[OSGeo-Discuss] Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference (UMGEOCON 2016)

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference (UMGEOCON 2016)

This is a first of its kind geospatial event, right here in the Upper Midwest. 
Several GIS organizations from across the region have come together to plan a 
GIS conference that spans borders and encourages collective learning.

UMGEOCON will start off with some great workshops including one devoted to 
GeoMOOSE.  During the conference proper there is an open source track on each 
day where there will more GeoMOOSE, Georilla, and other FOSS4G, as well as 
speakers like Howard Butler who will be pulling open source LiDAR rabbits out 
of a hat.  The workshop program is here: http://bit.ly/21UYnSV.Full 
UMGEOCON program is here: http://bit.ly/1WnhJQB

We would love to see you stay for UMGEOCON if you come for a workshop. At 
UMGEOCON 2016 you can expect engaging presentations on current trends in GIS, 
an opportunity to expand your professional network, and to learn how other 
states, agencies and organizations benefit from the use of GIS.


When:  May 25-26, 2016
Where: LaCrosse, Wi. USA
Site: umgeocon.org

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [rasdaman-dev] Re: [Incubator] Rasdaman and OSGeo Incubation: Proposed way forward

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hello Alex and Mattijn,

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your thoughts on this.

I see your names popping up often in my email as you help people on the
Users and Developers lists. So it is good to see your comments.


As I read through your email, I realised that I need to clarify a few
concepts from my viewpoint, particularly as it relates to a PSC.

When I think of an open source community, I think of:

   - A community of people (Developers, Testers, Domain Specialists, Users,
   Technical Writers, Marketers, Managers etc) who are interested in working
   together and collaborating on the development of a specific functionality.
   We are not just talking about developers.


   - All people within the community should be free to contribute effort to
   develop the functionality as they are able to.


   - The community should be open, to allow those with merit and skill to
   rise to decision making and/or leadership roles within the community.
   Ideally the community will use the concept of 'meritocracy' to facilitate
   this. That is, the more good work that a person does, then the more that
   they are able to do.


   - Therefore, anyone, from any background, should be able to aspire for a
   leadership role within the community, including controlling the integrity
   of the project's source code as a 'Committer', through to working on the
   PSC to guide the community and its future directions.


   - While the community member may aspire towards this goal, it will be up
   to their own efforts, knowledge and ability to demonstrate that are fit for
   such a role.


   - The Project's Governance Framework should be structured to support and
   facilitate this openness, and to provide a structure and process to allow
   those with merit to lead.


This way, we can grow the community and bring in new volunteers, sponsors
and perhaps funding. Ideally, we'll get the community to a stage where it
is self-sustaining and can survive the loss of key people and sponsors.

This is what we are trying to achieve via OSGeo Incubation.

We are nearly there with the Rasdaman Community.

However, we don't have the key part, the enabling Project Governance
Framework right yet.
The project has achieved what it has through the dedication and hard work
of community members, and facilitated by Peter Baumann's leadership.

We are not trying to change the leadership of the Rasdaman.

What we are trying to do, is to ensure that Rasdaman's Governance Framework
is open to allow those deserving, to rise to leadership and decision making
roles through merit.

For practical purposes, as you have suggested Alex, I expect that this will
lead to little difference in the current day to day running of the Rasdaman
Community.

But it will have a significant impact on the Project's future viability and
its ability to attract new volunteers and contributions!


We all want Rasdaman to succeed and to live up to, and ideally surpass, the
potential that it is showing.




My challenge to the Rasdaman Community is to speak up on this issue. Do you
want a project that values and facilitates meritocracy?



Bruce Bannerman
OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman


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> *From:* rasdaman-...@googlegroups.com  on
> behalf of Alex Mircea Dumitru 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 May 2016 9:25 PM
> *To:* rasdaman-dev
> *Cc:* rasdaman-us...@googlegroups.com; incuba...@lists.osgeo.org;
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [rasdaman-dev] Re: [Incubator] Rasdaman and OSGeo
> Incubation: Proposed way forward
>
> Dear Bruce,
>
> First of all, I would like to thank you for your continued commitment to
> the incubation process and the guidance that you have provided that in the
> end has lead to better developer practices in our small community of
> contributors. Automated testing, better documentation and many other of our
> development features would have probably came a lot later if not for your
> contributions.
>
> I understand the position of OSGeo and its desire to standardize community
> practices for the projects it endorses. But as software developers we know
> all too well that there's no one-fit for solution for all our problems.
> Rasdaman has a small core team (alongside temporary contributors) that
> works round the clock to provide users of our database a fully functional
> raster database. Not a research prototype and certainly not some simple
> software with a highly specific target. We provide an open-source database
> capable of storing terabytes of data in an area filled only by commercial
> companies with thousands of developers and many more in support teams
> (Testing, QA, Research etc).
> Even in these conditions, we do our best to provide the utmost support to
> our users, be it questions on usage, specific use cases or feature and bug
> requests. I've rarely seen a question on this mailing list waiting for more
> than a couple of hours for an answer, a feat that even commercial products
> do not offer. We have

[OSGeo-Discuss] Kicking of OSGeo-Live 10.0 build process - this will be a big one

[Cameron Shorter]

We are starting the build cycle for version 10.0 of theOSGeo-Live 
DVD/USB/VM which will be released in August 
2016, ready for the global FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany.
This release is going to be more challenging than most as we are moving 
to the next Long Term Release (LTS) of Ubuntu,16.04 Xenial. We expect to 
be asking for help to solve the multitude of dependency conflicts likely 
to be introduced. In particular, we expect most debian packages and bash 
installers will need tweaking once an alpha OSGeo-Live build is working.
Initial packaging efforts have started and the Debian packages will soon 
appear in UbuntuGIS Unstable (currently in Testing).
We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to 
OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add translations, or anyone who 
has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.


*Key Milestones*
23 May 2016 All new applications installed, most old applications updated
13 Jun 2016 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)
20 Jun 2016 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed and working)
01 Aug 2016 Final ISO sent to printers
...full schedule 



*About OSGeo-Live*
OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source 
Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use 
OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software 
without installing anything.


We will be having our first kickoff meeting at the end of this week, all 
welcome.

Meeting on IRC: irc://freenode.net#osgeolive

Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2016&month=5&day=13&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=196&p7=215

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Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099

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