[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

2017-10-23 Thread Nicolas Roelandt
Dear OSGeo members and contributors, We are excited to announce that after many months work, we have set up the Transifex platform to run OSGeo-Live translations [1], and we want help battle testing it in several languages. Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our

[OSGeo-Discuss] managing casual contributors

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
I wanted to pass on an interesting article: How to manage casual contributors to open source projects I know the projects I work on have learned some of these lessons the hard way, and we have a few effective strategies in place.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
Agreed, that is where it was listed in the slides. On the website GSOC it is under initiatives :) I love seeing a balance, initiatives provided a great oppeetunity for members who cannot commit to an ongoing committee. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:01 AM Margherita Di Leo wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Angelos you are appreciated, we should reach out to the project officers etc... I note as GeoTools representative I did not make a report yet. In previous years the AGM used links, https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/geotools-report-2012, that also works well for email and IRC. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Anita Graser
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > It looks like the following projects have not provided an update during > the AGM and should be called to attend our next board meeting: > > - gvSIG > - Marble > - QGIS > ​... > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Jody, On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: [...] > > Initiatives: > >- Website/rebranding - temporary initiative >- OSGeo-Live > > >- OSGeo European > > *[...]* > > Committees: > >- United Nations Committee >- GeoForAll >-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] AGM Followup - what our foundation is doing in 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Thanks Jody, It looks like the following projects have not provided an update during the AGM and should be called to attend our next board meeting: - gvSIG - Marble - QGIS - FDO - GDAL/OGR - GEOS - GeoTools - OSSIM - PostGIS - GeoNetwork - deegree - geomajas - Mapbender - MapFish - MapGuide