Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Streaming this from Genova (FOSS4G-IT) would have been less fun...

2017-02-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
scientific conference). I you are aware of similar initatives, please to let me know. Best regards Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org <http://www.pibinko.org/> i...@pibinko.org <mailto:i...@pibinko.org> +39 331 7539228 P. IVA: 01582480537 2017-02-09 19:43 GMT+01:00 Jeff McKenna

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Streaming this from Genova (FOSS4G-IT) would have been less fun...

2017-02-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
I love this Andrea! I was just thinking to myself that we need more pics/videos of the fun this week at FOSS4G-IT and the OSGeo code sprint. Well, this is perfect, I can hear and feel the atmosphere (and see familiar faces as the camera pans around) thanks for sharing ha! :) -jeff -- Jeff

[OSGeo-Discuss] Application to GSoC is submitted

2017-02-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
Dear All, This is to let the OSGeo community know that we have submitted the application as a mentoring organization to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017 on behalf of OSGeo! Google program administrators will review the applications until 26 February, and the accepted organizations will be an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local chapter event planning (Ireland)

2017-02-07 Thread Jeff McKenna
ocal event in May, I will follow along its progress on the Irish mailing list! :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2017-02-07 6:04 AM, Seth G wrote: Hi all, We are planning our first event for the Irish chapter of OSG

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Could we make OSGeo and OSGeo-Live available as remote desktops from the cloud?

2017-02-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
web: http://web.gislab.io/ mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gis.lab -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2017-02-06 10:38 AM, Newcomb, Doug wrote: I'm interested. Link to website? Dou

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM live streaming today from Brussels

2017-02-05 Thread Jeff McKenna
Live stream: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/h2214 Geospatial devroom schedule: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna ___ Discuss mailing

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy birthday to the community!

2017-02-04 Thread Jeff McKenna
! -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Google Summer of Code ideas page: action required latest by February 5th!

2017-02-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
ah, DanielK submitted the pgRouting ideas last week :) -jeff On 2017-02-02 1:21 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Vicky, (awesome, thanks for participating!) can you send this to the Admin team directly? gsoc-admin@ (or see below) -jeff On 2017-02-02 10:39 AM, Vicky Vergara wrote: Hello all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Google Summer of Code ideas page: action required latest by February 5th!

2017-02-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Vicky, (awesome, thanks for participating!) can you send this to the Admin team directly? gsoc-admin@ (or see below) -jeff On 2017-02-02 10:39 AM, Vicky Vergara wrote: Hello all, This is pgRouting Ideas page: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSS4G ASIA 2017 [statistics]

2017-01-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
sharing these great statistics... Forwarded Message Dear organizing committee members I thank all the organizing committee members for being part of FOSS4G ASIA 2017 international conference and making it a grand success with wonderful workshops, technical sessions and Co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Memorable moments at FOSS4G-Asia 2017 workshops

2017-01-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
Wonderful memories indeed Rajan, thank you for sharing this gallery! I can see the enthusiasm. and passion. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2017-01-26 1:41 PM, K S Rajan wrote: All, The captured moments of the event

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GWF 2017 awards OSGeo

2017-01-23 Thread Jeff McKenna
Wonderful news, thank you for sharing Ravi!!! OSGeo is indeed dialed "up to 11" (from Venka). -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2017-01-23 9:29 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: OSGeo receives 'Professional Society of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSS4G Meeting in Knoxville TN - May 19th 2017

2017-01-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
Sharing great FOSS4G news. Forwarded Message Good People, There will be a Free and Open Source GIS one day meeting happening in Knoxville TN on May 19th 2017 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Knoxfoss4g20170519 If you'd like to come

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Interior/accessibility mapping for FOSDEM

2017-01-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
Forwarding the cool things happening for FOSDEM! Forwarded Message Hi all, FOSDEM[1] is the largest open source conference of Europe and will be happening the first weekend of february. For the first time this year the organizers are trying to make an application (interior

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSSGIS 2017 Call for Abstracts

2017-01-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
oops it seems my translations failed me: the call for abstracts ends today! On 2017-01-06 8:57 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: (please pardon my translation) -- Hi interested FOSSGIS-ers, Today we announce the call for presentations for FOSSGIS 2017, which will be held in Passau, Germany (a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSSGIS 2017 Call for Abstracts

2017-01-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
(please pardon my translation) -- Hi interested FOSSGIS-ers, Today we announce the call for presentations for FOSSGIS 2017, which will be held in Passau, Germany (a beautiful city on the Austrian border) from 22 to 25 March 2017. - Submit your abstract (for a talk/lightning talk/worksh

[OSGeo-Discuss] Position paper for endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon 2020

2017-01-05 Thread Jeff McKenna
https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/Horizon2020-Position-Paper.en.html pdf: https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_Mc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Heads up: EGU GA abstract deadline: 11 Jan 2017, 1300 CET

2017-01-05 Thread Jeff McKenna
Sharing with the whole OSGeo community, as EGU has been a great showcase for OSGeo projects in research... Forwarded Message Subject: [OpenGeoscience] Heads up: EGU GA abstract deadline: 11 Jan 2017, 1300 CET Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:30:21 +0100 From: "Peter Löwe" To: openg

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Happy new year

2017-01-03 Thread Jeff McKenna
Forwarded Message Subject: [GRASS-dev] Happy new year Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:18:05 +0100 From: Vincent Bain To: grass-dev Dear GRASS devs, in case you would like to address your best "grassy wishes" for the new year, I commited a greetings card. The easy-to-share low-re

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: DataCite: Persistent identifers for GRASS GIS - and OSGeo

2017-01-03 Thread Jeff McKenna
(sharing this as it potentially affects all of the OSGeo family, in a good way!) Forwarded Message Dear GRASS PSC, Allen, and Helmut, (cc: Britta Dreyer, DataCite) a happy new year to all of you ! Thanks for your feedback regarding the use of persistent identifiers (PID) (

[OSGeo-Discuss] Workshops announced for FOSS4G-IT

2017-01-03 Thread Jeff McKenna
(pardon my translation errors and additions ha) --- We are pleased to announce that the workshop program has been released, as well as open registration for the FOSS4G-IT 2017 conference and its related activities, such as social dinner, the day dedicated to OpenStreetMap, the Community and S

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS 7.2.0 released

2017-01-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
Just wonderful news from the GRASS team, and a nice way to start 2017, as part of the OSGeo family. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-12-31 11:01 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: *We are pleased to announce the *stable

[OSGeo-Discuss] Merry Christmas

2016-12-23 Thread Jeff McKenna
Wishing a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to the OSGeo and FOSS4G community, all over the world. Looking forward to sharing, learning, and laughing with you all in 2017 :) Merry Christmas everyone, -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: Unplanned outage: Corvallis Hub 2016-12-17 08:27-Ongoing

2016-12-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
another message from OSGeo hosting: Forwarded Message Power is temporarily restored to our Corvallis PoP. Customers connected to via Corvallis have network connectivity restored for now. However, the power situation is not stable and there may be subsequent outages. We wil

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Network outage 12/17/2016 08:26AM PST - 12/17/2016 11:14AM PST

2016-12-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
message from OSGeo's hosting provider: Forwarded Message All, We had a major network outage today caused by a UPS fault in the data center which houses our upstream connection with NERO. All of our systems remained online during the outage, however our upstream connecti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] easiest setup on Windows

2016-12-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
applications each month, for the MapServer, GeoMOOSE, Mapbender, OpenLayers,etc. communities. If you have questions about MS4W, you can also join its dedicated mailing list at https://lists.ms4w.com/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] easiest setup on Windows

2016-12-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
Check it out at http://ms4w.com -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ On 2016-12-15 12:46 PM, P Kishor wrote: hello OSGeo, I am helping some friends migrate their work to a real GIS (from a hodgepodge of AutoCad and MS-Excel sp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] “GeoForAll” Lab of the Month – Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

2016-12-10 Thread Jeff McKenna
entire FOSS4G community. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-12-10 4:15 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: Dear all, On behalf of GeoForAll and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, it is my great pleasure to introduce our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G in Ecuador?

2016-12-07 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Carlos, Sure, why not have FOSS4G-Nicaragua 2017, or FOSS4G-CentralAmerica-2017?! Both sound really good when I say them in my head :) PS> careful, you may get a direct email from me soon poking you about that ha! -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G in Ecuador?

2016-12-07 Thread Jeff McKenna
remotely and provide any help along the way - my pleasure! So yes please share the FOSS4G spirit in Ecuador and plant the seed for our future generations! :) Thank you Guillermo! (and talk soon) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hackathon: building fully open climatic monitoring system

2016-12-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Maxi, Is this hackathon happening now? Please keep us posted. (I would love to be there and participate) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-10-21 1:46 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: Dear All, I would like to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing FOSS4G-IT 2017 in Genoa

2016-12-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
And be sure to share its new home: http://foss4g.it/ :) :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-29 9:14 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: (pardon my translation below, as I may have made mistakes, trying to correct Google

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Advent Calendar, and the sharing spirit

2016-12-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
ul for the worldwide friendship of our FOSS4G community. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing FOSS4G-IT 2017 in Genoa

2016-11-29 Thread Jeff McKenna
(pardon my translation below, as I may have made mistakes, trying to correct Google Translate ha) - We are pleased to announce that the next Italian Conference on Software and Data Geographic Free and Open Source "FOSS4G-IT 2017" will take place in Genoa from Wednesday 8 to Saturday, Feb

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hungary

2016-11-24 Thread Jeff McKenna
many familiar names of leaders and projects (Siki Zoltan, Matthias Kuhn, QField, OpenLayers, OSM, Geo4All and so many more): http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop5/program2016.pdf (PDF) Thanks for sharing and wishing another great FOSS4G-Hungary event! :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Eme

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy GIS Day 2016

2016-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
And don't forget, the day after GIS Day (the 17th) is PostGIS Day! Please share the passion (and give thanks to Jorge Sanz for the site): http://www.postgisday.rocks/ -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-15 8:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of the Google Summer of Code

2016-11-11 Thread Jeff McKenna
the great work that you both have put in. And how fun is the Google Code-In?!?! Let's for sure discuss this in 2017. Talk soon, -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-11 9:24 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear OSG

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Moving GeoNode under OSGeo Project Category on Website

2016-11-10 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Maxi, Ok I've added a new block for "Outreach Projects" to http://www.osgeo.org/ Can you clear your browser cache and let me know if it looks acceptable? Please let me know if any more changes are needed. Thanks and sorry for the homepage confusion! -jeff -- Jeff Mc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Moving GeoNode under OSGeo Project Category on Website

2016-11-10 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Maxi, Ok I will move the "Outreach Projects" out of the "OSGeo Projects" box; likely not done yet because it is tricky to do and someone needs to make the effort (like all things OSGeo ha). I'm making the effort now... :) Talk soon, -- Jeff McKenna President E

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Moving GeoNode under OSGeo Project Category on Website

2016-11-10 Thread Jeff McKenna
Bizarre, yesterday I made several GeoNode changes and reported it to the Incubation list (fixed JeffJ's name spelling in press release, updated Officers page, updated wiki pageand I could have sworn that the main osgeo.org page was already updated). Checking again! :) -jeff --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador of the month – Victoria Rautenbach

2016-11-03 Thread Jeff McKenna
e last time I saw her at an event, right after the event finished we went on a rollercoaster ride together, in the spur of the moment, ha! It's those moments of fun and sharing, that we all cherish in this community so much, and can never forget. Thanks Victoria, from all of OSGeo, for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo social media contacts

2016-11-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
news_item@ email account. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-02 3:25 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: Can someone let me know who are in charge of the OSGeo's social media accounts (Twitter etc). Please email me thier in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Happy news from GeoForAll

2016-11-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Edwin, You can grab an OSGeo logo at https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/logo/ Thanks for sharing the passion! -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-11-01 6:11 PM, Edwin Liava'a wrote: Hi Suchith, This is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
As if someone is reading this ha, a tweet just came across my desk: https://twitter.com/GIS4Teachers/status/791981572991746048 So, we need to also get into that huge K-12 market, plant the open seed early :) A challenge indeed. Think on this over the weekend, -jeff On 2016-10-27 12:36 P

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Geo4Africa Code Sprint and Summit 2017

2016-10-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
Forwarded Message Dear All, Geo4Africa Code Sprint / Hackathon 2017 Date: 7th July to 9th July The old tradition of Codesprint remains relevant to problem solving entangled with Ideation. Geo4Africa Code Sprint will focus on building Open Source Geo Solutions which can be us

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
other highschools around the world - can OSGeo's Geo4All committee make that its focus now? Anyway, 'food' for thought! :) Thank you again Sergio for bringing this to everyone's attention. Night all, -jeff On 2016-10-27 6:04 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Sergio, Thank you f

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
io to help change this myth that OSGeo isn't a part of the youth activities today, get more press on the great work by the Geo4All committee of OSGeo (as mentioned by Cameron), and gather more champions to keep spreading our passion to the youth of tomorrow - as I've said many times, we&#

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS service providers

2016-10-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
Sharing a nice message from the OSGeo-Africa chapter Forwarded Message Subject: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS service providers Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:10:15 +0200 From: Gavin Fleming Reply-To: Africa local chapter discussions To: Africa local chapter discussions If you o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
share with you (she was recently part of FOSS4G-Romania as well). [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Codrina -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-10-17 12:08 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote: Dear all, Can anybody share presentation file

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
, and set some tasks (it's a good way to get things going again). -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-10-17 8:22 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on the same

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
o our foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi Sanghee, I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we (OSGeo.org)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Asia 2017 at Hyderabad

2016-10-16 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thanks Ravi, great news from OSGeo-India. I have also submitted this as an OSGeo news item. Thanks for sharing this. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-10-15 4:14 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote: The OSGeo India's 1st Asia ev

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

2016-10-05 Thread Jeff McKenna
nights managing the election, and his commitment to the OSGeo community is second to none. Thank you again Jorge, it's a true pleasure to work with you. The OSGeo family grows even stronger today! :) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Elections 2016] Reminder for Board of Directors voting

2016-10-03 Thread Jeff McKenna
A reminder that voting ends tomorrow (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20161004T235959&p0=136&msg=OSGeo+Board+of+Directors+nominalizations+2016&font=cursive) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

2016-09-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Madi, Anne, thanks for promoting OSGeo! I think also Astrid has some cool OSGeo stickers (the 'cube' one). We can also reimburse the costs to ship them to you, as part of the marketing budget. Thank you again! -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osge

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [New post] gvSIG 2.3 is now available!

2016-09-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
/105969056638310510633 -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-09-30 10:01 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: ​​Mario posted: "The new version of gvSIG Desktop, the open source GIS, is now available to download. This new version is an important step a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Elections 2016] Update on Board of Directors voting

2016-09-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thanks Jorge. I think you're caught up with the requests to @cro, only Astrid needs a new voting link I believe. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-09-30 6:44 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Hi all, a quick update on elections. S

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

2016-09-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2016-09-26 10:52 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of participants both from the candidates and community. On Sun, Sep

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

2016-09-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2016-09-25 3:04 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote: If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout". also accessible (same place) as: https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo Sandro, the correct link is http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo -jeff -- Je

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination period for Board of DIrectors elections ended

2016-09-24 Thread Jeff McKenna
To clarify again: Board candidates don't have to write the CRO and wait for approval - Please just send your vision direct to this Discuss list, and kindly add your own words to the wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2016_Candidate_Manifestos). -on behalf of CRO 2016 On 2016-0

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination period for Board of DIrectors elections ended

2016-09-21 Thread Jeff McKenna
To clarify, "next week" is actually this week, for the campaign period, which starts today (2016-09-21 to 2016-09-27). -jeff On 2016-09-20 9:45 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Dear OSGeo Community Following the elections calendar[1]. The nomination period for candidates to the Board of Directors has

[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 year

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo booth at state of the map

2016-09-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
n/ -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-09-15 5:46 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: Hi all, Next week (23 - 25 september) there will be the yearly open streetmap conference (state of the map) in Brussels. OSGeo (technically speakin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo booth at state of the map

2016-09-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
e to check to verify the info is still correct, for 2016. I will also later today check that too. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2016-09-15 5:46 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: Hi all, Next week (23 - 25 september) there wil

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

2015-12-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-12-07 6:31 PM, Ian Edwards wrote: Hi All, Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of the Drupal content management system are on the wiki here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising This topic is also on the agenda for this week's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

2015-12-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-12-07 6:31 PM, Ian Edwards wrote: Hi All, Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of the Drupal content management system are on the wiki here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising This topic is also on the agenda for this week's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Semantic Mediawiki based OSGeo Member Map for the OSGeo Wiki

2015-12-04 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Christian, Regarding the experience icons, I believe they must live inside the "marketing" folder in the OSGeo SVN repository (https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/). For example, I see some of those icons/logos such as "OSGeo_coder.svg" at https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/logo/svg/

[OSGeo-Discuss] Short report on OpenGIS-Moscow

2015-11-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
ww.flickr.com/photos/trolleway/sets/72157659104643414 -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki + notifications

2015-11-20 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-11-20 12:02 PM, Yves Jacolin wrote: Jeff, On Friday, November 20, 2015 9:07:24 Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi everyone, Some of you might have noticed that the SAC team recently upgraded our wiki backend (MediaWiki), thank you to Martin Spott. Indeed, and I already have some good feedback

[OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki + notifications

2015-11-19 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi everyone, Some of you might have noticed that the SAC team recently upgraded our wiki backend (MediaWiki), thank you to Martin Spott. But many of you don't realize that with this upgrade is the ability for the wiki to send e-mail notifications if you "watch" a page that you have updated.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
and Jo Cook, so I should never have written "first". Now, I realize I am talking too much :) Phew. Anyway I hope my vision is still clear. -jeff On 2015-11-15 3:21 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Anne don't yell at me, I forgot to mention you, I should have stated "This year&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
on. I anticipate it will be very useful in moving forward, and will help provide a basis from which the OSGeo community and board can contribute to and build into a collective vision, and then extend into a practical implementation of it. Warm regards, Cameron On 16/11/2015 6:13 am, Jeff McKenna

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi María, Thanks for your support (and understanding my little mistakes in writing, just like yours ha) :) Thanks, -jeff On 2015-11-15 3:57 PM, María Arias de Reyna wrote: Hi Jeff, If it counts for something: I think you are doing a wonderful job. I can't imagine how it can be done bette

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
ginary border without even thinking about it. It is one ecosystem. I wish you'd see & acknowledge the goodness and positive things from LocationTech. At the very least, without any evidence of anything negative, you should really stop. Andrea On 13/11/15 14:24, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi An

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
what gets me through these challenging times. I would also like to deeply thank those who reached out to me this week, during this hard time on me, I will tell you that twice I was brought to tears sitting at my computer here reading the small thanks for representing them, sent from some far aw

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
Anne don't yell at me, I forgot to mention you, I should have stated "This year's board has the most women ever", not first! :) I am smiling. Sorry Anne! -jeff On 2015-11-15 3:13 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Cameron, Thank you for your message. It is very refreshing to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-fr will be present at the Paris Open Source Summit!

2015-11-14 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Yves, Thanks for this wonderful update from the OSGeo-fr chapter, wow lots of activity. Please be sure to submit your events so that they "automagically" appear on the list at http://www.osgeo.org/events (see steps at http://www.osgeo.org/events/submit_events); also keep me posted on the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-13 Thread Jeff McKenna
for some time. Your efforts to portray them as outsiders is bogus. They are as welcome as anyone else to participate. I'm not sure what else to say. It's such shame to have this be needlessly misrepresented. Andrea On 12/11/15 21:58, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Cameron, I am also glad

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-12 Thread Jeff McKenna
odels and support channels is a good thing, and I don't want there to be only one "true" organization that I can look to for support. However, like I mentioned, the ideal would be that those organizations could figure out how to use their difference skill sets t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

2015-11-12 Thread Jeff McKenna
aking the community as a whole move forward. And that is what I am hoping OSGeo and LocationTech can do (as well as any other related organizations). Jody did a talk at FOSS4G NA 2015 on some of the differences between LocationTech and OSGeo, I recommend it: https://youtu.be/sdpEa6XdQEo Best, Rob O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

2015-11-12 Thread Jeff McKenna
://2016.foss4g-na.org/cfp). Jeff, your presence was missed at FOSS4G NA 2015 and I hope that you can come to Raleigh for FOSS4G NA 2016. Best, Rob On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jeff McKenna mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote: On 2015-11-12 7:01 AM, Jody Garnett wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

2015-11-12 Thread Jeff McKenna
o has never been so active and vibrant as so many initiatives and location chapters grow all around the world. Thanks for listening, and thank you Jody for bringing this topic to the public lists. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna _

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

2015-11-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
collaboration. -jeff On 2015-10-30 4:58 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi everyone, At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a new committee, focused on the UN/United Nations. I have drafted an initial wiki page for the committee, that gives some background. Please, if you are interested in helping

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members

2015-10-31 Thread Jeff McKenna
MapServer, PostGIS and GeoNetwork. Visit http://geocat.net for details. _ Jeroen Ticheler GeoCat bv Veenderweg 13 6721 WD Bennekom Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 http://geocat.net Op 30 okt. 2015 om 20:58 heeft Jeff McKenna het volgende geschreven: Hi everyone, At the last O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting

2015-10-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Mike, I agree this is a good discussion. By the way, Tim Sutton just pointed me to a decision making platform that QGIS is now using, I think it would be great to have an OSGeo instance (see below): On 2015-10-17 6:53 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > > did you consider using something like l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

2015-10-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-10-15 2:16 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: I could not find the link? Perhaps it is just in your region, or the page has now been removed? ___ Maxi, I deleted the page from our/OSGeo drupal instance yesterday. -jeff

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

2015-10-14 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-10-14 12:16 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Okay, this whole thread did not make sense to me until I digged further in the Google search link that was in the first email. I think the page in question is this one: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/autodesk It is safe to say that it should be r

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

2015-10-14 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-10-14 10:49 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote: The tone was "suprised" and "disappointed". Does advertising proprietary software solutions on OSGeo website count as "championing" for its cause ? I wouldn't expect that from my Open Source Compass. Or am I being misleaded by the lack of info on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

2015-10-14 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Sandro, I am trying to understand your tone of your e-mail, but I think you are asking if the sponsors page is accurate/uptodate. This is a good question. I will ask the OSGeo Treasurer for an accurate list of sponsors, and I will update that page. On a bigger picture, OSGeo is always l

[OSGeo-Discuss] Video posted already for FOSS4G Tokyo

2015-10-12 Thread Jeff McKenna
Watch the talks from earlier today at FOSS4G Tokyo, including Prof Rajan from OSGeo-India's keynote talk: http://t.co/KPinRUTDH4 Great to hear about OSGeo India chapter and its long history since 2007/2008. -jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-11 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thanks Mori-san, I fully agree with you, there is no need to rename anything. Instead, there is lots to do to continue promoting OSGeo and FOSS4G :) Talk soon, -jeff On 2015-10-11 11:16 AM, "Toru Mori (森 亮)" wrote: We, Japan Chapter has already put considerable money, effort and human r

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-11 Thread Jeff McKenna
When Frank and I first met about creating a Windows installer so many years ago for OSGeo, we named it "OSGeo4W". And yes, it is inclusive, as is OSGeo-Live, as is the OSGeo foundation. -jeff On 2015-10-11 10:12 AM, haya...@apptec.co.jp wrote: Also +1 for Massimiliano Cannata (2015/10/11 2

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-11 Thread Jeff McKenna
Renaming one of our most known projects, OSGeo-Live, is exactly what we should not be doing, in order to promote the OSGeo foundation to the masses. Regarding that topic though, it is a good time to bring up discussions of having the OSGeo-Live project actually enter into OSGeo Incubation, so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

2015-10-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
hello Andrea! I am glad you shared this. You are an inspiration for us all. Talk soon of course! -jeff On 2015-10-09 12:11 PM, Andrea Ross wrote: Dear Everyone, Please pardon me for those who already know this news. I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives since th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS! Conference, Moscow, Russia, Nov 21-22

2015-10-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
http://www.osgeo.org/events/submit_events) so it appears on osgeo.org Thanks again, -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2015-10-08 12:37 PM, Maxim Dubinin wrote: Hi all, We're excited to announce that we're running Open GIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-06 Thread Jeff McKenna
I do notice that many of the people speaking here were unable to attend FOSS4G Seoul. What you missed experiencing was how a FOSS4G event should be: - OSGeo Board representative quickly introduced the event in the opening plenary - OSGeo Board representative closed the event in the final ple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

2015-10-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
I think it would be a great option for new/incubating projects. However it is really up to SAC. -jeff On 2015-10-01 8:29 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: On 1 October 2015 at 13:20, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: Before going to this trouble, we should check if there is an actual demand among proj

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

2015-10-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2015-10-01 4:18 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: I'm using gitlab already and it really gives you what I like on github Shall we ask the board and SAC for create instance of gitlab on our servers? J I think asking SAC about hosting GitLab on our servers is a great idea! A nice option for proje

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

2015-09-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
and ways for charter members to speak up and give opinions. And most importantly (a key part in leadership) he listened to everyone. Thank you Vasile for your dedication to the community. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna On 2015-09-30 9:12 AM

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question(s) for board candidates

2015-09-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
For the record, the OSGeo Board was not involved in the FOSS4G video debate (most of those 47 messages were at the OSGeo Conference Committee level, where they should happen); I saw that and quickly motioned to the Board to approve, so the Conference Committee can move on. The board quickly vo

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