Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Jorge Sanz
Thank you all for your suggestions and feedback. We'll have a week of campaigning and discussion once the candidates list is closed. I've added a section for this on the elections page[1] and created a page following last year template[2]. I'd ask candidates that once they are happy with their

[OSGeo-Discuss] UN Open GIS Capacity Building Initiative

2016-09-18 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear All tomorrow we will start a first GeoAcademy QGIS Course in the frame of UN Open GIS Capacity Building. We will have four editions (one every month) for the UN Staff of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Missions). GeoAcademy will be strongly involved as well as some colleagues of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > > The other point of this email is to follow up with Gert-Jan > proposal[2] to put a week between the nominations period and the > actual voting to let candidates to express their intentions for their > term. > Strong +1

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGeo Board: Marc Vloemans

2016-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
+1 on this nomination. I've only had the pleasure of interacting with Marc recently in Bonn, but I believe he is the exact kind of person we need to take OSGeo to the next level with a clear, focused and well executed marketing strategy. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jeff McKenna

[OSGeo-Discuss] Release of pgRouting 2.3.0 pre-Release rc1

2016-09-18 Thread Vicky Vergara
Hello everyone: I am pleased to announce the pre-release of pgRouting 2.3.0-rc1 Thanks to Andrea Nardelli, and Rohith Reddy for their big effort during the GSoC program to incorporate new functionality for you to try: Flow algorithms and Contraction, all you can find under proposed functions. ​

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGeo Board: Marc Vloemans

2016-09-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
Forwarding Marc Vloemans nomination for the Board of Directors by Gert-Jan van der Weijden. - on behalf of CRO 2016 Forwarded Message I would like to nominate Marc Vloemans for the Board of Directors of the OSGeo.org foundation. I know Marc now for approximately 10

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Newsletter September 2016

2016-09-18 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you to Nikos and all editors for thier excellent work in producing another excellent newsletter . As Nikos said, we now have huge readership of the newsletter and it is an excellent way to spread our ideas globally. So do make use of it and send your latest updates etc to Nikos and have