Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Very kind and generous words Charlie!

This planet needs to find a path forward together.

Open source software is a beautiful driver for achieving that.

Buona Fortuna!
-patrick

From: Charlie Schweik [mailto:cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:34 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; OsGeo, GeoForAll
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] osgeo board request world wind consider 
joining the foundation

Hi Patrick,

Just want to publicly say thanks for all you have done and the energy and the 
direction you have brought to the GeoForAll community.

I'm sure I speak for many others when I say that I have always appreciated your 
insights and encouragement. What I've taken as a core message from you, over 
time, is that we are one world, and we should be working on shared "commons" to 
work to improve this world. You've certainly done that here in tangible and 
intangible ways. You exemplify what global public service is all about.

I am also inspired knowing you now are turning your attention to littler ones 
who also need to learn your teachings.

All the best, stay in touch, and a sincere thank you.

Charlie Schweik




On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:06 PM Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Luis,

Dearly appreciate your concern and support!

If WorldWind is not sufficient to be part of the OSGeo family as is,
maybe being grand-mothered in, given its age,
a good five years older than OSGeo,
then I guess we’ll just have to carry on without.

We simply have not the time to navigate the obstacle course,
despite being as Open Source Geospatial as it gets,
both in principle and in action, for quite some time.

I have always considered ESA-NASA WorldWind as part of OSGeo by default.
Now my tenure is about up, so into the sunset I go, wishing more for the world.

-phoga...@yahoo.com<mailto:phoga...@yahoo.com>

From: Luí­s Moreira de Sousa 
[mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch<mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch>]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 8:46 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator; ML osgeo discuss; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider 
joining the foundation

Dear Patrick,

I am a member of the PyWPS PSC, a project that graduated just recently. PyWPS 
was in active incubation for 3 years; it was indeed a long process, but along 
the way it was generally clear what we were missing to reach the finish line.

I would suggest the Worldwind PSC to share the project incubation check list 
and publicly seek help to complete the most difficult items.

Best wishes for Worldwind. Regards.

--
Luís Moreira de Sousa
Bowlespark 8
6701 DN Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 628 544 755
Email: luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch<mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch>
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On June 11, 2018 1:58 AM, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Hi Patrick,



Thanks for your email and your contributions to OSGeo Principles over the years 
. Though I do not have background knowledge of the incubation  discussions that 
you went through in OSGeo , I do hope that Worldwind becomes part of the OSGeo 
family in the near future. We will keep trying.



GeoForAll have always welcomed Worldwind and other  like minded initiatives  as 
part of our outreach efforts in education  and we are hoping that this will 
lead in the future for building more  synergies . The Europa challenge has been 
a great boost for GeoForAll education efforts and we are grateful for your 
tireless work over the years for making this possible.



I want to wish you the very best for the next chapter of your life. Great idea 
to go back to school teaching after your retirement. That will also help the 
GeoForAll School Education efforts ... Thanks again for your contributions to 
Open Principles in education.



Best wishes,



Suchith






From: Discuss 
mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> on 
behalf of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>>
Sent: 09 June 2018 23:31
To: Jody Garnett; OSGeo-incubator
Cc: ML osgeo discuss; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider joining 
the foundation


Jody, Howdy!



Despite every attempt to support OSGeo and the principles therein, WorldWind 
seems to always be met with something missing. I am not WorldWind. WorldWind is 
an open source platform that has been dedicated to delivering geospatial data 
for 15 years now.



I’m sure WorldWind would like to be embraced by OSGeo, but somehow it seems 
WorldWind has never learned the special h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Luis,

Dearly appreciate your concern and support!

If WorldWind is not sufficient to be part of the OSGeo family as is,
maybe being grand-mothered in, given its age,
a good five years older than OSGeo,
then I guess we’ll just have to carry on without.

We simply have not the time to navigate the obstacle course,
despite being as Open Source Geospatial as it gets,
both in principle and in action, for quite some time.

I have always considered ESA-NASA WorldWind as part of OSGeo by default.
Now my tenure is about up, so into the sunset I go, wishing more for the world.

-phoga...@yahoo.com

From: Luí­s Moreira de Sousa [mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 8:46 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator; ML osgeo discuss; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider 
joining the foundation

Dear Patrick,

I am a member of the PyWPS PSC, a project that graduated just recently. PyWPS 
was in active incubation for 3 years; it was indeed a long process, but along 
the way it was generally clear what we were missing to reach the finish line.

I would suggest the Worldwind PSC to share the project incubation check list 
and publicly seek help to complete the most difficult items.

Best wishes for Worldwind. Regards.

--
Luís Moreira de Sousa
Bowlespark 8
6701 DN Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 628 544 755
Email: luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch<mailto:luis.de.so...@protonmail.ch>
RingID: ring:7ca91d83f4f9dec82fec9f1144b8e5c1ef2a110c
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On June 11, 2018 1:58 AM, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Hi Patrick,



Thanks for your email and your contributions to OSGeo Principles over the years 
. Though I do not have background knowledge of the incubation  discussions that 
you went through in OSGeo , I do hope that Worldwind becomes part of the OSGeo 
family in the near future. We will keep trying.



GeoForAll have always welcomed Worldwind and other  like minded initiatives  as 
part of our outreach efforts in education  and we are hoping that this will 
lead in the future for building more  synergies . The Europa challenge has been 
a great boost for GeoForAll education efforts and we are grateful for your 
tireless work over the years for making this possible.



I want to wish you the very best for the next chapter of your life. Great idea 
to go back to school teaching after your retirement. That will also help the 
GeoForAll School Education efforts ... Thanks again for your contributions to 
Open Principles in education.



Best wishes,



Suchith






From: Discuss  on behalf of Hogan, Patrick 
(ARC-PX) 
Sent: 09 June 2018 23:31
To: Jody Garnett; OSGeo-incubator
Cc: ML osgeo discuss; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider joining 
the foundation


Jody, Howdy!



Despite every attempt to support OSGeo and the principles therein, WorldWind 
seems to always be met with something missing. I am not WorldWind. WorldWind is 
an open source platform that has been dedicated to delivering geospatial data 
for 15 years now.



I’m sure WorldWind would like to be embraced by OSGeo, but somehow it seems 
WorldWind has never learned the special handshake. I am old now and retiring 
soon, so others will need to take the lead, if there is one to take. I have 
repeatedly expressed the desire for WorldWind to be, as you put it, “a part of 
the OSGeo family.”



As an ESA-NASA open source project, in full support of OSGeo principles, I do 
not understand why WorldWind is not “part of the OSGeo family.” I hope OSGeo 
will choose to ^adopt^ ESA-NASA WorldWind someday as part of their family, 
someday.



For my part, I plan to return to my former career, some 30-plus years ago, as a 
High School science teacher. Now I am looking forward to work with Kindergarten 
kids, pretty much the ‘unhinged’ ^wild bunch^ with whom I feel closest too.



May OSGeo be the ‘big tent’ it can be for the world of Open Source Geospatial 
software.



-Patrick



From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 10:05 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator
Subject: osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation



Morning Patrick (and incubation list).



The most recent board meeting has a request for the incubation committee to ask 
you about World Wind joining OSGeo. See Discuss and approve OSGeo as partner 
for UN World Challenge 
2018<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-06-06#Discuss_and_approve_OSGeo_as_partner_for_UN_World_Challenge_2018>.



As I understand it the GeoForAll is wanting to take part due to the educational 
outreach nature of the challenge, but feels awkward since the project is not 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

Greatly appreciate your chiming in!!!

Nice words and dearly appreciated.

Truthfully though, I have found OSGeo to be more an obstacle course than a 
welcoming committee, especially in light of WorldWind’s obvious history.

I will continue to work HARD for the principles of Open Source, geospatial 
information and Education, that GeoForAll also personifies.  And we have some 
^brass tack^ delivery of that, thanks to our NASA Teacher-In-Space astronaut, 
Ron Fortunato with his www.AWorldBridge.com<http://www.AWorldBridge.com> 
program.

Lots to do and increasingly less time to do it in, given the climate chaos just 
ahead.
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/?m=1

Let’s see what we can do for our kids, given how little time left there I s.

Dhanyavad!
(Thanks! in Hindi ;-)
-Patrick

On Jun 10, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Hi Patrick,


Thanks for your email and your contributions to OSGeo Principles over the years 
. Though I do not have background knowledge of the incubation  discussions that 
you went through in OSGeo , I do hope that Worldwind becomes part of the OSGeo 
family in the near future. We will keep trying.


GeoForAll have always welcomed Worldwind and other  like minded initiatives  as 
part of our outreach efforts in education  and we are hoping that this will 
lead in the future for building more  synergies . The Europa challenge has been 
a great boost for GeoForAll education efforts and we are grateful for your 
tireless work over the years for making this possible.


I want to wish you the very best for the next chapter of your life. Great idea 
to go back to school teaching after your retirement. That will also help the 
GeoForAll School Education efforts ... Thanks again for your contributions to 
Open Principles in education.


Best wishes,


Suchith




From: Discuss 
mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> on 
behalf of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>>
Sent: 09 June 2018 23:31
To: Jody Garnett; OSGeo-incubator
Cc: ML osgeo discuss; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider joining 
the foundation


Jody, Howdy!



Despite every attempt to support OSGeo and the principles therein, WorldWind 
seems to always be met with something missing. I am not WorldWind. WorldWind is 
an open source platform that has been dedicated to delivering geospatial data 
for 15 years now.



I’m sure WorldWind would like to be embraced by OSGeo, but somehow it seems 
WorldWind has never learned the special handshake. I am old now and retiring 
soon, so others will need to take the lead, if there is one to take. I have 
repeatedly expressed the desire for WorldWind to be, as you put it, “a part of 
the OSGeo family.”



As an ESA-NASA open source project, in full support of OSGeo principles, I do 
not understand why WorldWind is not “part of the OSGeo family.” I hope OSGeo 
will choose to ^adopt^ ESA-NASA WorldWind someday as part of their family, 
someday.



For my part, I plan to return to my former career, some 30-plus years ago, as a 
High School science teacher. Now I am looking forward to work with Kindergarten 
kids, pretty much the ‘unhinged’ ^wild bunch^ with whom I feel closest too.



May OSGeo be the ‘big tent’ it can be for the world of Open Source Geospatial 
software.



-Patrick



From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 10:05 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator
Subject: osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation



Morning Patrick (and incubation list).



The most recent board meeting has a request for the incubation committee to ask 
you about World Wind joining OSGeo. See Discuss and approve OSGeo as partner 
for UN World Challenge 
2018<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-06-06#Discuss_and_approve_OSGeo_as_partner_for_UN_World_Challenge_2018>.



As I understand it the GeoForAll is wanting to take part due to the educational 
outreach nature of the challenge, but feels awkward since the project is not 
part of the OSGeo family. The way I figure it is that GeoForAll, just like the 
foundation, has a goal of supporting the adoption of all open source spatial 
projects. And should be held back by what projects have decide to join our 
foundation.



By the same token our website lists all open source mapping projects, including 
ESA-NASA World Wind<https://www.osgeo.org/projects/esa-nasa-worldwind/>. That 
page is really sparse and does not tell the public very much about the project, 
perhaps that is something to work on? Indeed if you fill in some more 
information it will show up in choose-a-project when visitors are seeking new 
software.



With respect to World Wind joining the foundation as a community project the 
invitation is made to all open source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody, Howdy!

Despite every attempt to support OSGeo and the principles therein, WorldWind 
seems to always be met with something missing. I am not WorldWind. WorldWind is 
an open source platform that has been dedicated to delivering geospatial data 
for 15 years now.

I’m sure WorldWind would like to be embraced by OSGeo, but somehow it seems 
WorldWind has never learned the special handshake. I am old now and retiring 
soon, so others will need to take the lead, if there is one to take. I have 
repeatedly expressed the desire for WorldWind to be, as you put it, “a part of 
the OSGeo family.”

As an ESA-NASA open source project, in full support of OSGeo principles, I do 
not understand why WorldWind is not “part of the OSGeo family.” I hope OSGeo 
will choose to ^adopt^ ESA-NASA WorldWind someday as part of their family, 
someday.

For my part, I plan to return to my former career, some 30-plus years ago, as a 
High School science teacher. Now I am looking forward to work with Kindergarten 
kids, pretty much the ‘unhinged’ ^wild bunch^ with whom I feel closest too.

May OSGeo be the ‘big tent’ it can be for the world of Open Source Geospatial 
software.

-Patrick

From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 10:05 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo-incubator
Subject: osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

Morning Patrick (and incubation list).

The most recent board meeting has a request for the incubation committee to ask 
you about World Wind joining OSGeo. See Discuss and approve OSGeo as partner 
for UN World Challenge 
2018<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-06-06#Discuss_and_approve_OSGeo_as_partner_for_UN_World_Challenge_2018>.

As I understand it the GeoForAll is wanting to take part due to the educational 
outreach nature of the challenge, but feels awkward since the project is not 
part of the OSGeo family. The way I figure it is that GeoForAll, just like the 
foundation, has a goal of supporting the adoption of all open source spatial 
projects. And should be held back by what projects have decide to join our 
foundation.

By the same token our website lists all open source mapping projects, including 
ESA-NASA World Wind<https://www.osgeo.org/projects/esa-nasa-worldwind/>. That 
page is really sparse and does not tell the public very much about the project, 
perhaps that is something to work on? Indeed if you fill in some more 
information it will show up in choose-a-project when visitors are seeking new 
software.

With respect to World Wind joining the foundation as a community project the 
invitation is made to all open source mapping projects, we are here if you have 
time to take part in our family. Until then we are happy to support world wind 
in a more limited capacity (Website,GeoForAll).

All the best and happy mapping
--
Jody Garnett
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Info. needed on GIS education initiatives on Sustainable tourism development

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

The education programs offered by the NASA Teacher-In-Space astronaut and 
Master Teacher, Ron Fortunato, all open source and open data, clearly shows 
what is possible in the realm of truly inspired GeoForAll education. Especially 
given his students have already provided the UN/FAO with their invasive species 
tracking system.

www.AWorldBridge.com

www.AWorldbridgeLabs.com

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 2:43 AM
To: GeoForAll OsGeo; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Info. needed on GIS education initiatives on 
Sustainable tourism development

Dear colleagues,

2nd UNWTO World Conference on Smart Destinations organized by the United 
Nations World Tourism Organization [1], the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and the 
Digital Agenda of Spain and the Government of the Principality of Asturias,  
will be held in Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) from the 25th – 27th of June 2018

Bringing together ministers, government representatives, private sector 
entities, researchers and academics, as well as technology centers, the event 
is an important platform for participants to share knowledge, build 
partnerships and advance in their understanding about the development and key 
elements of smart destinations

I have been invited to speak and share  ideas at this conference on the 
education and research aspects of mapping. I will appreciate if those of you 
doing research  on GIS and sustainable tourism development can share with me 
their latest research , so I can learn more. I will acknowledge your 
contributions. Please email this to me by 10th June 2018. Thanks in advance for 
your help

Best wishes,

Suchith



[1] http://www2.unwto.org

[2] 
http://www.smartdestinationsworldconference.org/19238/speakers/2nd-unwto-world-conference-on-smart-destinations.html






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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Helena,

Nice France! One of the most livable cities on the planet and an opportunity to 
help the world be more free and open.

People have given their lives for that, and all you ask for is a bit of time.

Please count me in for whatever I can do to help!

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Helena 
Mitasova
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 6:30 PM
To: discuss osgeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and 
OSGeo

As a follow up to Maria's call, as you probably know, we have a MoU 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS
with ISPRS and these kind of activities are good examples of opportunities that 
the MoU covers.
I have set up a wiki page where you can sign up  if you are interested in 
helping out to organize an OSGeo Pavilion
and a forum (or several fora) on all things Open-Geo at the ISPRS congress in 
Nice in 2020.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020

Please sign up on the wiki by June 1 (next Friday) so that we can see how much 
interest there is and we will prepare the answer to ISPRS congress organizers 
based on the interest from the community.
Here is the congress website again: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/

Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,

Helena

On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> wrote:

Dear All
probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which is the 
International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a Society with a 
long history and which is our partner  for instance in the GeoForAll initiative 
and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018.
ISPRS has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial Information 
Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they are very open to 
collaboration with OSGeo.
Last year Gerald Fenoy  co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good 
success.

Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand of people ( 
researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations, etc). In 2020 it will be 
in Nice (France).

http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/

I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the Congress) who 
proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress, these two 
initiatives:

-  a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and  Geo-Open-Data. The 
motivation of fora is  to encourage strong exchanges between academia, 
institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The 
program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating 
also policy issues) and not only scientific/tecnical aspects.

- a pavilion,  where to group open-source companies to give them a stronger 
impact during the congress.

The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for answering 
positively, we need to have a team of people who are interested in 
collaborating on that. Consider please that there is a great curiosity and 
interest with respect to open source and we have the occasion of showing the 
potential of our technologies in a new context. It is a challenge but, if well 
played, with many opportunities.

Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are interested.
We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e. people/energy) for accepting 
this challenge and answer consequently to such an offer.
Best regards!
Maria



Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  
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Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Conference Program at FOSS4G

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Nice work Mark!!!
As brilliant as Tanzania is beautiful!
Dār as-Salām, "the house of peace"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_es_Salaam

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Iliffe
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 5:10 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: Conference Dev
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Conference Program at FOSS4G

Hello all!

It makes me very happy to write this email! After a really hard and challenging 
selection, from community voting to our final selection our main conference 
program is now published: 
https://2018.foss4g.org/programme/list-of-presentations/

Workshops have been finalised and will be uploaded shortly! Please get in touch 
with us with any questions… more communications are imminent as we get over 
this hump of publishing the program - this will include our holiday packages, 
day trips for spouses while you’re at the conference, and many more.

It’s been really challenging to get the program in a place where we’re very 
proud of it. We believe that this is the most diverse, inclusive and exciting 
program of any FOSS4G yet. The Dar es Salaam Local Organising Committee looks 
forward to receiving YOU in the Tanzanian sun this August!!

Best,

Mark

Co-Chair
FOSS4G 2018 Dar es Salaam Local Organising Committee
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN Committee Educational Challenge: deadline extended

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Maria, Bella!

Buon Compleanno Domani!

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria 
Antonia Brovelli
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 6:54 AM
To: discuss osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN Committee Educational Challenge: deadline extended


Dear All

as many people are requesting, we decided to extend the deadline for submitting 
proposals to the UN Committee Educational Challenge to 8 May, 2018.

Best regards,

Maria & Serena



Why not to apply for these Challenges?


https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/



Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is GIS special?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

We are newcomers to this planet, one of the youngest species here, less than 
200k years old. And it took 3.5 billion to arrive at this sentient place. And 
where are we? That is the question that GIS helps us to answer. GIS not only 
helps us to see and better understand where we are, it is essential for us to 
manage the place.

Just like the old joke about mathematics. . .GIS is a core element for us to 
advance as a civilization. And maximum access to those tools and data are 
essential if homo sapiens wish to be more than a flash in the pan. That is 
GeoForAll.

[https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png]
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

Maximum Education for all, is the most key element to advancing ourselves, no 
child is less than any other child, GeoForAll.

Then there is GIS of the body which allows us to see all of its parts and how 
they work in harmony. There is GIS of evolution, showing spatially how life 
evolved on Earth, how tectonics and plants together built the chemistry of 
today's biosphere. We live in a 4D world and GIS reflects that.

GeoForAll advances open access to information, spatial and more. GeoForAll is 
essential if we are to live together, all of us.

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 3:38 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Is GIS special?




Dear colleagues,



Some years ago one of the Nottingham University staff asked me a question when 
we were talking that I still remember "Is GIS special if everyone becomes GIS 
Professional? " I was bit taken back by the question esp. as it came from an 
educator and I replied "There is nothing special about GIS if it is for few 
rich people only but if it the learning opportunities for GIS are made 
available for everyone it is truly special ... ".



I was very lucky to get the opportunity to learn GIS. I still remember the 
struggles  I faced to just get access to learning GIS  (over two decades back!) 
 as very few universities had GIS that time in India. I spend nearly two years 
going around different universities and places knocking so many doors to just 
to get access to GIS . My dream that time was to get opportunity to do my final 
year undergraduate project using GIS. Unfortunately in spite of all my best 
efforts I failed that time . But that experiences made me realise years later 
when I did get opportunity to learn GIS that now I need to everything in my 
abilities to keep the doors of GIS education open to all and no student 
anywhere should go through what I went through.



When GeoForAll was started , I faced lot of ridicule and opposition from some 
but I also got lot and lot of amazing support and help from so many amazing 
colleagues at Nottingham and globally. Thanks to all our amazing colleagues, we 
have truly made GIS education opportunities open to all. Please share our 
resources with all 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/



I am requesting all colleagues to keep the doors of education opportunities  
open for all. For me, Openness is not just about open source or open data ... 
It is about the Open mindsets  to help make education opportunities inclusive 
to students from  all economic and social backgrounds. So  "Is GIS special? "  
I leave it to you to decide...



Best wishes,



Suchith




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Dr. Claus Rinner

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear GeoForAll,

With congratulations and in honour of our freshly minted GeoAmbassador, Dr. 
Claus Rinner, the ultimate ‘cartographer’!

We might take a moment to recall the penultimate cartographer to Earth’s 
dynamic nature, Marie Tharp,
https://www.wnyc.org/story/woman-who-mapped-ocean-floor/
(a seven minute listen)

In celebration of the extraordinary geo-map talent and history Claus brings, 
our dear wish for that much more to GeoForAll!
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoambassador-dr-claus-rinner/

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 10:52 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Dr. Claus Rinner


Dear colleagues,



On behalf of the GeoForAll community, we are delighted to honour Dr. Claus 
Rinner as our GeoAmbassador. Dr. Claus Rinner is a Professor and currently 
serves as Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at 
Ryerson University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (1993) in Mathématiques 
appliquées et sciences sociales from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 
France, a Master’s degree (1996) in Applied Systems Science from the University 
of Osnabrück, Germany, and a PhD (1999) in Geography from the University of 
Bonn. After a brief stint as a software developer, he taught at the Institute 
for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster (2001-2003) and the Department 
of Geography and Programme in Planning at the University of Toronto 
(2003-2006), prior to joining Ryerson.



Within Geographic Information Science, Claus specializes in geographic 
visualization and multi-criteria decision analysis to support effective spatial 
decision-making. He develops map-centred, exploratory methods to evaluate 
phenomena such as public health and urban quality of life. Claus also works on 
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts to support participatory 
planning, and investigates the decision support capabilities of GIS 
technologies such as location-based services and spatial data infrastructures.



Most recently, Claus developed a keen interested in the collaborative and 
educational uses of 3D-printed terrain and cityscapes. He is co-author of a 
2015 Springer monograph on Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic 
Information Science and published 30 peer-reviewed articles, which summarize 
externally funded research. His h-index is currently at 24, with six 
publications exceeding 100 citations each.



Claus teaches cartographic design and geovisualization, GIS, and spatial 
decision support. As the graduate program director of the Master of Spatial 
Analysis (MSA) from 2007 to 2015, he was also responsible for mentoring 
numerous graduate students through their practicum placements and major 
research papers. More details at https://www.ryerson.ca/~crinner/


Claus’s contributions to open source go back to his student days. Please find 
below a summary of his excellent work and experiences that he kindly shared 
with us at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoambassador-dr-claus-rinner/


We are proud to honour Claus Rinner as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely 
grateful for his contributions to expanding geoeducation opportunities for all.



Best wishes,

Suchith
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

This has been suggested as a possibele tool to help,
but I cannot speak to it from experience.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 4:02 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

Hi All.

I am trying to deal with output from a Leica RCD30 camera used in Aerial 
surveying. The camera outputs .RAW files but these files are not recognized by 
any of the tools I have used so far.  Oddly enough they actually have tiff 
headers but renaming them to .tiff doesn't work either.

If anybody has any experience decoding these files and turning them into 
geotiffs I would appreciate it if they dropped me a line.

Thanks in advance.


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear Open-Source-Minded Gentle Humans,

I wish to draw your attention at once to two areas of possible interest.

1. One is an elegant technical description for ^how^ EarthServer is able to 
tame ^Big EO Data.^ Think datacube!

Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Earth Science Through Datacube Analytics
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65633-5_5

Note the platform of choice for www.EarthServer.eu to see this indubitably 
dense data, none other than https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

ESA has also standardized on the WebWorldWind platform, a platform ESA and NASA 
are advancing together, for the benefit of all! 

The WorldWind virtual globe has been there as Open Source, years before any 
other, having been around now for well over 15 years. The mission then, as now, 
has always been to get the planet onto one-page for spatial data "because that 
goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills." 
[Kennedy '62]

2. If you want to accelerate at the speed of enlightenment with your spatial 
data, power up with this super-charged starter app, OS all the way! 
http://worldwind.earth/

-patrick.ho...@nasa.gov

For just a taste of what ESA is doing with WorldWind:
~ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel
~ iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Buy my book too support a Geoinformatics Sciences Field Station in Uganda

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Daniel Bwanika, Signore Kampala, 
Land of the Leaping Impalas! 
I'll buy one. Give me a US address to send it to please.
I need more juice in "innovative methodology for both social and natural 
sciences."
https://www.amazon.com/Realistic-Theory-Methods-scientific-research/dp/3844322612
Great to see the used ones going for more than the new ones!
You must have signed those!
-Patrick

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Bwanika
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2018 6:05 PM
To: GeoForAll; Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement Forum; Global Urban 
Commons; Urban Update
Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN
Subject: [Geo4All] Buy my book too support a Geoinformatics Sciences Field 
Station in Uganda

Forum

Will you support the Geoinformatics Sciences Field Station in Uganda?
Buy my book and donate it to a University Library, Research Student or a friend 
and you have funded the station.

https://www.amazon.com/Realistic-Theory-Methods-scientific-research/dp/3844322612

Thank you in advance,
Daniel Bwanika
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sergio,
I for one am delighted to hear your well expressed concern. In point of fact, 
ESRI certainly has no real interest in open source. They are there to make as 
much money as possible and don’t mind playing rough to get it. That is not to 
suggest we cannot find ways to live and even work together. Though like you 
said and said well “This approach should make OSGeo more alert.” On another but 
related issue, I am still curious as to where ESRI and the OS community are on 
LiDAR format and compression as ^one^ open standard.
-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of SERGIO 
ACOSTAYLARA
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 7:03 AM
To: María Arias de Reyna; André Cruvinel Resende
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship


Stefano, certainly you are NOT the only one. In the past I have expressed my 
concern about this fact. It's as if Monsanto were sponsoring an organic food 
event. I don't think ESRI (or Google or IBM or others) approaches OSGeo 
innocently. This approach should make OSGeo more alert. And distrust their 
intentions. I remember that some years ago ESRI did not let gvSIG people even 
assist an ESRI conference. And now what has changed? That the FOSS4G movement 
is now "cool". So it makes these companies present themselves as OS ("we 
support the OS movement, we even sponsor their events", even "we are OS") and 
it is easier for them to enter certain places (later it is more difficult for 
them to leave). Maybe these companies should be asked something more than money 
in exchange for sponsoring the FOSS4G. And see how far they can get with that 
support to the FOSS4G movement...

​
Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/

De: Discuss 
> en 
nombre de María Arias de Reyna >
Enviado: lunes, 26 de febrero de 2018 4:34
Para: André Cruvinel Resende
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

Hi,
I share your fears. But on the other hand, the list of sponsors is not closed 
for this year, I know for sure there are open source companies that are still 
pending to be shown there. GeoCat for example, being a small SME in comparison, 
will do the yearly effort to be a key sponsor proving that open source 
companies support FOSS4G events.
You know (because I have been tiring on this subject) that I am completely 
against openwashing. And I will not be comfortable (and protest) if FOSS4G is 
used as a platform to promote closed source software. If I see a track full of 
selling closed architectures and software or some keynote talking about the 
greatness of closed software, I will be angry. But until now, we have had 
closed source companies sponsoring OSGeo and the "worst" thing we have had is 
some talk with a lot of openwashing that made us laugh. No big harm, but useful 
to reopen the debate and refresh terms.
Look at it like this: If a closed source software company (and I won't say ESRI 
here, because we have more examples, don't focus only on one) wants to sponsor 
an FLOSS conference... look at it as a small fee for all the work they are 
reusing from our open side. Is it the only budget they spend on open source? Is 
it because they want to get close to the community and keep in touch with the 
state of the art software in the industry? Great! If anything, I would be more 
worried if they had no interest in FLOSS. This means we are an important piece 
of the industry and they want to be involved, either to -steal- research about 
our way of working, our ideas or whatever we have.
Big companies with closed software history can't change from one day to 
another. Can you imagine Microsoft announcing Windows is going to be FLOSS? 
Would be insane and dangerous (if a code is going to be FLOSS, it should be 
FLOSS from the beginning to avoid big security holes in the open that come 
inherently on closed software). Let them get closer and, maybe in the future, 
they will become real FLOSS advocators.
While they "only" sponsor and maybe promote the ¿little? job they do on FLOSS, 
I am fine. If they want to cross that line and start a conversation about how 
great closed software is, then we will have to stop them.
Regards,
María.


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:49 AM, André Cruvinel Resende 
> wrote:
Folks,

We have had this fear in the past.

I remember when Autodesk decided to open Mapguide and some of us were furious 
and upset and worried about our community's influence and decisions.

It seems that in the end It was not that important and It does not kill 
Mapserver.

Good and open week. (And mind too)

https://mapguide.osgeo.org/about.html.


André Cruvinel.


Em 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

+1 (for ‘not the only one’)
It is good to receive support, I am not contesting that.
But this issue seems worthy of considered discussion.
Even OGC receives considerable funding from ESRI, further complicating the 
issue.
[sigh]
-Patrick

P.S.: Curious, was the Lidar compression ‘open standard’ issue ever resolved?
https://rapidlasso.com/2015/12/19/the-darc-force-awakens-esri-escalates-lidar-format-war/

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Luigi 
Pirelli
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 10:50 AM
To: Dan Little
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

Not the only one... Sorry

On Sunday, 25 February 2018, Dan Little 
> wrote:
You are the only one, and serving a very limited perspective.

On Feb 25, 2018 08:43, "Stefano Campus" 
> wrote:
Thank you for your quick reply,  Maria.
This is certainly my mistake, since I had not noticed it.
But apart from that, am I the only one feeling that this sponsorship is not 
exactly 'normal'?

Stefano



Il 25/Feb/2018 03:32 PM, "Maria Antonia Brovelli" 
> ha scritto:

Dear Stefano, this is not a novelty. It happened also in the previous years 
(see the websites of the conferences).

Best,

Maria



A course worth your attending:
http://sws.cept.ac.in/course-detail/geodata-and-gis-for-natural-and-built-environment-management-S18FT005


Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano 
(Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. 
+39-328-0023867,  
maria.brove...@polimi.it


Da: Discuss 
> per 
conto di Stefano Campus >
Inviato: domenica 25 febbraio 2018 15:26
A: Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

Hi,
I see ESRI is one of the sponsor of FOSS4G 2018.
Do the OSGeo Board and Local Committee think it is appropriate?
Our Romans ancestors used to say: 'Pecunia non olet' (money don't smell) but 
sometimes...

Thank you for your reply

Stefano Campus


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Brad,

As I tried to make clear from the beginning, we are very glad to contribute, by 
providing ^supported^ access to our experience going down the GeoPackage road. 
We just need someone else taking the lead. If our experience, on full display, 
can be of help, we are most glad to coordinate in that contribution.

Everything the NASA WorldWind project has developed since 2002, has all been 
open source. Before there was a Goog Earth there was NASA WorldWind. And I 
might add, it was born of the NASA Learning Technologies program, entirely 
focused on Education.

Unfortunately, we simply cannot take the lead on ^smartly^ bringing our 
GeoPackage work into GeoServer. But we are glad to coordinate with someone 
capable and interested enough to do that. AS they say, it takes a village. ☺

-Patrick

From: br...@frogmouth.net [mailto:br...@frogmouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:53 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

OK. So the answer to my original question of " Can I ask if there are any plans 
to contribute back the forked geoserver and geotools parts?” that NASA does not 
currently plan to do so.

I’m sure the GeoServer and GeoTools communities would be happy to work with you 
(see http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/contribute.html  and 
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/introduction/gettinginvolved.html) 
when you’re ready.

Thanks for your continuing support for open source.

Brad

From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2018 9:40 AM
To: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>
Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions' 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Brad,

Life is work! We have not suggested “changes. . .just be taken from WWSK.”

We have done quite a bit of work to get GeoPackage working with GeoServer. I 
believe it is good work.

We are glad to work with someone who would like to take the lead in benefitting 
from our experience and incorporating the best of that into GeoServer.

We are quite occupied and focused in other areas, all open source. And though 
we are glad to help GeoServer benefit from what we have learned, we are unable 
to take the lead in that exercise.

So, if this is of interest, great! If not, that’s fine too. We are simply 
offering the opportunity for someone appropriately qualified and interested, to 
work with NASA and benefit GeoServer.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net> 
[mailto:br...@frogmouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:18 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Just so we’re clear – the geopackage stuff in WWSK is a fork of (i.e. copy 
from) the community modules in geotools and geoserver. For example, see 
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit/blob/develop/worldwind-gs-geopkg/src/test/java/gov/nasa/worldwind/gs/geopkg/GeoPackageGetMapOutputFormatTest.java

Some changes have been made (including rebranding the Java namespaces). Clearly 
the changes can’t just be taken from WWSK, as noted in the OSGeo links in Ian’s 
email.

I just hadn’t seen any communication or PRs, and wondered if that was the 
intent. I’m a bit surprised by the wording in your email though – if you have 
contributions, then why not just propose them like other contributors do?

Brad

From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2018 3:21 AM
To: Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com<mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>>
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>; OSGeo Discussions 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Our GeoPackage work to facilitate that via GeoServer is extensive and carefully 
architected. And we’ve discovered some other good things that would certainly 
advance GeoServer.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

NASA is prepared to work with someone close to GeoServer for these features and 
improvements to be ‘folded-in.’ We are glad to coordinate with a most 
appropriate person who would take the lead in that effort.

-Patrick

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Brad,

Life is work! We have not suggested “changes. . .just be taken from WWSK.”

We have done quite a bit of work to get GeoPackage working with GeoServer. I 
believe it is good work.

We are glad to work with someone who would like to take the lead in benefitting 
from our experience and incorporating the best of that into GeoServer.

We are quite occupied and focused in other areas, all open source. And though 
we are glad to help GeoServer benefit from what we have learned, we are unable 
to take the lead in that exercise.

So, if this is of interest, great! If not, that’s fine too. We are simply 
offering the opportunity for someone appropriately qualified and interested, to 
work with NASA and benefit GeoServer.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: br...@frogmouth.net [mailto:br...@frogmouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:18 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Just so we’re clear – the geopackage stuff in WWSK is a fork of (i.e. copy 
from) the community modules in geotools and geoserver. For example, see 
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit/blob/develop/worldwind-gs-geopkg/src/test/java/gov/nasa/worldwind/gs/geopkg/GeoPackageGetMapOutputFormatTest.java

Some changes have been made (including rebranding the Java namespaces). Clearly 
the changes can’t just be taken from WWSK, as noted in the OSGeo links in Ian’s 
email.

I just hadn’t seen any communication or PRs, and wondered if that was the 
intent. I’m a bit surprised by the wording in your email though – if you have 
contributions, then why not just propose them like other contributors do?

Brad

From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2018 3:21 AM
To: Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com<mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>>
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>; OSGeo Discussions 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Our GeoPackage work to facilitate that via GeoServer is extensive and carefully 
architected. And we’ve discovered some other good things that would certainly 
advance GeoServer.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

NASA is prepared to work with someone close to GeoServer for these features and 
improvements to be ‘folded-in.’ We are glad to coordinate with a most 
appropriate person who would take the lead in that effort.

-Patrick

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[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Ian,

Got some deadlines these next couple days, hopefully our team will get to your 
request later this week.

But it is all there to see on the Github website, with the primary effort being 
an ‘easy install’ of GeoServer and ‘great packaging’ of GeoPackage. ☺

I’m sure anyone qualified, and looking at the repository, will quickly figure 
out what would be good to include in GeoServer, which is of course where the 
world would most benefit!

-Patrick

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:33 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Geoserver-devel; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Switching this to the GeoServer Devel list.
We always encourage people to discuss major changes to GeoServer to discuss 
them here before they start as there is a much better chance of it being 
accepted into the code base and to avoid over lapping and wasted work.
Patrick, please let us know what changes you (NASA) are proposing.
Ian

On 14 February 2018 at 16:20, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Our GeoPackage work to facilitate that via GeoServer is extensive and carefully 
architected. And we’ve discovered some other good things that would certainly 
advance GeoServer.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

NASA is prepared to work with someone close to GeoServer for these features and 
improvements to be ‘folded-in.’ We are glad to coordinate with a most 
appropriate person who would take the lead in that effort.

-Patrick

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com<mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 7:56 AM

To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

You know that the latest GeoServers use GeoPackages as core datastores? See 
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Crazy-idea-what-about-GeoPackage-straight-in-core-for-2-12-td5329361.html
 for the discussion.
But please do pitch in with both GeoServer and GeoTools dev we always welcome 
new developers.
Ian

On 14 February 2018 at 15:22, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
NASA is working to advance GeoServer to accommodate GeoPackage.

We are certainly glad to share ALL of our work in order to benefit GeoServer 
and the larger community.

For that to occur, if GeoTools is interested in coordinating with us to 
accomplish that, we would be delighted.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com<mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:54 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind


Actually, that would be the GeoTools and GeoServer Programme 
Steering/Management committees, both of whom welcome contributions - 
http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/contribute.html & 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/introduction/gettinginvolved.html
There are several companies that can provide you with commercial support at 
reasonable rates if you need help - http://geoserver.org/support/

Ian
On 14 February 2018 at 13:27, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Brad,

If the primary entity advancing GeoServer (Boundless?) would like to work with 
us, we would be delighted to coordinate that contribution.

-Patrick
 (650) 604-5656 (o)
 (650) 269-2788 (c)

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From: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net> 
[mailto:br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:36 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Hello Patrick,

Can I ask if there are any plans to contribute back the forked geoserver and 
geotools parts?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Our GeoPackage work to facilitate that via GeoServer is extensive and carefully 
architected. And we’ve discovered some other good things that would certainly 
advance GeoServer.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

NASA is prepared to work with someone close to GeoServer for these features and 
improvements to be ‘folded-in.’ We are glad to coordinate with a most 
appropriate person who would take the lead in that effort.

-Patrick

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 7:56 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

You know that the latest GeoServers use GeoPackages as core datastores? See 
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Crazy-idea-what-about-GeoPackage-straight-in-core-for-2-12-td5329361.html
 for the discussion.
But please do pitch in with both GeoServer and GeoTools dev we always welcome 
new developers.
Ian

On 14 February 2018 at 15:22, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
NASA is working to advance GeoServer to accommodate GeoPackage.

We are certainly glad to share ALL of our work in order to benefit GeoServer 
and the larger community.

For that to occur, if GeoTools is interested in coordinating with us to 
accomplish that, we would be delighted.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com<mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:54 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind


Actually, that would be the GeoTools and GeoServer Programme 
Steering/Management committees, both of whom welcome contributions - 
http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/contribute.html & 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/introduction/gettinginvolved.html
There are several companies that can provide you with commercial support at 
reasonable rates if you need help - http://geoserver.org/support/

Ian
On 14 February 2018 at 13:27, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Brad,

If the primary entity advancing GeoServer (Boundless?) would like to work with 
us, we would be delighted to coordinate that contribution.

-Patrick
 (650) 604-5656 (o)
 (650) 269-2788 (c)

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From: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net> 
[mailto:br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:36 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Hello Patrick,

Can I ask if there are any plans to contribute back the forked geoserver and 
geotools parts?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

NASA is working to advance GeoServer to accommodate GeoPackage.

We are certainly glad to share ALL of our work in order to benefit GeoServer 
and the larger community.

For that to occur, if GeoTools is interested in coordinating with us to 
accomplish that, we would be delighted.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: Ian Turton [mailto:ijtur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:54 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: br...@frogmouth.net; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind


Actually, that would be the GeoTools and GeoServer Programme 
Steering/Management committees, both of whom welcome contributions - 
http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/contribute.html & 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/introduction/gettinginvolved.html
There are several companies that can provide you with commercial support at 
reasonable rates if you need help - http://geoserver.org/support/

Ian
On 14 February 2018 at 13:27, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Brad,

If the primary entity advancing GeoServer (Boundless?) would like to work with 
us, we would be delighted to coordinate that contribution.

-Patrick
 (650) 604-5656 (o)
 (650) 269-2788 (c)

-Original Message-
From: br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net> 
[mailto:br...@frogmouth.net<mailto:br...@frogmouth.net>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:36 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Hello Patrick,

Can I ask if there are any plans to contribute back the forked geoserver and 
geotools parts?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Brad,

If the primary entity advancing GeoServer (Boundless?) would like to work with 
us, we would be delighted to coordinate that contribution.

-Patrick
 (650) 604-5656 (o)
 (650) 269-2788 (c)

-Original Message-
From: br...@frogmouth.net [mailto:br...@frogmouth.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:36 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); 'OSGeo Discussions'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Hello Patrick,

Can I ask if there are any plans to contribute back the forked geoserver and 
geotools parts?

Brad


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Just a bit of love to FOSS4G 2018 in the heart felt spirit of GeoForAll

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

[Heart, Love, Love Heart, Valentine, Red, Romance]
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[OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo & GeoForAll, 

Please indulge me three (3) points to make here (again), 

(1) the ESA-NASA collaboration on WebWorldWind, 

(2) the Explorer ^starter app^ and 

(3) the WorldWindServerKit (GeoServer) with integrated layer viewer, the 
Explorer (again).

(1) ESA-NASA Collaboration

ESA and NASA are working jointly to advance the ESA-NASA WebWorldWind platform, 
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/. 

ESA has built several apps with it, including the EO Browser for 
http://sentinel-hub.com/

ESA Sentinel App for iOS: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151

ESA Sentinel App for Android: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel

(2) The WorldWind Explorer web app framework, http://worldwind.earth

The Explorer is good for GSoC students, SME’s, OSGeo aficionados, and a world 
hungry to be on ‘one-page’ for spatial data. To reach that beautiful 
world-working-in-concert we provide a ^starter app,^ the WorldWind Explorer. It 
is possible for Earthlings to work in concert with each other on those common 
solutions they all need, i.e., urban infrastructure management, weather, 
climate research, first-responder stuff, etc. 

(3) The WorldWindServerKit (WWSK 'whiskey')

The Explorer is integrated into NASA's GeoServer distribution, the WorldWind 
Server Kit (WWSK, ‘whiskey’) 

https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/serverkit/

https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

• Whiskey is scale-able, it can be deployed to a server or run standalone on a 
laptop.
• An agency could host a whiskey server (GeoServer) on the internet or an 
intranet.
• An agency could publish their models and maps in their WWSK server(s).
• Whiskey can access data/maps/imagery from other remote Web Map Service (WMS) 
servers, thus a whiskey server could be configured to provide a single point of 
entry for many WMS services.
• If you advance ~2:34:00 (2 hours and 34 minutes) into this ‘Education’ 
session at ESA Earth Observation conference last September, you’ll see and hear 
Bruce describing ‘whiskey’: 
https://livestream.com/ESA/OpenScience2017/videos/163470616

-Patrick
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[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody,

I don’t so much see this as ESA or NASA having success as much as I see our 
motto ‘for the benefit of all’ being lived up to.

And of course, we are dearly glad for these open source geospatial solutions to 
be listed on the OSGeo website, please!

-Patrick

From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 10:27 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

Thanks Patrick, glad to see NASA having success with open source. If you, or 
your team, interested in listing these projects on our website please ask.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:29 AM Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:

Dear OSGeo & GeoForAll,



Please indulge me three (3) points to make here,

(1) the ESA-NASA collaboration on WebWorldWind,

(2) the Explorer ^starter app^ and

(3) the WorldWindServerKit (GeoServer) with integrated layer viewer, the 
Explorer (again).



(1) ESA-NASA Collaboration

ESA and NASA are working jointly to advance the ESA-NASA WebWorldWind platform, 
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/. ESA has built several apps with it, 
including the EO Browser for http://sentinel-hub.com/


[Description: Description: escription: Description: Description: Description: 
Description: Desc]Get the Sentinel App for 
iOS<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151>

[Description: Description: escription: Description: Description: Description: 
Description: Desc]Get the Sentinel App for 
Android<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel>



(2) The Explorer

This info is good for GSoC students, SME’s, OSGeo aficionados, and a world 
hungry to be on ‘one-page’ for spatial data. To that end a ^starter app^ the 
WorldWind Explorer is there for Earthlings to possibly begin working in concert 
with each other on those common solutions they all need, i.e., urban 
infrastructure management, weather, climate research, first-responder stuff, 
etc.

  *   The WorldWind Explorer web app framework:

 *   http://explorer.worldwind.earth
 *   
https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWindExplorer<https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWindExplore>
 *   This is an active project undergoing rapid development at the moment 
(in my spare time)
 *   A way to play with it live! 
http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?js,output<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjsbin.com%2Fnomafey%2Fedit%3Fjs%2Coutput=02%7C01%7C%7Ca8f7fc1c35d1445e8b3208d559452ff6%7Ce84163c85e634b53bd6912dc8398ef96%7C0%7C1%7C636513076086549154=rPVvveJkSA4hXygyPJJSx93a1tjGiSv8p7VTRt9wQP4%3D=0>

(3) The WorldWindServerKit (WWSK)

  *   The Explorer is now integrated into NASA's GeoServer distribution, the 
WorldWind Server Kit (WWSK, ‘whiskey’)

 *   https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/serverkit/
 *   https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit

  *   The WWSK is scale-able, it can be deployed to a server or run standalone 
on a laptop.
  *   An agency could host a WWSK server (GeoServer) on the internet or an 
intranet.
  *   An agency could publish their fuel models and maps in their WWSK 
server(s).
  *   WWSK can access data/maps/imagery from other remote Web Map Service (WMS) 
servers, thus a WWSK server could be configured to provide a single point of 
entry for many WMS services.
  *   If you advance ~2:34:00 (at 2 hours and 34 minutes) into this ‘Education’ 
session at ESA Earth Observation conference last September, you’ll see and hear 
Bruce describing ‘whiskey’: 
https://livestream.com/ESA/OpenScience2017/videos/163470616<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flivestream.com%2FESA%2FOpenScience2017%2Fvideos%2F163470616=02%7C01%7C%7Ca8f7fc1c35d1445e8b3208d559452ff6%7Ce84163c85e634b53bd6912dc8398ef96%7C0%7C1%7C636513076086549154=T18RFlr0S3pAJUAJVDNZpoTVK4sbPjNwUG7wwzfE6jI%3D=0>
-Patrick
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[OSGeo-Discuss] ESA-NASA WebWorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo & GeoForAll,



Please indulge me three (3) points to make here,

(1) the ESA-NASA collaboration on WebWorldWind,

(2) the Explorer ^starter app^ and

(3) the WorldWindServerKit (GeoServer) with integrated layer viewer, the 
Explorer (again).



(1) ESA-NASA Collaboration

ESA and NASA are working jointly to advance the ESA-NASA WebWorldWind platform, 
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/. ESA has built several apps with it, 
including the EO Browser for http://sentinel-hub.com/


[Description: Description: escription: Description: Description: Description: 
Description: Desc]Get the Sentinel App for 
iOS

[Description: Description: escription: Description: Description: Description: 
Description: Desc]Get the Sentinel App for 
Android



(2) The Explorer

This info is good for GSoC students, SME’s, OSGeo aficionados, and a world 
hungry to be on ‘one-page’ for spatial data. To that end s ^starter app^ the 
WorldWind Explorer is there for Earthlings to possibly begin working in concert 
with each other on those common solutions they all need, i.e., urban 
infrastructure management, weather, climate research, first-responder stuff, 
etc.

  *   The WorldWind Explorer web app framework:
 *   http://explorer.worldwind.earth
 *   
https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWindExplorer
 *   This is an active project undergoing rapid development at the moment 
(in my spare time)
 *   A way to play with it live! 
http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?js,output

(3) The WorldWindServerKit (WWSK)

  *   The Explorer is now integrated into NASA's GeoServer distribution, the 
WorldWind Server Kit (WWSK, ‘whiskey’)

 *   https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/serverkit/
 *   https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindServerKit
  *   The WWSK is scale-able, it can be deployed to a server or run standalone 
on a laptop.
  *   An agency could host a WWSK server (GeoServer) on the internet or an 
intranet.
  *   An agency could publish their fuel models and maps in their WWSK 
server(s).
  *   WWSK can access data/maps/imagery from other remote Web Map Service (WMS) 
servers, thus a WWSK server could be configured to provide a single point of 
entry for many WMS services.
  *   If you advance ~2:34:00 (at 2 hours and 34 minutes) into this ‘Education’ 
session at ESA Earth Observation conference last September, you’ll see and hear 
Bruce describing ‘whiskey’: 
https://livestream.com/ESA/OpenScience2017/videos/163470616
-Patrick
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seasons Greetings from GeoForAll

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith and our dear colleagues,

Don't know how all this thing began, the big U soon to celebrate its 14 
billionth birthday, and our cute little corner in it that still took life a few 
billion years to arrive at this sentient place. We are still just discovering 
ourselves and the amazing world around us. 

Suchith, your wonderful voice speaks so well to the one path forward, the one 
where we are working together for all of us. Whether it is life for all or Geo 
For All, the balance that comes from working together in our mutual interest, 
is very simply the only path with a future. We must learn to celebrate our 
differences. They are so small in number compared to our similarities. 

There is a place for everything, including proprietary, but our foundation 
technologies, information and education must be open for all. Life gives life 
or it inhibits it. 

Earth for all, Geo For All, all for all! And of course, OSGeo forever and kind 
wishes to all in going forward together. Hello to the GeoForAll future!

-Patrick

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From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:38 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Seasons Greetings from GeoForAll

Dear colleagues and friends,

As 2016 is nearly over, I wish to take this opportunity to thank each and every 
one of you for your support and contributions for Open Principles in Science 
and Education. Our thanks to all of you for your  selfless contributions that 
helped us achieve a wonderful 2017.  

The aim of GeoForAll is to empower all academics and students worldwide 
forever. GeoForAll is committed to work towards the vision of the United 
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for 
everyone. Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s 
knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the internet in 
particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and 
reuse knowledge. Openness is key for true empowerment and sustainability.  
Access to quality education opportunities is everyone’s birthright. So let us 
all keep working together to enable open principles in education to help create 
a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and 
opportunities for everyone. 

Openness is fundamental in harnessing the true potential of Geospatial Science 
and expanding digital economy opportunities for all. Open innovation is key in 
driving Digital Economy opportunities and to make sure that everyone benefits. 
Geographic Information Science is Open for all and for our future generations. 
Let us all work to make sure Geographic Information Science is Open for our 
future generations…

On behalf of everyone at "GeoForAll" initiative, we wish you and your families 
very happy holidays and Happy New Year 2018.

Best wishes,
   
Suchith
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

Technically, former Teacher-In-Space astronaut Ron Fortunato's 
www.AWorldBridge.com program is multiple labs in 
one. So his labs are working in concert. This WorldBridge enterprise involves 
multiples High Schools and at least one University. Ron has these 'labs' 
collaborating with each other building truly powerful apps.

An interface to experience the UN's World Heritage Sites:
http://eval.whs.aworldbridgelabs.com/aworldbridge_whs.html

And urban infrastructure management tool:
http://eval.cs.aworldbridgelabs.com/CS_MainPage_aworldbridge.com.html

And he is also working with the UN/FAO on a web app to monitor a major North 
African infestation of the Armyworm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm

Everything Ron does is all OpenData, OpenSource and OpenEducation.

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 7:34 AM
To: Jeff McKenna; osgeo; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

Thank you Jeff for this call . Many thanks to everyone who contributed to 
Geodata over the years.

Please do not dissolve this committee. Let us work to reactivate this committee 
with more interested colleagues . I would like to volunteer to work for OSGeo 
Geodata Committee for linking ideas with the education aspects of Geodata. Just 
this month Charlie Schweik has given call in GeoForAll to identify 2-4 
collaboration projects by at where at least 2-labs are collaborating on open 
access educational content they want to develop over 2018 and I think working 
on a project on GeoData aspects will be a great opportunity to link the 
education community ideas for this. So I will follow up this using geodata as 
an example and try to get colleagues in various GeoForAll labs working on this 
to come together . I am sure working together we can make this happen.

Best wishes,

Suchith


[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004311.html




From: Discuss 
> on 
behalf of Jeff McKenna 
>
Sent: 25 November 2017 1:11 PM
To: osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Volunteers for Geodata Committee

Dear OSGeo community,

We are all aware of how important Open data is for our community, and
for the mission of OSGeo. Most of you are aware that the OSGeo
foundation has a committee dedicated to this, called the Geodata
Committee; however the reality is that this committee is quiescent/not
active/at rest, as its mailing list has not really been used since a
message was posted in May of 2015 (which no one answered actually).

The Geodata Committee is still listed as a working committee on the
OSGeo website, and points to a page[1] that contains the mailing list
and the wiki. The mailing list has 387 members, and the archives go all
the way back to March of 2006. Back in those days, the committee would
meet regularly on IRC and it was very vibrant (thanks to Jo, Arnulf, and
the many early visionaries pushing forward and sharing).

More recently, there was a "reboot" push for this committee around 2012,
and also another one in October of last year. Of course there were
likely many other attempts, but those are the ones that come to mind.

We believe that open data is even more critical to the mission of OSGeo
today, and a strong relationship with the various data communities is
important for the health of the ecosystem. We also look to the massive
success of GeoForAll for sharing the passion for education and Open as a
great example of what we can all do together.

Would you be willing to help revive the OSGeo Geodata Committee? It
would be great to hear more thoughts and ideas on this. It does not
seem right to dissolve the committee; in fact we want the opposite to occur.

Thank you,

Maria, Codrina, Vasile, Jeff on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Be a donor - Start Donating Free and Open Source Software so digital divides are bridged within the next decade

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,
Your passion and the clarity to your vision is an inspiration to us all!
: -)  : -)  : -)

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Anand
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 12:15 PM
Subject: [Geo4All] Be a donor - Start Donating Free and Open Source Software so 
digital divides are bridged within the next decade

Dear colleagues,

In spite of all the geospatial technology developments, students and academics 
in poor countries and regions were left out for many decades. This is now 
changing fast, thanks to the great work done by Open communities worldwide. We 
have now full access for all our geoeducation software education needs thanks 
to all volunteers of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

As part of this year's GIS week celebrations, let us all launch the start of 
Free and Open Source Software Donation Decade. I am requesting everyone to 
start donating free and open software so digital divides are bridged within the 
next decade. You can now donate Free and Open Source Geospatial software to all 
schools, universities, government, private sector organisations so they all are 
empowered forever. With Free and Open Source software, Everyone is now elevated 
as donors.

Please support Open Principles in GeoEducation [1], so everyone can benefit. 
The bigger aim is to also to advance STEM education across the world and bring 
together schools, teachers and students across the world in joint projects and 
help building international understanding and global peace.

Happy GIS Week everyone. We look forward to you joining us.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Tina,

Couldn’t agree more with your sentiment, or Vicky’s for that matter too.

Unfortunately men have not been doing such a great job ruling the world. We are 
over-aggressive and lack the nurturing instinct, to the native degree women 
have it. And classically women have not had the same platform to operate as men.

Affirmative action [1] in the US was put in place to correct that kind of 
imbalance. I am not disagreeing with you, just saying we would certainly 
benefit by having more women in charge, obviously not the Margaret Thatcher 
types (there are exceptions!)

The lunacy of these recent elections has made me rather hungry for another 
breed of leadership, and I am quite partial to seeing more opportunity for 
those who haven’t had it. Just consider me the kind of guy who likes to see 
women on top!

Thank you dearly for your expressed position, I heartily concur, applaud and 
root for it!

{1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States

-[domesticated] Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tina Cormier
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:02 PM
To: Cameron Shorter
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hello all,

I am a new Charter Member, so I've just been taking all of this in (and been 
somewhat horrified by all that has transpired, if I'm being candid). But I 
haven't felt strongly enough to chime in until I saw the note from Frank about 
a method for ensuring women and non NA-EU folks are on the board. I want to 
echo Vicky's sentiments and say that as a woman, I would never want to be 
"elected" in that way. Even the thought of it feels terrible and embarrassing. 
I hope the board does not go this route. The end goal of increasing diversity 
on the board is a noble one, but hopefully we can find other ways to do it that 
are based on the merit of the candidates and not their gender or geography. 
Just my two cents on that specific topic.

Cheers,
Tina

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Cameron Shorter 
> wrote:

Extending on Maria's comments (and others),

I think we are over-emphasising the relative importance of the OSGeo board. 
Reducing the importance of the board will increase the importance and influence 
of our OSGeo committees.

If OSGeo is a Do-ocracy and Meritocracy, and the influencers in OSGeo comes 
from the Do-ers in our community, then questions like board diversity almost 
becomes a non-issue.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 31/10/17 6:14 pm, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
Dear all,

Sorry for the late response. I was busy going back from different timezones and 
that is a killer for me (travelling, being sleepy, etc...).

I agree with Sanghee that we have gone one step backwards. We have lost Asia in 
the board. That's a step backwards we shouldn't have had. And I agree with 90% 
of opinions posted here that are sad about the European-NAmerica board. So I 
will just highlight what I don't agree with. And this is an optimistic email, I 
don't share the general pessimism. Wait for the end of it.

I don't agree that Venka has been punished somehow despite his good work. Do 
you really think that if someone is doing a good work that should warrantee his 
position on the board? I don't think so. I think the reward of doing a good job 
comes somewhere else: recognition, ¿fame?, trust, acknowledgement, even free 
beers! But even if you think a position on the board is a reward, then, maybe 
other people have been also rewarded with that for work outside the presidency 
of OSGeo but inside the community. Or maybe people just wanted a fresh view, 
not necessarily that meaning that his work (or your work!) was bad. There is a 
lot of reasons for voting someone and I personally think that a "reward" vote 
shouldn't be one. Having other candidates with more votes doesn't mean you did 
a bad job at all.

Do I think that you both should be on the board? Yes, of course! But this has 
also been (at least for me) a very difficult voting. It was very hard to choose 
between the candidates. All had good reasons to be there, all had good work 
done inside the community. So, how to choose? I know what you have been doing 
because I have done an explicit effort to know about that. I have gone to 
international events, I have followed the mailing lists, I have followed many 
threads on twitter. Most people only know what people around them do. So it is 
possible (and very likely, in my opinion) that a lot of people just see OSGeo 
as an organization, but don't see the work of individuals. So for them, Venka 
is that person who does the "history of OSGeo" talk, but nothing special around 
him that other active members don't have. If we ask members who has been behind 
the new website, how many of them would know? And that is something that has 
had a lot of publicity recently. What about all the rest of work that has less 
exposure?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sanghee, +1
Thank you for your frank discussion.
Your sincere words are dearly needed to be heard.
The behavior leading to the chaos of recent events, apparently not unique, 
should not be ignored.
Even more difficult to address are the one-sided results in light of our larger 
body, as you have generously described. To add a bit of ‘jocular noire’, do 
consider the difficulty our poor planet is having with election results 
worldwide.
Thank you much for these beautifully expressed thoughts.
-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sanghee Shin
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 3:18 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Dear All,

First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected board 
members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around this board elections.

1. Needless to say all new board members are deserved to win the election. 
However as a whole, now we have all WHITE board of directors only from Europe 
and North America. We've talked about the importance of diversity and 
inclusiveness many times so far, however the reality is like this. Please don't 
get me wrong. I'm not writing this because of my failure in an election. Being 
nominated and encouragement to run the election was just great honour to me. 
For me as Asian, one of most shocking and disappointing moment in this election 
was Venka's failure in an election. Venka has contributed so much to Asian 
community over the last 2 years. His contributions and activities reached out 
not only to Japan but also to Thailand, Vietnam, India and sometimes to Korea 
as well. He also put so much efforts organizing FOSS4G Asia this year. And I 
know as a former board member how he restlessly carried out his duty as 
president of OSGeo. And finally he failed! I know he didn't answer to some of 
quesitons to nominees during the election period. Ok, it’s excuse however he 
and I was being tied up with handling a urgent issue in community. Anyway I and 
other Asian friends are so shocked that he was not elected! I bet other Asian 
members share the same feeling. The result gave the clear meaning to Asian 
community, "If Venka can't be a board member of OSGeo, nobody can be forever 
from Asia." I already saw many complaints and discouragement in Asian 
community. I believe regions other than Europe and NA have the rights to be 
reprensented failry. So, I'd like to ask new board members to fix this kind of 
wrong representation of board configuration by adopting new election rules.

2. I believe Jeff McKenna's ambiguous behaviours around election period made 
both him and OSGeo untrustworthy. I don't want to mention again here some of 
concerns over him in detail during the election. One thing I'd like to point 
out is his un-withdrwal from board election after disclosing the results. 
Nothing personal, Jeff. Actually I tried to accept and understand this 
situation so many times for a couple of days, but I failed to accept. We're not 
the children in the kindergarten! How can it be happened? The last thing I did 
as a former board member was approving the motion, "This board election is 
valid." I was able to block the motion however I approved the motion. Because I 
accepted his withdrawal as sincere one and trusted him. I'm feeling my good 
intention was being betrayed. I know I don't have any rights now to change my 
previous decision and I don't want to criticise someone here. New board, this 
case cleary has shown that there's big loophole in our election process. If 
OSGe can't fix it, OSGeo will lose trust and credibility. Board, you need to 
bear in mind that there's already bunch of sign of loosing trust from community.

Many mentioned that OSGeo is run by Do-ocracy. I believe the basis of Do-ocracy 
is recognizing of someone's work and trust. If someone's hardwork is not 
recognized and acknowledged fairy, who will want to jump into the matters to 
fix it? And if someone can't trust the organization, who wants to put their 
precious time and efforts to untrustworthy one?

If OSGeo lose the trust, it will lose everything. OSGeo is just shell.

Best regards,
신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
www.gaia3d.com

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

If I may, I find Arnulf’s guidance very refreshing!
Both his Yin (vote now) and his Yang (vote again).
+∞

And I have just heard the UN is prepared to recognize OSGeo as full-voting 
member of the UN General Assembly if we are able to hold a successful election! 
But only if we include one Panda and one Polar bear, and an almost equal number 
of women. I know we can do it! Oops, sorry, another one of those LSD 
flashbacks. ;-0

Remember what we are voting for. . .
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (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.

Let’s kick-start this thing, with some positive momentum!
-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of seven
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 9:34 AM
To: n...@nikosalexandris.net; vas...@geo-spatial.org
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

After reading latest posts I agree that canceling the elections might open 
Pandora's box (which is not going to happen because we are all grown up and 
work towards the same goal, right?)

Honestly, having Jeff retrospectively withdrawing his resignation and accepting 
the election and sit on the board will make him (and us all) look really silly. 
I already regret to have voiced my opinion at all.

Vasile, Board, you have my fullest compassion.

http://arnulf.us
Mind your business

 Ursprüngliche Nachricht 
Von: n...@nikosalexandris.net
Datum: 22.10.17 18:18 (GMT+01:00)
An: vas...@geo-spatial.org
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

Dear Vasile,

for what is worth, from my short experience as a CRO for GRASS' PSC elections 
last year, and I mean my readings on and off in trying to be useful for the 
process,

I think it is not useful to cancel running elections. Nor it is to accept any 
withdrawal during the process.

The candidacies, the process and the result should be protected from any such 
actions. Else, it is like openning a small Pandora's box and any similar 
difficulty could eventually cancel the elections.

Please, let the process finish, don't rush. Give time for second thoughts to 
everyone. After the elections, life will go on somehow as Even sketched it very 
well.

Nikos

À Dimanche 22 octobre 2017, Vasile Craciunescu a écrit :
> Barry,
>
> I fully agree with you that a complete restart is the fairest way to go.
> However, people are getting really tired with this subject and some
> already unsubscribe from this mailing list. Also, not sure if this
> should be my call or the board should formally decide on this. Probably
> should be me, as four of the board are standing for reelection. I know
> that most of you are irritated by the amount of emails that circulate
> this days on the mailing list but I would like to hear more opinions on
> this subject before taking a decision.
>
> Best,
> Vasile
> CRO 2017
>
>
> On 10/22/17 4:33 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> >
> >
> > My proposal to the Board and the OSGeo charter members is to leave the
> > list as it is and make sure that the people that did not vote yet are
> > aware of Jeff's request to withdraw from the Board elections.
> >
> >
> > No, this is completely off. If a candidate withdraws during an election,
> > you should declare the current ballot void and start a new one without
> > the withdrawn candidate.
> > Leaving the ballot running, but telling people who have not voted yet
> > that one candidate has withdrawn is *unfair* to those who already voted.
> >
> > I would hope that running a ballot is low-enough cost that this doesn't
> > have a cost impact, unlike a paper election!
> >
> > If Jeff had been elected to the board and then resigned the day after
> > the election then I assume there's regulations for having new
> > by-elections for vacant seats, but this situation is not the same.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I can
> > insert the information in the reminder mail that I'm planing to submit
> > tonight/Monday morning.
> >
> > Best,
> > Vasile
> > CRO 2017
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.geo-spatial.org/osgeo/bucuresti2017
> > 
> >
> >
> > On 10/21/17 3:34 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >  > Dear CRO,
> >  >
> >  > Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election.  I am sorry to
> >  > cause all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here
> > publicly
> >  > this election.
> >  >
> >  > I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for
> >  > volunteering their time for the OSGeo community.
> >  >
> >  > Yours,
> >  >
> >  > -Jeff McKenna
> >  >
> >  

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Sven Schade

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

If Maria is the queen of GIS then Sven is its princely king.

He has quietly and with deep conviction, and consistent action, been a 
fantastic Atlas helping to keep the GIS world in balance. We are very lucky to 
have his vision and his tremendous enterprise so beautifully applied.

As Maria says “Well deserved!”

GeoForAll and AllForGeo -Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria 
Antonia Brovelli
Sent: Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:08 AM
To: Suchith Anand; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Sven Schade


Congrats Sven!!

Well deserved!

Maria

Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano


Da: GeoForAll  per conto di Suchith Anand 

Inviato: domenica 1 ottobre 2017 17:59
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador – Sven Schade

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour Sven 
Schade as our GeoAmbassador. Sven Schade is a Scientific Project Officer at the 
European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre 
(JRC). He is based at the Ispra site in Northern Italy. Being a Geospatial 
Information Scientist by education (among the first to study Geoinformatics in 
Europe), Sven became a strong promoter of open principles and public 
participation in scientific research. Building on a wide range of experiences 
reaching from Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), data interoperability and 
Semantic Web technology, via environmental research and Citizen Science, all 
the way to decision support systems and scientific support to policy making, he 
got into the rare position of being able to interconnect highly diverse 
communities and to foster multi-disciplinary collaborations.

Examples of his service include his contributions as a member of the Advisory 
Board of the GeoForAll initiative (http://www.geoforall.org/ ), the Advisory 
Board of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA, 
https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/ ) – as co-chair, and the council of the 
International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE, 
http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/ ). As an editor-in-chief of the International 
Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR, 
http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ ) he also supports open and free publication 
practices.

More details are at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/10/geoambassador-sven-schade/

Everybody reading this and identifying items of interest I kindly invited to 
contact Sven directly. You are also kindly invited to submit an article 
contribution to IJSDIR at  
http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/pages/view/authors

We are proud to honour Sven Shade as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely 
grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll and for his selfless contributions 
for expanding geoeducation opportunities for all.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding the nomination of Venka, Helena and Sanghee

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

This didn't seem to go through. . .I'll try again. . .

From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 6:58 PM
To: 'Maria Antonia Brovelli'; discuss osgeo
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding the nomination of Venka, Helena and 
Sanghee

Big +1 for Sanghee! That man does enormously incredible work with spatial data. 
He makes the most dense data come alive fully optimized. Nice to have that kind 
of technical talent helping to guide the OSGeo ship. I have seen his work, and 
it is great stuff!

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria 
Antonia Brovelli
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 2:12 PM
To: discuss osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding the nomination of Venka, Helena and Sanghee


Dear All
I want to second the nomination of these three pillars of our Community.
Venka has been a tireless President and his activity,  in Asia and everywhere, 
has been fundamental for us.
Helena has been a so great leader of GeoForAll and she has been fantastic in 
proposing and finalising relevant MoUs.
Sanghee has been the vibrant  engine of the Korean community and has been 
playing such an important role for making possible the UN Open GIS Project.
Best regards.
Maria








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ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
(Chair of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding the nomination of Venka, Helena and Sanghee

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Big +1 for Sanghee! That man does enormously incredible work with spatial data. 
He makes the most dense data come alive fully optimized. Nice to have that kind 
of technical talent helping to guide the OSGeo ship. I have seen his work, and 
it is great stuff!

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria 
Antonia Brovelli
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 2:12 PM
To: discuss osgeo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding the nomination of Venka, Helena and Sanghee


Dear All
I want to second the nomination of these three pillars of our Community.
Venka has been a tireless President and his activity,  in Asia and everywhere, 
has been fundamental for us.
Helena has been a so great leader of GeoForAll and she has been fantastic in 
proposing and finalising relevant MoUs.
Sanghee has been the vibrant  engine of the Korean community and has been 
playing such an important role for making possible the UN Open GIS Project.
Best regards.
Maria








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http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies





Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
(Chair of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nominations: Second the nominations of: Astrid Emde, Vicky Vegara, Jody Garnett

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

So much talent in this organization, along with plenty of heart and soul.

If I may I would also like to second the nomination of Vicky Vergara, given her 
intrepid dedication to quality results.

-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arne 
Schubert
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 2:09 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nominations: Second the nominations of: Astrid 
Emde, Vicky Vagera, Jody Garnett

Sorry I am a little late…

I could write a long letter why to support Astrid Emde, Vicky Vagera  and Jody 
Garnett, but in view of time I will just second the nominations.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Maria Arias de Reyna

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Maria, 
To the Maria A's of the world, 
may they be deeply appreciated for all they are!
Muchas gracias!
-Patricio

-Original Message-
From: dela...@gmail.com [mailto:dela...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of María Arias de 
Reyna
Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:09 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Angelos Tzotsos; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Maria Arias de Reyna

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Looks like I goofed bigtime!
>
> In my oversight, I mistakenly thought this was a nomination for Maria Antonia 
> Brovelli.
>
> And so was wishing to advance that in the most positive way.
>
> Maybe my delirium from being on the road for over three weeks of European 
> travel contributed to that.
>
> My apologies to Maria Arias de Reyna.

Don't worry. María is one of the most common names here on the Mediterranean 
countries, that was going to happen sooner or later :)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Maria Arias de Reyna

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Looks like I goofed bigtime!

In my oversight, I mistakenly thought this was a nomination for Maria Antonia 
Brovelli.

And so was wishing to advance that in the most positive way. 

Maybe my delirium from being on the road for over three weeks of European 
travel contributed to that.

My apologies to Maria Arias de Reyna.

-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:01 PM
To: 'Angelos Tzotsos'; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Maria Arias de Reyna

Even the 'Angels' are rooting for Maria for her intrepid OS geospatial passion, 
thank you Angelos! 

I too second or third Maria into OSGeo infinity (if I am able from my current 
or proposed position). 

Maria has spent a lifetime serving the interests of OSGeo even before OSGeo was 
OSGeo. 

What more can we say for the Board in becoming stronger than "Andiamo Maria 
Antonia Brovelli!"

-OSGeo Patrizio

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Angelos 
Tzotsos
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:12 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: María Arias de Reyna

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/
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>> --
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>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Maria Arias de Reyna

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Even the 'Angels' are rooting for Maria for her intrepid OS geospatial passion, 
thank you Angelos! 

I too second or third Maria into OSGeo infinity (if I am able from my current 
or proposed position). 

Maria has spent a lifetime serving the interests of OSGeo even before OSGeo was 
OSGeo. 

What more can we say for the Board in becoming stronger than "Andiamo Maria 
Antonia Brovelli!"

-OSGeo Patrizio

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Angelos 
Tzotsos
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:12 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: María Arias de Reyna

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 
>  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/
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McKenna
>> President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody,

Yes, this is a great and truly elemental ^concept^ for how we consider and name 
our efforts, so that they might be best appreciated by a welcoming world.

Just for an added alternative, and not to suggest that the discussion shouldn’t 
remain software vs projects, but how about the word ‘enterprise’? Not sure if 
this might be a real consideration or something just to toss out there and toss 
away.

The word project seems more definitive than the word software, and the word 
enterprise, though grand, may be too grandiose.

Open Source Projects
Open Source Software
Open Source Enterprise (or even Enterprises)

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:03 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

I would like to bring to discuss a question that we are struggling with for the 
website/rebranding - do we present "open source software" or "open source 
projects"?

This is not an easy answer, as the earlier discussion on this list did not know 
how to recognize projects doing a rewrite (example OL2 --> OL3, or project 
teams expanding and developing additional software components like QGIS Server.

Here is the email from the marketing list:

The choose-a-project wizard is now working, we had to cut down some of the tags 
last week and change how the pages were done to make it happen.
This touches on a conversation with Steve Feldman from the code sprint. As part 
of the focus exercise the home page was 
changed to says "Choose your software" which then links to "choose-a-project".
It does bring up two interesting cases:
1) http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/qgis/
QGIS - has several software projects now under one banner: QGIS Desktop, QGIS 
Server, more?
This is kind of messing with the system (and resulting in oddities like QGIS 
being listed as a cloud processing service, I assume QGIS server could run in 
the cloud and qgis desktop offers processing).
2) http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/gvsig/
Same thing, there are now multiple gvSig software projects: gvSIG Desktop, 
gvNIX, gvSIG Mobile, i3Geo

Recommendation for the beta website:
- Making the QGIS Association page under Partners, linking to individual pages 
for QGIS and QGIS Server project pages.
- Makin the gvSIG Association link to the individual software project pages for 
gvSIG Desktop, gvNIX, gvSIG  Mobile, i3Geo.

And Steven Feldman's reply:

My 1st thoughts on ‘projects’ and ‘software' are to look at definitions:
Project:
"In contemporary business and 
science, a project is an individual or 
collaborative enterprise, possibly involving research or design, that is 
carefully planned, usually by a project 
team, to achieve a particular aim.[1]
A project may also be a set 
of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain 
cost and other limitations.[2]
It may be a temporary 
(rather than permanent) social 
systems as work 
systems that is constituted by 
teams within or across organizations to 
accomplish particular 
tasks under time 
constraints.[3] A project 
may be a part of a wider programme 
management” 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project
Software:
"Computer software, or simply software, is a part of a computer 
system that consists of 
data or computer instructions, 
in contrast to the physical 
hardware from which the system 
is built. In computer science 
and software engineering, 
computer software is all information 
processed by computer systems, 
programs and data. Computer 
software includes computer 
programs, 
libraries and related 
non-executable data, such as 
online documentation or 
digital media.” 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software

My interpretation:
Each different application 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing of projects at OSGeo web site: NASA WorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jeffrey,
I'm sure it needs work, this is not my bailiwick. 
Thanks for your concern and your help.
Open source is the only way this world can come together.
With plenty of room for value-added being well paid for.
Without the ^commons^ of open source for core technology,
we will never know the wonders of mutual benefit,
via the proverbial wheel that need not be re-created.
-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Jeffrey Johnson [mailto:ortel...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 8:42 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Jody Garnett; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing of projects at OSGeo web site: NASA 
WorldWind

http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/esa-nasa-worldwind/ is up now.
Thanks Patrick!

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Jody,
>
> Not sure how to interpret your guidance. We’ve had our sleeves rolled 
> up and been pitching in without stop for as long as open source 
> virtual globes have existed. And I think ESA-NASA WorldWind is a bit 
> beyond incubation, we are more of a breeder farm for geospatial apps. 
> I am very sure there is a lot I need to better appreciate about open 
> source geospatial criteria. But please know that we, ESA and NASA, are 
> sincerely doing everything we can to deeply support the principles of OSGEO.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
>
> From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 7:45 PM
> To: Jeffrey Johnson; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing of projects at OSGeo web site: 
> NASA WorldWind
>
>
>
> We also made a call for projects on this discussion list.
>
>
> Patrick it would be great if you can list world wind on the website. 
> You are of course welcome to apply as an community project or to enter 
> the incubation program.
>
> As a volunteer driven organization we do not have the idea of 
> grandfathering in. We expect grandfathers to roll up their sleeves and pitch 
> in.
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:29 PM Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Patrick, you are welcome to include it. I can send you a login if you like.
>
> We made an open call on the projects list, but it seems many people 
> are not on this list.
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
> <patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:
>> It appears that one of the original open source geospatial projects, 
>> well preceding OSGeo, and a project dedicated from its inception 15 
>> years ago to the principles and mission of OSGeo, does not seem to 
>> qualify as an OSGeo project, as much as we would care to be. Couldn't find 
>> it on the website.
>>
>> Would have been nice to have been included, maybe as one 'grandfathered'
>> in.
>>
>> NASA WorldWind (Java, Android and Web) is here for no less, and 
>> remains so for the OSGeo world community.
>>
>> -Patrick
>> patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
>> Project Manager
>> https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing of projects at OSGeo web site: NASA WorldWind

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody,
Not sure how to interpret your guidance. We’ve had our sleeves rolled up and 
been pitching in without stop for as long as open source virtual globes have 
existed. And I think ESA-NASA WorldWind is a bit beyond incubation, we are more 
of a breeder farm for geospatial apps. I am very sure there is a lot I need to 
better appreciate about open source geospatial criteria. But please know that 
we, ESA and NASA, are sincerely doing everything we can to deeply support the 
principles of OSGEO.
-Patrick

From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 7:45 PM
To: Jeffrey Johnson; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing of projects at OSGeo web site: NASA 
WorldWind

We also made a call for projects on this discussion list.

Patrick it would be great if you can list world wind on the website. You are of 
course welcome to apply as an community project or to enter the incubation 
program.

As a volunteer driven organization we do not have the idea of grandfathering 
in. We expect grandfathers to roll up their sleeves and pitch in.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:29 PM Jeffrey Johnson 
<ortel...@gmail.com<mailto:ortel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Patrick, you are welcome to include it. I can send you a login if you like.

We made an open call on the projects list, but it seems many people
are not on this list.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
> It appears that one of the original open source geospatial projects, well 
> preceding OSGeo, and a project dedicated from its inception 15 years ago to 
> the principles and mission of OSGeo, does not seem to qualify as an OSGeo 
> project, as much as we would care to be. Couldn't find it on the website.
>
> Would have been nice to have been included, maybe as one 'grandfathered' in.
>
> NASA WorldWind (Java, Android and Web) is here for no less, and remains so 
> for the OSGeo world community.
>
> -Patrick
> patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>
> Project Manager
> https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Collaborate or be less! Helsinki will challenge your mettle. . .

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo and GeoForAll,
I cannot pass up a chance to share some upcoming good news,
reaching a climax in Helsinki the week after next.
NASA WorldWind is ‘old’ girl, 15 years now,
and a very proud girl at that.
She is the original ^open source geospatial^ giving Earth to all,
via a virtual globe SDK, that today is still alive and well.
That's a pretty long life for a software project.
-Patrick
www.nasaeuropachallenge.com

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From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 12:42 PM
Subject: Collaborate or be less! Helsinki will challenge your mettle. . .
Importance: High

Dear Europa Challenge Elite Teams,

Time to show your ^mettle^ to yourselves, to each other and to the world. The 
original plan was for your project to deliver solutions serving sustainability 
and urban management needs. With the over-arching theme of sharing these 
solutions in a way that facilitates our ability to collectively advance them 
together. In addition, the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition 
group, GODAN.info, is looking for web apps that focus on agricultural issues.

This group of projects have all taken a big step in that direction. To achieve 
the next level, it is incumbent on each team to reach out to other teams in two 
ways. ^One^ [the pull] is to discover capabilities in other projects that could 
be customized to serve your project and get that team to help you implement. 
^Two^ [the push] is to see capabilities in your web app that may be of value to 
other projects and help them incorporate the feature(s).

During our upcoming spectacular but short time together in Helsinki, you will 
have the rare opportunity to find those ^touchstone points^ where 
cross-pollination between projects can occur. As an incentive for that, 
Helsinki is offering two (2) cash awards of 500€ each. This cash will go to the 
two teams who demonstrate the most successful push/pull with the other teams. 
In other words you are rewarded for helping each other become more!

Sustainable Earth:
To quote Ron Fortunato, the NASA Teacher-In-Space astronaut, who will be there 
with us, "to maximize success in being competitive, we must also be 
collaborative." This then takes us ^all^ to the next level, allowing us to 
accomplish ^so^ much more, as we continue to challenge each other while also 
working in concert with each other.

Feel free to start NOW! Review each other's projects, be prepared to ask 
probing questions, and begin hooking up with each other NOW!
The project teams are listed below (with emails). They will be there with you 
in Helsinki. Reach out and get ready to collaborate!

NASA Crystal Bulls, world-class bragging rights and some nice cash awards await 
you!
1st: 2.500€
2nd 1.500€
3rd 1.000€
500€ each for two top collaborators!
Plus plenty of really cool SWAG!

-Patrick
patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
Project Manager
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

^mettle^
A person's ability to cope well with difficulties or to face a demanding 
situation in a spirited and resilient way.
"the team showed their true mettle in the second half"
Synonyms: spirit, fortitude, strength of character, moral fiber, steel, 
determination, resolve, resolution, backbone, grit, true grit, courage, 
courageousness, bravery, valor, fearlessness, daring

The Academia Teams and Members:
World Weather, Jordan
• Khaled Sharif
• Farah Salah
AgroSphere, California
• Stacey Chen
• John Nguyen
• Atreya Iyer
• Mingda Tang 
3D Open Street Map, Italy
• Candan Eylül Kilsedar
• Mentor: Jakub Balhar
AWARE Algo Wildfire Analysis & pREdiction, UK
• Vishal Soomaney Vijaykumar
• Peter Jupp
• Flinn Dolman
• Lilian Blot 
Smart Pollen Monitor, Germany
• Thunyathep Santhanavanich
• Giuliano Baumann
• Patrick Wuerstle
• Thilo Pfalzgraf
• Prof Volker Coors 
MuViAS: Multi Dimension Viz & Analysis Suite, Italy
• Gabriele Prestifilippo
• Mentor: Jakub Balhar
Perfekt City, Finland
• Perttu LÃhteenlahti
• Felix Lindholm
• Jonne Huotari
• Henri Malkki
• Jonne Airaksinen 
Satellio Berry Monitor, Finland
• Lauri Hame
• Joni Norppa
• Atte Korhonen 
FestApp, Finland
• Nuutti Helminen
• Antti Salmi
• Teemu Annala
• Antti Salmi 
Drone-Trek, Finland
• AMahdy Abdelaziz
• Gayathri Murukesan
• Nitin Agrawal
• Ksenia Zueva
• Prateek Singh
• Erika Halonen 
Farmate, Finland
• Thomas Langerak
• Milda Norkute
• Abhishek Shetty
• Matti Kummu 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Website training and content foss4g code sprint

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

We too love your work, to infinity and beyond. Grazie mille Vicky!

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 8:06 PM
To: Vicky Vergara
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Website training and content foss4g code 
sprint

Thanks Vicky I love your work so far :)

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:57 PM Vicky Vergara 
> wrote:
I will be on IRC, working on the OSGeo-GSoC poster on channel #osgeo

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Jody Garnett 
> wrote:
Reminder is a huge day as we have training scheduled for the foss4g workshop. 
We need all manner of enthusiasm - help present our  community to the world!

In addition to the hands on training there are some really exciting things to 
hook up (such as maps for members, local chapters and geoforall labs). Many 
have worked hard to get us to this point, join us tomorrow at the foss4g 
workshop (and online via IRC?)

- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint#Website_Training
- http://www.osgeo.org/marketing/rebranding/july.html

Thanks to everyone who Jeffrey has signed up this week (and to Jeffrey for 
inspiring us all to action).

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

There is nothing more beautiful than inspiring and challenging our youth to 
deliver solutions that serve their local community, with an eye to be shared 
with the global community.

This has been the Europa Challenge mantra born of a week-long intensive course 
Prof Maria Brovelli put together in 2012 at Politecnico di Milan at Como. We 
gathered to discover a formula to engender applied open source solutions. 
Challenging our youth to build these open source solutions became the key 
element.

The methodology being the old 'standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants' trick. 
OSGeo/FOSS4G are the giants we stand on!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:58 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for 
this year's NASA Europa Challenge .  All these students have put lot of efforts 
and even if they don't win the final awards , they all are true winners.


Some of the excellent projects submitted are below


  *   AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction
   *   Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites
  *   EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and 
manipulating the signal time accordingly
  *   Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep 
learning Models
  *   FarmsNtech
  *  NASA World Weather
  *. 3D OpenStreetMap


Details at  http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com

All projects submitted for years challenge are at 
http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017


There is  RCUK SMARTIES Challenge awards (due to the nature of the RCUK 
funding, the SMARTIES awards are specific to all UK and India students who 
participate in the NASA Europa Challenge 2017.). Total awards are for £5000. 
(£2500 for First Place, £1500 for the Second Place and £1000 for the Third 
Place) Details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/

>From the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) , there will 
>be 1000 Euros award for the best student team for Local farming challenge. 
>Details at 
>http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017


Help your city and thereby the cities of the world with capabilities all cities 
need. We are in this world together, let's deliver results 'for the benefit of 
all', the NASA motto.

We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , 
Finland  in August 2017.

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: I am also pleased to update that Prof. Stuart Marsh will be from now the 
main contact for all the Open Source Geospatial research at the University of 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

What a great thing to be able to say, and much more actually do!

If we want a future for this world, which we seem to think is ours, nothing is 
more essential to our future than a quality education for our children, all 
children. We are a long way from there, and our current trajectory for a 
sustainable Earth is desperately off target.

This pledge is the least we can do! Thank you Suchith for prompting this in us.

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 12:16 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and 
Education for building a better world for everyone

Dear colleagues,

It is over a decade now since we started working on the philosophy of Openness 
in Geospatial Science  and Education [1],[2],[3]. Please find below the  pledge 
for  supporting Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better 
world for everyone [4].

“I believe Science is a public good and quality education opportunities should 
be open and accessible for everyone.

I will work to eliminate the digital divide and contribute to building up Open 
Knowledge for the benefit of all humanity, with special effort to enlighten 
future generations.

I contribute my service for the betterment of all humanity using the guiding 
principles of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 
building a better world for everyone.

I will work to advance and increase Open Knowledge for the benefit of all 
humanity with special consideration of those less fortunate.

I will be a voice for Open Principles in Science and Education and promote this 
pledge through my networks.”

Thank you for your support.

Best wishes,
Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

Open Principles in Science and Education for bridging the digital divide
[1] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[2] http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/journal/40965
[3] 
http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/publication_pdfs/uk_v15i18-058-059-Op951AF3.pdf
[4] 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/07/the-pledge-i-support-open-principles-for-science-and-education-for-building-a-better-world-for-everyone/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

I heartily agree with ‘officially’ signing up with the Open Science and 
Education principles. These words will help to orient and guide us.

Formally recognizing them certainly strengthens our commitment to the noble 
GeoForAll cause of helping this world become a more welcome place for life. 
Making these principles a living reality is beautiful and so very important. I 
hope we are doing that. Officially going on the record as supporting these 
principles seems an excellent idea.

The words are a little longer than the NASA motto ‘for the benefit of all’ but 
they speak loud and clear, ‘we are here for everybody!’

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:28 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and 
Education for building a better world for everyone

Dear colleagues,

Thanks for all ideas and inputs for our pledge for Open Science and Education 
principles [1]. As promised, we will be launching this at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 . 
We look forward to work with all on this.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-June/003825.html


The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a 
better world for everyone


I believe Science is a public good and quality education opportunities should 
be open and accessible for everyone.

I will work to eliminate the digital divide and contribute to building up Open 
Knowledge for the benefit of all humanity, with special effort to enlighten 
future generations.

I contribute my service for the betterment of all humanity using the guiding 
principles of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in building a 
better world for everyone.

I will work to advance and increase Open Knowledge for the benefit of all 
humanity with special consideration of those less fortunate.

I will be a voice for Open Principles in Science and Education and promote this 
pledge through my networks.





2017-07-15 11:49 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand 
>:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Thank you for your inputs. I meant Openness in the broadest  sense not just
> software or data. I put “Geo” to have the emphasis on people and our planet
> . I am interested in the philosophy of openness in education and science.
>
> We are living  at a time when our planet is struggling with major obstacles
> such as climate change, deforestation, land degradation and loss of
> agricultural land. While there is lot of technological advancements
> happening, we still have not solved very basic fundamental problems . Even
> today  hundreds of millions of families are struggling from hunger and
> malnutrition.  It is not  that we do not have the resources to solve this
> but we still are not able to bring full focus and determination for solve
> this . Wealth inequalities are rising at a large pace. Wealth is
> concentrated on few billionares while Billions of families are struggling
> for basic human needs everyday and do not have access to basic facilities
> (access to clean water, sanitation , electricity , quality education
> opportunities etc) .
>
> In some developing countries , it is a sad fact that  corruption is a big
> problem and  the biggest sufferers are the poorest people. Corruption cannot
> be fully solved by technology , or new laws or regulations (as the corrupt
> and greedy will always find loopholes)  but it needs spiritual awakening at
> all levels and everyone should take a moral pledge to not to do any
> unethical business practices either directly or indirectly. This is key to
> end poverty, protect the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and
> prosperity.
>
> Openness means being open to different perspectives ,ideas, viewpoints,
> cultures  and learning and improving to be a better human every day. We need
> to be open to make the right choices now to protect our planet and improve
> life in a sustainable way for our future generations.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> 
> From: Andrea Giacomelli >
> Sent: 15 July 2017 8:41 AM
> To: Anand Suchith; 
> geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; 
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of Geo is Open
>
> Hi Suchit -
>
> It is very unlikely that I will make it to FOSS4G-Europe, as we will be
> quite busy during the Summer with projects here in Southern Tuscany...but in
> relation to the the issue you would like to discuss I would like to ask if,
> in addition to openness of Software and data you have been considering the
> openness of the people who are in any case part of the system.
>
> With our team we have been monitoring these aspects, and we have oftern
> recorded the fact 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Subject: Re: OSGeo is the host of FOSS4G not a guest

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

+1 ∞

-Patrick

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Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2017 10:45 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Board
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Subject: Re: OSGeo is the host of FOSS4G not a guest

It is so depressing that barely 6 weeks before our major event, when dozens of 
people are working every hour available while still doing a day job, that this 
kind of a conversation distracts the BLOC and the wider community.

Is "presented by” “hosted by” “organised by” such a big deal? I really fear 
that we may be losing a sense of perspective. If the board wants to vote on 
this and change the guidance given to the BLOC then so be it, I would hope that 
they have higher priorities.

Otherwise let’s say a massive thanks to Guido, Michael and the Boston team and 
leave them to get on with organising OUR conference.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a better world for everyone

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

I am a pledge for the pledge. ☺

Some suggested edits attached (and here just below).

I believe Science is a public good and quality education opportunities should 
be open and accessible for everyone.

I will work to eliminate the digital divide and contribute to building up Open 
Knowledge for the benefit of all humanity, with special effort to enlighten 
future generations.

I contribute my service for the betterment of all humanity using the guiding 
principles of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in building a 
better world for everyone.

I will work to advance and increase Open Knowledge for the benefit of all 
humanity with special consideration of those less fortunate.

I will be a voice for Open Principles in Science and Education and promote this 
pledge through my networks.

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll-ab [mailto:geoforall-ab-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of 
Suchith Anand
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 9:04 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall...@lists.osgeo.org; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [geoforall-ab] The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and 
Education for building a better world for everyone

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the draft of the pledge for  supporting Open Principles for 
Science and Education for building a better world for everyone. Please 
add/modify as needed and send your ideas/inputs and we should aim to have the 
pledge wording confirmed by July 1st 2017.

I would also like to request those working on the new OSGeo website to to help 
us setup a webform for the following pledge that we will  be doing .

Best wishes,

Suchith

The Pledge – I support Open Principles for Science and Education for building a 
better world for everyone

“I believe Science is a public good and quality education opportunities should 
be open for everyone forever.

I will work to eliminate the digital divide and empower all as full citizens 
and contribute to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole 
society and for our future generations.

I will contribute my service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding 
principle and work towards the vision of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable 
Development for building a better world for everyone.

I will contribute to build up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole 
society and for our future generations.

I will be the voice for Open Principles in Science and Education in my 
institution/country and  promote this pledge through my networks”


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Patrick Hogan

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody, well, Geo2y’All just don’t seem worldly enough.
So in the spirit of the three musketeers All-4-1 and 1-4-All,
We can be 4 all with or with the spaces or the caps!

Geo for U and U and U! Grazie! Danke! Arrigato! Shukrani!
-Patrick

From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 4:37 PM
To: Suchith Anand; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Patrick Hogan

That is great news Patrick,

For my first skill testing question - is it "GeoForAll", "GeoforAll", or "Geo 
for All" :)

--
Jody Garnett

On 11 June 2017 at 02:19, Suchith Anand 
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce Patrick 
Hogan as our GeoAmbassador. Patrick Hogan began his U.S. Government career with 
the Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, and then joined NASA a year later 
as their senior environmental geologist at Ames Research Center. In 2002 
Patrick was asked to lead the NASA Learning Technologies program. This is where 
NASA World Wind was born, the world's first open source virtual globe program. 
In 2009 World Wind received the prestigious NASA Software of the Year award. 
There are versions of World Wind in Java, Android and for the Web in 
JavaScript. We are especially grateful for Patrick’s efforts in creating the 
NASA Europa Challenge initiative which adds great momentum to our efforts to 
promote openness in education and research worldwide. Now in its fifth edition  
the aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications 
that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe 
technology World Wind. This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop 
their ideas covering a broad range of domains from transportation to air 
quality to linked data.

Details of his  contributions are at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/

We are proud to honour  Patrick as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely 
grateful for his contributions to Geo for All and for Open Principles in 
Education.

I am grateful for this opportunity of introducing some of our amazing 
colleagues  from different parts of our world each month as our GeoAmbassadors 
and get inspired by their amazing work and contributions for the wider 
community.

Best wishes,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Patrick Hogan

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Suchith, and the GeoForAll community,

I am greatly honored by this GeoForAll recognition! Being part of GeoForAll 
rhymes well with the NASA motto ‘for the benefit of all.’

Question. . .as GeoAmbassador, will there be any formal State dinners that 
require me to wear a tux? ;-)

I am very glad to be part of a community that doesn’t just talk about what the 
world needs, we build it! And then we help each other achieve our very best 
with it.

The NASA Europa Challenge was originated in concert Prof Maria Brovelli of 
Politecnico di Milano. Any success we have had is greatly a result of our 
ongoing collaboration with Politecnico di Milano at Como, especially the 
support of Maria’s world-class GIS students who have been integral to our 
success. Gabriele Prestifilippo, a graduate student of Maria’s, is responsible 
for making the recent connection with Helsinki for this year’s Europa 
Challenge, and Gabriele has done so much else in support of NASA WebWorldWind, 
the oldest and the truest open source virtual globe platform, with no ‘pro’ 
version ahead.

We have also depended on SMEs such as Trilogis and their CTO, Dr. Giuseppe 
Conti, who has been Herculean in delivering GeoForAll results. The eLocust3D 
program for the UN/FAO being just one example. We look forward to more SMEs 
engaging with the Europa Challenge and delivering GeoForAll results.

The Europa Challenge is there to deliver geospatial solutions that all of 
humanity can share. What better way for OSGeo and GeoForAll to inspire the 
world, while simultaneously making it more resource effective and efficient. 
This year the top six (6) teams will get an all-expense paid week in Helsinki, 
travel included, for the last week of August. This will allow these student and 
SMEs to share their work, helping each other advance their project. We treasure 
this! It is their gift to the world, given in the spirit of GeoForAll.

Please join us! Students and SMEs alike, share with us your GeoForAll ‘right 
stuff!’

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
http://nasaeuropachallenge.com/

-Patrick
patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
Project Manager
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

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Anand
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 2:19 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassodor – Patrick Hogan

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoforAll community, It is my great pleasure to introduce Patrick 
Hogan as our GeoAmbassador. Patrick Hogan began his U.S. Government career with 
the Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, and then joined NASA a year later 
as their senior environmental geologist at Ames Research Center. In 2002 
Patrick was asked to lead the NASA Learning Technologies program. This is where 
NASA World Wind was born, the world's first open source virtual globe program. 
In 2009 World Wind received the prestigious NASA Software of the Year award. 
There are versions of World Wind in Java, Android and for the Web in 
JavaScript. We are especially grateful for Patrick’s efforts in creating the 
NASA Europa Challenge initiative which adds great momentum to our efforts to 
promote openness in education and research worldwide. Now in its fifth edition 
the aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications 
that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe 
technology World Wind. This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop 
their ideas covering a broad range of domains from transportation to air 
quality to linked data.

Details of his contributions are at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/geoambassodor-patrick-hogan/

We are proud to honour Patrick as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely 
grateful for his contributions to Geo for All and for Open Principles in 
Education.

I am grateful for this opportunity of introducing some of our amazing 
colleagues from different parts of our world each month as our GeoAmbassadors 
and get inspired by their amazing work and contributions for the wider 
community.

Best wishes,

Suchith









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[OSGeo-Discuss] Helsinki-NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

The NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2017 is off to a roaring start!
http://nasaeuropachallenge.com/ 

The top six (6) teams will be invited, all expenses paid, travel and lodging 
for five days, that include the final three days to ^show your stuff^ 29-30-31 
August.

This is in addition to the NASA Crystal Bull award, resume gold and some really 
cool cash. Not to mention cozy long-sleeve NASA shirts and NASA certificates 
just for qualifying.

Our world very quickly needs to find a way for us to begin working 
harmoniously, advancing each other's interest while serving our own. It will 
help if we are oriented to one platform for building 'smart city' urban 
management solutions, ESA-NASA WebWorldWind [1]. 

ESA & NASA are jointly advancing WebWorldWind, the latest version of the NASA 
World Wind family, and the world's oldest virtual globe platform, open source 
since inception in 2002. Let's rock the world 'for the benefit of all' by 
sharing our solutions!

Your CitySmart web app, based on the ESA-NASA WebWorldWind virtual globe SDK, 
needs to be ready for the first round of judging 7 August. This gives you ten 
weeks to make something good happen. There are plenty of examples, all open 
source, from previous years [2] along with some NASA World Wind Research 
projects, all open source [3].

By 7 August you simply need a webpage that describes your web app, a 
three-minute video of your web app in action, and your open source code 
accessible, i.e., via github or other. The judges, an international panel of 
GIS experts, will decide which six teams get the all-expense paid trip, and you 
will get ^the news^ 5 days later. And then on August 29 the finals begin with 
YOU there in Helsinki!

Are you ready for Helsinki? Helsinki is ready for you! 
One of the most livable cities in the world! [4]

[1] https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
[2] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
[3] https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch
[4] 
https://www.helsinkismart.fi/helsinki-in-the-top-ten-most-liveable-cities-in-the-world/

-Patrick
patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
Project Manager
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

This seems a timely and relevant article from UC Berkeley, 

"Smart moves: California's next-gen infrastructure"
http://engineering.berkeley.edu/magazine/spring-2017/smart-moves-californias-next-gen-infrastructure
 

Whether it is Agriculture and Nutrition or Urban Infrastructure Management, we 
need to hurry up and prepare the world for increasingly strange and severe 
weather. This means we need to harden infrastructure and localize energy, water 
and food. No time to lose!

-Patrick

From: Suchith Anand [mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:40 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science 
and Technology for Development

Thanks Patrick, Maria. The NASA Europa Challenge is a great example of how 
science is a pursuit driven by the desire to serve humanity. 

The draft resolution of the 20th session of the United Nations Commission on 
Science and Technology for Development is at
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/ecn162017_DraftRes_STI_en.pdf

I am grateful for this opportunity to share my experiences and It is great to 
see top scientists from around the world coming  and working together on ideas 
for bridging the digital divide. I am also pleased to see that Capacity 
building is strongly highlighted in the Science, technology and innovation for 
development draft resolution. This is a great first step and I thank scientists 
and governments for the work for this. I really hope   the role of the 
Commission on Science and Technology for Development as the United Nations 
torch-bearer for science, technology and innovation for development will carry 
on with bigger impact.

Science is a search for truth and Science and technology should be for the 
benefit of the humanity as a whole. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: I am also pleased to see that the European Commission's high-level advisers 
advocate open research and innovation as essential drivers for growth in 
Europe. Details at 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=newsalert=2017=na-150517 

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From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>
Sent: 13 May 2017 10:02 PM
To: Anand Suchith; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science 
and Technology for Development

Suchith,

I was delighted to listen to your distinguished presentation that began with 
the world's first view of that delicate blue-and-tan jewel, the Earth, as seen 
from space. And then to learn more about GODAN and the NASA GODAN Challenge! A 
phrase that has such a nice ring to it!

Your efforts to establish Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition are 
invaluable. Your presentation to the UN clearly identified the priorities, we 
need open tools to turn open data into actionable information.

The NASA Europa Challenge which will climax in Helsinki this year in late 
August is very proud to partner with GODAN for the NASA GODAN Challenge.

Let's see what Earthlings can do when they apply their energies in helping each 
other!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ 

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 7:38 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission 
on Science and Technology for Development

Dear colleagues,

The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and 
Technology for Development was held from 08 - 12 May 2017, Palais des Nations, 
Geneva, Switzerland. I am thankful for the opportunity to present my inputs to 
the esteemed members of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for 
Development.

My presentation recording at:
https://conf.unog.ch/digitalrecordings/index.html?guid=public/31.0050/763B439D-5D07-4593-B280-C2BE3355C0C9_15h11=4524
 

The slides of my presentation at:
https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/the-role-of-science-technology-and-innovation-in-ensuring-food-security-by-2030
 

More information at:
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/05/the-twentieth-session-of-the-united-nations-commission-on-science-and-technology-for-development/
 

Open data and open principles in science and education are key for ensuring 
food security by 2030. It is now for us to make use of it, for the benefit of 
all. Let us work together to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared 
prosperity for all. Thank you.

Best wishes,

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[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

I was delighted to listen to your distinguished presentation that began with 
the world's first view of that delicate blue-and-tan jewel, the Earth, as seen 
from space. And then to learn more about GODAN and the NASA GODAN Challenge! A 
phrase that has such a nice ring to it!

Your efforts to establish Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition are 
invaluable. Your presentation to the UN clearly identified the priorities, we 
need open tools to turn open data into actionable information. 

The NASA Europa Challenge which will climax in Helsinki this year in late 
August is very proud to partner with GODAN for the NASA GODAN Challenge. 

Let's see what Earthlings can do when they apply their energies in helping each 
other!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 7:38 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission 
on Science and Technology for Development

Dear colleagues,

The Twentieth Session of the United Nations Commission on Science and 
Technology for Development was held from 08 - 12 May 2017 ,Palais des Nations, 
Geneva, Switzerland. I am thankful for the opportunity to present my inputs to 
the esteemed members of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for 
Development.

My presentation recording at:
https://conf.unog.ch/digitalrecordings/index.html?guid=public/31.0050/763B439D-5D07-4593-B280-C2BE3355C0C9_15h11=4524

The slides of my presentation at:
https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/the-role-of-science-technology-and-innovation-in-ensuring-food-security-by-2030
 


More information at:
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/05/the-twentieth-session-of-the-united-nations-commission-on-science-and-technology-for-development/
 


Open data and open principles in science and education are key for ensuring 
food security by 2030. It is now for us to make use of it, for the benefit of 
all. Let us work together to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared 
prosperity for all. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 4-Year-Old Girl Reads More Than 1,000 Books

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sometimes spam is important.



Here is an example as to what our children are capable of if we take the time 
to properly welcome them into this world, and keep them well away from the 
media.



When we worship our children for the gods they are, we will all be in heaven.



3 minutes and 44 seconds interview, a recipe for instilling the best life has 
to offer.


http://www.npr.org/2017/01/17/510301358/4-year-old-girl-reads-more-than-1-000-books
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The first “hard copy” steps for the Farma Valley (Tuscany) community map

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Andrea,
This is a brilliant idea! How about putting up a web page that let tourists and 
others know exactly how they can contribute and how precious their 
participation is. I might also suggest getting the word out to High Schools 
too! Those students would love to become part of this communal effort. Maybe 
with some recognition for the school that does the most. If there is something 
you think NASA can do to help, let me know.
-Patrick

P.S.: ESA has standardized on Web World Wind.
So building an interface with that might be fun and easily integrate 
Copernicus/Sentinel data!
By way of example for ease of development, here are some web apps,
built by pairs of NASA Interns in less than two-months!
And they hadn’t written a line of JavaScript before their summer here.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch

And ESA apps using ESA-NASA Web World Wind:
[Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: 
Sentinel App]Get the Sentinel App for 
iOS

[Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: 
Sentinel App]Get the Sentinel App for 
Android

https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

May the FOSS be with you!

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrea 
Giacomelli
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 3:01 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The first “hard copy” steps for the Farma Valley 
(Tuscany) community map

Hi,
As an update following the Apr. 7 ASPRS/GeoforAll 
webinar,
 please see:

http://www.pibinko.org/the-first-hard-copy-steps-for-the-farma-valley-tuscany-community-map/

By the way: if you are planning vacations or business travel in central Italy 
(let's say a triangle defined by Florence, Rome and the Tuscan coast) and are 
interested to see the "ground truth" part of the project - or actually become 
part of it, let me know!

Best regards!
Andrea Giacomelli
http://www.pibinko.org
i...@pibinko.org
+39 331 7539228
P. IVA: 01582480537

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

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

‘Twould be fun to have a “You are here!” arrow pointing at some spot in the OSM 
city view.

Then on the back of the shirt could be picture of the Earth
^or^
the Milky Way with another “You are here” arrow, i.e. . .

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/You-Are-Here-Earth.png/1024px-You-Are-Here-Earth.png

http://sites.psu.edu/vansonspace/wp-content/uploads/sites/18071/2015/04/milky-way-you-are-here.jpg

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 1:43 PM
To: Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl; Vicky Vergara; Maria Antonia 
Brovelli
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: website/rebranding april update

That looks great, would need to be lighter so that text and graphics can go 
over too.

And yeah I was trying to go away from topo, which is not always very 
accessible. Linework features, streets, featured etc...
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:41 AM Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl 
> wrote:

Sort of like the OSM based T-shirts:
http://www.citeefashion.com/products

I like the idea, but perhaps it makes things a little too complex?
A contour line map of The Netherlands as a biz card background would not be 
very exciting ;-)

Regards,

Gert-Jan

Van: Discuss 
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
 Namens Jody Garnett
Verzonden: zaterdag 29 april 2017 20:32
Aan: Vicky Vergara; Maria Antonia Brovelli
CC: OSGeo Discussions
Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: website/rebranding april update

Okay I have an idea that I may regret sharing - because I am not enough of a 
cartographer to make it happen.

What if we went for a line work map (no fills or very saturated fills) and 
people could zoom into an appropriate area for their biz card or presentation 
subject matter? We would need a consistent palette to go well with the logo and 
general branding - but I love the metaphor of every member, local chapter, 
event having their own location driven background.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:56 PM Vicky Vergara 
> wrote:
I like the sophisticated.
But the green on the name cards etc ... its too much green, maybe more 
transparent. I am not saying to have it multicolour because printing becomes 
expensive with more colors.
The white www.osgeo.org is behind the black lines, its so 
wierd.
Vicky


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> wrote:
I like the proposed logo sophisticated.
About topography, I agree with Jody.
I would prefere as background a stylized map of the galaxy or the universe.
In any case, thanks a lot!
Maria

 Messaggio originale 
Da: Jody Garnett >
Data: 28/04/17 23:16 (GMT+01:00)
A: Jeffrey Johnson >
Cc: OSGeo Discussions >
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] website/rebranding april update

My feedback:

- The topo background graphic proposed is a strong visual, but comes across as 
vintage / retro / dated to my eyes (steampunk!).  It does evolve from our 
current branding (see slide 2 
here),
 but I am not sure it reflects modern mapping technologies. Wonder if we could 
go for a blueprint vector+note visualization of the data behind mapping

- Tempted to use the current light-green as one of the colors for logo3, 
because many local 
chapters have taken the color rather than 
the visual elements as a base, others look amazing doing 
there own thing.

--
Jody Garnett

On 28 April 2017 at 13:54, Jeffrey Johnson 
> wrote:
Hi All,

We can share the initial cut of the branding process. It is available
as a PDF here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1D61nG9ZgtbdmpmcTh4SnBYMFU/view?usp=sharing

Feel free to comment here or on the marketing list. We will go through
a few sets of revisions with the vendor.

Jeff

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Jody Garnett 
> wrote:
> Quick status update from the webstie/rebranding initiative for April:
>
> We have started to see rough wireframes of the approach used for the
> website. To make these wireframes more realistic we are going through an
> "visitor journey" exercise (which is where your representatives from
> geoforall and local chapters are key).
> We received the first breakdown of new branding this week, and are providing
> feedback on the proposed logos/colors.
>
> A big thanks to Marc, Jeffrey and the GetInteractive team for efficiency in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESA EO Open Science Conference, 25-28 Sep 2017, ESRIN, Italy - Call for Abstract

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Thank you Maria! Our reigning Queen of GIS and Kind Kitten of Sol Katz!

We have ^EO Open Science^ and other equally fantastic spatial data 
opportunities!

INSPIRE, Strasbourg France (6-8 Sep), 
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/conference2017

EO Open Science, Frascati, Italy (25-28 Sep)
http://eoopenscience.esa.int/

BiDS'17, Toulouse France (28-30 Nov)
http://bigdatafromspace2017.org

Anyone using ESA-NASA Web World Wind and who would like NASA to co-author an 
abstract, we would be glad to participate.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

-Patrick

 Messaggio originale 
From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Maria Antonia Brovelli
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:01 AM
To: geoforall; discuss osgeo
Subject: [Geo4All] I: ESA EO Open Science Conference, 25-28 Sep 2017, ESRIN, 
Italy - Call for Abstract

Dear All 
Sorry for cross-posting. See the Announcement below.
Happy weekend,
Maria 

 Messaggio originale 
Da: eoopenscie...@esa.int 
Data: 21/04/17 17:27 (GMT+01:00) 
A: eoopenscie...@esa.int 
Oggetto: ESA EO Open Science Conference, 25-28 Sep 2017, ESRIN, Italy  - Call 
for Abstract 
Dear Colleague, 

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organizing the third Earth Observation Open 
Science community consultation at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) on 25-28 September 
2017 to explore the new challenges and opportunities for EO research created by 
the rapid advances in digital technologies (http://eoopenscience.esa.int/). 

These include open tools and software, data-intensive science, virtual research 
environment, citizen science, advanced visualization, and e-education of the 
new generation of Data scientists. 

Please submit your abstract at http://eoopenscience.esa.int/ before 15.05.2017. 

We are planning to have an exhibition area to enable you to make demonstration 
during the meeting. This can include Visualisation, Education and Art. The 
space will be limited, all info will be available @ 
http://eoopenscience.esa.int/page_exhibit.php. 

Best regards,     
The EO Open Science Organising Committee 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OpenLitterMap now online

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

This is brilliant work! And so dearly needed!

-Original Message-
From: Seán Lynch 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:01 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (NASA)
Subject: OpenLitterMap now online

Dear Patrick,

You might remember we spoke at the FOSS4G event in Como some time ago.

I thought I'd let you now that www.OpenLitterMap.com is now online.

Happy mapping,
Kind regards-
Seán
-- 
M.Sc. Coastal & Marine Environments (NUIG, 2015)
M.Sc. GIS & Remote Sensing (UCC, 2014)
B.A. Geography & Economics (UCC, 2011)
http://ie.linkedin.com/in/seanlynchgis 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

An age old problem, a terrifying imbalance between haves and have-nots with 
children ending up paying the dearest price. Our ^moral^ imperative whether 
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Jew is the same golden rule around the world, 
yet reality has corrupted circumstance to be the exact opposite, the 
banana-grabbing chimp-mentality promotes profit over parity. So apparently we 
do not take ourselves very seriously. 

Diminishing agricultural resources, especially given the global shift in our 
hydrologic system, particularly in areas already on the edge of subsistence, 
leads to increasing conflict. When there is less to fight over, the fight 
intensifies, further exacerbating the proverbial 'circle of life.'

GODAN sure has it right idea, Global Open Data is the essential key for 
enhancing Agriculture and Nutrition. I listened to the presentation, but there 
still seems some initial targets yet to be defined. 

I am not sure if these are the right questions, but we need to ask specifically 
for what data we want:
Have we identified the data types needed? 
Possible sources from the current satellite resources? 
(i.e., vegetation, then of course weather: current, medium and long range 
projections)
Web apps to leverage that data based on highly localized areas to directly 
serve individual farmers. 
Data storage for upload of small local data, let the farmers contribute (via 
cell phone). 
Maybe a GODAN Forum where farmers could ask each other questions about 
practices, pests or other.

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:10 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - 
"Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 
at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and 
malnutrition and can be found in every corner of the globe. That's one in every 
nine people, with the majority being women and children. The Global Open Data 
for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the proactive sharing of open 
data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible 
and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. A 
core principle behind GODAN is that a solution to Zero Hunger lies within 
existing, but often unavailable, agriculture and nutrition data.

At the GODAN Summit [1] in September 2016, GODAN launched a new Working Group 
on Capacity Development [2]. We have started a webinar series to reach out to 
the wider community on the importance of open data. The first webinar took 
place on March 2017 where we will gave an overview of the activities of the WG 
and explain how you can get involved. The webinar recording is available at 
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/recording-past-webinar-godan-wg-capacity-development
 


Our next webinar on "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" 
and will be led by GODAN Action colleagues from the Open Data Institute [3] in 
London. This webinar is scheduled to be held on  April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 
4:00 PM BST


This webinar will focus on key aspects:

- Why publish open data
- What benefit can publishing open data bring
- Why licenses are the most important aspect of publishing open data
- How to start with publishing open data

This webinar will draw on content available in existing eLearning and in 
particular, will focus on the following eLearning modules available in the 
European Data Portal.

1) What is open data - https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module1 
2) How useful is my data - 
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module10 
3) Why do we need to license? - 
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module4 

We shall also be drawing on the following module to outline the importance of 
staying focused in publication activities.
4) Measuring success for open data - 
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module6 

Participants are encouraged to engage with the eLearning prior to the webinar. 
During the webinar itself the speaker will provide an overview specific to 
organisations regarding this content and then will open the call to questions.

Please join us by register through this link at 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1660118903825137922 

We welcome all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity Development and 
contributing to education and training on Open Data in food and agricultural 
sciences. This is open and free to all interested. Join at 
https://dgroups.org/fao/godan_cd 


Best wishes

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/ 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ 

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
Open Principles in Science and Education for Bridging the Digital Divide

[1] 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open vs Proprietary, the Yin and Yang of Innovation

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

In the Open vs Proprietary discussion, both have their features and detractors. 
But, there is much more than the yin-yang of their details if we are to embrace 
each for their contribution to ^our^ world and how they advance the quality of 
life for all, not just a few. 

Our society and the 'engine' that drives innovation requires a yin-yang 
balance.  Today's severe dichotomy of haves and have-nots is the lead cause of 
the terrifying friction we are experiencing in our delicate world. And will 
assuredly increase if cannot find more 'open' ways to address our common needs, 
such as life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, according to one nation's 
declaration of basic human rights. 

Suchith first raised the question regarding the quality of 'open' because of 
his great concern for access to open geospatial tools serving education, as 
well as small business and government alike. Suchith is engaged in a kind of 
hand-to-hand combat for OSGeo equality. It's probably a result of those 
rose-colored OSGeo-like glasses he got from his grandmother. ;-0

'Open' is a key element to a world where we have a future, more importantly, a 
fruitful and inclusive one. Monopolies, the epitome of closed, are the real 
problem, mega-corps ruling a medium, not a luxury medium but one we all need. 
They depress the opportunity for 'open' to have a say. And they no longer 
operate on the 'free market' principle of 'open' and fair competition. 

Proprietary should be a very exciting and dynamic arena. The opportunity for 
value-added needs to continually challenge status quo, this is essential for 
innovation, whether that comes from the open source community, the business 
community or academia. When this opportunity is diminished, we become 'yoked' 
to essentially one solution, without stimulating the market of innovation.

At the very least we can all agree on open standards for information exchange, 
this is essential, and is the life-blood of our ability to communicate with 
each other. Just ask OGC! Yet LAS vs LAZ is a good example of the 'open yet not 
open' issue. So the dialogue is necessarily complex, with 'open' having several 
degrees of freedom. 

The world is desperate for innovation today! We have changing weather patterns 
that are leading to low-level conflict and worse, followed by subsequent mass 
migrations. We cannot afford for poorer students, cities or nations to be left 
behind. 

Recall that just 150,000 or so years ago 'we' migrated out of the Olduvai 
Gorge. We are all children of migrants. We have so much to learn about 
ourselves and such joy to experience in beautifully indulging each other with 
music, dance, love, art and fantastic software solutions, with innovation being 
'openly' challenged on every front! 

My favorite quote, aside from one by Eleanor Roosevelt about the future 
belonging to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams, is one from the 
PBS website "There's more genetic diversity within a group of chimps on a 
single hillside in Gomba than in the entire human species." 
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-11.htm

We have everything to gain in openly sharing, and everything to lose if we 
don't.
-Patrick
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for proprietary GIS vendor to market their proprietary product as Open ?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

There is CopyLeft which is the purest form of ‘open source’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

Then there is the ‘Cathedral and the Bazaar’ [essay] for a considering how 
process-and-chaos vie as community reaches for fruition.

To my mind, the ‘core’ platforms for communication must be CopyLeft. We need to 
maximize the essentials for exchange of ideas, our franca lingua.

But, like Jody suggests, value-added should be free to be open ^or^ 
proprietary. But, but with ‘open’ always able to challenge ‘proprietary’ for 
true value-added.

Our world needs both, open and proprietary, with ability for ‘open’ to 
challenge ‘proprietary’ never to be compromised. In this way we can unleash 
small and medium enterprise to all kinds of spectacular and innovative 
solutions.

Caveat: For our collective intellect to accelerate at the speed of 
enlightenment, we need maximum and fully open education for every kid on this 
planet. That is if we care enough to invest in our greatest natural resource, 
our children. Not to mention a beautifully ‘open’ tomorrow for ourselves, as 
oldies but goodies. ;-)

For a light-hearted semordnilap, there is no nepo-tism in open!

As for the Android Tower of Babel, how to fix? Would CopyLeft have forced a 
more collective approach?
The question I ask is, why doesn’t Linux have a world-class GUI, so the darn 
thing would be more friendly to app development!
Is it the Cathedral and Bazaar syndrome?

-Patrick Bonobo

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 6:53 PM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for proprietary GIS vendor to 
market their proprietary product as Open ?

Considering android is marketed as open, yes this is possible in our industry 
as well :)

Keep in mind we have several definitions of "open", even "open source" does not 
match the same meaning of open advocated by the free software foundation.

In our industry specifically we have open standards, allowing many proprietary 
(and open source) products to be marketed as "open" (in the sense that they 
support a standard allowing integration in a larger systems).

By the same token a proprietary vendor can define an API with license terms 
allowing customers and third-party vendors to create additional functionality 
that extends their software. This is the meaning of "open platform" I think you 
are referring to. There is a lot more meaning behind "open platform" though, 
ideally you have a way for those third-party vendors to turn a profit thus 
motivating their continued participation in your platform.

This is a rough-and-tumble competition - we can no longer use the short hand 
"open" to capture what we do here at OSGeo. We are going to have to wade into 
these debates with a strong story and clear examples from our community. We 
should also expect platforms to be built up around our open source projects 
(say Carto being built around PostGIS). This is a great way to ensure these 
projects stay viable, as long as we keep everyone involved sufficiently 
encouraged/valued/funded.

Oh and to answer your question, the mislead customers may of confused "open 
source" with "open platform". If we want the distinction clear in the market we 
need to use organizations such as OSGeo to push that message.

--
Jody Garnett

On 22 March 2017 at 13:15, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:


Hi all,


I have a query. If a proprietary GIS vendor starts marketing their proprietary 
products as Open platform and software then what rights do the organisations 
and customers have who are misled buying the proprietary software thinking it 
is open have? The definition of Proprietary software [1] is very clearly 
defined, so how can it be possible for any proprietary GIS vendor to market 
their software knowingly as open platform if it is proprietary?


This also greatly affects the business and revenues of true open source 
software companies. Who is responsible for any misleading marketing that 
results in losses to both customers who are misled to buy the proprietary 
software thinking it is open and also to other companies who do true open 
source business who lose out on the business opportunities? Is it right 
business ethics to do this?


Best wishes,
Suchith

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OpenCitySmart

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo,

The Open Source Geospatial approach is the essential 'cooking' method 
for any master chef interested in sustainable world-class cuisine. 

An OSGeo OpenCitySmart app could well serve as a seed crystal 
to engage cities in collectively advancing urban management capabilities, 
needs that are essentially the same for every other city on the planet.

Affluent cities could fund development of capabilities 
that would directly benefit other 'less endowed' cities around the world. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart

The DelBianco Foundation of Florence Italy is funding development of 
OpenCitySmart.
The premier release will take place next month in Florence, on March 12-13. 
All are welcome! www.lifebeyondtourism.org/evento/991/

The presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VEPkjJaa2AdcWA6_15CuInFMxaSaxI3yvDUeTFPw6xc/

The city of Springfield Oregon, Kodiak Alaska, and New York City are engaged in 
testing. 
Additional support is coming from ESA, Trilogis, Sinergise, Solenix and 
TrilliumLearning, as well as
Politecnico di Milano at Como, thanks to Prof Maria Brovelli and her graduate 
students.
And GODAN is also moving in this direction! www.godan.info

-Patrick
 patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 Project Manager
 NASA-ESA WorldWind
 (650) 604-5656 (o)
 (650) 269-2788 (c) 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Heritage for Planet Earth

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo & GeoForAll

Just a thought, in honor of Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Jones, Eugene 
Debs, Lysistrata and others. . . 

The OSGEO OpenCitySmart effort is proceeding in earnest!
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart

You might want to register or maybe miss out big time! 

The ^new^ Renaissance for a world that works in concert with each other. . .
is being introduced 12 March in the heart of original Renaissance, Firenze!!! 
Please join us and learn about the 'easy-to-install' back-end GeoServer/OSM.
And the beautiful front-end CitySmart client, with actual city data fully 
applied.

www.lifebeyondtourism.org/evento/946

http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/community/registrazione

It's going to be one helluva lot of fun watching this international gathering 
of Mayors light-up as they see a way for a world to become sister-cities 
overnight via a suite of brilliant and heartfelt OSGEO/FOSS4G technology. 

-patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
When we worship our children for the gods they are, we will all be in heaven
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[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2016

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

If I may, the Europe Challenge 'vanity video' put together by the city of 
Trentino, the host for 2016.

A lot of smart and inspired students and SMEs using open source to deliver 
'living' results.

These are world-class quality web apps that others can learn from and extend! 

There is only one way out of here if we want to survive, one world working in 
each other's interest.

https://youtu.be/OQEzJrEDmEI

Now in its 5th year! 
With much thanks to Prof Maria Brovelli, 
Rector for Politecnico di Milano at Como 
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo, Open Source GIS, Open Hardware, Open (Geo)Data in Agriculture - examples wanted.

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Peter,

I’m sure you are already aware of www.OpenSourceEcology.org
https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

Be great to see OSGeo work with OpenSourceEcology to build software that works 
in concert with the machinery.

And we have some good links at the OSGeo wiki for OpenCitySmart.
Check out the Urban Farming and OpenSourceEcology sections
under Rerference Material towards the bottom of the page.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Reference_Material

Do they grow things other than potatoes in Ireland?  ;-)

-Patrick O’Hogan
(650) 604-5656 (o)
(650) 269-2788 (c)

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter Mooney
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:10 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo, Open Source GIS, Open Hardware, Open (Geo)Data 
in Agriculture - examples wanted.

Hello everyone,

In my home region (http://osm.org/go/etihfKs--?m=) in the midlands of Ireland a 
local volunteer group has asked me to give a lecture/talk to the local farming 
community (and anyone else who is interested) on the topic of "Open Source 
Farming" or "Open Source Agriculture". The talk is scheduled for the end of 
January 2017.

The theme of the talk is to try to reach out and engage with the sizeable local 
farming community on the topics of using Open Source Software, Open (Geo)Data, 
Open Hardware, etc in the management of their agricultural business. Basically 
show the audience some really good examples from agriculture around the world.

My email is to ask if any of you have links to (1) similar presentations, 
lectures, webinars, videos or (2) examples of OSGeo software use in 
agriculture, etc. Indeed any fun, interesting, or cool ideas that would be of 
interest to an agriculture/rural audience.

My idea is that if there is enough interest in the audience I will try to look 
to develop some outreach teaching using OSGeo Live for these communities.

I will credit all contributions and shall be making my slides openly available 
after the presentation. I'll report back to the mailing lists.

Greetings for the holiday season and best wishes for 2017,

Peter Mooney

Maynooth University, Ireland [http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/]
European Co-Chair Geo-For-All
Upcoming events: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/eurosdr2017/, 
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of the Google Summer of Code

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Anne and Madi,

You are a class act operation! It was tremendous having the opportunity to 
spend the day with you!

And even indulge a bit of Italy at Mario’s with Lucia and family! 
www.mariositaliano.com

Already looking forward to seeing you again, doing all the good deeds that need 
to be done!

Buona Fortuna to you both!

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Margherita 
Di Leo
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 5:25 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of the Google Summer of Code

Dear OSGeo Fellows,

earlier this month, Anne and I attended GSoC Mentors Summit at Google's Tech 
Corners in California as OSGeo delegates, and also had the chance to visit NASA 
Ames Research Center, as our mentor for NASA WorldWind, Patrick Hogan, 
graciously hosted us for a guided tour! (Thank you again Patrick!).

(Partly) recovered from the jet-lag, it is now time to make some reflections 
and decide how to follow up in this great experience that is the Google Summer 
of Code. Talking to Anne, she frankly said that she doesn't wish to continue as 
GSoC admin for the next year. Actually, wen I stepped in as admin 2 years ago, 
she had already decided to quit, but nevertheless, she continued for another 
two years. Now I think we already abused her availability.

From my side, I wish to continue, and I actually wanted even explore the 
possibility to participate in the Google Code-in [1]. But this is another 
story, that deserves another dedicated thread. It is late to apply for it this 
year, so there will be time to discuss it over.

My most important point here is: we need a GSoC admins team. Ideally another 2 
people, that are willing to work together with me to continue the great OSGeo's 
experience in GSoC. This is not paid work, however, traditionally 2 GSoC admins 
have the honor to attend the yearly mentor summit in California, hosted in the 
Google premises, and the expenses reimbursed by Google.

Notwithstanding my good will to continue in the role of admin, I have to be 
realistic and say that I cannot do it alone, so if other volunteers are not 
found, I'm afraid our participation in GSoC it is going to an end this year.

Please, feel free to circulate this call to your connections, former mentors or 
former GSoC students, Geo-For-All fellows, etc.. We need your help!

Thanks!
Regards,


[1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

+1
Randy, you are a brilliant voice of reason.
I’m sure the cat wants you to be free to speak.
Glad it didn’t get your tongue. ;-)

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Randal Hale
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 6:55 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing sad news from the web...


If I can just chime in (I told my cat I wasn't).

The kicker in this is ESRI is deeply entrenched everywhere. They've entire 
groups of people just focused on "giving to schools". I was at the helm of 
rolling out a full ESRI rollout to a school in 2012. We had a 50 seat lab 
setup. I ended up moving them over to FOSS4G 2 years ago - and I need to go 
back and update their setup (they don't know how). The school is Title 1 (which 
means the school is very poor). The computers are better than what they 
normally get - BUT - they will be using them longer than what they need to. 
They will be unable to run the next version of ESRI Software. The computers can 
still run FOSS4G software.

The teachers here in the US (and I have no doubt this is the case everywhere) 
are stretched thin. That's what makes ESRI so nice. They show up and go "here 
is a curriculum (of sorts) and here is 'free' software". It's a short term win. 
They have people targeted to do just that.
So what would Randy do (and I've thought about this more than I care to 
mention) to introduce FOSS4G into the schools:

A bootable disk with FOSS4G software (I am partial to QGIS - other things 
exist) and not everything like the OSGEO Disk. A few select pieces of software 
with a purpose:

  *   10 lessons of 1 hour apiece to work through that are student oriented 
(maybe pick an age range - 12-16)
 *   Start globally and work down to locally. Maybe we have different local 
datasets.
  *   An explanation for the teachers. They don't understand like we do - they 
need us there for hand holding and encouragement. They can manage kids - We 
need to help manage the lessons. I'm not a teacher. I can teach adults - but 
not kids - it's a whole different  game.
  *   A spot where teachers can get the lessons (NOT GITHUB) and the disk 
(maybe we combine all things into a bootable USB stick).
  *   Help - a place where they can get help (NOT GITHUB). My town has 30+ 
schools. If more than 1 does this I can't be everywhere. ESRI put out a call 
for Geomentors. We put out a call.
  *   We have COMMUNITY - I don't believe ESRI currently does. They have an 
advertising budget. 20 years ago they had community. We have momentum now. 
Community is greater than an Advertising budget.
  *   Advertise it. Ask for help from the teachers.
  *   Update it.

I know I'm asking for a lot - it's time intensive - but I think it's 100% 
doable. I go to speak at 2 colleges on GIS Day on nothing but FOSS4G.

We've got all the pieces to make this work except time. I'll carve out some 
time if this gets going.

I wished the cat had stopped me. Now I'm in it.

On 10/28/2016 09:16 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
As if someone is reading this ha, a tweet just came across my desk: 
https://twitter.com/GIS4Teachers/status/791981572991746048

So, we need to also get into that huge K-12 market, plant the open seed early 
:)  A challenge indeed.

Think on this over the weekend,

-jeff




On 2016-10-27 12:36 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:

Sadly, only ESRI seems to exist for some in the USA...Imagine the
consequences of
this: 
http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100610-gathering-up-geospatial-pros-to-meet-massive-market-growth
​


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Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Marc, wisdom isn’t stuck on stickers. Bugs are.
15k€ split 10 ways to students demonstrating ^applied^ results with OS software,
would do a ton more beautiful damage than a dumpster worth of stickers.
What happened to that tattoo idea anyway?
Though pretty silly, at least it’s getting our thinking out of the box.
Putting together an OS challenge and lining up world-class GIS judges to 
evaluate student talent is not easy.
Much easier to do stickers and call it a day.
;-)

From: Marc VLOEMANS [mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 9:43 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Dear Patrick et al

Rest assured; as the one responsible I can only say that our scarce marketing 
resources are deployed with careful consideration. 15k only can do so much for 
this year. But the time and effort that an increasing number of people in the 
Marketing Committee and - most notably - in our community at large spend is 
invaluably a lot more than 15k.

If members feel they need funding for outreach and advocacy they are invited to 
submit a proposal to the (recently revived) Marketing Committee. Whether for 
promotional material (downloadable at OSGeo.org) to support specific OSGeo 
related activities or elsethat is the committee to decide. Depending on 
available budget, expected value added and impact.

To misquote someone wiser than myself;
'We conquer the world, sticker by sticker, laptop by laptop, student by 
student, department by department, organisation by organisation, country by 
country, continent by continent'
and it all started with a single sticker ;-)

Have a great weekend y'all.

Marc

Op vrijdag 30 september 2016 heeft Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> het volgende geschreven:
Hope that OSGEO applies their 'marketing budget' so that that future might 
happen.

Best assurance for that is to maximize our students intent to deliver OS 
^results^ with OS tools.

The measure of the future we will have is in how well we both educate and 
challenge our children.

If we only worshipped our children for the gods they are, we would all be in 
heaven today.

-Patrick

How much are those stickers worth on eBay anyway? Less than the postage I 
imagine.

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<javascript:;>] On Behalf 
Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 7:02 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<javascript:;>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hi Madi, Anne, thanks for promoting OSGeo!  I think also Astrid has some cool 
OSGeo stickers (the 'cube' one).  We can also reimburse the costs to ship them 
to you, as part of the marketing budget.  Thank you again!

-jeff


On 2016-09-29 2:45 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi all!
> At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in
> Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we
> think it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to
> have some spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could
> mail us?
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Madi
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Hope that OSGEO applies their 'marketing budget' so that that future might 
happen.

Best assurance for that is to maximize our students intent to deliver OS 
^results^ with OS tools.

The measure of the future we will have is in how well we both educate and 
challenge our children. 

If we only worshipped our children for the gods they are, we would all be in 
heaven today.

-Patrick

How much are those stickers worth on eBay anyway? Less than the postage I 
imagine.

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 7:02 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hi Madi, Anne, thanks for promoting OSGeo!  I think also Astrid has some cool 
OSGeo stickers (the 'cube' one).  We can also reimburse the costs to ship them 
to you, as part of the marketing budget.  Thank you again!

-jeff




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On 2016-09-29 2:45 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi all!
> At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in
> Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we
> think it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to
> have some spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could
> mail us?
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Madi
>
>
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>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Just what the world needs, more stupid plastic crap.

Suggest money be spent as awards to students building useful (FOSS4G) solutions 
for Smart Cities.

Versus adding to the horror filling the guts of marine life.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/theres-more-than-one-ocean-trash-gyre-5-gyres-project-switches-focus-from-great-pacific-garbage-patch-to-other-4-gyres-video.html

Sorry, I must be hungry. Hopefully no one will trick me with something that 
looks like food.

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Guido Stein
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 6:13 PM
To: Margherita Di Leo; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hi,
I have many stickers for Foss4G Boston 2017, please send me an address to send 
them to.
Also, if I can get @TessieIsAFish to you, will you take shots of her at Google?

-Guido

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM Margherita Di Leo 
> wrote:
Hi all!
At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in 
Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we think 
it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to have some 
spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could mail us?
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Madi


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [New post] gvSIG 2.3 is now available!

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

gvSIG Online is extraordinary! Big winners for the Professional track of the 
NASA Europa Challenge!

I hope they have a web page for it soon!
Espero que tengan una página web para que pronto!
www.gvsig.com /

gvSIG Online (Europa Challenge)
https://redmine.gvsig.net/redmine/projects/gvsig-3d/wiki/Europa_Challenge_2016_-_gvSIG_Online_and_Web_World_Wind_the_solution_for_Spatial_Data_Infrastructures_on_Open_Source_software_with_3D_View
 

-Patrick
 (650) 269-2788 (cell)

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 4:09 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [New post] gvSIG 2.3 is now available!

Thank you for sharing this news Sergio, Mario.  Congratulations on the expanded 
support for various platforms by gvSIG, really great!  It would be great if 
someone from gvSIG could share this news to the OSGeo community on Google+ as 
well: 
https://plus.google.com/communities/105969056638310510633

-jeff

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On 2016-09-30 10:01 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:
> ​​Mario posted: "The new version of gvSIG Desktop, the open source GIS,
> is now available to download. This new version is an important step at
> the gvSIG evolution, because of its multiple improvements and novelties
> in a functional level as well as in an architecture on"
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Well, being stuck on stickers sounds better than the prick of a tattoo.
I like the ephemeral nature of it.
Or maybe I’m just old fashioned.  ;-)

From: Marc Vloemans [mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 10:32 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Margherita Di Leo; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hey Patrick,

Perhaps too much of a European naming issue ;-)
pieces of plastic/paper with a logo, picture and or txt on the front and 
adhesive on the backoften used on the back of cars in an attempt to 
amuse/annoy the car you just passed."if you can read this you are too 
close"...my on line translation tool seems to use the same term: 
stickerrings a bell ?


Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


Op 29 sep. 2016 om 21:48 heeft Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> het volgende geschreven:
Madi, Howdy!


I have just  asked our foreign visitor approval folks for the third time of the 
approval status for you visit. Everything should be okay.

As for stickers, have no idea what you ate talking about. What is a sticker?

-Patrick
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Margherita 
Di Leo
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 7:46 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hi all!
At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in 
Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we think 
it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to have some 
spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could mail us?
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Madi


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Madi, Howdy!

I have just  asked our foreign visitor approval folks for the third time of the 
approval status for you visit. Everything should be okay.

As for stickers, have no idea what you ate talking about. What is a sticker?

-Patrick
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Margherita 
Di Leo
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 7:46 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone?

Hi all!
At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in 
Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we think 
it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to have some 
spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could mail us?
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Madi


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board nomination for Vasile Craciunescu

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

I don't know if I have a vote, but if I do it would be for Vasile Craciunescu. 

Vasile is a hard working class act OSGEO kind of guy. 

I would trust him with my life, my girlfriend and my wife!  ;-)

He will make a great Board Director, Producer and Movie Star, all for the 
bright future of OSGEO!

Seriously, despite the attempt at humor,
-Patrick

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Frigne
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:46 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board nomination for Vasile 
Craciunescu

I want to second the the nomination of Vasile.
I had the opportunity to work with him in the board for the last 8 months and I 
appreciate his commitments.

Dirk

On 2016-09-13 22:38, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> Forwarding Vasile Crăciunescu's nomination for the Board of Directors 
> by Gérald Fenoy.
> 
> All the best
> 
> --
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> CRO 2016
> 
> -- Mensaje reenviado --
> De: "Fenoy Gerald"  >
> Fecha: 13 sept. 2016 15:55
> Asunto: Board nomination for Vasile Craciunescu
> Para: "Vasile Craciunescu" >
> Cc:
> 
> Dear Cro,
> please find bellow the nomination for Vasile for this year election
> of OSGeo Board of Director.
> 
> I would like to nominate Vasile Craciunescu for this year election.
> Vasile is a researcher at Romanian National Meteorological
> Administration, he is organizing conferences and workshops using the
> OSGeo technology and is a convinced and convincing FOSS4G promoter.
> He is very active in the Romanian community, he is one of the
> founder of the OSGeo romanian local chapter and always bring many
> members to the FOSS4G, to both local and international editions.
> Vasile was one of the pioneer, with Jachym, of the FoSS4G-Europe
> conferences after he had organized the second edition the FOSS4G-CEE
> in his country in Bucharest. He has taken responsibilities in many
> technical tasks for the board to accomplish his task and to
> facilitate the work of every board members. He has a good experience
> in working and leading research projects, he is the Romanian
> representative in Copernicus User Forum (the European Earth
> observation programme) and the representative of Meteo Romania at OGC.
> 
> Vasile has proven his dedication to OSGeo over the year and, by
> competing again, he is proving, one more time, his dedication to the
> foundation.
> 
> Vasile is a community leader and as such should be part of the Board
> of Director.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> Gérald Fenoy
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GSoC 2016: Summary and results

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Anne and Madi,

We would like to compliment Gabriele Prestifilippo and Simone Battaglia for 
their great work on the GSoC project, Multidimension Visualization Tool.

Here's the direct link to their GsoC project:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5900459751505920

And the weekly reports: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/NASA_Web_WorldWind_Multidimension_Visualization_Tool_GSoC_2016

-Patrick

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Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 7:28 AM
To: OSGeo Google Summer of Code list; OSGeo Discuss list; GeoForAll list
Cc: Margherita Di Leo
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GSoC 2016: Summary and results

Dear all,

One more GSoC has come to an end, with an awesome array of successful student 
projects:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/

We would like to warmly thank our mentors for the first-class support to the 
students, defying timezones and language hurdles, so that each student could 
comfortably learn and code in their chosen software project. Also, thank you to 
all our students for their commitment and the excellent results produced. Every 
year the bar is raised a notch!
And last but not least, a huge thank you to Google Open Source Team, who made 
GSoC a reality for the 12th year in a row!

We wish all mentors a relaxing winter of code, and welcome our students to stay 
around and enjoy open source community, this time without deadlines :)

Until next GSoC, goodbye!

Anne and Madi
OSGeo GSoC Administrators
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https://goo.gl/photos/LSw49B5aonoZJ6S66

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind Explorer is All4You

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sergio,

That is not WorldWind that is WorldView, a 2D map with no terrain either. 
WorldWind is 3D and 2D with terrain in both.

-Patrick

From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [mailto:sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy]
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 5:53 AM
To: Suchith Anand; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo Discussions; GFOSS.it; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind Explorer 
is All4You


Talking about WorldWind: I found this recorded webinar in YouTube 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=468=96Nt36euLJY​

Regards,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY

De: GeoForAll 
<geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> 
en nombre de Suchith Anand 
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>
Enviado: sábado, 06 de agosto de 2016 21:40
Para: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); OSGeo Discussions; GFOSS.it; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>
Asunto: Re: [Geo4All] Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind 
Explorer is All4You


Hi Patrick, all,



This is great to see the excellent response to Europa Challenge. Thanks to all 
the students and thier mentors over the years that make this program a success. 
These students will all greatly benefit from the experiences gained from 
participating in  challenges like these and in the future will contribute 
greatly to the advancement of Geospatial Science globally.



To give a small example, two days back, i met one of the first students who did 
internship with me when i established Open Source Geospatial Lab at University 
of Nottingham . Heshan Du was that time (2010) doing her undergraduate degree 
here and i applied for a Nuffield funding for the internship  . We got the 
funding from Nuffield and she went on to make us proud by winning Dean of 
Engineering Awards [1] and later was offered  a fully funded PhD at Nottingham 
. She is now doing postdoctoral research at Leeds University and will in few 
months be taking up an academic post at our China campus. I am so happy and 
proud her achievements.



So for all the mentors of these projects, i am sure these students will make 
you proud in the future .



Best wishes,


Suchith

[1] http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/heshan-du

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Subject: [Geo4All] Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind 
Explorer is All4You

Howdy from NASA!

Pretty impressive suite of projects so far for this year's Europa Challenge.

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2016

Hope you can join up! It's not too late!
Climax in Trento with an expense-paid week for top 5 finalist teams (excluding 
travel).
And you don't have to be there to win the NASA Crystal Bull (and some cash).

And to give you a head start, here is a 'reference app' we provide.
You are free to use for building your own application.

https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWindExplorer

This WorldWind Explorer is built from the WebWorldWind SDK
using the Knockout and Bootstrap libraries
It is easy to fork and customize to serve your purposes.

Live Demo:

http://explorer.worldwind.earth

NASA WebWorldWind SDK:

https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind

Check out other NASA WebWorldWind apps,

https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch

-Patrick

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World Wind Project Manager
(650) 604-5656 (office)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Europa Challenge is Geo4All Alive and Well, and WorldWind Explorer is All4You

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Howdy from NASA!

Pretty impressive suite of projects so far for this year's Europa Challenge.

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2016 

Hope you can join up! It's not too late!
Climax in Trento with an expense-paid week for top 5 finalist teams (excluding 
travel).
And you don't have to be there to win the NASA Crystal Bull (and some cash).

And to give you a head start, here is a 'reference app' we provide.
You are free to use for building your own application. 
https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWindExplorer

This WorldWind Explorer is built from the WebWorldWind SDK 
using the Knockout and Bootstrap libraries 
It is easy to fork and customize to serve your purposes. 

Live Demo: 
http://explorer.worldwind.earth

NASA WebWorldWind SDK: 
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind

Check out other NASA WebWorldWind apps,
https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch

-Patrick

 patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 World Wind Project Manager
 (650) 604-5656 (office)
 (650) 269-2788 (cell)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] “Geo4All” lab of the month -Open Source Geospatial Lab of Department of Geodesy and Surveying at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics , Hungary

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

What a great thing to see! Another Geo4All lab in Hungary!

Dr. Zoltán Siki and that organization, and Hungary in general, have been doing 
great things in the Geo4All department.

By way of example, Zoltan was the mentor for this very successful Europa 
Challenge project,
http://feherkrisztian.magix.net/public/easy/index.html

Lots of good history there at the Budapest University of Technology and 
Economics, and we portend an even greater future now!

-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 12:58 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] “Geo4All” lab of the month -Open Source Geospatial Lab of 
Department of Geodesy and Surveying at the Budapest University of Technology 
and Economics , Hungary


Dear All,

It is my great pleasure, to introduce our colleagues at the Open Source 
Geospatial Lab of Department of Geodesy and Surveying at the Budapest 
University of Technology and Economics , Hungary as our “Geo4All” lab of the 
month.

The OSGeo lab is run by the Department of Geodesy and Surveying and lead by Dr. 
Zoltán Siki. The members of the lab are Dr. Szabolcs Rózsa, Dr. Zita Ultmann, 
Ottó Deák, Dr. Csaba Égető, Dr. Bence Takács and Dr. Tamás Tuchband but draws 
heavily on interactions with other research groups and partners within the 
University, nationally and internationally.

Details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/geo4all-lab-of-the-month-open-source-geospatial-lab-department-of-geodesy-and-surveying-at-the-budapest-university-of-technology-and-economics-hungary/
 

We will have more details are other updates in our Geo4All monthly newsletter 
later at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ 

The Geo for All lab in Budapest University of Technology and Economics welcomes 
collaborations from all interested and for making contributions to the wider 
society.

On behalf of the Geo4All community, we thank Zoltán Siki and all colleagues at 
the Budapest lab for their contributions to the Geo4All initiative and look 
forward to working and building more collaborations with all interested on this 
education mission.

Best wishes,
Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/ 
Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possibly, The End of Gmane

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Thanks Mateusz for sharing this.

This beautifully democratic action by an individual to facilitate community 
interaction is something a decent government should be supporting, versus 
surrendering this service to the commercial realm where we are sifted and sold 
to other commercial entities. 

Whether it is DDoS or frivolous lawsuits, we are watching the demise of what we 
most need for indulging the evolution of ideas. 

Lars Ingebrigtsen thank you so much for a lifetime of generous giving.

Whatever happens, you have given the world a wonderful gift!

-Patrick

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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 1:34 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possibly, The End of Gmane

Hi,

Since many of OSGeo members use Gmane, this is relevant

Gmane has been under attack and Lars, the founder of Gmane, is considering to 
shut it down:

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

Best regards,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Gildas,

To compliment the encouragement and good guidance of Suchith,
here is a starter app for you, the WorldWind Explorer 'reference app' that's 
all yours!
Demo: http://explorer.worldwind.earth/
Code: https://github.com/emxsys/WorldWindExplorer

And here is a fun sandbox to play in and to teach with 
http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?output 

And an example of encouragement you can also establish for Africa
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

And if we want the world to work together from the ground up (speaking 
city-wise),
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:38 PM
To: Gildas Jr. Boko; geoforall-afr...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

Hi Gildas,

Thank you for your mail and interest. Your idea to organise FOSS4G Africa and 
to create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and experience-sharing 
in Africa is excellent. I am CC'ing our wider community so that we will be able 
to bring in more ideas to support you.

btw i could not get the link of your centre RECTAS www.rectas.org (maybe the 
site is currently down) that you emailed but i did find another link with info 
at

http://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/institutions/regional-centre-training-aerospace-surveys-rectas

Thanks again for your initiative.

Best wishes,

Suchith

From: GeoForAll-Africa  on behalf of 
Gildas Jr. Boko 
Sent: 27 July 2016 8:07 PM
To: geoforall-afr...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] FOSS4G Africa

Dear all,

I've a user or OSGEO products for almost ten years now. And while i notice a 
growing interest all over the world for these products and the creation of 
FOSS4G chapters in different countries, in Africa there nothing like that.

My idea is to organise a FOSS4G conference for OSGEO products users in order to 
create a network of capacity-building and knowledge and experience-sharing in 
all the possible fields.

I've been thinking about this for a while now and i think a centre like RECTAS 
(www.rectas.org), where I've worked for the past two 
years can host such event thanks to their experience in the GIS field and also 
their hosting capacity.

Well that is an aspect on which everybody can discuss.

But i believe it is high time for a FOSS4G chapter in Africa.

Thanks in advance for your opinion on this idea

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jonathan,
WoW! That is super cool!
Rather powerful and beautifully done!
Sets the bar nice and high!
-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Jonathan Moules [mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 3:04 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Markus Neteler; OSGeo Discussions; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

Hi Patrick,
   There's a similar thing using JavaScript here: http://stuffin.space/ - no 3D 
models of the sateliites, but it doesn't require Java be installed, which is 
always a big bonus.
It's open source (but not Open Source) - 
https://github.com/jeyoder/ThingsInSpace. Development seems to have stopped 
though.
Cheers,
Jonathan

 On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:05:12 +0100 
Hogan<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote 
Markus,
Thanks for the heads up!
Very nice, and yes we are aware of GPredict.
We still think JSatTrak, with its 3D virtual globe experience,
has something special to offer (including 3D satellite models).
This high rez 3D world will also include space weather and do it all via a web 
app.
Nothing to install. Just point a browser at it and go for a high-flying ride!
-Patrick

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[mailto:neteler.os...@gmail.com<mailto:neteler.os...@gmail.com>] On Behalf Of 
Markus Neteler
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:43 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>; OSGeo 
Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

Patrick,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.ho...@nasa.gov>> wrote:

Dear Open Source Geospatial Community,

We working on porting this very cool satellite tracking tool from WorldWind 
Java to WebWorldWind

http://www.gano.name/shawn/JSatTrak/

You will be able to see where any satellite is at any time, including the 
International Space Station.

Something we would thoroughly appreciate from you please are 3D models for any 
satellites.

Did you check "gpredict" (under GPL):

"Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. 
It can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and 
other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can 
also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with 
detailed information about each pass. "

http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

Best,
Markus


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Markus,
Thanks for the heads up!
Very nice, and yes we are aware of GPredict.
We still think JSatTrak, with its 3D virtual globe experience,
has something special to offer (including 3D satellite models). 
This high rez 3D world will also include space weather and do it all via a web 
app.
Nothing to install. Just point a browser at it and go for a high-flying ride!
-Patrick

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Markus Neteler
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:43 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

Patrick,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
<patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote:

Dear Open Source Geospatial Community,

We working on porting this very cool satellite tracking tool from WorldWind 
Java to WebWorldWind

http://www.gano.name/shawn/JSatTrak/

You will be able to see where any satellite is at any time, including the 
International Space Station.

Something we would thoroughly appreciate from you please are 3D models for any 
satellites.

Did you check "gpredict" (under GPL):

"Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. 
It can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and 
other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can 
also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with 
detailed information about each pass. "

http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

Best,
Markus


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[OSGeo-Discuss] 3D Satellite Models

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear Open Source Geospatial Community,

We working on porting this very cool satellite tracking tool from WorldWind 
Java to WebWorldWind
http://www.gano.name/shawn/JSatTrak/

You will be able to see where any satellite is at any time, including the 
International Space Station.

Something we would thoroughly appreciate from you please are 3D models for any 
satellites.

If you happen to know where we can find them,
we will then provide them as an open library for the world,
as well as in a web app for your enjoyment.

You will see this app as part of the Europa Challenge climaxing in Trento this 
year!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
http://www.trentinoinnovation.eu/progetti/nasa-challenge

Thanks much,
-Patrick

patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 Program Manager
NASA World Wind
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2016 and diversity

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

And for my YMMV, the last “norm” I ^expect^ from first-world ‘democratic 
country white males’ is good behavior.  Privilege can be a bit numbing. Where’s 
a good Dalai Lama when you need one! Yet finding the “inclusivity” overlap is 
certainly key, with ‘codes’ hopefully able to accommodate that, with some 
issue-stretching, but almost always via civil, and sometimes jocular, dialogue. 
Please forgive my non-1% overlap lip, -patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Ross
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 8:23 PM
To: Cameron Shorter; Marc Vloemans
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2016 and diversity

Cameron,

Yes, your point was very hard to miss. I don't think you need to police this 
thread quite so hard though. :-)

For what it's worth, it makes good business & innovation sense to do more than 
1% or so.

YMMV though,

Andrea

On May 30, 2016 10:54:06 PM EDT, Cameron Shorter 
> wrote:
Marc, Andrea,
My point I'm hoping to make is that I think we might be spending more time 
discussing ethical code-of-conduct type questions than I think we need to. Yes 
it is important. Yes we need to flag bad behaviour and resolve it. But 
hopefully we can limit such discussions to 1% (or so) of our bandwidth - which 
we achieve by referencing our code-of-conduct.

Disclaimer - I'm a privileged white male, living in a democratic country, and 
I'm used to expecting good behaviour to be the norm.

Warm regards, Cameron
On 31/05/2016 9:48 AM, Andrea Ross wrote:
That's an unexpected response. Was someone suggesting OSGeo should be a forum 
for human rights?

On 31/05/2016 9:28 AM, Marc Vloemans wrote:
Cameron,

I think you misunderstood the aim of my comment.
I am not talking about human rights as such. (Unless they are threatened, of 
course)

I am addressing the need to guard and promote our inclusivity. If we want to 
grow and develop as a community we need to take any past/present/future concern 
about it seriously.

That is an integral part of our marketing and communications effort: avoid 
wrong perceptions and manage our public image where/when possible. Whether such 
perceptions address the nature of our code, our projects, our members, our 
organisation and its policies or our activities.

Hope this clarifies, cheers,
Marc Vloemans


Op 30 mei 2016 om 23:28 heeft Cameron Shorter 
> het volgende 
geschreven:

All,

While I'm hugely in favour of mutual respect, and I personally co-authored the 
OSGeo Code-Of-Conduct, I feel that OSGeo shouldn't aim to be a forum for human 
rights. (There are other places for this).

Our primary focus should be on supporting the creation of great OSGeo code, and 
supporting the communities doing this.

Having a Code-Of-Conduct in place is a small part of supporting a community, 
and we should refer to it in cases where conversations or interactions deviate 
from good behavior, but I'm hopeful that we can leave it at that, and focus our 
time on our core code writing passions.

Warm regards, Cameron
On 30/05/2016 7:30 pm, Marc Vloemans wrote:
Thanks Andrea,

You are quite right, unfortunately. Sharing and discussing experiences and 
insights on this could come across as negative.

The same happened when I read an earlier discussion on a Code of Conduct for 
conferences. Frankly I was abhorred that such code was deemed necessary. Until 
I realised that I was perhaps ignorant (living in Amsterdam is such a 
privilege).

Can I invite you to share your
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mantra request (OsgeoID)

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Reminds me of the Lion King line, "What's a motto?"
"I don't know, what's a motta with you?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edl0NLIdYmY

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz 
Loskot
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:56 AM
To: Yves Jacolin
Cc: Frank Olieu; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mantra request (OsgeoID)

On 19 May 2016 at 15:30, Yves Jacolin  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is a mantra? Sorry for so this naive question :)

http://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ldap_create_user.py

See the note starting with "Due to..."

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from the Cradle

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

I love Open Source Geospatial software!
It helps life to live on and on and on. . .
So in the cradle-to-cradle spirit of a sustainable world,
WorldWind has just ‘officially’ released Android version 0.2.0

https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WorldWindAndroid/releases/

If you have an Android device, feel free to try it out!
It’s kind of cool, great fun, and architecturally aligned with the Web version.
This makes moving from one WorldWind to the other a real breeze!
And you can fork with it all you like!  ;-)
-Patrick

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

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo Community,

This seems a wonderful opportunity for OSGEO to do a bit of growing, and 
stretch those old limbs in a limber-up kind of way. Though they be not as old 
as some of us OS geospatial projects!

We are accelerating into a new world, one where climate chaos is a daily 
experience. We are already witness to the resultant mass migrations and 
accompanying specie extinctions, estimated at 200 per day and rising. 

At what point do we embrace our collective need to work together, encouraging 
creativity and adjusting adaptability for a world that celebrates our finite 
resources. This will take a ^cornucopia^ of open source solutions, regardless 
of the path used to grow them.

Might OSGEO be more adept at encouraging and supporting open source geospatial 
solutions, however they exist? 

A smart quote goes here, but I am at a loss for which one. Maybe something from 
the ‘Three Musketeers’ or better yet, a woman, such as Eleanor Roosevelt “The 
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” To which I 
say, without a beautiful future, we shall have none. Open OSGeo Open. . .

Whether for naïveté or ignorance, much I do not understand. Humble apologies 
for that. Regardless, the future awaits our better nature or she’s not there at 
all. 

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter 
Baumann
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 3:25 AM
To: Cameron Shorter; Even Rouault; incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent 
dictator" projects into OSGeo?

Hi Cameron,

I tried very much to make the situation transparent. Maybe the notion of 
Principal Investigator helps here (cf Wikipedia - although biased towards 
medical science):

A principal investigator (PI) is the holder of an independent grant 
administered by a university and the lead researcher for the grant project, 
usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The 
phrase is also often used as a synonym for "head of the laboratory" or 
"research group leader." While the expression is common in the sciences, it is 
used widely for the person or persons who make final decisions and supervise 
funding and expenditures on a given research project.

I am the PI of rasdaman, and that will not change, also not indirectly through 
wordsmithing as proposed.

OSGeo is entering new domains with rasdaman, which is: scientific research 
projects. Like some other communities, these have existed long before OSGeo, 
and have their own ethics, procedures, and rules. It is unlikely that science 
will change and give up freedom of research based on its principles well 
accepted by the whole community. If OSGeo intends to change these in general 
then maybe starting with rasdaman as an isolated item in a vast universe is not 
the optimal point.

OSGeo may find out that it’s very special (although obviously not unambiguously 
codified) views constrain it to particular ecosystems. But I am not imposing 
nor judging. Just trying to explain.

HTH,
Peter

On 05/04/2016 09:18 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Hi Peter, 
Could you please answer Even and Johan's question. 

I'm happy to use another term for the governance model. "Does one person have 
ultimate control over the project? Or does ultimate control lie with a 
committee, possibly with a tie breaker vote designated to one person or one 
role (eg chair)?" 

Warm regards, Cameron 

On 5/05/2016 3:29 am, Even Rouault wrote: 
Le mercredi 04 mai 2016 18:34:27, Peter Baumann a écrit : 

HI Cameron, 

first, as this word has been used too often now, the current model has nothing 
at all to do with dictatorship. What is the suggested opposite, BTW - 
"dictatorship of majorities"? ;-) 

Actually reading http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance it seems the sentence 
that cause trouble is "Should such consent exceptionally not be reached then 
Peter Baumann has a casting vote." Does that mean that in case there's a tie in 
voting (which cannot happen with a 3 member PSC as currently), Peter breaks the 
tie ? If so, that seems acceptable to me (should probably be rephrased in a 
more neutral way to say to designate the chair of the PSC rather than a named 
individual). 

I actually see that Johan Van de Wauw asked the same question but this hasn't 
been answered clearly. 

Perhaps http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance could gain in clarity by 
defining precise voting rules (which majority, delays, etc...) As an example of 
simple rules (not necessarily to follow them, but to show the plain language 
used):

https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc1_pmc / 
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1.html / 
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/psc.html ). 

If it would at least be called a "technocracy", that I could accept: 

rasdaman has always been driven by purely scientific elaboration _and_ 
consensus orientation and respect. Genius rules, 

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

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Jody,

Despite the infinite respect I have for your opinion and the Boundless 
organization, sincerely, I couldn’t more heartily disagree. At least I think I 
am disagreeing.

Open source is open source, there are many flavors, each one serving different 
tastes, and each with different paths if nirvana is to be experienced, or at 
least attempted.

But open source is open source and geospatial is geospatial. Aren’t people free 
to take ‘benevolent dictator’ code and branch it to their interests? For 
certain projects to mature, they need to be spared the collective collaboration 
that also introduces the chaos of community. One size does not fit all at all 
stages of development.

Copyleft, at the more ‘pure’ end of open source, seems far more ‘prickly’ in 
terms of ongoing usability than benevolent dictator. Yet one might consider 
Copyleft the ‘true god’ of open source to some. I am more profane on the 
subject.

OSGeo might want to rise to the occasion of a ‘big tent’ versus. . .

IANAL, I am not a lawyer, nor a doctor for that matter. ;-)
This world needs all the open source solutions it can get, from copyleft to 
benevolent dictator.
-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2016 4:30 AM
To: Cameron Shorter
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent 
dictator" projects into OSGeo?

This is kind of a larger topic than just the incubation committee, but no I do 
not believe we should. It is a defining characteristic of our foundation to not 
place many restrictions on our projects - but demand that the projects be 
inclusive and open to collaboration.

I do not believe that the "benevolent dictator" fits this ideal.

I also do not think we need to stress the PSC approach as the one true way, 
smaller projects that only wish to have committers vote on decisions (rather 
than form a PSC) is perfectly acceptable - provided there is a provision for 
new committers to be added into the mix.

We also have an outstanding request from our president to make the foundation 
more inclusive. With this in mind we are a lot less demanding on our community 
projects - which provides a way for projects that do not meet some of our ideal 
criteria to be part of the foundation.
--
Jody

--
Jody Garnett

On 1 May 2016 at 00:44, Cameron Shorter 
> wrote:
OSGeo discuss, OSGeo incubation, OSGeo board,

I'm hoping the greater OSGeo community will consider and comment on this 
question:

Should OSGeo accept a "benevolent dictator" [1] governance model for incubating 
projects?

-0 from me, Cameron Shorter.

Background:
* As part of incubation, Peter Baumann, from Rasdaman has requested a 
"benevolent dictatorship" governance model [2]. While "benevolent 
dictatorships" often lead to successful projects, all prior OSGeo incubated 
projects have selected "equal vote by PSC members". Someone with better legal 
training than me might find "benevolent dictatorships" to be unconstitutional 
according to OSGeo bylaws. [3]

[1] Eric Raymond's "Homesteading the Noosphere": 
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s16.html
[2] http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
On 1/05/2016 3:56 pm, Peter Baumann wrote:
Cameron-

I understand where you are coming from, and your characterization is definitely 
correct. While our process is and always has been absolutely open to discussion 
so as to obtain the scientifically and technically best solution this 
"benevolent dictatorship" has brought rasdaman to where it stands now - it is 
designed by innovation, not by committee. Just to get me right, our model is 
certainly not the right one for every endeavour. Here it is the most 
appropriate, and hence we will keep it.

As you observe, this model is not contradicting OS as such, and many projects 
run it. So ultimately it lies in the hand of OSGeo to decide whether they 
accept the existing plurality of approaches (in this case manifest with 
rasdaman).

best,
Peter
On 04/30/2016 10:47 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Bruce, Peter,
I've read through the incubation process documentation, and can only see one 
thing which I think breaks our OSGeo principles.

The Governance model includes a statement:
"In all issues, the PSC strives to achieve unanimous consent based on a free, 
independent exchange of facts and opinions. Should such consent exceptionally 
not be reached then Peter Baumann has a casting vote."
http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance

This is describing a "benevolent dictator" model, which has proved to be an 
effective model for many open source projects. See Eric Raymond's "Homesteading 
the Noosphere": 
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s16.html

However, it is not in line with existing OSGeo Incubated 

[OSGeo-Discuss] GIS support for OMEGA Project

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

The OMEGA Global Initiative (OGI) is working to establish a demonstration 
project for OMEGA in coastal cities.

OMEGA is a system of floating platforms that produces green energy (solar 
electricity, heat, biofuels), clean water (wastewater to potable water), and 
sustainable food (multi trophic aquaculture) all of which support a circular 
economy and prepare coastal cities for sea-level rise.

An OMEGA feasibility study was done with support from NASA and the California 
Energy 
Commission
 and OGI formed as a non-profit to promote and facilitate OMEGA development 
worldwide (for info please see OGI website: http://www.omegaglobal.org).  We 
are negotiating to do a project that will improve the social and environmental 
conditions in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam-a UNESCO World Heritage 
Site; arguably one of the 
most beautiful places in the world.

The plan is to use OMEGA to process wastewater, produce energy, and food for Ha 
Long village in an inner bay and prevent eutrophication of the outer bay with 
the many beautiful islands.  Initially, we want to map and model all features 
and dynamics of the proposed site.  Our seed-funding proposal submitted to 
USAID includes opportunities for student interns.  I can elaborate, but is 
there anyone in the group that could help us?

Thanks, Jonathan

[cid:C0AB33D0-2A86-4ADD-975F-E7BAA085100F]Jonathan Trent, Ph.D.
Director, OMEGA Global Initiative (OGI)
Skype: jonathandtrent
http://www.omegaglobal.org

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dirk and Marc,
I am very grateful for the interest and the encouragement.
Whatever combination and chemistry we conjure for OS to divine solutions, 
is a godsend and dynamic bridge to a more beautiful future.
We are trying to make this suite of OS geospatial goodies 
as attractive and powerful as possible.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/
-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Marc 
Vloemans
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:02 AM
To: dirk.fri...@geosparc.com
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

Dirk, Patrick,

On that note Build a community and  build a commercial Eco-system!

Vriendelijke groet,
Marc Vloemans


Op 26 apr. 2016 om 00:26 heeft Dirk Frigne 
<dirk.fri...@geosparc.com> het volgende geschreven:

Patrick,

Great news!
I think it should be an interesting exercise to investigate during a 
code sprint or OSGeo event how different OSGeo projects can grow 
closer to each other, without loosing the diversity between all the 
different initiatives we host.

Having the support of these 'big' organisations supporting open source 
software, and working together with small and medium enterprises and 
developers seems an interesting new way of co-creation we should try 
to explore.

Dirk.



On 23-04-16 20:25, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote:

The world leading European Aerospace and Defence company, www.ThalesGroup.com, 
has now joined with NASA and ESA to advance WebWorldWind.  So the NASA-ESA team 
has another full-time world-class coder advancing this geospatial 'piazza,' 
well serving the NASA motto "for the benefit of all."

We are very proud to be an integral part of gvSIG as well as OSGeo Live and 
also an OSGeo/GSoC project with one of Maria's great graduate students, 
Gabriele Prestifilippo (gabry501).
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/#5900459751505920

AND! Look for some spectacular results this year for the Europa Challenge in 
the area of OpenCitySmart. Teams are in progress! Feel free to join anytime.
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

The WorldWind path is ^all^ open source, no 'Pro' version crossing ahead.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/

-Patrick

-Original Message-----
From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 12:04 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

Dear OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS Communities, and the GeoForAll mission,

Some very exciting news will soon be shared with YOU! The good news is that 
GeoForAll progress is being made on multiple fronts, in ways that serve the 
core principles of the brilliant world-beacons provided by OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS 
and OGRS. Here is a brief mention for what you will learn more of soon.

1. The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on NASA WebWorldWind. 
Expect significant advances to this open source geobrowser, along with 
facilitated access to the Copernicus programme Sentinel data, for research and 
the needs of a greater European government community. Thank you ESA and Pier 
Giorgio Marchetti!

2. Extraordinary progress is being made on what was originally called the 
Global Earthquake Forecast System and is now referred to as Earthquake Signal 
Precursors (ESP). This will prove invaluable to the world. The monitoring 
systems (hardware) and entire communication infrastructure (software), are all 
designed and built as open source. Thank you TrilliumLearning and Ron Fortunato!

3. The city of Trento will be hosting the 'climax' to the 2016 Europa 
Challenge. This will include an all-expense paid invitation (lodging and meals, 
excluding travel) to the top three teams for a final three days of intense 
collaboration and all-out competition for the very best ^OpenCitySmart^ 
solution! Thank you Trento and Milena Bigatto! 

4. Look for a special Europa Challenge presence at the OGRS symposium in 
Perugia.

5. And more pleasant surprises!  ;-)

-Patrick
'If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately' 
-Benjamin Franklin circa 1776

patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
World Wind Project Manager
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
http://2016.ogrs-community.org/
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 22 accepted GSoC students @ OSGeo!

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Ditto that Dirk!

Margherita [Madi] and crew have done an outstanding job! 

What a great line-up of open source projects!!!

-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Frigne
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 6:55 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 22 accepted GSoC students @ OSGeo!

Margherita,

Great news!
Many thanks to you and Anne for making this possible.

Dirk

On 23-04-16 12:23, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> this year OSGeo welcomes 22 students withing the Google Summer of Code 
> 2016! They were awarded out of 39 proposals received! Check out their 
> projects here [1]. Besides the guidance of their mentors, I'm sure 
> they will receive the support of the community at large.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/
> 
> --
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> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

The world leading European Aerospace and Defence company, www.ThalesGroup.com, 
has now joined with NASA and ESA to advance WebWorldWind.  So the NASA-ESA team 
has another full-time world-class coder advancing this geospatial 'piazza,' 
well serving the NASA motto "for the benefit of all."

We are very proud to be an integral part of gvSIG as well as OSGeo Live and 
also an OSGeo/GSoC project with one of Maria's great graduate students, 
Gabriele Prestifilippo (gabry501).
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6273632556810240/#5900459751505920

AND! Look for some spectacular results this year for the Europa Challenge in 
the area of OpenCitySmart. Teams are in progress! Feel free to join anytime.
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

The WorldWind path is ^all^ open source, no 'Pro' version crossing ahead.
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/

-Patrick

-Original Message-----
From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 12:04 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

Dear OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS Communities, and the GeoForAll mission,

Some very exciting news will soon be shared with YOU! The good news is that 
GeoForAll progress is being made on multiple fronts, in ways that serve the 
core principles of the brilliant world-beacons provided by OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS 
and OGRS. Here is a brief mention for what you will learn more of soon.

1. The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on NASA WebWorldWind. 
Expect significant advances to this open source geobrowser, along with 
facilitated access to the Copernicus programme Sentinel data, for research and 
the needs of a greater European government community. Thank you ESA and Pier 
Giorgio Marchetti!

2. Extraordinary progress is being made on what was originally called the 
Global Earthquake Forecast System and is now referred to as Earthquake Signal 
Precursors (ESP). This will prove invaluable to the world. The monitoring 
systems (hardware) and entire communication infrastructure (software), are all 
designed and built as open source. Thank you TrilliumLearning and Ron Fortunato!

3. The city of Trento will be hosting the 'climax' to the 2016 Europa 
Challenge. This will include an all-expense paid invitation (lodging and meals, 
excluding travel) to the top three teams for a final three days of intense 
collaboration and all-out competition for the very best ^OpenCitySmart^ 
solution! Thank you Trento and Milena Bigatto! 

4. Look for a special Europa Challenge presence at the OGRS symposium in 
Perugia.

5. And more pleasant surprises!  ;-)

-Patrick
'If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately' -Benjamin 
Franklin circa 1776

 patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 World Wind Project Manager
 (650) 604-5656 (office)
 (650) 269-2788 (cell)
 http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ 
 http://2016.ogrs-community.org/
 https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sandro [strk],
You are a god! 
I've done what you suggested,
"just login once (with [my] OSGeo Userid)"
but not sure anything happened. . .
I can only hope!
Grazie mille strk!
-Patrizio

-Original Message-
From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandro 
Santilli
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:02 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldWind GeoForAll @ OSGeo+ICA+ISPRS+OGRS

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 07:04:05PM +0000, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote:

> 1. The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on NASA WebWorldWind.

Great news, thank you !
I took the chance to register a NASAWorldWind organization on the 
_experimental_ OSGeo git service, and added mirrors of all the codebases 
currently available on github under that name:

 https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/NASAWorldWind

I hope it'll help OSGeo users who don't want to register an account on github 
to contribute to the project.

PS: if you like the idea, just login once (with your OSGeo Userid) and
I'll be able to set you as an owner of the organization.

--strk;
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] EGU General Assembly 2016: OSGeo Townhall on Tuesday April 19

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Peter,

Verdammt! Wish I were closer to Vienna, must be spectacular now with Spring and 
fresh snowmelt cascading the luscious green hillsides painted with alpine 
flowers beginning to bloom!

As for open science and open data, an open geobrowser can make that information 
come alive! WorldWind doesn't have an upscale 'pro' version to sober you up, 
it's solid open source through-and-through! 

Brand new today, the EU's 'big data' portal, www.EarthServer.eu, has 
standardized on WebWorldWind (as has ESA), and they just popped this 
'extra-terrestrial' body into view. Say 'Hello!' to Mars, 
http://access.planetserver.eu/ 

And though we haven't yet got the nightly build delivering the latest to this 
sandbox, it's a great place to play around with Open Science and Open Data, 
http://jsbin.com/nomafey/edit?html,js,output 

-Patrick
 patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 Program Manager
 NASA World Wind
 https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/

-Original Message- 
From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of "Peter 
Löwe"
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 10:36 AM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] EGU General Assembly 2016: OSGeo Townhall on Tuesday April 19

Are you a scientist with an interest in Open Source Software, OpenScience and 
Open Data ?
Are you attending the EGU General Assembly 2015 in Vienna?

If so, you are cordially invited to join the

OSGeo Townhall Meeting on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the 
Geosciences Tuesday, 19 Apr, 19:00–20:00 / Room -2.91
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/22421

The townhall will give an opportunity to discuss the impact of open source 
software projects for modern geosciences, to network and to propose future 
activities within EGU and the software communities. Refreshments will be served.

An (incomplete) overview over open source related sessions at the EGU GA 2016 
can be found here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2016#Sessions

Best regards and looking forward seeing you soon in Vienna,

Peter Löwe for the Townhall team.


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[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS Communities, and the GeoForAll mission,

Some very exciting news will soon be shared with YOU! The good news is that 
GeoForAll progress is being made on multiple fronts, in ways that serve the 
core principles of the brilliant world-beacons provided by OSGeo, ICA, ISPRS 
and OGRS. Here is a brief mention for what you will learn more of soon.

1. The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on NASA WebWorldWind. 
Expect significant advances to this open source geobrowser, along with 
facilitated access to the Copernicus programme Sentinel data, for research and 
the needs of a greater European government community. Thank you ESA and Pier 
Giorgio Marchetti!

2. Extraordinary progress is being made on what was originally called the 
Global Earthquake Forecast System and is now referred to as Earthquake Signal 
Precursors (ESP). This will prove invaluable to the world. The monitoring 
systems (hardware) and entire communication infrastructure (software), are all 
designed and built as open source. Thank you TrilliumLearning and Ron Fortunato!

3. The city of Trento will be hosting the 'climax' to the 2016 Europa 
Challenge. This will include an all-expense paid invitation (lodging and meals, 
excluding travel) to the top three teams for a final three days of intense 
collaboration and all-out competition for the very best ^OpenCitySmart^ 
solution! Thank you Trento and Milena Bigatto! 

4. Look for a special Europa Challenge presence at the OGRS symposium in 
Perugia.

5. And more pleasant surprises!  ;-)

-Patrick
'If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately' -Benjamin 
Franklin circa 1776

 patrick.ho...@nasa.gov
 World Wind Project Manager
 (650) 604-5656 (office)
 (650) 269-2788 (cell)
 http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ 
 http://2016.ogrs-community.org/
 https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dear OSGeo,

NASA World Wind wins two of the three awards
at the ESA Big Data from Space, BiDS’16 conference.
http://congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16m05/introduction

(Yann Voumard is an ESA developer working on WorldWind)

You can win too!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick

From: Yann Voumard >
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:08 AM
To: NASA World Wind / ESA
Subject: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

We won best demo and best poster :)

Best DEMO, Best POSTER, Best SESSION

Dear Attendees,

Voting results are:

BEST DEMO

NASA WORLD WIND: THE EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION

BEST POSTER

INNOVATIVE WAYS OF VISUALIZING META DATA IN 4D
USING World Wind OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES

BEST SESSION

EXPLOITATION PLATFORMS 1 (PLENARY 2), CHAIR: F. JOCTEUR



Thank you,

BIDS'16 Organising Committee
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,
NASA has a motto 'for the benefit of all.'
WorldWind lives up to that motto.
It is an honor and privilege to do so.
Thanks much,
-Patrick

From: Suchith Anand [mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:16 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

Congrats Patrick and WorldWind Crew. Well done!

Suchith

From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of 
Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.ho...@nasa.gov]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 4:03 PM
To: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org>; 
OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16
Dear OSGeo,

NASA World Wind wins two of the three awards
at the ESA Big Data from Space, BiDS'16 conference.
http://congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16m05/introduction

(Yann Voumard is an ESA developer working on WorldWind)

You can win too!
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick

From: Yann Voumard <yann.voum...@solenix.ch<mailto:yann.voum...@solenix.ch>>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:08 AM
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Subject: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

We won best demo and best poster :)

Best DEMO, Best POSTER, Best SESSION

Dear Attendees,

Voting results are:

BEST DEMO

NASA WORLD WIND: THE EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION

BEST POSTER

INNOVATIVE WAYS OF VISUALIZING META DATA IN 4D
USING World Wind OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES

BEST SESSION

EXPLOITATION PLATFORMS 1 (PLENARY 2), CHAIR: F. JOCTEUR



Thank you,

BIDS'16 Organising Committee







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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] R: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Venka,

WorldWind is a ripe plum, there for the indulgence of OSGeo, what more must we 
do?

We are trying to be as attractive as a lithe, lissome, lovely and 
availability-unlimited ripe plum can be.

We too ^want^ to free-up whatever gracious future OSGeo may need.

-Patrick

From: ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf 
Of Venkatesh Raghavan
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 7:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] R: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

Congratulations to Patrick and the WorldWind team!

Hope the WorldWind team will consider joining in
as an OSGeo software project in the near future.

Best

Venka

On 3/19/2016 2:58 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

Bravissimo!

Maria







Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung





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Dear OSGeo,



NASA World Wind wins two of the three awards

at the ESA Big Data from Space, BiDS'16 conference.

http://congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16m05/introduction



(Yann Voumard is an ESA developer working on WorldWind)



You can win too!

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/



-Patrick



From: Yann Voumard 
<yann.voum...@solenix.ch<mailto:yann.voum...@solenix.ch><mailto:yann.voum...@solenix.ch><mailto:yann.voum...@solenix.ch>>

Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:08 AM

To: NASA World Wind / ESA

Subject: WebWorldWind at BiDS'16



We won best demo and best poster :)



Best DEMO, Best POSTER, Best SESSION



Dear Attendees,



Voting results are:



BEST DEMO



NASA WORLD WIND: THE EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION



BEST POSTER



INNOVATIVE WAYS OF VISUALIZING META DATA IN 4D

USING World Wind OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES



BEST SESSION



EXPLOITATION PLATFORMS 1 (PLENARY 2), CHAIR: F. JOCTEUR







Thank you,



BIDS'16 Organising Committee






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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Too bad, this seems a good opportunity to put our poopprint-footprint into 
perspective and help stimulate consideration of ways to accomplish our need for 
interaction, obviously quality virtual participation being the alternative. Not 
to exclude the benefits of a physical meeting but allow for an expansion of 
that so players can join up virtually. A chart showing how much poop was 
prevented might help to encourage more ways to improve our efficiency. I hope I 
am accurately understanding what is being discussed, never quite sure.
-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan 
Moules
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:14 AM
To: Even Rouault
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

Hi Even,
I'm not averse to the notion, but given the mixed/tepid response to this 
email thread, it doesn't seem like something the community has any particular 
desire for.
Cheers,
Jonathan

 On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:18:32 + Even 
Rouault> wrote 

Jonathan,

if you feel OSGeo should have an environmental policy, you could certainly
propose one for consideration by the larger community, and then volunteer to
champion to make it adopted, and enforce it afterwards.

Even

>
>
>  On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 + Daniel
> Morissettedmorisse...@mapgears.com 
> wrote 
>
> On 2016-03-08 8:37 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> 
>  Looking at the participant list, that Paris code-sprint entailed at
>  least 10 transatlantic flights and probably at least that many
>  short-haul (pan-Europe) flights too (which have higher emissions
>  profiles per passenger mile). I don't doubt a lot of useful work was
>  done, but was the quantity and quality of the work so much superior to
>  the normal-work-from-home/office option that it was worth the
>  considerable extra pollution that the sprint generated?
> 
>  This is obviously not something that can be easily quantified
> (although  I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should
> be considered  when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you
> can easily end  up with a Tragedy of the Commons situation.
>  A quick search doesn't find any sort of
>  ethical/green/social-responsibility policy on OSGeo's pages...
> 
>
>
> Um... very good point. On that note, I wonder if we should consider
> canceling the international FOSS4G which has an even worse impact since
> we're talking of hundreds of useless flights only to get people to watch
> a couple of conferences and share their latest project news.
>
> Conferences and meetings could be streamed and delivered using hangouts
> after all. Why did we not think of that before?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

I'd like to be the first to congratulate Paul on his ability to ^suffer^ 
through a trip to Paris.

And still find time to do an extraordinary amount of productive work!!! 

A truly exemplary individual effort for all sprinters, 
for how great work well precedes the sprint itself, 
allowing Paul to make the most of this coding event. 

Go! Paul! Go!

-Patrick

-Original Message-
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 10:07 AM
To: Jody Garnett
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

Here's mine

http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2016/03/paris-code-sprint-postgis-recap.html

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Jody Garnett  wrote:
> Taking this out to a seperate email thread - several projects had a 
> plan going in, how did it go?
>
> PostGIS Agenda
> SFCGAL Agenda
> OTB Agenda
> GDAL Agenda
> GRASS GIS Agenda
> MapServer Agenda
> Point Cloud Agenda
> iTowns Agenda
>
> Oliver has gathered blog posts and feedback from participants on the wiki.
> --
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