[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Kristin Bott

2014-08-02 Thread Jorge Sanz
Forwarding Kristin nomination by Eli Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Eli Adam ea...@co.lincoln.or.us Date: 2014-07-31 4:58 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination of Kristin Bott To: CRO c...@osgeo.org Cc: Kristin Bott kb...@pdx.edu I'm happy to nominate a new

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry: Help please!

2014-08-02 Thread Pat Tressel
Hi, Sid! I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data to automatically identify, highlight, and measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using Geospatial data. My preference is to overlay the results on one of the existing map providers such as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Vivien Deparday

2014-08-02 Thread nimalika fernando
+1 for this nomination. I have worked with him in InaSafe/OSM related activities here in Sri Lanka. He is extremely energetic, never get tired when he is doing OSM/GeoNode work and very importantly advocates open source initiatives in difficult situations. He has excellent capacity to link

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!

2014-08-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
Thanks for adding this to the Board agenda Eli (your draft text looks good), I agree it makes sense to keep Charter Members aware of this, even though it is unlikely to happen. -jeff On 2014-08-02 1:04 AM, Eli Adam wrote: When I approach someone who I want to nominate for charter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!

2014-08-02 Thread Ravi Kumar
Dear all Charter members, this method of electing Charter members looks good to experiment with. Yes   No   and Abstain.. I have seen quite a few mails supporting candidates. As a Charter member I go by the recommendations, as it is impossible to really know each 'charter member to be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.

2014-08-02 Thread Ravi Kumar
Dear all, I second Chaitanya's nomination. Chaitanya is a cool FOSS GIS programmer and promoter. He is quite a popular trainer at FOSS4G India 2012. He helped in developing web-gis for Rajahmundry GIS project, with indic translation.  OSGeo will be enriched with Chaitanya on it's charter. Cheers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry

2014-08-02 Thread b.j.kobben
Interesting. I known that this kind of thing has been done using aerial photographs, among others by a research group at my University. I have cc-d one of its members (Sander Oude-elberink), he might be able to further guide you… Yours, -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination period finished

2014-08-02 Thread Jorge Sanz
Hi all Nomination period for the OSGeo Charter Members elections have finished. I've extended a grace period of 12 hours but we can't wait more. So I'm really sorry for those that haven't confirmed their nominations. Doing this process in July/August is not the best time to assure most of people

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry

2014-08-02 Thread Pat Tressel
(Two threads got started for this topic, so we've copying the other thread over here. I've also added a little reply to Sid's new post at the end.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Pat Tressel ptres...@myuw.net Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:34 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inquiry: