Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released

[Paulo van Breugel via Discuss]

Congratulations on this milestone!

On February 3, 2022 6:28:47 PM Markus Neteler  wrote:

GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released

Overview of changes
After more than 3 year of development the first stable release GRASS GIS 
8.0.0 is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience 
even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to 
modules and further improving the graphical user interface.
Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup 
sequence!
This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other 
connected software packages.
The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than 1,400 fixes and improvements 
with respect to the release 7.8.6.
With the introduction of the semantic label raster metadata class, the 
temporal database was modified to version 3. Hence, to be able to read and 
process GRASS 7.x space-time datasets, users will be prompted to run 
t.upgrade. If users want to read newly created space-time datasets back in 
GRASS 7.x, they can run t.downgrade.

Launching the software
The user experience of the graphical user interface has been completely 
rewritten: no more clumsy selection screens - just enter the menu system 
directly!

And on command line, GRASS GIS now starts versionless, i.e. as grass.
Downloads
Source code (zip) | Source code (tar.gz)
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source
Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/
Visit the release page for detailed release notes.
Thanks to all contributors!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

[Paulo van Breugel]

Way to go Barend, congratulations!



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



Dear colleagues,


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



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


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



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


*
*

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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



His main research interests are:


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


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


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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Helena Mitasova

[Paulo van Breugel]

I support the nomination of Helena Mitasova. With her many contributions 
and wide experiences at the present OSGeo board, having her on the board 
will be of great value for the community.



Best wishes,


Paulo



On 10/8/17 7:33 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
I would like to strongly second Helena's nomination. Having her 
leadership, guidance and wisdom is key for expanding our education 
and outreach aims. Thank you Helena for your tireless work and efforts 
for OSGeo.


Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Discuss  on behalf of Jeff 
McKenna 

Sent: 08 October 2017 6:23 PM
To: osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Helena Mitasova

Forwarding nomination of Helena Mitasova by Angelos, Markus, Venka. The
Board Nominations page has been updated:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017



-Jeff & Vasile
CRO 2017 Elections



 Forwarded Message 

It is a great honor for us to nominate Prof. Helena Mitasova for the
2017 OSGeo Board Elections.

Prof. Helena Mitasova hardly needs any introduction. Her activities that
encompass the entire gamut of the OSGeo Foundation goals, speak for
themselves. She was awarded the Sol Katz Award in 2010 for her long
standing contribution to the OSGeo Foundation and FOSS4G communities.

Recently, she has been one of the driving force behind the Geo4All
initiative. She is also instrumental in the conclusion of several MoUs
with international professional organizations. Her deep insight in area
of Education and Research will help to strengthen our outreach. Further,
her invaluable experience on the present OSGeo board will also be an 
asset.


We thank her for agreeing to be nominated for the 2017 OSGeo Board
elections.

1. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Helena

2. http://www.geo4all.org/
3. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All


Angelos, Markus and Venka





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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

[Paulo van Breugel]

On 8/16/17 9:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
We could ask the OSGeo live project what procedure they use, at the 
moment we have asked on the disc...@osgeo.org 
 mailing list for open source projects to 
fill in a google form so we would have content to try out the website 
with.


There is a very clear distinguishing of OSGeo projects on the website:

a) Sort order is OSGeo projects > OSGeo Community > Other
b) Only OSGeo projects are available from the menu directly,
c) When listed OSGeo Projects, and OSGeo Community projects are badged 
with the appropriate logo


When I use the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly, I 
am seeing the page with all projects, with projects in what seems to be 
random order (and with some of the OSGEO projects, like GRASS, on the 
last page). Only when I click on 'projects' in the menu am I presented 
with the projects grouped in Osgeo projects, osgeo community, others. 
Wouldn't it be preferable to use that page as landing page when using 
the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly?





This is going to be an interesting week collecting feedback when lots 
of the website is not working as designed quite yet (examples tagging 
and sorting). To be fair the vast majority of project descriptions 
were entered last weekend so this is our first chance to try things 
out with actual content :)




--
Jody Garnett

On 16 August 2017 at 02:36, Helmut Kudrnovsky > wrote:



>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 06:28 Uhr
>Von: "Jody Garnett"
>Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website
draft
>
>Not sure it is much of an explanation - our vision as a group is
to empower everyone with geospatial - and there is a lot of open
source >spatial to promote.
>
>By the same vision live.osgeo.org
[http://live.osgeo.org
] includes all kinds of projects :)
>
>The key idea is to help people new to our world to go through the
choose a project pages and discover projects that meet their needs.
>
>The website is a beta, we now have enough projects to test out
these ideas and see what issues we can find.  There is a meeting
tomorrow >with the vendor that should be productive (a hands on
training session[https://wiki.osgeo.org
>/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint#Website_Training] for any one
attending foss4g).

I'm following the new website and branding process a little bit by
the mailing lists.

is there anywhere a documented discussion or a documented and
approved decision about how the project selection to be listed on
the OSGeo website is done? I can't find anyone.

To be inclusive is one side; not to distinguish OSGeo projects
from other software projects from other initatives (e.g.
locationtech) or GIS vendors without any supplement words in the
OSGeo website, I'm feeling unconformable with it.

Kind regards
Helmut

OSGeo charter member



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