[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Mauricio Miranda
Dear all, I want to nominate Mauricio Miranda (Geospatial Software Engineer) as a new OSGeo Charter Member. He is a GIS analyst, a designer and a specialist on deploying web applications related to Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Databases, Web cartography, Web Mapping API's, Map Servers, Spatial Data Analysis Tools... Mauricio is a Board Member of the Spanish Local Chapter since 2011, and he is very active inside the community, leading and pushing up the community in Argentina and Latin America, among others. He is organizing and managing meetings and events in Latin America with the aim to spread the word within newcomers and privative software users. Cheers, Lluís -- Lluís Vicens SIGTE - Universitat de Girona Pl. Ferrater Mora, 1 17071 Girona ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Peter Löwe
Dear all, I'd like to nominate Peter Löwe [0] for OSGeo Charter Membership. He is active in Free and Open Source GIS development for more than a decade, specifically in the field of remote sensing, but also on rule based systems, crisis management, high performance computation... He collaborated with FOSSGIS.de (he has been its very first non-founding member), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, the South African Metereological Service (where he successfully introduced his team to GRASS GIS), Geomancers.net and RapidEye AG among others [1]. He wrote several GRASS modules, available in Addons [2], and obtained RapidEye data for i.atcorr module [3], been a developer of the GISIX live-linux DVD [4]. Moreover, he won several research prizes with FOSS GIS work [see details at 0,1] I met Peter at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, and worked with him during GRASS Community Sprint 2011 in Prague. He has been so far an effective ambassador of OSGeo in corporate/academic environment, and he would benefit from the official recognition of OSGeo community to achieve further objectives. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/44358/grass/trunk/imagery/i.atcorr [4] http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/fossgrass/papers/GISIX%20-%20a%20live%20Linux%20platform%20for%20FOSS%20GIS.pdf (PDF file) Best regards, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Peter Löwe
Hi Anne, all, I second Peter's nomination as charter member. I've met him at GRASS Community Sprint 2011 and I think he's a natural OSGeo ambassador. Thanks, Margherita On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'd like to nominate Peter Löwe [0] for OSGeo Charter Membership. He is active in Free and Open Source GIS development for more than a decade, specifically in the field of remote sensing, but also on rule based systems, crisis management, high performance computation... He collaborated with FOSSGIS.de (he has been its very first non-founding member), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ, the South African Metereological Service (where he successfully introduced his team to GRASS GIS), Geomancers.net and RapidEye AG among others [1]. He wrote several GRASS modules, available in Addons [2], and obtained RapidEye data for i.atcorr module [3], been a developer of the GISIX live-linux DVD [4]. Moreover, he won several research prizes with FOSS GIS work [see details at 0,1] I met Peter at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, and worked with him during GRASS Community Sprint 2011 in Prague. He has been so far an effective ambassador of OSGeo in corporate/academic environment, and he would benefit from the official recognition of OSGeo community to achieve further objectives. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/44358/grass/trunk/imagery/i.atcorr [4] http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/fossgrass/papers/GISIX%20-%20a%20live%20Linux%20platform%20for%20FOSS%20GIS.pdf(PDF file) Best regards, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Dr. Margherita Di Leo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
I would like to second this nomination. I first met Max, or Maxi, back in 2004 at the FOSS4G event in Thailand (actually this was the first event to use the FOSS4G name); Max has been involved in FOSS4G for a very long time. I've also had the pleasure to work closely with him as he stayed several months in Canada in 2005, where he was working on floodplain mapping with GRASS and MapServer. Most recently he was involved with releasing GeoShield[1], which tackles that important issue of security for interoperable services. Max has welcomed me into his beautiful home of Como, Italy, on several occasions. I consider him and his colleagues very good friends. Max's passion and experience make him an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/ On 12-06-28 10:27 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Mauricio Miranda
I'd like to second this nomination. The efforts of Mauricio in spreading the knowledge and use of FOSS4G in South America worths recognition. Bests Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses En movimiento ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Mauricio Miranda
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: I'd like to second this nomination. The efforts of Mauricio in spreading the knowledge and use of FOSS4G in South America worths recognition. Agreed. Also had the pleasure of working with Mauricio in the past and would like to second his nomination too. Cheers, Gabriel Bests Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses En movimiento ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Gabriel Roldan OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith
Thirded. Michael is a fantastic contributor to the North American code sprints, the annual benchmarking exercise (including acquiring hardware and bandwidth to support it), and the MapServer and GDAL projects in addition to involvement with PDAL. Howard On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: I second Michael's nomination, and was quite surprised when I found out that he was not a charter member yet. Mike and the team he works with have been long time users and active supporters of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and several other OSGeo projects since long before the creation of OSGeo. Actually, we're so used to seeing him around and actively involved that we just assumed that he was already a charter member when he is not. (That's probably the case of a few other individuals) Daniel On 12-06-28 8:48 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello everyone, I have the honor to nominate Michael Smith for OSGeo Charter membership. Mike is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Remote Sensing GIS Center, and has been a longtime supporter of FOSS. Most recently he is working very hard with Howard Butler to develop an Open Source point cloud translation library, PDAL[1]. Mike is also very active in the MapServer[2] community, as one of its most vocal power users, and in 2011 he was named to the MapServer Project Steering Committee[3]. I also had the pleasure of giving a MapServer workshop with Mike at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver; many attendees said that it was a wonderful workshop, and I attribute that to Mike's thorough knowledge of MapServer and its recent changes. Mike is often one of the first to sign up for Code Sprints, and register for FOSS4G events, which to me says everything about his passion for this community. He may not prefer to be giving fancy presentations and taking the glory, but scratch the surface of many OSGeo communities and you'll find Mike supporting it in every way he can. I feel that Mike Smith would be an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] http://www.pointcloud.org/ [2] http://www.mapserver.org/ [3] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata
Hi All, I'd also like to second this great nomination. Maxi was there since the begining, and he's one of the best OSGeo advocate i know so far Nick 2012/6/29 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com I would like to second this nomination. I first met Max, or Maxi, back in 2004 at the FOSS4G event in Thailand (actually this was the first event to use the FOSS4G name); Max has been involved in FOSS4G for a very long time. I've also had the pleasure to work closely with him as he stayed several months in Canada in 2005, where he was working on floodplain mapping with GRASS and MapServer. Most recently he was involved with releasing GeoShield[1], which tackles that important issue of security for interoperable services. Max has welcomed me into his beautiful home of Como, Italy, on several occasions. I consider him and his colleagues very good friends. Max's passion and experience make him an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/ On 12-06-28 10:27 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping, sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS projject and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his research collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic, inter-governmental and industry circles. Venka -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] The OGC schema changes related to XLink
Hey all, As some of you are aware the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted a policy to alter the XLink dependency in many of the XML schemas maintained by the OGC and used for several Web Services and for some GML. This situation arises because the OGC adopted their own 'stub' XLink schema back before the W3C had published any official schema for XLink. Now that there is an offical W3C schema, the OGC is attempting to re-align all existing OGC schemas on those new XLink schemas. The FAQ (see below), explains that they chose to consider these backwards incompatible changes to be 'fixes' allowing for this approach retroactively 'fixing' all the schemas to reference the official W3C XML Schema. Since the 'fix' is backwards incompatible, that approach surprised many of us. When the issue last came up, I took action to press for more explanation from the OGC folk, since I am involved over there. Carl Reed, the Chair of the Technical Committee at the OGC (where all the standards work happens), has just released several documents related to the transition. Back in April, Carl published a blog entry discussing the process: http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/1597 He has now published two documents, a letter and a FAQ: On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 16:33 -0400, cr...@opengeospatial.org wrote: Dear OGC Members Based on final input from the TC and the PC concerning the transition of the OGC XLink schema to the W3C XLink 1.1 schema, I developed an overview letter with updated information. Based on Member feedback, I also wrote an XLink transition FAQ. The FAQ is a living document that I can updated based on feedback and additional information. The letter is here: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=49562 and the FAQ is here: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=49563 We will stand up a twiki for community collaboration during the transition period. Thanks and regards Carl Reed Technical Committee Chair (Unfortunately these are both in the MS Office format .docx). Finally, the OGC has set up an email list for discussions related to the transition. https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/beta-schemas Carl has assured me they will open the archives for public viewing so we don't all have to sign up to see the tone and content of the discussion. These documents are not totally satisfactory but are probably all we are going to get on the subject. For instance, I do not understand the impact on their certification process: all their certified services will stop being compatible after the transition. So for those who are interested, there is ow a little more information and a mailing list for contact and discussion. cheers, ~adrian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
