Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 12th Birthday to OSGeo

2018-02-04 Thread Suchith Anand 
Many congrats to all...


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Discuss  on behalf of Jeff McKenna 

Sent: 04 February 2018 12:47
To: osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 12th Birthday to OSGeo

Please share a slice of virtual cake today to thank so many students and
professionals for sharing, learning, and helping others with their
spatial information through all of these years. Happy birthday OSGeo!  :)


--
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna






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[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 12th Birthday to OSGeo

2018-02-04 Thread Jeff McKenna 
Please share a slice of virtual cake today to thank so many students and 
professionals for sharing, learning, and helping others with their 
spatial information through all of these years. Happy birthday OSGeo!  :)



--
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

2018-02-04 Thread Paulo van Breugel 

Way to go Barend, congratulations!



On 2/3/18 1:17 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:



Dear colleagues,


On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to 
honour Barend Köbbenas our GeoAmbassador. Barend holds an MSc in 
Geography, specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The 
Netherlands. Heworked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that 
university and then moved to the International Institute for 
Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC 
is an international school providing courses on GIS and Remote Sensing 
to students from all around the world, ranging from short courses, 
through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. 
Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. 
Barend is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic 
visualisation in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).



Histeaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and 
WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D 
visualization. Outside ITC, Barend isinvolved in teaching short 
courses and workshops in Open Source GIS & WebMapping, promoting the 
use of the Open Source geospatial applications and data.  The 
Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies of the International 
Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a series of short courses and 
workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for which they at ITC have 
developed course materials and provide teaching staff and 
resources.These are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to 
introduce the possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS 
and webmapping to people who are interested in this technology, but 
that do not yet have much experience in the actual practical use of 
OSGeo applications.


Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting 
up a webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data 
using the desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map 
Service using Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all 
together on a interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. 
Barend is using in general the free and open source GIS and webmapping 
applications from the OSGeo LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught 
these workshops and courses in many forms: From very short (2 hours) 
to long (2/3 weeks), either face-to-face or using Distance Learning 
technology.



*Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed 
include: *


*
*

·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff 
-- 24 & 25 
November 2014 -- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized 
especially for members of staff of United Nations (UN) bodies and 
entities.


·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World 
-- 3 October 
2013 -- Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers 
and CartoDB


·EuroSDR EduServ11 Open Standards & 
Open Source WebMapping 
-- 8-19 April 
2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)


Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization 
-- 13 December 2012 -- 
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB


·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff 
 -- 20 & 21 
November 2012 -- Vienna (Austria)


·EuroSDR EduServ10 Open 
Standards & Open Source WebMapping 
 -- 7-18 May 2012 -- 
On-line course (organised by 3rd party)


·Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography 
 -- 24 April 2012 
-- Avignon (France)


·Walk-in Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography 
 -- 5th, 6th & 7th 
July -- Paris (France)


· You can also kob...@itc.nl  to request a 
course to be organised for your organization.


Barend participate in the research activities of the departmental 
Research Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing).



His main research interests are:


- Automated mapping in a services environment, with middleware 
services and Open Web clients (using the D3 library).


- Animated vector map services, using among others the RIMapper WMS 
Open Source platform that he developed.


- The SDIlight concept. The term SDI for Spatial Data Infrastructure 
may be usually connected with (very) large regional or national 
spatial data warehouses, but the principles of SDI can also be applied 
in more simple and cost–effective ways. The down–to–earth approach of 
SDIlight provides students and researchers with a platform for 
relatively simple, low–cost, yet powerful ways of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector

2018-02-04 Thread Suchith Anand 
Hi Cameron,


Thank you for your excellent suggestions. I agree with the steps you mentioned. 
In fact, I send the mail out on these initiatives to create awareness (step 1 
in your mail) and then find ideas from the community to find best way forward .


In UNGGIM though I knew about the Academic Network and its activities , I came 
across the Private sector network only recently. I immediately checked the list 
of organisations listed in their  website and saw many Properitery GIS vendors 
joined and very active (they are very smart) but  I did not see many OSGeo SMEs 
listed there so I immediately emailed the community  to create awareness, so 
those interested join individually  and receive information on its activities. 
It is important there are no monopolies created by anyone , hence having many 
different organisations from different perspectives in all initiatives  is 
important for balance in my humble opinion.


I am new to GEO .  It was only from last 6 months (after I  participated in the 
GEO Plenary) , I became more aware of its excellent work in various domains and 
I realised the importance of spreading Open Principles in this  esp. In 
Capacity Development [1]. In fact, we don’t need formal MoU to do this, we can 
all do this in our individual capacities by spreading Open ideas in all 
networks and initiatives. I have always been doing by best to promote Open 
Principles in Geo when ever I get a chance in whichever forum :-)


Best wishes,


Suchith



[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2018-February/011243.html



From: Discuss  on behalf of Cameron Shorter 

Sent: 03 February 2018 19:45
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector


Suchith, I agree with Marc's points.

I notice a similar discussion on the OSGeo Board thread about joining GEO.


I think there is little value in setting up "trophy" MOUs or becoming members 
of communities unless we have specific community members who are actively 
wanting to get involved. So steps I'd suggest:

1. Find our community members who want involvement

2. If our community members feel that joining some external group will help our 
community be more effective, then OSGeo supports them in the activity.


At the moment, I don't think we have passed step 1 yet.

On 2/2/18 12:03 am, Suchith Anand wrote:

Thanks Marc. I am trying to think ideas to make sure that OSGeo is involved in 
all levels at all different forums for maximising impact. We are very active in 
the UNGGIM Academic Network (thanks to Maria).


https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037059.html


We need to be more active in regional networks in UNGGIM and spread our 
ideas.We need champions to spread ideas in UNGGIM Private Sector and the main 
way to do this is to join these networks . As far as I am aware they are free 
to join at  http://unggim-psn.org/psn-members.html


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Marc Vloemans 
Sent: 01 February 2018 11:43
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector

Thx Suchith,

However I struggle to see the opportunities for SME’s in particular. 
Especially, since these make up for the large part of the present OSGeo 
sponsors.
I think the argument to join the initiative needs to be SMART. Otherwise it is 
a plea in a virtual ocean of requests upon open source businesses.
Apologies, but I can not bolster the argument for joining. Perhaps others on 
the list can help you.

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:33 heeft Suchith Anand 
> het 
volgende geschreven:


Hi Marc,


I do not have any expertise in this but seeing all the companies who have 
joined this already ( including many proprietary GIS companies),  it is 
important that SMEs in the OSGeo ecosytem should be part of this to make sure 
there is balance of opportunities for everyone.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Marc Vloemans >
Sent: 01 February 2018 11:24
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector

Hi Suchith,

What would be the business value of joining as an SME or other (commercial) 
company?

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:09 heeft Suchith Anand 
> het 
volgende geschreven:

I was looking at UNGGIM Private Sector website and I didn’t much  presence of 
commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem in the UNGGIM Private Sector Network.

There are lot of SMEs in the OSGeo ecosystem and I think this will be a good 
opportunity for

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM Geospatial Devroom - Live stream

2018-02-04 Thread Anne Ghisla 
Hello all,

the geospatial devroom in FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) just started!
You can follow us on the live stream:
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/

or later watch the video recordings that will be made available on
FOSDEM website.

All the best!

Anne


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