[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary reports from Interest Group on Agriculture Data
Dear All, For those interested in AgriGIS research, the summary and slides from the Interest Group on Agriculture Data (IGAD) meeting are at http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/igad-data-experts-shared-their-knowledge-expertise-rda-igad-pre-meeting-montreal-get Please find the summary report from the RDA IGAD Pre-Meeting on Capacity Development in Agricultural Data Management at http://www.godan.info/blog-posts/capacity-development-agricultural-data-management-updates-rda-igad-pre-meeting-montreal We look forward to expanding synergies and collaborations in Capacity Development with all interested. Best wishes, Suchith This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Capacity development and Open Innovation opportunities for all
Dear colleagues, I participated in the Group on Earth Observations Plenary meetings at GEO Week in Washington DC this week and had the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with colleagues from around the world. I want to thank the excellent work of the GEO Secretariat Team for the excellent GEO Week 2017 . I am happy to see that Capacity Development is a key focus for GEO and lot of activities happening. Capacity Development needs to empower the developing world. Having Open Data alone will not help the economically poor countries/regions if the GIS tools needed to make use of Open EO data is expensive and proprietary. Free and Open Source GIS tools will enable developing countries to also benefit and be equal partners. It will help also create and accelerate local innovation opportunities in EO and location based technologies and stimulate local industry and accelerate new jobs creation in digital economy for value added services building upon technologies. The startup community is especially open to the use of open software and open data avoiding licensing restrictions which may impact on their business plans, raise early start-up costs and restrict their ability to innovate allowing them greater branding freedom and product flexibility. There are now many excellent startups happening especially in Europe , USA and Asia building upon Open EO data and we need to make sure these ecosystems prosper. It is important that there are no monopolies are created by any existing properitery GIS vendors. There should be many platforms and systems to make sure there is vibrant innovation ecosystem. If there is only one big proprietary GIS platform to deliver all services (based on publicly funded and released EO data ), then the proprietary GIS vendor will become monopoly. Hence, it is important there is lot of competition to ensure no monopolies are created. If there is lot of competition then Governments and taxpayers as a whole will benefit from cost efficiencies, reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products. There is already a fast growing ecosystem of SMEs and startups in open geo data services and this need to be supported by the right policy frameworks and instruments . The right policy frameworks are needed to help create the conditions for creating and sustaining thousands of highly skilled jobs in the future. I have highlighted the need for capacity development activities to empower everyone. There was lot of mention of OSGeo and our various software projects in many sessions that I attended at Geo Week but I did not see any startups or companies from the Open Source Geo ecosystem at the GEO Week. There was also many interesting projects like Open Data Cube (ODC) https://www.opendatacube.org that was presented to support interactive data science and scientific computing which might be of interest . Open innovation is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that everyone benefits. I really hope that we keep building the momentum on Capacity Development for enabling Open Innovation opportunities for all. Best wishes, Suchith This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results
Congrats to all, ex, new board members, and charters - 80% voted, even if 5 got distracted mid-way ;) Vasile, I don't see how we're gonna manage without you as cro... biggest thumbs up! Jeff, great news! Best regards, Duarte Carreira ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017!
Hi Helmut, Great news! Thanks to all who made this happen. Best Venka On 10/27/2017 5:36 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: Dear OSGeo community, we're happy to announce that OSGeo has been ccepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017 [1]! "Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have. Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source project. Participants get to work on real software and win prizes from t-shirts to a trip to Google HQ!" [1] It's to emphasize that OSGeo is one of the 6 new orgs accepted in this contest as Google doesn't accept that many new orgs as in GSoC! The GCI timeline can be ssen in [2]: Thursday, October 26Mentoring organizations announced Tuesday, November 28 (17:00 UTC)Contest opens for entries by student participants 2018 Monday, January 15 (17:00 UTC) Deadline to claim new tasks Wednesday, January 17 (17:00 UTC) All student work must be submitted; contest ends Thursday, January 18 (17:00 UTC)Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work Wednesday, January 31 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced Basic information regarding our application can be found under [3]. If interested to volunteer as GCI mentor, then check [4]. More informations will come, stay tuned. Kind regards Helmut (on behalf of the GSoC/GCI admin team. [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Mentors ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results
Dear Vasile, and the whole OSGeo community, Thank you for all of your effort Vasile, these Charter and Board elections required an unbelievable amount of effort, and you handled it so well. This hasn't been easy for me. But the support of the community for my nomination gives me strength, and a renewed energy to help the OSGeo community grow. I will now retract my withdrawal, and accept the new position on the Board of Directors. I really look forward to working with the new Board, and help the OSGeo community! Congratulations to the new Board members Maria and Astrid, and thank you to those returning members Helena and Jody. A special thank you to Venka, Anita, and Sanghee for their leadership and donating so much of their time to the OSGeo Board. Finally, Vicky and Dirk are 2 of the most vocal OSGeo leaders that I know, and I am sure that they will be on the OSGeo Board soon - I know you will both continue to promote and represent OSGeo so well. Let's continue to do great things for the whole world together as the OSGeo family! -jeff Dear OSGeo community, These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical order are: * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. Election figures are: * Membership: 390 * Valid votes: 308 * Not finished votes: 5 * Not voted: 77 There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. Thank you all who voted!! The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is: * Vasile Craciunescu * Maria Antonia Brovelli * Michael Smith * Angelos Tzotsos * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our ladies candidates, elected or not. Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors! My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as possible. Best, Vasile CRO 2017 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results
+ 1 from Uruguay (land of great "asados" too :-)) Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330 http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/ De: Discuss en nombre de Maria Antonia Brovelli Enviado: jueves, 26 de octubre de 2017 17:52 Para: Vasile Craciunescu; OSGeo Discussions; charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: CRO Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results Dear Vasile, dear Community I want first of all to thank the CRO for the great and committing work. You were really fantastic! Thanks! And then, congratulations, welcome and the best wishes to the new elected ones. Respect and love for the non elected for accepting to run this election. I hope to have you all (as the whole Community) helping us in the activities and the decisions of the Board. Greeting from a wonderful FOSS4G Argentina. Maria Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung Messaggio originale Da: Vasile Craciunescu Data: 26/10/17 16:08 (GMT-03:00) A: OSGeo Discussions , charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: CRO Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results Dear OSGeo community, These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical order are: * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. Election figures are: * Membership: 390 * Valid votes: 308 * Not finished votes: 5 * Not voted: 77 There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. Thank you all who voted!! The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is: * Vasile Craciunescu * Maria Antonia Brovelli * Michael Smith * Angelos Tzotsos * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our ladies candidates, elected or not. Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors! My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as possible. Best, Vasile CRO 2017 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results
Hello OSGeo Community, great news! We have 5 new OSGeo board members! It is an honour and a pleasure for me to be elected for the OSGeo board. Thanks for your trust and your votes. I also want to congratulate Maria, Jeff, Jody and Helena for beeing elected. Thanks to all other nominees for running in this election - Vicky, Dirk, Venka, Sanghee. It would also have been great to have you on the board. Maybe you join next year. Thanks to all OSGeo board members that leave the board after two year now - Venka, Sanghee and Dirk. And big thanks to the CRO and especially Vasile for your great job! For the next election we will organize that it will be less complicated & more fun. I am looking forward to work on the OSGeo board. Astrid PS: Maria Arias de Reyna, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Jeff, Vicky and all others at FOSS4G-Argentinia - would be great to be with you and celebrate. Greetings to Argentinia Am 2017-10-26 21:08, schrieb Vasile Craciunescu: Dear OSGeo community, These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical order are: * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. Election figures are: * Membership: 390 * Valid votes: 308 * Not finished votes: 5 * Not voted: 77 There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. Thank you all who voted!! The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is: * Vasile Craciunescu * Maria Antonia Brovelli * Michael Smith * Angelos Tzotsos * Astrid Emde * Jody Garnett * Jeff McKenna * Helena Mitasova * María Arias de Reyna Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our ladies candidates, elected or not. Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors! My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as possible. Best, Vasile CRO 2017 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Astrid Emde Charter Member Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017!
Dear OSGeo community, we're happy to announce that OSGeo has been ccepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017 [1]! "Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have. Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source project. Participants get to work on real software and win prizes from t-shirts to a trip to Google HQ!" [1] It's to emphasize that OSGeo is one of the 6 new orgs accepted in this contest as Google doesn't accept that many new orgs as in GSoC! The GCI timeline can be ssen in [2]: Thursday, October 26Mentoring organizations announced Tuesday, November 28 (17:00 UTC)Contest opens for entries by student participants 2018 Monday, January 15 (17:00 UTC) Deadline to claim new tasks Wednesday, January 17 (17:00 UTC) All student work must be submitted; contest ends Thursday, January 18 (17:00 UTC)Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work Wednesday, January 31 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced Basic information regarding our application can be found under [3]. If interested to volunteer as GCI mentor, then check [4]. More informations will come, stay tuned. Kind regards Helmut (on behalf of the GSoC/GCI admin team. [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Mentors ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results
Dear all: Congratulations to all candidates and, specilly, to the new board members. Thanks a lot to Vasile, Jeff, Jorge and previous board members. Best wishes, Santiago Higuera El jue, 26-10-2017 a las 22:08 +0300, Vasile Craciunescu escribió: > Dear OSGeo community, > > These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open > seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical > order are: > > * Astrid Emde > * Jody Garnett > * Jeff McKenna > * Helena Mitasova > * María Arias de Reyna > > Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process. > Election figures are: > > * Membership: 390 > * Valid votes: 308 > * Not finished votes: 5 > * Not voted: 77 > > There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the > voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP. > Thank you all who voted!! > > The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is: > > * Vasile Craciunescu > * Maria Antonia Brovelli > * Michael Smith > * Angelos Tzotsos > * Astrid Emde > * Jody Garnett > * Jeff McKenna > * Helena Mitasova > * María Arias de Reyna > > Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of > our > ladies candidates, elected or not. > > Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors! > > My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the > detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as > possible. > > Best, > Vasile > CRO 2017 > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss