Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw 0.1.0 released

2011-04-20 Thread Tom Kralidis
Thanks Angelos. From a quick look, I do not understand if this aims to be a lighter, non-java replacement for GeoNetwork, or has a different scope. Can you please clarify this? Paolo: different scope than GeoNetwork.  It's a standalone CSW implementation that assumes you have metadata

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award

2012-10-25 Thread Tom Kralidis
Congratulations Venka! Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:07:19 +0200 From: nicolas.bo...@gmail.com To: vas...@geo-spatial.org CC: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NEWS: Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award Congratulations Venka ! 2012/10/26 Vasile Craciunescu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Jeffrey Johnson

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi: I second this nomination. ..Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:10 AM Subject: nomination for Jeffrey Johnson To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com I’d like to nominate Jeffrey

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript

2014-07-24 Thread Tom Kralidis
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Open Source Python framework for working with OWS services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2015-03-16 Thread Tom Kralidis
(disclosure: I'm one of the OWSLib devs and maintainer) Hi Bruce: echo Jachym's comments. OWSLib has been around for awhile and is usually the first place Python folks run into for Python/OWS support on the client side. There are numerous significant activities/projects including: - CKAN -

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Kralidis
Jachym: +1. Another thing to consider is maintenance. How often should OSGeo projects be assessed for freshness and change in rating? Yearly? 2x/year? Having said this adding projects should be more agile. On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:27:14 +

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

2015-02-26 Thread Tom Kralidis
Agreed. I think there is an opportunity for OSGeo to become more agile in this manner (hobu's recent Proj4 tweet really provided a wake up call for me [1]): - review principles/value proposition of becoming an OSGeo project - update the process to be more agile for all involved (note that this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo thoughts on discussion/collaboration platform hosting

2015-10-18 Thread Tom Kralidis
fwiw DemocracyOS [1] may be worth a look as well. [1] http://democracyos.org/ On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I agree this is a good discussion. By the way, Tim Sutton just pointed me > to a decision making platform that QGIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi Margherita: thanks for the update -- this is great news! Given pycsw is part of this year's OSGeo offering I'd like to sign up as a mentor. I've done so at [1], however I cannot see how to register as a mentor on [2]. Is there a specific area I should be looking at/for? Cheers ..Tom [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Angelos Tzotsos

2016-09-08 Thread Tom Kralidis
I second Jorge's nomination. Angelos' tireless dedication to OSGeo and versatility are a great fit for being on the Board in support of evolving and moving forward OSGeo. ..Tom On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Forwarding Angelos Tzotsos nomination to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Angelos Tzotsos

2016-09-08 Thread Tom Kralidis
To clarify: I should have said I second Jeff's nomination. ..Tom On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkrali...@gmail.com> wrote: > I second Jorge's nomination. Angelos' tireless dedication to OSGeo > and versatility are a great fit for being on the Board in support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGEO Board: Jeffrey Johnson

2016-09-13 Thread Tom Kralidis
I second Tim's nomination. Jeff (or jj0hns0n :) is passionate and committed to FOSS4G. He is very personable, forward thinking and would be a great asset in serving on the Board. ..Tom On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Forwarding Jeffrey Johnson nomination

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

2016-10-05 Thread Tom Kralidis
Congratulations to the new Board! Kudos as well to the impressive list of nominees. ..Tom Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2016, at 04:59, Jorge Sanz wrote: > > Dear OSGeo community, > > These are the results from the 2016 elections[1] for the 4 open > seats[2] of the OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-19 Thread Tom Kralidis
Thanks Mateusz: great idea and thanks for leading off. I've made slight updates for pycsw. Should we have a column for use of servers like AdhocVM[1] ? ..Tom [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AdhocVM On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:31:11 +0100 From:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Matthew Hanson

2017-09-07 Thread Tom Kralidis
Seconded +1. ..Tom On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Forwarding Matthew Hanson nomination by Jeff Johnson. The 2017 member > nominations list was updated [1]. > > Best regards, > Vasile & Jeff > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs > > [1]

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Micah Wengren

2017-08-25 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: I would like to nominate Micah Wengren [1] for OSGeo Charter Membership. Micah is with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has been a proponent of open source at NOAA (GeoNode, GeoServer) since 2007. He has been a core committer to the GeoNode project since 2014.

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Quality of Service and Experience DWG Survey

2017-08-28 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: The OGC Quality of Service and Experience (QoSE) Domain Working Group are seeking to establish currently used methods and metrics for evaluating Quality of Service in web services. As part of this chartered work we would appreciate if those who are running or considering running spatial

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Rich Signell

2017-08-25 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: I would like to nominate Dr. Rich Signell [1] for OSGeo Charter Membership. Rich is a research oceanographer with the US Geological Survey and a strong longtime proponent of data sharing and standards. Rich's pragmatic approach and strong use of FOSS4G are evident in his numerous

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Steven Ottens

2017-08-30 Thread Tom Kralidis
+1 ..Tom On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, María Arias de Reyna wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:44:35 +0200 From: María Arias de Reyna To: Vasile Craciunescu Cc: OSGeo Discussions , OSGeo Chief Returning Officer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

2017-08-30 Thread Tom Kralidis
Strongly seconded. To add, Sean's valuable contributions also include early days of MapServer Python (MapScript) support. ..Tom On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:29:17 +0300 From: Vasile Craciunescu To: OSGeo Discussions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2018 Board of Directors elections results

2018-12-04 Thread Tom Kralidis
ats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical >> order are: >> * Angelos Tzotsos >> * Michael Smith >> * Tom Kralidis >> * Victoria Rautenbach >> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process! >> Election fi

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

2018-11-20 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: as per [1], please find my candidate manifesto at [2] Best of luck to all candidates -- thank you! ..Tom [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018#Campaign_period_-_2018-11-19_-_2018-11-25_.281_week.29 [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Tom_Kralidis

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

2018-11-22 Thread Tom Kralidis
us improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for > anyone" > which leads me to think of Education. > > Can you expand the topic on possible ideas that might be in your mind? > > And thanks for your manifesto. > > Regards > Vicky > > > On Tue, N

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

2019-04-02 Thread Tom Kralidis
r 31, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Tom Kralidis wrote: Jeff: thanks for the info. I would imagine that this info will be forthcoming; as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates accordingly. ..Tom On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>> wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

2019-03-31 Thread Tom Kralidis
Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed it. If > there isn't one that's OK too. > > Regards, > Jeff > > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis wrote: > > > > (sorry for the cross-posting). > > > > Hi all: FYI t

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

2019-03-31 Thread Tom Kralidis
(sorry for the cross-posting). Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21 June 2019. In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards. This will shape the way clients and servers implement

[OSGeo-Discuss] updates to bylaws

2019-05-17 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: FYI we've made a revision to the bylaws [1][2] to reflect the current state of board memberships as two year periods. Please see section 5.2 of the bylaws for more information. This will be presented at this year's AGM as well. Cheers ..Tom [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws [2]

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G projects at OGC API Hackathon

2019-05-27 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi everyone: as part of our ongoing OSGeo/OGC coordination, and given the synergy of FOSS4G projects and OGC standards, we would like to coordinate/track our presence at the OGC API Hackathon in June [1]. This will provide value in terms of having a sense of FOSS4G projects involvement as part of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] World Meteorological Organization reform

2019-06-01 Thread Tom Kralidis
Thanks Suchith. This is an exciting way forward at WMO. With more WMO activities being managed in the open [1], as well as the increasing evolution of WMO standards leveraging from the OGC and beyond, the barrier to weather, climate and water data will continue to lower and be accessible

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ApacheCon geospatial track, Sept 9th.

2019-05-21 Thread Tom Kralidis
(Sorry for cross posting) Hi all: per below from George/OGC. Feel free to contact George if you are interested I presenting at ApacheCon in September. Cheers ..Tom Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: George Percivall > Date: May 20, 2019 at 11:52:09 EDT > To: Tom

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado

2019-05-22 Thread Tom Kralidis
The forthcoming OGC API Hackathon should help clarify much of these discussions. Agree with Chris' endpoint patterns. I would probably update the CSW endpoints like: /collections/search /search To be continued -- stay tuned! ..Tom On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 4:27 PM Stefan Keller wrote: > > Dear

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC API Hackathon 2019 updates

2019-06-29 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: nice seeing OSGeo presence at this event. We've put forth a report in [1] of progress of various projects. Please feel free to update the wiki if I've missed anything. I'll forward the report from OGC once it is made available. It's an exciting time to be on the cusp of the next gen

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My last letter as President

2019-12-04 Thread Tom Kralidis
María: thank you for your valuable contributions and looking forward to future collaboration. Best of luck! ..Tom Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 4, 2019, at 02:09, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > Dear fellow OSGeoers, > > I want to congratulate all the recently elected members of the Board,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

2019-12-02 Thread Tom Kralidis
t;>> * Till Adams >>> * Vicky Vergara >>> >>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process - all >>> are deeply engaged in our community and inspired us by their example. >>> >>> Election figures are: >>> >>

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: call for participation on OSGeo/OGC MOU review

2020-04-05 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: FYI per below. Thanks ..Tom -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Kralidis Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:03 PM Subject: call for participation on OSGeo/OGC MOU review To: FYI at the OSGeo Board 2019 face-to-face meeting in Bucharest, one of the topics covered was the OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time for me to move on from OSGeo

2020-06-18 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi Cameron: sorry to hear this, but happy for you. Having known/worked with you on/off over many years (circa MapBuilder), I can say you have a great capability for future state/high level and architecture, as well as being ready to get into the corners to deliver just the same. Thanks for your

[OSGeo-Discuss] W3C/OGC Joint Workshop Series on Maps for the Web

2020-06-25 Thread Tom Kralidis
(apologies for cross-posting) Hi all: I hope everyone is doing well during these times. FYI there will be a joint virtual W3C/OGC workshop on web mapping in September 2020 [1][2]. This workshop series brings together experts in geographic standards and Web map data services, Web mapping client

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsorship opportunities 2020

2020-06-26 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: OSGeo sponsorship opportunities for 2020 have just been announced in [1][2]. While it goes without saying that 2020 is unlike previous years, the OSGeo community continues to be resilient. Support your favourite OSGeo projects, initiatives and events and leverage the benefits of becoming

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Certification Services for OGC Compliance and Reference Implementations

2020-06-23 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: as announced on [1], does your FOSS4G project implement or is compliant to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications? Given OSGeo’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the OGC, OSGeo provides certification services for community, incubating or official projects. Please see the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto

2020-11-29 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi all: as per [1], please find my Board candidate manifesto at [2]. Best of luck to all candidates -- thank you! ..Tom [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020#Campaign_period_-_2020-11-26_-_2020-12-03_.287_days.29 [2]

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Establishes Category A Liaison with ISO/TC 211

2020-12-15 Thread Tom Kralidis
From https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-establishes-category-a-liaison-with-iso-tc-211/ In support of OSGeo’s continued commitment to standards and interoperability, OSGeo and ISO/TC 211 have established a Category A liaison, effective 31 July 2020. The liaison will enable OSGeo to make

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo OGC MOU update

2021-02-24 Thread Tom Kralidis
(sorry for the crosspost) Hi all: as part of last week's Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2021, Angelos, Scott Simmons and I met to discuss the state of the OSGeo/OGC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). As you may be aware, this was identified for action at the last face-to-face Board meeting in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC CITE compliance testing

2021-03-07 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi Dirk: thanks for the info. I believe SAC has setup a Drone instance [1] that we can likely look into using these as a means for hosting and running CITE via CI? We also need to get a better idea of what CITE test suites are available as Docker images. Having said this, it would be great to

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community program welcomes the Open Data Cube project

2021-06-01 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Hi all: OSGeo is pleased to welcome the Open Data Cube project to our Community program. The Open Data Cube project is an open source geospatial data management and analysis software project that helps harness the power of satellite data. Please see [1] and [2] for the news item and Tweet.

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community program welcomes the Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) project

2021-07-01 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Hi all: OSGeo is pleased to welcome the Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) project to our Community program. MDAL is a translator library for more than 15 unstructured mesh geospatial formats used mainly in meteorology and hydrology. Please see [1] and [2] for the news item and Tweet. Welcome

[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

2022-02-02 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
(sorry for cross-posting) Hi all: the 2nd Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held from 08-10 March 2022. Full details on registration can be found at [1]. As demonstrated in the initial joint code sprint, this is a great opportunity for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards in an

[OSGeo-Discuss] upcoming WMO WIS 2.0 Introduction to Industry Workshop

2022-05-19 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Hi all: FYI the World Meteorological Organization will be holding an industry workshop on 22 June 2022, which will focus on the next generation of WMO data exchange activities. Topics that will be presented/discussed include the WMO Information System (WIS 2.0) architecture and implementation

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC and OSGeo have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding

2022-06-07 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
(apologies for cross posting) Hi all: FYI please find below the joint press release from OGC and OSGeo: OGC: https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4709 OSGeo: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ogc-and-osgeo-sign-new-memorandum-of-understanding This marks a significant milestone for

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo OGC Committee: call for participation

2022-07-14 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Hi everyone. As part of the new OSGeo MOU with OGC [1], we are in the process of finalizing our membership agreement. As an Associate Member of OGC, we are required to provide 2 representatives: - business: The member contact for marketing and business-related issues, such as membership renewal

[OSGeo-Discuss] Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2023 location and possible dates

2022-12-23 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
(sorry for the crosspost) Hi all: FYI OSGeo, OGC and ASF are planning the 3rd annual joint code sprint, building on previous successful efforts [1][2]. The sprint will be hybrid in nature (i.e. online and in person). The sprint location will be in Switzerland (exact location TBA). The

[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2023 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

2023-02-27 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
(sorry for cross-posting) Hi all: the 3nd Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held from 25-27 April 2023. Full details on registration can be found at [1] and [2]. As demonstrated in the past joint code sprints, this is a great opportunity for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and standards

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ZOO-Project graduates OSGeo Incubation

2023-06-22 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
d like to thank Tom Kralidis, Dimitris Kotzinos, Frank Warmerdam, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their assistance during this Incubation process. Congratulations to the ZOO-Project community! About ZOO-Project ZOO-Project is a Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation written in C,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] osgeo.org update

2023-05-19 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Thanks Regina. When accessing the pycsw demo [1], I receive the following error in my browser: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to demo.pycsw.org. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

[OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2024 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

2024-01-10 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
(sorry for cross-posting) Hi all: the 4th Joint OGC / OSGeo / ASF Code Sprint will be held from 26-28 February 2024. Full details on registration can be found at [1] and [2]. As demonstrated in the past joint code sprints, this is a great opportunity for cross-pollination of FOSS4G and

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes GeoCat as a Diamond Sponsor

2024-01-11 Thread Tom Kralidis via Discuss
Press release: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-welcomes-geocat-as-a-diamond-sponsor OSGeo welcomes GeoCat as a Diamond Sponsor --- Release date: 2024-01-10 GeoCat has committed to the highest level of OSGeo sponsorship