[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source Geospatial Foundation: The Modernization of the Canadian Spatial Reference System

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

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Subject: 	Open Source Geospatial Foundation: The Modernization of the 
Canadian Spatial Reference System

Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:53:28 +
From:   Jonathan Murphy 
Reply-To:   Jonathan Murphy 
To: OSGEO i...@osgeo.org 



Hi OSGEO,

Members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation play a crucial role in 
the Canadian geomatics ecosystem.


There's an important online event on the upcoming modernization of the 
Canadian Spatial Reference System (CSRS), scheduled for March 27th. 
Presented by Catherine Robin of the Canadian Geodetic Service. This 
webinar is a part of Lidar CANEX 2024.


Such modernizations are rare, occurring approximately every 50 to 100 
years. For the first time since the widespread adoption of GNSS 
technology, we're transitioning to a unified reference system across 
federal and provincial governments.


Please share this invitation with your members. This is a free online 
event. Your members will appreciate being informed about this 
significant change.


The registration is 
here


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Please note: final call for speakers for GeoIgnite (May 13-15th), 
Canada's national Geospatial Leadership event in Ottawa are this week. 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2024

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo committees,

OSGeo is proud to support our committees (including project steering 
committees), initiatives, and a growing number of projects. We have been 
pleased to see funding applied to day to day operations, improvements 
and a wide range of community building activities including events, code 
sprints, developer meetings and user conferences.


Our continued ability to offer financial support is due a successful 
FOSS4G 2023 and the generosity of our ongoing sponsors.


OSGeo Committees

To plan our 2024 budget, we are reaching out to all OSGeo committees to 
help plan for the year ahead.


As our budget forecasting includes communicating with sponsors we ask 
you to list any sponsorship opportunities you are aware of for 2024. We 
know that it can be difficult to ask for money. Please be clear with 
each sponsorship opportunity, and the visibility benefit you are able to 
offer sponsors.


Example:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget#2023

OSGeo Projects

Each year we are pleased to welcome new graduated projects to OSGeo. The 
Board starts planning by providing a set amount to all graduated 
projects who have:


1. Reported to the Board their activities of the last 12 months (e.g. 
during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting); and

2. Have sent a budget request.

While we have not determined the amount for 2024, last year each project 
was provided a $1000 USD operational budget. Funding allows each project 
committee to plan ahead, and support their team activities without 
hesitation.


Keep in mind that if any unforeseen event occurs during the year we are 
here to support you. Project teams have approached the board during the 
course of a year to respond to security vulnerabilities, or request 
legal advice, that was not anticipated during budget planning.


Projects with a more specific plan (to pursue a clear goal) are welcome 
to send a more detailed budget. Larger goals should be presented as 
clear sponsorship opportunities to your community, and OSGeo will do our 
best to help out also.


Tip: Keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization. We love to support 
community participation, for example attending the AGM or a 
cross-project code sprint.


Examples:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2023
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2023


OSGeo Community Projects

Projects working on incubation are asked to contact 
incuba...@lists.osgeo.org to be included in the 2024 incubation budget 
request.



Budget Meeting

To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2024, the Board will have a 
budget meeting in December 2023 to review 2023 expenditures, sponsorship 
and make financial decisions for the 2024 budget.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024

Budget requests should be submitted ideally by 20 December 2023 in 
advance of our next Board meeting.


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,
Angelos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [TOSprint] Join OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 at BIDS ‘23

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The registration for BiDS closes on Oct 23rd.
https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/registration

If you are planning to join the community sprint, please make sure you 
have registered both to BiDS and on the community sprint wiki page.


We hope to see you in Vienna.


On 6/19/23 12:18, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

OSGeo Community Sprint will come to Vienna (Austria) in November 2023 
[1] as part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event. Come 
join us!


When:

- Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00

Where:

- Venue: Austria Center Vienna [3] [15]


Interested? So read more about why & where & when...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of 
organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS 
software.


Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [4] has been 
organizing a yearly Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects, which 
has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint and all "Tribes" are 
included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS, 
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get 
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial 
problems & to have fun.


Our last face-to-face OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in 
Minnesota [5] in 2019.
In 2020, due to the pandemic, we canceled the Athens code sprint and 
organized a virtual code sprint [6].
In 2021 and 2022 we organized code sprints during FOSS4G events and 
joint code sprints with OGC and Apache Foundation.


2023 marks the return of the OSGeo Community Sprint which will return 
to Europe after Vienna (2014)[7], Paris (2016) [8] and Bonn (2018)[9]. 
This makes it possible to embed European developers and users. The 
tradition started in 2009 in Toronto [10]. Find a list of the history 
of code sprints at [11].



About BiDS
--

BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities 
and government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase 
latest technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of 
space and big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to 
discuss and present the most recent innovations and challenges 
encountered in the context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of 
BiDS will focus not only technologies enabling insight and foresight 
inferable from big data from space. Together, we want to emphasize how 
breakthrough space data driven technologies impact on society’s grand 
challenges, such as climate change and the green transition.


The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) [12] together 
with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) [13] and the Joint 
Research Center (JRC)[14], will take place at the Austria Center 
Vienna [15], and counts with the support of the partners FFG [16], 
Austria in Space [17] and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria [18].



OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 in Vienna
-
The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 6 to 9 
November 2023. We expect about 60 developers from all over the world 
to come from various OSGeo projects [4].


The code sprint will take place at Austria Center Vienna [3] [15], as 
part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event.



Accommodations
-
Working zones will be created for you in the dedicated room area. A 
wide variety of drinks and snacks will be provided by OSGeo and 
sponsors. Participation in the code sprint is free of charge. As a 
participant, you are responsible for your own accommodation.


Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue, many of which 
are within walking distance.


Registering for the OSGeo Community Sprint


In order to register for the OSGeo Community Sprint you need to 
register for the BiDS event [2]. More information about Big Data from 
Space and the registration link once opened, can be found under 
bigdatafromspace2023.org [2].


Afterwards, please don't forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our 
OSGeo Community Spint 2023 page:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Participants

This is an important step for planning of catering and coordination.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in 
one or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all 
about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, 
testing – all this is also important for projects so everyone is 
cordially

invited to attend the code sprint!

The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to seeing you 
there!


If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.
Would you like to sponsor the event? Read more about sponsoring the 
event [19]

Please contact tzotsos at osgeo.org directly.

Se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

We are planning to make a community meeting about the EU CRA, so we can 
discuss our action plan forward.


The meeting is planned for Tuesday 22 Aug 13:00 UTC in our Jitsi room:
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

Best,
Angelos

On 7/22/23 00:20, Adam Steer via Discuss wrote:

Hi OSGeo

The European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act has just come to the
attention of many non-EU folks as a potential dampener on open source
geospatial software development and usage. A summary from GitHub is here
(thanks Marco Bernasocchi for pointing it out):

https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/

  It's being discussed in the OSGeo board, and some responses from other
open source organisations have already been made, for example:
https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of the proposed
legislation on open source geospatial software development across the
globe  - so we can form an appropriate community response as soon as
possible. What are your thoughts?

Yes, we're late in gettung our attention on to this. Hopefully not too
late.

Thanks,

Adam

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OSGeo director


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [TOSprint] Join OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 at BIDS ‘23

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

[6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020
[7] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
[8] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
[9] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018
[10] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009
[11] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints
[12] https://www.esa.int/
[13] https://www.satcen.europa.eu/
[14] 
https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/joint-research-centre_en 


[15] https://www.acv.at/en/
[16] https://www.ffg.at/en
[17] https://austria-in-space.at/en/
[18] https://www.bmk.gv.at/en.html
[19] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring

**
See you in Vienna at OSGeo Community Sprint 2023
6 to 9 November 2023

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023
**********


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Board meeting 2023-07-01​

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Thank you Besford for being pro-active, we were about to ask about this :)

Best regards,
Angelos

On 6/2/23 14:02, Besfort Guri FLOSSK wrote:

Dear Angelos,

Can we provide inside ITP a dedicated room for hosting in private this
meeting, if you need any support please let me know.

Best Regards,
Besfort

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 11:30 AM Angelos Tzotsos via Board <
bo...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:


Hi all,

This is the next meeting agenda.
This is a F2F meeting that will take place in Prizren during the day of
the code sprint.

Please add your topics and feel free to attend if you have an issue to
discuss with the Board:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01

Best,
Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Board meeting 2023-07-01​

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

This is the next meeting agenda.
This is a F2F meeting that will take place in Prizren during the day of 
the code sprint.


Please add your topics and feel free to attend if you have an issue to 
discuss with the Board:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01

Best,
Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2023

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings and 
user conferences.


OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to all 
committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan our 
budget for 2023.


In 2022, the Board assigned an initial amount of 500 USD to all 
graduated projects who have reported to the Board the activities of the 
last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and 
have sent a budget request.


Given the success of FOSS4G 2022 we are in the position to support our 
projects again as before. For 2023, the Board is planning to continue to 
offer a budget to all graduated projects with the exact amount to be 
determined.


To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2023, the Board is planning 
to have a budget meeting within January 2023 to review 2022 
expenditures, sponsorship and make financial decisions for the 2023 budget.


Projects with a more specific plan (to pursue a clear goal) are welcome 
to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed budget 
requests from 2022 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2022) A good idea is to 
focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending the AGM or a code 
sprint. Also, keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2023 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2023>


Project budget requests should be submitted ideally by 20 January 2023 
in advance of our next Board meeting.


Thank you and Happy New Year!
On behalf of the OSGeo Board,
Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2022 elections

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi,

The CRO report was sent to the board and approved:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-November/013158.html
https://www.loomio.com/d/ebEWmyus/approve-new-charter-members-for-2022-based-on-the-recommendation-of-cro

Congratulations to the new charter members!

On 11/14/22 20:08, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA via Discuss wrote:

Do we have any news on the results of the charter member elections?

Thank you,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 15.0 status: beta2

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The second beta version of OSGeoLive 15.0 is available.
Please download [1], test and report any issues found [2]. Changelog 
available at [3].
For those who are working on the VM version, please continue testing and 
fixing bugs in beta1 VM.


Cheers,
Angelos

[1] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/15.0/osgeolive-15.0beta2-amd64.iso

[2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[3] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4


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

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

Please consider registering for the joint code sprint with OGC and 
Apache Foundation.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,
Angelos

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Subject: 	[OSGeo-Standards] Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC 
OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:21:03 -0500
From:   Tom Kralidis 
To: OSGeo Discussions , standa...@lists.osgeo.org



(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 agile/sprint
environment.

The OSGeo community is encouraged to sign up and participate! Feel free
to add your project at [2]. Looking forward to seeing folks at the
upcoming sprint.

Thanks

..Tom

[1] https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4659
[2]
https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/2022-Joint-OGC-%E2%80%93-OSGeo-%E2%80%93-ASF-Code-Sprint
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2022 - please send your budget requests for approval

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi all,

The board is planning a meeting to discuss the 2022 budget today.
Please do not forget to submit your requests.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 12/30/21 13:18, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

***

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,


OSGeo has been a proud supporter of project events, code sprints, 
developer meetings and user conferences.  Given the COVID-19 pandemic, 
2020 and 2021 have seen a shift to virtual events (for example, the 
OSGeo/OGC/Apache joint sprint in February 2021, as well as the global 
FOSS4G event).  It has been encouraging to see our energy, commitment 
and perseverance during this exceptional time.



OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to 
all committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan 
our budget for 2022.



In 2021, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to 
all graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 
months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and have 
sent a budget request.


For 2022, the Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all 
graduated projects with the exact amount to be determined.



Due to the successful FOSS4G 2021 and less money spent in 2021 we are 
in the position to support our projects again as before.



To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2022, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting within January 2022 to review 2021 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2022 
budget.



Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2021 e.g.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021>


<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021>>)



We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.



Please add your project info to the budget draft at:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022>


<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022>>



ideally by 20 January 2022 in advance of our next Board meeting.


When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.



Thank you and Happy New Year!


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2022 - please send your budget requests for approval

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

***

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,


OSGeo has been a proud supporter of project events, code sprints, 
developer meetings and user conferences.  Given the COVID-19 pandemic, 
2020 and 2021 have seen a shift to virtual events (for example, the 
OSGeo/OGC/Apache joint sprint in February 2021, as well as the global 
FOSS4G event).  It has been encouraging to see our energy, commitment 
and perseverance during this exceptional time.



OSGeo continues to execute the annual budget, and is reaching out to all 
committees (including Project Steering Committees), to help plan our 
budget for 2022.



In 2021, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to 
all graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 
months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting) and have 
sent a budget request.


For 2022, the Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all 
graduated projects with the exact amount to be determined.



Due to the successful FOSS4G 2021 and less money spent in 2021 we are in 
the position to support our projects again as before.



To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2022, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting within January 2022 to review 2021 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2022 budget.



Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2021 e.g.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021>


<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2021>>)



We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.



Please add your project info to the budget draft at:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022>


<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022>>



ideally by 20 January 2022 in advance of our next Board meeting.


When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of 
our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.



Thank you and Happy New Year!


On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Congratulations and welcome to our new charter members!

Best,
Angelos

On 12/13/21 8:53 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
Newsitem: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/

2021-12-13

OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021.

In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 
votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, 
then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board 
approved the new members in November 2021.


We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as 
OSGeo Charter Members:


Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana
Maia Williams (2021) Australia
John Duncan (2021) Australia
Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany
Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada
Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador
Julien Cabièces (2021) France
Loïc Bartoletti (2021) France
Ashish Kumar (2021) India
Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland
Linda Kladivová (2021) Czech Republic
Nick Bearman (2021) UK
Adrien André (2021) France
Nicolas Rochard (2021) France
Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka

We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members.

You find a list of all charter members [1].

OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is 
a summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]).


Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo 
Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021.


Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the 
nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4].


About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
-- 

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) 
organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The 
software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach 
and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and 
legal support for the open source geospatial community.


OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and 
other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to 
software, standards, data and education.


Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[2] 
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB

[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprint 2022

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo Community,

We have started discussions with OGC and ASF in order to co-organize a 
code sprint in March 2022.


From the discussions, the date options are the following:
1. March 1-3
2. March 8-10

Please vote on the following doodle:
https://doodle.com/poll/qee4kubtbfq69y6r?utm_source=poll_medium=link

Best,
Angelos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hi Stefan,

OSGeo has now signed the open letter.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 10/4/21 10:51 PM, Stefan Blumentrath via Discuss wrote:

Hi,

Not sure how well known the "Public money, public code" campaign of the Free 
Software Foundation Europe (fsfe) is within the circles of OSGeo:
https://publiccode.eu/

FOSSGIS e.V. and GFOSS signed it and I have probably overlooked other OSGeo 
related organizations. But maybe it is relevant for OSGeo itself as well?
Though it has a European focus, the information material there is very good can 
be useful also in other parts of the world, when arguments for using Free and 
Open Source Software in or for public authorities are needed...

Check it out.

Cheers
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for the OSGeo Annual Meeting 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

OSGeo Annual General Meeting 2021 was published as a video in advance. 
We hope to see you on 1 October 2021 14h UTC for the virtual event


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we again will have our Annual General 
Meeting (AGM) virtually this year. It will be during FOSS4G 2021. We 
would like to invite you to the AGM on Friday, October 1st 2021 from 14h 
to 15h UTC [1]


We are happy to meet you at our global FOSS4G conference again, even 
though it will be virtual, instead of face to face.


We have been active in advance and asked our community for short videos 
about the status of their project. We are happy to be able to publish 
the OSGeo Annual General Meeting video on the OSGeo YouTube channel [2]. 
It was amazing to get all the videos from local chapters, projects, 
committees and initiatives. We hope we did not miss any video. A big 
thanks to all the community members who provided a video and to Vicky 
Vergara who mixed them all together.


Now you are invited to watch the AGM 2021 video in advance of our 
meeting on Friday. If there are questions or topics for discussion we 
can follow up on the Virtual AGM on Friday.


This year's OSGeo annual general meeting (AGM) is dedicated to the 
memory of Malena Libman who passed away due to COVID-19. Her passing was 
a big shock and we miss her. She was meant to be the chair of this 
year's FOSS4G 2021 and she was a star of our community. Our thoughts and 
prayers are with her family.


We would also like to dedicate to the memory of Martin Isenburg who 
passed away after the editing of the AGM video. Martin was the creator 
of LAStools, LASzip, and PulseWaves. He was a giant in the LIDAR 
community. Our thoughts and prayers are also with his family.


Thank you to all people that contributed to the AGM and hope to see you 
on 1 October 2021 14h UTC for the virtual event


We also would like to invite you to subscribe to our OSGeo youtube 
channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw


We hope we can change the name soon to:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/OSGeo

[1] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXH-fcvrOg
[3] Martin Isenburg https://rapidlasso.com/author/downtownfarm/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for our OSGeo AGM 2021 virtual event on 1 October 2021 14h UTC

[Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss]

Hello OSGeo Community!

We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) during 
FOSS4G on Friday, October 1st 2021 from 14h to 15h UTC.


We are happy to meet you at our global FOSS4G conference again, even 
though it will be virtual, instead of face to face.


For 2021, we are introducing a new concept. We would like to publish the 
OSGeo annual update as a video, in advance of the AGM on the OSGeo 
YouTube channel [1]. This way, we will have time for an open discussion 
during the AGM slot at FOSS4G. Thus, all local chapters, projects, 
committees and initiatives are invited to prepare a short video of *1 
minute* to present their status report, updates, COVID-19 impact, future 
plans and last year’s achievements.


We hope you like the idea! However, you have to get active in advance, 
so please take a close look to the timeline below:


Timeline
- 2021-08-30: send us your video and update the AGM slides [2]
- 2021-09-10: AGM 2021 complete video will be published
- 2021-10-01: 11h Argentinian Time Zone (14:00 UTC) Join the AGM 2021 
meeting at FOSS4G [3] [4]


Your AGM video is going to be one minute of fame and shine for our 
community, so don't let it pass! It is important for all of us to know 
what is happening everywhere. OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to 
get a summary of all the amazing work we are doing!


Check this wiki page [5] for an overview of the AGM 2021 and for the 
upload link for your video that we will soon provide. In the wiki, you 
will find all the important information, but don’t hesitate to contact 
us if you have any questions.


Please, don’t forget to also add your information to the AGM slides [2], 
but make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. If you want to 
edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let us know and 
tell us which team you represent so we can provide write access.


Spread the information about the AGM 2021 and save the date!
We hope to see as many of you at the AGM in October.

Stay safe,

Angelos Tzotsos
President of OSGeo


[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw
[2] 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1brbBb7-sKRI6U4dZ7LKnBT_-NnWzyS2TaZqVXzy8RDo/edit#slide=id.p4

[3] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/
[4] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021=10=1=14=0=0=51=26=49=155=217=312=250=71=248=240

[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2021

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[OSGeo-Discuss] ApacheCon@Home Geospatial track, Sept 21-23th

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

ApacheCon will again be virtual in 2021.  The event will be September
21-23.

The Call For Papers ends soon, namely: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 8:00 AM
(UTC).

https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/cfp.html

Cheers,
Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] wiki.osgeo.org migration to LDAP Auth is complete

[Angelos Tzotsos]

A big thank you to the SAC team for their efforts!

Best,
Angelos

On 4/3/21 2:00 AM, Regina Obe wrote:

Next time you log into https://wiki.osgeo.org you should be prompted to
merge your account with your LDAP one.

Once completed you will use your LDAP account to log in from then forward.

Feel free to report any issues on trac.

Thanks,
Regina and OSGeo SAC Team

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: rc1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

The first release candidate of OSGeoLive 14.0 is now available!

Please download [1], [2], test your favorite application and report any 
issues found [3]. Change log available at [4].

In the following days we will make the VM version available for testing.

On behalf of the OSGeoLive team,
Angelos

[1] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/14.0/osgeolive-14.0rc1-amd64.iso

[2] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/14.0/osgeolive-14.0rc1-amd64.iso
[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeoLive] Press Release 92: OSGeoLive Version 14 call for translators

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Press Release 92: 19 February 2021
OSGeoLive Version 14 [1] is coming closer.

The final version is planned to be ready at the end of march 2021 and to
be used for our FOSS4G events [2]. Have a look at our schedule for the
the detailed steps [3].

TRANSLATION

We need you to help with the missing translations in the next days!

You can work on the translations for version 14 till 3rd March 2021.
Are you multi-lingual and interested in Open Source GIS? You can find
the OSGeoLive translation at transifex [4].
We still have many open translations. How about helping translate one or
two of the Project Overviews or Quickstarts? Have a look at our
translation guide [5] to get involved.
Please join the OSGeoLive project at Transifex [6].
If you have questions you can contact via our contact channels [7] or
contact astrid_emde AT osgeo DOT org.
HURRY UP

If you manage to translate more than 33% for your language, it will be
added to version 14. There are two languages very close already - check
Swedish and Turkish. So hurry up till 3rd March 2021 to reach over 33 %
or use the next months to get ready for version 15.
ABOUT OSGEOLIVE

OSGeoLive (​http://live.osgeo.org [1]) is a Lubuntu based distribution
of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual
Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open
source geospatial software without installing anything.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
The OSGeoLive team

[1] ​https://live.osgeo.org [2] [2] ​https://www.osgeo.org/events/ [3] [3]
​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB=en_GB#gid=0
[4] [4] ​https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [5] [5]
​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex
[6] [6] ​https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [5] [7] 
https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html [7]

Links:
--
[1] http://live.osgeo.org
[2] https://live.osgeo.org
[3] https://www.osgeo.org/events/
[4]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GBhl=en_GB#gid=0
[5] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/
[6]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex
[7] https://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: beta3

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Today we are joining the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint, and we are releasing 
the third beta of OSGeoLive, so that we can get more feedback from 
testers during the code sprint.


Please download [1], [2], test and report any issues found [3]. Change 
log available at [4].


On behalf of the OSGeoLive team,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta3-amd64.iso
[2] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta3-amd64.iso

[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Developers are invited to the 2021 Joint ASF – OGC – OSGeo Code Sprint

[Angelos Tzotsos]

t from:

   *   Sponsors' logos placed on the sprint website as well as on all official 
presentations used during the sprint
   *   Acknowledgement in blog posts and the report summarizing the outcome of 
the sprint
   *   Acknowledgement in a series of emails and social media posts promoting 
the sprint

Organizations may sponsor the event either through OGC or OSGeo. Organizations 
interested in sponsoring the code sprint should contact Gobe Hobona 
(ghob...@ogc.org) and Angelos Tzotsos (tzot...@osgeo.org).

About the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Since 1999, The Apache Software Foundation has been shepherding, developing, and 
incubating Open Source innovations "The Apache Way". The ASF's all-volunteer 
community comprising 813 individual Members and 8,000 Committers on six continents 
steward 200M+ lines of code, oversee 350+ Apache projects and their communities, and 
provide $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost.

About OSGeo
OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global 
adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software 
foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven 
development.

About OGC
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more 
than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and 
universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR 
- Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
OGC’s member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available 
geospatial standards. Existing at the cutting edge, OGC actively analyzes and 
anticipates emerging tech trends, and runs an agile, collaborative Research and 
Development (R) lab that builds and tests innovative prototype solutions to 
members' use cases.
OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use 
location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all 
levels. OGC is committed to creating a sustainable future for us, our children, 
and future generations.
Visit 
ogc.org<http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4FBAQBBQVSAB0ACltSSFBTAAUZUlcBDRkBUVUFXAQMWlFWBFRKAlNSBwNRDANIXFQHAxkECQFXGVtWAQUVDgFRB1EAUVQCBFEGGQUIVlZSBA4GGQZXUwYZDVVbVhUOBVtTGVFbBgZVAAZUUwxXVA>
 for more info on our work.



This press release is also available online at: 
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EDITORS: When publishing this on your blog or website, we kindly request that 
you link back to the above URL.
The image used in the PR is available without text or logo 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: beta2

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Today we are joining the FOSDEM 2021 online event and we are releasing 
the second beta of OSGeoLive 14.0.

Some critical bugs have been fixed since the first beta.

The OSGeoLive team would like to ask the community for testers and 
translations. Our plan is to move to RC stage in a few weeks.
Please download [1], [2], test and report any issues found [3]. Change 
log available at [4].


On behalf of the OSGeoLive team,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta2-amd64.iso
[2] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta2-amd64.iso

[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear all,

The OSGeo budget for 2021 has been approved:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021

https://www.loomio.org/d/XenD58Tj/review-and-approve-osgeo-budget-for-2021

Best,
Angelos


On 1/23/21 12:41 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Hi all,

Here is the first draft of the 2021 Budget based on the last meeting 
discussion.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021

We need to cover some more areas in our next meeting this Monday:
* Local Chapters
* Code Sprints
* Travel Grants

Regards,
Angelos

On 12/29/20 11:35 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as community/code sprints, developer 
meetings, and user conferences. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 
most OSGeo events in 2020 were held as virtual events.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including Project Steering 
Committees, to help plan our budget for 2021.


In 2020, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to all 
graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 months 
(e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting). This year the 
Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all graduated 
projects with the exact amount to be determined.


Due to cancellation of events in 2020, we are not in a position to 
allocate and spend as much as we did in previous years.


To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2021, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting on 18 January 2021 to review 2020 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2021 
budget.


Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed budget 
requests from 2020 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020>)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021>


ideally by 17 January 2021 in advance of our next Board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos








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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: beta1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Today we are releasing the first beta of OSGeoLive 14.0.
This release includes many package updates on top of Lubuntu 20.04.1 
(from DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS) and is expected to be stable enough. Many 
thanks to all the volunteers that are helping us to build this distribution.


For OSGeoLive 14.0 our plan is to release 2 versions of the distribution:
 * the bootable iso which will include 90% of the projects due to file 
system limitation and
 * the virtual machine version which will include all the available 
projects and some extra features that would not fit into the iso (e.g. 
libreoffice, extra developer packages, extra documentation etc)


The OSGeoLive team would like to ask the community for testers, since 
our plan is to move to RC stage in about a month.
Please download [1], [2], test and report any issues found [3]. Change 
log available at [4].


On behalf of the OSGeoLive team,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta1-amd64.iso
[2] 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/releases/14.0/osgeolive-14.0beta1-amd64.iso

[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Here is the first draft of the 2021 Budget based on the last meeting 
discussion.


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021

We need to cover some more areas in our next meeting this Monday:
* Local Chapters
* Code Sprints
* Travel Grants

Regards,
Angelos

On 12/29/20 11:35 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as community/code sprints, developer 
meetings, and user conferences. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 
most OSGeo events in 2020 were held as virtual events.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including Project Steering 
Committees, to help plan our budget for 2021.


In 2020, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to all 
graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 months 
(e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting). This year the 
Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all graduated 
projects with the exact amount to be determined.


Due to cancellation of events in 2020, we are not in a position to 
allocate and spend as much as we did in previous years.


To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2021, the Board is 
planning to have a budget meeting on 18 January 2021 to review 2020 
expenditures, sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2021 
budget.


Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed budget 
requests from 2020 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020>)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021>


ideally by 17 January 2021 in advance of our next Board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Scheduling of the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Virtual Code Sprint

[Angelos Tzotsos]

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: Scheduling of the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Virtual Code Sprint
Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:48:37 +
From:   Gobe Hobona 
To: 	oapi-styles@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
edr-api@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-records@lists.opengeospatial.org, OGC API Maps SWG 
, OGC WFS-FES SWG 
, 
ogcapi-common@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-processes@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
coverages@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-tiles@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
routing@lists.opengeospatial.org
CC: 	Martin Desruisseaux , Angelos 
Tzotsos 




All,

The Joint Virtual Code Sprint will be held on the 17th, 18th and 19th of 
February 2021 starting from 07:00am EST until 05:30pm EST each day.


Please reserve the dates in your calendars.

The formal announcement is being prepared and will include a link to the 
Registration page.


Regards,

Gobe



On 12 Jan 2021, at 13:21, Gobe Hobona  wrote:

All,

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Open Geospatial Consortium 
(OGC), and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are currently 
planning a joint Virtual Code Sprint to be held during the second half 
of February 2021.


The code sprint will cover multiple ASF and OSGeo projects, and OGC 
standards. The code sprint is open to all participants in ASF, OSGeo 
and OGC, even if you are not active members or contributors to the 
efforts of the organizers.


To help us schedule the sprint, please enter your availability for the 
sprint into the Doodle poll at 
https://doodle.com/poll/3ptyzi9vwfuak5bq 
<https://doodle.com/poll/3ptyzi9vwfuak5bq>


The Doodle poll will close on Tuesday 19th January 2021 at 17:00 EST.

Please feel free to forward this message to any colleagues that may be 
interested.


Regards.

Gobe
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(OGC)

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Scheduling of the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Virtual Code Sprint

[Angelos Tzotsos]

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Scheduling of the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Virtual Code Sprint
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:21:24 +
From:   Gobe Hobona 
To: 	oapi-styles@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
edr-api@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-records@lists.opengeospatial.org, OGC API Maps SWG 
, OGC WFS-FES SWG 
, 
ogcapi-common@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-processes@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
coverages@lists.opengeospatial.org, 
ogcapi-tiles@lists.opengeospatial.org
CC: 	Martin Desruisseaux , Angelos 
Tzotsos 




All,

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), 
and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are currently planning a 
joint Virtual Code Sprint to be held during the second half of February 
2021.


The code sprint will cover multiple ASF and OSGeo projects, and OGC 
standards. The code sprint is open to all participants in ASF, OSGeo and 
OGC, even if you are not active members or contributors to the efforts 
of the organizers.


To help us schedule the sprint, please enter your availability for the 
sprint into the Doodle poll at https://doodle.com/poll/3ptyzi9vwfuak5bq 
<https://doodle.com/poll/3ptyzi9vwfuak5bq>


The Doodle poll will close on Tuesday 19th January 2021 at 17:00 EST.

Please feel free to forward this message to any colleagues that may be 
interested.


Regards.

Gobe
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Director of Product Management, Standards | Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2021

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as community/code sprints, developer 
meetings, and user conferences. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 
most OSGeo events in 2020 were held as virtual events.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including Project Steering 
Committees, to help plan our budget for 2021.


In 2020, the Board assigned an initial amount of 2000 USD to all 
graduated projects who have reported to the Board the last 12 months 
(e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting). This year the 
Board is planning to continue to offer a budget to all graduated 
projects with the exact amount to be determined.


Due to cancellation of events in 2020, we are not in a position to 
allocate and spend as much as we did in previous years.


To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2021, the Board is planning 
to have a budget meeting on 18 January 2021 to review 2020 expenditures, 
sponsorship, and make financial decisions for the 2021 budget.


Please send your detailed requests for approval (see detailed budget 
requests from 2020 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2020>)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist your 
project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021 
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021>


ideally by 17 January 2021 in advance of our next Board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of 
our Foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MapLibre

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jorge and Luke

Thanks for the activity and welcome MapLibre!
OSGeo is always open to new community projects, please see how you can 
apply here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects

Please reach out to the board or the incubation committee if you need 
more information.


Best,
Angelos

On 12/9/20 11:36 PM, Luke Seelenbinder wrote:

Hi List,

Thanks, Jorge.


Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the 
"MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future 
development.

I'm one of the people that's been working especially to coordinate a unified 
community response, and as such, I have had cursory discussions regarding this 
with Tom Chadwin, Tom Kralidis, and Angelos Tzotsos; I'm also aware of other 
people who have discussed this with OSGeo via other channels.

I'm happy to answer any additional questions anyone on the list might have, as 
I'm sure any of the other community members would, as well.

 From initial discussions, we would like to see how we can proceed to a 
possible incubation and eventual community project status, but for now we're 
excited to have a clear path forward and are looking to support open source for 
web mapping in the future.

Also, glad to be a member of the list, now!

Best,
Luke

—
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Stadia Maps | Founder
stadiamaps.com | (864) 735-8533


On 9 Dec 2020, at 21:38, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

Hello OSGeo,

Some of you may have heard about yesterday's announcement regarding Mapbox GL 
JS v2 having a license change[1] from BSD into a closed license. Since Mapbox 
GL JS v1.13 is still Open Source (BSD), several people forked the main 
repository to continue with the project.

Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the 
"MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future 
development.

One of the objectives pointed out during the meeting was to contact and start 
establishing a relationship with the OSGeo Foundation so hence this email :-)

I think I can speak in the name of everyone that met today, to thank and 
acknowledge Mapbox for the amazing job done in the library and the Open Source 
world, respecting their decision, and hoping they maintain their commitment to 
the vast number of many other Open Source libraries and components they have 
developed over the years.

You can find more details about MapLibre in this initial coordinating 
document[2]. If you are interested in this effort, please keep an eye on the 
document, feel free to join the communication channels that suit you, and stay 
tuned for a first release of the library under the MapLibre name.

Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162 
<https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162>
[2] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view>--
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[OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw 2.6.0 released

[Angelos Tzotsos]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.6.0.


This release brings various enhancements to OpenSearch temporal support, 
cloud

enhancements, and 12 factor support.  This release also drops all Python 2
support given the [Python 2 end of life](https://pythonclock.org) which 
occured
on 01 January 2020.  Users are strongly encouraged to update their 
deployments

to Python 3 as soon as possible.

Source and binary downloads:

The source code is available at:

[https://pycsw.org/download](https://pycsw.org/download)

PyPI packages are available at:

[https://pypi.org/project/pycsw](https://pypi.org/project/pycsw)


Version 2.6.0 (2020-12-05):


[Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes]

- fix GetRecords startposition empty parameter fixes
- update OpenSearch temporal extent query support
- add 12 factor support
- support environment variables in configuration
- add kubernetes and helm configurations
- fix quoting for PostgreSQL backends
- add logging switch to pycsw-admin.py CLI to stdout
- safeguard XML as bytes to unicode
- update core model xml column to Unicode on repository creation
- handle different formats for CRS code input
- add test for invalid gml:posList geometry
- drop all Python 2 support

Testers and developers are welcome.

The pycsw developer team.
[https://pycsw.org](https://pycsw.org)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Charter-members] OSGeo 2020 Board of Directors elections: nomination period ended

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

It is a great honor to be nominated once again for re-election at the 
Board of Directors.

I have added my candidate manifesto at [1].

Best of luck to all candidates!

Best,
Angelos


[1] 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020_Candidate_Manifestos#1._Angelos_Tzotsos.2C_Greece_.28OSGeo_profile.29


On 11/29/20 4:56 PM, Vicky Vergara wrote:

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jorge Gustavo Rocha 
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:04 AM
Subject: [Charter-members] OSGeo 2020 Board of Directors elections:
nomination period ended
To: OSGeo Charter members 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 


Dear OSGeo members,

We were lucky to have 5 candidates [4] for the OSGeo board of directors
[1]. We are closing the nomination period now, to prepare and start the
campaign period.

First of all, we have to thank these volunteers for having accepted the
challenge.

Candidates are invited to write and share some ideas of what they intend
to do as directors, in our wiki at [4] and also by sending their vision
to our Discussing list discuss@lists.osgeo.org.

The campaign period will take place until 2020-12-03. The updated
election calendar is available at [2].

It is a wonderful opportunity to discuss all aspects of our foundation.
Use the Discuss mailing list to ask candidates about things you like to
be improved.

Best regards,
Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
(your 2020 OSGeo Elections CROs)

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2020
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2020_Candidate_Manifestos


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Discuss] Virtual OSGeo Code Sprint 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear OSGeo community,

Taking into account the Doodle results, the Board decided to organize 
the OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020 on November 17-18-19, also 
celebrating GIS and PostGIS days.


The OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020 will be accompanied by other 
events in November 2020 see https://www.osgeo.org/events/


We would now ask projects to pleaseregister on our wiki page 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020so we can 
start to setup theJitsi channels.


The sprint is going to be a 3 day event around time zones;participating 
projects are free to select their working hours and log them into the 
wiki so others can joinatthe appropriate time.


On behalf of the OSGeo board,
Angelos

On 10/20/20 10:33 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

Since the annual OSGeo code sprint was postponed for 2021, the OSGeo 
Board is considering to organize an online version of the OSGeo code 
sprint in November.


This would be a full week event, with various Jitsi rooms per project 
and several discussion Jitsi rooms for social interactions. We also 
consider a large room (similar to AGM) for the kick-off and final 
meeting of the OSGeo code sprint.


We would like to hear your date preferences, ideas, objections etc.

Here is a doodle poll (will run for a week) to gather feedback:
https://doodle.com/poll/34yx5nctwamwcc9m

On behalf of the OSGeo board,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Discuss] Virtual OSGeo Code Sprint 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

After some feedback we got, the doodle poll has been extended to the 
first weeks of December.

If you already voted, please update your votes.

Best,
Angelos

On 10/20/20 10:33 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

Since the annual OSGeo code sprint was postponed for 2021, the OSGeo 
Board is considering to organize an online version of the OSGeo code 
sprint in November.


This would be a full week event, with various Jitsi rooms per project 
and several discussion Jitsi rooms for social interactions. We also 
consider a large room (similar to AGM) for the kick-off and final 
meeting of the OSGeo code sprint.


We would like to hear your date preferences, ideas, objections etc.

Here is a doodle poll (will run for a week) to gather feedback:
https://doodle.com/poll/34yx5nctwamwcc9m

On behalf of the OSGeo board,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [Discuss] Virtual OSGeo Code Sprint 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear OSGeo community,

Since the annual OSGeo code sprint was postponed for 2021, the OSGeo 
Board is considering to organize an online version of the OSGeo code 
sprint in November.


This would be a full week event, with various Jitsi rooms per project 
and several discussion Jitsi rooms for social interactions. We also 
consider a large room (similar to AGM) for the kick-off and final 
meeting of the OSGeo code sprint.


We would like to hear your date preferences, ideas, objections etc.

Here is a doodle poll (will run for a week) to gather feedback:
https://doodle.com/poll/34yx5nctwamwcc9m

On behalf of the OSGeo board,
Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New time for our OSGeo AGM 2020 virtual event on 10 September 2020: 13:00 UTC

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

This is a reminder for the AGM meeting today at 13:00 UTC.

The meeting links are posted on the Wiki page:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020

Please feel free to add breakout rooms for project/committee/BoF (before 
or after the AGM).


Cheers,
Angelos

On 9/4/20 3:58 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Hello OSGeo Community!

It is difficult to find the perfect time slot to organize an 
international virtual event, so after some recent discussions and 
requests on public channels, the board has decided to change the AGM 
time slot to accommodate all regions (as much as possible).


We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting(AGM)on 
Thursday September 10th 2020 from 13UTC till 15UTC.


All local chapters, projects, committeesand initiatives are invited to 
present their status report, updates,covid-19 impact,futureplans and 
past achievements.


We  have already created the AGM slides for this year. This is going 
to be one minute of fame and shine, don't let it pass! It is important 
for all  of us to know what is happening everywhere.
OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to get a summary of all the 
amazing work we are doing!


There is a wiki page to give you an overview on the AGM 2020. Here you 
will find the details on where to meet soon.

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020

AGM 2020 slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C6llSnWZ28c2aWQgttPiOnoo6dttdqKg07ugU_yr6Uc/edit#slide=id.p4 



Please add your information to the slidesuntil08.09.2020. If you want 
to edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let usknow 
and tell uswhich team you represent so wecan provide write access.


Please make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. You will 
have about 1 minute to present.


Please spread the information about the AGM 2020 and save the date! We 
will provide detailed information about the meeting platform soon.


We will reserve an hour before and after the AGM to provide meeting 
rooms for projects and local chapters where you can meet.


At the end of the AGM the Sol Katz Award 2020 will be granted.

After the AGM we will have an additional hour for open discussion 
about OSGeo activities and the future.


We hope to see you at the AGM next week!

Stay safe

Angelos Tzotsos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] New time for our OSGeo AGM 2020 virtual event on 10 September 2020: 13:00 UTC

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hello OSGeo Community!

It is difficult to find the perfect time slot to organize an 
international virtual event, so after some recent discussions and 
requests on public channels, the board has decided to change the AGM 
time slot to accommodate all regions (as much as possible).


We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting(AGM)on 
Thursday September 10th 2020 from 13UTC till 15UTC.


All local chapters, projects, committeesand initiatives are invited to 
present their status report, updates,covid-19 impact,futureplans and 
past achievements.


We  have already created the AGM slides for this year. This is going to 
be one minute of fame and shine, don't let it pass! It is important for 
all  of us to know what is happening everywhere.
OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to get a summary of all the 
amazing work we are doing!


There is a wiki page to give you an overview on the AGM 2020. Here you 
will find the details on where to meet soon.

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020

AGM 2020 slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C6llSnWZ28c2aWQgttPiOnoo6dttdqKg07ugU_yr6Uc/edit#slide=id.p4

Please add your information to the slidesuntil08.09.2020. If you want to 
edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let usknow and 
tell uswhich team you represent so wecan provide write access.


Please make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. You will 
have about 1 minute to present.


Please spread the information about the AGM 2020 and save the date! We 
will provide detailed information about the meeting platform soon.


We will reserve an hour before and after the AGM to provide meeting 
rooms for projects and local chapters where you can meet.


At the end of the AGM the Sol Katz Award 2020 will be granted.

After the AGM we will have an additional hour for open discussion about 
OSGeo activities and the future.


We hope to see you at the AGM next week!

Stay safe

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Invitation virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We have received this invitation, it could be of interest to some of our 
local chapters or individual members in Asia-Pacific regions.


Best,
Angelos


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Invitation virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:59:26 -0400
From:   Carol Williams 
Reply-To:   roundta...@uia.org
Organization:   http://www.uia.org
To: i...@osgeo.org



To: Open Source Geospatial Foundation
E-mailed to:i...@osgeo.org

We send you this invitation because your organization has an office in 
the Asia-Pacific region or has members in the Asia-Pacific region!


The Union of International Associations (UIA) cordially invites Open 
Source Geospatial Foundation to participate at its


1stVirtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
Thursday 17 and Friday 18 September 2020

Last day to register: Monday 7 September!

UIA´s host partnerSeoul Tourism Organization will provide the virtual 
meeting platform where easy access, networking and educational content 
will combine to provide an engaging and rewarding experience for delegates.


The Union of International Associations is inviting people working in 
and with international associations,


·we will virtually meet and attend presentations on common challenges by 
peers working in international associations
·we will discuss in workshops and break-out rooms and you will have the 
chance to ask in-depth questions and to share and exchange knowledge and 
experience
·participants will be invited to join mini games individually or in 
teams, with opportunities to win prizes
·UIA team members will moderate the sessions throughout, guiding and 
assisting the delegates

·the Seoul Tourism Organization Team will assist you in any technical need
·we will have breaks!
·and you will have the chance of a Virtual Seoul Tour

See the topics of the programme below - and watch the Round Table 
websitehttps://uia.org/roundtable/2020/asiapacificfor updates and more 
details!


Thanks to the support of our host,Seoul Tourism Organization, we will be 
able to offer a high-level educational programme through a high-level 
and easy to access technology platform for a low fee of KRW 50,000 / 40 
US dollars.



How to register for the 1stvirtual UIA Associations Round Table 
Asia-Pacific:


(1) Go tohttps://uia.org/roundtable/
(2) Click on "register now" for Round Table Asia-Pacific
(3) Fill in your username XJ0041
(4) Fill in your password (Angelos note: please ask me if interested)

You can use this username and password to registerany number 
ofdelegates; each of your delegates will need to log in and register 
separately.


UIAis an independent non-profit research institute founded in 1907 which 
documents and promotes the work of international associations. UIA 
shares its information on associations through its publications: 
theYearbook of International Organizations, and theInternational 
Congress Calendar. UIA also promotes the work of associations by 
organizing educational activities, such as the UIA Associations Round Table.


For over 110 years the UIA has been working to promote and document the 
work of international associations. We look forward to welcoming you at 
ourRound Tablesthis year.


Sincerely,
Carol Williams
Union of International Associations


PS. While you are logged in on the UIA website, you may also wish to 
check your association´s profile in theYearbook of International 
Organizationsand as well complete ourSurvey on International Meeting Issues



1stVirtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
Thursday 17 and Friday 18 September 2020

hosted and powered by our partnerSeoul Tourism Organization

Moderation by UIA team members
Virtual meeting platform and technical support by Seoul Tourism Organization


Speakers and Topics

· Opening Keynote
· by Cyril Ritchie, President of UIA: "The UN´s 75thAnniversary and your 
association - why it matters"

· panel discussion with all speakers and group discussions

· Presentations / Case Studies / Workshops in break-out rooms
· Mr John Peackock, Associations Forum:"Why All Associations Need Good 
Structure, Governance and Plans"


·Dr Christie Chang, Past President, Sakyadhita International Association 
of Buddhist Women:"Looking for and negotiating a destination for an 
association event"


·Mr Octavio B Peralta, Secretary-General, Asia-Pacific Federation of 
Association Organizations (APFAO), and Secretary-General, Association of 
Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific 
(ADFIAP):"Association Business Model Innovation"


·Dr Wai Yie Leong, Member of Board of Directors, International Network 
of Women Engineers and Scientists:"Measuring the impact your association 
has on the community"


·Mr Zar Gomez, Regional Coordinator, Caritas Asia:"Mobilizing resources 
from within and from outside a federation"


·Mr Ryan Brubaker, Web Designer, UIA:"Achieving goals, finding partners: 
UIA´s Global Civil Society 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Get ready for our OSGeo AGM 2020 virtual event on 10 September 2020 18 UTC

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hello OSGeo Community!

We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting(AGM)on 
Thursday September 10th 2020 from 18 UTC till 20 UTC.


Normally we meet every year at our global FOSS4G conference. But this 
year everything is different. So we would like to invite you to a global 
virtual event.


All local chapters, projects, committeesand initiatives are invited to 
present their status report, updates,covid-19 impact,futureplans and 
past achievements.


We have already created the AGM slides for this year. This is going to 
be one minute of fame and shine, don't let it pass! It is important for 
all of us to know what is happening everywhere.
OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to get a summary of all the 
amazing work we are doing!


At the end of the AGM the Sol Katz Award 2020 will be granted. You have 
the chance to make nominations till August 21st.

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2020/

There is a wiki page to give you an overview on the AGM 2020. Here you 
will find the details on where to meet soon.

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020

AGM 2020 slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C6llSnWZ28c2aWQgttPiOnoo6dttdqKg07ugU_yr6Uc/edit#slide=id.p4

Please add your information to the slides. If you want to edit it and 
still don't have privileges to do so, please let usknow and tell uswhich 
team you represent so wecan provide write access.


Please make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. You will 
have about 1 minute to present.


Please spread the information about the AGM 2020 and save the date! We 
will provide detailed information about the meeting platform soon.


We hope to see you at the AGM in September.

Stay safe,

Angelos Tzotsos
President of OSGeo

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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Cameron,

Thank you for all your contributions in OSGeo, it has been an honor to 
work with you on OSGeoLive, your mentorship in my early days on the 
project is much appreciated.


I hope to see you soon and best of luck on your new projects.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 6/18/20 3:15 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

Hi all,
I've decided that I need to significantly step back from my involvement in
OSGeo activities.
I've picked up my involvement in tech writing in open source, focused
around https://thegooddocsproject.dev and I need to drop some things.
I've also moved my career toward tech writing.

As such, I offer my retirement notice to all of the OSGeo committees that
I've been involved in. (Feel free to move me into the retired section of
committees.)
I will hover around the edges of OSGeoLive, and OSGeoLexicon, and will be
available if people reach out to me directly.
But I've been here for over a decade. It is time for me to try something
new, and create space for others.

Good luck to everyone. OSGeo has done some great things and I'm sure will
do much more.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Many thanks to the OSGeo GCI admins and everyone involved for all the 
hard work and impressive results.


Best,
Angelos

On 6/12/20 4:14 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:

Hello Victoria and the whole OSGeo GCI team,

thanks a lot for sharing this information.

Sad to hear that there will be not GCI in the future.

It os so impressive to see your numbers about only 3 year that OSGeo 
participated - 898 students and 2096 completed tasks. Wow. Amazing.


Thanks a lot to the OSGeo GCI Admins team and all mentors, people and 
projects involved in GCI. GCI was a great way to get young people 
introduced and involved in Open Source Software and bring people from 
all over the world together and inspire to collaborate. Thanks a lot.


Astrid

Am 11.06.2020 16:21 schrieb Victoria Rautenbach:

Good day

The 2019 OSGeo GCI Admin team thought we would share this with you.
The 2019 edition of GCI was the last, the Google Open Source group
will now GSoC and Summer of Docs.

OSGeo participated in GCI for 3 years! Over the three years, we worked
with 898 students that completed 2096 tasks across various OSGeo
projects. Thank you to those of you that served as mentors or answered
questions from GCI students. Thank you!

Regards
OSGeo GCI Admins team



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Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of 
Google Code-in



Hi GCI Mentors and Org Admins,


Google Code-in concluded 10 amazing, productive, exhilarating years in
January. This program has been a success because of the amazing energy
and passion all of you have exhibited; volunteering dozens, hundreds,
and in some cases, thousands(!) of hours to help 14,700+ teenagers,
from 115+ countries, complete a whopping 76,200+ open source tasks,
during the past 10 years!


We wanted all of you to be among the first to know that Google Code-in
2019 was our final Google Code-in contest. We've been looking hard at
our portfolio of programs and as open source evolves, our programs
need to evolve too. We've decided to focus our efforts on Google
Summer of Code and programs like Season of Docs that meet projects'
sustainability needs going into the next 10 years of open source.


We want to thank you all for being inspiring role models to these
students. Many of you were GCI or GSoC students yourselves and have
been paying it forward for years by helping teenagers discover their
passion for open source software development. The extent of your
support was something many didn’t expect when they first started out
trying to complete a few tasks to earn a Google T-shirt.


You have welcomed students into your communities and shown them how
open source is making the world a better place and how they can be a
part of that. You all have inspired, taught, listened, and made a
difference in the lives of thousands of students. THANK YOU! These
students have brought fresh new perspectives and ideas into your
communities, inspiring long-term committers with their enthusiasm,
curiosity and skills.


Many of you have been mentors for all 10 years of GCI (plus GHOP!),
while others came into the GCI family just this past year. Regardless
of when you joined, thank you all for showing immense kindness,
patience, dedication, organization and guidance to the students, the
other mentors in our GCI community, and to me and the rest of our team
over the years.


These past 10 years of Google Code-in have been an exciting,
adrenaline pumping adventure – thanks for coming along on the ride
with us!


We will continue to be dedicated to helping open source communities be
sustainable and finding new contributors is an essential part of those
efforts. While Google Code-in is now officially retired, we look
forward to finding new ways to support your communities.


Best,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Revisiting the Raspberry Pi -- new developments

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version sometime after October 2020.

So, if it might be possible,  would it  be worth anybody's time to do this?
Is there a need or use case for OSGeo  Live on a Raspberry Pi 4?
or would it just be a useless one off stunt requiring immense, but futile
effort?

The 2020 U.S. Census begins release of data in April 2021. So, that might
generate more interest in GIS in the U.S.,  but what  about the  rest of
the world? Are there projects or programs where a Raspberry Pi 4 running
Lubuntu with OSGeo Live might be useful?

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[OSGeo-Discuss] COVID-19 FOSS initiatives

[Angelos Tzotsos]

*

Dear OSGeo community,


We are living in difficult times. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the 
great challenges of our generation that has initiated a shape-shifting 
world with consequences that no-one can fully foresee. Even though our 
work mainly requires access to a computer and an Internet connection, 
our community has also been affected. With code sprints, conferences, 
hackathons and other related gatherings canceled or postponed all over 
the globe, we are deprived of an important aspect entangled into our 
community fabric - the social aspect. In these times, it is even more 
important to stay connected, share what you do and follow what others 
are doing.



In the spirit of collaboration, we open the wiki page in [1] to collect 
information regarding initiatives  developed using FOSS solutions, 
connected to the COVID-19 pandemic evolution. Thus, we invite anyone 
involved in such an initiative or has knowledge of one, to acknowledge 
their efforts by including it.



Stay safe,

Angelos,

On behalf of the OSGeo board


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/COVID-19_FOSS_initiatives

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community Sprint in Athens - postponed

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear OSGeo family,

Due to the travel restrictions that have been applied for the covid-19 
crisis, unfortunately we need to postpone the code sprint planed for May 
2020 in Athens.


We are already talking to our venue hosts to plan a new date either at 
the end of 2020, early 2021 or May 2021, it will all depend on the 
FOSS4G decisions to be made very soon.


The board is working with the FOSS4G 2020 and 2021 LOCs to plan ahead, 
more to be announced soon.


Best regards and stay safe!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for sponsorship for Pista ng Mapa 2020

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Hi,

Also, please have a look at this document:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf

Regards,
Angelos

On 2/19/20 5:52 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Ask the bo...@osgeo.org email list, or attend one of the monthly board
meetings <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Meetings>.
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 11:32, maning sambale 
wrote:


Dear everyone,

We are organizing our annual Pista ng Mapa Conference on May 27-29, 2020.
Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) is a free-of-charge outreach activity
to generate public interest, advocate the use of open (geo) data,
promote free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G)
applications, gather and grow enthusiasts, users in the public and
private sector, and local communities in the Philippines.

https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

We are looking for sponsors to the event:
https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/call-for-sponsors
is there a way for OSGeo to support?  Who do I ask?


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Community Sprint May 2020 in Athens - join us and please register soon

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear developers, users & community members,

OSGeo Community Sprint will come to Athens (Greece) in May 2020 [1]. You 
are

invited to join us.

When:

- Mon 2020-⁠⁠05-25 08:30 -⁠⁠ Fri 2020-⁠⁠05-⁠⁠29 17:00

Where:

- Venue: Serafio - Sports, Culture and Innovation Center Main Hall [2], 
Municipality of Athens


Interested? So read more about why & where & when...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of
organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.

For several years the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [3] has
been organizing a yearly Code Sprint, a come-together of the "C Tribe"
OSGeo projects - now we call it OSGeo Community Sprint and all "Tribes"
are included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS,
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL and many more get
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial
problems & more & simply to have fun.

Last year the OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in Minnesota [4].
In 2020 the OSGeo Community Sprint will come again to Europe after 
Vienna (2014)[5],

Paris (2016) [6] and Bonn (2018)[7]. This makes is possible to embed
European developers and users. The tradition started in 2009 in Toronto 
[8].

Find a list of code sprints at [9].

OSGeo Community Sprint 2020 in Athens

The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 25 to 29
May 2020. We expect about 60 developers from all over the world to come 
from

various OSGeo projects [3].

The code sprint will take place at Serafio main hall [10] in Athens, kindly
provided by the Municipality of Athens [11], the largest municipality in 
Greece

with a variety of geospatial applications heavily powered by OSGeo projects.


Acommodations
---
Working zones will be created for you in the main hall area.
Healthy and not-so-healthy catering of drinks and snacks will
be provided by us. Participation in codesprint is free of charge.
However, overnight stays will have to be reserved and paid for by
yourself.

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue [12].
The venue neighborhood is called "Gazi", while the nearby
neighborhood closer to Acropolis is  called "Thiseion". Using
those search terms, you will be able to find lots of options
within walking distance.

Register for the OSGeo Community Sprint
-
And don't forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our OSGeo Community
Spint 2020 page:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020#Participants

This is important for us, not only for the planning of snacks and
drinks.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in one or
more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all about
programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing
– all this is also important for projects so everyone is cordially
invited to attend the code sprint!

The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to see you there!

Questions?

If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.

Send an email to tzotsos at osgeo.org. You are welcome!

You would like to sponsor the event? Please contact
tzotsos at osgeo.org directly. Read more about sponsoring the event
[13]

See you in Athens in May 2020!

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2020 Team

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.97325/23.70656
[3] http://www.osgeo.org
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019
[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
[6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
[7] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018
[8] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009
[9] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints
[10] http://www.serafio.gr/portfolio/main-hall/
[11] https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/
[12] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020#Accommodation
[13] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020#Sponsoring


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25 to 29 May 2020

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2020

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On 1/4/20 11:01 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

The OSGeo 2020 budget board meeting will take place on Jan 13th, so 
please submit your budget requests by then.


Please note that code sprint budget proposals should be submitted 
separately according to our code sprint guidelines:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020#Events
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines



Sorry for the dead link, here is the latest document for financial guidance:

https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf


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Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

The OSGeo 2020 budget board meeting will take place on Jan 13th, so 
please submit your budget requests by then.


Please note that code sprint budget proposals should be submitted 
separately according to our code sprint guidelines:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020#Events
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines

Happy New Year,
Angelos

On 12/23/19 8:35 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Hi all,

Please submit your budget requests by Dec 30th so we can start 
drafting the 2020 budget.


Happy holidays,
Angelos

On 12/9/19 9:38 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings, 
and user conferences.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering 
committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.


As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting 
budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the 
board the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a board 
meeting).


For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects 
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (see 
detailed budget requests from 2019 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)


A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending 
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an 
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or 
participation developing new standards)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020

ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos








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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo Budget 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jody,

I will post an update regarding the budget after the board F2F video 
meeting this Monday.


Best,
Angelos

On 12/25/19 7:42 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Angelos:

Our GeoTools PMC is not meeting over the holiday period, although we did
discuss general priorities for next year.
Would you prefer I make something up as project officer? To at least
provide guidance to the board ...

I imagine many other projects are in a similar spot.
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 19:35, Angelos Tzotsos  wrote:


Hi all,

Please submit your budget requests by Dec 30th so we can start drafting
the 2020 budget.

Happy holidays,
Angelos

On 12/9/19 9:38 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings,
and user conferences.

OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering
committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.

As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting
budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the
board the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a board
meeting).

For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed
budget requests from 2019 e.g.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)

A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or
participation developing new standards)

We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.

Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020

ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals
of our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.

Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

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[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Please submit your budget requests by Dec 30th so we can start drafting 
the 2020 budget.


Happy holidays,
Angelos

On 12/9/19 9:38 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings, 
and user conferences.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering 
committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.


As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting 
budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the 
board the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a board 
meeting).


For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects 
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2019 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)


A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending 
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an 
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or 
participation developing new standards)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist 
your project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020

ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals 
of our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo Budget 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jody,

There has been no change of strategy (at least yet) from the new board.
Indeed the budget inquiry e-mail is similar, we need to draft a budget soon.

Regards,
Angelos

On 12/10/19 9:09 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Angelos:

This email is very similar to the one sent last year, the goals listed for
last year were strategic in nature (CITE compliance, participation
developing new standards). Do these goals reflect the strategy of OSGeo in
2020?
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 20:39, Angelos Tzotsos  wrote:


Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings, and
user conferences.

OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering
committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.

As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting
budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the board
the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a board meeting).

For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed
budget requests from 2019 e.g.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)

A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or
participation developing new standards)

We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist your
project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.

Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020

ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of
our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.

Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2020

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear OSGeo project members and committees,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings, and 
user conferences.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering 
committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.


As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting 
budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the board 
the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a board meeting).


For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects 
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (see detailed 
budget requests from 2019 e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)


A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending 
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an 
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or 
participation developing new standards)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist your 
project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020

ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of 
our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you.

On behalf of the OSGeo Board,

Angelos


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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Maria,

Thank you for your service and contributions to our organization.
It was an honor and pleasure to work with you.

Looking at the present Board, gender representation has improved a lot, 
so we are in a good path.


Best regards,
Angelos


On 12/4/19 9:08 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:

Dear fellow OSGeoers,

I want to congratulate all the recently elected members of the Board,
specially the new ones! I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did
and contribute with your unique view to our organization. I want to
thank all the people that helped me on this two-year journey and I
hope I helped others on this journey too. OSGeo is evolving to be more
inclusive, diverse and bigger than ever and I am proud of you all.

As some of you may know, some months ago I decided to go back into the
barricades and far from public exposure. I think rotating positions
inside a voluntary organization is something very healthy to do and
gives you a unique perspective. That's why I decided to participate on
a proposal for FOSS4G 2021 and not repeat elections again for the
Board.

I hereby resign as President to let one of the current members of the
Board take this position. I have always a strong advocate that this
kind of positions should be taken by Board members, so I want to
explicitly facilitate the transition. Our current vice-presidents
Helena Mitasova and Angelos Tzotsos will fill the space until a new
President is appointed.

I have to say I'm still a bit sad of the geographic, cultural and
ethnic representation on the Board. I am sure we can change this on
the following years. Until then, I am confident current members of the
Board will do a great job representing you all.

See you all in Calgary in 2020!
María, your former OSGeo President.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Congratulations to the new Board members and a big thank you to the
previous board members who served with us.
It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you.

Best,
Angelos

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:30 PM Jorge Sanz  wrote:

> Congrats to the new Board members and a big thank you to the rest of the
> nominees; the full group was amazing and I really hope you all find time to
> keep working with the foundation in the way that suits you better.
>
> Again Jorge and Anne thanks for your efforts this year as CRO \o/
>
> Cheers!!
>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 11:40, Jorge Gustavo Rocha  wrote:
>
>> Dear OSGeo community,
>>
>> These are the results from the 2019 elections for the 5 open
>> seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors.
>>
>> The results in alphabetical order are:
>>
>> * Astrid Emde
>> * Codrina Maria Ilie
>> * Helena Mitasova
>> * 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:
>>
>> * Membership: 462
>> * Valid votes: 302
>>
>> The complete resulting Board for 2019/2020 is:
>>
>> * Angelos Tzotsos
>> * Astrid Emde
>> * Codrina Maria Ilie
>> * Helena Mitasova
>> * Michael Smith
>> * Till Adams
>> * Tom Kralidis
>> * Vicky Vergara
>> * Victoria Rautenbach
>>
>> The wiki page was updated with the results [1].
>>
>> We would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking part in the
>> elections. Special thanks go to Regina Obe who was very helpful to bring
>> LimeSurvey back to life on Saturday.
>>
>> Congratulations to the new board members!
>>
>> Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
>> (your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#OSGeo_Foundation_Board_of_Directors
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code Sprint 2020 in Athens: Pick the dates

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thanks for noting this Nikos, I would have filtered the options if I knew.

On 11/25/19 6:17 PM, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

Note, on May 3 to 8 there is the EGU https://egu2020.eu/.

Cheers, Nikos


* Angelos Tzotsos  [2019-11-25 14:10:35 +0200]:


Hi all,

I am going to keep the poll open for one more day, then book the venue.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 11/20/19 12:17 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:


Hi all,

We finally got available dates for the venue:
27/4 - 1/5
4/5 - 7/5
25/5 - 29/5

Here is a poll to figure out the dates:

https://doodle.com/poll/zrkp3ztzs764uifq

Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code Sprint 2020 in Athens: Pick the dates

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

I am going to keep the poll open for one more day, then book the venue.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 11/20/19 12:17 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:


Hi all,

We finally got available dates for the venue:
27/4 - 1/5
4/5 - 7/5
25/5 - 29/5

Here is a poll to figure out the dates:

https://doodle.com/poll/zrkp3ztzs764uifq

Cheers,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code Sprint 2020 in Athens: Pick the dates

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We finally got available dates for the venue:
27/4 - 1/5
4/5 - 7/5
25/5 - 29/5

Here is a poll to figure out the dates:

https://doodle.com/poll/zrkp3ztzs764uifq

Cheers,
Angelos


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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

In that case we should probably arrange a specific call for this topic.
I think the only working timeslot would be around 20:00-22:00 UTC

On 10/17/19 9:24 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Angelos, the board meeting is 3am for me. The 3 of us involved are in 
this Asian/Australia timezone.


Reese, we can get you set up with IRC (Internet Chat Relay) quite 
easily. It is text based only. Quickest way to get started is with the 
web client: https://webchat.freenode.net/


On 17/10/19 10:19 pm, rpl...@tc211tmg.org wrote:
hello Angelos, thank you for the invitation, two issues for me, local 
time is 1am and i have never done Internet Relay Chat. i can do skype 
or zoom. if you have another time/date let me know.  sorry about this 
time.

reese


    - Original Message -
    From:
    "Angelos Tzotsos" 

    To:
    "Cameron Shorter" ,
    , "bo...@lists.osgeo.org"
    , "OSGeo Discussions" 


    Cc:
    "Reese Plews" 
    Sent:
    Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:14:37 +0300
    Subject:
    Re: [OSGeo-Standards] [Board] glossary discussion on
    osgeo-standards 


    Hi all,

    Would someone be available to join our next board meeting to
    discuss this issue?
    https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-10-28

    Regards,
    Angelos

    On 10/15/19 9:52 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

    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-li

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

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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” and 
“propose changes to this term" buttons. This allows user to directly 
go to the issue platform (e.g. GitHub) to make the suggested changes.


A “contributors guide” document will greatly help these people make 
the proper suggestions and have them formatted correctly.



6. Initial load and data cleanup.

The initial load of the terms will involve a bulk load from the 
cleaned terms and definitions that Felicity has compiled. Geolexica 
could easily handle the initial conversion from table format into the 
desired structured data format.


The cleanup process has already been started by Reese Plews, convenor 
of the TMG at ISO/TC 211.



_

Ronald Tse
Ribose Inc.

On Oct 10, 2019, at 3:34 PM, Cameron Shorter 
 wrote:


Hi Ron,

I really like your proposal. It looks very practical, should address 
quality requirements, and should be relatively light weight to 
manage. Some comments/suggestions:


* You might want to mention the approach to your first load of 
terms, which probably should involve a bulk load from a derivative 
of the terms that Felicity has compiled.


* I suggest we set up an email list to discuss terms. OSGeo can 
provide that for us, and I can coordinate that, once we have agreed 
on our approach.


* I suggest that an updating the glossary be tied to a periodic 
event, at least annually. I think we should tie in with the 
OSGeoLive annual build cycle for this.


* You haven't mentioned https://osgeo.geolexica.org/ 
<https://osgeo.geolexica.org/> in your description. I assume that 
would be part of the solution? If so, I suggest mentioning it.


* Another project I'm helping start up is 
https://thegooddocsproject.dev/ <https://thegooddocsproject.dev/> 
(Writing templates to make good docs for open source projects). I 
expect that the solution you are proposing would be valuable for a 
wide variety of domains, and should be captured as best practices in 
TheGoodDocsProject. At some point in the future, I'm hoping that you 
might provide a generic version of your suggestions for others to 
follow too.


Feel free to add your ideas below into the wiki at: 
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Glossary%20terms


(Maybe add "DRAFT" at the top, until we have the process set up.)

* Ron and Reese, I'm hoping that you both will continue to provide 
the leadership and stewardship of the community as it grows? Your 
advice has been great to date.


Warm regards, Cameron




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 13.0 status: rc1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We managed to fix all critical issues, so now we release the first release
candidate of OSGeoLive 13.0.

Please download the iso [1] [2], test and report any issues found [3].
Changelog available at [4].

Cheers,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/13.0/osgeolive-13.0rc1-amd64.iso
[2]
http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/13.0/osgeolive-13.0rc1-amd64.iso
[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4

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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 13.0 status: beta1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We are finally reaching the beta stage for OSGeoLive 13.0.

Please download the first beta [1] [2], test and report any issues found
[3]. Changelog
available at [4].

Cheers,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/13.0/osgeolive-13.0beta1-amd64.iso
[2]
http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/13.0/osgeolive-13.0beta1-amd64.iso
[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10
[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L4


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[OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw 2.4.0 released

[Angelos Tzotsos]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.4.0.

The 2.4.0 release adds WMS 1.3.0 and WPS process harvesting as well as 
plugin support enhancements.


Note that though pycsw works with Python 2 and 3, we have turned
off Python 2 testing given the Python 2 end of life 
(https://pythonclock.org)

scheduled for 01 January 2020.  Users are strongly encouraged to update
their deployments to Python 3 as soon as possible.

Source and binary downloads:


The source code is available at:

https://pycsw.org/download

PyPI packages are available at:

https://pypi.org/project/pycsw

Version 2.4.0 (2019-05-17):
---

[Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes]

- fix CAT 3.0 schema locations
- fix to handle plugin loading across various operating systems
- bump of requirements
- new project logos
- safeguard WKT exceptions against newer versions of Shapely
- updated Chinese translations
- enhancements and fixes to large metadata harvesting workflows
- safeguard async naming for Python 3.7
- OpenSearch description document updates
- startposition fixes to for GetRecords workflows

Testers and developers are welcome.

We would like to thank OSGeo (https://osgeo.org) and the 2019 
Minneapolis Code Sprint 
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019) organizers and 
sponsors for their support.


The pycsw developer team.
https://pycsw.org/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Budget 2019 for projects.

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

I am forwarding this e-mail here, to make sure it reaches to all Project 
Officers/PSC chairs.
If you are a Project Officer please make sure to join the projects 
mailing list.


Cheers,
Angelos


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:OSGeo Budget 2019 for projects.
Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 20:35:54 +0200
From:   Angelos Tzotsos 
To: proje...@lists.osgeo.org



Dear OSGeo project members,

Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a growing 
number of project events, such as code sprints, developer meetings, and 
user conferences.


OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project steering 
committees, to help plan our budget for 2019.


This year, the board is discussing about assigning a starting budget of 
2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported to the board the last 
12 months (see https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/11).


For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal) projects 
are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval (e.g. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)


A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending 
the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an 
organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or 
participation developing new standards)


We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist your 
project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of funding.


Please add your project info to the budget draft at:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019

ideally by January 14 ahead of our January board meeting.

When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals of 
our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.


Thank you and best wishes,

On behalf of OSGeo Board,

Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Nicolas, all,

Here is the ticket with the proposals for the new pycsw logo:
https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/577
https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/files/2617995/brandconcept-pycsw.pdf

Comments are welcome!

Cheers,
Angelos


On 11/22/18 6:53 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:

Hey Angelos !

Thanks for this information, i'll give my input with pleasure, and
integrate the new logo in the set :)

I am planing regular updates over time in order to keep the set
consistent and every project happy.

Best,

Nick

Le jeu. 22 nov. 2018 à 14:55, Angelos Tzotsos  a
écrit :


Hi Nicolas,

This is impressive work, thank you!

FYI pycsw is in the process to change/improve the logo.
I will let you know when we have something to look at (an expert's opinion
would be much appreciated :)

Best,
Angelos

On 11/20/18 9:53 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:

Hi,

Thank you all for the positive feedbacks !

Kristian, i already have a few ideas for a PROJ logo and will come up
with a SVG proposal soon !

Bart, thanks for noticing that mistake, the GeoExt logo has been
removed from the set. Sorry for that.

Cameron, adding colors to the project logos SVG would indeed be quite a lot
of
work. Only the Foundation related logos are available in color for now.
(see:https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7135374/48731563-a1696800-ec3d-11e8-9a4c-c1b5919a325a.png
orhttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg/color
)
Please also note that you can already add a unique color to each
project logo using CSS). I would be glad to work on a colored version, but
i would need much more free time for that !

Best regards,

Nicolas

Le mar. 20 nov. 2018 à 14:52, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
 a écrit :


Big thanks to Nicolas! Really impressive!


Sergio Acosta y Lara
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*Enviado:* martes, 20 de noviembre de 2018 8:10
*Cc:* OSGeo-Marketing; OSGeo Discussions
*Asunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set


Nicolas, these symbols look very impressive!

As Kristian noticed, there are a few OSGeoLive projects which have logos
which are not as creative as what you have been creating. 
(Seehttps://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation.html ) I'd be happy to help point
you to our OSGeoLive points of contact for each project if you would like
to ask them if you'd like to draw them a logo.

What are your thoughts on logo colours? I'm guessing it would be quite a
bit of work to adopt logo colours into the SVG?

Once you are done, we should probably be including your logos into the
OSGeoLive documentation.

Nice work, Cameron


On 20/11/18 8:01 am, Kristian Evers wrote:

Nicolas,

Very impressive work!

Regarding projects that doesn’t already have logo, would you be interested
in coming up with logo suggestions for those projects? I can only speak for
the PROJ project, but I am sure all projects without a logo would be
interested in having one. At least a new logo for PROJ would be very
welcome!

Good job,

Kristian

On 19 Nov 2018, at 21:28, nicolas bozon  
 wrote:

Hello all,

I have finally been able to put together and publish a first version of
the OSGeo symbols set.

This is a visual representation of the OSGeo projects and activities aimed
at supplementing the Foundation branding material.

A preview of the OSGeo symbols set is available 
here:https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/

The 48 symbols fall into four categories:
- Foundation (OSGeo fundamentals represented by 'Variations on the
Compass')
- Initiatives (mostly based on the compass shape too)
- Projects (derived OSGeo project logos)
- Community (derived Community projects logos)

The set is made of two parts, both copyrighted OSGeo:
- The source SVG documents, licensed under CC-BY-SA
  
(seehttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg
)
- A cross-browser webfont, licensed under OFL.
(seehttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/font
)

Important notes:
- Some projects do not have a logotype, only logotext, and cannot be
included in the set at this stage (namely PROJ, GEOS, OSSIM and Degree).
- Some projects logos were heavily modified or redrawn, in order to ensure
constistency and scalability. I'm listening to project owners feedbacks and
will be glad to work towards better solutions if needed.
- All 48 symbols are made available as black SVG. The 16 Foundation and
Initiatives icons are also available in color, based on our brand
guidelines.
- This work may not be exhaustive and is subject to change.

Hope you will like it !

Reviews, comments and ideas are most welcome in the related 
PR:https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206


Best regards,

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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thanks to the CRO and CRO team for the amazing effort.
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to do the work.

I would like to say a big thank you to our community. I am very honored 
to serve you on the board.


Best regards,
Angelos

On 12/4/18 7:56 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear OSGeo community,

These are the results from the 2018 elections for the 4 open
seats 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 figures are:

* Membership: 427
* Valid votes: 341

There were no scores to arbitrate.

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2018/2019 is:

* María Arias de Reyna
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Michael Smith
* Tom Kralidis
* Victoria Rautenbach

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

The wiki page was updated with the detailed results [1].

That being said, I would like to thank all OSGeo members for taking 
part in elections and for keeping OSGeo strong. This is really 
important! Of course, we had a few glitches along the way. Thank you 
for patience and to SAC for the quick response.


Special thanks go to my CRO helpers, Vicky & Jorge, for all the energy 
and hard work committed during this very busy period. Your support 
means a lot to me!


This is also my last post as member of OSGeo Board of Directors. It 
was a great pleasure and honor to serve the community from this 
position. I'm confided that the new board will do a great job. Best of 
luck!


Thank you all for caring for OSGeo,
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto - Angelos Tzotsos

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear all,

I have just posted my candidate manifesto [1].

Happy voting,
Angelos

[1] 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hall of Fame

[Angelos Tzotsos]

This is an excellent idea.
Our history is part of who we are.

Best,
Angelos

On 11/14/18 9:20 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:

Dear community,

Due to the recent passing of another of our members, I really think we
should start some kind of Hall of Fame with people who contribute to OSGeo.
As someone who hasn't been here from the beginning, I would like to have
some kind of (virtual) museum-like place where I can learn about our
history. Sometimes I hear names of people all the "old" members remember
but as they are no longer with us (sometimes just because they retired,
sometimes because they passed away) and I only get pieces of who they were
and what they did. I am very fond of conserving history, I think it is very
important to learn where we come from to understand where we are now.

What do you think? Would there be volunteers to fill data if we setup
something like this on the website? We need senior members here filling the
gaps.


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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 12.0 status: rc1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

Finally, OSGeoLive 12.0 release candidate is here [1] [2].
We have fixed as many issues as possible but we might have missed some :)
Please test and report back [3].
If we do not find critical issues within the next days, we will release rc1
as final.

Happy FOSS4G,
Angelos

[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/12.0/osgeolive-12.0rc1-amd64.iso
[2]
http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/12.0/osgeolive-12.0rc1-amd64.iso
[3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/report/10

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[OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw 2.2.0 released

[Angelos Tzotsos]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.2.0.

The 2.2.0 release adds WMS 1.3.0 and WPS process harvesting as well as
plugin support enhancements.
Source and binary downloads:

The source code is available at:

http://pycsw.org/download
Version 2.2.0 (2018-03-20):

[Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes]

   - Support overriding PYCSW_ROOT via environment variable
   - handle malformed basic service options
   - support Python import for plugins
   - support WMS 1.3.0 harvesting
   - implement CQL to Filter transforms
   - implement WPS process harvesting
   - fix CQL literals with spaces
   - include dct:alternative in CSW3 full output
   - update testing framework to py.test
   - implement OGC filter parsing as Python dict for easy parsing by
   repository plugins
   - do not silence exceptions on custom plugins
   - support CQL WKT ENVELOPE syntax
   - check forwarded ip address when pycsw is behind a proxy
   - add official Docker implementation
   - fix CSW service / version support (optional in 3.0.0)
   - fix CSW 3 GetRecords POST handling

Testers and developers are welcome.

We would like to thank OSGeo  and the 2018 Bonn Code
Sprint  organizers and
sponsors for their support.

The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PlanetOSGeo revamp

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Great work Jorge, thank you!

Best,
Angelos

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Jorge Sanz <xurxos...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again, hopefully, my last update this topic :-)
>
> Back from holidays, I think I'm finished with the planet revamp.
>
> I've removed the j/k navigation (was too buggy) and implemented the
> suggestion of stripping the entries to the first two paragraphs so it's
> easier to browse the planet and just clicking on a "Read more" link at the
> beginning of the post will display the rest of the entry. Mind that some
> blogs only offer the post title (like Geotools) and others just an
> excerpt), nothing I can do on that front so, on those cases, you are forced
> to visit the original website.
>
> Take a look and if there are no complains I'll update the planet theme
> next week.
>
> https://planet.osgeo.org/new_planet/
>
> Last changes in this commit
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/12740
>
> Cheers!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thank you Chris for the information.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 03/01/2018 02:17 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:

Just realized I forgot to reply to this, but that's a great idea. I'll be
in Orleans for the OGC meetings, so will be on the same time zone. And
there's definitely some STAC collaborators who will be in Bonn.

Note also that we're organizing a remote participation option for next
week. GeoSolutions is going to be working on implementing WFS 3 in
GeoServer and Even Rouault is going to be looking in to GDAL bindings for
WFS 3.0 and STAC. Would be great for others in Europe to work on OSGeo
projects while we're working away in Ft. Collins. Obviously any WFS 3 /
STAC implementation & spec feedback in the next few weeks would be great,
but we're hoping to be able to show lots of diverse progress next week.

For more info see
https://medium.com/@cholmes/participate-remotely-in-the-wfs-hackathon-next-week-d11a99eb510b
and please sign up to participate at https://goo.gl/forms/v8hyeJvd2yudYvZS2

best regards,

Chris



On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com>
wrote:


Thank you Chris for organizing this event and for reaching out to this
mailing list.

I feel there is strong interest from our community to participate on the
development of these new standards, and I know that there is ongoing work
towards this from some OSGeo members, so I am sure you will see some of us
in Ft Collins.

Let's make an OGC/WFS/STAC Catalog session during the Bonn Code Sprint: I
realized that the Orleans OGC TC meeting is on the same week as the Bonn
code sprint. Perhaps we could all join a video call session during that
week?

Best,
Angelos



On 02/13/2018 03:34 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:

Hello OSGeo-ers!

I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping
organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS
3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and
sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC
event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs,
but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to
actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard,
and to have any feedback incorporated.

I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0,
but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an
open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues
and pull requests. And it's JSON and RESTful at the core, aiming to be much
easier to implement than existing OGC specs. For more backstory on it and
my take on its potential see my blog posts [3].

I'd love to see a number of OSGeo people come, it's on March 6 & 7th in Ft.
Collins, Colorado. Contributing I believe will help show OGC that there is
interest in the wider developer and open source world if they do things
differently, and help evolve how they create standards to be more
compatible with how developers work. I'm also organizing a day on March 8th
on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog[4] [5], an open spec a group of us started
working on to search satellite imagery archives, that I'm hoping we can
align with the WFS specification. If you're interested in WFS and/or STAC
just email me and I can give you more details, or just fill out the form 
athttps://goo.gl/forms/RqQtNbfdEOHuLE272 - there are some limited travel
grants if that helps get there.

I know travel may be tough for those also going to Bonn, as the OSGeo
sprint there is two weeks later. I am figuring out if we will do a remote
participation option for Colorado, so email me if you're interested in
that. And Angelos had a great idea[6], of organizing a session on WFS/STAC
at Bonn, which I'd love to see. Drop me a line if you are attending the
OSGeo code sprint and interested in attending (or leading :) a session
there.

best regards,

Chris


[1]https://medium.com/@cholmes/wfs-3-0-and-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-in-person-collaboration-609e10d7f714
[2] https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES
[3] https://medium.com/tag/wfs-3/latest
[4] https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/
[5] https://medium.com/tag/stac-spec/latest
[6] https://twitter.com/tzotsos/status/963081024187060225



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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thank you Chris for organizing this event and for reaching out to this 
mailing list.


I feel there is strong interest from our community to participate on the 
development of these new standards, and I know that there is ongoing 
work towards this from some OSGeo members, so I am sure you will see 
some of us in Ft Collins.


Let's make an OGC/WFS/STAC Catalog session during the Bonn Code Sprint: 
I realized that the Orleans OGC TC meeting is on the same week as the 
Bonn code sprint. Perhaps we could all join a video call session during 
that week?


Best,
Angelos


On 02/13/2018 03:34 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:

Hello OSGeo-ers!

I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping
organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS
3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and
sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC
event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs,
but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to
actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard,
and to have any feedback incorporated.

I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0,
but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an
open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues
and pull requests. And it's JSON and RESTful at the core, aiming to be much
easier to implement than existing OGC specs. For more backstory on it and
my take on its potential see my blog posts [3].

I'd love to see a number of OSGeo people come, it's on March 6 & 7th in Ft.
Collins, Colorado. Contributing I believe will help show OGC that there is
interest in the wider developer and open source world if they do things
differently, and help evolve how they create standards to be more
compatible with how developers work. I'm also organizing a day on March 8th
on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog[4] [5], an open spec a group of us started
working on to search satellite imagery archives, that I'm hoping we can
align with the WFS specification. If you're interested in WFS and/or STAC
just email me and I can give you more details, or just fill out the form at
https://goo.gl/forms/RqQtNbfdEOHuLE272 - there are some limited travel
grants if that helps get there.

I know travel may be tough for those also going to Bonn, as the OSGeo
sprint there is two weeks later. I am figuring out if we will do a remote
participation option for Colorado, so email me if you're interested in
that. And Angelos had a great idea[6], of organizing a session on WFS/STAC
at Bonn, which I'd love to see. Drop me a line if you are attending the
OSGeo code sprint and interested in attending (or leading :) a session
there.

best regards,

Chris


[1]
https://medium.com/@cholmes/wfs-3-0-and-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-in-person-collaboration-609e10d7f714
[2] https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES
[3] https://medium.com/tag/wfs-3/latest
[4] https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/
[5] https://medium.com/tag/stac-spec/latest
[6] https://twitter.com/tzotsos/status/963081024187060225



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

[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 Open Source
- OpenLayers

Given the number of the projects in that list, perhaps it would be 
easier to organize separate meetings (or video calls), asking projects 
and board members to attend.


I volunteer to follow up with the project officers and arrange those 
meetings if the board approves.


Best,
Angelos




On 10/23/2017 08:48 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

In our most recent mins that we had a good review of outstanding f2f action
items <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05>, one thing we
are missing is following up on our well attended, entertaining, annual
general meeting.

I am (CCing) the discussion list here as this is a fun update.

The main action item is to invite projects and committees who missed the
AGM to the next board meeting (Board Meeting 2017-11-02
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-11-02>). Anita has also
identified this as an opportunity to start thinking about next years budget.

The slides are here:
​​​
  osgeo-agm
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1T9QRcCdyd8PLQnXB2VfZ2k3ReX-9CH_YXRg0VKqtgeQ/edit?usp=drive_web>
​
We had reports from the board and core officers (or delegate):

- president: delegated to helena as vice-president
- treasurer
- secretary
- elections - annual short term position

Initiatives:

- Website/rebranding - temporary initiative
- OSGeo-Live

Projects:

- GRASS GIS
- GeoMOOSE
- ORFEO ToolBox - welcome to new graduate!
- pycsw
- geonode
- pywps*
- MapServer
- ZOO project - brought up external slides
- GeoServer

*via incubation committee

Aside: t*here was some confusion for projects who had had a state-of talk
during the conference. The AGM update is focused on the project health and
happiness, rather than technology updates.*

Local Chapters

- OSGeo Korean Chapter
- GfOSS.it
- OSGeo Ireland
- D-A-Ch: FOSSGIS e.V.
- OSGeo:UK
- OSGeo.JP
- geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)
- And more
   - OSGeo Finland Chapter Report
   - OSGeo Spanish Language Chapter
   - OSGeo Africa
   - OSGeo European

*Aside: There was a lot of friendly encouragement from
the European chapters considering considering bidding for FOSS4G 2019.*

*Note: Local chapter updates are the highlight of any AGM (and
inspirational). There is no expectation for a report from local chapters -
they do not have an officer representative in our organization. I think
this makes sense since they are regional in nature and need to have the
freedom to incorporate in accordance with local laws*.

Committees:

- United Nations Committee
- GeoForAll
- Conference Committee
- OpenGeoScience Committee
- Marketing Committee
- Incubation Committee
- GSoC - is this a committee or initiative?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board nomination period over

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Lets give some time to our CROs to process the nominations.

On 10/08/2017 07:00 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

Reviewing the email the nomination period ended today: *Send an email to
c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org> CCing the candidate by 12:00 GMT on Sunday
08.10.2017*

I have sent in at least one nomination, and I hope others have as well.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

One action item from a recent board meeting was to help review the 
community project rules.


Even has raised some interesting points some time ago and I think it 
would be valuable to follow up on this discussion with help from 
Incubation committee.


Some comments inline:

On 08/19/2017 03:39 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

Hi Angelos,

thanks for turning those discussions into a positive way forward and your 
proposal sounds
good to me. A few comments below.


I would like to propose a way forward:

1. We should *only* promote projects that are somehow affiliated with OSGeo
(as other Free and Open Source organizations do eg. Apache, Eclipse)

Makes sense. When you promote something on your website, you are somewhat 
responsible
for it, so you must ensure that it meets some minimum criteria that are in the 
"OSGeo spirit"


A proposal for *new* rules:
* Has to have an OSI or FSF approved license and be found on the web in a
public place.

Sounds obvious, but we should probably rephrase that "Source code is released 
with an OSI
or FSF approved license and is available on the web in a public place."

I know at least one project that is Apache licensed but released only as 
binaries, which makes
it not very convenient to modify :-)


I agree with the new phrasing.




* Has to be useful on its own with normal data, and NOT require another
license to really use it

Is it something that is currently required for graduation ? I don't see this 
criterion mentioned
in
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

That one is probably tricky to write correctly. Stated like this, that would 
for example exclude
a Windows executable, since to use it you must own a Windows license... Even if 
you take a
Linux executable that is X/MIT licensed, it links against the GNU libc that is 
GPL licensed (but
as GNU libc is considered part of the OS, there's a provision in the GPL 
license to not apply
the GPL obligations to the code that links to it). Or if you take a Java 
program, it must run
within a JVM that comes with its own license. Same for Python, etc...


We definitely need to review the phrasing.
This is indeed something we do not check for graduation, perhaps just 
because we did not get an application with such issues.




But beyond this nitpicking, that criterion can raise more fundamental debates:
* is the intent to exclude projects that would be open-source released plugins 
of a
proprietary software for example (the plugin could be an exporter from 
proprietary formats/
projects to open source ones for example) ?
* Or open-source released projects that would connect to a proprietary server 
(just saw in
LWN headlines that Debian is currently debating whether they should allow OSS 
software
that connect to proprietary services) ?
* What about a fully open-source project that connects to a proprietary service 
?


Very interesting points.
In my opinion, we should make sure that we do not list projects that 
only require a proprietary server to work with. Even if they are fully 
open source, one would need to pay the server side to actually use them...




If I take the exemple of GDAL, the following situations can be found:
* it is X/MIT licensed but can link to a few GPL licensed lib  (poppler, GRASS, 
...)
* it can link to proprietrary licensed libs
* it can interact with proprietary services that have a public API, but don't 
require linking
against proprietary code
* other/most parts are fully useful on their own

So I think this question alone could deserve its own thread.


Offering interaction with proprietary services/libraries is completely 
different from requiring them to work properly, so I do not see an issue 
with GDAL obviously :)





The project should need to officially apply for being included as OSGeo
Community Project, by answering a questionnaire (including information
gathering for the web site and provide a point of contact for maintaining
that information in the future)

+1

Relation question: if OSGeo website promotes a community project, should the 
website of
this project  (or github page if no dedicated website) links to OSGeo one ? I'm 
not even sure
this is a requirement for a graduated project.

Even


I think that most graduated projects link to OSGeo. Perhaps we should 
look again as part of the project review the board is initiating.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: María Arias de Reyna

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would also like to second Maria's nomination for the Board.

Maria has shown strong leadership and passion!

Best,
Angelos

On 09/29/2017 09:33 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

Very happy to second this nomination. Maria is an incredible asset to
the OSGeo community and would make an amazing Director for the
foundation.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

Forwarding nomination of María Arias de Reyna by Jeff McKenna. The Board
Nominations page has been updated:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017

(note that this was originally submitted 2017-09-27 but I waited, to try to
avoid being both the CRO sending to Discuss list, and the one who submitted
the nomination. So I'm happy to finally share my nomination ha!)

-Jeff & Vasile
CRO 2017 Elections


 Forwarded Message 

Name: María Arias de Reyna
Country of Residence: Spain

It is my pleasure and honour to nominate María Arias de Reyna[1] for the
Board of Directors of OSGeo. You may remember that I nominated María last
year for the Board, but since then she has gone on to give several great
keynote talks at various events around the world, bringing much-needed
discussions of diversity and sharing to the forefront of events.

María is well known in the OSGeo community for her relentless efforts as a
core contributor for the GeoNetwork project, and for her longtime
contributions to the SIG Libre conference (the Spanish FOSS4G). Locally she
is very active through the OSGeo microchapter network Geoinquietos, and more
recently also through the Spanish national geomatics association, AESIG. She
works for GeoCat providing SDI solutions all over the world.

So you can see, María is a leader locally, nationally, and internationally.
You can often find her live-tweeting[2] at every FOSS4G event, and sharing
her passion for all things OSGeo. I see in her a very strong voice, full of
youthful energy and passion, and a true leader that is absolutely ready for
the global spotlight.

Please show your support for María, and help to bring her passion to the
Board of the OSGeo foundation.

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Delawen
[2] https://twitter.com/delawen/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Astrid Emde

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would also like to second Astrid's nomination for all the reasons 
Cameron mentioned.


Thank you Astrid for your hard work and contributions!

Best,
Angelos

On 10/03/2017 01:51 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

+1 for Astrid.

I've worked closely with Astrid on the OSGeo-Live project and believe 
she posses characteristics which are valuable for OSGeo:


* She leads by example, and often does the hard or boring work.

* She is encouraging and enabling of others, which helps works well in 
our "do-ocracy" environment.


* She has been actively involved in the promotion of OSGeo and OSGeo 
projects. OSGeo is blessed with having many awesome technical people, 
but we have less people actively involved in promotion - and we need 
both to be successful.


Warm regards, Cameron

On 3/10/17 8:07 am, Marc Vloemans wrote:

+1 for Astrid

In the short time that I have come to know Astrid she proved to be an 
asset to the foundation. From Foss4g 2016 in Bonn onwards she has 
been a driving force in the Marketing Committee. From continuous 
contributing to marketing tactics to hands-on dealing with collateral 
production ranging from Live USB to translation of info sheets.

All the while being critical yet compassionate.

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 2 okt. 2017 om 22:25 heeft Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven:


I really appreciate Astrid's kindness and leadership on the OSGeo 
Marketing team, she would be a great asset to our organization as a 
director.


--
Jody Garnett

On 2 October 2017 at 11:34, Jeff McKenna 
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com 
<mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:


    Forwarding nomination of Astrid Emde by Venkatesh Raghavan & Jeff
    McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated:
    https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017>


    -Jeff & Vasile
    CRO 2017 Elections



     Forwarded Message 

    It gives us great pleasure to nominate Astrid Emde as a member of
    the OSGeo Board.

    Astrid [1] needs no introduction for most in our community; for
    the few who may not yet be fully aware of Astrid’s contributions,
    she is an (hyper) active member of OSGeo for many years. She is a
    PSC member of the Mapbender [2] and OSGeo Live projects [3].
    Apart from being a regular contributor at global and regional
    FOSS4G conferences, Astrid is the force behind the German
    language OSGeo Local Chapter FOSSGIS e.V. [4] ever since its
    inception. She is also involved in showcasing OSGeo at
    mega-events like INTERGEO [5] and scientific conferences like
    AGIT [6].

    Astrid relentlessly promotes OSGeo by organizing community
    events, code sprints, workshops on a variety of OSGeo software,
    and documentation/translation. More recently, her excellent
    communication skills are being put to effective use in our
    Marketing Committee.

    We would like to thank Astrid for kindly agreeing to spare her
    time for the added responsibility of serving the OSGeo Foundation
    as a member of the Board.

    Yours,

    Venka & Jeff

    [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
    <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde>
    [2] http://www.mapbender.org/
    [3] https://live.osgeo.org/
    [4] https://www.fossgis.de/
    [5] http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/
    <http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/>
    [6] http://www.agit.at/






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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Jody Garnett to serve another term as an OSGeo Board member

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would like to second Jody's nomination, he is a tireless director the 
last 2 years and it has been a pleasure working with him.


Best,
Angelos

On 10/06/2017 12:42 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Jody Garnett to serve on the OSGeo Board for 
another 2 year term. If I were to select a few words to describe 
Jody's last term I'd say that he has been:


Impactful, insightful; inspiring to others; leading by example; 
experienced in the ways that open source communities work; prepared to 
tackle the less exciting problems; encouraging; practical and 
realistic. Jody's contributions to the OSGeo board has been hugely 
valuable to date, and I'm incredibly grateful that he has accepted to 
run for another term.


For background: Jody has served on the OSGeo board for 2 years, he 
chairs the OSGeo Incubation committee, was on the FOSS4G 2007 and 
FOSS4G 2009 organising committees, has presented regularly at 
conferences and workshops, is on the Project Steering Committees for 
UDig, GeoTools, GeoServer, and is a regular contributor to numerous 
OSGeo email lists.


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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

The last 3 sentences of this statement make me worry for more future 
conflicts.


What happens when the Marketing Committee (which has the mandate to 
outreach for OSGeo and create the new web site) conflicts with the new 
Website Management Team (part of Systems Administration Committee) on 
the content of the web site?
Which one of these teams gets to decide if the site focuses on our 
community (us) or on bringing in new users (outreach)? Do-ocracy is not 
an option in this case, both groups are willing to act.
Going through the by-laws [1] once again, I see that the only conflict 
resolution process we have in place is a Board resolution.


Just to be clear: I am not against forming the "Website Management 
Team", just trying to be pro-active.


I suggest discussing this matter at the next Board meeting [2]

Best,
Angelos

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2017-10-05


On 09/21/2017 02:25 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
I am setting up an OSGeo "Website Management Team" now, to help bring 
the focus on the OSGeo community, manage the website (and WordPress 
theme), security, backups, content etc, and will propose this to 
OSGeo's Systems committee and OSGeo Board; for the longterm 
maintenance of the website.  I imagine during this maintenance process 
we will be removing these unnecessary promotions, and focus on the 
OSGeo community (us). We'll leave promotion of other things for those 
with the big money ha, as they have the big funding for their 
products, as you mentioned.  We will focus on the OSGeo community.


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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thank you Daniel,
+1

On 09/21/2017 06:45 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:

I think "Switch2osm" is a very good example how to help migrating to
non-proprietary tools: https://switch2osm.org/
I quickly went through their site and as far as I could see, competitor
names only appear in case studies.
Maybe we could have "switch2foss" in a similar way.

It's a very good idea to help new users to find open alternatives to the
proprietary software they're using right now.
I agree with many here, that this doesn't require to provide links to them.

Best regards,
Daniel





On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <
gert-...@osgeo.nl> wrote:


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 "migratte from" (which sound like a
complete migration plan) I'd suggest the label "comparable proprietary
software".

Kind regards,

Gert-Jan



María Arias de Reyna schreef op 21-09-2017 8:30:

On 20 September 2017 at 02:41, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de> wrote:

Dear OSGeo community

I want to bring you a discussion on a github ticket about linking to
"similar proprietary products" [1] to your attention.

My comment there:

"I support and concur with Venka that the item "Similar Proprietary
Products" should be removed. There isn't only one proprietary GIS
software
out there, there are several others. IMHO such comparisons may be part
of
e.g. a reviewed scientific paper/elaboration, where our OSGeo projects
- if
they want to - may link to. I see no added value for OSGeo to serve
such
links. As already elsewhere mentioned by me, reciprocity is the key if
such
items are listed, but I can't see this happen. "

I'm pretty much convinced that more effort to help our OSGeo projects
improving on every level (e.g. documentation, reach out, testing, etc)
is
the key rather than linking to proprietary software. One of such
opportunities may be the upcoming Google Code In (GCI) 2017 e.g. to
produce
nice screenshots for documentation, produce some fancy videos etc.
based on
tiny little tasks for students aged 13 to 17. A good invest in the
young who
will be our OSGeo's future.

Kind regards
Helmut
OSGeo charter member

[1] https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/
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Hi,

On my opinion, it makes sense to show relation between propietary and
free and open software. Just because we want to people to migrate to
free and open source software, so it is good if they can search for
the software they are currently using to know what software will they
use. It makes sense, it makes life easier on migrations.

Said this, I prefer the "Migrate from" label much better. And sure, no
link to the product, just the name. Why would we need a link? If they
don't know what that software is, the information is useless to them.
If they already know what that software is, the information is
redundant. So having a name is fine, having a link is nonsense.

Is "Migrate from" label aggresive? Not at all. We are OsGeo, we are
promoting FLOSS. Promoting FLOSS means we are encouraging people to
move from propietary to open. That is our philosophy, that is our
motto. If propietary software feels bad because we follow our goals...
well, then maybe they should stop promoting their own software too
because that makes me feel bad.

Regards,
María.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

This is exactly what I had in mind.
We cannot really worry that people might think we are promoting 
proprietary software, that is not the case.
We can worry that someone might find a way to sue us for using their 
brand in our promotional materials
Don't forget that "Microsoft loves Linux" these days but they still 
threat to sue whoever does not pay "Android fees" to them


Best,
Angelos

On 09/21/2017 11:28 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote:

Hi all,

Let’s go back to the legal issues. ESRI provides its clear guidelines about how 
to use its products name, web link and logo here: 
http://www.esri.com/legal/weblink-logoagreement. Please read through the 
license agreement. I don’t think we can meet all the terms and conditions 
provided by ESRI.

Cheers,
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Jody Garnett wrote:


How much of your initial concern was providing a link? Or is it just
displaying the name (switching to MapInfo for the example here). It would
be kind of nice if the it behaved like a keyword, and linked to the project
page short listing all the projects that one can migrate to from MapInfo.

It's different degrees of annoyance. I guess a brand-less and
link-less list of names of proprietary products would not be too
"offensive" for me (assuming spam filtering lets it pass) but I'd
still prefer an hidden keyword. Something that you never see written
but is recognized by the search engine to give you back a similar
software: you search for  you get .

The "like Photoshop, only better" motto I like even when it contains
the name because it explicitly bashes it :)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Eddie Pickle

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1 for Eddie.
Angelos

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.e...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Indeed, very shocking. A big +1 for Eddie
> 
> Michael Smith
>
> US Army Corps
> Remote Sensing GIS/Center
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>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Marc Vloemans
> <marcvloema...@gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 2:44 AM
> To: Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Chief Returning
> Officer <c...@osgeo.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for
> Eddie Pickle
> Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.sm...@usace.army.mil>
>
> >+1 for Eddie Pickle
> >(Shocking that he was not a charter member already.,)
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >Marc Vloemans
> >
> >
> >> Op 9 sep. 2017 om 08:36 heeft Vasile Craciunescu
> >><vas...@geo-spatial.org> het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> Forwarding Eddie Pickle nomination by Jeffrey Johnson. The 2017 member
> >>nominations list was updated [1].
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Vasile & Jeff
> >> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>BlockedBlockedhttps://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_
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> >>ked
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Forwarded Message 
> >> Subject: Charter Member Nomination for Eddie Pickle
> >> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:19:55 -0700
> >> From: Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com>
> >> To: c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>
> >> CC: Eddie Pickle <eddie.pic...@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi CRO,
> >>
> >> I would like to nominate Eddie Pickle as a Charter Member of OSGeo.
> >>
> >> Eddie currently manages Open Source programs at Digital Globe and was
> >> the founding CEO of Boundless (Formerly OpenGeo). Eddie has been
> >> working in the Geospatial industry for more than 30 years. He has
> >> helped to organize FOSS4G-NA and other conferences such as FedGeoDay
> >> which promotes Open Source Geospatial within the US Federal Government
> >> as well as regularly participating in the sponsorship of FOSS4G.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Jeff Johnson
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination for Alessio Fabiani

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1 for Alessio!
Angelos

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Marco Minghini <marco.minghin...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 for Alessio. I met him first when he gave a GeoServer half-day course
> in 2012. In addition to his great work as a developer, his talks at local
> and international FOSS4G events are always inspiring.
>
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> 2017-09-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata <
> massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>:
>
>> +1 for alessio
>>
>> Maxi
>>
>> 2017-09-08 17:40 GMT+02:00 Paolo Corti <pco...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> +1 here as well, I though Alessio was already a charter member as well.
>>> Alessio is a great expert - since many many years - of GeoServer and
>>> now of GeoNode, and makes a tremendous effort in these OSGeo projects
>>> communities.
>>> He is always helping people on mailing lists and he is an awesome
>>> developer
>>> p
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Simone Dalmasso
>>> <simone.dalma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > +1 for Alessio as well, I agree with Jeff and I thought he was a member
>>> > already.
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> >
>>> > 2017-09-08 15:44 GMT+02:00 Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com>:
>>> >>
>>> >> Wholeheartedly support Alessio's nomination +1 ... another person I
>>> >> just assumed was already a member. He has been very instrumental in
>>> >> the growth of the geonode community in the last years and now is a
>>> >> very key contributor to our project.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
>>> >> <vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote:
>>> >> > Forwarding Alessio Fabiani nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017
>>> member
>>> >> > nominations list was updated [1].
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Best regards,
>>> >> > Vasile & Jeff
>>> >> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>>> >> >
>>> >> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >  Forwarded Message 
>>> >> > Subject:Charter member nomination for Alessio Fabiani
>>> >> > Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:18:54 -0700
>>> >> > From:   Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
>>> >> > To: Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > It is my honour to nominate Alessio Fabiani as a leader of the
>>> GeoServer
>>> >> > community; indeed Alessio has served as a member of the project
>>> steering
>>> >> > committee since its formation
>>> >> > <https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-1> in 2006.
>>> Alessio is
>>> >> > a
>>> >> > fixture at foss4g events with presentations and workshops. His reach
>>> >> > extends
>>> >> > beyond GeoServer, earning commit privilege on the GeoNode project in
>>> >> > 2015.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

There was a discussion with the CROs at yesterday's board meeting, and a 
proposal to use an automated system for nominations came up.


Cheers,
Angelos

On 09/08/2017 01:01 PM, Till Adams wrote:

Jeroen,

good motion! I feel the same and honestly am not able to read and check
them all...

Till


Am 08.09.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Jeroen Ticheler:

Hi all,
It is great to see the OSGeo community being so active and expanding! The 
process of proposing and voting new members is an extremely valuable part of 
that!

The downside is that email traffic is exploding around this election. I fear 
the election processes in the coming years already. Should we find another way 
so propose and second nominees in the future to avoid flooding everyones inbox? 
(For me these emails seem to make up for about half of my email traffic over 
the last weeks ;-( ).

Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would like to second Ben's nomination

Best,
Angelos

On 09/07/2017 09:36 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Thank you, Jody. The link was added to Ben's nomination.

Best,
Vasile

On 9/7/17 8:27 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
aside: Looks like Ben has an entry on the wiki 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bencaradocdavies and is active in 
the OSGeo Live project as well.


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On 6 September 2017 at 21:48, Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org <mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> wrote:


    Forwarding Ben Caradoc-Davies nomination by Jody Garnett. The 2017
    member nominations list was updated [1].

    Best regards,
    Vasile & Jeff
    2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

    [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017>



     Forwarded Message 
    Subject:        Charter member nomination: Ben Caradoc-Davies
    Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:45:48 -0700
    From:   Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com
    <mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>>
    To:     Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org 
<mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>

    CC:     OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org
    <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>, Ben Caradoc-Davies
    <b...@transient.nz <mailto:b...@transient.nz>>



    *name:* Ben Caradoc-Davies
    *country:* New Zealand
    *contact email:* b...@transient.nz <mailto:b...@transient.nz>
    <mailto:b...@transient.nz <mailto:b...@transient.nz>>
    *nomination:*

    Ben Caradoc-Davies is a longstanding member of the GeoServer
    community - first with his role at the Australian research group
    "CSIRO" and more recently as a independent contractor from is native
    New Zealand.

    As a contributor Ben has demonstrated excellent leadership
    (volunteering with the GeoServer Project Steering Committee and
    GeoTools Project Management Committee) and mentoring of new
    contributors by answering questions, offering encouragement, backed
    by kind words and constructive reviews.

    Ben is exceptionally generous with his time: willing to take on the
    day to day challenges of running a project, leading meetings,
    issuing multiple releases a year, and stepping in for emergencies.
    The team has come to depend on Ben's dedication to quality watching
    out for the build servers and monitoring the travis automated 
builds.


    Ben is also takes on some of the harder open source challenges for
    the foundation as a whole. In my time as an OSGeo board member Ben
    has helped clearly articulated our legal questions, and taken part
    in meetings with our legal council.

    I also had the privilege of organizing a foss4g-au event with Ben
    and follow his open source advocacy work in Australia.

    Although it is perhaps not a character reference I personally
    appreciate Ben's coding and communication skills. His ability to
    contribute code in a consistent, professional manner, and his
    communication skills make working on the GeoServer project that much
    easier.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 09/04/2017 11:37 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

I second Markus' nomination.

Kind regards
Helmut



Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
nominations listwas updated [1].

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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
From: Moritz Lennert 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Dear CRO's,

I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is
very deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done
invaluable work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would be
too long, but besides introducing many new modules and also
significantly improving the internal libraries, he has done wonders in
allowing GRASS GIS to work with very, very large amounts of data.

Best wishes,
Moritz

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Barry Rowlingson for Charter Membership

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 09/04/2017 11:35 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

I second barry's nomination.
Kind regards
Helmut
  >The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Barry's wiki page
  >  [1].  Thank you Barry and Ian.
  >
  >thanks,
  >
  >Vasile & Jeff
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  >
  >[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
  >
  >
  >
  >On 2017-08-28 11:13 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
  >> We confirm that Barry Rowlingson accepted the nomination by Ian Turton.
  >> The 2017 member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
  >>
  >> Best regards,
  >> Vasile & Jeff
  >> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
  >>
  >> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
  >>
  >>
  >>  Forwarded Message 
  >> Subject: Nominate Barry Rowlingson for Charter Membership
  >> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:04:31 +0100
  >> From: Ian Turton 
  >> To: cro at osgeo.org 
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >> I would like to nominate Barry Rowlingson for charter membership, Barry
  >> is a university researcher and teacher who has supported OSGEO for many
  >> years including being part of the LOC for the Nottingham FOSS4G
  >> conference. He is also active on gis.stackexchange and twitter answering
  >> questions on spatial R.
  >>
  >>
  >> Cheers
  >>
  >> Ian
  >>
  >> PS Am I supposed to spam discuss with this also?
  >>


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would like to second Niroshan's nomination.
Angelos

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
wrote:

> Forwarding Niroshan Bandara nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017
> member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
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>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Nomination for Niroshan Bandara
> Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:27:33 +0900
> From:   Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org>, Niroshan Sanjaya <
> nsan...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> Dear CRO,
>
> It is my great pleasure to nominate Niroshan Bandara  [1]
> as a new OSGeo Charter Member.
>
> He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
> to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
> has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He is one of the founders
> of the OSGeo-SL (SL-Sri Lanka) community. He actively participates
> in FOSS4G-Events in Asia and Europe, not only as a presenter but also
> conducts workshops on WPS, Mobile-GIS and Open Hardware
>
> He is participating in GSoC projects since 2016 and contributing his time
> and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.
>
> His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
> makes him an excellent choice for being an OSGeo  Charter Member.
>
> I have obtained consent form Niroshan before filing his nomination.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Niroshan_Bandara
>
> P.S. Am sending this nomination again as I messed up with the subject line
> earlier.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Nyall Dawson

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would like to second Nyall's nomination.
Angelos

On 09/01/2017 02:20 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Forwarding Nyall Dawson nomination by Martin Dobias. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].


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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017



 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Nomination of Nyall Dawson
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:45:55 +0200
From: Martin Dobias <wonder...@gmail.com>
To: c...@osgeo.org

Hi there

I would like to nominate Nyall Dawson as a new Charter Member for OSGeo.

I have confirmed with him he is happy to be nominated.

Name: Nyall Dawson
Email: nyall.daw...@gmail.com
Country: Australia

Nyall is a great supporter of open source GIS and he is one of the
leading developers in QGIS project. Within several years of
involvement in QGIS community he has contributed an amazing range of
new features, bug fixes and he is constantly improving the project
with new ideas. Nyall runs a small consulting company called North
Road (https://north-road.com/). You can follow him on github/twitter
(@nyalldawson) and check out his mapping/QGIS blog at
http://nyalldawson.net/

Regards
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 08/31/2017 02:48 PM, Jacinto Estima wrote:

+1

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 at 15:41 Jorge Gustavo Rocha <j...@osgeopt.pt> wrote:


+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 30-08-2017 13:51, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Forwarding Joana Simões nomination by María Arias de Reyna. The 2017
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
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[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:50:35 -0400
From: Jorge Sanz <xurxos...@gmail.com>
To: CRO <c...@osgeo.org>




-- Forwarded message --
From: *María Arias de Reyna* <dela...@gmail.com 
dela...@gmail.com>>

Date: 24 August 2017 at 03:21
Subject: Nomination Joana Simões
To: CRO <c...@osgeo.org <mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>, Joana Simoes
<joana.sim...@geocat.net <mailto:joana.sim...@geocat.net>>


I want to nominate Joana Simões (in cc)

Joana is already a member of the OsGeo Pt board. She is a free
software advocator and very active on all kind of activities around
OsGeo and FOSS4G. She is currently working both for qGIS and
GeoNetwork among many other OsGeo software.




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 08/30/2017 06:56 PM, Marc Vloemans wrote:

+1 (gosh, how I assumed he was already Charter Member)

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans



Op 30 aug. 2017 om 17:33 heeft Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> het 
volgende geschreven:

Forwarding Rob Emanuele nomination by Doug Newcomb. The 2017 member nominations 
list will be updated ASAP [1].

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 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member
Date:Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:16:53 -0400
From:Doug Newcomb <gistin...@gmail.com>
To:c...@osgeo.org



Name: Rob Emanuele

Based on my positive experience working with Rob to organize the 2016 FOSS4GNA 
Conference and for his continuing work in open source geospatial software I 
would like to nominate Rob Emanuele  to be an OSGeo Charter member.


Doug Newcomb
OSGeo Charter member

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Manuel Grizonet

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I want to second Manuel's nomination.
I am surprised he is not a charter member already.

Angelos

On 08/30/2017 04:21 PM, Alexander Bruy wrote:

Manuel got my support too

2017-08-30 16:07 GMT+03:00 Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>:

On mercredi 30 août 2017 16:05:19 CEST Vasile Craciunescu wrote:


Forwarding Manuel Grizonnet nomination by Gerald Fenoy. The 2017 member
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].



I strongly second Manuel's nomination.



Best,



Even




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 Forwarded Message 
Subject: Charter Member Nomination for Manuel Grizonet
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:04:42 +0200
From: Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr>
To: OSGeo CRO <c...@osgeo.org>
CC: Manuel Grizonnet <manuel.grizon...@gmail.com>
Dear all,
it is pleasure for me to nominate Manuel Grizonet [1] for OSGeo Charter
Membership.
Many people know very well Manuel for the huge activities he is leading
for years in OSGeo. Manuel is involved in the development team and is
PSC member of the OrfeoToolbox that has been successfully incubated this
year.
Manuel is also taking part in the organisation of the OTB HackFest each
year where the OTB community can meet. Other communities can join too
and are very welcome at this event, I got the luck to participate in
such a kind of event and I have to say that I was amazed by the great
work they do there. During the hack fest, users and developers meet to
share their use cases of the software, discuss the next steps for the
project, but also the issue they may face using this or that part of the
project and so on. It is just a very nice and efficient way to have
feedbacks from the community and to meet often.
Manuel is very open to discussion even when, like I do, you have only
question to ask him and not much to offer.
I am confident that Manuel will be a great addition to the OSGeo Charter
Members list.
All the best,
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Grizonnetm
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nikos Lambrinos as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 08/23/2017 11:17 PM, Siki Zoltan wrote:


+1

Zoltan

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Suchith Anand wrote:

It is my pleasure to nominate Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) as  OSGeo 
Charter Member.  Nikos is a Professor of Geography Teaching and 
Director of Digital Analysis and Educational Design Laboratory at the 
Faculty of Education , School of Primary Education, Dept. of Science 
and New Technologies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.


Nikos has made huge contributions to OSGeo's  Geo For All initiative 
and leads our Schools Thematic  and actively helping educators and 
students worldwide in expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. 
Nikos initiated and is the Chief Editor of  the GeoForAll  monthly 
newsletters [1] , which has now established as one of the most 
powerful outreach instruments that we have to spread OSGeo and Open  
philosophy ideas in Geoeducation to new users every month. He also 
setup a amazing team of editors who are all contributing to make this 
possible by their tireless volunteer efforts.


Thank you Nikos for accepting my request for nomination and  for your 
contributions to our community.


Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On 08/30/2017 10:14 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

+1
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: nicolas bozon <nicolas.bo...@gmail.com>
Data: 30/08/17 07:29 (GMT+01:00)
A: Aurelio Pires <anvpi...@gmail.com>
Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

+1

Nick



2017-08-29 17:38 GMT+02:00 Aurelio Pires 
<anvpi...@gmail.com<mailto:anvpi...@gmail.com>>:
+1

Aurelio Pires



On 2017-08-29 16:17, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 29-08-2017 15:40, Pedro Pereira wrote:
+1

Pedro Pereira

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Marc Vloemans 
<marcvloema...@gmail.com<mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com>
<mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com<mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com>>> wrote:

  +1

  Kind regards,
  Marc Vloemans


  > Op 29 aug. 2017 om 01:43 heeft Vasile Craciunescu
  <vas...@geo-spatial.org<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org> 
<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>>> het
  volgende geschreven:
  >
  > Forwarding Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination by Gérald Fenoy
  and Jachym Cepicky. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated
  ASAP [1].
  >
  > Best regards,
  > Vasile & Jeff
  > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
  >
  > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
  <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017>
  >
  >  Forwarded Message 
  > Subject: Charter Member Nomination  for Jorge de Jesus
  > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:02:50 +0200
  > From: Fenoy Gerald 
<gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr<mailto:gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr>
  <mailto:gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr<mailto:gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr>>>
  > To: OSGeo CRO <c...@osgeo.org<mailto:c...@osgeo.org> 
<mailto:c...@osgeo.org<mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>>
  > CC: jorge. dejesus 
<jorge.deje...@geocat.net<mailto:jorge.deje...@geocat.net>
  <mailto:jorge.deje...@geocat.net<mailto:jorge.deje...@geocat.net>>>
  >
  >
  > Dear All,
  > it is a great honor for me to nominate Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus.
  >
  > Jorge is active and recognized for his work for years in the world
  of FOSS4G. He is currently working at Geocat and is involved in
  various Open Source ProjectS, amongst them the famous GeoNetwork and
  PyWPS. Jorge is someone with a clear vision and positive thinking.
  >
  > Jorge attends the FOSS4G on a regular manner and often make
  presentation and workshop there.
  >
  > I have faith in Jorge and feel that he is someone representative
  and that will be of big benefit for OSGeo.
  >
  > All the best,
  >
  > --
  >
  > Best regards CRO,
  >
  > Gérald Fenoy
  > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
  <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I would also like to second Veronica's nomination

Angelos

On 08/29/2017 05:27 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

I second Veronica's nomination.

Markus

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
<vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote:

Forwarding Veronica Andreo nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


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Subject: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:59:39 +0200
From: Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be>
To: c...@osgeo.org

Dear CRO,

I would like to nominate Veronica Andreo as charter member.

Veronica is a very active member of the GRASS GIS community and provides
very valuable work in documentation, bug fixing, user support, etc. She is
also very active diffusing OSGeo/FOSS4G principles through conferences,
workshops, and other forms of training.

Best wishes,
Moritz



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Patrick Hogan as an OSGeo Charter Member

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1
Angelos

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Andy Anderson <aander...@amherst.edu>
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> +1
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> On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:59 AM, Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I warmly second Patrick's nomination!
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> Il giorno sab 26 ago 2017 alle 10:30 Suchith Anand <
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>> It is my pleasure to nominate Patrick Hogan (USA)  as an OSGeo Charter
>> Member.  Patrick Hogan [1]  works for NASA, USA.
>>
>> Patrick is also very active contributor  in the OSGeo’s Geo For All
>> initiative  . He along with Chris Pettit  leads the OpenCitySmart thematic
>> [2] of GeoForAll . This initiative helped us bring together key colleagues
>> and students from around the world to work on innovative ideas and
>> solutions specific to urban management for the benefit of all.
>>
>> We are especially grateful for Patrick’s efforts (in coordination with
>> Maria Brovelli) in creating the NASA Europa Challenge initiative [3] which
>> adds great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and
>> research worldwide. We are very grateful for his contributions and help.
>>
>> Thank you Patrick for accepting my request for nomination and  for your
>> contributions to our community.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
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>> [1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/
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>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
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>> [3] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
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