Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Munich Orientation Convention, Mapcodes, and All the Rest

2015-07-31 Thread Ian Turton
I've no problem people discussing this - just them expecting to influence decision makers :-) Ian On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:43 PM Pericles Nacionales naci0...@umn.edu wrote: I would have thought discussions like this is perfect for this list. It is of general interest and it reaches a lot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

2015-07-31 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, I'm looking at the survey too and feel a bit the same as Peter. The first question seems to suggest transforming current Charter membership into regular membership, but following questions seem to leave open the possibility for the 2 kinds of membership. Perhaps the first question should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Munich Orientation Convention, Mapcodes, and All the Rest

2015-07-31 Thread Pericles Nacionales
I would have thought discussions like this is perfect for this list. It is of general interest and it reaches a lot more people. I'd say discuss away. -Perry On Jul 30, 2015 11:28 AM, Dan Ames dan.a...@byu.edu wrote: Fascinating discussion, though I agree with David that is belongs on the

[OSGeo-Discuss] We won. It's time for OSGeo 2.0.

2015-07-31 Thread Michael Gerlek
I've stayed out of the pre-survey discussions on charter membership and whatnot, but after taking the survey yesterday, I’m starting to think that OSGeo has accomplished what it set out to do some years ago, and as currently construed OSGeo will no longer serve a useful purpose. Back

[OSGeo-Discuss] Data-driven look at OSGeo.org charter activity

2015-07-31 Thread Brian M Hamlin
. I chose a core piece of infrastructure, download.osgeo.org The following is a list of individual logins, and the apparent date of last activity (on that machine). Since the purpose of download.osgeo.org is outward facing, its probably fair to use this metric in public. (note that since one

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoforAll Newsletter and First “GeoForAll” lab of the month - Open Source Geospatial Lab , Kathmandu University, Nepal

2015-07-31 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, We are very happy to inform that the first Geo4All newsletter is now ready at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Newsletter-vol.-1-no.-1.pdf Our sincere thanks to Dr. Nikos Lambrinos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) for taking the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

2015-07-31 Thread Peter Baumann
Hi Vasile all, having tried to fill in the questionnaire I see one main issue: It seems like OSGeo Charter membership = OSGeo membership. Not sure it is intended, as my feeling (which may be wrong) is that a Charter member is more like an advisory board member whereas general membership is where