Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

2017-07-27 Thread Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Suchith, There is nothing more beautiful than inspiring and challenging our youth to deliver solutions that serve their local community, with an eye to be shared with the global community. This has been the Europa Challenge mantra born of a week-long intensive course Prof Maria Brovelli put to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [geoforall-ab] New GeoForAll Regional Group for Iberoamerica

2017-07-27 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Congratulations Sergio, Silvana, Antoni and All! Very well done! It is time to start learning Spanish and Portuguese ;-) Interesting things are happening in that part of the world! I'm looking forward to celebrating with Silvana in September! Will you come to Curitiba for the 4th Responsible Mana

[OSGeo-Discuss] New GeoForAll Regional Group for Iberoamerica

2017-07-27 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
(English below) Nos es muy grato anunciar la creación del Grupo GeoForAll Iberoamérica http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Iberoam%C3%A9rica. El mismo surge de la fusión del Grupo Regional para Sudamérica y el Grupo Temático para Hispanohablantes de GeoForAll. Los coordinadores de este nuevo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

2017-07-27 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Thanks Andrea. Excellent suggestions and good to see that this topic is of interest in the mailing list discussion! Have a lovely day, Maria Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

2017-07-27 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Thanks Cameron. Really relevant points to consider. Best! Maria Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies Prof. Maria Antonia

[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Sol Katz 2017 nominations end tomorrow

2017-07-27 Thread Jeff McKenna
Please submit your nominations by the end of tomorrow: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1798 thanks! -2017 Selection Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Orfeo ToolBox Graduates Incubation

2017-07-27 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Congratulations OTB! ML On 27 Jul 2017 1:01 am, "Jody Garnett" wrote: > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to announce that Orfeo > ToolBox (OTB) has graduated from > incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. > > Orfeo ToolBox (OTB) is an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

2017-07-27 Thread Andrea Giacomelli
Hi - in the midst of end-of-month deadlines I missed the first part of this threadplease feel free to relay to the "eu" or "board" lists. a) One comment/recommendation, reproposing the one I made in Jan 2007 during the founding meeting of GFOSS.it aka Italian Chapter. This concerning the compo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

2017-07-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for this year's NASA Europa Challenge . All these students have put lot of efforts and even if they don’t win the final awards , they all are true winners. Some of the excellent projects submitted are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

2017-07-27 Thread Cameron Shorter
All, I think OSGeo and OSGeo-EU should be very careful not to compete commercially or provide commercial favour for one organisation or individual over another. Doing so is fraught with potential for bias, corruption, having vendors buy influence, and accusations of foul play. OSGeo is by des