[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming Msilikale Msilanga as the new GeoForAll-Africa Chair

[Suchith Anand]

GeoforAll community welcomes Msilikale Msilanga  as our GeoForAll-Africa chair. 
Msilikale Msilanga is a spatial planner professional from Tanzania and  have  
experiences from Europe and Latin America based on the same field. He has been 
working at the World Bank since 2011 as the Geospatial consultant before he 
went to have his Masters for two years. Now he is back at the World Bank 
supporting the open data team and more mapping projects in Tanzania. For more 
than five years, he has been working with the local communities in Dar es 
salaam helping them to map their own areas using OSM. Through these maps which 
are mostly in the informal settlements, more issues facing the community has 
been identified and more projects have been identified one of them being Ramani 
Huria [1]. He is the co-chair of the very successful FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es 
Salaam. [2]


GeoForAll community want to thank Professor Serena Coetzee, Rania Elsayed 
Ibrahim  and Bridget Fleming  for all the work they did as chairs for 
GeoForAll-Africa . Their leadership and commitment has been instrumental in 
helping us expand GeoforAll ideas in Africa. We started with nothing few years 
back . It was with Prof Coetzee’s  great leadership to establish the first Open 
Source Geospatial Lab in Africa at the University of Pretoria and work that 
helped us build the momentum across Africa. We will need their help and 
guidance for the future. Serena’s  new leadership role and work for UN-OpenGIS 
[3] is very important for the whole world and we are looking forward for her 
leadership on this.


We are all looking forward to Msilikale leadership to expand GeoForAll and make 
sure everyone benefits from geoeducation and digital economy opportunities.


Best wishes,


Suchith


[1] https://techcamp.america.gov/bios/msilikale-msilanga/

[2] https://2018.foss4g.org/geoforall/

[3] http://unopengis.org/about.html




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[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll greetings to Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment 2018 in Namibia

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,


The Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment 2018 will take place 
November 12 – 16, 2018, at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 
Windhoek, Namibia. There will be a pre-conference workshop about OGC Web 
Services and Interoperability Standards on 8th -9th Nov 2018 .


The Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment (AGSE) series of 
conferences and summer workshops  was initiated in 2009 by Professor 
Franz-Josef Behr. Taking place on a yearly basis, the conference is being hold 
in different places all over the world. The overall scope of this conferences 
is to offer an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge 
about the science and application of Geoinformatics with focus on developing 
countries. Besides invited keynotes the conference invites presentations to a 
variety of topics. There will as well professional training and workshops about 
current topics in the fields of Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry. AGSE 2018 is 
incorporated into the DAAD supported alumni work of the University of Applied 
Sciences Stuttgart, Germany . Therefore, participants from different countries 
worldwide contribute with experiences from their home countries.



Details at 
http://applied-geoinformatics.org/


Franz-Josef also established the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in Germany at 
the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences[1]. He is a true visionary and we 
are very grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll.



It is excellent that the Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment 
2018 is held in Africa. Requesting all colleagues to work for reducing the 
digital divide and enable opportunities for everyone to benefit from digital 
economy opportunities [1] [2].


Best wishes,


Suchith



[1] 
http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en



[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/


[2] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/harnessing-the-digital-potential-to-drive-higher-education-transformation-in-africa/




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Elections: OSGeo needs you now!

[María Arias de Reyna]

Dear fellow members,

We are on the process of electing board members for the next two years.
This is the moment when you can leave a good footprint on OSGeo.

Is there something you think we should do better? Is there something you
think we can improve? Is there something you want to make sure doesn't fall
into oblivion? This is the best way to do it. Get involved on the board and
make sure things go as they should. As OSGeo member, you should have some
expectations, why don't you make sure yourself that they are fulfilled?

Also, elections are not fun if we don't have a pool of candidates to choose
from.

Have a happy day,
María.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2018] Charter Member elections results

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

OSGeo Board formally acknowledged the result of this year charter 
members elections [1]. Our website will be updated soon to reflect the 
new charter member structure.


Sadly, we have to announce that one of the most enthusiasts charter 
members, BJ Jang [2] from South Korea, passed away three weeks ago. His 
memory will live on with us.


Warm regards,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] https://www.loomio.org/d/3doBaYMp/welcome-new-charter-members-
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:BJJang

On 10/30/18 9:15 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of approximately two weeks to vote, we close the 
elections[1] system to confirm and share the results.


*All* the candidates[2] are accepted as all of them were seconded by at 
least one existing charter member and no veto was raised


Hence, it's our pleasure to welcome our 35 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 427 individuals. 
Congratulations!


New members, we encourage you all, if not done already, to create/update 
a OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page[3] and to create an OSGeo 
profile page in [4] with a "website" link pointing to the OSGeo Advocate.


When approved by the OSGeo board, we will update the official list[5], 
publish the detailed elections results, pass to the secretary the 
revised contacts, and subscribe the new members to the charter-members 
list[6] as soon as possible.


Best regards,
Vasile, Vicky and Jorge
CRO 2018

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2018
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
[4] https://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[6] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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