Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] glossary discussion on osgeo-standards ....

2019-10-15 Thread Cameron Shorter

OSGeo Board, OSGeo Discuss,

I'd like to introduce you to this proposal that Ron and Reese have been 
developing on the OSGeo Standards email list, which I think should fit 
under the legal structure of an OSGeo Committee.


I have vague recollections that setting up a committee requires board 
approval? I've found some old tips on running a committee here: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Committee_Guidelines


Comments welcomed.

On 15/10/19 4:47 pm, Ronald Tse wrote:

Hi Cameron,

Thank you for the suggestions! I have updated the proposal to reflect 
your comments below.


I would be honored to help with terminology management at OSGeo. Can’t 
speak for Reese but with his leadership in already doing terminology 
cleanup on Felicity’s sheet, he seems pretty committed already :-)


Ron

———

Recommendations for OSGeo terminology management

1. Establish a terminology management group in OSGeo.

ISO/TC 211, IEC Electropedia and OGC all have one for terminology 
management. The existence of this group is crucial to the success 
of the OSGeo terminology database. It will play two essential roles:


a) As the gatekeeper of terms to ensure quality checks of contributions
b) As the seat of central terminology knowledge for alignment of terms 
and concepts. To facilitate the flow of terminology knowledge 
to terminology authors and users.


It would be helpful to involve representation from ISO/TC 211 and OGC 
in this group, in order to leverage their experience in 
terminology. Such experience will be useful in situations such as 
alerting on cross-organization alignment of concepts or term duplication.


An email list shall be setup for this group for internal communication.


2. Establish a terms of reference for terminology management.

For the terminology management group, a terms of reference should be 
produced so that the steps for approval and data quality requirements 
are clear. This should be openly shared with contributors so they are 
clear on acceptance criteria.


Contributors may propose changes to the terminology database at any 
time. The terminology management group shall discuss and approve or 
disapprove of the proposal within a reasonable timeframe. This 
practice is in-line with the open source, change-based, 
rapid iteration mantra, similar to OpenSSL.


For releases, the group shall convene periodically, such as every 4-6 
months, to discuss previously decided proposals, governance 
or technical issues related to terminology management.


The method of submitting change requests shall also be determined and 
announced so that contributors understand the necessary processes and 
timeline.



3. Establish an online terminology database presence.

Terminology isn’t useful until people use them, which means people 
need to first know they exist and what they mean. Geolexica is 
an initiative that currently serves ISO/TC 211’s terminology 
management group in making its multi-lingual geographic information 
terminology available on the internet (https://www.geolexica.org). We 
propose to use https://osgeo.geolexica.org/ to serve OSGeo in managing 
its terminology database. Geolexica not only serves human-readable 
concepts and terms, but also serves in machine-readable JSON, allowing 
APIs to directly consume the content.


The structure of Geolexica is designed for efficiency with streamlined 
management and operations. Terms are stored in structured data (YAML) 
files, and are directly deployable to the website. The website 
operates according to best practices, and is served as a static 
website with dynamic search functionality. Security and performance 
have always been key considerations.


For terms that originate from other authoritative terminology 
databases, such as those from ISO or OGC, a linkage shall be 
established from the OSGeo terminology database back to the source.



4. Use an issue tracker with source code management functionality as 
an open communication platform (e.g. GitHub).


The issue tracker is used to perform two-way communication between 
OSGeo members and the contributors. This requires every contributor to 
at least have an account, which helps minimize spam. The source code 
management functionality is used to manage terminology data in a 
machine-useable way.


There are generally two types of contributors:

a) those who suggest changes via textual description, and
b) those who suggest changes but can also format the desired content 
in the data format used by the terminology database.


People can easily help out with the former in formatting the changes 
into a proper data structure change. This allows the 
terminology management group to directly approve, merge and deploy the 
proposed term modifications (and creations, deletions), all made 
effective with a single click.



5. Allow easy feedback from terminology users.

To minimize friction in the feedback process, for every term offered 
in the OSGeo terminology pages we can offer a “propose new term” 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

2019-10-15 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
?Ah ok. Thank you!


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: María Arias de Reyna 
Enviado: martes, 15 de octubre de 2019 11:23
Para: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Cc: Till Adams; Conference Dev; OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

Hi Sergio,

Yes, there are two cities on play right now: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process#Letter_of_Intent_Review

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 4:18 PM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
mailto:sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy>> wrote:
Till, did you receive any proposal?

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 
mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> en 
nombre de Till Adams mailto:till.ad...@fossgis.de>>
Enviado: viernes, 06 de setiembre de 2019 3:32
Para: Conference Dev; OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

Dear Community,

just passed and survived the last FOSS4G in Bucharest, the community is
looking forward for the next global FOSS4G conferences. We, OSGeo's
Conference Committee, are happy to announce the call for location for the

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2021"

to be held in "other regions". Precisely this means that the conference
can be anywhere on the world, except Europe and North America. Only in
case that we do not receive any appropriate bid from these parts of the
world, we will consider to accept bids from Europe or North America.

Summer holidays are over, no reason not to start your work, grab some
people together, build a team, have fun and work out your bid! 2021 is
right around the corner and be proud to get all the FOSS4G folks to your
country, to your city, to your pub and introduce them to your local
environment!

Please find all details on [1] and more background information on [2].
In case that you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask the
conference committee or your barkeeper ;-)!


Have fun!

Till, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference committee



[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Digital Feudalism

2019-10-15 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
?A very interesting issue. And a very disturbing one...?


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: GeoForAll  en nombre de Suchith Anand 

Enviado: viernes, 11 de octubre de 2019 5:54
Para: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; GeoForAll
Asunto: [Geo4All] Digital Feudalism



I came across a recent op-ed by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato on "Digital Feudalism"  
at


https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/platform-economy-digital-feudalism-by-mariana-mazzucato-2019-10?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter_campaign=d192f2bc47-sunday_newsletter_6_10_2019_medium=email_term=0_73bad5b7d8-d192f2bc47-105013549_cid=d192f2bc47_eid=a8cee90b20


Prof. Mazzucato is a leading researcher and thinker on Technology and 
Innovation, advisor to the European Commission on research and innovation 
strategy, and author of two important books on the subject "The Value of 
Everything" and "The Entrepreneurial State".


The report on "Mission-oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union" 
might be of interest

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf


Since the use of cloud platforms for GIS data analysis is having a huge impact 
on the GIS community, the subject is of relevance. I would like learn more on 
this


  1.  Are there any examples of Digital Feudalism in GIS?
  2.  How will Digital Feudalism in GIS affect our future generations?
  3.  What policies are governments, regulators doing to reduce Digital 
Feudalism in GIS?
  4.  What policies and curriculum are universities, educators adopting to 
reduce Digital Feudalism in GIS?


Best wishes,


Suchith


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

2019-10-15 Thread María Arias de Reyna
Hi Sergio,

Yes, there are two cities on play right now:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process#Letter_of_Intent_Review

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 4:18 PM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote:

> Till, did you receive any proposal?
>
> 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 Till Adams <
> till.ad...@fossgis.de>
> Enviado: viernes, 06 de setiembre de 2019 3:32
> Para: Conference Dev; OSGeo Discussions
> Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021
>
> Dear Community,
>
> just passed and survived the last FOSS4G in Bucharest, the community is
> looking forward for the next global FOSS4G conferences. We, OSGeo's
> Conference Committee, are happy to announce the call for location for the
>
> "Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2021"
>
> to be held in "other regions". Precisely this means that the conference
> can be anywhere on the world, except Europe and North America. Only in
> case that we do not receive any appropriate bid from these parts of the
> world, we will consider to accept bids from Europe or North America.
>
> Summer holidays are over, no reason not to start your work, grab some
> people together, build a team, have fun and work out your bid! 2021 is
> right around the corner and be proud to get all the FOSS4G folks to your
> country, to your city, to your pub and introduce them to your local
> environment!
>
> Please find all details on [1] and more background information on [2].
> In case that you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask the
> conference committee or your barkeeper ;-)!
>
>
> Have fun!
>
> Till, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference committee
>
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process
>
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

2019-10-15 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Till, did you receive any proposal?

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 Till Adams 

Enviado: viernes, 06 de setiembre de 2019 3:32
Para: Conference Dev; OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

Dear Community,

just passed and survived the last FOSS4G in Bucharest, the community is
looking forward for the next global FOSS4G conferences. We, OSGeo's
Conference Committee, are happy to announce the call for location for the

"Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2021"

to be held in "other regions". Precisely this means that the conference
can be anywhere on the world, except Europe and North America. Only in
case that we do not receive any appropriate bid from these parts of the
world, we will consider to accept bids from Europe or North America.

Summer holidays are over, no reason not to start your work, grab some
people together, build a team, have fun and work out your bid! 2021 is
right around the corner and be proud to get all the FOSS4G folks to your
country, to your city, to your pub and introduce them to your local
environment!

Please find all details on [1] and more background information on [2].
In case that you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask the
conference committee or your barkeeper ;-)!


Have fun!

Till, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference committee



[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee

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