Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Results of 2023 board elections

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Thanks for all your work Ivan, and all the best to continuing and incoming
directors!

Regards,

Adam


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 07:33 Iván Sánchez Ortega via Discuss <
discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> After much toil and trouble, the results for the 2023 board election are
> in.
>
> Adam Steer did not stand up for reelection, and thus exits the board. He
> is
> replaced by Jeroen Ticheler.
>
> The other four board members who stood up for reelection (Codrina, Vicky,
> Marco and Rajat) were reelected.
>
> Matthew and Besfort did not get enough votes to get a seat in the board.
>
> You can find the detailed results at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
> Board_Election_2023_Results
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2023_Results>
>
> The full composition of the current board and the terms of each board
> member
> can be found at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
> Board_of_Directors#OSGeo_Foundation_Board_of_Directors
>
> Best,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi OSGeo

The European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act has just come to the
attention of many non-EU folks as a potential dampener on open source
geospatial software development and usage. A summary from GitHub is here
(thanks Marco Bernasocchi for pointing it out):

https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/

 It's being discussed in the OSGeo board, and some responses from other
open source organisations have already been made, for example:
https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of the proposed
legislation on open source geospatial software development across the
globe  - so we can form an appropriate community response as soon as
possible. What are your thoughts?

Yes, we're late in gettung our attention on to this. Hopefully not too
late.

Thanks,

Adam

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board meeting summary - 12 December 2022

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi OSGeo people, friends, neighbors

The OSGeo board of directors met on 12 December 2022, making an
out-of-schedule meeting to catch up on our agenda. Minutes are here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-12

This was the last meeting as a director for Michele Tobias - please
join us in thanking Michele for her wisdom and insight for the past
two years (insert applause and cheering here). And we look forward to
her ongoing engagement in the OSGeo community!

To the meeting itself - almost half of the allocated hour was taken up
in discussion about trademarks. As an outcome, we are generating some
guidelines for projects about the process, and how to get support from
OSGeo if it is something they want to do. We also discussed trademarks
for OSGeo and FOSS4G, those are ongoing - needing careful thought and
input from the community.

Codrina has developed a template for organisations wishing to form an
MoU with OSGeo. This will be placed on the OSGeo wiki, after which the
board will make a motion to formally adopt it. Related to this, we are
revising our MoU with UCGIS [1], which will be reformatted into the
new MoU template. The GISwater organisation [2] has also requested an
MoU, however we felt that as GISwater is now an OSGeo community
project [3], a separate MoU is not needed.

The board ratified the conference committee’s decision to fund the
2022 OSGeo Oceania travel grant program, after a request from the
committee chair to do so [4]. This has been paid already.

The final discussion in the allotted time was about reviving or
creating a new OSGeo organisation in Europe. This will assist with
funding from European organisations, and create a local focus for the
European community.

Discussion about sponsorship opportunities, and curating the to-do
list, was pushed to the next meeting - scheduled for 29 December 2022,
16:00 UTC. You’re welcome to attend here:
https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard, and the agenda proposal is here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-29

Regards,

Adam Steer, on behalf of the OSGeo Board


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UCGIS
[2] https://giswater.org/
[3] https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/
[4] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo board meeting summary 28 November 2022

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi everyone


The OSGeo board met on 28 November 2022, minutes are here:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-11-28

...and here is a summary:

We set up motions to accept PgRouting to the OSGeo project incubation
process; accept the ETF testing framework as a community project and accept
giswater as a community project. These are in loomio here:
https://www.loomio.com/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board.

Raising that the Giswater organisation also requested an MoU (Memorandum of
Understanding) led to discussion about the scope and purpose of memoranda
of understanding with other organisations. This is because requests for
MoUs seem to have spiked recently, some for one-off events. We discussed
putting these in a separate framework (marketing agreements?), keeping MoUs
for longer term strategic partnerships. OSGeo will define a standard
template for these agreements.

We discussed the low turnout rate for OSGeo board elections - this e-mail
is the first step in acting to help the community understand board
processes, and encourage people to get engaged! It is clear that in the
past 12 months communication from us as a board has dropped off. We hope we
can fix that!

Valmir from the FOSS4G 2023 organising committee had questions about how to
collect credit card payments, and how we should interact with a government
agency with specific needs about how they can support FOSS4G.

An outstanding travel grant funding request was raised, resulting in
discussion about what happens if a committee can’t reach a decision, and an
action to motivate the relevant committee to make the decision that has
been delegated to that committee.

Because we didn’t make it through the agenda in 1 hr 15 minutes, we will
have the next meeting on 12 December at 16:00 UTC. You’re welcome to attend
here: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard


If you have questions or comments, reply to the list here - that way the
discussion will be tracked and archived for future reference. Or reach out
to any of the directors if things need to be discussed more privately.


Regards,

Adam Steer

on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Two conferences, two opportunities

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi everyone - this was intended for the OSGeo Oceania list, apologies
for the inbox spam, I think it is OK to leave it here in the discuss
list archives.

My apologies,

Adam

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 17:29, Adam Steer  wrote:
>
> Hi Oceania folks
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Two conferences, two opportunities

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi Oceania folks

It's likely that everyone in the community is aware now that there are
two geospatial conferences scheduled in Oceania at the same time this
year!

One is the Pacific  Geospatial Conference [1] - a collaboration
between OSGeo Oceania, the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council.
This will be hosted in Suva, Fiji.

The second is the Oceania Geospatial Symposium [2] - an event
supported by GEO[2] and hosted in Noumea, New Caledonia.

A few people saw this second one turn up on linkedin recently. With my
OSGeo director hat on I reached out to Emma Luke - who posted the
notice and is cc'ed here - for a chat about how we managed to get two
events on the same week in the same region. The best answer is, its
complicated and there are no bad vibes intended.

I think the most relevant message for the OSGeo Oceania community is
to embrace both events. It will be great to see the open source
geospatial community and OSGeo Oceania visible in both places, and I
hope that is how the news of two events in the same time slot is
generally being received.

Other questions which popped up are:
- are either conference hybrid format?
- are talks being live streamed?

Both would really help for people who want to multi-conference if they can!

A potentially really cool idea would be cross-broadcasting between
events, maybe that is a bridge too far - but if we never ask the
question, nothing ever happens.

Back to immediate practicality - I think the best approach is to
encourage everyone to choose the event where they think they will have
the most impact, I think there is a large enough community for both to
succeed! Maybe people just do this anyway - if so, great! I think it
is also great to have this discussion out in the open and on the
record.

In the long term, we can get more coordinated.

it also came to light that OSGeo Oceania could use some profile
raising in GEO's regional networks. We discussed getting an OSGeo
Oceania representative along to an Asia-Oceania GEO [4] virtual
meeting in September to deliver a 'what is OSGeo Oceania' talk - to me
that sounds like a great idea, perhaps it should be someone from the
OO board, but really it could be anyone who has the time and interest.

Cheers,

Adam
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[1] https://osgeo-oceania.org/pacific-geospatial-conference/
[2] https://oceania-geospatial.com/
[3] https://www.earthobservations.org/index.php
[4] https://aogeo.net/en/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: GIS Education

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi Suchith, all.

A geo-ethics discussion is always a good thing!

I hope the geoethics list decides to have an open, public archive soon.

It is my view that ideally we discuss geo-ethics as a really broad
community - and I also see that not everyone on this discuss list wants to
get involved all the time.

So it is necessary to be able to link important geo-ethics conversations
from, for example, this list as needed.

After all, all of us doing geospatial stuff are involved in the ongoing
conversation about the ethics of our work, whether we think we want to be
or not ;)

For some input to a geo-ethics conversation, I helped author a book chapter
a few years ago which attempted to lay out some ideas about what ethical
geo-data means - a "Good Data Manifesto". It tries to cover a lot of
ground! It is surrounded in a free, open book by other stellar authors
writing about ethics and data:

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/

While a lot has changed since 2018/19 I hope that book is useful reading.
Of course these works always carry the biases of their authors, and reflect
examples we've had time to find and consider ;)

Kind regards,

Adam




On Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 18:56 Suchith Anand via Discuss <
discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> For those interested in GeoEthics  can join the OGC GeoEthics maillist at
> https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/geoethics
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
> --
> *From:* GeoEthics  on behalf of Suchith
> Anand via GeoEthics 
> *Sent:* 30 July 2022 08:25
> *To:* geoeth...@lists.opengeospatial.org <
> geoeth...@lists.opengeospatial.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [GeoEthics] GIS Education
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I received email from some colleagues requesting more information on the
> Trademark of “Science”. So for openness and transparency , I would like to
> provide more information.
>
>
> I am not a native English speaker, so my apologies if anything got lost in
> translation.  Please feel free to ask me if you need any further
> information.
>
>
> I am a Geographic Information Scientist. Geographic Information Science
> (GIS) is my scientific discipline. I am now writing an article on Education
> which is also looking into the Ethics of Digital Feudalism in GIS
> Education. I am inviting advice and guidance from colleagues as I have many
> questions that I do not know answers.  Hence I shared my ethical questions.
>
>
>
> I came across  example of a vendor trademarking “the Science of Where” in
> the GIS/mapping domain and using this to promote their
> brand/products/services.
>
>
> https://trademarks.justia.com/871/92/the-science-of-87192660.html
>
>
> Is it Ethical to market/promote any vendor brand/products/services as “the
> Science ” of whichever area of study ? Is Science in that subject area
> “owned” by the Vendor who has trademark rights? For example if vendors
> start trademarking and marketing their brand/products/services as “The
> Science of Climate Change” , “The Science of Where” etc etc?  If so, what
> are the implications for credibility of Science?
>
>
>
> Are there any guidelines for  Scientific Associations (esp. if they are
> members of the International Science Council ) for  taking sponsorship from
> vendors who promote their   product/brand/services as  “The Science of
> “whatever” topic !?
>
>
> I am a member of the GEO Data Ethics Working Group (The WG was  closed
> this month by GEO Secretariat due to “resource constraints” ) where I have
> been raising the issue of vendor sponsorship for Group on Earth
> Observations (GEO) conferences, projects etc and the need to have clear
> guidelines.
>
>
>
> I will appreciate advice and guidance from colleagues on this. Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> --
> *From:* Suchith Anand 
> *Sent:* 26 July 2022 17:34
> *To:* geoeth...@lists.opengeospatial.org <
> geoeth...@lists.opengeospatial.org>
> *Subject:* GIS Education
>
> Dear colleagues
>
>
> I am now writing an article on GIS Education and I will appreciate your
> advice and guidance.
>
>
> Is it ethical for GIS Vendors (Vendor X or Y , it doesn’t matter)   to
> trademark/sales/market their products/brand/services as “the science”? It
> might be a profit /sales/marketing strategy for the vendors to help
> increase market share for their products, add more credibility for their
> brand/products/services etc . But what will be the affects for the
> credibility of science and scientific community in the future?
>
>
>
> If any Vendor is “sponsoring”  Scientific conferences or education
> initiatives ("free" licences etc) in return for promoting the vendor
> products/brand as “the Science” in the conference website etc ,  what is
> its impact for the discipline? Is it ethical?  If so,  what happens when
> then the vendors can use this framework “sponsorship “ model for promoting
> their product/brand as “The Science”  and advance the vendor Education
> 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Some good mojo thoughts

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi OSGeo Oceania

First, its great to see that microgrants and other small project
funding initiatives are getting momentum :)

I wanted to hopefully suggest a clearer path for the Good Mojo funding
idea, since that seems to create some confusion [1].

My first suggestion is to rename it. It is aimed specifically at
JDEI[2] initiatives - so perhaps it can be named that - the
inclusivity fund, or similar (please avoid the other acronym about
lightsaber users [3]). Good Mojo was a label of convenience, it would
be amazingly great to give a more purposeful name. It's not really
about us feeling good about ourselves.

The initial intention of the fund was that no money is held back ever
- in the original vision the JDEI (or whatever) fund has no need to be
saved for the future, instead we actively ask for contributions all
the time - or fill it from the general budget.

So the next suggestion is this: if a conference is run the LOC should
be able to spend the entire JDEI fund, for things in its remit - for
example extra travel grants outside the normal program, targeted at
specific groups, inclusivity initiatives at events, basically helping
people enter and feel welcome in the community.

Importantly, the JDEI fund should not mean 'things only travel grants
and only conferences'. As a random example if it means a geospatial -
oriented street art workshop to engage a specific community that would
otherwise feel "other'ed", then that is also fair game to me.

Outside of events, it could be open for anyone to call on. My
suggestion here is that the decision to spend it could be handed to a
funding committee (grants), or if the board wants to do it they could.
If it has $0 left, that means we did some great stuff, and need to
work on ways to fill it up!

At the end of the day, it was not conceived of as a fund to be meted
out conservatively, or be financially self sustaining. It is a
commitment in money to how we want the community to be. Importantly,
the intent is that the fund is conserved for JDEI purposes, it should
not be drawn back into the general budget.

I don't know on reading back over this whether it actually helps - and
I realise we didn't leave much practical guidance in the original
docs[4].

If I can help to actively clarify the idea, or get better guidelines
working, great!

FInally, it also doesn't have to be there at all. Nothing in OO
outside legal obligations is dogma - so if there is a better way to
fill the intention of collecting and generously dedicating resources
for useful JDEI programs, I think it'd be great to hear those also.

Cheers, and thanks

Adam

[1] thread here:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania-board/2021-November/000228.html
[2] Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
[3] 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi-is-problematic-for-describing-programs-that-promote-justice-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/
[4] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F0hgEyBPJ2EL0jZtqn0Av88Zmg6eTS7mUCEdEALujOg/edit#heading=h.95t0ev3wjads
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board election 2021 - my manifesto

[Adam Steer via Discuss]

Hi OSGeo

I'd like to thank Michele Tobias for a nomination in this year's OSGeo
board elections, My manifesto is now online here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos

My primary motivation is just to give back. I've built a research and
business career on OSGeo and other open source tools, and it feels
like a way I can put some energy back into the community which has
helped me so much. I hope my manifesto captures three key concepts:

maintenance, sustainability (in different forms), inclusivity.

Please feel free to ask me anything - and I look forward to seeing
manifestos from all the other candidates - there is a field of really
great people to choose from this year (like most years :) )

Best,

Adam
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoEthics

[Adam Steer]

Hi Suchith, this is interesting! I look forward to seeing discussions
there. I have one request: can the mailing list archive be made open
for anyone to read? I think its important that these types of
discussions can be spread far and wide..

Cheers,

Adam

On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 09:42, Suchith Anand
 wrote:
>
>
> For those interested in Data Ethics [1], the following information might be 
> of interest.
>
>
> The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have created a mailing list for 
> GeoEthics at  https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/geoethics   
> that is open to all interested.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

[Adam Steer]

Not at all, I wanted to clarify just in case I came across as 'this is a
necessary step' and accidentally downplaying QGIS capabilities ;)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

[Adam Steer]

I should point out that my own usage of inkscape / gimp is because of
'reversion to the familiar' rather than 'QGIS is missing stuff'.

Eli and Nyall are right, QGIS has a *lot* to offer before any need to
export and manually touch up!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

[Adam Steer]

Hi Sergio

Look at inkscape as a post-QGIS labelling and map tweaking system if you
need vector work and typography: https://inkscape.org/

GIMP is for image processing grunt (like Adobe photoshop):
https://www.gimp.org

Both are excellent tools for professional print production.

Searching 'QGIS and inkscape' there are many tutorials :)

Regards,

Adam

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 02:04, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote:

> Hi. Where I work we need to find an open alternative to ArcGIS in order to
> produce maps for printing. We were trying with QGIS but we have problems
> with labeling linear elements. Is there anyone in the list that has
> experience with preparing maps for printing with open source software? Does
> anybody know what is the best FOSS4G for doing this? Tutorials?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can someone test a program with point clouds?

[adam steer]

Hi Pierre

I am pretty point cloud heavy also. I’ll see if I can spin up perfectTIN
and try it out!

Regards

Adam

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 04:41, Pierre Abbat  wrote:

> I'd like to release PerfectTIN 0.4.0, but I need someone to verify that
> the
> output is free of spikes. The person who was going to do this cannot meet
> his
> coworkers because of the pandemic. If you work with point clouds
> (preferably
> in LAS format, but it can read PLY if compiled with a library) and can
> view a
> TIN and turn it around, please let me know.
>
> Pierre
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo board nomination

[adam steer]

Hi everyone

After a whirlwind last minute chat between John Bryant and myself (do you
want an OSGeo board nomination? maybe - you? kinda? OK.. there’s nobody
from Oceania there let's do it), I’m privileged to announce my nomination
for election to the OSGeo board.

My manifesto is here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2019_Candidate_Manifestos#9._Adam_Steer.2C_Australia_.28OSGeo_profile.29

This will see a few nips and tucks today most likely, and be set in stone
by bedtime (before 24:00 UTC+11, Monday 18 November)

Please feel free to ask me anything. I appreciate that I’m pretty new to
this community, and I’m also keenly aware that I’ve been pretty quiet in
other OSGeo committeeships - which I would give up if elected, aiming to
focus on just one thing at a time.

Finally, I see an excellent field of co-nominees to vote for - all the best
in decision making, there’s a tough choice ahead.

Regards,

Adam

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Spare OGC membership slot

[adam steer]

t least yearly, but
> ideally when you come across items that you believe will be of interest to
> the OSGeo community.
>
> You’ll find a wealth of resources on the OGC web site:
>
> https://www.opengeospatial.org/
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On 12 Feb 2019, at 02:17, Jonathan Moules 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I might be. It depends what it entails etc, and what value it would bring
> to OSGeo.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> On 2019-02-10 23:58, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Do we have anyone on the Standards List who has an interest in filling our
> spare
> OGC Individual Membership slot?
>
> I’m just after an expression of interest at this stage, to see if a
> selection process is required.
>
> If you are interested, please indicate so by simply replying to this email
> and stating so by the 18th Feb GMT.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Bruce Bannerman 
> *Subject: * *Re: OGC membership for Angelos Tzotsos and Jáchym Cepicky*
> *Date: *2 February 2019 at 08:21:36 AEDT
> *To: *bsher...@opengeospatial.org
> *Cc: *standa...@lists.osgeo.org
>
> Hi Barbara,
>
> We will renew Angelos’ membership.
>
> I will need to initiate a process to fill Jachym’s now vacant membership.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce
>
> On 1 Feb 2019, at 22:35, Jachym Cepicky  wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce and all,
>
> there is nothing I could report - my slot currently  at sleeping mode
> and (I offered it in the past) available for someone more active
>
> If anybody needs this, please step ahead and take over
>
> thanks
>
> Jachym
>
> čt 31. 1. 2019 v 21:13 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman
>  napsal:
>
>
> Hi Jachym,
>
> I think that you may have missed this email.
>
> Can you please respond by next Friday, the 8th Feb?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
> On 18 Jan 2019, at 07:45, Bruce Bannerman 
> wrote:
>
> @ Angelos and Jachym,
>
> Before we renew your membership, can you please provide a brief report on
> the value of your OGC Membership.
>
> I’d like to understand both the value that you have contributed to the OGC
> and the value that you have in turn received on behalf of OSGeo.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>
> Hi Jeff and Bruce,
>
> Jáchym's OGC membership is due to be renewed on 1 March 2019 and Angelos'
> is due to renew on 1 April 2019.  Do you want to continue to offer them
> OSGeo slots?
>
> Barbara
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] OSGeo symbols set

[adam steer]

Hi Nicolas

These are great! Thanks for making them happen, and thanks everyone for
working to make them better

Cheers
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

[adam steer]

Hi everyone

Thanks for this discussion, I think it reflects that whatever changes to
the CoC are made will be strong. Thanks Maria for starting it - please keep
the discussion going and don't give up yet!

I don't see the Contributor Covenant removing any assumptions 'good faith'
or 'innocence', I believe the intention is exactly to respectfully remind
us all to take responsibility for ourselves and how we look after a
community that is growing with many different points of view.

Cheers, I'll keep listening.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith

[adam steer]

I support Michael’s nomination also. Incredibly supportive in OSGeo point
cloud ecosystems, and always ready to help in his role as treasurer.

Cheers

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

[adam steer]

Thanks Steven, this is great and we will follow this model with our TGP in
Oceania.

Maria -  well said. +100

Till (and all the board, and all of OSgeo) - thanks again for your support
for our TGP, it’s had a fantastic response. While fairly small, it already
looks like it will be instrumental in helping grow this community; and make
a real difference in our region. As discussed, please lean on us to help
formulate a policy on how to help all the regional events in future.

Regards

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

[adam steer]

Hi all

I appreciate this topic arising. I appreciate the efforts of the FOSS4G Dar
committee; and the reasons for their decisions. I also appreciate that the
FOSS4G Asia LOC have a different operating environment and look forward to
hearing about their drivers. And I appreciate discussion about various
factors affecting diversity and audiences. From FOSS4G Oceania experience
it’s not an easy discussion to get right - I hope we all make the best
effort we can.

I also want to avoid papering over a substantially disheartening part of
this particular e-mail conversation.

Earlier in this discussion thread a research paper was rolled out as
evidence that women choose to do STEM less; with the argument following
that aiming for levels of attendance and speakership at FOSS4G conferences
which represent the population is over-reach; and then a few people jumping
on the sciencing wagon.

So I read the paper. …and I'm puzzled that in 2018, such a work would be
latched onto and held up as truth without question. I would certainly not
try to use it as a platform to base a solid argument on.

What was more disappointing is that this work was repeatedly held up as
canon and defended, as a counter to Maria’s patient attempts to inject some
living experience into discussion about a topic on which she has invested
vast time and energy (and whose initial assessment of the work was actually
completely correct)!

A great first step to increase diversity and inclusion would be to avoid
this type of top down lecturing and engage with experience - and then
listen. To stories like Vicky’s. To the experience of Maria and Maria; to
the committee from FOSS4G Asia who have made choices for reasons we don’t
know; and from FOSS4G in Dar, who made choices for very clear reasons
because they were able to; and aimed to have a specific impact (which I
hope, has worked).

Back to lurking now..

Adam


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On 13 August 2018 at 21:21, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Thank you for sharing these personal stories Vicky.
>
> There are so many different cultural factors at our FOSS4G events around
> the world.
>
> How can we make sure that FOSS4G events are both diverse and inclusive?
>
> I think the first step is always to try contacting the FOSS4G local
> committee directly.  And if you are concerned of a FOSS4G event but don't
> know who to contact, just send me a quick email and I'll forward you the
> direct contact.  In the case of FOSS4G-Asia, I would forward you to
> Nimalika from OSGeo-Sri Lanka, who has been so kind to listen and take the
> advice back to her local organizing committee, where they can discuss and
> make the necessary changes.
>
> I also feel that old-school talking directly is still very important, and
> look forward to speaking directly of these issues with leaders Malena,
> María and others in Dar es Salaam.  This is why I hop on a plane for a 40
> hour trip, to work together on these issues so we can all continue to
> create great FOSS4G events of all sizes.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2018-08-13 12:57 AM, Vicky Vergara wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I went to the last FOSS4G Asia in Hyderabad, India, within IIIT
>> university premises.
>> There I met wonderful students.
>> I was actually impressed with a particular female student, very bright,
>> and with lots of ideas to tell.
>>
>> I invited her to eat out.
>> She could not go out of the university, because her father had forbidden
>> her to go out of the University premises.
>> I asked, where is your father?
>> She told me he lived about 300km to the north, and that when she needed
>> to go out, he would drive to take her to where she needed to go.
>>
>> Culture: not obey the (family/religion/legal) rules is not an option.
>> She follows the rules, she is obedient.
>>
>> What do you expect for woman who live that kind of culture, that we don't
>> understand, not even a 1%?
>> If woman like her, get invited to be a keynote speaker, what is the
>> probability for her to go?
>>
>> Can you fight a culture that is completely different to occidental
>> cultures?
>> Can you fight that culture, sitting in front of your computer, in
>> England, USA, Mexico?
>>
>> What would you tell her if you had that conversation?
>> In my particular case, I told her:
>> I am sure my father has the same concerns as your father, that is why he
>> came with me.
>>
>> And we ate in the University.
>>
>> I invited my father, I paid his airplane ticket, hotel, food, souvenir,
>> etc.
>> The reason

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Guido Stein

[Adam Steer]

+1 from me

> On 25 Aug 2017, at 8:14 am, Michael Smith  
> wrote:
> 
> I would like to nominate Guido Stein for OSGeo Charter membership. 
> As most people should know, Guido was co-chair of the Boston LOC for 2017. 
> And, as was expected, he did an amazing job. The conference was a complete 
> success and Guido's touches were everywhere, with the detail and effort that 
> he puts into things. He is currently working efforts to establish a US local 
> chapter of OSGeo. He is a valuable member of the community and he should be 
> recognized as a charter member.
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Aust-NZ] OSGeo breakfast at Digital Earth Symposium in Sydney, Australia

[Adam Steer]

Hiya folks

I’ll be there with my NCI hat on, checking out the landscape and learning 
stuff. And Thursday 6 April is my birthday :) Breakfast sounds like a good 
start!

Any Sydney locals on the list keen to propose a venue? if not I’m happy to 
consult my bro - who knows where to get a good breakfast (and lives in Sydney).

Cheers

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> 
> I suggest we get together at some point. Maybe breakfast on Thursday 5 April. 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

[Adam Steer]

Hi, speaking as:

- a new player in the OSgeo world
- a person occupying a desk in an agency tasked with publishing data 
(fulfilling Gert-Jan’s point 3)

…and repeating other voices here - I see some form of data advocacy as really 
useful in OSgeo world, in particular in uptake of data sources for 
applications. A really quick example is something like the QGIS openlayers 
plugin. Awesome tool, but how do developers decide which data to include? 
Preferably reliable, easy to work with, standards-based, self-describing data. 
And how did it happen? Some developers saw a bunch of reliable data that could 
be applied in a useful way and developed something. Yin and yang so to speak - 
and agreeing a lot with Jody’s point of view.

I also agree with Benoit - data quality and accessibility issues apply to all 
forms of data - which makes good metadata and provenance information critical 
in deciding how to use data that are available (ie, is it possible to find the 
documents describing how the data were made? how can you find QA/QC information 
on the data?).

So what did the OSgeo geodata committee do previously? and what would/could it 
do if it were woken up? (feel free to contact me off list to discuss that)

Cheers, I hope this discussion continues :)

Adam
 


> On 20 Oct 2016, at 9:00 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl 
>  wrote:
> 
> My 3 cents:
> 
> 1) take another 27 minutes to (re-)enjoy Ton Zijlstra's keynote at FOSS4G.
> At that time in the schedule (9 .am, in the morning after the FOSS4G boat 
> trip probably missed by some of the attendees, but in his talks Ton 
> challenges the geospatial community in general, and the FOSS4G community in 
> spatial to play an essential role in leveraging the value of open data to a 
> higher level. 
> A bit less laid-back than Arnulf's talk, so it requires probably a bit more 
> of your attention ;-)
> 
> 2) Apart from that, Tim Berners-Lee 5-star system is an almost essential 
> ingredient in any talk on open data
> 
> 3) there's a serious distinction between crowd sourced data such as OSM 
> (which is collected with no specific goal in mind) and opening data by local 
> and national governments. 
> The latter is about data that has been collected for a specific purpose, and 
> is now, as open data, brought to a broader audience in order to: 
> a) give the tax-payers insight in data-collections (transparancy of 
> governance, a merely socio-political goal) and 
> b) find out if the same data can fulfil another purpose (either within or 
> outside the government, thus a merely economical goal)
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> 
> Gert-Jan
> 
> 
> 
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Codrina Maria 
> Ilie
> Verzonden: woensdag 19 oktober 2016 18:22
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> Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Probably the best argument for the strong connection between the 'software 
> development foundation' we fundamentally are and data is the talk Arnulf gave 
> at FOSS4G Bonn: Software comes and goes. Mind the Data! 
> [https://vimeo.com/187556741]. Furthermore, I believe that the affinity 
> between the philosophy of open source and open data is indisputable.
> 
> That being said, I would like to mention a discussion me and Vasile prepared 
> and facilitated within the workshop 'Open data priorities and engagement — 
> identifying data sets for publication' 
> [https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/Timisoara/agenda].
> 
> Context: workshop organized within the share PSI 2.0 project: The network for 
> innovation in European public sector information 
> [https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/].
> 
> The name of our session was Free our Maps and the preparation can be found 
> here 
> [https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/wiki/images/b/b5/Abstract_free_our_maps.pdf].
>  
> Notes take by Ingo Simonis fron OGC can be found here 
> [https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/Timisoara/Freemaps]. The issues 
> we tried to tackle there were identified during the work we did in the 
> http://geoidea.ro/ project, a project for catalyzing and pushing forward the 
> open gov geodata initiative in Romania.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Codrina
> 
> 
> 
> On 18/10/16 01:27, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> I have my "welcome
>> "
>> talk which covers what we do around here (open data, open standards, 
>> open source, open collaboration).
>> 
>> Open data is a big part of what makes this community awesome.
>> 
>> That said OSGeo originally had open data as part of our mandate (with 
>> a committee etc...). This mandate was scaled back last year, to 
>> recognize that OSGeo is now pursuing open data through relationships 
>> with other communities (such as the open layers community).
>> 
>> So to fit in with your theme, OSM / GeoNames / Natural Earth provide 
>> the "open data" and OSGeo