[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting version 3.6.2 release
Hello pgRouting community, The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting version 3.6.2 The latest release is available at [1] For discussions on the release, go to [2] To see all issues & pull requests closed by this release see the Git closed milestone for 3.6.2 on Github. [3] Upgrade fix The upgrade was failing for same minor Code fixes Fix warnings from cpplint Others Adjust NEWS generator Name change to NEWS.md for better visualization on GitHub To update your database Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this command in the database: ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "3.6.2"; [1]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/latest [2]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/discussions/2630 [3]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.6.2%22 -- Regards, pgRouting Team. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2023 Prizren - recordings are available in the TIB AV-Portal
Hello, we are happy to share the news that the recordings from FOSS4G 2023 Pizren (https://2023.foss4g.org/) are now available in the TIB AV-Portal. Thanks a lot to the TIB team (https://www.tib.eu/de/) for their effort and support. The series doi is as follows: https://doi.org/10.5446/s_1671 Read the Final press release from the FOSS4G 2023 Local team to learn more about FOSS4G 2023 - https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2023-prizren-the-spirit-went-from-kosovo-to-the-world/ If you have a look at the publisher FOSS4G you will find many recodings from past FOSS4Gs - https://av.tib.eu/publisher/FOSS4G We hope to see you at one of our next events https://www.osgeo.org/events/ About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with Camptocamp, GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, WhereGroup and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ -- Best regards Astrid Emde - Astrid Emde OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is there a place to post local chapter meeting announcements on the OSGeo site?
Hello Bob, you also could add an event to https://www.osgeo.org/events/ You need editor rights to do that. So if you would like to go this way please ask Vicky or me for the rights. You also could promote the event via a blog registered at https://planet.osgeo.org/ Hope that info helps Astrid Emde Am 19.02.2024 15:35 schrieb Vicky Vergara via Discuss: Hi Bob I suggest: use the wiki. For example on the wiki page of the local chapter you can have a section about meetings and individual pages for the meetings For example Page that has a meetings section: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Meetings [3] Page that has the meeting minutes: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-02-27 [4] Regards Vicky On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 9:48 AM Bob Basques via Discuss wrote: All, I think I’ve asked this before, but is there a place on OSGeo to announce local chapter meetings that are coming up? Thanks Bobb Get me in Teams [1] PW19-S295-C024 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [2] Links: -- [1] https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Meetings [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-02-27 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Location global FOSS4G 2025
Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community, We are happy to announce that the call to organize our international "Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2025" is open. We accept bids from any region of the globe. COVID-19 is more or less history but the world is still facing important challenges. That's why OSGeo is committed to stand by the hard working LOCs to provide all the needed support to make the 2025 event a successful, true meeting of the tribes! Please find all details on our wiki page [1]. In case that you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask the Conference Committee [2]! May the FOSS4G be with everyone, Vasile & Msilikale, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference Committee [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2025_Bid_Process [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2023 Prizren – the spirit went from Kosovo to the world
News item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2023-prizren-the-spirit-went-from-kosovo-to-the-world/ 2024-01-06 Final press release from the FOSS4G 2023 Local team With this final press release we would like to wrap up FOSS4G 2023 and look forward to the next year with more events to come. FOSS4G 2023 numbers - We would like to provide some numbers. -Workshops – 44 -Presentations – 274 -Academic talks – 36 -Participants 683 out of 733 -Countries – 56 -Travel grants – 34 -Studentship grants – 34 -Volunteers – 68 -~210 hours video -Coffee 20 KG of coffee was sold out FOSS4G 2023 was the next level for the local team - https://2023.foss4g.org/ Kosovo Open Source Community is existing since 2009, we tried to go as much as we could in FOSS conferences in general, but it was always hard for us to travel because of Visa and related issues. The organizing of FOSS4G 2023 was a next level activity for our organization in Kosovo. It was of a high importance, for both the local reach regarding FOSS and Geospatial software, also for the global impact that the conference has. In advance Besfort Guri, the Conference Chair, for many years has been trying trying to explain the importance and and the spirit of the OSGeo family / community, but without “touching” and being part of it, it was harder to understand and resonate with. We are sure that the local team and the volunteers are still living with the energy of FOSS4G and are willing to contribute and be active in the global community. Because of missing a big hall for hosting +700 participants at the same time, we created an outdoor stage and we also needed to find a solution for the Gala Dinner. The outdoor stage was a great success and was used for keynotes, talks, the Gala Dinner and an amazing concert. We tried to do our best and from the feedback that we received it was quiet good. Another thing that was new in Prizren. We discovered that our community is multi-talented and enjoys Karaoke. So we had great parties. Also the 24-hours bar was special and needed as we were active day and night. Valmir Mustafa the Project Manager of FLOSSK wrote in a letter to the OSGeo board “We would also like to thank the OSGeo Community for this valuable opportunity to host FOSS4G in Kosovo. Your support has been instrumental in empowering FLOSSK to strengthen its team and further promote and advocate for open-source GIS in Kosovo. This journey wouldn’t have been possible without your help. Thanks again for your trust and partnership.” We would like to thank all people involved organizing FOSS4G 2023 Videos - You find the videos of the talks at our FOSS4G Youtube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@FOSS4G 279 videoas were uploaded. From from the statistics it looks like many people enjoyed the videos already. We hope you like the videos and get valuable information. We would like to spread the world and we hope you will learn about our great software and our community. Presentation files All the presentations are accessible in the following link: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/2P4dfmn5D4xZCno How to navigate in the link above -All the presentations refer to the published agenda https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/schedule/# -From the agenda find the presentation that you want to look up -Note the room name and the date of the presentation -In the cloud link, select first the room or the building (in case of C/D/E/F) & after it the date of the presentation inside -Inside that folder should be all the presentations which are uploaded by presenters, some of them used their own laptops and we do not have them. Photo gallery --- We are pleased to share the photo gallery from FOSS4G 2023, captured by our team. https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/28W5c2MckpxPo9R In the gallery, you will find a collection of photos that highlight the essence of FOSS4G. From inspiring keynote sessions and interactive workshops to lively networking events and social gatherings. But that’s not all! We want YOU to be part of the FOSS4G 2023 story. We invite all participants, speakers, volunteers, and organizers to contribute their own photos from the conference. Share your favorite moments, interactions, and highlights by uploading your photos directly to this link: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/AKor5CGdQZXobtP. Let’s create a collective visual narrative of this remarkable gathering! New initiative Open Spatial Kosovo -- Open Spatial Kosovo is a new initiative that was started immediately after the FOSS4G event in Prizren by FLOSSK and map enthusiasts to support and increase OSGEO and Open Street Map activities in Kosovo. Considering Kosovo’s small size, our
[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome mappyfile as official OSGeo Community Project
2023-09-28 news item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcome-mappyfile-as-official-osgeo-community-project/ OSGeo is pleased to welcome mappyfile as official OSGeo Community Project. https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mappyfile/ mappyfile is a Python library that can be used to create, parse, modify, and format MapServer Mapfiles. It was first released in 2017 and presented at FOSS4G Europe that year. It has been continually developed since. With a new official version 1.0 released to celebrate becoming an OSGeo Community Project. Tom Kralidis (OSGeo Board member) says, “it is exciting to see mappyfile in the OSGeo Community project ecosystem. mappyfile makes MapServer mapfiles fully composable with minimum dependencies. This has proven very flexible and powerful for projects with real-time and automated workflows. Congratulations and welcome mappyfile!”. mappyfile can be used to easily update and adapt Mapfiles for different environments and datasets. It is a Python library with no dependencies on MapServer and can easily be deployed to reformat and validate Mapfiles as part of a continuous integration pipeline. mappyfile includes Mapfile schemas for different versions of MapServer allowing Mapfiles to be easily migrated to newer versions of MapServer. If you are using many Mapfiles across different environments and projects please give mappyfile a try! An online-editor built on mappyfile is available at https://app.mapserverstudio.net/. Source Code https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile Documentation https://mappyfile.readthedocs.io/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2024 has been awarded to Belém, Brazil
We are very happy to share the great news that the 2024 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G) has been awarded to Belém (Brazil). FOSS4G (https://foss4g.org/) is the annual event organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) since 2006 and one of the largest global meetings on geospatial software of the year. In 2024 FOSS4G will take place at the beginning of December in Belém (Brazil). After the announcement of the voting result of FOSS4G 2024 the local team announced the following message: "Dear, It is with great joy and enthusiasm that we receive the news of the acceptance of the FOSS4G application in Brazil! On behalf of the entire local team, we would like to express our deep gratitude for the recognition and the opportunity to host this prestigious event. This achievement is the result of a collaborative effort, months of dedication, and careful planning. Knowing that our efforts have been acknowledged and that we will have the honor of welcoming the FOSS4G community is a reason for celebration for all of us. The local team is overflowing with happiness and commitment to ensure that FOSS4G becomes a memorable and enriching event for all participants. Our mission now is to exceed all expectations and provide a welcoming, inspiring, and full-of-opportunities environment for learning and networking. Our next step will be to coordinate all logistical details, prepare a diverse and exciting program, and ensure that every aspect of the event is aligned with the values and objectives of FOSS4G. We deeply appreciate the trust placed in us and eagerly look forward to welcoming everyone involved. We believe that the combination of the richness of our local culture with the global knowledge of the FOSS4G community will result in an enriching and unique experience for all. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information, suggestions, or ideas that can contribute to the success of this event. We can hardly wait to welcome you here in Brazil and share this memorable moment. Once again, thank you for allowing us to be part of this incredible event. With gratitude and enthusiasm, Tatiana, Andrea, and the team" The global event FOSS4G 2024 (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) will be hosted in Brazil for the first time, taking place in the enchanting city of Belém, in the state of Pará, located in the heart of the Amazon! The local organizing committee (LOC) will be comprised of passionate Brazilians experienced in OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) technologies, along with the Geoinquietos Argentina team, all working together to make this event even more incredible! Keep your calendars free from December 1st to 8th, 2024, as those will be the days we gather for a week filled with learning, networking, and exciting discoveries. Get ready to dive deep into the latest trends in open-source technologies, all amidst the vibrant energy of Belém. This is a moment of celebration for our community, where the people by open source, geospatial information and collaboration come together in one place. Don’t miss the opportunity to make part of history at FOSS4G 2024 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. The Amazon is ready to become the epicenter of open source geospatial technologies, and you are the protagonist of this exciting journey! News Item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2024-has-been-awarded-to-belem-brazil/ FOSS4G Event Page https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-2024-belem-brazil/ See you at FOSS4G 2024 in Belém Brazil About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with Wherobots, OPENGIS.ch, Camptocamp, GeoCat, WIGeoGIS, WhereGroup and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapters - BRAZIL
Hello Tatiana, gret that you want to form an officialk local chapter for Brazil :) Please have a look at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines I checked the mailing lists list. There is already a mailing list for Brasil. https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brasil If you check the archive you can already see some activity. Please feel free to update the wiki page and invite more people to get involded https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Brasil Please send a mail to the board too (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board) to get approved.. When the chapter is approved you can create a local chapters page an invite others to get connected https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/ All the best Astrid Am 13.07.2023 22:52 schrieb Tatiana Pará via Discuss: Hello, I would like to initiate a local chapter in Brazil, and while reading the instructions for starting Local Chapters, I noticed the indication to send this first email. The intention is to register the local chapter in Brazil, considering that we have been in existence since 2009 and that our activities and involvement have started to gain momentum in the past year. I would like to present our wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Brasil [1] Could you kindly let me know what I can do to get started and follow the future steps? Best regards, -- TATIANA PARÁ M. DE FREITAS Agrônoma, especialista em Geotecnologias Mestre em Desenvolvimento Rural e GEAE Profª E.B.T.T. do Instituto Federal do Pará - IFPA Fundadora do projeto Meninas das Geotecnologias _Rising Stars_ 2023 - Geospatial World forum Membra oficial _the Open Source Geospatial Foundation_ – OSGEO Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8346985753324274 [2] Links: -- [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Brasil [2] http://lattes.cnpq.br/8346985753324274 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Howard Butler receives the 2023 Sol Katz Award at FOSS4G 2023 Prizren, Kosovo
See News Item 2023-07-01 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/howard-butler-receives-the-2023-sol-katz-award/ We are honoured to announce that Howard Butler is the recipient of the Sol Katz Award 2023. The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Howard Butler was honoured with the 2023 Sol Katz Award, presented on 30 June 2023 at FOSS4G 2023 in Prizren, Kosovo. This was the 19th year of the award. Howard Butler has a long-standing history of involvement within our community. He was an OSGeo board member and was involved in the early years of the System Administration Committee. Howard is also a member of the project steering committee of 4 different OSGeo projects. You will meet him everytime a codesprint is organized. Howard was part of the group which came with the GeoJSON specification. He is an excellent leader, a mindful developer and a valued friend. Howard Butler has organized the modernization of the documentation of GDAL and PROJ. He was the instigator of the GDAL Barn raising to enhance and refresh the geodetic capabilities of the projects. Howard Butler leads the open source software consultancy Hobu which focuses on LiDAR, point clouds, and geospatial software. He is the proponent of COPC, the cloud optimized point cloud format. On behalf of the OSGeo communities we congratulate and thank Howard Butler for his all his contributions. Thank you Howard About the award The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Read more about Sol Katz at https://www.osgeo.org/community/awards/ The Sol Katz Award Ceremony will soon be online. It will be linked in the news item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/howard-butler-receives-the-2023-sol-katz-award/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Less than 3 weeks to the FOSS4G Community Sprint 2023 - July 1st and 2nd
Dear FOSS4G community, as you all know, in less than3 weeks, between July the 1st and 2nd Prizren will be stage for the gathering of the developers, translators, power users and anyone interested in their most important hands-on meeting of the year: the community sprint of FOSS4G 2023 If you’d like to contribute to FOSSS4G projects together with other contributors, we hope to see you at the FOSS4G Community Sprint during the weekend after the main conference. This is a gentle reminder to add your name and project to this year's wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2023_Community_Sprint The better we get an idea of the number of participants and the better we will be able to organize rooms and supplies. Everyone is welcome. We are looking forward to meeting you! The Codesprint Organization Committee https://2023.foss4g.org/community_sprint/ See you at FOSS4G soon! https://2023.foss4g.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Request for volunteer for co-news editor for OSGeo
Hello Jorge, great that you will come back to the news team. Welcome back. We did not change the process. Do you still get the mails to news_i...@osgeo.org? There is no room for coordination yet. Yes - please create a room for transparency. In the meantime we are also present in the fediverse. All information should be here. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue If someone else would like to join the news team. You are welcome to join. See you Astrid Am 13.05.2023 02:07 schrieb Vicky Vergara via Discuss: Hi Jorge, Thanks, we appreciate your support, Astrid will be in touch with you soon to get you into the ropes of the work. Regards Vicky On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 4:18 AM Jorge Sanz wrote: Hi Vicky, Astrid Happy to get back to the team and start taking news to post on the website and the announce mailing list again. I can also help with social media as well. I'm usually around on the SAC and General Matrix chatrooms. Is there a dedicated room to coordinate this kind of thing? If not, should we create one for transparency? Best regards El jue, 11 may 2023 a las 21:39, Vicky Vergara via Discuss - discuss at lists.osgeo.org [3] escribió: Hello everyone, We are looking for a volunteer to help Astrid with the OSGeo News If I am not mistaken, tasks involved are: - Handle social media, like tweeter, linkedin, etc - Add News to: - https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ [1] - https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/announce [2] Please contact Astrid for more information. Regards Vicky Vergara -- Jorge Sanz http://jorgesanz.net [4] Links: -- [1] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/announce [3] http://lists.osgeo.org [4] http://jorgesanz.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations 2023
see news Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2023/ 8 May 2023 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2023 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early FOSS4G archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org . Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaward at lists dot osgeo dot org with a description of the reasons for this nomination (after sending, please wait for the moderator to accept your message). Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day May 26th Anywhere on Earth. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2023 event in Prizren, Kosovo. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. Past Awardees: 2022: Sandro Santilli 2021: Malena Libman 2020: Anita Graser 2019: Even Rouault 2018: Astrid Emde 2017: Andrea Aime 2016: Jeff McKenna 2015: Maria Brovelli 2014: Gary Sherman 2013: Arnulf Christl 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan 2011: Martin Davis 2010: Helena Mitasova 2009: Daniel Morissette 2008: Paul Ramsey 2007: Steve Lime 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee 2023: Jeff McKenna (chair) Frank Warmerdam Markus Neteler Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Venkatesh Raghavan Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman Maria Brovelli Andrea Aime Astrid Emde Even Rouault Anita Graser Ariel Anthieni Sandro Santilli Extended Program Text The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Solomon Stuart Katz aka Sol 1947-1999 Background Sol Katz was born in Sweden (on August 3rd, 1947) and moved to NY at the age of 1. Yiddish was his first language, but he was amazingly bright, and learned both Hebrew and English quickly. After high school, he spent three years in the US Air Force, stationed in Germany, where he picked up yet another language. Following his brief military career, he decided to go to Brooklyn College in NY where he got his Bachelors in Geology in 2.5 years. He then married his wife Hedy in 1969, and went back to Brooklyn College while teaching in NY Public Schools and got his MA, also in Geology. After several years working for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in several states, he settled down in Lakewood, CO and decided to go back to school at the University of Denver in Computer Science and earned a second masters. At this time, he also had two children - Shanna and Risa. He was well loved in his office, at his children's school, and at home. Always full of laughter and good humor, Sol could easily be recognized by his flamboyant Hawaiian shirts and toucan or propeller hats. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. Open Source - Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities. In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This software was arguably the first open source GIS
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] OSGeo code sprint at Big Data from Space 2023, November ?
Hello Codrina, sounds like a very good idea to me. Astrid Am 28.04.2023 15:46 schrieb Codrina Maria Ilie: Dear OSGeo community, The European Commission through the Joint Research Center, the EU Satellite Center and the European Space Agency organize the Big Data from Space 2023 - BiDS 2023 between 6-9 November, in Vienna, Austria (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/). In the context of the increasing very good interactions between OSGeo and both the EC and ESA, we've approached one of the organizers to inquire whether it could be an opportunity to have an OSGeo code sprint during the event. We've received a very positive response from their side, proposing multiple ways in which they could support the initiative, such as having an OSGeo dedicated room at the venue for us to organize ourselves or proposing a Satellite Event (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/satellite-events). The discussions are still in a very early phase and to go further we'd like to see if there is interest from the community for a Code Sprint in November. Greetings from Bucharest, Codrina on behalf of the OSGeo Board. ___ Projects mailing list proje...@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/projects ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release 98: OSGeoLive translation moved to weblate. Please get involved!
Press Release 98: 30. March 2023 OSGeoLive translations will soon move from transifex to a OSGeo hosted deployment of weblate [1]. Please do not translate at transifex [2] anymore. Please join the translation team. You only need your OSGeo-ID to login. If you do not have an OSGeo-ID please have a look at: Create your own OSGeo-ID here https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create . You can ask Vicky for the mantra. Please send a mail with subject "mantra for OSGeoLive" to vicky (dot) vergara (at) osgeo (dot) org. And please read the Getting started guide before https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ It is easy to translate via weblate. And you will discover that it is fun. And you will see that there are other projects already. https://weblate.osgeo.org/projects/osgeolive/ You find the instructions for translators here: https://weblate.osgeo.org/projects/osgeolive/#information We can always add new instructions, give us feedback based on your experience on weblate. Please subscribe to: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive-doc where we, translators and documentation reviewers, can interact. Some languages are already available on weblate. Others are on the way, by getting translations done on transifex: - sv - pt - nl - tr - zh Some we haven't decided yet as not much work was done in transifex, but if you are up to the task, we can also get what has been translated on transifex: - polish - russan Please note that we do not use language extension any more, for example, only "pt" and not "pt_BR". You are welcome to join our team! It is one possibility to give something back to the project you like. Contact us --- If you would like to add a new project or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [3] or meet us on Jitsi [4] at our weekly meetings (Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC) or join the mailing list. About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. The OSGeoLive team. [1] https://weblate.osgeo.org/projects/osgeolive/ [2] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [3] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki [4] https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoLive [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2023 - Prizren, Kosovo is where it's at!
News Item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2023-prizren-kosovo-is-where-its-at/ FOSS4G 2023 - 26 June - 2 July 2023 Prizren, Kosovo https://2023.foss4g.org Hey there FOSS4G community, We know you've been waiting for this, and we're beyond excited to announce that 2023 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G) will be hosted by FLOSSK in Prizren, Kosovo! Before we dive into all technical FOSS4G stuff, let's talk about where we're gonna be doing it. Prizren, Kosovo is not just any ordinary city, it's a cultural hot spot with a history that'll have you feeling some type of way. Trust us, you're gonna wanna take a break from all the tech talk and explore this place. And the best part? We're taking over the Innovation and Training Park, located right in the city's heart. So not only will you be leveling up your FOSS4G skills, but you'll also get to experience the best that Prizren has to offer. It's like a vacation and a conference in one - how sweet is that? ️ But enough about the location, let's talk about what you really came here for: the details. We know you're chomping at the bit for details on the schedule, keynote speakers, and sponsorships. So here's the deal: head on over to our website: https://2023.foss4g.org/ and sign up for our newsletter. That way, you'll be the first to know when all that information becomes available. And don't forget to follow us on social media for all the latest updates: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. Now, onto the good stuff. We're currently accepting submissions for: Academic Papers We're excited to announce that the call for academic papers is now open for the International Conference on Free and Open-Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2023. We're looking for abstracts on open-source tools and technologies for geospatial data management and analysis. And the best part? Following the FOSS4G tradition, your papers will be published in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your research and connect with the geospatial community. Head on over to our website https://2023.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic-track for more information and to submit your abstract. The deadline for abstract submission is February 19th, so don't wait!" ️ Call for Papers Got something to say about FOSS4G projects, applications, or best practices? Propose a presentation, tutorial, or workshop and share your knowledge with the community. And trust us, the community is all ears: https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/cfp Registration It's finally here! Early bird registration is available until April 30th, so don't miss out on the discounted rate: https://2023.foss4g.org/register/ Call for Sponsors Being a sponsor of FOSS4G 2023 provides a unique opportunity to showcase your brand to a targeted audience of geospatial professionals, network with key players in the industry, and support the development and promotion of free and open-source geospatial technology. Don't miss out on this opportunity to reach a fresh and relevant audience while supporting the geospatial community. Sponsorship opportunities are open until May 31st. Visit our website https://2023.foss4g.org/sponsors/ to learn more and secure your spot. With an estimated attendance of 1000 participants and more than 100 companies, this is a great opportunity for your business to be seen and heard. Travel Grant & Studentship Programm Announced The Prizren Local Organizing Committee for the FOSS4G 2023 conference is excited to announce the launch of our Travel Grant and Studentship Grant programs. The conference, which is one of the most important events in the geospatial world, is committed to making the event as accessible as possible and promoting diversity and inclusion. https://2023.foss4g.org/blog/travel-and-studentship-grant We can't wait to see you in Prizren! 珞 Best, The FOSS4G 2023 Team P.S: Don't forget to use the hashtags #FOSS4G2023 #Prizren2023 when you post about the event! FOSS4G 2023 - 26 June - 2 July 2023 Prizren, Kosovo https://2023.foss4g.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 17th Birthday OSGeo
Happy 17th Birthday @OSGeo! 17 years ago today was the first ever meeting of the OSGeo foundation in Chicago USA. Thanks to those passionately involved back then & the thousands contributing since. Find some pictures in the news item from the 15th brithday in 2021 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/happy-15th-birthday-osgeo/ Read the initial press release https://web.archive.org/web/20090209052731/http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html Congratulations! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 16.0
OSGeoLive starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 16.0 12. January 2023 Are you interested in joining our Open Source GIS experience? alpha1 version has been released -- The build cycle for the next OSGeoLive release 16.0, has started. Our base operating system for the new version is Lubuntu 22.04.1. The first alpha version of OSGeoLive 16.0 has been released. Please download [1], test and report any issues found [2]. The final version is planned to be ready in May 2023. Please have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [3]. Until then we have many challenges - from simple to challenging, to help describe and train people in the value of Open Source GIS. We are looking for new projects -- For this release, we hope to help OSGeo Community projects join OSGeoLive, and work out how we can keep within our size constraints. You are welcome to join our team! -- Are you a programmer or packager with experience in one of the Open Source GIS applications? Are you a technical writer interested in making FOSS4G accessible to all? Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [3] [4]? Contact us -- If you would like to add a new project or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [7] or meet us on Jitsi [8] at our weekly meetings (Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC). About OSGeoLive -- OSGeoLive (https://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. The OSGeoLive team. [1] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/16.0/ [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10 [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [4] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [6] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [7] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki [8] https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoLive ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoStyler Code Sprint 2023 - 08.-12.05.2023 in Bonn, Germany
2023-01-08 News item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geostyler-code-sprint-2023/ Information from the GeoStyler team: It's all about style We are happy to announce our second public GeoStyler Code Sprint! The Code Sprint will be held from 08.-12.05.2023 in Bonn, Germany. This time the Code Sprint will be a hybrid event, so people can participate online or on site. There are many things that can be improved to make GeoStyler even better, this is the time to participate! We welcome everyone who is interested in coding, writing tutorials or documentation, community building and/or improving GeoStyler in general. To register for the Code Sprint, you can simply write an email to repo...@geostyler.org and we will get in touch with you. We are excited to meet you! See the fantastic results of the last Code Sprint in 2022 https://geostyler.org/codesprint-2022/ The GeoStyler Core Team ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2022
News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2022/ Welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members 2022! In 2022, we had 37 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 225 votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (230 in 2021, 304 in 2020, then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2022. We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as OSGeo Charter Members: Bianca Federici from Italy Seabilwe Tilodi from South Africa Tomas Holderness from United Kingdom Besfort Guri from Kosovo Markus Mayr from Austria Darafei Praliaskouski from Belarus Daniel Baston from United States Lars Schylberg from Sweden Hans van der Kwast from Netherlands Federica Gaspari from Italy Torsten Friebe from Germany Amy Burness from South Africa Stefan Blumentrath from Norway/Germany Krishna Lodha from India Hannes Reuter from Luxembourg Johannes Kröger from Germany Simeon Fitch from United States Francesco Frassinelli from Norway Wladimir Szczerban Llatas from Spain/Venezuela Paul van Genuchten from Netherlands Jordi Escriu from Spain Raymond Nijssen from Netherlands Lorenzo Stucchi from Italy Nestor Gustavo Lopez from Argentina Melvin Lizano Araya from Costa Rica Walter Shilman from Argentina Tatiana Pará Monteiro de Freitas from Brazil Ben Hur Pintor from Philippines Marian Neagul from Romania Harissou Sant-Anna from France Harry McCormack from United Kingdom Mariana Gasparotto from Argentina Emma Hain from Italy Claudia Vitolo from Italy Julien Moura from France Stefanie Lumnitz from Italy Ivan Ivanov from Bulgaria You are welcome to find out about our new members at the following page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2022 See the full list of the OSGeo Charters member and find a link to every profile page there https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ OSGeo now has a total number of 520 members from 67 countries. Thanks a lot to Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Vicky Vergara and Vasile Craciunescu (2022 OSGeo Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2022. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive Version 15.0 Released
31. October 2022 see News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeolive-15-0-released/ The OSGeoLive team are proud to announce the release of version 15.0 of the OSGeoLive GIS software collection. http://live.osgeo.org Release Highlights Highlights for this release include: -Based on Lubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish [4] -New application ETF https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/ETF_overview.html -Version updates [3] to most of the included packages. -The Virtual Machine version now includes applications that could not fit into the iso version. List of VM only applications available here. -Improved documentation supporting the languages: English | Deutsch | Español | Suomen kieli | Français | Italiano | 日本語 | Hungarian. OSGeoLive 15.0 is ready to be used at events (https://www.osgeo.org/events/) Download [1] Download the OSGeoLive 15.0 image at https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be tried without installing anything. It includes: -Close to 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured -Free world maps and sample datasets -Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application -Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script -Translations to multiple languages Credits Hundreds of people have [12] directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. Thank you to all involved. Sponsoring organisations - OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included applications. - Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support. - Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, provides hardware resources and development support. - The Debian GIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. - Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso images. Contact us If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. [11] OSGeoLive team About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, camptocamp and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. https://osgeo.org [1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10 [3] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4 [4] https://lubuntu.me/ [5] Schedule https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?ouid=117562597770546956812=sheets_home=true [6] Packages https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit#gid=690914723 [7] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [8] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [9] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [10] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki [11] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html [12] https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Sandro Santilli receives the 2022 Sol Katz Award at FOSS4G 2022
See News Item 2022-09-19: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sandro-santilli-receives-the-2022-sol-katz-award/ (sorry for the late announcement) We are honoured to announce that Sandro Santilli is the recipient of the Sol Katz Award 2022. Sandro Santilli was honoured with the 2022 Sol Katz Award, presented on 26 August 2022 at FOSS4G 2022 in Firenze, Italy. This was the 18th year of the award. Sandro (aka strk) has been contributing to OSGeo and open source geospatial software for over 20 years in various ways. He is the chair of the GEOS steering committee, a long term core contributor to PostGIS and QGIS, and a mentor to many. Sandro also shapes and maintains OSGeo infrastructure as a volunteer on the OSGeo systems administration committee. He is seen as a mentor and guide by his peers, always reminding us to look beyond the idea of software for free, and toward truly empowering the geospaital community through open source software: “He is the nagging voice that reminds you that FOSS is about freedom to choose and putting the power of change in the users hands, and the dangers of settling for freeware instead of working toward a truly free alternative.” – Regina Obe Sandro also reminds us that open software and the OSGeo community is built, and maintained, by people who contribute to it: “I don’t care if you use Free Software. I care if you contribute to Free Software!” -Sandro Santilli, 2022 Sol Katz Award acceptance speech. About the award -- The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. https://www.osgeo.org/community/awards/ On behalf of the OSGeo communities we congratulate and thank Sandro for his all his contributions. Thank you Sandro The Sol Katz Award Ceremony will soon be online. It will be linked in the news item. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Conference resources working group
Hello Luca, hello all, thanks Luca for the idea. I support it strongly. We have such a structure for the FOSSGIS conference too and it helps a lot. I added my name to the page and I am happy to support FOSS4Gs. See you Astrid Am 29.08.2022 07:33 schrieb Luca Delucchi: Dear Conference committee, OSGeo friends; working on the FOSS4G and SotM 2022 organization I was able to see two different types of organization for the two conferences. I really like the idea of having a working group helping the LOC team that OSM foundation has, this helps a lot to simplify the work of LOC. So in these days I spoke with some people about my idea to create a working group in helping the different LOCs to have a successful FOSS4G (mainly the international one but it could also be done with regional if needed, for example setting up or helping with pretalx). Most of the people I spoke with really liked the idea so I added it to the board meeting and all the members supported the idea. I already found some people interested in being part of this working group. This new group is not a replacement of the Conference Committee because they have two different purposes: - the Conference Committee has to put out the bid and choose the best candidate - the Conference resources (final name has to be decided but this is a good proposal of Michael) has to help the chosen candidate to set up a good FOSS4G and simplify the work and it is a operative entity I started a wiki page [0] and I'll be working on that in the next weeks, if you are interested to be part of and support this working group please add your name. I would like to have the first meeting by the end of September, after having a call with FOSS4G 2023 team. [0] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Resources ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive Version 15 rc1 is planned for Tuesday 9. August - feature freeze on Friday 4. August
Hello and greetings from the OSGeoLive team, we are preparing an OSGeoLive Version 15 rc1 for FOSS4G 2022 which will be published on Tuesday 9. August 2022. The final release of version 15 is going to be published later in September 2022. Deadlines for Version 15 rc1: -- 1. documentation freeze for the english version is on Friday 4. August 2022 2. translation progress: Your translations till 4. August will be on the rc1. Please support with the translations on Transifex https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/dashboard/ - Finnish will be part of the rc1 - congratulations to the team. But there is still work to do. - Swedish and turkish are close to get published. Hello Teams. Please hurry up and translate the overview documents first to your langauge. Till the final release in September the translation teams can go on and work on the translations. Please visit to see the translations https://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-doc A lot of work has been done already to get close to Version 15. Thanks to all people involved. We are looking forward to the new OSGeoLive version. See you at FOSS4G 2022 in two weeks in Firenze! https://2022.foss4g.org/ You are welcome to join our workshop 23.08.2022 Setting up a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) with Open Source Software using OSGeoLive https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2022-workshops/talk/XVFSWH/ and our OSGeoLive project report 24.08.2022 14:15–14:45 https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2022/talk/PVRWZY/ The OSGeoLive Team ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Less than a month to the FOSS4G Community Sprint 2022 - August 27th and 28th
Dear FOSS4G community, as you all know, in less than a month, between August the 27th and 28th, the University of Florence will be stage for the gathering of the developers, translators, power users and anyone interested in their most important hands-on meeting of the year: the codesprint of FOSS4G 2022 This is a gentle reminder to add your name and project to this year's wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2022/Community_sprint The better we get an idea of the number of participants and the better we will be able to organize rooms and supplies. And remember, this year we invite seasoned community members to donate time to guide new members through the setup of the development environment or translation tools of their projects. Please state availability in the wiki page. We are looking forward to meeting you! The Codesprint Organization Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 15.0 alpha1 is ready for projects and testing
Press Release 95: 15. June 2022 https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2095 We are happy to announce that the first alpha version of OSGeoLive 15.0 is available. Please download the iso [1] We would like to encourage all projects to test and update their installers if needed. Please test and report any issues found [2]. Changelogs are available at [3]. Version 15.0 will use Lubuntu 22.4 [4]. The final version is planned to be ready in August 2022. Have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [5]. You find a list of the packages. Please update the version for your software [6]. You are welcome to join our team! Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [7] [8]? Contact us -- If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [9] or meet us on IRC Libera.chat channel #osgeolive [10] 24/7 till the release ;) We also have weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 19 UTC https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoLive You are welcome to join us. About OSGeoLive -- OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. OSGeoLive team [1] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/15.0/osgeolive-15.0alpha1-amd64.iso [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10 [3] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4 [4] https://lubuntu.me/ [5] Schedule https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?ouid=117562597770546956812=sheets_home=true [6] Packages https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit#gid=690914723 [7] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [8] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [9] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [10] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS 8.2.0 Released
See News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/grass-gis-8-2-0-released/ GRASS GIS 8.2.0 was released! The 8.2.0 release of GRASS GIS is now available with results from the GSoC 2021 and many other additions. A new grass.jupyter package is now included for interacting with Jupyter notebooks. Single window graphical user interface is available in GUI settings. r.series and three other modules are newly parallelized. Additionally, the release includes a series of scripting, packaging, and reproducibility improvements. For all 220+ changes, see our detailed announcement with the full contributors and list of features and bugs fixed at GitHub / Releases / 8.2.0. Special thanks to GSoC students, their mentors, and first-time contributors! Packages and installers are now available for Windows, macOS, Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo with more coming soon. See more at grass.osgeo.org / News https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2022_06_03_grass_gis_8_2_0_released/ GRASS GIS Team About GRASS GIS - GRASS GIS offers powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software suite. It includes tools for terrain and ecosystem modeling, hydrology, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It comes with a temporal framework for advanced time series processing and a Python API for rapid geospatial programming. GRASS GIS has been optimized for performance and large geospatial data analysis. https://grass.osgeo.org/ About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with Camptocamp, GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology, WhereGroup, GeoSolutions and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 15.0
8. March 2022 Are you interested in joining our Open Source GIS experience? The build cycle for the next OSGeoLive release 15.0, is going to start. Version 15.0 will use Lubuntu 22.4 [1] The final version is planned to be ready in August 2022. Have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [2]. Till then we have many challenges - from simple to challenging, to help describe and train people in the value of Open Source GIS. For this release, we hope to help OSGeo Community projects join OSGeoLive, and work out how we can keep within our size constraints. You are welcome to join our team! Are you a programmer or packager with experience in one of the Open Source GIS applications? Are you a technical writer interested in making FOSS4G accessible to all? Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [3] [4]? Tech writers from The Good Docs Project [5] have offered to write or update quickstarts for us. If you'd like your quickstart updated, then reach out to us. Contact us If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [7] or meet us on IRC at our weekly meeting. About OSGeoLive -- OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. OSGeoLive team [1] https://lubuntu.me/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [5] https://thegooddocsproject.dev [6] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [7] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki#Communication ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM 2022 (Online) - join us in the geospatial devroom an Sunday February 6th 2022
Event page: https://www.osgeo.org/events/geospatial-devroom-at-fosdem-2022-online/ Due to the pandemic FOSDEM 2022 will be an online event like in 2021. We will have a geospatial devroom again and are pleased to invite you to join us there. No registration is necessary. FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM geospatial devroom - Sunday 6. February 2022 10:30 - 14:05+ https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/room/dgeospatial/ - Introducing a new JS+WebGL map library or «why neither Leaflet, OpenLayers nor MapLibreGL meet my needs» (Iván Sánchez Ortega) - Explore OSM data with ARLAS Get instant geo-analytic view of billions OSM data entries (Mohamed Hamou) - Open Geodata Digital Spaces Exploring the digital spaces of OpenStreetMap (Muhammad Saleem) - Fast, robust predicates for geometric algorithms A C++ metaprogramming implementation of fast, robust floating-point arithmetics for geometric predicates (Tinko Sebastian Bartels) - A Better Public Transport App (Ilya Zverev) - Spatial query of coordinate reference systems and its integration with GRASS GIS (Huidae Cho) FOSDEM 2022 schedule - See the schedule to find out about the program in the other rooms: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/ How to join the Geospatial devroom? You find information about how to join here: https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/ About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ See you at FOSDEM 2022 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election 2021 - congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members
Congratulations and all the best to the five new OSGeo Board members. I wish you all the best for your term. Thanks already for all your time and efforts. Thanks a lot also to Tina. It would be great to see you as nominee next year again. And big hug to our great CRO Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla. See you Astrid Am 29.12.2021 19:23 schrieb Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss: News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2021/ 2021-12-29 Congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members. In this cycle of the Board of Directors election, there were five open seats for the 2022 board. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 321 from a total of 497 Charter members casted their votes for the Board of Directors (65% participation). Refer to [1] for more information on the election results. We are happy to announce that the following people were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order): - Adam Steer https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ (Norway) - Codrina Maria Ilie https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ (Bucharest, Romania) - Marco Bernasocchi https://www.osgeo.org/member/bernasocchi/ (Switzerland) - Rajat Shinde https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ (India) - Vicky Vergara https://www.osgeo.org/member/vicky-vergara/ (Naucalpan, Mexico) Codrina Maria Ilie and Vicky Vergara were reelected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2022. Read more about the OSGeo Board of directors [2]. Lastly, the OSGeo Board of Directors and Charter members would like to express their gratitude to Tina Cormier (https://www.osgeo.org/member/cormier/) for her nomination, and the Chief Returning Officers, Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla, for their hard work during the last election cycle. Happy onboarding to the new Board Members and all the best for your term. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2021_Results [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election 2021 - congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members
News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2021/ 2021-12-29 Congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members. In this cycle of the Board of Directors election, there were five open seats for the 2022 board. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 321 from a total of 497 Charter members casted their votes for the Board of Directors (65% participation). Refer to [1] for more information on the election results. We are happy to announce that the following people were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order): - Adam Steer https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ (Norway) - Codrina Maria Ilie https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ (Bucharest, Romania) - Marco Bernasocchi https://www.osgeo.org/member/bernasocchi/ (Switzerland) - Rajat Shinde https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ (India) - Vicky Vergara https://www.osgeo.org/member/vicky-vergara/ (Naucalpan, Mexico) Codrina Maria Ilie and Vicky Vergara were reelected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2022. Read more about the OSGeo Board of directors [2]. Lastly, the OSGeo Board of Directors and Charter members would like to express their gratitude to Tina Cormier (https://www.osgeo.org/member/cormier/) for her nomination, and the Chief Returning Officers, Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla, for their hard work during the last election cycle. Happy onboarding to the new Board Members and all the best for your term. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2021_Results [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2022 (Online) – geospatial devroom Call for Participation - Deadline: 26.12.2021
Hello all, short reminder. You are welcome to submit a talk for the Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2022 ONLINE Deadline: 26.12.2021 See you Astrid Am 09.12.2021 08:44 schrieb Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss: News item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-at-fosdem-2022-online-call-for-participation-for-the-geospatial-devroom/ 2021-12-09 Submission Deadline: 26.12.2021 FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be Online. As in the last year we will have a Geospatial devroom. The Geospatial devroom will be on Sunday 6 February 2022. In 2022 it will be our opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. We hope you will submit a talk or come around at FOSDEM 2022. Call for Participation - Submission Deadline: 26.12.2021 We are looking for you to be part of the geospatial devroom. The geospatial devroom aims to host talks about geospatial topics, GIS, and geodata projects, standards and open data. Please submit your talk till 26 December 2021. About The FOSDEM FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. -FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. -FOSDEM website https://fosdem.org/2022/ -FOSDEM code of conduct https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ New rules / What changes since last year For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online. - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event - Q/A session will be take live - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions - Food and drinks is now allowed during the talks, but you are responsible for cleaning your own space Key dates - Submission deadline: 26 December 2021 - Announcement of selected talks: 31 December 2021 - Conference dates 5 & 6 February 2022 online - Geospatial devroom date: Sunday 6 February 2022 online Desirable topics The Geospatial devroom aims to host talks about all geospatial topics, GIS, geodata projects and open data. The talks can cover the following subjects: - New geo FOSS projects - Update of existing geo FOSS projects - User cases using geo FOSS - Open Geodata or VGI data project - News about Standards Practical General details - The default duration for talks is about 45 minutes including discussion. - If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don’t ! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track. - If the Geospatial devroom is not your first choice, just let us know, and give us a chance to save you a slot. - Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. For accepted talks - Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you a deputy to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. - The deputy will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. The deputy is also responsible to ensure the content is into the system and ready to broadcast. - During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session. Submit a talk Visit the FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website (see account creation bellow) https://penta.fosdem.org/submission Create an “event” and click on “Show all” in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information Your contact Email - The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) select “Geospatial devroom” as the track. - A short abstract of one paragraph - A longer description if you wish to do so - Links to related websites / blogs etc. Account creation If you already have a Pentabarf account, please don’t recreate a new one. If you forgot your password, reset it. If not, follow the instructions to create an account. Contact Us - Twitter: @osgeo - Contact Email: Vissarion Fisikopoulos: fisikop at gmail dot com Astrid Emde: astrid_emde at osgeo org And if you would like the organizing team you are very welcome. About the Open So
[OSGeo-Discuss] HOT is looking for an individual or a firm with expertise in designing web applications for publishing satellite and aerial imagery in the cloud OpenAerialMap
Hello, Our partner Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) asked me to forward this information to our community. HOT is looking to engage the services of an individual or a firm with expertise in designing web applications for publishing satellite and aerial imagery in the cloud. HOT is soliciting proposals for a design consultant to guide the next stage of development for OpenAerialMap. Proposals should be sent by 20 December 2021. See the full scope of work and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3pdygK2 -- Best regards Astrid Emde - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021
Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/ 2021-12-13 OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021. In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2021. We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as OSGeo Charter Members: Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana Maia Williams (2021) Australia John Duncan (2021) Australia Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador Julien Cabièces (2021) France Loïc Bartoletti (2021) France Ashish Kumar (2021) India Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland Linda Kladivová (2021) Czech Republic Nick Bearman (2021) UK Adrien André (2021) France Nicolas Rochard (2021) France Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members. You find a list of all charter members [1]. OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is a summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]). Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021. Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4]. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [2] https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Board of Directors elections: campaigning period (until 2021-12-16)
Hello all, great to see the 6 nominations for the OSGeo board of directors. Thanks a lot to the 6 nominees already. It is great that you volunteer to run for a seat in the board. I wish you all the best for the campain period and for the election. I am looking forward to the campaign period and I am excited to get to know about your vision and your plans for OSGeo. Best regards Astrid - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org Am 10.12.2021 10:01 schrieb Anne Ghisla via Discuss: Dear OSGeo members, We are lucky to have 6 candidates [4] for the OSGeo Board of Directors [1]. We are closing the nomination period now, to prepare and start the campaign period. First of all, we have to thank these volunteers for having accepted the challenge! Candidates are invited to write and share some ideas of what they intend to do as directors, in our wiki at [4] and also by sending their vision to our Discuss list discuss@lists.osgeo.org. The campaign period will take place until 2021-12-16. The updated election calendar is available at [2]. It is a wonderful opportunity to discuss all aspects of our Foundation. We invite everyone to use the Discuss mailing list to ask candidates about things you like to see improved. Best regards, Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs) [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/ [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021 [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2022 (Online) – geospatial devroom Call for Participation - Deadline: 26.12.2021
c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ -- Best regards Astrid Emde ----- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo on the INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2021 - Review
2021-11-29 Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-on-the-inspire-conference-2021-review/ At the end of October 2021 the annual INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2021 took place as an online event (25.-29.11.2021). About INSPIRE - The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. For more information see https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/about-inspire/563 INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2021 - The slogan of the events was “Towards a Common European Green Deal data space for environment and sustainability” OSGeo was invited to join the conference. Codrina Ilie contributed to the panel regarding the modernising INSPIRE within the European Green Deal data space, from a technological and organisational perspective. After a brief introduction to OSGeo, she emphasized on the long-standing collaborations over the years between the INSPIRE and the OSGeo communities. A close look at the solutions available for INSPIRE implementations from the very beginning - be it discovery, download or viewing services, metadata etc. - one easily identifies OSGeo projects. Following in a natural way, OSGeo contributions were constantly made to INSPIRE events, as well as INSPIRE -related topics turned into full day tracks in regional, as well as global FOSS4Gs. Starting with FOSS4G 2019, the European Commission, through the INSPIRE community, has become a partner of the global OSGeo conference (Slides The role of geospatial developer communities in the data sharing ecosystem Codrina Ilie https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/03_codrinailie_osgeo_inspire2021.pdf) Angelos Tzotsos introduced OSGeo and presented an overview of the new OGC API Records standard as a member of the OGC Standard Working Group (SWG). Then, an overview of OSGeo projects and specifically OSGeo catalogue implementations were presented. Slides available: (Slides Angelos Tzotsos OGC API Records: Overview and early implementations https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/05_angelostzotsos_ogc_api_-_records_-_inspire_2021.pdf) You find the program of INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2021 at: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/conference2021/presentations Recordings of the conference are available at menu item “Recordings”: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/conference2021/ Get the JRC Science for Policy Report The JRC Science for Policy Report was published - "INSPIRE - A Public Sector Contribution to the European Green Deal Data Space" "State of play, lessons learned and a vision for the future of INSPIRE: the Public Sector contribution to European Data Spaces and the #GreenDeal data spaceAsien-Australien auf dem Globus" (https://twitter.com/INSPIRE_EU/status/1451459058175782916) You can download the PDF https://europa.eu/!8qH67V In the report our board members (Angelos Tzotsos, Codrina Maria Ilie, Astrid Emde & Tom Kralidis) are acknowledged to have provided contributions on the role and impact of INSPIRE on OSGeo. “[...] The Open Source Geospatial community is actively participating in the development of Open Standards through partnerships with OGC and ISO/TC 211. Specifically in Europe, the INSPIRE Directive has been widely supported and implemented using Open Source Software for over a decade. INSPIRE has provided OSGeo the opportunity to showcase the maturity and effectiveness of implementing open source solutions across the EU.[...]“ (see full text on page 37 in the report). About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo signs the open letter for Public Money Public Code
2021-11-26 Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-signs-the-open-letter-for-public-money-public-code/ OSGeo signs the open letter for Public Money Public Code OSGeo supports the open letter of the Public Money Public Code campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe). The campaign postulates that publicly funded software has to be Free and Open Source Software. OSGeo as a foundation that represents Open Source Software projects supports this initiative. Some of our Local Chapters like FOSSGIS e.V. and Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) already. https://publiccode.eu/openletter/ https://publiccode.eu/ Yours OSGeo Board of Directors About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [devroom-managers] FOSDEM 2022?
Hello, I would volunteer to organize the geospatial devroom at fosdem again. Would be great to have more people in the team. Who would like to join? It is fun and not too much work. Astrid Am 10.11.2021 23:05 schrieb Luca Delucchi via Discuss: Is someone interested in organizing a geospatial devroom at fosdem? I'm sorry but I have no time right this year. -- Forwarded message - From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 21:11 Subject: Re: [devroom-managers] FOSDEM 2022? To: Ludovic Gasc Lemaire Cc: On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 12:08:16PM +0200, Ludovic Gasc Lemaire wrote: I hope you are safe during these challenging times. I might miss something, but I see no announcements about FOSDEM 2022, do you have some problems to organise this edition ? It will be fully online, as an iteration of what we did last time. The request for devroom proposals was issued recently. https://fosdem.org/2022/news/2021-11-02-devroom-cfp/ Deadline this weekend. Alasdair ___ devroom-managers mailing list devroom-manag...@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devroom-managers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2021 Elections
Hello Luigi, hello all, this is a good remark. So please OSGeo charter members update your members page. Some of you may have a wiki advocate page. Please transfer and update the information: https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/ If you have problems with the login on http://osgeo.org Please recheck - OSGeo Services UserID https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/osgeo_userid/ - or Getting started: https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ Astrid Am 15.11.2021 22:24 schrieb Luigi Pirelli via Discuss: I still can find charters member without any presentation or CV. Do we have to allow nominating someone that do not want to present himself? I can find some that I know for their code contribution but without any osgeo profile. I wouldn't vote aoyone wthout presentation. Luigi Pirelli ** * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli [9] * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli [10] * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir [11] * Book: Mastering QGIS3 - 3rd Edition [12] * Hire a team: http://www.qcooperative.net [13] ** On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 13:56, Vicky Vergara via Discuss wrote: Hello all, The nominations to be valid nominations need to have a profile page for the nominee and the person that is nominating on the OSGeo Web site. If you are having problems creating the profile page: * You need to have an OSGeo ID [1] [1] https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/osgeo_userid/ [8] * Then you sign in to the OSGeo website with your ID. If you have any problems with creating the profile don't hesitate to let me know. Regards Vicky On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 9:20 AM Anne Ghisla via Discuss wrote: Dear OSGeo charter members, This year OSGeo elections [1] will start on Nov. 1, 2021, with the nomination period for new Charter Members. The nomination period for Charter Members will be open for two weeks. Candidate review and voting will follow through our electronic voting system. Charter member nomination period starts: Nov. 1, 2021 Charter member nomination period ends: Nov. 14, 2021 Charter member candidate review and voting period starts: Nov. 15, 2021 Charter member candidate review and voting period ends: Nov. 21, 2021 You can see the progress of the nominations on [2]. Please, send your nomination to cro at osgeo.org [1] (not to this list) with the following information: Nominating person: Nominating e-mail: Nominating profile page: Nominee name: Nominee last name: Nominee e-mail: Nominee country: Nominee wiki page (optional): Nominee profile page: Nomination statement: Right after the Charter member elections, we'll proceed with Board elections. We invite you to be proactive from now on and start contacting potential candidates! Important dates for Board election: Board member nomination period starts: Nov. 25, 2021 Board member nomination period ends: Dec. 9, 2021 Board member campaigning period starts: Dec. 10, 2021 Board member campaigning period ends: Dec. 16, 2021 Board member voting period starts: Dec. 17, 2021 Board member voting period ends: Dec. 24, 2021 Warm regards, Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla (your 2021 OSGeo Elections CROs [3]) [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021 [2] [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2021 [3] [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer [4] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [5] -- Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Salzmannstraße 44, 81739 München, Germany Vicky Vergara Operations Research eMail: vi...@georepublic.de [6] Web: https://georepublic.info [7] Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 CEO: Daniel Kastl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [5] Links: -- [1] http://osgeo.org [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021 [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2021 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [6] http://georepublic.de [7] https://georepublic.info [8] https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/osgeo_userid/ [9] https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli [10] http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli [11] https://github.com/luipir [12] https://www.packtpub.com/eu/application-development/mastering-geospatial-development-qgis-3x-third-edition [13] http://www.qcooperative.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting version 3.3.0 released
2021-11-12 News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pgrouting-version-3-3-0-released/ Hello pgRouting community, The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting version 3.3.0 The latest release is available at [1] For discussions on the release, go to [2] To see all issues & pull requests closed by this release see the Git closed milestone for 3.3.0 on Github. [3] Issue fixes #2057: trspViaEdges columns in different order #2087: pgr_extractVertices to proposed #2201: pgr_depthFirstSearch to proposed #2202: pgr_sequentialVertexColoring to proposed #2203: pgr_dijkstraNear and pgr_dijkstraNearCost to proposed New experimental functions Coloring pgr_edgeColoring Experimental promoted to Proposed Dijkstra pgr_dijkstraNear(Combinations) pgr_dijkstraNear(Many to Many) pgr_dijkstraNear(Many to One) pgr_dijkstraNear(One to Many) pgr_dijkstraNearCost pgr_dijkstraNearCost(Combinations) pgr_dijkstraNearCost(Many to Many) pgr_dijkstraNearCost(Many to One) pgr_dijkstraNearCost(One to Many) pgr_dijkstraNear Coloring pgr_sequentialVertexColoring Topology pgr_extractVertices Traversal pgr_depthFirstSearch(Multiple vertices) pgr_depthFirstSearch(Single vertex) To update your database Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this command in the database: ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "3.3.0"; [1]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/latest [2]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/discussions/2213 [3]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.3.0%22 -- Regards, pgRouting Team. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2022 - Call for Participation ist eröffnet
You spreak german? You would like to join the Hybrid FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2022 in Marburg (Germany) or online? You are welcome to make a contribution. FOSSGIS Konferenz 2022 in Marburg and ONLINE – annual german language conference of FOSSGIS e.V. (OSGeo Local Chapter). https://www.osgeo.org/events/fossgis-2022/ Deadline for submissions: 21. 11. 2021: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2022/cfp Hier geht's zum CfP Liebe FOSSGIS- und OSM-Interessierte, die Vorbereitungen zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2022 laufen, der Call for Participation ist eröffnet. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 21. 11. 2021: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2022/cfp Die FOSSGIS, größte deutschsprachige Anwenderkonferenz für freie Geoinformationssysteme und freie Geodaten, wird vom gemeinnützigen FOSSGIS e.V., der OpenStreetMap-Community mit Unterstützung der Philipps Universität Marburg organisiert. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz findet vom 09.-12. März 2022 statt und ist als hybrides Event geplant, dass heißt es ist eine Teilnahme vor Ort in Marburg sowie auch online möglich. An vier Tagen treffen sich Anwender:innen und Entwickler:innen zum gemeinsamen Austausch über Anwendungs- und Einsatzmöglichkeiten und diskutieren neuste Entwicklungen. Die gleichzeitig stattfindende Firmen- und Projektausstellung ermöglicht einen direkten Kontakt zu Dienstleistern und Projekten. Samstag, der 12. März steht im Zeichen des OpenStreetMap-Projekts. An diesem Tag findet mit dem „OSM-Samstag“ eine Unkonferenz der deutschsprachigen OpenStreetMap-Community statt. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz bietet eine Plattform für neue Ideen, Projekte und Erfahrungsberichte und wird größtenteils ehrenamtlich organisiert. Teilnehmer:innen der Konferenz sind sowohl professionelle Anwender:innen genauso wie Begeisterte aus dem GIS-Umfeld, von OpenStreetMap und anderen Projekten. Die Veranstaltung vermittelt Wissen zu Freier und Open-Source-Software für Geoinformationssysteme (FOSSGIS) und Open Data. Die gleichzeitig stattfindende Firmen- und Projektausstellung ermöglicht einen direkten Kontakt zu Dienstleistern und Projekten. Weitere Informationen zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz sind auf der Konferenzhomepage zu finden: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2022. Die Veranstaltung vermittelt Wissen zu Freier und Open-Source-Software für Geoinformationssysteme (FOSSGIS) und OpenStreetMap. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz bedient ein weites Themenfeld, welches unter anderem die folgenden Aspekte umfasst: Grundlagen Open-Source-GIS, OpenStreetMap, Daten, Datenbanken & Datenprozessierung, Routing & Mobilität, Rasterdaten, Fernerkundung, 3D, Drohnen, LIDAR, Kartographie & Visualisierung, Offene Standards, Open Data & Lizenzen sowie Ausbildung und Lehre. Die FOSSGIS besteht aus Vorträgen, Demo-Sessions, Lightning Talks, BoFs und Anwendertreffen, Workshops und bietet Gelegenheit zum Netzwerken. Das neue Onlineformat Expert:innenfragestunde wird ausprobiert. Die Vortragenden entscheiden, ob Sie vor Ort in Marburg oder online vortragen wollen. Das Programm-Komitee der FOSSGIS-Konferenz freut sich auf interessante Einreichungen bis zum 21.11.2021, eine Verlängerung ist nicht geplant. Zum Call for Participation: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2022/cfp Diese Info darf gern weiterverteilt werden. Viele Grüße vom FOSSGIS 2022 Programmkomitee -- Astrid Emde Leitung FOSSGIS 2022 Programmkomitee astrid.e...@fossgis.de FOSSGIS 2022 Konferenz https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2022/ -- FOSSGIS Veranstaltungen https://www.fossgis.de/news/fossgis-events/ FOSSGIS e.V, der Verein zur Förderung von Freier Software aus dem GIS-Bereich und Freier Geodaten! https://www.fossgis.de/ https://twitter.com/FOSSGIS_Verein ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Index for FOSS4G video recordings
Hello Jody, good point. I will check a solution for the resources page. The page was updated: http://video.foss4g.org/ See you Astrid Am 01.11.2021 23:11 schrieb Jody Garnett: It is also an option to make resource pages https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ [5] for any content presenters wish to share. -- Jody Garnett On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 09:28, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss wrote: Hello Ivan, good point. The code is on gitea. https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g/video.foss4g.org [1] I can make a pull request and update the content. Thanks for the info Astrid Am 26.10.2021 17:33 schrieb Iván Sánchez Ortega via Discuss: Hi y'all, I've noticed that the video recordings for the FOSS4G 2021 are up. However, the http://video.foss4g.org/ [2] webpage is not updated (and hasn't been updated for a couple of years already). I don't know who maintains (or who can edit) video.foss4g.org [3] . What's the best way to ping them in order to add links to the 2019 & 2021 playlists? Best, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [4] Links: -- [1] https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g/video.foss4g.org [2] http://video.foss4g.org/ [3] http://video.foss4g.org [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [5] https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Index for FOSS4G video recordings
Hello Ivan, good point. The code is on gitea. https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g/video.foss4g.org I can make a pull request and update the content. Thanks for the info Astrid Am 26.10.2021 17:33 schrieb Iván Sánchez Ortega via Discuss: Hi y'all, I've noticed that the video recordings for the FOSS4G 2021 are up. However, the http://video.foss4g.org/ webpage is not updated (and hasn't been updated for a couple of years already). I don't know who maintains (or who can edit) video.foss4g.org . What's the best way to ping them in order to add links to the 2019 & 2021 playlists? Best, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Malena Libman es la ganadora del Premio Sol Katz 2021.
News item 2021-10-04 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/malena-libman-receives-the-2021-sol-katz-award/ Malena Libman es la ganadora del Premio Sol Katz 2021. El premio fue entregado en la clausura de FOSS4G y entregado a sus amigos y familiares que aceptaron el premio en su nombre desde que lamentablemente perdimos a Malena en abril de 2021 por COVID-19. Es una tradición consagrada de OSGeo presentar el premio anual Sol Katz por software geoespacial gratuito y de código abierto a personas que han demostrado liderazgo en nuestra comunidad. Este año, la ceremonia de premiación fue parte de la conferencia en línea FOSS4G 2021 y fue presentada por los ganadores del año pasado Anita Graser y Even Rouault. La convocatoria de nominaciones está abierta a toda la comunidad de OSGeo y cada año se nominan muchos grandes candidatos. (¡Gracias a todos los que enviaron una nominación!) El ganador es determinado por el Comité de Selección de Premios formado por antiguos beneficiarios del premio. La nominación presentada para Malena quien se destacó se destacó en más de un área, fue firmado por 147 miembros de la comunidad OSGeo. (https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/images/b/b0/Sol-Katz-2021-Malena-Libman-nomination.pdf), La votación final realizada por los anteriores ganadores, quienes representan al comité de selección, mostró un apoyo abrumador para Malena Libman. Malena Libman fue Presidenta de la ONG Geolibres del Capítulo Local de OSGeo Argentina, Presidenta de FOSS4G + SOTM 2017 Argentina. Ella era una especialista en IDE involucrada en la IDE nacional trabajando para construir mejores soluciones FLOSS. Ella inspiró a muchos miembros de nuestra comunidad. Algunas citas de las nominaciones deberían mostrar el gran papel de Malena Libman: “Creemos que el Premio Sol Katz “es el reconocimiento que Malena merecía por su trayectoria y por su incomparable espíritu dedicado a la comunidad, sin embargo, desafortunadamente este año la perdimos a causa del COVID-19”. “Esta solicitud busca honrar, no sólo la memoria de Male, sino también todos sus esfuerzos que en vida realizó para expandir la comunidad geo en Argentina, Latinoamérica y a nivel mundial.” “Fue un referente para muchas personas, especialmente para mujeres en las comunidades geomática y OpenStreetMap, y será siempre recordada como una gran maestra, compañera y por sobre todo, una gran amiga.” El sueño de Malena era FOSS4G 2021 “A través de este premio, queremos agradecer y reconocer sus esfuerzos, su liderazgo siempre tan constructivo como chairwoman de la FOSS4G 2021 (Buenos Aires), su compasión, y al mismo tiempo compartir todo el aprendizaje y conocimientos que ella en vida impartió para todas las comunidades.” “Dentro de sus grandes logros figura su trabajo de investigación sobre la Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (IDE) diseñada por la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la República Argentina (IDERA). Publicaciones También el proyecto de automatización de edición cartográfica para el Instituto de Geografía de la Argentina.”. Los amigos de Malena, Andrea Trovant, Ariel Anthieni y Horacio Castellaro, se unieron a la ceremonia de premiación y recibieron el premio en nombre de Malena. Andrea dirigió unas palabras para recordar a Malena: “Es un honor para mí recibir este premio en nombre de Malena. No solo éramos colegas, también éramos amigos. Sinceramente, es difícil hablar de ella, por eso preparé un texto, en caso de que “Male” ganara el premio… Agradezco al equipo de FOSS4G y su familia estén presentes hoy, escuchando y apoyando un momento tan especial, en el otro lado de la pantalla. La llegada de Malena al mundo geoespacial fue solo por casualidad, en 2011, como parte de su larga búsqueda de su vocación… ¡¡Siempre tuvo curiosidad por el mundo que la rodeaba !! Inició sus estudios en Sistemas de Información Geográfica en la Universidad General Sarmiento de Buenos Aires, convirtiéndose en la primera egresada de la carrera. En esos años, Male participó en un servicio voluntario y presentó su proyecto en el Congreso Nacional de Cartografía. Durante el evento, conoció a los “Geoinquiet@s”, los GeoGeeks, de las comunidades locales. A partir de estos días su carrera fue en ascenso, y fuimos privilegiados de poder ver de cerca su crecimiento. Su experiencia laboral fue infinita, trabajó en el Centro Argentino de Cartografía, en el Programa Nacional Mapa Educativo, en diferentes municipios del estado. Trabajó durante casi 3 años en el Instituto Geográfico Nacional Argentina, mientras se especializaba en Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales. Malena daba talleres de GIS e IDE para diferentes instituciones, ella era parte de Geochicas OSM y realizaba muchas actividades más. Podría hablar de ella todo un día .. Cada paso que daba, siempre estaba promoviendo el software libre y de código abierto y el fortalecimiento de las comunidades geoespaciales. Ni más, ni menos… Formó parte de la
[OSGeo-Discuss] Malena Libman receives the 2021 Sol Katz Award
News item 2021-10-04 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/malena-libman-receives-the-2021-sol-katz-award/ Malena Libman is the Sol Katz Award winner 2021. The prize was presented at the FOSS4G closing session and handed over to her friends & family who accepted the award on her behalf since we sadly lost Malena in April 2021 to COVID-19. It’s a time-honored OSGeo tradition to present the annual Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in our community. This year, the award ceremony was part of the online FOSS4G2021 conference and was presented by last years’ recipients Anita Graser and Even Rouault. The call for nominations is open to the whole OSGeo community and many great candidates are nominated every year. (Thank-you to everyone who submitted a nomination!) The winner is determined by the Award Selection Committee made up by former recipients of the award. The nomination presented for Malena (Nomination Malena Libman https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/images/b/b0/Sol-Katz-2021-Malena-Libman-nomination.pdf) stood out on more levels than just one. It was signed by 147 members of the OSGeo community. The final voting of the past awardees who represent the selection committee showed overwhelming support for Malena Libman. Malena Libman was the President of OSGeo Argentina Local Chapter’s NGO Geolibres, Chair of FOSS4G + SOTM 2017 Argentina. She was an SDI specialist involved in the National SDI working towards building better FLOSS solutions. She inspired so many of our community. Some quotes from the nominations should show the great role of Malena Libman. “We believe that the Sol Katz Award is the recognition that Malena deserved, for her trajectory and for her incomparable spirit dedicated to the OSGeo community; sadly we lost her suddenly in April to COVID-19, may her soul rest in peace.” “This request seeks to honor, not only the memory of Male, but also all of her efforts that she made during her lifetime to expand the geo community in Argentina, Latin America and worldwide.” […] […] “She was a reference for many people, especially women in the Geomatics and OpenStreetMap communities, and she will always be remembered as a great teacher, companion and above all, a wonderful friend.” Malena’s dream was FOSS4G 2021 “Through this award, we want to thank and acknowledge her efforts, her always constructive leadership as chairwoman of the FOSS4G 2021 (Buenos Aires), her compassion, and at the same time share all the learning and knowledge that she imparted in life to all communities.” “Among her great achievements is her research work on Spatial Data Infrastructure (IDE) designed by the Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Argentine Republic (IDERA), as well as the cartographic editing automation project for the Institute of Geography of Argentina.” Malena’s friends Andrea Trovant, Ariel Anthieni and Horacio Castellaro joined the award ceremony and took the award on behalf of Malena. Andrea assigned some words to remember Malena. “It’s an honour for me to receive this award on behalf of Malena. We were not only colleagues, we were friends too. Honestly, it’s difficult to talk about her, (that’s why I prepared a text, in case Male wins the award)… I am grateful that the FOSS4G team and her family are present today, listening and supporting such a special moment, on the other side of the screen. Malena’s arriving to the geospatial world was only by chance, in 2011, as part of her long search for his vocation … She was always curious about the world around her!! Then, she began her studies in Geographic Information Systems at the General Sarmiento University in Buenos Aires, becoming the first graduate of the career. In those years, Male participated in a volunteer service and presented his project at the National Cartography Congress. During the event, she met the “Geoinquiet@s”, the GeoGeeks, from the local communities. From this days, her career was on the rise, and we were the privileged ones to be able to see its growth up close. Her work experience was infinite, she worked at the Argentina Center for Cartography, in the National Educational Map Program, in different municipalities of the state. She worked for almost 3 years at the National Geographic Institute of Argentina, while she focused in Spatial Data Infrastructure. Malena gave GIS and SDI workshops for different institutions, she was part of Geochicas OSM and more and more things.. I could talk about her for a whole day.. At every step she took, she was always promoting free and open source software and the strengthening of the geospatial communities. No more, no less… She was part of the organization of FOSS4G 2016, FOSS4G 2017, FOSS4G 2019. She travelled to represent us at the global FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam, and Bucharest too, but apart from all this, I know how much she deserves to win this award.
[OSGeo-Discuss] Meet us at the Community Sprint at FOSS4G 2021 NOW
Hello everybody, the traditional OSGeo community sprint is today - NOW - Saturday October 2nd, 2021. Please join us in our code sprint room: https://play.workadventu.re/@/osgeo/foss4g/codesprint Note there are seveal jitsi room where you can meet people. Press space to enter the rooms. Meet us in the different rooms or take a seat at the office tables or on the sofas. * OpenSpace (top left) * Meeting (top middle) * Kitchen (top right) * Workshop room - two blue tables You find more information at the OSGeo Wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021/Community_sprint Participation is free of charge and anyone involved or interested in getting involved in OSGeo community projects is welcome to attend. Conference registration is not a prerequisite for participation. You can choose to contribute to one or more projects. The sky is the limit. There’s always plenty to do – and it’s not all about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, and testing are very important for projects! Conference registration is not a prerequisite for participation in the code sprint. See you at the OSGeo Community Sprint at FOSS4G 2021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for FOSS4G 2021 - the conference starts tomorrow
FOSS4G 2021 starts tomorrow! You do not have a ticket yet? Get your ticket and join us for a full week with great content! https://2021.foss4g.org You really should not miss the event! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] The Open Source Geospatial Foundation signs MoU with HOT the HUMANITARIAN OPENSTREETMAP TEAM UNITED STATES INC.
2021-09-13 see OSGeo Foundation News: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/the-open-source-geospatial-foundation-signs-mou-with-hot-the-humanitarian-openstreetmap-team-united-states-inc/ OSGeo and HOT [1] signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the goal of fostering the use of open source geospatial software, to enable participatory community-driven development. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team United States, Inc. (HOT), applies the principles of open source and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic development. Founded in the wake of the Haiti earthquake of 2010, responders and organizations recognized the need for accurate, accessible maps to aid in humanitarian response and the potential for international development interventions. Since then, HOT has utilized its network of tens of thousands of volunteers to contribute to OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world. HOT’s network and tools enable everyone, local or international, to have an impact by putting places and areas home to people on the map. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available at https://osgeo.org and usable under an OSI-certified open source license. Together the organizations have agreed to find synergistic ways to promote common goals. Starting in 2021, HOT and OSGeo will work together to contribute to the following shared objectives: A. OSGeo to communicate about HOT's tools on OSGeoLive (https://live.osgeo.org) B. HOT and OSGeo to promote development of open geospatial communities (e.g. OSGeo chapters and OSM community groups) in HOT priority countries (list of 94 countries). This should include connecting OSGeo local chapters with Open Mapping Hubs supported by HOT in Asia Pacific, Eastern & Southern Africa (ESA), West Africa, and Latin America & the Caribbean, with the goal of facilitating delivery of training and funding (Microgrants) where relevant to OSGeo local chapters. C. HOT to promote use of open source geospatial tools (such as GeoNode and QGIS) in HOT projects and with the humanitarian mapping community D. HOT and OSGeo to show visibility of partners on both sides during events E. HOT and OSGeo to work together over conferences including HOT Summit & FOSS4G Angelos Tzotsos (President of OSGeo) and Tyler Radford (Executive Director of HOT) signed the MOU in August/September 2021. For more information about OSGeo contact bo...@osgeo.org For more information about HOT contact bo...@hotosm.org MoU details at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_HOT About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. [1] https://www.hotosm.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] All 12 OSGeo Students Successfully Pass Google Summer of Code 2021 | Congratulations
Foundation News 2021-09-04 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/all-12-osgeo-students-successfully-pass-google-summer-of-code-2021-congratulations/ Dear all, We are extremely delighted to share that all the 12 OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2021 Students have successfully passed the final evaluation and completed their respective projects [1]. Please join us in congratulating them. We wish them a bright future ahead, expecting their continued contributions in the OSGeo community. :) Moreover, all the 12 OSGeo GSoC students shall be showcasing their work in a special session during the upcoming FOSS4G 2021 [2]. (Save the date!) Let us also thank the OSGeo mentors for their constant guidance and supervision throughout the GSoC. Their hard work and dedication plays a significant role in making this initiative a success. Stay safe and stay healthy! Kind regards, OSGeo GSoC Administration Team [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Results [2] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/DBJQXS/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community program welcomes the PROJ-JNI project
2021-08-20 News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-community-program-welcomes-the-proj-jni-project/ The PROJ-JNI project has been accepted into the OSGeo Community program. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to welcome PROJ-JNI [1] to our Community program. PROJ-JNI is a project that exposes Java Native Interface bindings to the PROJ [2] C/C++ library. The OSGeo Community program recognizes applications and tools that are geospatial, freely available with an open source license, and are setup to collaborate fairly. This program helps OSGeo promote innovation and the hard work of teams and organizations worldwide. About PROJ-JNI -- PROJ-JNI is a project that exposes Java Native Interface bindings to the PROJ C/C++ library, the well-known and widely-used coordinate transformation library that underpins most open-source geospatial coordinate transformations. This project allows JVM ecosystem developers to build directly upon recent and future improvements to PROJ via native bindings, rather than requiring that libraries separately re-implement all projection and transformation functionality in JVM languages. PROJ-JNI currently works with system-installed versions of PROJ, and is currently looking into the feasibility of simplifying the end-user experience via pre-compiled native libraries for different platforms. Source code is hosted on GitHub [3], which also contains documentation, installation, and information about contributing. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation --- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation [4] is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. [1] https://www.osgeo.org/projects/proj-jni/ [2] https://proj.org/ [3] https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI [4] https://www.osgeo.org/about/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for our OSGeo AGM 2021 virtual event on 1 October 2021 14h UTC
Hello projects, committees, local chapter and community, the AGM is coming closer. There are some days left till 2021-08-30 to update your slides and provide your video that will be part of the AGM video that will be published on 2021-09-10. All projects, committees, local chapters should have received a mail with an upload link for their ~1 min video. If you did not get a mail please contact secretary (at) osgeo (dot) org and I will send you a link. Thanks for all the activity so far. See you at the OSGeo AGM 2021. Stay safe, Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ Am 28.07.2021 11:15 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss: Hello OSGeo Community! We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) during FOSS4G on Friday, October 1st 2021 from 14h to 15h UTC. We are happy to meet you at our global FOSS4G conference again, even though it will be virtual, instead of face to face. For 2021, we are introducing a new concept. We would like to publish the OSGeo annual update as a video, in advance of the AGM on the OSGeo YouTube channel [1]. This way, we will have time for an open discussion during the AGM slot at FOSS4G. Thus, all local chapters, projects, committees and initiatives are invited to prepare a short video of 1 MINUTE to present their status report, updates, COVID-19 impact, future plans and last year’s achievements. We hope you like the idea! However, you have to get active in advance, so please take a close look to the timeline below: Timeline - 2021-08-30: send us your video and update the AGM slides [2] - 2021-09-10: AGM 2021 complete video will be published - 2021-10-01: 11h Argentinian Time Zone (14:00 UTC) Join the AGM 2021 meeting at FOSS4G [3] [4] Your AGM video is going to be one minute of fame and shine for our community, so don't let it pass! It is important for all of us to know what is happening everywhere. OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to get a summary of all the amazing work we are doing! Check this wiki page [5] for an overview of the AGM 2021 and for the upload link for your video that we will soon provide. In the wiki, you will find all the important information, but don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Please, don’t forget to also add your information to the AGM slides [2], but make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. If you want to edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let us know and tell us which team you represent so we can provide write access. Spread the information about the AGM 2021 and save the date! We hope to see as many of you at the AGM in October. Stay safe, Angelos Tzotsos President of OSGeo [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw [2] [2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1brbBb7-sKRI6U4dZ7LKnBT_-NnWzyS2TaZqVXzy8RDo/edit#slide=id.p4 [3] [3] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/ [4] [4] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021=10=1=14=0=0=51=26=49=155=217=312=250=71=248=240 [5] [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2021 [6] -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD President Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos [1] Links: -- [1] http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw [3] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1brbBb7-sKRI6U4dZ7LKnBT_-NnWzyS2TaZqVXzy8RDo/edit#slide=id.p4 [4] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/ [5] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021month=10day=1hour=14min=0sec=0p1=51p2=26p3=49p4=155p5=217p6=312p7=250p8=71p9=248p10=240 [6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2021 - Instructions for Packaging your Work and Final Submission Guidelines
Good luck and all the best to all GSoC 2021 students for the countdown! We are looking forward to the results. Astrid Emde -- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org Am 10.08.2021 16:11 schrieb Rahul Chauhan via Discuss: Dear GSoC students, The final evaluation and code submission deadline is approaching. As official GSoC 2021 timeline mentions [1]: Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation: AUGUST 16 - 23 18:00 UTC. We hope that you enjoyed coding with OSGeo, and we are sure that you learned a lot from your mentors and the vibrant OSGeo community. We appreciate your efforts for standing strong during the global tough time and justifying, as they say - _"when the going gets tough, the tough get going". _We are sure that you all must have your great stories associated with GSoC 2021. The final step is wrapping up and packaging your project for final submission. According to Google [2], the basic requirements for code submissions are: * It must be easy to identify the work you have done. (i.e. the changes you made or new code.) When someone goes to the provided URL it should be clear what work you did without requiring them to do significant additional digging. * It should be in a stable location. The URL cannot be changed after submission. * Someone else should be able to use the content at (or referenced from) the target of the link to extend your work. If your work is 100% complete, they should be able to use it. If your work is not 100% complete, it should be clear what's left to do. You are also required to submit your final report to the SOC mailing list. Your final report must include: 1- The title of the project and the software community it belongs to (for hybrid projects indicate all the software involved); NOTE: If your title has changed over the due course of project, then do not forget to update it to the Dashboard and put the final updated title in the report; 2- Abstract: a description of the general idea, motivation, challenges, etc.; 3- The state of the art BEFORE your GSoC. For example, if you made a GUI, you can say: "In the software XYZ, when I wanted to use the tool xxx, I had to manually edit the file yyy"; 4- The addition (added value) that your project brought to the software. In the same example: "With the GUI that I created, now it is possible to use the tool xxx via graphical user interface"; 5- If there is still work to be done on the project, include that too. You can also share highlights or challenging pieces. 6- Add all the permanent links to access the code and documentation for the user to get started with testing your application. "Please test my code following instructions here". (Don’t forget to test that the links are working and do not require special access permissions!) Ensure that the pull request description is detailed. If the pull request is going to have more work done after GSoC is over, make sure the last GSoC commit is noted. 7- At least, add a graphical image that should serve to show the main elements of your project. It could be a flow chart, a screenshot, both, or whatever you think could serve for the scope. REMEMBER: the aim is to showcase your project to people that are not necessarily familiar with the software. The image must be uploaded on a public repository or in the web page / wiki of your project and the link shall be included in your report. 8- Optional: You can add links to videos, blog posts etc. that you have created. (We warmly encourage it. It feels highly elated to see your work or read a blog post in future.) The report must be included as text inside your email (not as a separate attached document, not as a link to an external document). Also, remember to add the link to your project wiki page and add the final report in your wiki. In order to comply with Google’s requirement of A REPORT IN A STABLE LOCATION (THE URL CANNOT BE CHANGED AFTER SUBMISSION), you can either check with your mentors for a suitable URL or submit the URL of your final report. You can find the URL of your final report mail in the SoC Archives (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/ [1]) and then use this permanent link to your final report mail in your GSoC final submission in your dashboard. You must submit your final evaluations (with the submission URL) before AUGUST 23 18:00 UTC. Do not wait until the last minute on August 23. Once you submit your final evaluation, you cannot change it or the final report URL. That URL is what will be public on the GSoC archive site so you should want it to be representative of the work you did this summer. Please reach out proactively to your mentors and to this mailing list in case of any further queries. All the best! Kind re
[OSGeo-Discuss] Join the FOSS4G 2021 Community Sprint on Saturday October 2nd, 2021 - please register
See News Item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-community-sprint/ The FOSS4G 2021 Community Sprint [1] will be right after the global FOSS4G 2021 conference [2] and has the aim to bring people together to discuss and improve OSGeo projects. It will take place online on Saturday October 2nd, 2021, using WorkAdventu.re [3] plus a bounce of Jitsi channels for each project. The Community Sprint offers an excellent opportunity to meet other OSGeo members and get involved in OSGeo projects! It is a golden opportunity for developers and non-developers to meet with the core team of those projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in development, testing or documentation. We follow this tradition since 2009. Since we need to create the Workadventu.re environment, we ask all projects to register on the wiki page by July 15th. Projects that have registered on time will have their own Workadventu.re environment, those that register later will only have a Jitsi channel reported on the community sprint wiki page. The OSGeo Code Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in one or more projects. WorkAdventu.re environment is open only to people registered to FOSS4G 2021 whereas the Jitsi channels are open to everyone. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all about programming; translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing – all this is also important for projects, so everyone is cordially invited to attend the community sprint! The Organizing Team is looking forward to your coming! Please register soon [1] See you at FOSS4G 2021! The FOSS4G 2021 Community Sprint Team [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021/Community_sprint [2] https://2021.foss4g.org/ [3] https://workadventu.re/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSSGIS 2021 conference Online 6.-9. June 2021 (german language)
Hello to all of you - especially to our german language speaking friends, FOSSGIS Konferenz 2020 in Rapperswil and Online – annual german language conference - is taking place right now. 6.-9. June 2021 (german language) FOSSGIS Konferenz is similar to the FOSS4G conference with about 500 participants. The conference is organized by FOSSGIS e.V., OSM Community and a local team. FOSSGIS Konferenz 2021 takes place ONLINE (due to the pandemic) but is still connected to Rapperswil (Switzerland). https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/ Read about FOSSGIS conference https://www.osgeo.org/events/fossgis-2021/ Join the livestream We are lucky that we work together with @c3voc. So we can offer livestream of the talks. You are very welcome to join us in the livestream https://t.co/cQ5X4dhzhw?amp=1 See you Astrid -- - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Statement on Community Standards
2021-05-31 News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-statement-on-community-standards/ The OSGeo Board of Directors issues this statement in response to recent events in the tech and global communities in relation to issues of inclusion, equity, and justice: OSGeo strives to be an open, welcoming, and safe community and, to that end, we continue to work to improve how we treat all members of our community. We believe our community is built on the collective of all of our actions and that each individual has an impact on whether people feel welcome. OSGeo values the contributions of each and every member in all aspects of the organization, including (but not limited to) using and promoting open source geospatial software, contributing code, documentation, event speakers, participating in joint events with other organizations, or within various committees. All participants, regardless of how or where they participate in OSGeo activities, are expected to behave with integrity and respect for all people. We encourage all members to review the Code of Conduct, make necessary adjustments to their behaviors as needed, and to discuss the Code of Conduct within committees and projects. Code of conduct: https://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct/ OSGeo Board of Directors ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 14.0 “Malena” Released - 21. May 2021
OSGeoLive 14.0 "Malena" Released - 25 May 2021 See news item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeolive-14-0-malena-released/ The OSGeoLive team are proud to announce the release of version 14.0 [1] of the OSGeoLive GIS software collection. We would like to dedicate this version to our friend Malena Libman who passed away shortly before OSGeoLive 14.0 was released. FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires was her dream. Farewell Malena, we will miss you. Release Highlights -- Highlights for this release include: - Based on Lubuntu 20.04.1 Focal - New applications pygeoapi, Re3gistry, GeoStyler. - Version updates to most of the included packages [2]. - The Virtual Machine version now includes applications that could not fit into the iso version. List of VM only applications available here. - Additional Python modules like Fiona, rasterio, cartopy, pandas, geopandas, mappyfile, Jupyter. - Improved documentation and four new translations, now supporting: English | Deutsch | Español | Suomen kieli | Français | Italiano | 日本語 | Hungarian. - 100 % translation to Hungarian. Zoltán Siki, one of the Hungarian translators, pointed out the need for the translation and will use it at GIS courses at University in Budapest. - 100 % translation to Spanish. Special thanks to Martha Vergara that did 99% of the translation. - Command line introduction. - Improved Quickstart for OpenStretMap? thanks to Enock Seth Nyamador. Marco Minghini, Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission, says "Open source geospatial software is a key building block of many data infrastructures managed and operated by the European Commission, powering high-level, pan-European initiatives such as INSPIRE and Copernicus. The role of OSGeoLive to teach and promote the use of open source geospatial software has no equivalent. Big thanks to OSGeo and the OSGeoLive team!" OSGeoLive 14 is ready to be used at events. It will be used at FOSSGIS Konferenz 2021 [3] in June and FOSS4G 2021 [4] in September 2021. Download - Download the OSGeoLive 14.0 image at https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html [5] About OSGeoLive - OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be tried without installing anything. It includes: - Close to 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured - Free world maps and sample datasets - Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application - Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script - Translations to multiple languages Credits -- Hundreds of people have directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. Thank you to all involved. Sponsoring organisations -- - OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included applications. - Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support. - Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, provides hardware resources and development support. - The Debian GIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. - Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso images. Enjoy the new Version! The OSGeoLive Team [1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html [2] Changes https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/master/CHANGES.txt [3] https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021 [4] http://foss4g.org/ [5] Download https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Welcomes 12 students for GSoC 2021 | Heartiest Congratulations!
This is very exciting! Welcome to the 12 students. You will work on great projects. It is amazing to see your missions. I am looking forward to all the solutions. But first I wish you all the best for the next months. Happy hacking and a good time! And do not forget to thank a lot to the mentors and the OSGeo GSoC Administration Team! Best Astrid Am 18.05.2021 11:55 schrieb Rajat Shinde: Dear OSGeo Community, We are proud and extremely elated to announce that 12 students have been selected to work on OSGeo projects for GSoC 2021. Browse the projects at: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5336634351943680/ [1] Please join us in congratulating all the students and welcoming them to the OSGeo community. We are excited about the development they shall be doing in the coming months. We congratulate other students (who are not selected) for their hard work and interest in contributing to OSGeo. Please remember that a dedicated effort is the first step, and you all should be proud of yourself for already taking that step. We wish you the best for a bright future and career! Also, it is imperative to recognize our Mentors' support. None of this could have been possible without them. Thank you, dear Mentors. We all really appreciate your efforts. We shall be sending further instructions about onboarding soon. Please stay tuned and keep checking the OSGeo SoC (Summer of Code) mailing list. Stay safe! With kind regards, Your OSGeo GSoC Administration Team Links: -- [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5336634351943680/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to our new OSGeo Silver Sponsor Addresscloud
Mai 2021 See news item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcome-to-our-new-osgeo-silver-sponsor-addresscloud/ We would like to welcome our new OSGeo Silver Sponsor Addresscloud. Angelos Tzotsos, President: "OSGeo exists to foster the adoption and development of open geospatial technology, and we welcome Addresscloud’s support of our mission. It is brilliant to see companies like Addresscloud who have built buisnesses and services on the open source geospatial tools that we all use be able to contribute to OSGeo, helping to ensure the ongoing sustainability of our community." The Addresscloud team have been regular attendees and presenters at the FOSS4G conferences. With the sponsoring OSGeo and Addresscloud come closer together. Read the article from Tomas Holderness https://blog.addresscloud.com/osgeo-sponsorship/ -- ----- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations 2021
News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2021/ 2021-04-26 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2021 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early FOSS4G archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol’s family’s request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org . Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day August 20th Anywhere on Earth. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2021 event in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. Past Awardees: 2020: Anita Graser 2019: Even Rouault 2018: Astrid Emde 2017: Andrea Aime 2016: Jeff McKenna 2015: Maria Brovelli 2014: Gary Sherman 2013: Arnulf Christl 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan 2011: Martin Davis 2010: Helena Mitasova 2009: Daniel Morissette 2008: Paul Ramsey 2007: Steve Lime 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee 2021: Jeff McKenna (chair) Frank Warmerdam Markus Neteler Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Venkatesh Raghavan Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman Maria Brovelli Andrea Aime Astrid Emde Even Rouault Anita Graser ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSSGIS-Talk] Anmeldung zur Online-FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 ist eröffnet!
Hello everybody, the german language FOSSGIS Konferenz 2021 will take place in June and will be online. Your chance to take part! We have a great program [1] Registration is open now [2] See you at FOSSGIS Astrid Originalnachricht Betreff: [FOSSGIS-Talk] Anmeldung zur Online-FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 ist eröffnet! Datum: 16.04.2021 11:45 Von: Katja Haferkorn An: Konferenz liste , verein-li...@fossgis.de, fossgis-talk-li...@fossgis.de Antwort an: konferenz-o...@fossgis.de Liebe FOSSGIS-Interessierte, die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist im D-A-CH-Raum die führende deutschsprachige Konferenz für Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme sowie für die Themen Open Data und OpenStreetMap. Als Communityveranstaltung ist die Konferenz Plattform für Ideen, Projekte und Erfahrungsberichte. Mit ihr wird die Verbreitung von freier und Open-Source-Software für Geoinformationssysteme und freien Geodaten gefördert. Konferenzveranstalter sind der gemeinnützige FOSSGIS e.V., die OpenStreetMap-Community und das Institut für Software des OST Campus Rapperswil (Schweiz). Das Programm zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021, die vom 06. bis zum 09. Juni 2021 online stattfindet, ist veröffentlicht [1]. Die Anmeldung zur Konferenz ist eröffnet [2]. Es gibt eine limitierte Anzahl an Frühbuchertickets bis zum 23.04.2021. Die FOSSGIS wird ausschließlich online stattfinden,das heißt für Sie: - Sie haben keinen Reiseaufwand - Sie können bequem aus dem Homeoffice an der Konferenz teilnehmen. - Für die Teilnahme brauchen Sie ein Konferenzticket [3], einen Rechner sowie einen Internetzugang. Am Sonntag, dem 6. Juni wird das beliebte OSM-Event von 10-16 Uhr stattfinden. Diese OSM-Unconference erfreut sich seit einigen Jahren großer Beliebtheit. Am Montag, dem 7. Juni, geht es direkt um 9 Uhr mit der Eröffnungsveranstaltung los. Freuen Sie sich auf drei Tage FOSSGIS-Konferenzprogramm mit vielen interessanten Themen in Form von Vorträgen, Demo-Sessions, Lightning Talks und Workshops. Die Vorträge und Demo-Sessions werden auf 4 Bühnen per Livestream übertragen, aufgezeichnet und anschließend wie gewohnt zur Verfügung gestellt. Workshops sind extra zu buchen und finden als interaktive Online-Session statt. Auf der Konferenzhomepage finden Sie weitere Informationen zu den Workshops [4]. Die Konferenz schafft mit der Netzwerkwelt die Möglichkeit auf dem virtuellen Campus Rapperswil Kontakte zu knüpfen und andere Teilnehmende zu treffen. In dieser Netzwerkwelt werden auch ein InfoDesk sowie die Firmen- und Projekteausstellung zu finden sein. Für Fragen steht das Konferenzorganisationsteam zur Verfügung. E-Mail: konferenz-o...@fossgis.de [1] Programm: https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/programm/ [2] Anmeldung:https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/anmeldung/ [3] direkt zum Ticketshop : https://pretix.eu/fossgis/2021/ [4] Anmeldung: https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/anmeldung/#Workshop Freundliche Grüße i.A. Katja Haferkorn -- ... Katja Haferkorn Koordinierungsstelle FOSSGIS e.V. E-Mail:katja.haferk...@fossgis.de Telefon: +49 30-62932037 Mobil: +49 176 51194732 Matrix: @katjahafi:matrix.org Web: fossgis.de Adresse: Bundesallee 23, 10717 Berlin Eintragung im Vereinsregister. Registergericht: Stadt Mainz. Registernummer: 90 VR 3594. Vertreten durch Jörg Thomsen, Pirmin Kalberer, Jochen Topf, Falk Zscheile .. .. FOSSGIS-Konferenz - OSM-Sonntag - 06. - 09. Juni 2021 als Online-Veranstaltung https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de https://twitter.com/FOSSGIS_Konf .. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] wiki.osgeo.org migration to LDAP Auth is complete
Hello Regine and OSGeo SAC Team, thanks a lot for the wiki migration to LDAP. I just tried it and it worked fine. Thank you Astrid Am 03.04.2021 01:00 schrieb Regina Obe: Next time you log into https://wiki.osgeo.org you should be prompted to merge your account with your LDAP one. Once completed you will use your LDAP account to log in from then forward. Feel free to report any issues on trac. Thanks, Regina and OSGeo SAC Team ___ Projects mailing list proje...@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/projects ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2021: OSGeo Accepted as Mentor Organization!
Great news! 15 years of OSGeo involved in Google Summer of Code. That is amazing. OSGeo Projects do not miss the opportunity to get involved and participate. Thanks a lot to all people involved! Astrid Am 10.03.2021 06:58 schrieb Rajat Shinde: Dear All, We are delighted to share that OSGeo has been accepted as one of the mentoring organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2021. This will be our 15th year participating as a mentoring organization starting 2007 onwards (Congratulations to all of us, this is indeed a great achievement). The list of accepted organizations is at [0]. Our OSGeo GSoC 2021 application is available at [1]. Please note the Student Application Period opens MARCH 29 - APRIL 13, 2021, 18:00 UTC. Students interested in participating with OSGeo are recommended to start discussing the application ideas [2] with the OSGeo mentoring projects. They shall register and submit their applications beginning March 29 till April 13, 2021. All proposals must be submitted before the deadline of April 13, 2021, 18:00 UTC. We still have time for more projects to participate with ideas [2]. It is an amazing opportunity to: * Add functionality to your projects. * Attract more contributors participating in the projects; sometimes they become long-term contributors. :) If you wish to participate, please send your project ideas list to us at the gsoc-admin (AT) osgeo (DOT) org.OSGeo projects, Incubating projects, and Community projects are welcome. Stay tuned for further instructions on the next steps, and let us be prepared for another geospatial GSoC with OSGeo! Yours, OSGeo GSoC Admins Team [0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/ [1] [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Application_2021 [2] [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Ideas [3] Links: -- [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/ [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Application_2021 [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Ideas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release 92: OSGeoLive Version 14 call for translators
Press Release 92: 19 February 2021 OSGeoLive Version 14 [1] is coming closer. The final version is planned to be ready at the end of march 2021 and to be used for our FOSS4G events [2]. Have a look at our schedule for the the detailed steps [3]. Translation We need you to help with the missing translations in the next days! You can work on the translations for version 14 till 3rd March 2021. Are you multi-lingual and interested in Open Source GIS? You can find the OSGeoLive translation at transifex [4]. We still have many open translations. How about helping translate one or two of the Project Overviews or Quickstarts? Have a look at our translation guide [5] to get involved. Please join the OSGeoLive project at Transifex [6]. If you have questions you can contact via our contact channels [7] or contact astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org. Hurry up If you manage to translate more than 33% for your language, it will be added to version 14. There are two languages very close already - check Swedish and Turkish. So hurry up till 3rd March 2021 to reach over 33 % or use the next months to get ready for version 15. About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. Looking forward to hearing from you, The OSGeoLive team [1] https://live.osgeo.org [2] https://www.osgeo.org/events/ [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [4] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [6] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [7] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Successful Geospatial Devroom at FOSDEM 2021
Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/successful-geospatial-devroom-at-fosdem-2021/ 2021-02-17 OSGeo organized the Geospatial Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 on Sunday 7. February 2021. HTTPS://FOSDEM.ORG/2021/SCHEDULE/TRACK/GEOSPATIAL/ [1] FOSDEM is the largest annual free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). In 2021 it was online. The FOSDEM Geospatial devroom has a history. It started in 2014 and was part of FOSDEM since then. We enjoyed beeing in Brussels, but the online version was great too. In 2021 we had the opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. We had speaker from all over the world like Kenia, Ghana, Greece, Belarus, United States, Austria, Argentinia. During the day people could join and leave the room according to their possibility to attend, we got a maximum of around 140 people in the room and also an unknown number of people in the live stream. Slides and videos The videos from FOSDEM are published at https://video.fosdem.org/ [2] You find the slides and further links related to the talks added to the event pages https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ [1] Thank you We would like to thank all the speakers and people involved. We had speakers from all over the world. Some were still asleep when the first talk started. Thanks also to the great audience. It was great to see so many geospatial enthusiasts from all over the world in our devroom. Thanks for the discussions and the applause. Big thanks to the FOSDEM team. It was an amazing conference and you provided an amazing setup. T-Shirt time Get your FOSDEM 2021 T-Shirt https://fosdem.org/2021/tshirts/ [3] or maybe a GDAL T-Shirt https://teespring.com/shop/gdal?pid=793=103538 [4] or both? See you next year at FOSDEM 2022! Links: -- [1] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ [2] https://video.fosdem.org/ [3] https://fosdem.org/2021/tshirts/ [4] https://teespring.com/shop/gdal?pid=793cid=103538 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Sponsorship Opportunities 2021
Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-sponsorship-opportunities-2021/ 2021-02-17 Thank you for considering Open Source Geospatial Foundation 2021 sponsorship. Your financial support of OSGeo events, initiatives, local chapters, or projects is vital to our community. The OSGeo community has risen to the challenge covid-19 and remains active and engaged in 2021. In response to this challenge many of our events and activities have moved online, and the opportunities for sponsorship and reaching new customers has adjusted accordingly. DIRECTLY FUNDING THE OSGEO FOUNDATION The Foundation helps support projects, events, activities, infrastructure and services in order to facilitate a healthy community of volunteers. Directly funding OSGeo helps greatly in supporting day to day activities as well as operating expenses (mailing lists, issue trackers, etc.). SPONSOR RECOGNITION Sponsoring is a great way to reach a wide audience of enthusiastic and engaged geospatial practitioners. Sponsor benefits range from website placement, inclusion in promotional material, placement in presentations and press releases such as this one. SPONSORSHIP LEVEL DIAMOND PLATINUM GOLD SILVER BRONZE Sponsorship amount $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $3000 $500 Website sponsorship page logo size 500 x 500 400×400 300×300 250×250 200×200 Website footer logo included included included included -- OSGeo marketing materials placement logo logo -- -- -- OSGeo booth placement logo logo -- -- -- Sponsorship Announcement press release blog post blog post blog post -- About OSGeo placement (marketing material) included included -- -- -- OSGeo Partners and Guests Networking event included included included included -- OSGeo Sponsorship Logo diamond platinum gold silver bronze For more information on sponsorship benefits please visit our page on sponsorship [1]. HOW TO SPONSOR OSGEO Sponsors are asked to contact treasu...@osgeo.org to request an invoice. Options to directly donate via PayPal [2] and GitHub [3] are also available. Your OSGeo sponsorship level is accumulated across projects, initiatives and events as illustrated in the following email: _SUBJECT: __OSGeo Sponsorship of Company/Organisation XY_ _TO: __treasurer@osgeo.org_ _Treasurer:_ _We would like to take this opportunity to sponsor OSGeo, we recognize the value in supporting open source and community outreach._ _Thus far in 2021 we have sponsored FOSS4G ($5000 USD) and FOSS4G-Europe (4000 EUR). Additionally, we would like to extend our support to the OSGeo Foundation, and request an invoice for $1000 USD._ _This brings our total up to slightly over $10,000 USD to be recognized as a gold sponsor (please see attached company logo)._ _Regards,_ _Marie Tharp_ _earth_observatory.svg_ Sponsorship levels are adjusted for lower-middle income economies and prior sponsors. For more information on sponsorship benefits please visit our page on sponsorship [1]. Thank you for your support. OSGEO SPONSORSHIP RENEWAL For returning sponsors we have expedited renewal options: * Commitment: Contact us with your committed level of funding at the start of the year, a great opportunity for a joint press-release and updated logo placement. * Running total: Send us an email as your sponsorship level changes over the course of the year. * Final total: You may wish to wait until the end of the year, and make a joint press-release describing your financial contributions in 2021. FUNDING OSGEO FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES INDIVIDUALLY For increased reach you have the option to directly fund individual projects, events, initiatives and local chapters. Direct sponsorship allows you to choose the activities your organization is associated with. OSGEO PROJECTS The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is seeking sponsorship and donations to support our valuable open source projects and project teams. The following projects have asked for your financial support (in alphabetical order):
[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy 15th Birthday, OSGeo!
Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/happy-15th-birthday-osgeo/ 2021-02-04 Happy 15th Birthday @OSGeo! Today we celebrate 15 years of OSGeo. You can join the party https://twitter.com/search?q=15YearsOSGeo=typed_query=live On 04 February 2006 OSGeo was born in Chicago USA. Read the initial OSGeo press release https://web.archive.org/web/20090209052731/http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html Thanks to those passionately involved back then, and the thousands contributing since, now our community has expanded and has reached many countries all over world. Congratulations to everyone for continuing to share the passion for Open Source geospatial. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] The FOSS4G 2021 team invites you to be official sponsor!
Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-invites-you-to-become-an-official-sponsor/ 2021-02-04 Hello community! From the LOC FOSS4G 2021 team we want to invite you to be our official sponsor! The conference FOSS4G 2021 will cover many different topics in GeoSpatial Data and Technologies. Some of the expected topics will be the usage of GeoSpatial in a variety of industries including Location Intelligence, Data Analysis, PredictiveModels or Data Infrastructures. Our conference will have days of talks, workshops, meetings of the different communities, social events and more things... Your financial support is vital for our community and for this event's success. This year we invite you to you to share a new global FOSS4G, this time in Buenos Aires, Argentina We have different categories of sponsorship adapted to your needs, with great benefits! For more information check our website (https://2021.foss4g.org) or you can contact us at spons...@foss4g.org https://2021.foss4g.org/documents/sponsors_brochure.pdf Follow us on social media: - Twitter https://twitter.com/foss4g - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/foss4g2021/ - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2021ba - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4g-2021-ba *The cancellation policy in case the event is hosted online can be found on our website Come hell or high water, FOSS4G. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires (Argentina) - September 27 to October 2 2021
Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-buenos-aires-argentina/ 2020-02-03 FOSS4G is the international edition of the FOSS4G; the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference of OSGeo. The 2021 edition will be presented for the first time in South America with the collaboration of GeoLibres Asociación Civil. The LOC invites you to share a new global FOSS4G, this time in Buenos Aires. It will take place from September 27 to October 2. Each FOSS4G has its own special aura, wisely and kindly crafted by each Local Organizing Committee, sharing the local culture and spirit with the larger community. We have made wonderful friends around the world by attending global and regional FOSS4G and we are eager to return the pleasure to our friends, as well as to make new friends who will continue this tradition. Our conference will have days of talks, workshops, meetings of the different communities, social events and more things... we are waiting for you! With that in mind, check out our website (https://2021.foss4g.org) regularly for new updates on how your event is shaping up: https://2021.foss4g.org Follow us on social media: - Twitter https://twitter.com/foss4g - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/foss4g2021/ - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2021ba - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4g-2021-ba *The cancellation policy in case the event is hosted online can be found on our website Come hell or high water, FOSS4G. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - join us in the geospatial devroom an Sunday February 7th 2021
OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - join us in the geospatial devroom an Sunday February 7th 2021 Sunday 7. February 2021 10:00 - 17:00 FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be an online event. We will have a geospatial devroom again and are pleased to invite you to join us there. No registration is necessary. Program --- We prepared a nice program for you with a many exciting talks and speaker from all over the world. https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ Times are in CET (UTC+1) 10:00 Introduction to OSGeo Angelos Tzotsos / Till Adams 10:30 OSGeoLive your geospatial toolkit - Get to know OSGeoLive and discover a whole world of geospatial tools and data Astrid Emde 11:00 MoveTK: the movement toolkit - A library for understanding movement Aniket Mitra 11:45 Iaso: Geo-aware Data Collection, Curation and Analysis. A new web+Android platform geared toward enhancing geographical data by benefitting from the routine health data collection activity. Martin De Wulf 12:35 Telegram Bot For Navigation - A perfect map app for a neighbourhood doesn't need a map Ilya Zverev 13:05 OpenStreetMap in Africa - The Rise of participatory mapping in Africa Enock Seth Nyamador 13:50 two-flavoured Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis - an exercise on Bolivia elections 2019 / 2020 with Python and R Cesar Ariel Perez Mercado 14:40 r.accumulate: Efficient computation of hydrologic parameters in GRASS - Improving the performance of geospatial computation for web-based hydrologic modeling Huidae Cho 15:30 Spatial data exploration in Jupyter notebooks - The power of interactive vizualizations with GeoPandas and HoloViews Anita Graser 16:05 YouthMappers - Building a global community of young changemakers using open maps Laura Mugeha See the schedule to find out about the program in the other rooms: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/ How to join the Geospatial devroom? --- You find information aout how to join here https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/online/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/ There will be livestream and the talks will be recorded. Code of Conduct - https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ Sponsor the event - You are very welcome to sponsor the event! https://fosdem.org/2021/about/sponsors/ See you at FOSDEM 2021 Astrid Emde & Luca Delucchi Organising Team of the FOSDEM Geospatial Devroom 2021 -- ----- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - Call for Participation for the geospatial devroom
REMINDER Submission Deadline: 26.12.2020 See you Astrid Am 06.12.2020 14:32 schrieb Astrid Emde (OSGeo): Hello all, Call for Participation Submission Deadline: 26.12.2020 FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be an online event. We will have a geospatial devroom again. The geospatial devroom will be on Saturday 6 February 2021. In 2021 it will be our opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. Call for Participation for FOSDEM geospatial devroom --- Submission Deadline: 26.12.2020 We are looking for you to be part of the geospatial devroom. The geospatial devroom aims to host talks about geospatial topics, GIS, and geodata projects, standards and open data. Please submit your talk till 26. December 2020. You find detailed information about the CfP at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-at-fosdem-2021-online-call-for-participation/ We hope you will submit a talk or come around at FOSDEM 2021. See you at FOSDEM 2021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 - Call for Participation ist eröffnet
You spreak german? You would like to join FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 in Rapperswil / Online? You are welcome to make a contribution. FOSSGIS Konferenz 2021 in Rapperswil (Switzerland) and ONLINE – annual german language conference of FOSSGIS e.V. (OSGeo Local Chapter). https://www.osgeo.org/events/fossgis-2021/ Hier geht's zum CfP Liebe FOSSGIS- und OSM-Interessierte, die Vorbereitungen zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 sind in vollem Gange, der Call for Participation ist eröffnet. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 07.02.2021: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2021/cfp Die größte deutschsprachige Anwenderkonferenz für freie Geoinformationssysteme und freie Geodaten, wird vom gemeinnützigen FOSSGIS e.V., der OpenStreetMap-Community und der Ostschweizer Fachhochschule am Campus Rapperswil organisiert. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz findet vom 06. - 09. Juni 2021 statt und ist als hybrides Event geplant. Wenn die Pandemielage es erlaubt ist eine Teilnahme vor Ort in Rapperswil sowie auch Online möglich. An diesen vier Tagen treffen sich Anwender:innen und Entwickler:innen zum gemeinsamen Austausch über Anwendungs- und Einsatzmöglichkeiten und diskutieren neuste Entwicklungen. Die gleichzeitig stattfindende Firmen- und Projektausstellung ermöglicht einen direkten Kontakt zu Dienstleistern und Projekten. Sonntag, der 6. Juni steht im Zeichen des OpenStreetMap-Projekts. An diesem Tag findet mit dem „OSM-Sonntag“ eine Unkonferenz der deutschsprachigen OpenStreetMap-Community statt. Weitere Informationen zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz sind auf der Konferenzhomepage zu finden: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist eine Community-Konferenz und Plattform für neue Ideen, Projekte und Erfahrungsberichte. Sie wird größtenteils ehrenamtlich organisiert und getragen. Die Veranstaltung fördert die Wissensvermittlung zu Freier und Open-Source-Software für Geoinformationssysteme (FOSSGIS) und OpenStreetMap. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz bedient ein weites Themenfeld, welches unter anderem die folgenden Aspekte umfasst: OpenStreetMap, Daten & Datenprozessierung, Routing & Mobilität, Rasterdaten, Fernerkundung, 3D, Drohnen, LIDAR, Kartographie & Visualisierung, Offene Standards, Open Data & Lizenzen sowie Ausbildung und Lehre. Die FOSSGIS besteht aus Vorträgen, Demosessions und Workshops, Lightning Talks, BoFs und Anwendertreffen sowie Zeit zum Netzwerken. Sie entscheiden, ob Sie lieber Online oder vor Ort in Rapperswil vortragen wollen sowie für den Onlinefall, ob Sie live vortragen oder Ihnen ein vorab aufgezeichneter Vortrag mehr liegt. Das Programm-Komitee der FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2021 freut sich auf interessante Einreichungen bis zum 07.02.2021, eine Verlängerung ist nicht geplant. Zum Call for Participation: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2021/cfp -- --------- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - Call for Participation for the geospatial devroom
Hello all, Call for Participation Submission Deadline: 26.12.2020 FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be an online event. We will have a geospatial devroom again. The geospatial devroom will be on Saturday 6 February 2021. In 2021 it will be our opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. Call for Participation for FOSDEM geospatial devroom --- Submission Deadline: 26.12.2020 We are looking for you to be part of the geospatial devroom. The geospatial devroom aims to host talks about geospatial topics, GIS, and geodata projects, standards and open data. Please submit your talk till 26. December 2020. You find detailed information about the CfP at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-at-fosdem-2021-online-call-for-participation/ We hope you will submit a talk or come around at FOSDEM 2021. See you at FOSDEM 2021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Anita Graser receives the Sol Katz Award 2020
See News Item 2020-09-10: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/anita-graser-receives-the-2020-sol-katz-award/ Anita Graser was honoured with the 2020 Sol Katz Award, presented on 10. September 2020, during the virtual OSGeo Annual General Meeting. This was the 16th year of the award. We are honoured to announce that Anita Graser is the recipient of the Sol Katz Award 2020. Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist and an open source GIS advocate. She is doing mobility research. She is encouraging people to get involved through social media, blog posts, presentations, podcasts & courses at university. Anita has served on the OSGeo board of directors. She best known for being involved in QGIS which is one of the most successful OSGeo projects. Anita has served in the QGIS steering commitee since 2013 and authored not less than 7 books on it! Anita also developed the QGIS Time Manager plugin. She lives in Austria and is well known on social media as underdarkGIS. On behalf of the OSGeo communities we congratulate and thank Anita Graser for all of her contributions. Thank you Anita, you deserve this. You can watch the Sol Katz Award Ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TydDbCa00I#t=2h48m15s Read more about Anita Graser in her blog https://anitagraser.com/about/ About the award --- The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. https://www.osgeo.org/community/awards/ Anita Graser’s speech after receiving the Sol Katz Award - “As people working in open source projects, we are constantly reminded that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants. However, particularly this year, we also see just how important small personal connections are. For me, my involvement with open source communities really took off when I joined the QGIS hackfest in Vienna in 2009 and I felt that my participation was really appreciated and welcome. I couldn’t imagine being without these connections anymore. Thank you to the whole QGIS community, particularly my fellow PSC members both current and former: Tim, Andreas, Jürgen, Richard, Paolo, Otto, Marco Hugentobler, Alessandro, our new chair Marco Bernasocchi, and of course QGIS founder Gary Sherman for starting this awesome project and for still being around and actively promoting geospatial open source by publishing so many great books covering multiple different OSGeo projects. I’d also like to thank my partner and my family for being incredibly understanding whenever I’m spend my time geeking out over a new programming project, data analysis, forum question, or conference talk. Thank you also to my friends, colleagues and fellow members of the larger OSGeo community for sharing ideas, providing valuable feedback, and spreading the word about all the great work that’s going on all around us. I’m constantly amazed by all the innovation happening to nourish and grow our community. And I’m looking forward to continue being a part of these efforts. Thank you! “ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Peer bonus awards for Jo Cook and Jared Morgan
Am 18.09.2020 10:30 schrieb Mateusz Loskot: On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 22:43, Cameron Shorter wrote: Jo Cook and Jared Morgan have been presented with awards for Google's Open Source Peer Bonus Program. The award is a recognition and thank you to people who go above and beyond in their contributions to open source. It also includes a token financial contribution - enough to take the family out for dinner at a nice restaurant. Well done Jo and Jared, you really deserve it: Congratulations! Best regards, Great news! Congratulations and thanks for all your contributions and energy! Astrid ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in
Hello Victoria and the whole OSGeo GCI team, thanks a lot for sharing this information. Sad to hear that there will be not GCI in the future. It os so impressive to see your numbers about only 3 year that OSGeo participated - 898 students and 2096 completed tasks. Wow. Amazing. Thanks a lot to the OSGeo GCI Admins team and all mentors, people and projects involved in GCI. GCI was a great way to get young people introduced and involved in Open Source Software and bring people from all over the world together and inspire to collaborate. Thanks a lot. Astrid Am 11.06.2020 16:21 schrieb Victoria Rautenbach: Good day The 2019 OSGeo GCI Admin team thought we would share this with you. The 2019 edition of GCI was the last, the Google Open Source group will now GSoC and Summer of Docs. OSGeo participated in GCI for 3 years! Over the three years, we worked with 898 students that completed 2096 tasks across various OSGeo projects. Thank you to those of you that served as mentors or answered questions from GCI students. Thank you! Regards OSGeo GCI Admins team -- Forwarded message - From: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Code-in Mentors Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:55 PM Subject: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in Hi GCI Mentors and Org Admins, Google Code-in concluded 10 amazing, productive, exhilarating years in January. This program has been a success because of the amazing energy and passion all of you have exhibited; volunteering dozens, hundreds, and in some cases, thousands(!) of hours to help 14,700+ teenagers, from 115+ countries, complete a whopping 76,200+ open source tasks, during the past 10 years! We wanted all of you to be among the first to know that Google Code-in 2019 was our final Google Code-in contest. We've been looking hard at our portfolio of programs and as open source evolves, our programs need to evolve too. We've decided to focus our efforts on Google Summer of Code and programs like Season of Docs that meet projects' sustainability needs going into the next 10 years of open source. We want to thank you all for being inspiring role models to these students. Many of you were GCI or GSoC students yourselves and have been paying it forward for years by helping teenagers discover their passion for open source software development. The extent of your support was something many didn’t expect when they first started out trying to complete a few tasks to earn a Google T-shirt. You have welcomed students into your communities and shown them how open source is making the world a better place and how they can be a part of that. You all have inspired, taught, listened, and made a difference in the lives of thousands of students. THANK YOU! These students have brought fresh new perspectives and ideas into your communities, inspiring long-term committers with their enthusiasm, curiosity and skills. Many of you have been mentors for all 10 years of GCI (plus GHOP!), while others came into the GCI family just this past year. Regardless of when you joined, thank you all for showing immense kindness, patience, dedication, organization and guidance to the students, the other mentors in our GCI community, and to me and the rest of our team over the years. These past 10 years of Google Code-in have been an exciting, adrenaline pumping adventure – thanks for coming along on the ride with us! We will continue to be dedicated to helping open source communities be sustainable and finding new contributors is an essential part of those efforts. While Google Code-in is now officially retired, we look forward to finding new ways to support your communities. Best, Stephanie Taylor GCI Program Lead -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code-in Mentors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gci-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/024068b0-fca4-40cb-8865-6e3ce08fda27o%40googlegroups.com. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive Press release 91: OSGeoLive starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 14.0 ¶
OSGeoLive starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 14.0 6. June 2020 (link to the press release: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2091) Are you interested in joining our Open Source GIS experience? The build cycle for the next OSGeoLive release 14.0, is going to start. Version 14.0 will use Lubuntu 20.4 [1] The final version is planned to be ready in August 2020. Have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [2]. Till then we have many challenges - from simple to challenging, to help describe and train people in the value of Open Source GIS. For this release, we hope to help OSGeo Community projects join OSGeoLive, and work out how we can keep within our size constraints. You are welcome to join our team! Are you a programmer or packager with experience in one of the Open Source GIS applications? Are you a technical writer interested in making FOSS4G accessible to all? Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [3] [4]? Contact us -- If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [5] or meet us on IRC at our weekly meeting. About OSGeoLive - OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. Best regards OSGeoLive team [1] https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [6] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive Press release 90:OSGeoLive 13.1 Released (Docs only point release)
See also OSGeoLive https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2090 7 April 2020 OSGeoLive 13.1 Released - Docs only point release Are you wondering what OSGeo docs would look like if they were written by senior technical writer? Then check out the latest OSGeoLive Quickstarts [0]. All English Quickstarts have been reviewed and improved by Felicity Brand as part of Google Season of Docs [1]. We've published them in a docs only point release of OSGeoLive, version 13.1. (We've also re-introduced our presentation, thanks to bug fixes from Seth.) What else happened with OSGeo's Google Season of Docs? * OSGeo doesn't have a definitive glossary of terms, so we've started aggregating glossaries, which led to a bunch of OSGeo folks kicking off a GeoLexicon [2] project. * There was no definitive open source doc templates, so we've created them in TheGoodDocsProject [3]. * Another tech writer was allocated to GeoNework. * We reviewed QGIS's doc challenges [4] - and found a bunch of lessons which will likely be valuable for other projects too. For more details, check out Felicity's report [5]. Successful results from the Google Season of Docs program The OSGeo Foundation was lucky enough to be allocated two technical writers from the The OSGeoLive team submitted projects for consideration in the 2019 Google Season of Docs program. [1] A successful match with technical writer, Felicity Brand, resulted in a concerted effort to improve the quickstarts for the applications on the OSGeoLive distribution. Felicity worked with the OSGeoLive team to review our quickstart template and implement changes to the documentation to ensure accuracy and consistency. [4] Application for Google Season of Docs program 2020 just started --- https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs See timeline and get involved https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline About OSGeoLive - OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. [0] http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-osgeo-1 [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Lexicon_Committee (GeoLexicon) [3] https://thegooddocsproject.dev/ [4] http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-qgis-docs-team-is-struggling.html [5] https://flicstar.com/2019/11/27/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press release 89: OSGeoLive archive is online!
OSGeoLive archive is online! The OSGeoLive team has published an archive of all prior OSGeoLive docs, both online [1], and backed up in source control [2]. The archive provides an important historical record of geospatial development over the last decade. It contains all OSGeoLive documentation from 2.0 to the latest 13.0 version. The search continues for the 1.0 release! From memory, it didn't contain any docs. You are invited to travel into history to the beginning Version 2.0 [4] when OSGeoLive was called the "Arramagong Live DVD" and only contained 18 projects including GRASS GIS, Quantum QGIS, PostGIS, MapServer? and GeoServer?. A DVD was enthusiastically received by FOSS4G 2009 conference attendees in Sydney, Australia. Interesting facts Major version releases have aligned with the international conference for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS4G). In many years we also put out a minor release, to align with FOSS4G regional and local events. It is handed out at FOSS4G events and is used in many of the FOSS4G workshops. The theme of desktop backgrounds of major versions has been inspired by the location of the international FOSS4G conference, adopting a backdrop of the African savanna in Del es Salaam, and embracing the persona of Robin Hood in Nottingham. Why did we jump from 7.0 to 7.9 (instead of following convention and selecting 7.5)? It was to honour one of OSGeo's heros, Arnulf Christl, who also goes by the nickname of "seven-of-nine". OSGeoLive is very popular. Version 12.0 had 21,000 downloads and the latest version 13.0 has had 11,000 downloads 13.0 in the last 7 months. Source: [5] When packaging, we prioritise stability over cutting edge, quality over quantity, and end user experience over individual project needs. Software which has lost an active community have been retired and new projects added. Surprisingly, the number of projects on OSGeoLive has remained relatively static - hovering around 40 to 50. Seth Girvin came up with the idea of the archive and worked on it in 2019. It was a challenge to find older versions. Thanks a lot to Seth for the initiative. Thanks also to Cameron Shorter for the support, Angelos Tzozos for setting up the repo and Regina Obe from SAC for setting up the subdomain. I hope you enjoy the journey into the archive! About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive [3] is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB, and Live DVD. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. The OSGeoLive team [1] https://live-archive.osgeo.org/ [2] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc-archive [3] http://live.osgeo.org [4] https://live-archive.osgeo.org/2.0/index.html [5] https://sourceforge.net/projects/osgeo-live/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Programm FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2020 veröffentlicht und Ticketverkauf öffnet
FOSSGIS-COnference will come to Freiburg (Germany) in March 2020. Program is published. Get your ticket now. https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/ -- Sehr geehrte FOSSGIS-Aktive, sehr geehrte FOSSGIS-Anfänger, OSM-Begeisterte und Interessierte, Vom 11. bis 14. März 2020 tagt die FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2020 in Freiburg. Die Konferenz wird vom gemeinnützigen FOSSGIS e.V., der OpenStreetMap-Community und dem Local Team rund um die Universität Freiburg organisiert. Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist die im D-A-CH-Raum führende Konferenz für Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme sowie für die Themen OpenStreetMap und Open Data. An vier Tagen werden in Vorträgen für Einsteiger und Experten, Hands-On-Workshops, Demo-Sessions und Anwendertreffen Einblicke in die neusten Entwicklungen und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Softwareprojekten gegeben. Die Teilnehmer*innenanzahl ist aus Kapazitätsgründen auf 500 Personen begrenzt. Aus diesem Grund bitten wir um eine frühzeitige Anmeldung. Ab 08.01.2020 ist der Ticketverkauf geöffnet und auf der Konferenzhomepage zu finden: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/anmeldung/. *Preise FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2020:* Standardticket (Normalpreis): € 190 Standardticket (Frühbucherrabatt für die ersten 50 Tickets): € 150 Studierendenticket: € 40 Community-Ticket: € 0* Workshop: € 100 Im Konferenzticket enthalten: FOSSGIS-Konferenz-Teilnahme, Pausensnack, Tasche und wenn bestellt Tagungsband, T-Shirt und Abendveranstaltung. (*Das kostenfreie Community-Ticket ist vorgesehen für Aktive aus dem Open-Source- und OpenStreetMap-Bereich – Entwickler, aktive Mapper – sowie für aktive Helfer bei der Konferenz 2020) Am Abend des ersten Konferenztages, dem 11. März 2020, findet die Abendveranstaltung "Schwätzli uffem Campus" statt [https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/socialevents/], die Anmeldung dazu ist bei der Ticketbuchung möglich. *Helfer:* Freiwillige Helfer sind eingeladen und willkommen während der Konferenz bei den Videoaufnahmen, als Sessionleiter oder beim Catering zu unterstützen. Bei Interesse bitte im Helfersystem (https://helfer.fossgis.de/) anmelden und eine E-Mail an konferenz-o...@fossgis.de senden. Helfer dürfen das kostenfreie "Community-Ticket" buchen. *OSM-Event:* Die Konferenz setzt sich ab Freitagnachmittag mit OpenStreetMap-spezifischen Vorträgen fort. Beginn ist 15:30 Uhr mit dem FOSSGIS-Jeopardy. Am 14. März 2020 findet der traditionelle OSM-Samstag als OSM-UnKonferenz (BarCamp) statt. Das Programm wird am Samstagmorgen nach Begrüßung und Einführung durch die Teilnehmer*innen gemeinsam festgelegt. Die Teilnahme am OSM-Event ist kostenfrei und unabhängig von der FOSSGIS-Konferenz möglich. Für eine gute Planung ist eine Anmeldung über das FOSSGIS-Konferenz-Anmeldesystem sehr erwünscht. Weitere Informationen zum OSM-Samstag gibt es unter https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_2020/OSM-Samstag. Weitere Informationen zur FOSSGIS-Konferenz (Programm, Anreise, Unterkunft, Anmeldung, Helfermöglichkeiten und Sponsoring) entnehmen Sie bitte der Konferenzhomepage: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/. *Termine und Informationen:* FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2020: 11.-14. März 2020 Programm: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/programm/ Anmeldung ab 08.01.2020 https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/anmeldung/ Social Events: https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/socialevents/ OSM-Samstag: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_2020/OSM-Samstag Alle Informationen: https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/ Fragen an konferenz-o...@fossgis.de Twitter: https://twitter.com/FOSSGIS_Konf #FOSSGIS2020 Das FOSSGIS-Konferenz-Organisationsteam freut sich darauf, Sie zu einer spannenden FOSSGIS-Konferenz in Freiburg begrüßen zu dürfen. -- . FOSSGIS-Konferenz - OSM-Samstag - 11.-14. März 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de https://twitter.com/FOSSGIS_Konf . FOSSGIS e.V, der Verein zur Förderung von Freier Software aus dem GIS-Bereich und Freier Geodaten! https://www.fossgis.de/ https://twitter.com/fossgis_eV ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo President and Executive Positions were named by OSGeo Board of Directors (2019-12-30)
See OSGeo Foundation News: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/new-osgeo-president-and-executive-positions-were-named-by-osgeo-board-of-directors-2019-12-30/ Dear OSGeo Community, at the last board meeting the new elected OSGeo Board 2019 appointed the Executive Positions for OSGeo. At our last board meeting (2019-12-30) the new elected OSGeo Board appointed the Executive Positions for OSGeo. We had a very productive discussion and appointed the positions with full consensus. The OSGeo Board is pleased to announce the following executive positions [1] Executive President: Angelos Tzotsos Vice-President: Vicky Vergara Vice-President: Helena Mitasova Vice-President: Victoria Rautenbach Vice-President: Codrina Maria Ilie Treasurer: Michael Smith Secretary: Astrid Emde Board Chair: Till Adams We are pleased to welcome the new OSGeo President Angelos Tzotsos. Angelos is well known in the community and active in many projects. He is part of the OSGeo Board since 2016 and he served as OSGeo Vice-President since 2018. His leadership will be an asset going forward with OSGeo. We decided to accompany the OSGeo President with four Vice-Presidents to share all the commitments an OSGeo President has to satisfy and represent OSGeo at events all over the world; we therefore also welcome Helena Mitasova, Vicky Vergara, Victoria Rautenbach and Codrina Maria Ilie as Vice-Presidents of OSGeo. The Board would like to thank Michael Smith for again volunteering for the role of OSGeo treasurer for another year and continuing to help OSGeo with financial matters. The Board would also like to thank Astrid Emde for again volunteering for the role of OSGeo Secretary. Till Adams volunteered to act as Chair of the Board. This is a non-executive position helping the board follow up on decisions, schedule meetings and keeping the board on track. Please read the OSGeo bylaws to find out more about the Executive Positions [2] We would like to take the opportunity to thank the past members of the OSGeo Board who all have contributed their time and efforts to help build up this amazing community. We are looking forward to a great year 2020 for OSGeo and our Community and wish you all the best! Best regards OSGeo Board of Directors [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/ [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My last letter as President
Hello Maria, thanks a lot for beeing our president for the last two years. You did a great job and represented our community very well. It was a great pleasure to work with you on the board. I liked the discussions, your energy, your inspiring ideas and all the cats. I am looking forward to another 2 years in the board and hope we will follow the spirit. All the best and see you Astrid Am 04.12.2019 08:08 schrieb María Arias de Reyna: Dear fellow OSGeoers, I want to congratulate all the recently elected members of the Board, specially the new ones! I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did and contribute with your unique view to our organization. I want to thank all the people that helped me on this two-year journey and I hope I helped others on this journey too. OSGeo is evolving to be more inclusive, diverse and bigger than ever and I am proud of you all. As some of you may know, some months ago I decided to go back into the barricades and far from public exposure. I think rotating positions inside a voluntary organization is something very healthy to do and gives you a unique perspective. That's why I decided to participate on a proposal for FOSS4G 2021 and not repeat elections again for the Board. I hereby resign as President to let one of the current members of the Board take this position. I have always a strong advocate that this kind of positions should be taken by Board members, so I want to explicitly facilitate the transition. Our current vice-presidents Helena Mitasova and Angelos Tzotsos will fill the space until a new President is appointed. I have to say I'm still a bit sad of the geographic, cultural and ethnic representation on the Board. I am sure we can change this on the following years. Until then, I am confident current members of the Board will do a great job representing you all. See you all in Calgary in 2020! María, your former OSGeo President. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo board nomination
Hello OSGeo Community I am honored to be nominated again for the OSGeo board. I would like to go for re-election for the OSGeo board after 2 years in the Board as OSGeo Secretary. I was nominated by Angelos Tzotsos. I am happy to see so many great candidates from all over the world for this years election. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2019 It would be a great pleasure to continue my work in the board and strengthen OSGeo and the visibility of our organization. You can find my manifesto here https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2019_Candidate_Manifestos#3._Astrid_Emde.2C_Germany_.28OSGeo_profile.29 All the best to all the candidates. Astrid Emde - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019
see also news item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2019/ OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019 from all over the world. In 2019 we had 39 nominations and 33 passed. The OSGeo board approved the new members in the November 2019 board meeting. Now we are happy to have 460 Charter Members in total. The charter members are coming from several countries. We are proud to have this global community with activities on the whole globe. Ana Leticia Ma (2019) USA Andi Lazăr (2019) Romania Andrea Trovant (2019) Argentina Antonio Cerciello (2019) Netherlands Carmen Tawalika (2019) Germany Cécile Le Calvez (2019) France Cristina Vrînceanu (2019) Romania Dan Ormsby (2019) UK Daniel Santillan (2019) Austria Daniel Silk (2019) New Zealand Dennis Bauszus (2019) UK Dimitris Karakostis (2019) Greece Edoardo Neerhut (2019) Australia Felipe Sodré Barros (2019) Brazil Fiona Hemsley-Flint (2019) Scotland Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala (2019) Mexico Ion Nedelcu (2019) Romania Ionuț Ungurianu (2019) Romania Ivana Ivanova (2019) Australia Ji Yoon Kim (2019) South Korea Julia Wagemann (2019) Italy Mahdi Farnaghi (2019) Iran Marius Budileanu (2019) Romania Narcélio de Sá (2019) Brazil Olimpia Copăcenaru (2019) Romania Pēteris Brūns (2019) Latvia Robert Coup (2019) UK Romel Vázquez Rodríguez (2019) Cuba Ross McDonald (2019) Scotland Saber Razmjooei (2019) UK Seth Girvin (2019) Ireland Sylvain Beorchia (2019) France Tom Armitage (2019) UK Special thanks to the CRO for the organization of the elections. Congratulations from the OSGeo Board and welcome again to the new OSGeo Charter Members 2019 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM - anyone interested to run an OSGeo / OSM booth at FOSDEM 2020?
Hello, very spontaneous question - please answer today ;) from 1./2. Februar will be FOSDEM in Brussels. 8.000 people will come to the conference with lot of events and many different rooms with topics like PostgreSQL , Python, MySQL MariaDB Containers. https://fosdem.org/2020/ There will also be a GeoSpatial-Devroom and other rooms PostgreSQL , Python, MySQL MariaDB Containers usw. siehe https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/ about 8.000 people will come https://fosdem.org/2020/ Now the question: Does someone volunteer to make a booth for OSGeo / OSM? Today is the last day to apply for the booth https://submission.fosdem.org/submission/stand Please ping me if you would like to run the booth Deadline for the geospatial dev room will be 1.12.2019 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/dutch/2019-October/001773.html Best regards Astrid ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2019 (Bucharest) Conference Videos in the TIB AV-Portal
Hello Bastian, thanks for the great news and thanks a lot for the support from TIB. The videos are available for 3 weeks already. That's great! NEWS: The videos of this year's FOSS4G Conference in Bucharest are now available in the AV-Portal of TIB https://av.tib.eu/series/685 [1] See you Astrid Am 26.09.2019 09:04 schrieb Drees, Bastian: Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. The videos of this year's FOSS4G Conference in Bucharest are now available in the AV-Portal of TIB (in fact, for almost three weeks, I just missed it. Sorry), via this link: https://av.tib.eu/series/685 [1] All videos are assigned a digital object identifier (DOI) and a media fragment identifier. This allows to cite videos as a whole or single segments separately. The videos of all FOSS4G Conferences in the AV-Portal are available here: http://tib.eu/osgeo [2] Best regards Bastian Links: -- [1] https://av.tib.eu/series/685 [2] http://tib.eu/osgeo ___ Conference_dev mailing list conference_...@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo will be at SotM 2019 in Heidelberg 21.-23. September 2019
OSGeo will be at SotM 2019 in Heidelberg (Germany) from 21.-23. September 2019! https://2019.stateofthemap.org/ The State of the Map (SotM) is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. This weekend the community will come to Heidelbergto enjoy talks, discussions, workshops, code and documentation sprints & more. OSGeo will be present at SotM with an OSGeo booth from Saturday until Monday & a lot of people from the OSGeo community will be there too. OSGeo booth at SotM - We will run the booth together with the FOSSGIS e.V. (german language Local Chapter of OSGeo) which is also the national representation of the OSM Foundation in Germany. You are very welcome to come around. Get some flyer ord stickers and get involved. OSGeo Talk about "Get to know OSGeo and how OSGeo is connected to OpenStreetMap" ---- Saturday, 11:30 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) https://2019.stateofthemap.org/sessions/VZVFMS/ Find all sessions https://2019.stateofthemap.org/program/ SotM via live streaming and soon published --- The c3voc video team is active again and will provide live streaming and publishing of the talks. That is great! So it is easy for you to follow the conference from whereever you are. Enjoy! SotM 2019 Streaaming https://media.ccc.de/ SotM 2019 will be in the media.ccc.de archive https://media.ccc.de/c/sotm2019 SotM 2019 will be also published soon in the TIB AV-Portal https://av.tib.eu Looking forward to SotM 2019 to discuss, learn a lot, get connected und meet lot of old friends and get to know new ones. See you at SotM! Astrid Emde -- ----- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Even Rouault receives the 2019 Sol Katz Award
Even Rouault was honoured with the 2019 Sol Katz Award, presented on 29 August 2019, during the closing session of the FOSS4G event in Bucharest. This was the 15th year of the award. Even took over the title of "Mister GDAL" after Frank Warmerdam passed him the torch. GDAL is a cornerstone of many GIS software both open source and proprietary. He is an active contributor to GDAL, MapServer, PROJ, libgeotiff, GEOS, QGIS and many other projects. Even is a highly productive OSGeo contributor. Sol Katz is not about numbers, but Evens stats are quite impressive: over the last 5 years, he has over 10,000 commits to multiple OSGeo projects. (Ref: From 2014 to 2019: 10,900 commits to GDAL, 300 in MapServer, 400 in QGIS, not counting his recent refactoring of PROJ6, and his contributions to other OSGeo projects) Even is a brilliant developer and also a really nice person. He cares about OSGeo as an organization, about the goals and the way OSGeo runs its activities. On behalf of the OSGeo communities we congratulate and thank Even for all of his contributions. See Video from FOSS4G 2019 https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-481-awards-ceremony#t=1190 Thank you Even, you deserve this. About the award The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2019 Results!
Great! Congratulations to all the students. Impressive to see the work you have done. Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot to the mentors. Astrid Am 03.09.2019 21:57 schrieb Helmut Kudrnovsky: It is our pleasure to announce that 7 GSoC (Google Summer of Code) students have successfully completed the program this year through OSGeo! You can find out more about the completed projects at: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6304079978954752/#projects and soon on our wiki pages. In the 15th year of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [1], 1.134 students from 61 countries have successfully completed the 2019 program. We would like to wholeheartedly thank all the OSGeo mentors who dedicated their invaluable time and experience to this program, you are the core of GSoC! Thanks also to our students, we are sure you have learnt a lot and also had some fun, and we hope you decide to remain in the OSGeo community becoming active developers and the future generation of GSoC mentors! If you participated this year as a student or as a mentor, please take the time to leave us your feedback, as we try to improve the experience each year. We created a page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Improvements where you can leave your comments and suggestions, please feel free to expand it, or to contact us directly to discuss your ideas. We are also collecting your questions and topics that you would like us to bring to the mentor summit (October 17-20 @ Munich, Germany, where Helmut Kudrnovsky, Rajat Shinde, and Vicky Vergara will represent OSGeo at Google summit). The last reminder for our successful students: we have grants of 500 USD available to students willing to present their GSoC results at international conferences, and we give them on a first come first served basis. We assigned the first grant in occasion of the last FOSS4G in Bucharest. You will read more details on our wiki soon, and on soc mailing list too. Meanwhile, feel free to reach us at gsoc-admin AT osgeo DOT org for info. Kind regards, Your OSGeo GSoC Admins [1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/thats-wrap-for-google-summer-of-code.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] please join the Local-Chapters mailing list if you represent a Local Chapter
Hello Local-Chapter representatives, please join the Local-Chapters mailing list if you represent a Local Chapter: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters Would be great, as we will start a discussion about * having a standard set of tools that are available to FOSS4G teams * how to get an exhibition pack * AGM (each year before FOSS4G) * Events on osgeo.org * What do you need from OSgeo to support your Local Chapter * and all you would like to discuss with other Local Chapters See you soon on the Local-Chapters list. Astrid Emde -- - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release 86: OSGeoLive 13.0 call for translators
OSGeoLive 13.0 call for translators 25 July 2019 OSGeoLive 13.0 [1] is coming closer. The final version is planned to be ready by 13 August 2019 in time for FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest [2]. Have a look at our schedule for the the detailed steps [3]. Translation We need you to help with the missing translations in the next days! Are you multi-lingual and interested in Open Source GIS? You can find the OSGeoLive translation at transifex [4]. We still have many open translations. How about helping translate one or two of the Project Overviews or Quickstarts? Have a look at our translation guide [5] to get involved. Please join the OSGeoLive project at Transifex [6]. If you have questions you can contact via our contact channels [7] or contact astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org. About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. Looking forward to hearing from you, The OSGeoLive team [1] https://live.osgeo.org [2] http://2019.foss4g.org/ [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [4] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [6] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [7] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Final OSGeo-Live 13.0 testing sprint this weekend (12-14 July 2019) - call to action
Please join the final OSGeo-Live 13.0 testing sprint this weekend (12-14 July 2019) - call to action 9 July 2019 After much hard work from the OSGeoLive build team, we released the first beta version of OSGeoLive 13.0. We are calling for help for the final OSGeoLive testing sprint, this weekend, 12-14 July 2019. We really want OSGeo seasoned developers to find any outstanding issues, rather than having them found in workshops or by new users in the released version. So please consider joining our testing-sprint to verify your favourite application works. * Sign up at: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press Release 85 * Download ISO from: http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/13.0/ * Chat about your progress with us at: irc://irc.freenode.net#osgeolive * Update your testing status at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit#gid=430477653 We aim to have each application tested by both someone familiar with it, and someone less familiar. Daily Checkin * We will be checking in daily on irc://irc.freenode.net#osgeolive at: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?hour=20=00=00=179=189=224=22=240=196=215 And you will likely catch one of our core team on IRC outside this timeslot as well. Participants * Angelos Tzotsos, gcpp.kalxas gmail.com * Cameron Shorter, cameron . shorter AT gmail . com * Astrid Emde, astroidex astrid_emde AT osgeo dot org Contact us --- If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [5] or meet us on IRC at our weekly meeting. About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. OSGeoLive team [1] https://2019.foss4g.org/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [6] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki Press release 85: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2085 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Nominations for the 2019 Sol Katz Award
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2019 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. (you can find more info on the Sol Katz Award wiki page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award) The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early FOSS4G archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index. Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day August 8th Anywhere on Earth (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe). A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced at the FOSS4G 2019 event in August, in Bucharest, Romania. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. Past Awardees: 2018: Astrid Emde 2017: Andrea Aime 2016: Jeff McKenna 2015: Maria Brovelli 2014: Gary Sherman 2013: Arnulf Christl 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan 2011: Martin Davis 2010: Helena Mitasova 2009: Daniel Morissette 2008: Paul Ramsey 2007: Steve Lime 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee 2018: Jeff McKenna (chair) Frank Warmerdam Markus Neteler Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Venkatesh Raghavan Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman Maria Brovelli Andrea Aime Astrid Emde News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/call-for-nominations-for-the-2019-sol-katz-award/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g osgeo booth
Hello, would be a pleasure to join us at the OSGeo booth. We prepared a wiki page already https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2019_OSGeo_Booth Please add your name Astrid Am 12.06.2019 16:39 schrieb Jody Garnett: The last couple of years the OSGeo members have helped set up a booth for our global foss4g conference. Indeed we had a great lounge space last year that Jeff McKenna and other volunteers used to great effect. This is a case of individuals stepping up to make it happen, I would like to ask who is interested and who is available to help. FOSS4G is a great conference and making sure OSGeo attends "in person" is important - this is a chance to promote _freedom_ to attendees who think they are attending a _technology_ conference :) -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for State of the Map SotM 2019 talks and presentations is now open
The State of the Map 2019 [1] is going to come to Heidelberg (Germany) from September 21-23, 2019. The HOT Summit [8] will be September 19 – 20, 2019. The call for State of the Map 2019 presentations is now open. The deadline is: 25th April 2019. There will be a separate call for submissions to the Academic Track. As of now we are accepting your talks and presentations in the following State of the Map 2019 tracks: * OSM Basics: Information dedicated to newcomers * Community & Foundation: Bringing people together, working group experiences, strategies & vision * Mapping: All about making the mapping easier and better * Cartography: Your ideas on how to create good-looking manifestations of the OSM dataset * Software Development: Software for processing and editing data * Data Analysis & Data Model: Reflections about the OSM data, its model and analysis of quality and completeness * User Experiences: Tell your surprising story of using OSM as an end-user * Academic Track: There will be a proper academic track, it will be announced separately! Two novelties deserve a special mention: * The “OSM Basics” track: We would like to welcome newcomers with contributions that get them started in the fascinating world of OpenStreetMap. These talks should specifically address the needs of people not overly familiar with the OSM ecosystem. * The “Extended talk” submission type: Big ideas need time to grow. For talks in this category we will allow double the time (40 min) compared to the usual talks. Make sure to mention why your talk needs this extended space. You will find the Call for Participations and the link to the submission form at [2]: https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/general/ We are looking forward to your fresh ideas and beautiful maps! SotM 2019 Program Committee Sign up for event updates [1] and follow us on twitter @sotm [3]! The State of the Map conference [4] is the annual, international conference of OpenStreetMap, organised by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OpenStreetMap Foundation [5] is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in the UK to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data for anyone to use and share. The OpenStreetMap Foundation owns and maintains the infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project. The State of the Map Organising Committee [6] is one of our volunteer Working Groups [7]. See also OpenStreetMap Blog Post https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/02/28/sotm-2019-call-for-participations/ [1] State of the Map 2019 https://2019.stateofthemap.org [2] CfP https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/general/ [3] @sotm https://twitter.com/sotm [4] https://stateofthemap.org [5] OpenStreetMap Foundation https://wiki.osmfoundation.org [6] State of the Map Organising Committee https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/StateoftheMap_Organizing_Committee [7] Working Groups https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups [8] HOT Summit https://summit.hotosm.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release 84: Starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 13.0
Find Press Relqase 84 at: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2084 Starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 13.0 1 March 2019 Are you interested in joining our Open Source GIS experience? The build cycle for the next OSGeoLive release 13.0, is going to start. The final version is planned to be ready at 30th July 2019 in time for FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest [1]. Have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [2]. Till then we have many challenges - from simple to challenging, to help describe and train people in the value of Open Source GIS. For this release, we hope to help OSGeo Community projects join OSGeoLive, and work out how we can keep within our size constraints. We'd love to build a cloud version of OSGeoLive for this release. It would make OSGeoLive, and OSGeo software much more accessible. It seems elusively achievable, but we haven't worked it out yet. If you think you could help, we'd love to hear from you. Get involved - Are you a programmer or packager with experience in one of the Open Source GIS applications. Are you a technical writer interested in making FOSS4G accessible to all? Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [3] [4]. Contact us If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [5] or meet us on IRC at our weekly meeting. About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. OSGeoLive team [1] FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest https://2019.foss4g.org/ [2] Schedule https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0 [3] Translations on Transifex https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [4] Documentation how to translate https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [5] Join the OSGeoLive mailinglist https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [6] IRC see Communication https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: How to retire membership status?
Hi Maxi, my mail was only technical and I also noticed it when I wrote it that I did not say anything about the case. Sara wrote : "...so I'm revisiting this request: please change my Charter membership status to "retired". ... cc'd board@lists to help facilitate the request." And this was the only thing I focussed on with my answer. It was not my intention to be insensitive or ignorant. Sure we - board - still should discuss the case. It is topic for the next board meeting. Regards, Astrid Am 07.12.2018 09:26 schrieb Massimiliano Cannata: Dear Astrid, I think that this request of withdraw together with the public accuses it expresses cannot be simply resolved with a wiki page modification. This call the OSGeo code of conduct committee and the board in its highest function of guarantor of the community to address the accuses and take public position with an official communication. Whether the accuses are true or not I believe this situation is negatively impacting our community brand and trust. This fact cannot pass over silence anymore and therefore I publicly call the board to urgently express and take a position on this. Let's see if this mail worth a response... Regards Maxi Il giorno ven 7 dic 2018, 07:56 Astrid Emde (OSGeo) ha scritto: Hello Sara, thanls for your email and sorry, that it took a while to work on your request. You are now listed as retired OSGeo Charter Member at https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [1] I also edited your User page in the wiki and deleted Charter member: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sarasafavi [2] If you would like to change more content on your charter member page you can do so. All the best Astrid --- --------- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ [3] astrid_e...@osgeo.org Am 04.12.2018 16:54 schrieb Sara: Board elections have come & gone and so I'm revisiting this request: please change my Charter membership status to "retired". Astrid - I've been told you have the ability to modify any relevant "master lists". If this isn't true please feel free to forward this to the right person. Vicky - similarly, I understand you have the ability to edit the web content at www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [4] [1]. If that's not correct either, please feel free to forward as needed. cc'd board@lists to help facilitate the request. -- Forwarded message - From: SARA Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM Subject: How to retire membership status? To: OSGeo Discussions Hello community, Can someone point me at the relevant documentation re: retiring current membership status? Specifically, related to Charter membership. I understand the processes to nominate & add new charter members but not clear on how current charter members can retire. To put it another way: how to edit https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [1] [2]? Thanks, Sara Safavi Links: -- [1] http://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [4] [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [1] ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board [5] Links: -- [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sarasafavi [3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ [4] http://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2018 Board of Directors elections results
Dear OSGeo Community, great - we have a new board! Congratulations and a big welcome to the new OSGeo board members. Great to work with Angelos and Michael together again. And looking forward to meet Tom and Victoria in the board and work with them. I would have loved to see all our great nominees in the board. So thanks to all the candidates. And there are many more great OSGeo people all around the world. Let us not forget that independant from the board there are so many great projects in OSGeo we can work on and get involved. It is a pleasure to be in such a great community. Thanks to the CRO for all your work! Astrid Am 04.12.2018 06:56 schrieb Vasile Craciunescu: Dear OSGeo community, These are the results from the 2018 elections for the 4 open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical order are: * Angelos Tzotsos * Michael Smith * Tom Kralidis * Victoria Rautenbach Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process! Election figures are: * Membership: 427 * Valid votes: 341 There were no scores to arbitrate. The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2018/2019 is: * María Arias de Reyna * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * Angelos Tzotsos * Michael Smith * Tom Kralidis * Victoria Rautenbach Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors! The wiki page was updated with the detailed results [1]. That being said, I would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part in elections and for keeping OSGeo strong. This is really important! Of course, we had a few glitches along the way. Thank you for patience and to SAC for the quick response. Special thanks go to my CRO helpers, Vicky & Jorge, for all the energy and hard work committed during this very busy period. Your support means a lot to me! This is also my last post as member of OSGeo Board of Directors. It was a great pleasure and honor to serve the community from this position. I'm confided that the new board will do a great job. Best of luck! Thank you all for caring for OSGeo, Vasile, Vicky & Jorge CRO 2018 [1] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My Experience Iwith OSGeo during GCI
Am 01.12.2018 16:22 schrieb Sunveer Singh: Hello, I am Sunveer, Google Code-in student working with OSGeo, here is the link to video which include my experience with OSGeo during Google Code-in. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8szwmKrygc [1] Thank You Sunveer https://sunveersingh.github.io/ [2] Links: -- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8szwmKrygc [2] https://sunveersingh.github.io/ Hello Sunveer, thanks for sharing the video with us and thanks for joining Google Code-In again. Looks like you enjoy it and have great mentors supporting you. Your work has a big value for OSGeo! The video can encourage other students to join Google Code-in student next year. Great! Thanks you Astrid Emde --- - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2018
Read the news item at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2018/ OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2018 from all over the world. In 2018 we had 35 nominations and all passed. The OSGeo board approved the new members in the November 2018 board meeting. Now we are happy to have 427 Charter Members in total. The charter members are coming from several countries. We are proud to have this global community with activities on the whole globe. Adam Steer (2018) Australia Alex Leith (2018) Australia Ariel Anthieni (2018) Argentina Baovola Marie Anna (2018) Madagascar Cayetano Benavent (2018) Spain Fernando Quadro (2018) Brazil Simon Georget (2018) France Guillaume Pasero (2018) France Horacio Castellaro (2018) Argentina James Hughes (2018) United States of America John Bryant (2018) Australia Kristian Evers (2018) Denmark Malena Libman (2018) Argentina Manuel Retamozo (2018) Argentina Marco Bernasocchi (2018) Switzerland Matt Travis (2018) United Kingdom Miriam González (2018) Mexico Sidney Schaberle Goveia (2018) Brazil Selene Yang (2018) Nicaragua Alexander Kotsev (2018) Bulgaria Carmen Diez (2018), Spain Cristian Zamar (2018), Argentina Diego Moreira Carvalho (2018), Brazil Eugene Cheipesh (2018), USA George Porto Ferreira (2018), Brazil Jeff Hamm (2018), Canada Jéssica Sena Garcia (2018), Spain Karine Jean (2018), Canada Luiz Motta (2018), Brazil Mike Saunt (2018), United Kindom Peddada Jagadeeswara Rao (2018), India Thomas Starnes (2018), United Kingdom Tom Ingold (2018), USA Vivek Saxena (2018), India V Rajesh Chowdhary (2018), Thailand Have a look at the charts and map by Jorge Sanz to find out more about the evolution and distribution of the OSGeo Charter Members. You can see how the members increased within the thirteen elections – animated Image by Jorge Sans https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jsanz/779f9b9954b92461fa50/raw/8a755dbb28be5e1404930e9fc332e6b77f88062f/osgeo_charter_members.gif All the best to our new Charter Members. Greetings from the OSGeo board! -- Astrid Emde - Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_e...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release 83: OSGeo-Live 12.0 Released
Press Release 83: * https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press Release 83 * https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-live-12-0-released/ 11. September 2018 Version 12.0 of the OSGeoLive GIS software collection (http://live.osgeo.org) has been released, and was distributed at FOSS4G 2018 (https://2018.foss4g.org/) - the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Jeff McKenna, co-founder of FOSS4G and President Emeritus of OSGeo, says: "OSGeoLive 12.0 was a massive success at the FOSS4G event in Dar es Salaam last week. Leveraged in the hands-on workshops as part of the event, as well as used at the OSGeo booth for demonstrations, the feedback received on OSGeoLive from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive; they were truly excited to take the whole OSGeo stack back to their communities and continue sharing the passion for Open. So much effort goes in to each OSGeoLive release, from documentation to packaging to testing, that we must take a moment to thank those involved. The whole OSGeoLive team deserves a huge thanks. Thank you OSGeoLive team and congratulations on this release." Download Download the OSGeoLive 12.0 image at https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html Release Highlights Highlights for this release include: * Updated to Lubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release. * Adopted Transifex Translation tool, and made our documentation generation process more efficient * Version updates to many of the included packages - see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/master/CHANGES.txt About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu (https://lubuntu.net) based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing anything. It includes: * Close to 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured * Free world maps and sample datasets * Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application * Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script * Translations to multiple languages Homepage: https://live.osgeo.org Credits Hundreds of people have directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. Thank you to all involved. https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html Sponsoring organisations * OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included applications. * Information Center for the Environment (ICE)] at the University of California, Davis (http://ice.ucdavis.edu) provides hardware resources and development support. * Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens (http://www.ntua.gr) provides hardware resources and development support. * The Debian GIS (https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/ ) and UbuntuGIS (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS) teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. * Okeanos (https://okeanos.grnet.gr/) is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso images. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
