Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

Over the past weeks I've been busy with a) my Northwest-European holiday and b) watching the Fifa World Cup, so this is -a bit late- my entrance in this discussion. (for some reason my this message didn't reach this list earlier this week, I'll give it a second try) I think most of us

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

Jeff, Andrew, Bart, Jürgen, All, My 2 cents: - Give this discussion a fresh restart under a new threadname, since hacking OSGeo is a bit biased ;-) - Especially to Jeff: try to make distinction between your personal opinion and your role as OSGeo president - In the Netherlands we have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members

Hi all, I'm also sure all local chapters charter members have a view, but after the discussion (or discussions?) over the last days it's not quite clear what's the topic anyway. is is about: - collabaration with any other organisation in general? - collaboration with LocationTech

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members

Thanks Cameron, this really helps! I made a small adjustment so that all suggested option now have there advantages listed first, followed by their disadvantages. Makes it a bit more neutral. Personally I would leave out the voting sections in this stage (comments are OK). Just listing the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Status of discussion regarding FOSS4G collaboration with LocationTech and POCs

Hi all, Last month there has been a lot of discussion on the subject whether or not to collaborate with LocationTech in organizing the FOSS4G event (and if so, under what conditions, and whats the goals of FOSS4G could and should be) As the discussion spanned over at least 3 newsgroups

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire and GeoSpatial World Forum

According to the website (http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/whytogether.htm) Inspire moves from the legislation implementation phase (=supply-driven) to a more demand-based orientation. That's the same paradigm-shift that can be seen in the Netherlands. Now that almost all Inspire themes are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board Gert-Jan van der Weijden Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Dis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed OSGeo Vision

achment 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 lis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vote for OSGeo Board of Directors elections 2015 extended

than on channel :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Gert-Jan van der Weijden Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board election: no re-elections this year?

anybody are as always appreciated, but the 4+1 resigning board members and the current candidates are especially invited to give their humble opinion on this. Regards, Gert-Jan Gert-Jan van der Weijden Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Letter to the Board Candidates

listinfo/discuss Gert-Jan van der Weijden Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

on-to-quantum-gis Southeast OSGEO: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Southeast_US Gert-Jan van der Weijden Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2015

Dear all, We're having a Missing Maps party in the Netherlands this Saturday. At least 35 participents, and among them both a large number of people from the Dutch and Flemish OSGeo community. We'll bring your proposal to attention on that occasion, and inform you about the respons. Personally

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Local-chapters] Legal entities for Local Chapters

The same in the Netherlands; when organizing local events with more than 100 participants it's getting unpleasant to arrange the finances with your own personal bank account. we had some discussion about with legal entity type to use: association (with members; in The Netherlands vereniging)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

Hi Dirk, To be honest, I am a bit ambiguous about this. Recently I've seen several cross-border Open Source Geo (and OpenStreetMap) development: people from Holland visiting Belgian events, and people from Leuven, Mechelen and Antwerp crossing the border northbound. I encourage that very much,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

Yes, we are a multilingual community. At this moment, English is our common language for wordlwide communication, but at some moment in time, this might change to Chinese/Mandarin, or to Arabic perhaps?). In order to keep the community as accessible as possible, the use of Simple English is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code of Conduct in Real Case

In my opinion as well there is not a problem, especially since both pictures are used within a certain context. However, I realize I'm looking through a Western-european, liberal cultural perspective. Perhaps someone from for instance the Senegal local OSGeo chapter can comment on this from a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership (was Re: [Board] motions from June 18 meeting - making OSGeo Charter membership more exclusive)

Less than 48 hours ago Vasile asked for a little more time to summarize the pro's and con's of previous election procedures. Could we allow Vasile a few days more to summarize and share this information with the entire community? Then we have a good starting point, with all relevant information

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

implementation of bot open standards and open source also requires a bottom-up approach. Hey folks, thats we're we all come in! Kind regards, Gert-Jan van der Weijden Chair of the Dutch local chapter OSGeo.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

Vasile: thanks for this very useful recap. A few remarks from a relative newbie as I am ;-) - the name of the wiki page with the charter members is already called voting members ;-) - the charter member list grows and grows. Over the year only 1 person retired from the charter member list -

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question(s) for board candidates

Good to see we have this election wave going. @Michael, I'd bet you would be a good discussion moderator for an election debate at FOSS4G 2016 ! Of course this all closely related to an other thread that are going on ("osgeo is becoming irrelevant") I'd like to ask our board candidates what

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

Thanks you Vasile, for pushing the participation to 88%. Best wishes to the entire new Board, and of course thanks as well to the other candidates. Kind regards, Gert-Jan -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board voting deadline

hello Vasile-our-CRO, 1. In the mail I received with the invitation to cast my vote it is stated that the voting closes 12.00 GMT on Friday 26 September 2015 2. The survey itself says voting closes at 12.00 GMT on 26 September (which is a Saturday) 3. However, the wiki page states that the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board voting deadline

(second attempt, now to c...@osgeo.org instead of c...@osgeo.nl...) hello Vasile-our-CRO, 1. In the mail I received with the invitation to cast my vote it is stated that the voting closes 12.00 GMT on Friday 26 September 2015 2. The survey itself says voting closes at 12.00 GMT on 26 September

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

To avoid confusion: the election date has been confirmed by the CRO to end on 27 september 12.00 GMT With respect for all the board candidates and their busy agenda, I think for the election campaign (manifestos + discussion) this is as good as it gets. For 2016, we might try to weave

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

Hi Ian, Is this update a pure technical one, or are there also plans to give the site a new fresh & young look? regards, Gert-Jan Ian Edwards schreef op 09-12-2015 14:38: Excellent - thanks Jeff. All - please keep sending in requirements for the remake of the main osgeo.org [2]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site

2015 13:40 Aan: Massimiliano Cannata CC: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl); Web Site Committee (WebCom) mailing list; OSGeo Discussions Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Barn raising: osgeo.org web site Hi Gert-Jan, Maxi, I agree with both of you. In terms of the design I'd encourage you t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy

So, if I raised you attention to this hot topic and in the future people will be more sensitive and respectful of privacy when they act in the name of FOSS4G or OSGeo I'm 1000% happy and accept any blame on me. Best regard, Maxi 2015-12-15 23:38 GMT+01:00 Gert

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

First: I took the opportunity to change the subject of this thread to a less shouting version (CAPS LOCK and spam live side-by-side on my email-irritation-scale) Second: Funny to see how the use of two different channels (mailing list vs. MailChimp) kind of reflect the different

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

Hi Anita, In case you haven't found it out yourself yet: the OSgeo_logo_guide (as of 2007) states it's the Vera Sans font: https://www.gnome.org/fonts/ regards, Gert-Jan Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Anita Graser Verzonden: zondag 20

[OSGeo-Discuss] short report: annual osgeo.nl day 25 Nov. 2015

Hi list, A short report on the 4th annual Dutch OSGeo.nl day, held on 25th of November in 's-Hertogenbosch. Just like last year the OSGeo.nl day took place as a side-event of the general geospatial "GeoBuzz" conference. To our pleasant surprise (since there was not separate registration

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] geospatial world forum 2016 CallForPapers: theme: disruptive business models

Talking about open source as a disruptive model: a nice article about "how open source disrupted the CMS market: https://opensource.com/business/15/5/open-source-disrupted-cms-market regards, Gert-Jan Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Gert-Ja

[OSGeo-Discuss] geospatial world forum 2016 CallForPapers: theme: disruptive business models

hey all, I stumbled across the call for papers of the annual "geospatial world forum" (GWF) congress. [1] 2016's theme is "Where's the money: disruptive business models". Subthemes: - Where's the Money? Disruptive Business Models of Geospatial Content - Where's the Money? Business

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is supporting the Geospatial World Forum - opportunity for OSGeo advocates

Dirk, Johan Good to see you managed to make good agreements with the GWF organisation! Especially knowing that in 2012 and 2013 we hard some hard times to get things going... And the reduced attendence fee of 25 euro's in something we in Holland of course like as well! Through our Dutch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

Hi all, The website is a tool, just as OSGeo-Live is a tool. The 2 committees (WebCom and MarkCom) are closely related. In my opinion MarkCom set the goals and probably defines what tools are needed to reach these goals. WebCom makes sure one of these tools is up and running. That requires

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

he Google Arimo font Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Jody Garnett Verzonden: vrijdag 18 maart 2016 16:56 Aan: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl CC: OSGeo Discussions Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos What did the dutch logo use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_gold.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_platinum.png This SVG contains all four versions in different layers. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42637169/OSGeo_bronze.svg Bet wishes, Anita On Thu, Dec 24, 2015

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

18 maart 2016 12:12 Aan: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) CC: OSGeo Discussions Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s) Thanks Gert-Jan for the clarification. I have some questions that I cannot answer myself not being an expert: - Who design the website graphic?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

t-us/ Van: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 18 maart 2016 14:30 Aan: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl; Anita Graser CC: OSGeo Discussions Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos Sadly the shop is a bit broken, I can find it for sale

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for ideas on osgeo activities

Steven, Maxi @Steven: Thanks for writing down for what is also my personal experience. Even though I followed the process of setting up these strategic outcomes from a rather nearby position, it's hard to feel engaged with the questionnaire. Let's try to analyse: The Board has as first steps

[OSGeo-Discuss] Only 6 days left to earn 160 euro's!

Now that the program for the annual conference free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G) has been published we can't think of a reason NOT to register as soon as possible. By doing so before the 9th of May you keep 160 euro's in your pocket (by paying an attendance fee of 590

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

Hi Jody and others, Apart from the discussion here at this list, this might be a nice subject for a "topic talk" (a discussion on a specific theme) in August at FOSS4G in Bonn. If annybody is willing to take the lead in this, we (=the Bonn LOC) can see if we can fit this in the program)

[OSGeo-Discuss] Come in, we're open! - FOSS4G-2016 registration starts today

Come in, we're open! FOSS4G-2016 registration starts today After several months of preparations, today is the day we happily open the doors of FOSS4G 2016 Bonn, Germany! From the 24th to the 26th of August hundreds (perhaps even one thousand!) users, developers, policy makers, academics from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Come in, we're open! - FOSS4G-2016 registration starts today

As some of you already noted the message contains an invalid link. Of course it should point to http://2016.foss4g.org regards, Gert-Jan Van: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl [mailto:gert-...@osgeo.nl] Verzonden: vrijdag 15 april 2016 12:05 Aan: 'OSGeo Discussions

[OSGeo-Discuss] Latest news on FOSS4-2016 Bonn

Hi all, Minor changes in the general program, updates on the number of free sports at the workshops , introduction to the keynote speakers and more. You'll read it in our newsletter (from now on: weekly!) Find it at http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html#breaking-news And remember, this is

[OSGeo-Discuss] board elections: campaign week?

Hi all (and especially our elections organizer) Reading the schedule for the board elections I was wondering if there is a "campaign week" foreseen. By 20 September the final list of nominees (until now: 5 for 4 seats) will be announced, and the elections start immediately after that. I'd

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

Hi CRO, Being a supporter of open gorvernment, of open data in general, and election data in special, I was wondering whether the complete voting results will be published. Apart from that, given the fact that in previous years the runner-up was added to the Board (Dirk as substitute for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vision for an OSGeo education program

Cameron, Rabndal, Not just for kids in schools, but for any outreach towards new potential users (of any age) a stripped-down version of OSGeo-Live can fulfil an important role. Supplying the OSGeo-Live user with 7 desktop FOSS4G products, 8 browser based GIS-es, 15

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

My 3 cents: 1) take another 27 minutes to (re-)enjoy Ton Zijlstra's keynote at FOSS4G. At that time in the schedule (9 .am, in the morning after the FOSS4G boat trip probably missed by some of the attendees, but in his talks Ton challenges the geospatial community in general, and the FOSS4G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

e that has the ability to store the Server/Autumn edition as well) Kind regards, Gert-Jan -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Suchith Anand Verzonden: dinsdag 18 april 2017 18:02 Aan: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl); Discu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

Hi OSGeo-Live team and others, 1. Frequency In order to reduce the workload one might consider to lower the release frequency to a yearly base. (In which case I'd also suggest to name the version after their year of release: "OSGeo Live 2017" etc..) For my purposes it doesn't add much value

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: website/rebranding april update

Sort of like the OSM based T-shirts: http://www.citeefashion.com/products I like the idea, but perhaps it makes things a little too complex? A contour line map of The Netherlands as a biz card background would not be very exciting ;-) Regards, Gert-Jan Van: Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

As a regular user of proprietary GIS software (ArcGIS, FME, Oracle Spatial etcetera) I can assure that it is very valuable to have some sort of guidance in the diversity of the FOSS landscape. I agree that "similar proprietary products" isn't the right label. However, instead of the proposed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

Hi Board member candidates (and fellow voter members), Thanks to Helena, Astrid, Jody and Sanghee for adding their Manifestos [1]. Really much appreciated, and at least now we have 6 known candidates to cast our 5 votes to! I hope that Dirk, Venga and Jeff will take the opportunity to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter members and local chapters (was: RE: Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions)

instance is organized as a association, and thus has formal members (who pay an annual fee). Kinds regards, Gert-Jan Van: Vicky Vergara [mailto:vi...@georepublic.de] Verzonden: donderdag 12 oktober 2017 20:37 Aan: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl CC: OSGeo Di

[OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017: roles and positions

for a certain officer position? [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html (Article V) Gert-Jan van der Weijden Stichting OSGeo.nl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] website rebranding feedback on discuss email list

I'd prefer to move these discussions to a separate mailing list (such as marketing or the webcom list). Especially now that a long thread like "proposal for the listing of projects" tends to move to a completely different subject (if/howto distinguish service providers by size) My 2 cents,

[OSGeo-Discuss] board members candidates manifestos please

Hi all, As a charter member, one of my main duties is to vote for the new Board. In order to achieve this responsible task in a proper way, I do need to know the candidates personally But I DO need to know what they stand for, what their ideas are towards OSGeo in general, and their ideas

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

Barry, CRO, others, According to our bylaws [1], (section 3.7) it's up to the remaining Board members to choose someone to fill the gap. There's no such thing as in-between elections. As such happened in January 2016, when Jeff stepped down, and the Board choose Dirk Frigne to join the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

Hi CRO (and other Board Members?), Great top see so many voters, but still some 70 charter members (20%) who were not willing to vote. According to our bylaws, (charter)membership is supposed to terminate for those members who fail to fulfil their duty 3 times in a row (=participate in 3

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

Our Dutch OSGeo-Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/) unites almost 400 people, which is 3 about times as much as the "old-school" mailing list (http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Dutch-Discussions-f4574635.html) But then again, a far