.. I would be very happy and honored to became a OSGeo Charter Member. So please add me to the nominators list. Best regards - Milan Antonovic Excellent Milan, thanks for accepting. I've added you to the nominators page. Cheers -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova
Hi, I second the nomination of Anna who contributed so much great source code to OSGeo (http://bit.ly/1pL2Fay). More exiting stuff to come in the current Google Summer of Code. Some of you may have met here in one of the various code sprints, solving so many bugs almost instantly. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
i second this. +1 Marco Lechner FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo D-A-CH Am 01.08.2014 um 09:34 schrieb Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. Cheers Jorge Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris Fecha: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:35:11 +0200 (CEST) De: Dimitris Kotzinos Para: c...@osgeo.org OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org CC: js...@osgeo.org, Nick Ves Dear CRO and all, we would like to nominate Dr. Nikos Alexandris for becoming an OSGEO Charter Member. Nikos has been a long advocate of Open Source GIS and OSGEO [1] and has been one very active person in supporting both since 2007 (and we know him since). He actually sees OSGEO as the means to actively cultivating a technologically advanced and socially aware geospatial way of thinking and acting. He has been actively involved in pushing Open Source GIS and OSGEO in both academic and industry-oriented settings and his passion has taken him recently from Greece up to India (TERI and Kurukshetra Universities) in order to promote specifically GRASS-GIS. He has participated in community sprints for GRASS-GIS, in the translation of the OSGEO web site to Greek and has been very active in the OSGEO Greek Chapter and the Greek Open Source community in general, especially by having participated in numerous events in Greece about Open Source in general and Open Source GIS specifically and has been interviewed about this for magazines. You can find more about Nikos at [2]. We think that Nikos gathers all the required qualities specified in the OSGEO nomination pages for a charter member. Dimitris, as the founder of the Greek OSGEO Chapter, considers Nikos a valuable member of the OSGEO Greek Chapter and OSGEO in general and as OSGEO Charter Members we both think that Nikos' passion and dynamism will bring a lot of energy to OSGEO and that he carries all the necessary qualities to serve OSGEO from many different positions. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris [2] http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress/cv/ Best regards, Nikos Ves Dimitris Kotzinos OSGEO Charter Members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- + Verpasst? FOSSGIS 2014, Die Konferenz für Open Source GIS mit OpenData und OpenStreetMap! Alle Vorträge nachschauen: http://www.youtube.com/fossgis + FOSSGIS e.V. die unabhängige Hilfe bei freier GIS-Software und freien Geodaten http://www.fossgis.de + ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
Hi, 2014-08-01 9:34 GMT+02:00 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. I second this nomination! Martin -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Vaclav Petras
Hi, I second the nomination of Václav who is a great contributor to OSGeo. He develops in various programming languages, covering topics from image processing to GUI, from unit testing to Python API design (http://bit.ly/1pL3IqT). Some of you may have met him in one of the various code sprints, always ready to discuss and address complex questions. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Charter Member Nomination - Jeremy Morley
I second Jeremy's nomination! Anne On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:07:42 +0100 Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, It is my great pleasure to nominate Jeremy Morley for OSGeo Charter membership. I have known and worked with Jeremy for many years now and his help and support was key for expanding OSGeo in the UK. He is the cochair of OSGIS conference series and has been the co-chair of the very successful FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham. Jeremy is Theme Leader for Geospatial Science at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute. He has worked in the academic GIS sector since the mid-90s. Jeremy has promoted and researched Open GIS standards (through the OGC TC since 2000), data (UK Location Programme User Group) and software (hosted the “EOGEO” workshops, predecessors to FOSS4G, in 2000 2004). He has also been actively giving training programs (good example is the very successful GIS Open Source Summer School in Girona) , workshops, talks etc. He is also leading new module on our MSc GIScience called Geospatial Information Services at fully using OSGeoLive. This is a good example for other universities to follow in the future for their Master, undergraduate programs etc. I am surprised that Jeremy is not already a charter member and i am sure not only the UK Chapter colleagues but also our Edu community will be happy to see him as a charter member. Suchith 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. -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
What, he is not a charter member? But he is already a chanting member :D Anne On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:23:10 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi all, It's a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now living in Norway). He is well known by usual FOSS4G attendants by his funny musicals (i.e. [3]) but Iván is much much more than a passionate geonerd. He is one of the main promoters of Open Data and OpenStreetMap in Spain (in fact he's currently the -exiled- president of the OSM.es association); he was for a period member of the Boards of Directors of the OSM Foundation and has leaded many activities around OSM and Open Data in Spain. He usually presents FOSS4G projects on conferences and is also well remembered by the Cake Test for Open Data (specially when he brings cakes to smaller-than-FOSS4G conferences). Iván is a great friend and I'm sure you'll agree he deserves joining the Charter Membership. Cheers [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1nchez_Ortega [2] https://github.com/ivansanchez [3] http://vimeo.com/29203100 [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/11/11/921/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jorge Arévalo
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:02:54 +0200 Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: I second this nomination, Jorge is one of the most active members of the Spanish speaking community and also a great code contributor. +1 from me, I know Jorge from Google Summer of Code: he had been a successful student and is a currently mentor for GDAL/PostGIS. Great to see him among Charter member nominees! Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Pirmin Kalberer
+1 Anne On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:26:04 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Pirmin Kalberer nomination by Cameron. Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com Date: 2014-07-25 10:34 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nominating Pirmin Kalberer for OSGeo Charter Membership To: CRO c...@osgeo.org I have known Pirmin through his very active role on the OSGeo-Live, where he has taken on the responsibility of packaging and supporting documentation for many Open Source GIS applications, including QGIS Server, TinyOWS, osgEarth and QGIS additions. He has also been involved across a range of projects, including QGIS, GDAL, OGR, Mapfish, MapLayers, Mapserver, TinyOWS, osgEarth, GIS-Knoppix, as well as with UbuntuGIS. More about his experience is at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pirmin_Kalberer signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Silvia Franceschi
+1 for Silvia's nomination! Anne On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:33:17 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Silvia Franceschi nomination by Venka Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Venkatesh Raghavan Date: 2014-07-26 9:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Silvia Franceschi To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org, Silvia Franceschi Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Silvia Franceschi[1] [2] for OSGeo Charter membership. Active contributor to several FOSS4G projects and also international community particulatrly in Africa. She is a co-founder of HydroloGIS where she develops and uses JGrassTools, uDig, Geopaparazzi for practical applications. Her commitment and passion for all-things-FOSS4G is second to none. Venka [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Silvia_franceschi [2] https://sites.google.com/a/hydrologis.com/hydrologis-environmental-engineering-en/azienda signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Simone Dalmasso
+1 from me as well! I have the pleasure to work with Simone, as mentor for GeoNode in Google Summer of Code 2014. Anne On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:46:33 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Simone Dalmasso nomination by Angelos. Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Angelos Tzotsos Date: 2014-07-26 20:51 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for OSGeo Charter Membership: Simone Dalmasso To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org Cc: Simone Dalmasso I'd like to nominate Simone Dalmasso for OSGeo Charter membership. Simone Dalmasso is active in developing Open Source Geographic applications since 2007, in 2010 he got his Ph.D. in geomatics engineering at the Politecnico di Torino and ITHACA where he released the Extreme Rainfall Detection System. He started developing on GeoNode in 2010 and became GeoNode core developer in 2011. From 2011 he moved to Rome at the UN World Food Programme (WFP) where he deployed the first WFP GeoNode instance. From 2013 he works at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre as responsible for the geographic open source web projects of the Institute for the Security and Protection of the Citizen - Geospatial Emergency Management Action. Angelos Tzotsos signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Silvia Franceschi
I support this nomination! On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Silvia Franceschi nomination by Venka Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Venkatesh Raghavan Date: 2014-07-26 9:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Silvia Franceschi To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org, Silvia Franceschi Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Silvia Franceschi[1] [2] for OSGeo Charter membership. Active contributor to several FOSS4G projects and also international community particulatrly in Africa. She is a co-founder of HydroloGIS where she develops and uses JGrassTools, uDig, Geopaparazzi for practical applications. Her commitment and passion for all-things-FOSS4G is second to none. Venka [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Silvia_franceschi [2] https://sites.google.com/a/hydrologis.com/hydrologis-environmental-engineering-en/azienda -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova
me too! J 2014-08-01 9:51 GMT+02:00 Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org: Hi, I second the nomination of Anna who contributed so much great source code to OSGeo (http://bit.ly/1pL2Fay). More exiting stuff to come in the current Google Summer of Code. Some of you may have met here in one of the various code sprints, solving so many bugs almost instantly. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Vaclav Petras
second Jachym 2014-08-01 9:57 GMT+02:00 Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org: Hi, I second the nomination of Václav who is a great contributor to OSGeo. He develops in various programming languages, covering topics from image processing to GUI, from unit testing to Python API design (http://bit.ly/1pL3IqT). Some of you may have met him in one of the various code sprints, always ready to discuss and address complex questions. Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
+1 for Nikos jachym 2014-08-01 9:57 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com: Hi, 2014-08-01 9:34 GMT+02:00 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. I second this nomination! Martin -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Alexander Bruy
I second Alex's nomination. Anne On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:25:59 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Alexander Bruy nomination to the OSGeo Charter Membership by Alex Mandel Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Alex Mandel Date: 2014-07-22 18:38 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination of Alexander Bruy To: c...@osgeo.org He is a well known contributor in the QGIS and OSGeo-Live realms, a leader in of OSGeo interests in Ukraine, a GSOC mentor, and a lead translator for many OSGeo projects into Russian and Ukrainian. Though I've never met him in person we run into each other all the time on IRC and mailing lists competing to help people use FOSS4G. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Alexbruy -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nomination- Luciene Delazari
I second Luciene's nomination. I know her from ICA-OSGeo Labs and from her mentor role in GSoC 2014. Her contribution to OSGeo educational initiatives is invaluable. Anne On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:11:46 +0100 Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: It is my great pleasure to nominate Dr Luciene Delzari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) for OSGeo charter membership. Dr Luciene Delazari is assistant professor in Cartography and GIS at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Over the years Luciene taught many courses in Cartography and GIS, both at undergraduate and graduate level. She gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and conferences in many cities around Brazil. She is leading Cartography and GIS research at Geodetic Science Program and published over 20 journal papers in this field. Her research interests and publications are in cartographic visualisation, interface design for cartographic products and automated cartographic design. Luciene is the cochair of the Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig.html and also is coeditor for Special issue is on Open Geospatial Science and Applications of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.Her details are at http://people.ufpr.br/~luciene/site.htm Luciene has provided us huge support in our education efforts esp in establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs in Brazil and now is actively helping and supporting colleagues in other universities in Brazil and across South America to start Open Source Geospatial Labs in their universities. I also had the opportunity of working with her when she visited Nottingham University for a one year visiting research fellowship. During her time at Nottingham, she actively contributed to Geo for All initiative and also helped build many collaborations in Open GIS. She also is supervising a Google Summer of Code student in schematisation plugin for QGIS . Now back in her university in Brazil, i am sure she will further build more momentum for OSGeo's education activities there. I believe Luciene Delzari will be an excellent OSGeo charter member and will help in further building up our global strength. Thanks. Suchith signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Vaclav Petras
+1 from me too! Anne On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:37:32 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Václav Petras nomination by Martin Landa Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Landa Date: 2014-07-30 20:29 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Vaclav Petras To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Václav Petráš Hi, it is my pleasure to nominate Vaclav Petras [1] for OSGeo Charter membership. Vaclav started to actively contribute to the GRASS project during his studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I met him as the lecturer. Vaclav together with his colleague Anna Petrasova (formerly Kratochvilova) formed an excellent micro-team. They are eg. authors of QGIS plugin for working with Czech cadastral data. Vaclav is also author of several GRASS modules, he is currently working on Testing framework for GRASS GIS within Google Summer of Code project. He is studying for his PhD at NCSU under supervision of Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from him being a future charter member. Martin [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vaclav-petras/ [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675372 -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jorge Arévalo
+1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Dear community, It's my pleasure to nominate for the OSGeo Charter Membership Jorge Arévalo[1]. Jorge is a long time developer of FOSS4G software, mainly developing on the PostGIS Raster GDAL driver[2]. He is reviewer of many FOSS4G books and has been actively working on Geoinquietos Madrid[3], a local microchapter, as well as participating in some conferences and trainings. This year he is mentor of one of the GSoC projects. Finally Jorge is one of the main contributors of a nice set of free workshops on FOSS4G topics called GeoTalleres[4]. Cheers Jorge [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgearevalo80 [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/frmts_wtkraster.html [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geo_inquietos_Madrid [4] https://geotalleres.readthedocs.org/ -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
+1 for Nikos! Anne On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 10:44:17 +0200 Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for Nikos jachym 2014-08-01 9:57 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com: Hi, 2014-08-01 9:34 GMT+02:00 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. I second this nomination! Martin -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Anna Petrasova
+1 for Anna, her contributions to GRASS are amazing! Anne On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:21:04 +0200 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Anna Petrášová nomination by Martin Landa Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Landa Date: 2014-07-30 20:16 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Anna Petrasova To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Anna Petrášová Hi, it is my pleasure to nominate Anna Petrasova [1] for OSGeo Charter membership. Anna started to actively contribute to the GRASS project during her studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague where I met her as the lecturer. She quickly joined the GRASS development team and became a core developer with excellent results. She also participated in Google Summer of Code project, in years 2014 and 2011. Currently she is studying for her PhD at NCSU under supervision of Helena Mitasova. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from her being a future charter member. Martin [1] https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/anna-petrasova/ [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/contributors/15745350675371 -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu
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 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu 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 c...@osgeo.org 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 -- - Vasile Crăciunescu geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge geoData http://www.geo-spatial.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Andreea Marin
+1 from me also. Andreea has been the main force behind the first Romanian ICA-OSGeo Lab. I also had the opportunity to meet Andreea at FOSS4G-Europe and was really impressed with her commitment to OSGeo's education efforts. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Raghavan Sent: 01 August 2014 01:08 To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Andreea Marin On 2014/08/01 1:59, Jeff McKenna wrote: It's my pleasure to second Andreea's nomination by Markus. She may come off as a little quiet at first, but Andreea is another super active and passionate member of the geo-spatial.org/RomaniaChapter. I am very appreciative for all of Andreea's and the geo-spatial.org family's work. +1 for Andreea's nomination. I had the pleasure of meeting Andreea at FOSS4G-Europe and could sense her commitment to FOSS4G community. Venka -jeff On 2014-07-31 1:50 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Andreea Martin nomination by Markus Neteler. Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Markus Neteler Date: 2014-07-31 1:15 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Andreea Marin To: OSGeo-CRO c...@osgeo.org Cc: Andreea Marin Nomination of Andreea Marin andreea.mari...@yahoo.com It is my pleasure to nominate Andreea Marin for OSGeo Charter Membership. Andreea has just earned her Master's degree in GIS at the University of Bucharest (Romania); now planning to pursue a PhD in geography. I first meet Andreea during the FOSS4G-CEE 2013 conference in Bucharest, where I learned about her dedicated work within the Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter. She has been actively involved in the Romanian Local Chapter's workshops and seminars for several years, most visible with contributions as a GRASS GIS trainer, strong supporter, software translator and promoter. Given her passion for the academic environment, Andreea has strongly pushed forward the first Romanian ICA-OSGeo Lab (http://www.geoforall.org/locations/). Although Andreea is not a hardcore FOSS developer, her devotion to the OSGeo principles and her continuous work in promoting and supporting FOSS4G in the Romanian geospatial community should be recognized and appreciated. best regards, Markus Neteler ___ 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 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] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
+1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 22:09 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Ghisla Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando To: c...@osgeo.org, nimalika fernando Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for Charter membership. Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT [2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software. In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from several Sri Lankan universities [5]. Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year, and I have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS can make a very positive impact. Best regards, Anne [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika [1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/ [2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/23.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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] [Election 2014] Nomination of David Percy
I would like to second this excellent nomination and also thank David Percy for his efforts and help for establishing ICA-OSGeo lab at Portland State University. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 21:54 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; david Percy Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of David Percy Forwarding David Percy nomination by Eli. Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Eli Adam Date: 2014-07-31 4:47 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination of David Percy To: CRO c...@osgeo.org Cc: Percy I'm happy to nominate a long time local OSGeo leader, David Percy. David Percy (Percy) is involved with so many different aspects of open source geospatial in the PDX area that I can't cover it all and he probably can't even remember it all. He's been doing this longer than the seven years I've know him but I will cover that period. Percy uses and teaches open source geospatial at Portland State University. Much of his work focuses on geological issues. He has also been involved with international geologic standards, software and mapping and he includes open source geospatial in those as well. Percy has been the center of various open source geospatial organizational efforts locally. Percy organized the PDX-OSGeo chapter for many years. He also has developed open source tracks in local GIS conferences. He is also the contact for the ICA-OSGeo lab at Portland State University. http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodesuser=190999 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Percyd http://www.slidefinder.net/m/mapserver/32418793 Best regards, Eli -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for José Pedro Santos
Forwarding José Pedro Santos nomination by Cameron Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Shorter Date: 2014-07-31 22:23 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: I'd like to nominate you, an OSGeo-Live contributor, to become an OSGeo Charter member To: José Pedro Santos, CRO c...@osgeo.org I'd like to nominate José Pedro Santos for OSGeo Charter membership. I know him through his contributions for translating OSGeo-Live documentation to Portuguese. He has also been active in the Portuguese OSGeo Chapter. -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris
I want to second this nomination too. Best, Angelos On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Nikos Alexnadris nomination by Dimitris Kotzinos. Cheers Jorge Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Nomination for Nikos Alexandris Fecha: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:35:11 +0200 (CEST) De: Dimitris Kotzinos Para: c...@osgeo.org OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org CC: js...@osgeo.org, Nick Ves Dear CRO and all, we would like to nominate Dr. Nikos Alexandris for becoming an OSGEO Charter Member. Nikos has been a long advocate of Open Source GIS and OSGEO [1] and has been one very active person in supporting both since 2007 (and we know him since). He actually sees OSGEO as the means to actively cultivating a technologically advanced and socially aware geospatial way of thinking and acting. He has been actively involved in pushing Open Source GIS and OSGEO in both academic and industry-oriented settings and his passion has taken him recently from Greece up to India (TERI and Kurukshetra Universities) in order to promote specifically GRASS-GIS. He has participated in community sprints for GRASS-GIS, in the translation of the OSGEO web site to Greek and has been very active in the OSGEO Greek Chapter and the Greek Open Source community in general, especially by having participated in numerous events in Greece about Open Source in general and Open Source GIS specifically and has been interviewed about this for magazines. You can find more about Nikos at [2]. We think that Nikos gathers all the required qualities specified in the OSGEO nomination pages for a charter member. Dimitris, as the founder of the Greek OSGEO Chapter, considers Nikos a valuable member of the OSGEO Greek Chapter and OSGEO in general and as OSGEO Charter Members we both think that Nikos' passion and dynamism will bring a lot of energy to OSGEO and that he carries all the necessary qualities to serve OSGEO from many different positions. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris [2] http://nikosalexandris.net/xpress/cv/ Best regards, Nikos Ves Dimitris Kotzinos OSGEO Charter Members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Elections 2014] Nomination of Olivier Courtin
Forwarding Olivier Courtin nomination by Even Rouault Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Even Rouault Date: 2014-07-25 21:04 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Olivier Courtin To: c...@osgeo.org Dear OSGeo community, I'd like to nominate Olivier Courtin, from France, for OSGeo charter membership. Olivier is in the MapServer PSC as the creator of TinyOWS, the WFS-T capable component of the MapServer Suite. He is also a commiter of PostGIS where has worked on import/export functions, and is busy with the RD around the 3D functions of PostGIS (SFCGAL backend). You may have meet him at various OSGeo related events, code sprints or conferences, where he regularly gives talks about his work. Olivier took part to the organization team of the first FOSS4G-FR this year. Olivier co-founded Oslandia in 2009 with Vincent Picavet, providing services around FOSS4G and focusing on quality and innovation for opensource GIS. Even -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
Hi Jorge, Thanks for your great work as CRO. On 2014/07/31 16:14, Jorge Sanz wrote: I have still a quite a big pile of nominations not confirmed[1]. Only nominations confirmed before Saturday 2nd 00:00 (GMT) will be added to the next phase so PLEASE, if your nominee has not responded to your proposal, reach him/her by any way because I would be *really* sad receive them after the deadline, hence discarding them, because this Saturday all Charter Members should start voting. What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society http://www.topsoc.org/front/index which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu
I second Ionuț's nomination! Codrina On 8/1/14, 13:00, Suchith Anand 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 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu 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 c...@osgeo.org 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 -- - Vasile Crăciunescu geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge geoData http://www.geo-spatial.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
On 8/1/14 9:18 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society http://www.topsoc.org/front/index which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help Tim, I've had a similar idea in mind for some number of year. Just haven't had the right project com along to leverage the work against to accomplish it. My interest is in general record keeping, and using/developing spatial (and time increments) lookup tools for the end user(s) to retrieve data based on a known location of interest. I've seed some project that seem to get close, but the single biggest missing component (I think) is a good gneral use 3D viewing environment that's easy to auto-populate. The next big hurdle is how to store the proper metadata for images so that their projection is stored correct and they can be viewed alongside of each other properly. It's an interesting problem, but I believe it's possible to attain the capabilities you describe, and there are even some existing packages available in desktop form, etc. I'm more interested in a Webbased aproach myself. bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
+1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise. She is a right choise for OSGeo charter On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: +1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 22:09 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Ghisla Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando To: c...@osgeo.org, nimalika fernando Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for Charter membership. Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT [2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software. In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from several Sri Lankan universities [5]. Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year, and I have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS can make a very positive impact. Best regards, Anne [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika [1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/ [2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/23.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.
Dear Community, I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of years, he has been actively sharing his technical knowledge at various FOSS4G training programmes conducted in India, has been a GSoC mentor and developing solutions. Chaitanya's profile can be seen at [1] regards, Rajan [1] http://in.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyakumarch ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu
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 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk 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 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu 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 c...@osgeo.org 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 -- - Vasile Crăciunescu geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge geoData http://www.geo-spatial.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ 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 -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.
On 2014/08/02 0:09, K S Rajan wrote: Dear Community, I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of years, he has been actively sharing his technical knowledge at various FOSS4G training programmes conducted in India, has been a GSoC mentor and developing solutions. Chaitanya's profile can be seen at [1] I second the nomination of Chaitanya Kumar. He is a committed FOSS4G developer and a great trainer. Venka regards, Rajan [1] http://in.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyakumarch ___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ionuț Iosifescu
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 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk 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 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 17:44 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; Ionuț Iosifescu 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 c...@osgeo.org 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 -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
On 2014/08/01 23:48, Ravi Kumar wrote: +1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise. +1 for Nimalika's nomination. Venka She is a right choise for OSGeo charter On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: +1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 22:09 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Ghisla Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando To: c...@osgeo.org, nimalika fernando Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for Charter membership. Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT [2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software. In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from several Sri Lankan universities [5]. Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year, and I have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS can make a very positive impact. Best regards, Anne [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika [1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/ [2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/23.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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 ___ 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] [Election 2014] Nomination of Vivien Deparday
Forwarding Vivien nomination by Tim Sutton Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Sutton Date: 2014-07-31 22:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Vivien Deparday for OSGEO charter membership To: c...@osgeo.org Motivation: Vivien is an Open Source GIS advocate working for the WorldBank involved heavily with humanitarian work where he uses FOSSGIS products including QGIS to train disaster relief workers in techniques for the mitigation of disasters. He is a great ambassador for OSGEO and exposes many new people to FOSSGIS tools each year through his work. I hereby nominate him for charter member status. Regards Tim Sutton (OSGEO Charter member, QGIS PSC member) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka Hi Venka, thanks for raising the question. On previous years the Board allocated a number of seats and if there were more nominations than seats then elections were conducted, so some people could not get the membership if they were at the end of the ranking. Other years no election was needed because there were less nominations than seats, so everyone was automatically accepted. As was discussed in June[1], a new procedure was designed[2]. On this new procedure, there is no limit of seats for new charter members, the nominations are carried as every year but instead of having a number of seats, we will have a different criteria for accepting new members. Another difference is that instead of voting by e-mail, with 180 members, we will use an electronic voting system. For every nominee, current Charter Members will have to decide say Yes, No or Abstain for their acceptance. This way we assure that supported nominees are accepted. The criteria will be: - The nominee needs to have more Yes than No - The nominee needs to have more than 5% of Yes of voting members. And then we arrive to one VERY important point in my opinion. For me, the +1 and seconds on discuss mean a LOT, because maybe a I don't know the nominee, but I know many of the nominators and seconders, and I trust their criteria so they add points for me to vote a *Yes* instead of an *Abstain*. There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Sorry for the long mail, I hope it makes sense!! Cheers [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-June/thread.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Will the list of nominees and those seconding them be available somewhere? If not, this might something worth creating a Google Forms for or something simple like that the future. -- Puneet Kishor Manager, Science and Data Policy Creative Commons ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
Thanks Bob. Not sure what you mean by auto-populate - sounds as if humans would not be involved. I was thinking of an interface in which a user clicks a point on a photo to be geotagged and then a point on a map where the user knows the item in the photo is located. As in QGIS georeferencing. This could be different, though, since you might want to identify more than one point in the photo. Just having the locations and datestamps would be enough if users where just looking for relevant original images for a time and space; using projection information to warp them would be helpful to cross reference against other images for the person doing the cataloguing, or for making a map out of them, but not absolutely essential. I'm wondering what a highly warped image would look like - the graininess would vary. I've imagined defining what a photo or image is of by one key geolocation in it, (which would define the projection for the whole image) and possibly some more specified locations of interest to researchers, but from the projection, scale and image dimensions you could get define a warped rectangular area as being what the image is of - except beyond some horizon the quality would be too poor, and anyway, 3D objects would get in the way. I was thinking more of desktop packages - what are those existing packages available in desktop form? How would they compare with QGIS? I don't have access to ArcGIS - would the user interface for that be easier? On 1 August 2014 15:45, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: On 8/1/14 9:18 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society http://www.topsoc.org/front/index which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help Tim, I've had a similar idea in mind for some number of year. Just haven't had the right project com along to leverage the work against to accomplish it. My interest is in general record keeping, and using/developing spatial (and time increments) lookup tools for the end user(s) to retrieve data based on a known location of interest. I've seed some project that seem to get close, but the single biggest missing component (I think) is a good gneral use 3D viewing environment that's easy to auto-populate. The next big hurdle is how to store the proper metadata for images so that their projection is stored correct and they can be viewed alongside of each other properly. It's an interesting problem, but I believe it's possible to attain the capabilities you describe, and there are even some existing packages
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
2014-08-01 18:34 GMT+02:00 P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Will the list of nominees and those seconding them be available somewhere? If not, this might something worth creating a Google Forms for or something simple like that the future. Working hard on that right now. For every nomination, on the voting system you'll have a link to the row on the nominations page and a link to the nabble forum that has all mails. Check the screenshot[1]. For example, for the first nominee links will go to [2] and [3]. I'm trying to give all the info so you guys have the easiest access. Cheers. [1] http://i.imgur.com/GYYL8iu.png [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2014#1 [3] http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_pagenode=3842115query=message%3ASantosh+message%3AGaikwad+author%3A%22Jorge+Sanz%22days=30 -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Vivien Deparday
I definitely second this nomination. Vivien is very involved in Open Source GIS, and he is a very friendly and smart guy. He is doing great in the GeoNode and Inasafe projects. p On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Vivien nomination by Tim Sutton Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Sutton Date: 2014-07-31 22:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Vivien Deparday for OSGEO charter membership To: c...@osgeo.org Motivation: Vivien is an Open Source GIS advocate working for the WorldBank involved heavily with humanitarian work where he uses FOSSGIS products including QGIS to train disaster relief workers in techniques for the mitigation of disasters. He is a great ambassador for OSGEO and exposes many new people to FOSSGIS tools each year through his work. I hereby nominate him for charter member status. Regards Tim Sutton (OSGEO Charter member, QGIS PSC member) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Paolo Corti Geospatial software developer web: http://www.paolocorti.net twitter: @capooti skype: capooti ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
On 8/1/14 11:48 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Thanks Bob. Not sure what you mean by auto-populate - sounds as if humans would not be involved. I was thinking of an interface in which a user clicks a point on a photo to be geotagged and then a point on a map where the user knows the item in the photo is located. As in QGIS georeferencing. This could be different, though, since you might want to identify more than one point in the photo. Just having the locations and datestamps would be enough if users where just looking for relevant original images for a time and space; using projection information to warp them would be helpful to cross reference against other images for the person doing the cataloguing, or for making a map out of them, but not absolutely essential. I'm wondering what a highly warped image would look like - the graininess would vary. I've imagined defining what a photo or image is of by one key geolocation in it, (which would define the projection for the whole image) and possibly some more specified locations of interest to researchers, but from the projection, scale and image dimensions you could get define a warped rectangular area as being what the image is of - except beyond some horizon the quality would be too poor, and anyway, 3D objects would get in the way. We already have the point == photo association in our system. We have about 3 million street level photo's taken along our City streets complete with camera and poition/direction metadata for each photo. I want to do the reverse of what you are talking about and apply our GIS layers to the photo as an overlay. Simply put, I want to try and come up with a sudo projection (on the fly) of the photo and use that to apply other known datasets. The GIS data would be the warped parts. bobb I was thinking more of desktop packages - what are those existing packages available in desktop form? How would they compare with QGIS? I don't have access to ArcGIS - would the user interface for that be easier? On 1 August 2014 15:45, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.usmailto:bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: On 8/1/14 9:18 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society http://www.topsoc.org/front/index which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help Tim, I've had a similar idea in mind for some number of year. Just haven't had the right project com along to leverage the work against to accomplish it. My interest is in general record keeping, and using/developing spatial (and time increments) lookup tools for
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
Tim -- This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society http://www.topsoc.org/front/index which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help This is a popular area, since it relates to side-scan sonar, side-looking aerial radar, and cameras suspended from drones, which, even if they're intended to be pointing down, rarely are. (It also seems to be somewhat a solved problem, just not open-source -- as you may guess, this has military use.) It also comes up in autonomous vehicles, since one wants to infer (for instance) distance of objects from imagery. For both this and georeferencing, sequences of (partly) overlapping images -- video -- are very useful. In fact, this subject is under current discussion over on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team mailing list, with the revival of OpenAerialMap. I'd recommend joining up with the folks over there. I'm CCing some folks (Stephen Mather, Kate Chapman, Michael Patrick) who are involved with OpenAerialMap and / or OpenStreetMap and georeferencing in general. Some references re. georeferencing imagery (specifically for drones) and related (Michael probably has more): http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/ http://dronemapper.com/ (commercial image processing service) http://flightriot.com/ http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ -- Pat ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.
+1 On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote: On 2014/08/02 0:09, K S Rajan wrote: Dear Community, I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of years, he has been actively sharing his technical knowledge at various FOSS4G training programmes conducted in India, has been a GSoC mentor and developing solutions. Chaitanya's profile can be seen at [1] I second the nomination of Chaitanya Kumar. He is a committed FOSS4G developer and a great trainer. Venka regards, Rajan [1] http://in.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyakumarch ___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Regards, Rashad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw
+ 1 for Johan's nomination Jachym 2014-07-24 21:34 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com: On 07/21/2014 10:19 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Nomination of Johan van de Wauw by Jeff McKenna. Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff McKenna Date: 2014-07-21 19:26 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org Cc: Johan Van de Wauw It is my pleasure to nominate Johan Van de Wauw for OSGeo Charter membership. Active in the Belgium community, Johan has been working hard lately on helping with the OSGeo-Live project. He is also active in the SAGA GIS community. He also helps organize the FOSDEM conference in Europe. I had the pleasure of meeting Johan in Bremen recently, and I really like his raw enthusiasm and passion for all-things-FOSS4G. -jeff Jeff was faster than me here, I second Johan's nomination. -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry
Interesting problem - however I should direct you away from geotools-devel (which is focused on making great software) and towards either our users list (how to use GeoTools) or disc...@osgeo.org (generally questions). The OSGeo foundation offers a list of service providers here: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile if you wish to look for help in your neck of the woods. I am not sure that the Google Earth / Bing maps would have the detail you require (you may need to check their license terms to ensure a solution built on their technology would be cost effective). That said they are a good resource for your second point - that of geocoding (i.e. property address or GPS coordinate). I have seen similar calculations does based on digital elevation module, you can identify what direction a property is facing for identification of an appropriate crop. I am not aware of a data provider that provides elevation data roof by roof in order to determine slope. There are a couple of advances though, the US cleared higher resolution imagery for domestic use - perhaps the rest of the world will as well? And there is a rise of small satellite providers who may be able to step in with data products of appropriate detail. Jody Garnett On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:25 PM, S.A. Mouti mou...@outlook.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data to automatically identify, highlight, and measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using satellite imagery. Our preference is to utilize the existing map providers such as Google Earth/maps or Bing . My aim is to get the following outputs from the proposed model: - Accurately highlighted and identified rooftops on Google maps (using geo sensing data, elevation? and - Property Address or GPS coordinate. - Surface and square footage available for solar power generation including the position of the property(N-S or E-W). At the exact surface of the south facing portion of the roof. - Integrate sun tool in google maps to calculate shading for each building. - Total surface/square footage of the roof. I would appreciate your guidance on the following: - Any individual developers or companies active in this area who would be willing to undertake this challenge - View on technical do-ability of the project - What data is needed to build the model and who the providers are? (Google APIs?) - An idea about the overall cost for such a model. Thank you Sid 713 992 6314 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
Venka, Further to Jorge's email, the reason we need to vote in charter members (rather than accepting everyone who applies) is to meet OSGeo bylaws which state that we need to vote in new charter members every year. The reason for the bylaws is to avoid hostile take-over. Admittedly very unlikely, but still possible. So we have changed our voting processes to try and be as inclusive as possible, basically aiming to ensure that everyone who is interested, and actively contributing toward OSGeo should be voted in for charter membership. On 2/08/2014 2:30 am, Jorge Sanz wrote: 2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka Hi Venka, thanks for raising the question. On previous years the Board allocated a number of seats and if there were more nominations than seats then elections were conducted, so some people could not get the membership if they were at the end of the ranking. Other years no election was needed because there were less nominations than seats, so everyone was automatically accepted. As was discussed in June[1], a new procedure was designed[2]. On this new procedure, there is no limit of seats for new charter members, the nominations are carried as every year but instead of having a number of seats, we will have a different criteria for accepting new members. Another difference is that instead of voting by e-mail, with 180 members, we will use an electronic voting system. For every nominee, current Charter Members will have to decide say Yes, No or Abstain for their acceptance. This way we assure that supported nominees are accepted. The criteria will be: - The nominee needs to have more Yes than No - The nominee needs to have more than 5% of Yes of voting members. And then we arrive to one VERY important point in my opinion. For me, the +1 and seconds on discuss mean a LOT, because maybe a I don't know the nominee, but I know many of the nominators and seconders, and I trust their criteria so they add points for me to vote a *Yes* instead of an *Abstain*. There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Sorry for the long mail, I hope it makes sense!! Cheers [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-June/thread.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another non-profit software org there is a hostile take-over trying to happen...so our bylaws on elections are very important. But if Venka and other Charter members want changes in the bylaws it should be made possible, and considered strongly by the Board. -jeff On 2014-08-01 7:40 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Venka, Further to Jorge's email, the reason we need to vote in charter members (rather than accepting everyone who applies) is to meet OSGeo bylaws which state that we need to vote in new charter members every year. The reason for the bylaws is to avoid hostile take-over. Admittedly very unlikely, but still possible. So we have changed our voting processes to try and be as inclusive as possible, basically aiming to ensure that everyone who is interested, and actively contributing toward OSGeo should be voted in for charter membership. On 2/08/2014 2:30 am, Jorge Sanz wrote: 2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka Hi Venka, thanks for raising the question. On previous years the Board allocated a number of seats and if there were more nominations than seats then elections were conducted, so some people could not get the membership if they were at the end of the ranking. Other years no election was needed because there were less nominations than seats, so everyone was automatically accepted. As was discussed in June[1], a new procedure was designed[2]. On this new procedure, there is no limit of seats for new charter members, the nominations are carried as every year but instead of having a number of seats, we will have a different criteria for accepting new members. Another difference is that instead of voting by e-mail, with 180 members, we will use an electronic voting system. For every nominee, current Charter Members will have to decide say Yes, No or Abstain for their acceptance. This way we assure that supported nominees are accepted. The criteria will be: - The nominee needs to have more Yes than No - The nominee needs to have more than 5% of Yes of voting members. And then we arrive to one VERY important point in my opinion. For me, the +1 and seconds on discuss mean a LOT, because maybe a I don't know the nominee, but I know many of the nominators and seconders, and I trust their criteria so they add points for me to vote a *Yes* instead of an *Abstain*. There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Sorry for the long mail, I hope it makes sense!! Cheers [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-June/thread.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Chris Helm
Forwarding Chris Helm nomination by Andrew Turner Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turner Date: 2014-08-02 0:31 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Elections starting tomorrow To: Jorge Sanz Chris has developed and promoted open source JavaScript geo tools for years. He started by introducing OSGeo to the US NREL and then building GeoCommons. He builds numerous open source visualization libraries in OpenLayers and Leaflet and recently started the Koop open source data api converter. Chris is a frequent speaker to OSGeo and OSM events and runs the JS.Geo conference. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Chris Helm
I second the nomination of Chris. I met Chris in person at FOSS4G Denver (and Andrew finally in fact ha!), but I've been watching how he is regarded in the community for a while - building cool software, holding events like JS.Geo (which I see he has announced for September)...he is full of energy and enthusiasm and a wonderful speaker and representative of OSGeo and FOSS4G. To me he and Andrew will always be part of that cool new crowd, the new kids on the block with fresh ideas and passion, and we can learn from them both! :) -jeff On 2014-08-01 8:42 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Chris Helm nomination by Andrew Turner Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turner Date: 2014-08-02 0:31 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Elections starting tomorrow To: Jorge Sanz Chris has developed and promoted open source JavaScript geo tools for years. He started by introducing OSGeo to the US NREL and then building GeoCommons. He builds numerous open source visualization libraries in OpenLayers and Leaflet and recently started the Koop open source data api converter. Chris is a frequent speaker to OSGeo and OSM events and runs the JS.Geo conference. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry
You might want to take a look at http://maps.umn.edu/solar/ On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting problem - however I should direct you away from geotools-devel (which is focused on making great software) and towards either our users list (how to use GeoTools) or disc...@osgeo.org (generally questions). The OSGeo foundation offers a list of service providers here: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile if you wish to look for help in your neck of the woods. I am not sure that the Google Earth / Bing maps would have the detail you require (you may need to check their license terms to ensure a solution built on their technology would be cost effective). That said they are a good resource for your second point - that of geocoding (i.e. property address or GPS coordinate). I have seen similar calculations does based on digital elevation module, you can identify what direction a property is facing for identification of an appropriate crop. I am not aware of a data provider that provides elevation data roof by roof in order to determine slope. There are a couple of advances though, the US cleared higher resolution imagery for domestic use - perhaps the rest of the world will as well? And there is a rise of small satellite providers who may be able to step in with data products of appropriate detail. Jody Garnett On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:25 PM, S.A. Mouti mou...@outlook.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data to automatically identify, highlight, and measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using satellite imagery. Our preference is to utilize the existing map providers such as Google Earth/maps or Bing . My aim is to get the following outputs from the proposed model: Accurately highlighted and identified rooftops on Google maps (using geo sensing data, elevation? and Property Address or GPS coordinate. Surface and square footage available for solar power generation including the position of the property(N-S or E-W). At the exact surface of the south facing portion of the roof. Integrate sun tool in google maps to calculate shading for each building. Total surface/square footage of the roof. I would appreciate your guidance on the following: Any individual developers or companies active in this area who would be willing to undertake this challenge View on technical do-ability of the project What data is needed to build the model and who the providers are? (Google APIs?) An idea about the overall cost for such a model. Thank you Sid 713 992 6314 ___ 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] Inquiry: Help please!
Greetings dear members, I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data to automatically identify, highlight, and measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using Geospatial data. My preference is to overlay the results on one of the existing map providers such as Google Earth/maps or Bing . My aim is to get the following outputs from the proposed model: * Accurately highlighted and identified rooftops on Google maps (using geo sensing data, elevation? and * Property Address or GPS coordinate. * Surface and square footage available for solar power generation including the position of the property(N-S or E-W). At the exact surface of the south facing portion of the roof. * Integrate sun tool in google maps to calculate shading for each building. * Total surface/square footage of the roof. I would appreciate your guidance on the following: * Any individual developers or companies active in this area who would be willing to undertake this challenge * View on technical do-ability of the project * What free geospatial data is available/needed to build the model and who the providers are? (I understand that US cleared higher resolution imagery for domestic ) * An idea about the overall cost for such a model. Best regards, Sid ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Pat Tressel ptres...@myuw.net wrote: Tim -- This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from an aerial photograph to a map, and extending the thought to what can be done with a very oblique image - such as I might take standing on the ground. Any photo, not just an aerial one, can be considered as a map just waiting to be tagged with scale, projection, geolocation and date. The photo doesn't have to be great quality - perfection is not needed. In fact, if we allow some artistic licence, we could apply the same process to scans of historic prints and paintings. And if we had a library of such geotagged images, researchers would be able to specify an area and a time range, and search for images whose area of coverage overlapped it taken during the given period. It would be of antiquarian interest - there's an organisation I belong to called the London Topographical Society which has access to a mind-boggling number of maps, old photos and prints of London - but also to academics in Geography and Town Planning departments. It would also be of commercial interest to developers looking at the planning context for new developments. And I think I've read somewhere of commercial companies - Google, Facebook? - collecting various picture of the same location, e.g. a holiday destination, and using the combined data to produce images with unwanted obstructions eliminated. It has to be possible, so is anyone working on developing an open source library of images so tagged? Brief background on me; I'm a maths graduate, now approaching retirement, and with interests not only in history, but also urban development, so a project along these lines is something I'd love to get involved with. Although I might dream to doing some coding, that's just not realistic when my skills are more in MS Office applications and VBA. I've also been looking at 'R' and QGIS, and I could get to the point of doing the tagging, except for date stamping, but if there was anyone else further up the learning curves for these, it would be good to link up. I also have a lot of possible contacts with people who might be interested in such a project as users, which would also make a difference. It seems like such a nice project, so hoping someone can help This is a popular area, since it relates to side-scan sonar, side-looking aerial radar, and cameras suspended from drones, which, even if they're intended to be pointing down, rarely are. (It also seems to be somewhat a solved problem, just not open-source -- as you may guess, this has military use.) It also comes up in autonomous vehicles, since one wants to infer (for instance) distance of objects from imagery. For both this and georeferencing, sequences of (partly) overlapping images -- video -- are very useful. In fact, this subject is under current discussion over on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team mailing list, with the revival of OpenAerialMap. I'd recommend joining up with the folks over there. I'm CCing some folks (Stephen Mather, Kate Chapman, Michael Patrick) who are involved with OpenAerialMap and / or OpenStreetMap and georeferencing in general. Some references re. georeferencing imagery (specifically for drones) and related (Michael probably has more): http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/ http://dronemapper.com/ (commercial image processing service) http://flightriot.com/ http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ Some of the Structure From Motion stuff might play a role in some of this. Here is a link on for one such project, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/ Eli -- Pat ___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another non-profit software org there is a hostile take-over trying to happen...so our bylaws on elections are very important. When I approach someone who I want to nominate for charter membership, I sometimes explain that their only real functional role in OSGeo as charter members is to be aware of and respond to hostile takeover attempts of OSGeo or OSGeo funds/assets. And to serve as the pool from which board members are drawn. As unlikely as hostile takeover attempts are, recognizing and responding to that is the only thing that charter members can do that non-charter members can not (other than serving on the board). In most cases, individuals have already long been doing and can continue to do all the positive actions and attributes listed, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes I get some are you serious responses for approaching people this way but do think it is worth reminding people of this important (although unlikely and hopefully never needed) role. I think that the process is self-actualizing, i.e. since we have a policy in place that prevents or guards against hostile takeover attempts, there will be no attempts since it would not work. Since we have a maybe somewhat cumbersome process to guard against something that will never happen since the process exists, it makes it look like the process is entirely unnecessary and a pointless headache. I think that this function is sufficiently obscure that the board should consider adding it to the positive attributes sought from charter members and have taken the liberty of putting it on the board agenda [1]. If the board has time and so desires, they may undertake this. I'm not trying to ignore the important role that charter members play by serving as the pool of potential board members, it is just that most charter members will never serve on the board but all charter members can and should actively be aware of and respond to potential hostile takeover attempts (which once again are unlikely and will probably never happen so long as we have effective policies in place to prevent them). Preposterously, Eli [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-08-14#Agenda But if Venka and other Charter members want changes in the bylaws it should be made possible, and considered strongly by the Board. -jeff On 2014-08-01 7:40 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Venka, Further to Jorge's email, the reason we need to vote in charter members (rather than accepting everyone who applies) is to meet OSGeo bylaws which state that we need to vote in new charter members every year. The reason for the bylaws is to avoid hostile take-over. Admittedly very unlikely, but still possible. So we have changed our voting processes to try and be as inclusive as possible, basically aiming to ensure that everyone who is interested, and actively contributing toward OSGeo should be voted in for charter membership. On 2/08/2014 2:30 am, Jorge Sanz wrote: 2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka Hi Venka, thanks for raising the question. On previous years the Board allocated a number of seats and if there were more nominations than seats then elections were conducted, so some people could not get the membership if they were at the end of the ranking. Other years no election was needed because there were less nominations than seats, so everyone was automatically accepted. As was discussed in June[1], a new procedure was designed[2]. On this new procedure, there is no limit of seats for new charter members, the nominations are carried as every year but instead of having a number of seats, we will have a different criteria for accepting new members. Another difference is that instead of voting by e-mail, with 180 members, we will use an electronic voting system. For every nominee, current Charter Members will have to decide say Yes, No or Abstain for their acceptance. This way we assure that supported nominees are accepted. The criteria will be: - The nominee needs to have more Yes than No - The nominee needs to have more than 5% of Yes of voting members. And then we arrive to one VERY important point in my opinion. For me, the +1 and seconds on discuss mean a LOT, because maybe a I don't know the nominee, but I know many of the nominators and seconders, and I trust their criteria so they add points for me to vote a *Yes* instead of an *Abstain*. There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?
Eli -- I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response. Except I forgot to include any of the HOT links (sorry, could not resist). Here's the HOT mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Here's a why doc for OpenAerialMap (and a cautionary tale -- always spell-check your URLs): http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/blog/HOT/why-Open-Ariel-Map Here's a log of the revival meeting on irc.oftc.net #hot. (There was at least one follow up meeting in a later log.) http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2014-07-09.txt http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/ http://dronemapper.com/ (commercial image processing service) http://flightriot.com/ http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ Some of the Structure From Motion stuff might play a role in some of this. Here is a link on for one such project, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/ Right! -- that link http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ was to VisualSFM -- work by Changchang Wu et al. Video is a huge advantage over isolated images. (I just came across a paper that compared Bundler and other SFM work, but it's behind a journal paywall, and I haven't read it yet.) -- Pat ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
