Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Getting started with GDAL

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi, if that is for Fiona (rasterio, ...), we just tested python
packages provided by Christoph Gohlke to be downloaded from
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

You just need to download propper python version (python3 --version),
but it works (miracle)

Christoph Gohlke deserves beer from all of us (Python Free Geospatial
Software users, who are forced to use windows)

Jachym

út 25. 2. 2020 v 10:46 odesílatel Brad Hards  napsal:
>
> I’m guessing that is coming from Fiona or something other than GDAL. If so, 
> that isn’t the real issue, and you possibly need to refer to 
> https://pypi.org/project/Fiona/ for the Windows instructions?
>
>
>
> IMHO, it is probably going to be easier to install a linux VM on your 
> machine. Sorry if that isn’t what you wanted to hear.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] My last letter as President

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muchas gracias

Dne st 4. 12. 2019 11:06 uživatel Angelos Tzotsos 
napsal:

> Dear Maria,
>
> Thank you for your service and contributions to our organization.
> It was an honor and pleasure to work with you.
>
> Looking at the present Board, gender representation has improved a lot,
> so we are in a good path.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
>
> On 12/4/19 9:08 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
> > Dear fellow OSGeoers,
> >
> > I want to congratulate all the recently elected members of the Board,
> > specially the new ones! I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did
> > and contribute with your unique view to our organization. I want to
> > thank all the people that helped me on this two-year journey and I
> > hope I helped others on this journey too. OSGeo is evolving to be more
> > inclusive, diverse and bigger than ever and I am proud of you all.
> >
> > As some of you may know, some months ago I decided to go back into the
> > barricades and far from public exposure. I think rotating positions
> > inside a voluntary organization is something very healthy to do and
> > gives you a unique perspective. That's why I decided to participate on
> > a proposal for FOSS4G 2021 and not repeat elections again for the
> > Board.
> >
> > I hereby resign as President to let one of the current members of the
> > Board take this position. I have always a strong advocate that this
> > kind of positions should be taken by Board members, so I want to
> > explicitly facilitate the transition. Our current vice-presidents
> > Helena Mitasova and Angelos Tzotsos will fill the space until a new
> > President is appointed.
> >
> > I have to say I'm still a bit sad of the geographic, cultural and
> > ethnic representation on the Board. I am sure we can change this on
> > the following years. Until then, I am confident current members of the
> > Board will do a great job representing you all.
> >
> > See you all in Calgary in 2020!
> > María, your former OSGeo President.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS 4.2.2 released

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Dear all,

the PyWPS PSC [1] annones new bug-fix release of the PyWPS project: 4.2.2[2]

This release is focused on bug fixing, namely:

* Fixed scheduler extension (#480).
* Fixed ValuesReference implementation (#471, #484).
* Fixed AllowedValue range (#467, #464).
* Add metalink support to facilitate outputs with multiple files (#466).
* Rename async to async_ for Python 3.7 compatibility (#462).
* Improve queue race conditions (#455).
* Numerous bug-fixes, additional tests and documentation improvements.

You can download new release from the GitHub [3] as well as from PyPI [4]

Thank you to all the contributors. Looking forward to next release.

Jachym (in the name of PyWPS PSC)

[1] http://pywps.org
[2] https://pywps.org/2019/09/25/pywps-4.2.2-released.html
[3] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/tree/4.2.2
[4] https://pypi.org/project/pywps/4.2.2/

What is PyWPS:
PyWPS (Python Web Processing Service) is implementation of Web
Processing Service standard from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)).
Processes can be written using GRASS GIS, but usage of other programs, like
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] General information about FOSS4G market

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Hi,

wouild the OSGeo page help ? [1]

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/

pá 20. 9. 2019 v 18:06 odesílatel Silvia Franceschi
 napsal:
>
> Dear all,
> for a research statistical activity I need the following information.
> I would like to understand if there is any publication or any available data 
> regarding the possibilities  for private businesses offered by the FOSS4G 
> market in the different sectors. In particular what I am looking for is some 
> information about the dimensions of the businesses involved in the FOSS4G 
> market for the different sectors, mainly in the application and in the 
> development of GIS tools.
>
> Do someone know if there is a reference page or paper where to find this 
> information? It would be fine also if there are different sources for 
> different countries or even continents.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Silvia
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

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Hi Jo,

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members

J

pá 6. 9. 2019 v 16:08 odesílatel Jo Cook  napsal:
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> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has recently attempted to estimate the size
> (in people) of OSGeo?
> I thought the easiest approach might be to see the number of people
> subscribed to the discuss list. I'm aware it's not going to catch
> everyone, but it seems reasonable as a measure of the community.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Furthermore, how many people attended FOSS4G in Bucharest this year?
>
> Thanks
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 101 workshop at FOSS4G 2019

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Introduce newcomers to OSGeo ecosystem.

At FOSS4G-Europe it appeared, that "joining the mailing list" is
something, most of the people do not understand.

How OSGeo is organised. How can you join the communication channels.
How are projects within OSGeo organised. How to join OSGeo as project
...

Just the basic idea

At the end of the workshop, attendees should be all joined to
discussion mailing list as well as to the projects mailing list of
their interest :-)
J

pá 25. 1. 2019 v 12:25 odesílatel Jody Garnett  napsal:
>
> I have a few presentations I can contribute that may be on topic, what is the 
> goal for the workshop?
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:52 AM Jachym Cepicky  
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> as promised in Guimarães, I just submitted the "OSGeo 101 -
>> Introduction to OSGeo" workshop to FOSS4 2019
>>
>> I would like to start materials - there are two options: OSGeo custom
>> Gitea (login to OSGeo infrastructure needed), GITHub (3rd party
>> software, low barrier for contribution)
>>
>> I suggest, we use GITHub (https://github.com/osgeo/) anybody dislikes this?
>>
>> Right now, I'm the only workshop mentor, more volunteers are welcome
>> and I'll happily add you all the the submission, I just kicked this
>> think of
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 101 workshop at FOSS4G 2019

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Hi all,
as promised in Guimarães, I just submitted the "OSGeo 101 -
Introduction to OSGeo" workshop to FOSS4 2019

I would like to start materials - there are two options: OSGeo custom
Gitea (login to OSGeo infrastructure needed), GITHub (3rd party
software, low barrier for contribution)

I suggest, we use GITHub (https://github.com/osgeo/) anybody dislikes this?

Right now, I'm the only workshop mentor, more volunteers are welcome
and I'll happily add you all the the submission, I just kicked this
think of

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

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>
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 14:53, Mark Iliffe  
>  wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I’ve really agonised over whether to send this email. First of which,
> being the imminent final preparations for FOSS4G taking up a lot of time,
> but also whether it’s appropriate for me in my role of chair of FOOS4G to
> offer public critique of regional events. It is in this vein that I’d like
> to really stress that I’m writing this as an OSSGeo charter member.
>
> When I first saw this, my heart sank:http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2018/keynotes/
>
> Where is the gender diversity in the line up? I know that organising a
> FOSS4G is really difficult, but we need to be reaching far and wide and that
> starts with our keynotes. Potentially I’m missing something here - and I
> probably am, if so I am sorry if this is the case! - but can we have a
> rethink of the line up to really represent our community?
>
> Thank you,
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] osgeo board request world wind consider joining the foundation

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>
>
>
> 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).
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Dar es Salaam

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Hi Mark,


On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 04:31 Mark Iliffe,  wrote:

> [...]


Over 600 people said with one voice that they wanted to join us in Dar es
> Salaam. As the clock ticks down to the event, this number will only rise
> and rise!
>
> [...]


> Not bad at all



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did you know about this? Microsoft is acquiring GitHub

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Jeff and others,

it's worth to metion, that OSGeo uses GitLab for the infrastructure, since
GitLab is open source project

J

po 4. 6. 2018 v 19:27 odesílatel Jeff McKenna 
napsal:

> A good time to remind projects that OSGeo has its own hosted Git
> services, based on Gitea: https://git.osgeo.org which needs to be
> promoted more (it's a nice option for FOSS projects).  You can sign-in
> with your OSGeo ID (create an ID at https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create)
> -jeff
>
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>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS is now OSGeo Project

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Hi,

> it would
> be great if you can also check the list and make sure the information is
> correct https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Graduated

Should be

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[OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS is now OSGeo Project

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*PyWPS finished the OSGeo incubation process*

On April 11th 2018, OSGeo Board of Directors recognized [1] PyWPS project
as an official OSGeo project, thanks to the efforts of the PyWPS Project
Steering committee and Tom Kralidis, our incubation mentor. The incubation
process started 9 years ago [2] and was one of the longest processes within
the OSGeo ecosystem. Over this time, PyWPS demonstrated [3] a stable
community, evolving into version 4 with completely new code base and
license change, took part on several Google Summer of Code events, formed a
Project Steering Committee [4] and many more.

*About PyWPS*
PyWPS (http://pywps.org) is an implementation of the Web Processing Service
standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium. PyWPS is written in Python.
It enables integration, publishing and execution of Python processes via
the OGC WPS standard.

PyWPS is Open Source and released under an MIT license.

*About OSGeo*
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo http://osgeo.org) 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.

[1]
https://www.loomio.org/d/vcAgpzQl/recognize-pywps-as-a-new-osgeo-project-with-jachym-as-vp-of-pywps-within-our-organization-and-an-initial-committee-budget-of-2000-usd-for-2018
[2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/337
[3] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist
[4] http://pywps.org/development/psc.html
[5] http://pywps.org/2018/05/30/incubation.html

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017 from the CRO point of view

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Vasile - good work, thanks for it, you did great.

J

po 30. 10. 2017 v 18:32 odesílatel Jody Garnett 
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> I think the correct link is this one -
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-24#OSGeo_charter_member_election_procedure
> .
>
> But I agree, although this issue was discussed across several meetings
> (notably the issues and stratagy discussed here
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016) the end
> result was not communicated to our membership and came as a surprise for
> the 2017 elections.
>
> I like the new procedure, although I am sorry it is more work for the CRO.
> I am surprised at the perception that it is more inclusive - I believe it
> is a little less inclusive then the prior procedure (since a single -1 vote
> can now cause a candidate review). Both systems do not have an adequate way
> to ask for more information, or discuss a nomination, without it being
> viewed as a personal criticism. There are a couple of ideas (template for
> nominations, encouraged asking questions) but it will be a careful balance.
>
>
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>
> On 30 October 2017 at 09:57, Vasile Craciunescu 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Tom,
>>
>> I understand the way you are feeling and I know that are reasons for
>> that. I remember that I had some hard time when I did wrote that part of my
>> email. However, this was reported my many persons and I had to include this
>> in my message. Anyway, I don't think that a single old OSGeo charter member
>> will consider the new comers as lite members. The quality of the new
>> members is proven by the important number of seconding messages and by the
>> fact that no veto was raised. In the early years of OSGeo, the membership
>> process was a very selective one and this was also a subject of criticism.
>> I can understand why moving from one extreme to another can cause such
>> reactions. Personally I'm very in favor of an inclusive system but one with
>> an voting mechanism. This is something for the community and the board to
>> decide. The actual system is also a big burden to the CRO (hundreds of
>> emails and wiki edits) and also a stress for our mailing list.
>>
>> I can only speculate why they did not used our mailing list to express
>> their opinion. Most of them are old OSGeo members and I think they did not
>> want to sound like they are contesting the membership process (already
>> started) or that they contest the already nominated persons. Not a single
>> one contested the persons that were nominated and I'm 100% sure that was a
>> genuine care not to dilute the importance of our membership position. Also,
>> most of the messages were not sent to CRO email but over IRC/Google
>> Hangouts and some during face to face meetings, just before the elections,
>> at FOSS4G in Boston.
>>
>> I will conclude by reiterating again that all the critics were on the
>> membership process and not a single one about the new members. Of course,
>> those critics should not be expressed now, just before, during or after the
>> nomination process, but immediately after the board decided to change the
>> membership process. The board decided to make the change during the face to
>> face meeting in Bonn in 2016 [1]. At that time, the board did a poor job in
>> communicating this change to the community. Actually only those members
>> that are manually checking the meetings wiki pages or the OSGeo Loomio
>> instance were aware of the change. I was also a board member at that time
>> and I would like to apologize for not communicating better.
>>
>> Best,
>> Vasile
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-04
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/17 2:27 PM, Tom Chadwin wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Vasile and all
>>>
>>> I've thought long and hard about whether to reply or not, but it has
>>> been bothering me, so I guess I must.
>>>
>>> However, during the nomination
 period, many of our members considered the new membership process way
 too inclusive/lite, causing a diminution in the importance of the
 charter member position.

>>>
>>> As one of the intake of this year's new charter members, I find this
>>> both insulting and upsetting.
>>>
>>> My recommendations for the future board are to: (a) Change the
 existing membership process with another one more balanced, that assures
 both inclusiveness and a consistent weight for the charter member
 position.

>>>
>>> Where does that leave those of us elected as charter members this year?
>>> Are we "lite" members because "many" existing members felt strongly enough
>>> about protecting the exclusivity of their position to complain privately to
>>> the CRO, but not strongly enough to express that opinion openly so that it
>>> could be discussed?
>>>
>>> I really feel for Vasile that people expressed such a potentially toxic
>>> opinion, thereby absolving themselves of the responsibility of putting
>>> their names to it, while 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

[Jachym Cepicky]

Ravi, but people from most of the world can not effort flight  ticket to
say USA and week hostel - deal with it.

I keep always asking, "what can I do for open source 4 geospatial" instead
of "what can foss4g do for me?".

make local foss4g events, make hackathons, try to get founds, so you bring
the "big names" to you - it might be cheaper then trying to bring all your
friends to foss4g-global

it was proved, that the costs are rather constant. for the global event,
the rule is (ir it was) ever 3rd year, osgeo does not expect much of the
revenue, we hope the local people from local countries will come, we try to
bring foss4g to them..

costs in USA and Europe are making revenue - and it is good so, imho

J

so 21. 10. 2017 v 10:59 odesílatel Ravi Kumar <manarajahmundry2...@gmail.com>
napsal:

> "the fees are certainly not for normal people from most of the world"..
> This is balm to all those who consider themselves sidelined.
> Much of the world needs Open Source and Open and Free GIS for Transparent
> administration among a multitude of reasons. May be it is time for a course
> correction.
> Ravi
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> the fees are certainly not for normal people from most of the world. Not
>> talking about travel costs.
>>
>> But, as active member of the community, you can get considerable discount
>> (giving workshops, volunteer at sessions, ...).
>>
>> With FOSS4G-Europe, we aim to bring "little FOSS4G" to more people. And
>> it seems to be working.
>>
>> Just 0.02
>>
>> J
>>
>> čt 19. 10. 2017 v 8:44 odesílatel Till Adams <till.ad...@fossgis.de>
>> napsal:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I can invite everybody, to follow the RfP process for FOSS4G 2019 [1] -
>>> including the questions to the teams. This will show, that we as CC have
>>> the cost factor always in mind. When discussing about prices, please take
>>> into account, that conference fee normally is 1/3 - 1/5 of the total costs
>>> you have when visiting a FOSS4G.
>>>
>>> Also I'd like to invite everybody to make even small donations to the
>>> travel grant programme. We will announce, when the TGP for 2018 is setup.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Till
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2019_Bid_Process
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 18.10.2017 um 09:30 schrieb Andrea Aime:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Bannerman <
>>> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When you look at the costs associated with a person attending a typical
>>>> international FOSS4G event, the actual conference fees a small amount of
>>>> the actual cost.
>>>>
>>>> Consider airfares, transportation, accomodation, meals, lost wages etc.
>>>> There is nothing that an LOC can do about these individual costs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah hem, nothing that the LOC can do once the conference site is chosen,
>>> but something that OSGeo can do when assigning the location and timing.
>>> And I believe that is happening, if I'm not wrong for the first time the
>>> LOC needs to provide expected cost of airfare and accommodation as part
>>> of their proposal, which will make people consider carefully that aspect
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Another aspect that was not cited but that I heard in conversations and
>>> believe is important, it's that it is really hard to compress
>>> the cost of a large conference: the LOC needs a place that can host 1000
>>> people, and that can give internet to this many people,
>>> that places forces the catering package on you (I've been told by
>>> several conference chairs there no way to dodge that) and the
>>> two together make up for a large amount of the cost.
>>>
>>> So, besides some exceptions (think FOSDEM) it seems the only way to
>>> setup a cheaper conference is to make a smaller
>>> one that can be hosted at a university or in a smaller conference
>>> center. Hence the focus on the local conferences.
>>> I believe the threshold is at around 500 people, larger than that one is
>>> hung on the costly options.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>> ==
>>>
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>>> http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf 
>>> Technical
>>> Lead GeoSolutions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Jachym Cepicky]

Vasile, what is the subject of the mail I should recieve?

THanks

J

st 18. 10. 2017 v 19:15 odesílatel Eli Adam  napsal:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
>  wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Based on the feedback received from two of our members (thank you
> Dimitris
> > and Gert-Jan), I did a small change in the voting system. The change is
> on
> > the number of votes than one can cast. The initial system was maximum 5,
> > minimum 5, which does not make sense if you want to abstain on more than
> 5
> > nominations (the rule was inherit from the survey template used last
> year).
> > Also, according to our process rules  "You can cast up to 5 votes, for 5
> > different people." [1]. Now, before making this change, 35 people already
>
> Probably leave it until next year, but [1] is in error; it does not
> need to be for *different* people.  The bylaws
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html [2]
> provide:
>
> Section 8.9. Voting. Each member (except emeritus members) shall be
> entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting
> of the members, except in the case of election of directors or as may
> otherwise be provided in the General Corporation Law of the State of
> Delaware. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority
> of the members represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on the
> subject matter shall be the act of the members, unless the vote of a
> greater number is required by the General Corporation Law of the State
> of Delaware or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws.
>
> In connection with the election of Directors, each member (except
> emeritus members) shall be entitled to one vote for each vacancy on
> the Board of Directors to be filled. Members of the Board of Directors
> shall be elected by the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes
> of the members present in person or proxy, including through remote
> communication, at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of
> the Board of Directors. Each member entitled to vote in an election of
> Directors may cumulate his or her votes by distributing among one or
> more candidates as many votes as are equal to the number of Director
> vacancies to be filled in the election.
>
> Andy also raised some good ideas.  Perhaps we need to review this further.
>
>
> Best regards, Eli
>
>
> > voted. The votes are anonymized but I can go through Limesurvey setting
> to
> > check if is possible to reset someone votes. Please let me know on
> > c...@osgeo.org if you already voted and you were unhappy with the fact
> that
> > the system forced you to cast 5 votes.
> >
> > Best,
> > Vasile
> > CRO 2017
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
>
> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
>
> >
> >
> > On 10/18/17 11:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear charter members,
> >>
> >> It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like in
> >> the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In minutes
> from
> >> now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to all our charter
> >> members. If you don't receive your voting link in the next couple of
> hours
> >> please let me know at c...@osgeo.org. Before doing that please also
> check
> >> your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of messages at once is not easy
> and it
> >> can be interpreted as spam by some of the filtering systems. Also,
> sometimes
> >> the e-mail addresses change but the charter member contact database is
> not
> >> up to date. I will try to contact all the members with bounced
> invitations
> >> via alternative email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account
> and
> >> to make sure that are able to vote.
> >>
> >> Thank you for supporting OSGeo!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Vasile
> >> CRO 2017
> >> ___
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> >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -
> > Vasile Crăciunescu
> > geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData
> > http://www.geo-spatial.org
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

[Jachym Cepicky]

Guys,

the fees are certainly not for normal people from most of the world. Not
talking about travel costs.

But, as active member of the community, you can get considerable discount
(giving workshops, volunteer at sessions, ...).

With FOSS4G-Europe, we aim to bring "little FOSS4G" to more people. And it
seems to be working.

Just 0.02

J

čt 19. 10. 2017 v 8:44 odesílatel Till Adams  napsal:

> Dear list,
>
> I can invite everybody, to follow the RfP process for FOSS4G 2019 [1] -
> including the questions to the teams. This will show, that we as CC have
> the cost factor always in mind. When discussing about prices, please take
> into account, that conference fee normally is 1/3 - 1/5 of the total costs
> you have when visiting a FOSS4G.
>
> Also I'd like to invite everybody to make even small donations to the
> travel grant programme. We will announce, when the TGP for 2018 is setup.
>
> Cheers, Till
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2019_Bid_Process
>
>
>
> Am 18.10.2017 um 09:30 schrieb Andrea Aime:
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When you look at the costs associated with a person attending a typical
>> international FOSS4G event, the actual conference fees a small amount of
>> the actual cost.
>>
>> Consider airfares, transportation, accomodation, meals, lost wages etc.
>> There is nothing that an LOC can do about these individual costs.
>>
>
> Ah hem, nothing that the LOC can do once the conference site is chosen,
> but something that OSGeo can do when assigning the location and timing.
> And I believe that is happening, if I'm not wrong for the first time the
> LOC needs to provide expected cost of airfare and accommodation as part
> of their proposal, which will make people consider carefully that aspect
> too.
>
> Another aspect that was not cited but that I heard in conversations and
> believe is important, it's that it is really hard to compress
> the cost of a large conference: the LOC needs a place that can host 1000
> people, and that can give internet to this many people,
> that places forces the catering package on you (I've been told by several
> conference chairs there no way to dodge that) and the
> two together make up for a large amount of the cost.
>
> So, besides some exceptions (think FOSDEM) it seems the only way to setup
> a cheaper conference is to make a smaller
> one that can be hosted at a university or in a smaller conference center.
> Hence the focus on the local conferences.
> I believe the threshold is at around 500 people, larger than that one is
> hung on the costly options.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
> ==
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Astrid Emde

[Jachym Cepicky]

I love her

+1

J

út 3. 10. 2017 v 8:59 odesílatel Markus Neteler  napsal:

> +1 for Astrid!
>
> She is very active in the FOSSGIS e.V., OSGeo and Mapbender,
> dedicating a lot of time to the organization of community events and
> (big) conferences by leading much of the needed efforts. Without
> Astrid and her balanced view of the community, many things would
> simply not happen.
>
> I fully support her nomination.
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jeff McKenna
>  wrote:
> > Forwarding nomination of Astrid Emde by Venkatesh Raghavan & Jeff
> McKenna.
> > The Board Nominations page has been updated:
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
> >
> >
> > -Jeff & Vasile
> > CRO 2017 Elections
> >
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> >
> > It gives us great pleasure to nominate Astrid Emde as a member of the
> OSGeo
> > Board.
> >
> > Astrid [1] needs no introduction for most in our community; for the few
> who
> > may not yet be fully aware of Astrid’s contributions, she is an (hyper)
> > active member of OSGeo for many years. She is a PSC member of the
> Mapbender
> > [2] and OSGeo Live projects [3]. Apart from being a regular contributor
> at
> > global and regional FOSS4G conferences, Astrid is the force behind the
> > German language OSGeo Local Chapter FOSSGIS e.V. [4] ever since its
> > inception. She is also involved in showcasing OSGeo at mega-events like
> > INTERGEO [5] and scientific conferences like AGIT [6].
> >
> > Astrid relentlessly promotes OSGeo by organizing community events, code
> > sprints, workshops on a variety of OSGeo software, and
> > documentation/translation. More recently, her excellent communication
> skills
> > are being put to effective use in our Marketing Committee.
> >
> > We would like to thank Astrid for kindly agreeing to spare her time for
> the
> > added responsibility of serving the OSGeo Foundation as a member of the
> > Board.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Venka & Jeff
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
> > [2] http://www.mapbender.org/
> > [3] https://live.osgeo.org/
> > [4] https://www.fossgis.de/
> > [5] http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo-en/
> > [6] http://www.agit.at/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

[Jachym Cepicky]

why not e.g. gitlab project issues tracker?

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, 16:46 Jorge Sanz  wrote:

> Agree, I don't think I'd like a nomination period + election being carried
> on with some editings in the wiki and a silent mailing list except by some
> announcements.
>
> On the other hand, answering with a +1 on a mailing list is quick and easy
> (and annoying if you don't use filters on your email).
>
> The off list option, like adding a comment on the wiki, (IMO) would be
> followed by fewer people and read by even fewer people. We are all lazy by
> nature, and an election process is not the most exciting activity we do.
>
> I agree the process can be improved, but when thinking about election
> procedures, as boring as they are, we need to put the reduction of
> participation barriers as a top priority if we want to reach the broadest
> audience, at least once per year.
>
> Anyway, I'm super happy to see such a big number of nominations, and I
> want to thank Vasile for the hard work and long hours he's dedicating to
> try to cup with such a demonstration of enthusiasm.
>
> My 2 cents
>
>
>
> On 8 September 2017 at 15:15, Volker Mische 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it's valuable to have the nominations being sent to the discuss
>> list, but I agree that seconding them should be off list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2017 01:01 PM, brandon whitehead wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > A potentially trivial change would be to keep the process the same, but
>> > run through the wiki---i.e. use a wiki page as the venue for nominators
>> > to log in and update/edit.  Freeze the page after a certain date, and
>> > now there's an archived copy of the process.  Anyone interested in
>> > real-time updates can simply log in and "follow" the page, others can
>> > visit the page and check the results as they see fit.
>> >
>> > Note, this is conceptually the same process for nomination and voting,
>> > but it is collated via the wiki instead of email.  This also doesn't
>> > involve additional work to create an automated system.
>> >
>> > just a few thoughts from an interested lurker...
>> > /Brandon
>> >
>> > On 08/09/2017 11:34, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> There was a discussion with the CROs at yesterday's board meeting, and
>> a
>> >> proposal to use an automated system for nominations came up.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Angelos
>> >>
>> >> On 09/08/2017 01:01 PM, Till Adams wrote:
>> >>> Jeroen,
>> >>>
>> >>> good motion! I feel the same and honestly am not able to read and
>> check
>> >>> them all...
>> >>>
>> >>> Till
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Am 08.09.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Jeroen Ticheler:
>>  Hi all,
>>  It is great to see the OSGeo community being so active and expanding!
>>  The process of proposing and voting new members is an extremely
>>  valuable part of that!
>> 
>>  The downside is that email traffic is exploding around this election.
>>  I fear the election processes in the coming years already. Should we
>>  find another way so propose and second nominees in the future to
>>  avoid flooding everyones inbox? (For me these emails seem to make up
>>  for about half of my email traffic over the last weeks ;-( ).
>> 
>>  Cheers,
>>  Jeroen
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>> >>
>> >
>> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, 18:32 Victoria Rautenbach 
wrote:

> +1
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> > +1 jorge
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5 September 2017 at 10:49, María Arias de Reyna <
> delawen+os...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
> >>  wrote:
> >> > Forwarding Lyzi Diamond nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
> >> > nominations list was updated [1].
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> > Vasile & Jeff
> >> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  Forwarded Message 
> >> > Subject:Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond
> >> > Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:27:36 -0500
> >> > From:   Sara Safavi 
> >> > To: Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Chief
> >> > Returning
> >> > Officer 
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Nominee: Lyzi Diamond, lyzidiam...@gmail.com
> >> > 
> >> > - USA
> >> >
> >> > I would like to nominate Lyzi Diamond for OSGeo charter membership.
> Lyzi
> >> > is
> >> > an engineer and an educator, and a great contributor to the open
> source
> >> > geo
> >> > community on both fronts. With her work as co-founder of the
> >> > international
> >> > phenomenon, Maptime (maptime.io ), Lyzi gained
> >> > recognition as a community leader dedicated to bringing cartography,
> >> > geospatial technology, and mapping education to everyone. Since then
> she
> >> > has
> >> > continued to work towards making geo-related information more
> accessible
> >> > to
> >> > all. I often find myself referencing, and referring others, to Lyzi's
> >> > blog
> >> > posts, articles, tutorials, and talks as excellent resources.
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1

po 4. 9. 2017 v 22:44 odesílatel Markus Neteler  napsal:

> I second Markus' nomination.
>
> Best regards,
> markusN
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
>  wrote:
> > Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
> > nominations listwas updated [1].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vasile & Jeff
> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership
> > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:23:46 +0200
> > From: Moritz Lennert 
> > To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
> >
> > Dear CRO's,
> >
> > I would like to nominate Markus Metz for charter membership. Markus is
> very
> > deeply involved in the core development of GRASS GIS and has done
> invaluable
> > work for our code base. Citing everything he's done would be too long,
> but
> > besides introducing many new modules and also significantly improving the
> > internal libraries, he has done wonders in allowing GRASS GIS to work
> with
> > very, very large amounts of data.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Moritz
> >
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>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Nicolas Roelandt for OSGeo charter membership

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1

On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, 21:15 Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> The 2017 member nominations list has been updated with Nicolas'
> nomination  [1].  Apologies to Nicolas for missing that.
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>
>
> On 2017-08-24 9:12 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to nominate Nicolas Roelandt for OSGeo charter membership.
> > Nicolas is one of the latest additions to the OSGeo-Live PSC and has a
> > great future in FOSS4G. Nicolas was also a valuable member of the FOSS4G
> > Europe 2017 LOC.
> >
> > Best,
> > Angelos
> >
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies

[Jachym Cepicky]

Ohh :-(

J

čt 31. 8. 2017 v 10:22 odesílatel Vasile Craciunescu 
napsal:

> Dear all,
>
> Please accept my apologies for this nomination. At this time, Sean is
> actually *not able* to accept the nominations. I will remove the wiki
> page entry and ask you to ignore this message.
>
> Best,
> Vasile
>
> On 8/31/17 2:29 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> > Forwarding Sean Gillies nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
> > nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vasile & Jeff
> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject: Charter member nomination: Sean Gillies
> > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:11:39 -0500
> > From: Sara Safavi 
> > To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
> >
> >
> > I would like to nominate Sean Gillies for OSGeo Charter Membership. I
> > feel Sean's substantial contributions to our community speak for
> > themselves, but a quick summary: Sean is the creator of the Fiona &
> > Rasterio Python libraries, as well as one of the main authors of the
> > GeoJSON spec. Without Sean's work many of us would be crying over our
> > keyboards every day!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination to reinstate Bart van den Eijnden as an OSGeo charter member

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1 welcome back

út 29. 8. 2017 v 7:28 odesílatel 신상희  napsal:

> +1 for the nomination.
>
> Sanghee
>
> 2017. 8. 24. 오후 9:01에 "Angelos Tzotsos" 님이 작성:
>
> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden to return to his charter
>> member status.
>> Bart is a valuable member of the OSGeo family, has served as a Board
>> member in the past and I am honored to propose his return.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>> --
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>> OSGeo Charter Member
>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1

út 29. 8. 2017 v 11:07 odesílatel Margherita Di Leo 
napsal:

> +1!
>
> Il giorno mar 29 ago 2017 alle 08:56 Helmut Kudrnovsky  ha
> scritto:
>
>> I second Veronica's nomination.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Helmut
>>
>> >Forwarding Veronica Andreo nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
>> >nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
>> >
>> >Best regards,
>> >Vasile & Jeff
>> >2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>> >
>> >[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>> >
>> >
>> > Forwarded Message 
>> >Subject: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member
>> >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:59:39 +0200
>> >From: Moritz Lennert 
>> >To: cro at osgeo.org
>> >
>> >Dear CRO,
>> >
>> >I would like to nominate Veronica Andreo as charter member.
>> >
>> >Veronica is a very active member of the GRASS GIS community and provides
>> >very valuable work in documentation, bug fixing, user support, etc. She
>> >is also very active diffusing OSGeo/FOSS4G principles through
>> >conferences, workshops, and other forms of training.
>> >
>> >Best wishes,
>> >Moritz
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Jachym Cepicky]

Eh, new idea just came to my mind: What about adding possibility to assign
people to service providers (companies in general) as we can assign to
projects? After all, it's all about people, isn't it?

Again, maybe it is in cotradiction with some principle, I'm missing

J

út 22. 8. 2017 v 2:58 odesílatel Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Note the news section is intended for news related to a specific
> service provider. Its *not* doing this now, so its unclear.
>
> Can you file an issue about the search. Agree this should work for a
> project name here.
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Jachym Cepicky
> <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > yes for me (OpenGeoLabs) it works as it is now - we are listed, we have
> > links to projects we can support, there is logo, picture, web page, once
> it
> > works, we are gonna be on the map, what could I possibly ask for more?
> (if
> > the graphics around "News" will be made more clear)
> >
> > side note: maybe adding note, that if you are searching for specifing
> > service provider related to project, you should go to project page and
> find
> > the service providers there, since search "geoserver" does not return any
> > result at this page
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> > út 22. 8. 2017 v 1:24 odesílatel Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> > napsal:
> >>
> >> Jeff have you heard from any small companies that feel alienated? For
> many
> >> being a small company gives them a chance to offer personal service. I
> do
> >> not want to make assumptions if we can help it.
> >>
> >> My feedback was actually focused on the site design, partnership &
> friend
> >> relationships are appropriate for government and NGOs, geoforall labs
> are
> >> the appropriate relationship for education and science etc. If that is
> clear
> >> we can return to the earlier discussion - specifically about service
> >> provider size. (we should also be sure to capture this discussion on the
> >> issue tracker so it can actually inform the review of the website).
> >>
> >> Many of these decisions already took place during the earlier wireframe
> >> stage of the project (by contributors who stepped up to the marketing
> >> committee). We already went back to the drawing table on some of the key
> >> decisions during wire framing and initial website design.
> >>
> >> To clearly set expectations - we will not have a chance to revisit each
> >> and every decision due to limitations on time/budget. It is hard though,
> >> because it is much easier to care about a website when it is pretty and
> we
> >> can all see it :)
> >>
> >> My initial message to Jachym was trying to confirm that the organization
> >> size worked for opengeolabs (simply because this was already a decision
> that
> >> had been revisited once).
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 4:09 PM Jeff McKenna
> >> <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Jody,
> >>>
> >>> By alienating the smaller OSGeo companies in our new website, I don't
> >>> see a benefit to OSGeo at all.  Let us please all sizes of OSGeo
> >>> companies, small and big.
> >>>
> >>> Yes this is tricky, for sure, even your initial message to Jachym shows
> >>> a lot of what it could be like, if OSGeo suddenly distinguishes size.
> >>> Let's avoid this totally, I believe.
> >>>
> >>> I am open to other suggestions to the wording as well.
> >>>
> >>> Tricky!  :)
> >>>
> >>> -jeff
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2017-08-21 6:53 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> >>> > I already changed it from number to the size thing.
> >>> >
> >>> > This list was for support providers (since the website is about
> >>> > outreach
> >>> > looks at projects, local chapters and service providers).
> >>> >
> >>> > GeoForAll labs and academic / research outreach are in slightly
> >>> > different spot (we could cross link). See
> >>> > http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/geo-for-all-labs/
> >>> >
> >>> > I do not think public:government, NGO/non-profit would like to be
> >>> > contacted for commercial support :) That said they can be listed in
> our
> >>> > si

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi Jeff (all)

currently, the page is listing "service providers"  - it's project oriented
(as providing services to projects)

your proposal is shifting it little bit to "all organisations", not even
service providing - but what is their releationship to the (osgeo)
projects? - still, it would be fine to me

I would be +1 for it, if it's does not hit to some other principle, already
hardcoded in the page (e.g.
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/initiatives/geo-for-all/ is partly coreving
the Academic/Research topic - just an example of potencial conflict, which
we could oversee)

I do not know, just noting, I have no strong opinion - I want to be
inclusive, all for adding another categories, but the rules and principals
should be clear. Currently, how I understand it "you can be listed as long
as you are providing services to projects"

J

út 22. 8. 2017 v 0:11 odesílatel Jeff McKenna 
napsal:

> On 2017-08-21 5:11 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > For your page
> > http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/service-providers/opengeolabs/ Is that a
> > single consultant (you!) or a company?
> > (or perhaps it is just a company with one person in it)
> >
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> Regarding separating the OSGeo community by size, I suggest that we
> avoid offending our community members, so let's stay positive and make
> the following change:
>
> I recommend that we/OSGeo change the "Organization Type" section to
> contain the following 4 options:
>
>   1. Private
>   2. Academic/Research
>   3. Public/Government
>   4. Non-profit
>
> The same 4 options should be applied to the options in the "Filter"
> search on the site for "Service Provider Type".
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jachym: you did a great job on the OpenGeoLabs page, and thanks for
> supporting OSGeo all of these years :)
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Jachym Cepicky]

afaik it was Vasile's overview

just noting

j

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, 17:59 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That is perfect Jachym; at least for the beta website the "quick review"
> is the very few edit permissions we have handed out. I like how this
> discussion is covering what we should consider for listing "other" (or
> "foss4g") projects in the future.
>
> One of the coolest things I saw at the conference was a spreadsheet of
> open source spatial projects that Angelos had. It outlined and visualized
> several hundred open source spatial projects (most of which I had never
> heard of).
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 21 August 2017 at 07:28, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just noting: there can be currently "Community projects" and "Other
>> projects" on the new OSGeo web page
>>
>> I agree, being "official OSGeo Community projects" requires some rules
>> and approval process
>>
>> IMHO the "new proposed rules" are ok, if you want just your project
>> appear on OSGeo Web page as "other project", it still should be
>> peer-reviewed by some of the page administrators, but that would not make
>> you to community project
>>
>> example: Yesterday I add Gisquick to new OSGeo web page
>> http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/gisquick/ it should be listed
>> among "Other projects", not community
>>
>> hope, it's ok?
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>> ne 20. 8. 2017 v 1:07 odesílatel James Klassen <klassen...@gmail.com>
>> napsal:
>>
>>> I generally agree with Even's comments.
>>>
>>> W.r.t. Not requireing other licenses clause, I would like to add a
>>> question about how this would apply to free software that is mostly
>>> intended to operate with non-free data?  e.g. GDAL drivers that enable
>>> reading proprietary formats via a vendor SDK or formats that tend to only
>>> be used with strictly licensed data or reading data from non-open standards
>>> based web services (where you only control the client but the client is
>>> pointless without a running server which requires its own separate license).
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2017 08:40, "Even Rouault" <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Angelos,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks for turning those discussions into a positive way forward and
>>>> your proposal sounds good to me. A few comments below.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> > I would like to propose a way forward:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> > 1. We should *only* promote projects that are somehow affiliated with
>>>> OSGeo
>>>>
>>>> > (as other Free and Open Source organizations do eg. Apache, Eclipse)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Makes sense. When you promote something on your website, you are
>>>> somewhat responsible for it, so you must ensure that it meets some minimum
>>>> criteria that are in the "OSGeo spirit"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > A proposal for *new* rules:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > * Has to have an OSI or FSF approved license and be found on the web
>>>> in a
>>>>
>>>> > public place.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sounds obvious, but we should probably rephrase that "Source code is
>>>> released with an OSI or FSF approved license and is available on the web in
>>>> a public place."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I know at least one project that is Apache licensed but released only
>>>> as binaries, which makes it not very convenient to modify :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > * Has to be useful on its own with normal data, and NOT require
>>>> another
>>>>
>>>> > license to really use it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it something that is currently required for graduation ? I don't see
>>>> this criterion mentioned in
>>>>
>>>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That one is probably 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Non-precise framing can hurt the community

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

I'm all for promoting "as much free and open source software for
geospatial" as possible on our web page. Our target is community outreach,
to destroy borders, this IMHO is part of our vision and mission [1]
OSGeo VisionEmpower everyone with open source geospatialOSGeo Mission
Statement

Foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive
software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory
community driven development.

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html

I do not care much about LocationTech's business and I did not see any act
- open or hidden - which would violate our vision or mission and that would
be in contradiction to what we do. Quite opposite, I see LocationTech
promoting the open (and OSGeo) idea quite a lot. Still, their business is
different from ours.

We are open community - and that includes (among others) LocationTech - do
not take this value from us.

The same way, some OSGeo members are looking at LocationTech, could OGC
look at OSGeo - with our "community" standards initiative, we are covering
some of their agenda. Yet I did not see that happen, since the final target
is different (even global mission is similar)

This is just my opinion, my $0.02 to the repeating discussion. You surely
can disagree

Jachym

P.S. Thank you all "LocationTech insiders", who are working for OSGeo,
great job!

so 19. 8. 2017 v 2:53 odesílatel Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> napsal:

> Dear Helmut
> I think that your question are relevant. Thank you so much!
> Jeffrey did an excellent work (thanks also  to you) in trying to make the
> new website ready in beta version for FOSS4G 2018.
> It is a sort of draft website and every comment is welcome.
> In the hurry of the last period and the overlappinh holidays of many
> people we have not had time to check it.
> But the website is our window and we have to decide what we want to show
> to the world. Therefore it deserves time for checking and also finding
> agreements among us.
> I agree with the proposal of Maxi to freeze it and give the possibility to
> the community to express themselves on this important topic.
> I will take my time in next weeks to check it and I ask everybody of the
> community to do the same and share their thoughts.
> Thanks again for your precious help!
> Best
> Maria
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: Helmut Kudrnovsky 
> Date: 18/08/2017 17:00 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Marc Vloemans , ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp,
> hmit...@ncsu.edu
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions , Sandro Santilli <
> s...@kbt.io>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Non-precise framing can hurt the community
>
> Dear Venka, Dear Helena, Dear Marc, Dear OSGeo Community,
>
> I'm some kind of surprised about the reactions and long threads about my
> question yesterday.
>
> Just back from a long walk along a nice alpine river where I had time to
> contemplate about it. Therefore it will be a personal and some kind of
> philosophical note.
>
> In my personal, cultural and scientific background I was educated that
> asking questions isn't anything bad.
>
> * Asking questions regarding things I'm interested in, to learn more about
> it ...
> * Asking questions regarding things I'm interested in, I'm involved, and
> where I have some kind of responsibility, to take care that it evolves in a
> sustainable way ...
>
> citing [1]:
>
> "The third category is Charter Member. Individuals in this category have
> the same rights as the above Member category, but with two important
> differences. Firstly, individuals in this category are not self-selected,
> but rather must be voted into this category by the other Charter Members.
> Secondly, individuals in this category have the right to vote in elections
> for other Charter Members, and for Board Members.
>
> These two factors are intended to maintain the integrity of the
> Foundation election processes -- and by extension the integrity of the
> Foundation itself. We use the term "Charter" Member to explicitly indicate
> that these members are responsible for upholding the "charter" of the
> Foundation."
>
> As I'm honoured to be elected an OSGeo charter member, this is a high
> motivation for me to volunteer e.g. this year as OSGeo GSoC admin, to have
> fun within the GRASS community and to promote OSGeo and free and open
> source GIS whenever I have a chance to do so... and from time to time it
> encourages me to ask questions about OSGeo's evolution. So here we are now
> ...
>
> Community and communication  both have the same latin word stem:
> communis.
>
> I like OSGeo's do-ocracy :-) ... but also I think it's now time to
> rephrase the open source mantra to "communicate often, communicate early"
> :-) ... that OSGeo is able to evolve in a sustainable way!
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/Membership
>
> Gesendet: 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

just noting: there can be currently "Community projects" and "Other
projects" on the new OSGeo web page

I agree, being "official OSGeo Community projects" requires some rules and
approval process

IMHO the "new proposed rules" are ok, if you want just your project appear
on OSGeo Web page as "other project", it still should be peer-reviewed by
some of the page administrators, but that would not make you to community
project

example: Yesterday I add Gisquick to new OSGeo web page
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/gisquick/ it should be listed among
"Other projects", not community

hope, it's ok?

J



ne 20. 8. 2017 v 1:07 odesílatel James Klassen 
napsal:

> I generally agree with Even's comments.
>
> W.r.t. Not requireing other licenses clause, I would like to add a
> question about how this would apply to free software that is mostly
> intended to operate with non-free data?  e.g. GDAL drivers that enable
> reading proprietary formats via a vendor SDK or formats that tend to only
> be used with strictly licensed data or reading data from non-open standards
> based web services (where you only control the client but the client is
> pointless without a running server which requires its own separate license).
>
> On Aug 19, 2017 08:40, "Even Rouault"  wrote:
>
>> Hi Angelos,
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks for turning those discussions into a positive way forward and your
>> proposal sounds good to me. A few comments below.
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>> > I would like to propose a way forward:
>>
>> >
>>
>> > 1. We should *only* promote projects that are somehow affiliated with
>> OSGeo
>>
>> > (as other Free and Open Source organizations do eg. Apache, Eclipse)
>>
>>
>>
>> Makes sense. When you promote something on your website, you are somewhat
>> responsible for it, so you must ensure that it meets some minimum criteria
>> that are in the "OSGeo spirit"
>>
>>
>>
>> > A proposal for *new* rules:
>>
>>
>>
>> > * Has to have an OSI or FSF approved license and be found on the web in
>> a
>>
>> > public place.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds obvious, but we should probably rephrase that "Source code is
>> released with an OSI or FSF approved license and is available on the web in
>> a public place."
>>
>>
>>
>> I know at least one project that is Apache licensed but released only as
>> binaries, which makes it not very convenient to modify :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> > * Has to be useful on its own with normal data, and NOT require another
>>
>> > license to really use it
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it something that is currently required for graduation ? I don't see
>> this criterion mentioned in
>>
>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
>>
>>
>>
>> That one is probably tricky to write correctly. Stated like this, that
>> would for example exclude a Windows executable, since to use it you must
>> own a Windows license... Even if you take a Linux executable that is X/MIT
>> licensed, it links against the GNU libc that is GPL licensed (but as GNU
>> libc is considered part of the OS, there's a provision in the GPL license
>> to not apply the GPL obligations to the code that links to it). Or if you
>> take a Java program, it must run within a JVM that comes with its own
>> license. Same for Python, etc...
>>
>>
>>
>> But beyond this nitpicking, that criterion can raise more fundamental
>> debates:
>>
>> * is the intent to exclude projects that would be open-source released
>> plugins of a proprietary software for example (the plugin could be an
>> exporter from proprietary formats/projects to open source ones for example)
>> ?
>>
>> * Or open-source released projects that would connect to a proprietary
>> server (just saw in LWN headlines that Debian is currently debating whether
>> they should allow OSS software that connect to proprietary services) ?
>>
>> * What about a fully open-source project that connects to a proprietary
>> service ?
>>
>>
>>
>> If I take the exemple of GDAL, the following situations can be found:
>>
>> * it is X/MIT licensed but can link to a few GPL licensed lib (poppler,
>> GRASS, ...)
>>
>> * it can link to proprietrary licensed libs
>>
>> * it can interact with proprietary services that have a public API, but
>> don't require linking against proprietary code
>>
>> * other/most parts are fully useful on their own
>>
>>
>>
>> So I think this question alone could deserve its own thread.
>>
>>
>>
>> > The project should need to officially apply for being included as OSGeo
>>
>> > Community Project, by answering a questionnaire (including information
>>
>> > gathering for the web site and provide a point of contact for
>> maintaining
>>
>> > that information in the future)
>>
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>>
>> Relation question: if OSGeo website promotes a community project, should
>> the website of this project (or github page if no dedicated website) links
>> to OSGeo one ? I'm not even sure this is a requirement for a graduated
>> project.
>>
>>
>>
>> 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter

[Jachym Cepicky]

We need roadmap of the organisation. First things first - to be
established, then to position our role within osgeo, than to position our
status within european bodies (mainly with the EU)

I belive, something like github issues would be good tool, so that tasks
wounld not get forgotten and can be picked by volnuteers

or?

J

st 26. 7. 2017 v 9:36 odesílatel Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> napsal:

> Dear Maxi
> Well noted. We'll discuss about that as well. This is a relevant point.
> Thank you for suggesting solutions.
> Are there other comments by other members?
> Best regards
> Maria
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: Massimiliano Cannata 
> Date: 25/07/2017 14:13 (GMT+01:00)
> To: Dirk Frigne , OSGeo Discussions <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, e...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Board <
> bo...@lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Official expression of interest forming a
> European Chapter
>
> Dear European charter members and OSGeo board,
> I would like to express my support for an OSGeo continental chapter and
> provide my point of view, that even if often considered uncomfortable, hope
> will bring discussion to improve.
>
> I hope that before starting the chapter:
>
> * there is a clear and equitable rule for using the OSGeo name in European
> bids (see h2020 for example) since this may be a competitive advantage.
> It is totally unclear to me how OSGeo-EU would relate to H2020 projects
> for example:
> - Will it participate as a partner in any calls?
> - How the selection of supported project will be done?
> - How, in case of funding, allocated money will be distributed to members?
>
> * there is a defined and focused coordination with local chapters
> - synergies are needed to avoid duplication of efforts and adoption of a
> common action line.
> - ideally I'd like to see a hierarchical structure from international to
> continental and national level "chapters" but this is a matter for the
> board..
>
> Here some proposed actions,
> that in my opinion would demonstrate the open principle of the OSGeo
> European Chapter  community:
>
> * run a democratic election of the board representatives within 6 months
> from the inception
>
> * include all the OSGeo charter member that express their willing as
> "full" member (was charter member in OSGeo not sure how "full member" is in
> OSGeo-EU)
>
>
> Regards,
> Maxi
>
>
>
> Il 24 lug 2017 2:56 PM, "Dirk Frigne"  ha
> scritto:
>
>> Maria
>>
>> "is a member of a local chapter also a charter
>> > member of Eu Chapter? Or we will have a complex structure where local
>> > chapter members can be not Eu charter members but charter members of
>> > OSGeo as a whole?"
>>
>> No, as Jody and Lucca already mentioned, this is an organisation of
>> volunteers. Everybody who wants to volunteer can become a member, but
>> volunteers can also be 'only' OSGeo members.
>>
>> The "official" OSGeo-Europe members are responsible to guard the correct
>> working of the organisation, as a legal structure. 22 volunteers
>> expressed there interest to become a founding member and have signed the
>> bylaws that we discussed last year as a google drive document, and
>> during the BOF of July 19 2017.
>>
>> As a community we appreciate the help of everybody who wants to promote
>> Geo free and open source software. Everybody who want's to support the
>> local chapter can add his name on the wiki [1]. As of today there are
>> already 27 names on the list. The bylaws have a mechanism to add these
>> members as "full members" during the next general assembly (a similar
>> process as for OSGeo.org).
>>
>> But as Lucca already mentioned: it is more important to be a member of
>> OSGeo.org, although I hope we can make OSGeo.org stronger trough the
>> initiative we are setting up.
>>
>> Once we've got our formal acceptance by the OSGeo Board, we will publish
>> the bylaws in the Belgian Official Journal and create the legal
>> structure. We will start to setup the agenda of the typical European
>> points we want to work on this first year asap after acceptance.
>>
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> PS. I added the European list as I think this discussion also concerns
>> the European list.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe
>>
>> On 2017-07-23 15:32, Luca Delucchi wrote:
>> > On 23 July 2017 at 12:54, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>> >> All local chapters have the same relationship with OSGeo.
>> >>
>> >> A key reason to found a local chapter is to interact and advocate for
>> open
>> >> source on a regional city, state or national or union level -
>> something the
>> >> global osgeo organization is not in the best position to do.
>> >>
>> >> I do not think it is useful (or any of our business) to ask about
>> members
>> >> being automatically in a group. We are a volunteer organization and
>> members
>> >> volunteer where their 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation Expression of Interest (EOI)

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

thanks everybody for sending your Expressions of Interest (EOI) letters for
the selection of a design & web consulting

You should get confirmation mail by now - if that is not the case, please
ping me (on secret...@osgeo.org)

Cheers

Jachym - Secretary

P.S. I'm writing from my private mail, since responding to
OSGeo-discussions list. As state, please use secret...@osgeo.org for any
"official" communication - thank you.

čt 26. 1. 2017 v 20:09 odesílatel Jody Garnett 
napsal:

> This Request for EOI
> 
> closes tomorrow; once again if there are any questions please ask.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 18 January 2017 at 11:48, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
> Can I once again encourage members to send the EOI
> 
>  out
> to appropriate organizations in your region.
>
> This is a major undertaking for the foundation and we would like to take
> advantage of our world wide reach when shortlisting a team for the work.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 17 January 2017 at 17:55, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
> Dear reader,
>
> OSGeo invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the selection of a design
> & web consulting firm to update the foundation’s organizational branding
> and web presence.
>
>
> You can find the EOI at (http://www.osgeo.org/marketing/rebranding.html)
> which contains the following attachment: OSGeo Branding Marketing Website
> EOI.pdf
> 
> .
>
>
> It is required for consultants or firms to submit an response for the
> above assignment, as per the brief contained in the Expression of Interest
> (EOI). Shortlisted firms may be asked to submit a more detailed technical
> and financial proposal at the Marketing Committee’s discretion.
>
>
> Your offer comprising of all the required information should be sent to
> the to the OSGeo secretary at (secret...@osgeo.org) in PDF format, no
> longer than 10 pages and no later than 24 January 2017 11:59PM UTC.
>
> Please send any and all questions to secret...@osgeo.org.
>
> Submissions are encouraged from any country and consultants are encouraged
> to associate to enhance their submissions.
>
>
> Additional award criteria regarding the award of contract:
>
> OSGeo reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal, and to annul
> the solicitation process and reject all proposals at any time prior to
> award of contract, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected
> organization or any obligation to inform the affected organization or
> organizations of the grounds for the organization’s action. The award of
> the contract to the qualified organization whose proposal after being
> evaluated is considered to be the most responsive to the needs of the
> organization and activity concerned.
>
>
> Please forward this message within your network.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> The OSGeo Marketing Committee
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board of Directors elections results

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

congrats to all board members

one note:

* 6 incomplete responses

I think, it's due to the fact, that the "submit" button was "under" the
visible area on some monitors - I had little issues to find out, how to
submit my votes (did it finally btw)

Cheers

J
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Maria Brovelli

[Jachym Cepicky]

Wow!

J

so 10. 9. 2016 v 13:51 odesílatel Siki Zoltan  napsal:

>
> +1, too
>
> Zoltan
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Andrea Ross wrote:
>
> > +1 for Maria. She has done some amazing work for quite some time & is a
> > joy to work with.
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> > On 09/09/16 07:27, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> >> clap clap clap for Maria :)
> >> Luigi Pirelli
> >>
> >>
> >
> **
> >> * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com
> >> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli
> >> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli
> >> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir
> >> * Mastering QGIS:
> >> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis
> >>
> >
> **
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9 September 2016 at 12:08, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> >>> Forwarding Maria Brovelli nomination to the board of directors by
> >>> Helena Mitasova
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jorge
> >>> CRO 2016
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -- Forwarded message --
> >>> From: Helena Mitasova 
> >>> Date: 9 September 2016 at 05:07
> >>> Subject: nomination of Maria Brovelli
> >>> To: c...@osgeo.org
> >>> Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maria Brovelli
> >>> maria.brove...@polimi.it
> >>> Italy
> >>>
> >>> I would like to nominate Professor Maria Brovelli for the board of
> > directors.
> >>> She is very well know in the community for her passion for open source
> >>> software and open data,
> >>> leader of numerous initiatives, including the latest outreach to United
> > Nations,
> >>> hosting FOSS4G Europe in 2015 and organizing several open source and
> >>> open data sessions
> >>> at the ISPRS congres in Prague in 2016.
> >>> Her leadership and contributions to OSGeo were recognized by Sol Katz
> >>> award in 2015
> >>> and she is on the advisory board and one of the regional directors of
> >>> GeoForAll initiative.
> >>> She advised many students who made significant contributions to
> >>> several OSGeo projects
> >>> including GRASS GIS and understands both the community building and
> >>> the software development issues.
> >>> I feel strongly that she will be able to take on the challenging tasks
> >>> and often complex
> >>> decision making that comes with the the board of directors membership
> >>> given her experience as
> >>> Vice Rector for the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano. See her page
> >>> for more information
> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria
> >>>
> >>> Helena
> >>> ___
> >>> Discuss mailing list
> >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >> ___
> >> Discuss mailing list
> >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

afaik, we as OSGeo, do not have formal procedure regarding standards, we
offer some infrastructure (wiki, mailing list, maybe gitlab) and you can
just "call for action" - you can then collaborate like any other project.
It is very simple and gives you big freedom. That does not exclude you from
adopt the standard by more formal organisations (W3C or (I would prefer it
more) OGC) which makes sense

@sevenspatial would say: go public, announce early, wait a little for
possible feedback, and either go on or merge with existing project which
might be already there, we just do not know about. for this, OSGeo is great
sandbox

J

út 30. 8. 2016 v 11:31 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> napsal:

> This is good to see Jon.
>
> @All how can we make this happen within OSGeo?
>
> Bruce
>
> On 30 Aug 2016, at 19:09, Jon Blower <j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> (Second attempt at sending this, I wasn’t subscribed before!)
>
>
>
> I’m the leader of the project under which CoverageJSON is being developed
> [1]. My colleague Maik Riechert is the main developer of this. Thanks very
> much to Bruce for advertising to this list! I’ll pick up on a few of the
> points in this thread:
>
>
>
> 1.   Regarding adoption, it’s early days yet, but I’m aware of a few
> applications in development (including our own projects of course, but also
> some external folk). We’re building in library support for a few languages
> (e.g. Javascript, Python) and some tools (e.g. Leaflet and NASA’s Web World
> Wind).
>
> 2.   I think CovJSON can work nicely with O (the coverage can be
> the result of the observation). O could provide the “hooks” on which
> other metadata (e.g. provenance) could be hung.
>
> 3.   Regarding compression: yes, this is going to be important. JSON
> gzips very well on the wire, which helps a lot with transfer speed and our
> tests indicate that it’s typically not very much worse than a compressed
> binary format. We’ve worked successfully with rasters of millions of pixels
> in size.
>
> 4.   We’d be very happy to help people who want to implement support
> for CovJSON in software (e.g. istSOS). Maybe our libraries will be of some
> use here.
>
>
>
> Any feedback on the spec or tools (positive or negative) is very welcome
> and timely, as we are moving towards a stable 1.0 release.
>
>
>
> Best wishes, Jon
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.melodiesproject.eu
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dr Jon Blower,
>
> MELODIES project coordinator,
>
> University of Reading
>
> j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk
>
>
>
> *From: *Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>
> *Date: *Thursday, 18 August 2016 09:47
> *To: *Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>, OSGeo Discussions <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, Jon Blower <sgs02...@reading.ac.uk>
> *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> the coverage in O is addressed also at EU level within the SOS but in
> XML.
>
>
>
> I may be interested in exploring this format and add this capability to
> istSOS in the next future...
>
>
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2016-08-17 22:58 GMT+02:00 Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks Jachym.
>
>
>
> I can also see the potential of this format.
>
>
>
> I like the potential for tying in the Observations and Measurements
> Observed Property with associated community agreed definitions to the
> coverage. This has been a missing piece of the puzzle for some time.
>
>
>
> I understand that Jon and his team would welcome collaboration to further
> test and develop the format.
>
>
>
> I expect that Jon will respond when he gets back off his holiday.
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On 17 Aug 2016, at 19:03, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce and Jon,
>
>
>
> I went through the spec, and I like it in general (not that it would be so
> important)
>
>
>
> JSON usage is certainly still growing, so is size of the data. Are you
> guys using the CoverageJSON in some application already? I like the
> metadata verbosity, and overall readiness for international environment.
>
>
>
> Have you been thinking about data compression too? For raster data, this
> could be key issue IMHO.
>
>
>
> good luck
>
>
>
> Jachym
>
>
>
> čt 11. 8. 2016 v 0:47 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> napsal:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are any projects doing any work with the emerging 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

just humble suggestion: you can make this to OSGeo Community standard, like
TMS [1] was at it's time and get more publicity and possible more
collaborators to the project. Promote and colaborate via standards mailing
list [2]

btw: what is the mimetype, we shall stick to? (OGC WebProcessingService and
others need one single clear mimeType)

Cheers

J

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards

út 30. 8. 2016 v 11:09 odesílatel Jon Blower <j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk>
napsal:

> Dear all,
>
>
>
> (Second attempt at sending this, I wasn’t subscribed before!)
>
>
>
> I’m the leader of the project under which CoverageJSON is being developed
> [1]. My colleague Maik Riechert is the main developer of this. Thanks very
> much to Bruce for advertising to this list! I’ll pick up on a few of the
> points in this thread:
>
>
>
> 1.   Regarding adoption, it’s early days yet, but I’m aware of a few
> applications in development (including our own projects of course, but also
> some external folk). We’re building in library support for a few languages
> (e.g. Javascript, Python) and some tools (e.g. Leaflet and NASA’s Web World
> Wind).
>
> 2.   I think CovJSON can work nicely with O (the coverage can be
> the result of the observation). O could provide the “hooks” on which
> other metadata (e.g. provenance) could be hung.
>
> 3.   Regarding compression: yes, this is going to be important. JSON
> gzips very well on the wire, which helps a lot with transfer speed and our
> tests indicate that it’s typically not very much worse than a compressed
> binary format. We’ve worked successfully with rasters of millions of pixels
> in size.
>
> 4.   We’d be very happy to help people who want to implement support
> for CovJSON in software (e.g. istSOS). Maybe our libraries will be of some
> use here.
>
>
>
> Any feedback on the spec or tools (positive or negative) is very welcome
> and timely, as we are moving towards a stable 1.0 release.
>
>
>
> Best wishes, Jon
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.melodiesproject.eu
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dr Jon Blower,
>
> MELODIES project coordinator,
>
> University of Reading
>
> j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk
>
>
>
> *From: *Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>
> *Date: *Thursday, 18 August 2016 09:47
> *To: *Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>, OSGeo Discussions <
> discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, Jon Blower <sgs02...@reading.ac.uk>
> *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> the coverage in O is addressed also at EU level within the SOS but in
> XML.
>
>
>
> I may be interested in exploring this format and add this capability to
> istSOS in the next future...
>
>
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2016-08-17 22:58 GMT+02:00 Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks Jachym.
>
>
>
> I can also see the potential of this format.
>
>
>
> I like the potential for tying in the Observations and Measurements
> Observed Property with associated community agreed definitions to the
> coverage. This has been a missing piece of the puzzle for some time.
>
>
>
> I understand that Jon and his team would welcome collaboration to further
> test and develop the format.
>
>
>
> I expect that Jon will respond when he gets back off his holiday.
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On 17 Aug 2016, at 19:03, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce and Jon,
>
>
>
> I went through the spec, and I like it in general (not that it would be so
> important)
>
>
>
> JSON usage is certainly still growing, so is size of the data. Are you
> guys using the CoverageJSON in some application already? I like the
> metadata verbosity, and overall readiness for international environment.
>
>
>
> Have you been thinking about data compression too? For raster data, this
> could be key issue IMHO.
>
>
>
> good luck
>
>
>
> Jachym
>
>
>
> čt 11. 8. 2016 v 0:47 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> napsal:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are any projects doing any work with the emerging data format,
> CoverageJSON?
>
> See:
>
> - https://covjson.org/
>
> - https://github.com/covjson/specification/blob/master/spec.md
>
>
> I understand that this is still a work in progress, but is in a fairly
> stable state at the moment.
>
> If anyone has looked at the format in detail, what are your thoughts on
> its viabil

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Europe local chapter FOSS4G meeting

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

today, we had BOF session about OSGeo-Europe local chapter and hopefully
addressed some questions raised.

We agreed on creating bylaws as one of the first steps and investigate
further steps needed to be done for legal body.

We agreed on using *eu at lists.osgeo dot org* mailing list for further
communication, please register! [2] Next mails will go there!

Please add your selves to list of participants [1] (if you were there:
Massi, Steve, Dirk, MartinL, Eva, Jorge, Vasile, Florian, Maria and others)
!!

Thanks

Jachym

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe-meeting-2016-08
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi Bruce and Jon,

I went through the spec, and I like it in general (not that it would be so
important)

JSON usage is certainly still growing, so is size of the data. Are you guys
using the CoverageJSON in some application already? I like the metadata
verbosity, and overall readiness for international environment.

Have you been thinking about data compression too? For raster data, this
could be key issue IMHO.

good luck

Jachym

čt 11. 8. 2016 v 0:47 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> napsal:

> Hi,
>
> Are any projects doing any work with the emerging data format,
> CoverageJSON?
>
> See:
>
> - https://covjson.org/
>
> - https://github.com/covjson/specification/blob/master/spec.md
>
>
> I understand that this is still a work in progress, but is in a fairly
> stable state at the moment.
>
> If anyone has looked at the format in detail, what are your thoughts on
> its viability for:
>
> - data exchange; and
>
> - to underpin spatial and image analysis?
>
> Bruce
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Europe 2017 - Call for venue

[Jachym Cepicky]

FOSS4G-Europe conference committee invites all interested groups from
Europe to Call for venue

The proposals shall be submitted by latest 2016-08-22 to Conference-europe
mailing list [2]

More details at [1]

Jachym & FOSS4G-Europe Conference Committee

About FOSS4G:
FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. It
is the annual recurring global event hosted by OSGeo since it's inception
in 2006. Its predecessors were rooted in the GRASS and MapServer
communities and can be traced back to the beginning of this millennium.
Find all recent conference web at http://foss4g.org

About FOSS4G-Europe:
Goals of FOSS4G-Europe are: Spread OSGeo and FOSS4G ideas in the region; Bring
people (researchers, educators, developers and users) together; INSPIRE
issues, regarding FOSS4G; Discuss region-specific issues; Education, focus
on students, more at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference-Europe


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference-Europe-2017
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe
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[OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g and families

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

just wanted to let you know, that this year, I'm taking my family to FOSS4G
Bonn - in case, you are taking yours and would like to spend some time
together (there might be some opportunities in Bonn for the kids).

We have 3 kids from 7 to 0.5 years. In case, you would like to get in
contact, just drop me private mail (or public of course)

Cheers

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Foss4G-Europe 2017

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

yes, it's time to start with this. Shall we call for venue? Any proposals
already?

I've created wiki page for this

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference-Europe_2017

Steps we need to do:

1 - Call for venue
2 - Select best venue
3 - Make conference

Venue requirements:

500 participants
more unconference style event?
workshops
code sprints
See https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Manifesto#FOSS4G_Europe_Manifesto for
more detials


Jachym

P.S. Please, let's continue with the discussion to conference-europe mlist,
I used discussions mlist just for initial info
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[OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS has new web page

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

thanks to Tom Kralidis, we now have new web page, localized at new domain
name:

http://pywps.org

About PyWPS:

PyWPS is implementation of OGC Web Processing Service standard on the
server, using Python programming language. It's been developed since 2006.
PyWPS is OSGeo project in incubation.

Jachym
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] parcel data in US

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Thank you all for the sources, I hope our managers will be able to go
through it all :-)

Have you all nice day

Jachym

čt 15. 10. 2015 v 10:09 odesílatel Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi,
>
> (sorry for cross posted and slightly off-topic mail)
>
> for business purpose, I was asked to find out, where we could get some
> parcel data in USA - not necessary for free (assumed, we would like to
> start our business with the data, reasonable prise is expected).
>
> Could anybody point me to agency/private business company, who is
> providing such kind of data? Where would you say is the best starting point?
>
> Thanks for hints
>
> Jachym
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] parcel data in US

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Hi,

(sorry for cross posted and slightly off-topic mail)

for business purpose, I was asked to find out, where we could get some
parcel data in USA - not necessary for free (assumed, we would like to
start our business with the data, reasonable prise is expected).

Could anybody point me to agency/private business company, who is providing
such kind of data? Where would you say is the best starting point?

Thanks for hints

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

[Jachym Cepicky]

hi Andrea, thank you for sharing this great news with us. As secretary, I
would like to ask you to update your OSGeo wiki profile [1] too :-)

jachym

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aross

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 03:15 Andrea Ross  wrote:

> Thank you for this lovely email Emma. And all my best + happy birthday to
> your sibling. We are far from alone. Regular people that just happen to be
> the way we are.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrea
>
>
> On October 9, 2015 1:26:37 PM EDT, Emma Strong 
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for sharing your story!!  My sibling recently came out as a
>> trans woman as well, and today is their (they prefer the neutral pronoun
>> now) birthday, so seeing your story was just awesome :)  And thank you for
>> all you do for the OSGeo community!
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Andrea Ross 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/10/15 13:04, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>
 On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Andrea Ross wrote:

> Dear Everyone,
>
> Please pardon me for those who already know this news.
>
> I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives since
> the early days (FWIW, I am a charter member since 2008), and it
> seems appropriate to share this here as well.
>
> If you please, it is my wish you call me Andrea
> 
> from now on. Thank you.
>
 Hey Andrea, that was a great read, thanks for being yourself !

 A fun thing is that "Andrea" in Italy is a male name (translation of
 Andrew) so it wasn't very clear from the subject what you were after).

 It's good to see female population growing in this community, btw :)

 --strk;


>>> Thanks for your email Sandro. Yeah, I recognize that for a few parts of
>>> the world, Andrea is more typically a male name. Of course for quite a few
>>> it's typically a female name. I guess that's kind of a fitting name for me
>>> then. :-)
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Andrea
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo at isprs2016

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

FYI: yes, I'm in contact with Martin Landa (*very* close friend of mine)
and Lena Halounova (we know each other for some years).

I could volunteer as on-spot contact person between OSGeo and ISPRS LOC, if
needed, but certainly you guys, who are active at ISPRS will have
possibility to influence things too.


I do call for coordination of activities though, because OSGeo should speak
with one voice (or at least with harmonised voices). Therefore I suggest
wiki page for OSGeo participation at ISPRS

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ISPRS_2016

I also added the agenda item for next board meeting.


Jachym



On Sun, Oct 4, 2015, 20:24 Polimi <maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:

> Jachym, I will be there obviously.  Would you like to create a wiki page
> for sharing initiatives? For sure there is the FOSS4G special session (
> coorganized with OSGeo) and also a thematic session on Open Data.
> Martin Landa is also involved in workshops.
> Thanks!! Ciao!!
> Maria
>
> **
>
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
> Politecnico di Milano
>
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> Applications"; OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa
> Challenge; SIFET
>
> Sol Katz Award 2015
>
> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
>
> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
>
> e-mail1:  <maria.brove...@polimi.it>maria.brove...@polimi.it
>
> e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it
>
>
>
> Il giorno 03 ott 2015, alle ore 19:05, Jachym Cepicky <
> jachym.cepi...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> next year, there is big International Society for Photogrammetry and
> Remote Sensing conference held in Prague.
>
> There is also FOSS4G planed session.
>
> Shall we start activity towards having booth (covered by volunteers) with
> OSGeo projects?
>
> Jachym
>
> [1] http://www.isprs2016-prague.com
> [2] http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/download#Exhibitors_docs
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[OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo at isprs2016

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

next year, there is big International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing conference held in Prague.

There is also FOSS4G planed session.

Shall we start activity towards having booth (covered by volunteers) with
OSGeo projects?

Jachym

[1] http://www.isprs2016-prague.com
[2] http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/download#Exhibitors_docs
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Jachym Cepicky]

I'm using gitlab already and it really gives you what I like on github

Shall we ask the board and SAC for create instance of gitlab on our servers?

J

st 30. 9. 2015 v 14:31 odesílatel Mateusz Loskot 
napsal:

> On 30 September 2015 at 07:20, Paolo Cavallini 
> wrote:
> > Il 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> >
> >> I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free
> >> for open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps
> >> a lot in getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But
> >> ... in two years, they may start shipping sponsors links at the end
> >> of the Readme files, and in a moments notice you have to watch 20
> >> seconds ads before cloning. At this point, you will want to bail
> >> out, only to find out that in fact you can not, because you can not
> >> delete the project anymore, or the issue tracker database can not be
> >> exported ...
> >>
> >>
> >> Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy of
> >> the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ...
> >
> > I think the concerns about GH are real. I feel uneasy putting strategic
> > pieces of infrastructure in the hands of a company is risky over the
> > long term. It is true that we have a copy of the whole code base and
> > history, but the scenarios suggested are possible and worrisome.
>
> There is also another aspect of the "All move to GitHub, now!" trend,
> less obvious than technical ones, I guess.
>
> On one side, OSGeo is FOSS advocate and we advocate it loud.
> via numerous keynote speaches given at events around the World.
> On the other, we gradually move to proprietary infrastructure based
> on non-FOSS, namely GitHub.
>
> The two sides clash, don't they?
> People may get confused.
>
> Best regards,
> --
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Jachym Cepicky]

Big kudos to Vasile - thanks

J

čt 1. 10. 2015 v 9:09 odesílatel Ravi Kumar 
napsal:

> Congrats to the new board entrants,
> Ravi Kumar
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu <
> vas...@geo-spatial.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
>> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
>> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall
>> voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>>
>> - 246 complete votes;
>> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
>> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>>
>> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>>
>> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Massimiliano Cannata
>> - Michael Smith
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Vasile Craciunescu
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
>> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
>> year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
>> wiki.
>>
>> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
>>
>> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
>> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
>> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
>> thank you very much!
>>
>> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
>> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
>> thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
>> rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>>
>> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
>> further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
>> his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
>> continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
>> reopen two discussions:
>>
>> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
>> analysis);
>> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and
>> retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for
>> the last couple of years).
>>
>> Best regards.
>> Vasile
>> CRO 2015
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
>> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
>> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Jachym Cepicky]

As you write. GitLab is alternative to new projects, which are condiering
GitHub. And to old projects still using Trac (IMHO)

J

čt 1. 10. 2015 v 13:37 odesílatel Jeff McKenna <
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> napsal:

> I think it would be a great option for new/incubating projects.  However
> it is really up to SAC.  -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-01 8:29 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> > On 1 October 2015 at 13:20, Bart van den Eijnden 
> wrote:
> >> Before going to this trouble, we should check if there is an actual
> demand among projects?
> >
> > Indeed. Besides, projects which have already adopted GitHub
> > may not be willing to switch again.
> > I actually doubt it.
> >
> > My comment is just a bit of wish that some purists would change their
> tone.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Danubehack 2015

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

I would like to invite you all to Danubehack [1]:

Would you like to demonstrate, what can be done with Open Geo related Data
and related technologies in Danube region? Are you  producer or do you have
an access to this kind of resources and would you like to present them and
discover what else can be built on top of it? If you would like to find out
more about this topic or support such activities? If so, register for
DanubeHack - First Open (Geo) Data hackathon in Bratislava, Slovakia by the
25th of September 2015.

Jachym

[1] http://www.danubehack.eu/?
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Jachym Cepicky]

Darrell, you might have some points

Let me add, that OSGeo might seem in *some* communities irrelevant, because
we, as OSGeo, did not manage to push our brand in the  front even on *our*
FOSS4G conference (I still remember no OSGeo logo being visible around).
OSGeo will be visible only to the point, where our members will make it
visible on their events.

Certainly, clear renewed vision would help and no doubt, there are people
on the Board (currently - and nominated), which are fully aware of this.
And the board list, as well as every meeting is publicly accessible -
everybody can help.

My observation: volunteer time is limited. Either I dedicate it to OSGeo
infrastructure, or to my project (which I would like to see grow too).
That's life.

Now I take rest and hope to contribute more to both

Just my irrelevant 2cents

J

P.S. Talking is cheap. Show me the code. (Linus Torvalds)

so 26. 9. 2015 v 17:20 odesílatel Darrell Fuhriman 
napsal:

> This is a perfect example.
>
> All of those are great and wonderful things! The community does great and
> wonderful things. That’ s not my point.
>
> My point is, those activities would happen even if the OSGeo Foundation
> disappeared. I’m not questioning whether we have a large and vibrant
> community, we do. And we still would.
>
> My local chapter existed before it was an OSGeo chapter, and we would keep
> on having meetings and doing fun and exciting things even without the OSGeo
> Foundation.
>
> Put another way: The OSGeo Foundation needs the Open Source Geospatial
> community, but does the Open Source Geospatial community need the OSGeo
> Foundation? I don’t see that it does.
>
> Darrell
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 26, 2015, at 05:29, Just van den Broecke 
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Milo,
> >
> > That you agree Darrel's statements is your opinion and fine in any open
> discussion.
> >
> > I react here on your phrase: '"empty talkers" from my country run for
> charter membership'.
> >
> > We have 9 Charter Members from the Netherlands, including me. I know
> each of them, and IMO they are far from "empty talkers". They all spend
> long voluntary hours in an array of activities that support OSGeo's global
> and OSGeo.nl local mission and FOSS in general. To name a few:
> > Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2015) spends ample time in Debian packaging
> > Barend Köbben (2012) helping/speaking at FOSS4G, org academic track
> > We all know what Jeroen and Bart have accomplished. I could go on. Not
> all charter members need to make software, some make things happen like
> organizing local OSGeo.nl events and acting in the LOC for the upcoming
> FOSS4G in Bonn.
> >
> > So I hope your "empty talkers" phrase came out of a sudden impulse, that
> we all have from time to time. I had to react to clarify some things. Best,
> >
> > Just van den Broecke
> > Secretary OSGeo.nl Foundation
> >
> >
> > On 26-09-15 00:12, Milo van der Linden wrote:
> >> Being a "don't talk, act" member since 2008, entrepreneur and former
> >> chairman of a couple of local initiatives, I strongly agree.
> >>
> >> Seeing all the "empty talkers" from my country run for charter
> >> membership and still not having geoserver, which is the most mature open
> >> geospatial product I can think of pas incubation made me completely lose
> >> interest in OSGeo.
> >>
> >> I am disappointed, a little frustrated and plotting a business course
> >> that values open source and open knowledge. OSGeo or any in-crowd will
> >> have no part in my future.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your honest and to the point analyses.
> >>
> >> Milo
> >>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board election: no re-elections this year?

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Hi,

I'm not standing for re-elections, because I think, I did not achieved some
tasks I had, and see no way currently, how I could do better as board
member. Also I lack of energy and therefore I cut-off some roles I managed
to play during last couple of years. Being on the board, raised more
questions to me, then clear answers I was able to provide, maybe I just
need to get older (or "more experienced" if you prefer). I hope to return
back some time in the future. I hope to be able to contribute as OSGeo
member and hope to finish some tasks as secretary next years.

Being on the board is not necessary time demanding. But as Bart stated:
it's just up to you, how many time you can dedicate to OSGeo. Having clear
vision where we want to go and accept what is currently possible certainly
helps to get things done. However: if you have to choose between volunteer
work for OSGeo and volunteer work at your open source project, you are in
trouble.

Jachym

pá 25. 9. 2015 v 11:34 odesílatel Arnulf Christl <
arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net> napsal:

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> There are several really good answers to this question. Michael Gerlek
> provided the stats and Hans Gregers Peterson nailed it in his post here
> (thanks to both!):
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-September/014892.html
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-September/014888.html
>
> This is a really good insight and worthwhile to read.
>
> Some more personal notes here:
> http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/49-OSGeo-Director-Retrospective.ht
> ml
> 
>
> Thanks,
> Arnulf
>
> On 23.09.2015 09:17, Gert-Jan van der Weijden wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Preparing to cast my vote for the board election, I noticed that all 4
> > (Jáchym, Bart, Gérald, Jorge) board members who reached the end of the
> ir
> > 2-year term are not standing for re-election. (besides that: Anne
> > decided not to stay for her 2nd year of her 1st term)
> >
> > Some questions arise:
> > - Is the board membership such a demanding job that members always
> > resign after 2 years?
> > - Is this a good thing, to make sure we dont'have board members who ar
> e
> > tied to their seats?
> > - Or is this a bad thing, with board members switching too fast to rea
> ch
> > their goals?
> >
> > Respones from anybody are as always appreciated, but the 4+1 resigning
> > board members and the current candidates are especially invited to giv
> e
> > their humble opinion on this.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gert-Jan
> >
> >
> > Gert-Jan van der Weijden
> > Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul is ALL OVER! Thank you so much!!

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No so bad

thank you, Sanghee & the whole team

J

po 21. 9. 2015 v 5:23 odesílatel Venkatesh Raghavan <
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> napsal:

> Hi Sanghee,
>
> Huge thanks to you and your team in putting up a wonderful event
> that was enjoyed by one and all.
>
> Great conference, great organization and we had a great time.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Venka
>
> On 2015/09/21 12:14, Sanghee Shin wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > FOSS4G Seoul has been completed successfully last week. We’ve got around
> 562 attendants from 46 countries. The number of final attendants was beyond
> my expectation! One of the greatest news is that around 64% of attendants
> came from Asia! It was really FOSS4G Big Bang from Asia!!
> >
> > On behalf of FOSS4G Seoul team, I really appreciate all your attending,
> supports and sponsoring. Without your great help & efforts this wonderful
> event was not be possible. Also hope you’ve enjoyed the event and cherish
> the great memories from Seoul.
> >
> > Thank you so much and see you in Bonn, German next year!
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > 신상희
> > ---
> > Shin, Sanghee
> > Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

even the discussion seems to calm down already (or maybe because of that),
I would like to leave some notes as well:

Yes, I make jokes about everything, even serious stuff. It's my way, how to
deal with difficult topics, where is no single clear answer or the
everything seems to be screwed - joke (even bad joke) is my way how to get
over things.

Application of CoC is difficult topic (and we have been warned about this
at our Board meeting and everybody knew, application policy will have to be
defined), this long e-mail thread should help to us to define our CoC
policy.

Just would like to point out, that only because of the thread, my attention
was brought to Salvator's Dali paintings (I did not know this one), and the
the Korean Band, which certainly is not my cup of tee, but I was definitely
positively influenced by !two! different cultures, just because of that -
thanks to OSGeo community.

It might be not a big thing, but exactly thanks to our openness and
diversity, such cultural exchange is possible and this is why I love this
community and why I'm looking forward to go the Seoul - it will be cultural
shock for me, and will give me other perspective on my place and culture,
as well as visiting Portland did (and believe me, it did a lot). People
used to say, that during communism,  no official censorship was really
needed, because heavy self-censorship was applied by everybody. Therefore
careful approach is needed - on both sides of the community. Therefore I
would like you all to ask to continue talking and clarifying things - it's
nothing everlasting, it's a process. Try to distinguish between I do not
like it, from my friend does not like it and everybody will not like
it and in my country, nobody likes it. Please try to listen too, not
just hammer your truth. Just because you are loud, does not mean, you are
right (speaking not to Andy here, this is my message to the community).

Heaving said that and (personally) I do tend to agree more with what Peter
Baumann is writing (maybe better said: I understand what he is trying to
express using such limited communication method, as an e-mail, seems we
have similar life experience in this topic), we can not forget one thing:
OSGeo is U.S. based NGO, therefore certain rules and cultural aspects
common in U.S. should be considered with great care on the global level
IMHO. I do not say, I like it unconditionaly.

Discussion could start in Como already, but we miss one important aspect
there (!probably!) wider community from really different part of the world.
Or do we have numbers, how many non-Europe based attendees will come?

Jachym

st 24. 6. 2015 v 19:17 odesílatel Andy Anderson aander...@amherst.edu
napsal:

  Ah! Anecdotes! Let me provide one from my personal experience that’s more
 relevant. A female friend of mine attending a school *was* offended by the
 gratuitous insertion of nude pictures in a slide presentation in one of her
 classes. That school was soon thereafter subjected to an investigation for
 sexual harassment by the Office of Civil Rights of the US Department of
 Education, followed by a resolution agreement.



 Anecdotal cases aside, in the West these sorts of things are generally
 known to be offensive to many, many women *in the wrong context.* The
 right context would certainly include art museums and art classes. But at a
 GIS conference? Generally speaking, I think potentially offensive items
 must not only be *germane* but *necessary*, and if they aren’t presenters
 should consider alternatives, especially if they are presenting on behalf
 of a larger organization.

  So while the Dali portrait may be germane, I don’t see it as in any way
 necessary. Sanghee writes “I just used that image to stress the importance
 of long distance from the object or sometimes from the too experienced
 ordinary culture.” But there are many, many other images that could be used
 instead to emphasize the same thing; they’re all over the place (see, e.g.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XElUS201fM8 or
 https://www.vat19.com/item/abraham-lincoln-penny-portrait — you could
 even make your own, with a geographic basis).

  Regarding the girl-group picture, Sanghee writes “I believe as symbolic
 icon of wide spread of Korean culture(K-Culture) in/around Asia” — again
 possibly germane to this point, and perhaps by far the best representation
 and therefore necessary, but I have never heard of them and the point would
 be lost on me. A photo of a bowl of kimchi would be more effective in my
 case :-)

  At the very least, I agree with Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses when he writes
 “May be a less-dependant-on-someone-explaining-presentation is more
 suitable for being in the landing page of the Conference.” Looks like it
 was a presentation for the 2014 meeting in Bangkok, where I assume the
 context was verbalized, but the Web is a different medium. On general
 principles of effectiveness, I’d recommend putting the context directly
 into the slides. 

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

To get the presentation in balance again, I suggest:

1) add description to the slide with Girls' Generation image (neither I do
not know this band)
2) replace back of a woman with back of a man, so that the message remains
the same. I volunteer with couple of images of mine, you can grab it from
facebook

J

P.S. ;-)

st 24. 6. 2015 v 17:52 odesílatel Kristin Bott bo...@reed.edu napsal:

 Hi, all --

 Including the conference list on this, since I think it's relevant (and I
 suspect that variations on this conversation are happening in multiple
 corners).

 re: implementation plans for the CoC. A group of folks met during State of
 the Map in NYC earlier this month to talk about what an implementation plan
 might look like. We are currently drafting language to present to the board
 to form a CoC committee *as well as *drafting an implementation plan.
 Jeff, we can most certainly have this done by 1 September 2015.

 Responding to CoC concerns is not simple -- we're trying to create a
 structure and a process that will make this as smooth as possible for all
 involved.

 If you have any questions / concerns about this, feel free to contact me,
 off-list or otherwise.

 cheers -
 -kristin

 On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Jeff McKenna 
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 I thank Sanghee for bringing this to the community.  I want to point out
 that having just a Code of Conduct, words, on a website is not enough,
 there needs to be a whole structure of how to handle this.  In bold
 letters I want to state publicly: there is currently no implementation
 plan for the OSGeo Code of Conduct.  This is not acceptable.  A few good
 volunteers have been discussing offline how to setup an implementation
 plan, as well as possibly even a new OSGeo committee for this, great,
 but, it is still in discussion stage.  Without some sort of plan,
 community members are already contacting me directly with reports, and I
 have no formal way to handle these reports.  (Sanghee was nice enough to
 help me solve this together publicly, but, this obviously cannot apply
 to all reports)

 I suggest, propose, that if there is no implementation plan for the Code
 of Conduct by the 1st of September, that the Code of Conduct is removed
 from all visible OSGeo pages, and is replaced with a simple Diversity
 statement.

 I am sorry for being direct here, but, as you can see, this needs to
 move forward, or not at all.

 -jeff


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 On 2015-06-24 7:22 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case.
 
  I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation 7 Reasons why
 you should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of
 FOSS4G Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say,
 slide #6 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are
 those controversial ones.
 
  I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my
 presentation breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view.
 
  However since this is not the first time asking me to remove those
 slides from my presentation and OSGeo now have CoC, I think we’d better
 discuss this issue more openly to reach conclusions.
 
  I might be wrong and I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this
 from all around the world. Also I expect Conference Committee’s input as
 well, because this is the matter of OSGeo conference.
 
  I’m open to remove/amend/keep those slides after hearing other people’s
 opinions on this. Also I believe it’ll be a great chance for OSGeo to learn
 how to apply CoC in real cases.
 
  *Sidenote for defending myself:
  - Slide #6 is the part of Salvador Dali’s well known painting named
 “Lincoln in Dalivision”[2]
  - Slide #20 is the picture of famous girl group, Girls’
 Generation(SNSD)[3], which I believe as symbolic icon of wide spread of
 Korean culture(K-Culture) in/around Asia.
 
  All the best,
 
  Sanghee
 
  [0]http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct
  [1]http://2015.foss4g.org
  [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_Dalivision
  [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

My experience within OSGeo was positive so far. At FOSS4G, sometimes people
forget, that half of the crowd speaks English only occasionally, which can
lead to misunderstandings.

Anyway: I would like to point out, that it is not only matter of writing,
but also talking (at foss4gs, sprints, ...) In public but also in private,
what can be even harder than writing (you can not take your time to figure
out the best way how to express, what you need).

And yes, having something like that in CoC would be nice.


 J


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wrote:

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
wrote:

Thanks all for the feedback.
So my question is:
1. Should our Code of Conduct/Diversity statement mention that we have a
multilingual community?

 I believe it's still a good idea.




2. What should we recommend that all, and especially native speakers do to
make our community welcoming to non-native speakers?

 I'd suggest, just a reminder that the level of written English can vary a
lot, ranging from cases where the lack of fluency is

evident, to cases where the sentence seems just too direct/rude, so
generally speaking, it's a good idea to try and be patient

and understanding.

Sometimes I wish there was a guide of typical expectations/orientations
varying culture by culture, to try

and understand better where people are coming from and put what they say in
context (this example

 might be wrong or just a silly generalizations, but just to give you an
idea, I've heard

Japanese normally won't say no in a conversation, you have to figure it
out, and other cultures surely

have their surprising traits as well).

Cheers

Andrea

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

Just noting:

in Czech ve formed formal legal entity, when we've found out, that having
beer together is not enough. It has been recognized by local
organisations, goverment and copanies..

You form legal entity when you think, it makes sense

and it does not have to consume much time as you might think

J

st 18. 3. 2015 v 22:56 odesílatel Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
napsal:


 On 18/03/2015 8:01 pm, Arnulf Christl wrote:
  Just a few notes from experience: Running a legal entity to organize
  things actually eats up a good chunk of volunteer resources which could
  be better used to actually promote Open Source, organize conferences and
  so on.
 +1 I'd argue that local chapters should do their best to avoid creating
 a legal entity where possible.

 Ask:
 * What do you gain by being a legal entity?
 * Can you make use of another legal entity instead (eg the OSGeo
 Foundation)?

 Acknowledge the extra effort required to:
 1. Finance a legal entity,
 2. Collect finances to feed the legal entity,
 3. Expend effort filling all the official requirements of a legal entity.

 Of note, the OSGeo Australian/New Zealand chapter are not a legal
 entity, and have successfully run the international FOSS4G conference
 (with official requirements backed by the OSGeo Foundation)

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

Ups, wrong address, sorry

J

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 10:57 María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com
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 On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Jachym Cepicky secret...@osgeo.org
 wrote:

 You form legal entity when you think, it makes sense

 and it does not have to consume much time as you might think


 I think time depends on legality on each country and how many workarounds
 you have to do to when whatever the chapter is trying to do needs a legal
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

[Jachym Cepicky]

Go, Belgium, gogogo!

út 17. 3. 2015 v 11:08 odesílatel Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com
napsal:

 Dear list,

 Following some contacts I had since FOSDEM 2015, I think there is some
 opportunity to start with a local chapter in Belgium.
 There is already the .nl (dutch speaking chapter)[1] and the .fr (french
 speaking chapter)[2], but a local chapter has other benifits (bringing
 OSGeo closer to the local people).

 We want to organize a physical meeting with the local OSGeo people in
 Belgium to see if there is enough critical mass and interest to start
 with a local chapter.

 I also talked with Pieter Colpaert[3] in cc, active in the open
 knowledge foundation in Belgium. As they have already a legal non profit
 structure, where also the local chapter of OSM Belgium [4] has a place,
 we cooperate with this organisation and become also a working group
 under the umbrella of the open knowledge foundation.

 So 2 questions to the community:

 1. Do you agree with the fact that we investigate how we can join forces
 with the open knowledge foundation Belgium to start up the Belgium
 chapter of OSGeo

 2. Who is interested to Join a physical meeting in Brussels to find out
 if there is support for a OSGeo Belgium Chapter?
 For this second question, you may mail me directly, so we don't over
 post this list.
 I'll send out a doodle end of the week to the list, but will also
 include everybody showing interest.

 thanks in advance for your reaction,
 Dirk


 [1] http://osgeo.nl/
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone
 [3] http://www.openknowledge.be/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Open Source Python framework for working with OWS services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Jachym Cepicky]

Bruce,

OWSLib is IMHO most complex pythonish client implementation of various OGC
standards. Certainly, it's not covering all the standards with all their
versions up to 100%, but it's worth using and even more worth to contribute
to ;-)

Jachym

po 16. 3. 2015 v 2:08 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au
napsal:

 (Apologies for cross posting)

 Hello Colleagues,

 We're looking around for a good, robust open source python framework for
 working with OGC Web Services.

 Our initial need is to automate the validation and testing of our internal
 services, though I expect that our need will grow from there.

 Can anyone point me in the direction of some effective libraries that work
 with current versions of OWS?


 We've come across OWSlib [1] and [2], but are not aware of how people are
 finding its functionality.

 Bruce

 [1] http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/

 [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/OWSLib




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

[Jachym Cepicky]

Whatever,

I would like to achieve:

1 - attract more projects to osgeo umbrella
2 - attract little projects to osgeo umbrella
3 - define, what should happen after successful incubation, because I do
not believe in and lived happily ever after - to become the project,
certain level (checklist) has to be reached. But what if the project looses
it's community?

The still-callled-star system I started to work on, was inspired by
Cameron notes (just FYI)

J

st 11. 3. 2015 v 1:12 odesílatel Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com
napsal:

 I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this.

 I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is
 producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is
 an embarrassing bottleneck).

 Rather than a star system I think we can highlight how far along in the
 checklist each project is.

 --
 Jody Garnett

 On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman 
 bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote:

 We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'.

 It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the
 relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change
 to rules.

 From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some
 cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that
 we as a community aspire to.

 When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable
 credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of
 honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to
 dilute this?

 While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for
 wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that
 follows)?

 If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal
 methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more
 appropriate.

 Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if
 we deem it appropriate**.?

 Are there any volunteers?

 Bruce

 [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html


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 I recently came across a number of Open Source Maturity Methodologies,
 which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or
 referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies








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

[Jachym Cepicky]

Bruce,

your proposal is more then reasonable (think before you code) - I'm rather
thinking by coding. Very first question would be, whether more people (then
just me) have feeling, something in the incubation procedure as it is now
does not work (ergo should be fixed)?

I'm speaking from my perspective (PyWPS developer, which probably never
makes it to incubation as it is defined now, and Board member). I want
PyWPS to be somehow part of OSGeo (and I believe, there are more projects
like that, to them is the incubation just too high step). I'm adding Jody's
point to issue list, I'm proposing (but it's based on previous discussions):

1 - attract more projects to osgeo umbrella
2 - attract little projects to osgeo umbrella
3 - attract more volunteers to incubation
4 - define, what should happen after successful incubation, because I do
not believe in and lived happily ever after - to become the project,
certain level (checklist) has to be reached. But what if the project looses
it's community?

Bruce: what would be your proposal to approach, in the therm of clearing
rationale as to what is broken? Mailing list? IRC meeting? F2F meeting
(are you both at FOSS4GNA?)?

Thanks

Jachym

čt 12. 3. 2015 v 1:17 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman 
bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com napsal:

 Hi Jody,

 The work keeps falling back on the same people…

 We still don’t have a clear rationale as to what is broken and what we’re
 trying to fix.

 I'm inclined to not do anything until this is clearly understood.


 Bruce



 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this.

 I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is
 producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is
 an embarrassing bottleneck).

 Rather than a star system I think we can highlight how far along in the
 checklist each project is.

 --
 Jody Garnett

 On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman 
 bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote:

 We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation
 Procedure'.

 It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the
 relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change
 to rules.

 From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in
 some cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals
 that we as a community aspire to.

 When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable
 credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of
 honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to
 dilute this?

 While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for
 wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that
 follows)?

 If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more
 formal methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more
 appropriate.

 Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if
 we deem it appropriate**.?

 Are there any volunteers?

 Bruce

 [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html


 ===

 I recently came across a number of Open Source Maturity Methodologies,
 which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or
 referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies








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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

To clarify this: I just got inspired by the open data classification. It
also does not tell anything about the data itself, it's pure about how
open they are.

But I really do not stick to stars to much.

J

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 16:01 Massimiliano Cannata 
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote:

 Dear all,
 The only concern is that stars are often identified with quality of things
 (tripadvisor example) while the stars we are talking about are only
 graduation level.
 For this reason I would propose to use something different from stars,
 maybe using colors from yellow to green or different icons (code provenance
 passed, etc.)

 My 0.21 cents ;-)
 Maxi


 Il giorno ven 6 mar 2015 alle ore 09:08 Jachym Cepicky 
 jachym.cepi...@gmail.com ha scritto:

 Guys,

 you are all naming it.

 I think, current incubation process does not work for reasons:

 1 - incubation procedure is designed for big projects, big steps
 2 - new projects are likely never pass it
 3 - it does not cover the post-incbuation time

 result: only few projects proceeded to incubation recently, and
 incubation itself is  long-term pain in you know where, instead of taking
 one big take-them-all steps, to transform it to smaller, easier to pass
 steps so there would be approach. and even projects with not huge
 ambitions, would be part of our family.

 already started to sort out current checklist at, please continue
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating

 J

 čt 5. 3. 2015 v 23:53 odesílatel Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com
 napsal:

  Hi,

 For pycsw, we started code review discussion during FOSS4G 2014 Code
 Sprint, but the actual review happened within 2-3 weeks.

 Best,
 Angelos


 On 03/06/2015 12:19 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

 I completely understand Daniel, I think a star belittles the amount of
 work (and operational change) involved in meeting OSGeo's requirements.

 If it helps I am not talking about diluting incubation, instead opening up
 to more projects (by forgoing the requirement to have a mentor). All
 projects in incubation would be operating against the same graduation
 checklist.

 All of the projects in incubation currently have made significant progress,
 most are just waiting on a sprint or sponsor to grind through their
 code review.  I wonder if pycsw could share how long their code review took?


 --
 Jody Garnett

 On 5 March 2015 at 11:57, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com 
 dmorisse...@mapgears.com
 wrote:


  I'm not sure I like diluting the Incubated Project status by turning it
 into a star rating in which incubated and non-incubated projects are mixed.

 Incubated projects have taken steps to review their code and adjust their
 way to operate to meet several requirements, and just a set of stars do not
 relay that properly to the outside world.

 That being said, I have no alternative name to offer for the OSGeo Labs
 pre-incubation status at the moment, so I'll stay out of the debate.

 Daniel


 On 2015-03-05 5:52 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:


  Or you’re saying you want to address this with the stars system? So 1
 star for existing labs projects for instance?

 Jody, as chair of the incubation committee, what’s your take on this?

 Best regards,
 Bart

  On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:51, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl

  mailto:bart...@osgis.nl bart...@osgis.nl wrote:

 I don’t think you can put projects that have gone through incubation
 and the projects that still have to incubate at the same level. But
 that’s my opinion only.

 Best regards,
 Bart

  On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:18, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com

 mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Guys,

 I think you are trying to find a term for something, I would like to
 get rid of. OSGeo Project is, what I would like to achieve for both
 - today's projects and labs together under one hat.

 Or anybody thinks completely different?

 Just my $.02
 J

 čt 5. 3. 2015 v 9:08 odesílatel Suchith Anand
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk napsal:

 Yes, i think Incubator Projects is an appropriate name for this.

 Vaclav - Is this ok for you?

 Suchith
 __
 From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl
 mailto:bart...@osgis.nl bart...@osgis.nl]
 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM
 To: Vaclav Petras
 Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 I agree Community Projects is a confusing name.

 What about incubator projects? That’s the term that Apache uses.

 http://incubator.apache.org http://incubator.apache.org/ 
 http://incubator.apache.org/

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 04 Mar 2015, at 23:25, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com
 mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com 
 wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:w__enzesl...@gmail.com

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

Bart - the thread started as proposal for the new rating system of all
future (and current) OSGeo Projects

čt 5. 3. 2015 v 11:51 odesílatel Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl
napsal:

 I don’t think you can put projects that have gone through incubation and
 the projects that still have to incubate at the same level. But that’s my
 opinion only.

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:18, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Guys,

 I think you are trying to find a term for something, I would like to get
 rid of. OSGeo Project is, what I would like to achieve for both - today's
 projects and labs together under one hat.

 Or anybody thinks completely different?

 Just my $.02
 J

 čt 5. 3. 2015 v 9:08 odesílatel Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk napsal:

 Yes, i think Incubator Projects is an appropriate name for this.

 Vaclav - Is this ok for you?

 Suchith
 
 From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl]
 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM
 To: Vaclav Petras
 Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 I agree Community Projects is a confusing name.

 What about incubator projects? That’s the term that Apache uses.

 http://incubator.apache.org

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 04 Mar 2015, at 23:25, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:w
 enzesl...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 wrote:
 Thanks Jeff.

 Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we
 couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity  to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community Projects
 to avoid confusion if that is acceptable to Vaclav, Jachym and others. Many
 thanks.

 Well, I'm not particularly fond of Community Projects as a name. Even
 mature FOSS projects are community projects in one way or the other.
 Unfortunately, I don't have other suggestion.

 Vaclav

 Suchith

 
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.commailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:26 PM
 To: discuss@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 (we are approaching 2 full years that this labs naming has been an
 issue and discussed[1])

 Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
 education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community
 Projects.

 [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html

 -jeff




 On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
  Vaclav,
 
  Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not
 think on this  when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many
 things were going on at that time!).
 
  In universities, we generally use the Labs term to refer to
 infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example
 Botany Lab, Robotics Lab etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a
 dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities worldwide  (which
 includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure
 (the physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier
 to make use of the same terminology/structure of Labs which is widely
 used in the university environment to get academics start the initiative in
 their respective universities (also it is easier for them to convince their
 higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new
 term for this) .
 
  So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new
 OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating system for the
 incubation as then there is no confusion in the future. Many thanks for
 your consideration.
 
  Best wishes,
 
  Suchith
 
  
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky [jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
  To: Vaclav Petras
  Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incuba...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:
 incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
 
  Vašku,
 
  just side note: yes, whith the new Labs initiative OSGeo-Labs have
 to change their name.
 
  My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- labs and
 projects and start with new OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or
 similar) rating system.
 
  Than for current OSGeo-Labs OSGeo-project level 1 would make it (or
 similar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

Guys,

I think you are trying to find a term for something, I would like to get
rid of. OSGeo Project is, what I would like to achieve for both - today's
projects and labs together under one hat.

Or anybody thinks completely different?

Just my $.02
J

čt 5. 3. 2015 v 9:08 odesílatel Suchith Anand 
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk napsal:

 Yes, i think Incubator Projects is an appropriate name for this.

 Vaclav - Is this ok for you?

 Suchith
 
 From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl]
 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM
 To: Vaclav Petras
 Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 I agree Community Projects is a confusing name.

 What about incubator projects? That’s the term that Apache uses.

 http://incubator.apache.org

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 04 Mar 2015, at 23:25, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:w
 enzesl...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 wrote:
 Thanks Jeff.

 Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we
 couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity  to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community Projects
 to avoid confusion if that is acceptable to Vaclav, Jachym and others. Many
 thanks.

 Well, I'm not particularly fond of Community Projects as a name. Even
 mature FOSS projects are community projects in one way or the other.
 Unfortunately, I don't have other suggestion.

 Vaclav

 Suchith

 
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:26 PM
 To: discuss@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 (we are approaching 2 full years that this labs naming has been an
 issue and discussed[1])

 Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
 education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community
 Projects.

 [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html

 -jeff




 On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
  Vaclav,
 
  Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not
 think on this  when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many
 things were going on at that time!).
 
  In universities, we generally use the Labs term to refer to
 infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example
 Botany Lab, Robotics Lab etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a
 dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities worldwide  (which
 includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure
 (the physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier
 to make use of the same terminology/structure of Labs which is widely
 used in the university environment to get academics start the initiative in
 their respective universities (also it is easier for them to convince their
 higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new
 term for this) .
 
  So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new
 OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating system for the
 incubation as then there is no confusion in the future. Many thanks for
 your consideration.
 
  Best wishes,
 
  Suchith
 
  
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky [jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
  To: Vaclav Petras
  Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incuba...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:
 incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
 
  Vašku,
 
  just side note: yes, whith the new Labs initiative OSGeo-Labs have
 to change their name.
 
  My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- labs and
 projects and start with new OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or
 similar) rating system.
 
  Than for current OSGeo-Labs OSGeo-project level 1 would make it (or
 similar)
 
  Jachym
 
  po 2. 3. 2015 v 18:33 odesílatel Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com
 mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:wenz
 esl...@gmail.com napsal:
 
  On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky 
 jachym.cepi...@gmail.commailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.commailto:
 jachym.cepi...@gmail.commailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:
  former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but
 you can find more at http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

Bart,

that needs to be discussed but as example: yes, 1 star for current labs, 4
stars for current incubated projects



čt 5. 3. 2015 v 12:16 odesílatel Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl
napsal:

 Or you’re saying you want to address this with the stars system? So 1 star
 for existing labs projects for instance?

 Jody, as chair of the incubation committee, what’s your take on this?

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:51, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl wrote:

 I don’t think you can put projects that have gone through incubation and
 the projects that still have to incubate at the same level. But that’s my
 opinion only.

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:18, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Guys,

 I think you are trying to find a term for something, I would like to get
 rid of. OSGeo Project is, what I would like to achieve for both - today's
 projects and labs together under one hat.

 Or anybody thinks completely different?

 Just my $.02
 J

 čt 5. 3. 2015 v 9:08 odesílatel Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk napsal:

 Yes, i think Incubator Projects is an appropriate name for this.

 Vaclav - Is this ok for you?

 Suchith
 
 From: Bart van den Eijnden [bart...@osgis.nl]
 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:34 AM
 To: Vaclav Petras
 Cc: Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 I agree Community Projects is a confusing name.

 What about incubator projects? That’s the term that Apache uses.

 http://incubator.apache.org

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 04 Mar 2015, at 23:25, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.commailto:w
 enzesl...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand 
 suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
 wrote:
 Thanks Jeff.

 Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we
 couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity  to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community Projects
 to avoid confusion if that is acceptable to Vaclav, Jachym and others. Many
 thanks.

 Well, I'm not particularly fond of Community Projects as a name. Even
 mature FOSS projects are community projects in one way or the other.
 Unfortunately, I don't have other suggestion.

 Vaclav

 Suchith

 
 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.commailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:26 PM
 To: discuss@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

 (we are approaching 2 full years that this labs naming has been an
 issue and discussed[1])

 Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
 education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
 modify the Incubation's labs term, to something like Community
 Projects.

 [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html

 -jeff




 On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
  Vaclav,
 
  Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not
 think on this  when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many
 things were going on at that time!).
 
  In universities, we generally use the Labs term to refer to
 infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example
 Botany Lab, Robotics Lab etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a
 dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities worldwide  (which
 includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure
 (the physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier
 to make use of the same terminology/structure of Labs which is widely
 used in the university environment to get academics start the initiative in
 their respective universities (also it is easier for them to convince their
 higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new
 term for this) .
 
  So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new
 OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating system for the
 incubation as then there is no confusion in the future. Many thanks for
 your consideration.
 
  Best wishes,
 
  Suchith
 
  
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:discuss-bounces@
 lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky [jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
  To: Vaclav Petras
  Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incuba...@lists.osgeo.orgmailto:
 incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
  Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
 
  Vašku,
 
  just side note: yes, whith

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

Vašku,

just side note: yes, whith the new Labs initiative OSGeo-Labs have to
change their name.

My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- labs and projects
and start with new OSGeo-projects and metioned star (or similar) rating
system.

Than for current OSGeo-Labs OSGeo-project level 1 would make it (or
similar)

Jachym

po 2. 3. 2015 v 18:33 odesílatel Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com
napsal:


 On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but
 you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)


 Hi Jachym,

 do you think that with the renewal you can replace the name OSGeo Labs
 by something else? Now we have also ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo Research and
 Educational laboratories which might be often shortened to OSGeo Labs,
 although I prefer OSGeoRELs for writing. The mainling list is
 ica-osgeo-labs. Put perhaps it is not such an issue since the term Geo for
 All (http://www.geoforall.org/) is now used more and more (well, the
 linked website as OSGeo Labs in the title element).

 Thanks for taking this into consideration,
 Vaclav

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

I would like to get some time and, as Cameron pointed out, try to rewrite
current incubation checklist between new proposed star system


than we can start to talk about it again

then we can agree on something

then we can use it :)

sounds easy, right?

thanks

J

Mon Feb 23 2015 at 22:05:36 odesílatel Landon Blake 
sunburned.surve...@gmail.com napsal:

 I agree we should revisit our incubation process and see how our former
 OSGeo Labs fits in to the overall incubation process. I'm willing to
 help. What is our next step?

 Landon
 On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Cameron Shorter 
 cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi Jachym,
 I think this is a good idea.

 Also to include in this discussion is streamlining our existing
 incubation docs. In particular, retire General Principles of Incubation
 [1], update  our Project Graduation Checklist [2], and update our Incubator
 Application Questionnaire [3]. The links below include proposals for how
 these docs could be updated.

 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/General_Principles_of_Incubation
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Graduation_Checklist
 [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubator_Application_Questionnaire


 On 16/02/2015 10:44 pm, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

 Hi,

  I would like to dig a bit more into the topic more fine incubation
 procedure and former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten
 in past, but you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)

  I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing
 list), prepared wiki page (with confusing name):
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating

  Scope: to re-new OSGeo Labs, make the incubation process easier for all
 of us, with more little steps (except for one big). Projects could flow
 between the steps up and down, related to their current living phase.

  I hope, this would help to the community to get oriented, would allow
 more projects to join in. Work for incubation committee and mentors could
 be even less (some projects will remain in beta). It's also related to the
 certification topic (even not people, but software).

  Jachym




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[OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

I would like to dig a bit more into the topic more fine incubation
procedure and former OSGeo Labs (now it has no name is slowly forgotten
in past, but you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)

I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing
list), prepared wiki page (with confusing name):
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating

Scope: to re-new OSGeo Labs, make the incubation process easier for all of
us, with more little steps (except for one big). Projects could flow
between the steps up and down, related to their current living phase.

I hope, this would help to the community to get oriented, would allow more
projects to join in. Work for incubation committee and mentors could be
even less (some projects will remain in beta). It's also related to the
certification topic (even not people, but software).

Jachym
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Link to FOSS4G Europe 2014

[Jachym Cepicky]

[1] is waiting http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1427

Wed Dec 17 2014 at 12:21:59 odesílatel Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org
napsal:

 Hi Jorge,

 On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:
  [1] http://www.foss4g-e.org/
  [2] http://europe.foss4g.org/2014/
  [3] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1422
  [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2014
 
  Hi Siki,
 
  3 and 4 updated.

 since [1] is yet broken, what is the general FOSS4G Europe landing
 page with all years on it?

 thanks
 Markus
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Projects mailing lists

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

I would like to ask all our OSGeo projects contact points, to join the
projects mailing list [1], so we have one single contact point for all
projects.

I would also like to ask projects chairs/contact points, to update the
wiki [2] with your e-mail address, as described in my previous mail
[3] and let me know (preferably in response to this mail), that you've
done this. Please, let me know (preferably in response to this mail),
that you have done so.

Some of you already did (thank you! and sorry, if you have to read
this message one more time)

We just want to make sure, there is up-to-date link between OSGeo and
it's projects

Thank you.

Jachym - Secretary

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/projects
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts#Software_Projects
[3] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-September/002490.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire and GeoSpatial World Forum

[Jachym Cepicky]

I even think, we should support this financially, if possible. I think
at least for convering the costs of the booth, as well as maybe travel
costs for the advocates?


J

2014-10-04 7:23 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com:
 +1 for setting up a presence at GWF.

 Some ideas for an OSGeo / OSGeo-Live presence at:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event
 Potential local presenters/advocates at:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate


 On 3/10/2014 5:15 pm, Paul van Genuchten wrote:

 Hi, this year Inspire and GWF joined forces in organising a combined
 conference 25-29 may 2014 in Lisbon
 http://www.geospatialworldforum.org. In previous years of GWF we used to
 organize an OSGeo track (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, not sure about Geneva).
 Should some of us put some energy in setting up such a track for the
 coming conference, or alternatives like a booth/strategic partner?

 So why do GWF and INSPIRE hang out together? I have no clue... But it
 might be a combination of I know INSPIRE wants to share their concepts
 globally (they have some initiatives in Latin America), they might have
 seen GWF as a facilitator. Another reason might be that organizing such
 a big event is quite a challenge for local universities that did this in
 recent years. Hooking up with a commercial organisation like GWF can
 facilitate continuation of the event. For GWF I see a benefit of having
 a big audience increase, with meaningful items to discuss.

 As organizer of 2013 osgeo track at GWF my evaluation back then was not
 all that positive. It certainly was good people saw the osgeo logo on
 the program, but I doubted if the conference had a proper audience for
 osgeo-message. However, now with combined INSPIRE community, the
 atmosphere should be quite different.

 Would be good to hear your thoughts on this. And see if we can set up
 some great OSGeo presence at the conference.

 Note (for those interested) the dead-line for abstract submission is
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Maybe setup OSGeo Booth there?

Trying to fill whole track?

J

2014-10-03 9:15 GMT+02:00 Paul van Genuchten paul.vangenuch...@geocat.net:
 Hi, this year Inspire and GWF joined forces in organising a combined
 conference 25-29 may 2014 in Lisbon
 http://www.geospatialworldforum.org. In previous years of GWF we used to
 organize an OSGeo track (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, not sure about Geneva).
 Should some of us put some energy in setting up such a track for the
 coming conference, or alternatives like a booth/strategic partner?

 So why do GWF and INSPIRE hang out together? I have no clue... But it
 might be a combination of I know INSPIRE wants to share their concepts
 globally (they have some initiatives in Latin America), they might have
 seen GWF as a facilitator. Another reason might be that organizing such
 a big event is quite a challenge for local universities that did this in
 recent years. Hooking up with a commercial organisation like GWF can
 facilitate continuation of the event. For GWF I see a benefit of having
 a big audience increase, with meaningful items to discuss.

 As organizer of 2013 osgeo track at GWF my evaluation back then was not
 all that positive. It certainly was good people saw the osgeo logo on
 the program, but I doubted if the conference had a proper audience for
 osgeo-message. However, now with combined INSPIRE community, the
 atmosphere should be quite different.

 Would be good to hear your thoughts on this. And see if we can set up
 some great OSGeo presence at the conference.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] projects mailing list

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi all,

since there are so many mailing lists on our server, I think, another
one does not harm. I would like to invite you, especially OSGeo
projects contact points and members of the PSCs of OSGeo projects, to
join the

projects at lists.osgeo dot org
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/projects

mailng list. The topics discussed there should be technical issues,
related to our projects. I assume low traffic list.

Reason for that: I think it makes sense to have one contact point for
all the projects. Not only for me, as secretary, but also for new
coming projects and people interested in the topic. For Local
Chapters, this works IMHO quite well.

Thanks for joining

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Well, Jody, my point is, we should ask project contact points, to be
reachable on some place, in case, we have something to share with
them. Not sure, if board list is the right place - 90% of the mails
are from projects point of view offtopic, but if all contact points
are already here are following, I'm fine with that.

J

2014-10-01 0:33 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com:
 I think project officers can sign up to the board list. Relationship between
 project and OSGeo occurs via project officer.

 Of course the number is small so they can be contacted individual at
 present.
 --
 Jody

 Jody Garnett

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi,

 when I tried to pass through osgeo incbution, subscription to
 incubation mailing lists seemed to be mandatory for all projects. It
 seems, nobody from current contact points of OSGeo projects is hanging
 on incubation mailing list.

 I would more than welcome, to have single contact point for osgeo
 projects. Which place do you suggest, would be the best place for
 contacting all OSGeo projects (and projects in incubation) ?

 Thanks

 Jachym

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

I'm, about to port the survey into different survey system

to me, (and I already said it), the discussion is not about to
locationtech or not to locationtech, but about osgeo itself, what do
we want, how do we want it, therefore the survey

just my  0.02

Jachym

2014-10-01 18:04 GMT+02:00 Gert-Jan van der Weijden gert-...@osgeo.nl:
 Hi all,



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



 As  the discussion spanned over at least 3 newsgroups it was not an easy one
 to follow. (unless you're subscribed to all OSgeo-newsgroups, which I'm not)



 The discussion seems to be over. However 2 monuments of this discussion
 remain

 1. A wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Options_2014
 (assembled by Cameron Shorter)

 2. A google doc based survey (by Jacky Cepicky)



 Can someone explain to me (and others) what

 a) the current status of the discussion is

 b) where to find this status ;-)

 c) what the road map for this discussion is. I guess the deadline is
 february 2015, when the Request For Proposal for 2016 is due ;-)





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howdy Jody,

2014-10-01 10:38 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com:
 Yep, understood. Please sign me up as GeoTools rep :)

 Aside: I asked about a projects list a couple years back, looks like you
 intend this to be for low volume official communication.


what else? :)

J

 --
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 Jody Garnett

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Well, Jody, my point is, we should ask project contact points, to be
 reachable on some place, in case, we have something to share with
 them. Not sure, if board list is the right place - 90% of the mails
 are from projects point of view offtopic, but if all contact points
 are already here are following, I'm fine with that.

 J

 2014-10-01 0:33 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com:
  I think project officers can sign up to the board list. Relationship
  between
  project and OSGeo occurs via project officer.
 
  Of course the number is small so they can be contacted individual at
  present.
  --
  Jody
 
  Jody Garnett
 
  On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jachym Cepicky
  jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  when I tried to pass through osgeo incbution, subscription to
  incubation mailing lists seemed to be mandatory for all projects. It
  seems, nobody from current contact points of OSGeo projects is hanging
  on incubation mailing list.
 
  I would more than welcome, to have single contact point for osgeo
  projects. Which place do you suggest, would be the best place for
  contacting all OSGeo projects (and projects in incubation) ?
 
  Thanks
 
  Jachym
 
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http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1413

2014-10-01 22:55 GMT+02:00 Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com:
 howdy Jody,

 2014-10-01 10:38 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com:
 Yep, understood. Please sign me up as GeoTools rep :)

 Aside: I asked about a projects list a couple years back, looks like you
 intend this to be for low volume official communication.


 what else? :)

 J

 --
 Jody

 Jody Garnett

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Well, Jody, my point is, we should ask project contact points, to be
 reachable on some place, in case, we have something to share with
 them. Not sure, if board list is the right place - 90% of the mails
 are from projects point of view offtopic, but if all contact points
 are already here are following, I'm fine with that.

 J

 2014-10-01 0:33 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com:
  I think project officers can sign up to the board list. Relationship
  between
  project and OSGeo occurs via project officer.
 
  Of course the number is small so they can be contacted individual at
  present.
  --
  Jody
 
  Jody Garnett
 
  On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jachym Cepicky
  jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  when I tried to pass through osgeo incbution, subscription to
  incubation mailing lists seemed to be mandatory for all projects. It
  seems, nobody from current contact points of OSGeo projects is hanging
  on incubation mailing list.
 
  I would more than welcome, to have single contact point for osgeo
  projects. Which place do you suggest, would be the best place for
  contacting all OSGeo projects (and projects in incubation) ?
 
  Thanks
 
  Jachym
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] projects mailing list

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Hi,

when I tried to pass through osgeo incbution, subscription to
incubation mailing lists seemed to be mandatory for all projects. It
seems, nobody from current contact points of OSGeo projects is hanging
on incubation mailing list.

I would more than welcome, to have single contact point for osgeo
projects. Which place do you suggest, would be the best place for
contacting all OSGeo projects (and projects in incubation) ?

Thanks

Jachym

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

[Jachym Cepicky]

I proposed to prepare Google forms for that in other thread. Could have
IMHO more valuable output

?

J

Send from cellphone

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On Sep 19, 2014 3:38 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
wrote:

  I'll volunteer to start a wiki collating options for the FOSS4G future,
 with sections that people can add comments into.
 I should have something up for review and contributions within 24 hours.

 On 18/09/2014 7:04 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

 Dear All
 I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking
 themselves what it is happening.
 Please who was and is involved, please write the history of what has
 happened on a wiki page. When the plot is finalised the charter members
 vote.
 Maria



   Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli

 Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano


 Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data
 collection


 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF




 ISPRS WG IV/5 Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications - 
 Co-chair
 - OSGeo Charter Member - ICA - OSGeo Advisory Board Member - SIFET
 Scientific Commitee Member



 Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALIA)

 Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321

 e-mail1:  maria.brove...@polimi.itmaria.brove...@polimi.it

 e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it


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 *Inviato:* giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13
 *A:* Jachym Cepicky
 *Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org discuss@lists.osgeo.org; conference;
 osgeo-board List; Steven Feldman
 *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members

  Dear All,

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Just noting,

 discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
 since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
 (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
 .. or LocationTech.

 It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
 developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
 case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
 we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
 community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
 organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
 for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
 If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.


  If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about
 the topic, here i can offer my 2 cents..
 It is true that this is a long story, but it's hard to find all the
 elements needed for judgement. I'd ask those that have personally followed
 the steps, to kindly fill a wiki page with the most important facts.
 Another thing is that, for those that couldn't make it at FOSS4G, it is (I
 believe) not easy to understand on what exactly the community of charter
 members is being called to express their opinion. What does it mean to
 cooperate and what does it imply for the organizations involved? Is it a
 case by case cooperation what you're talking about? why it looks like is
 the FOSS4G event at stake here?

  Thanks for any pointers


  --
  Best regards,

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  European Commission - DG JRC
 Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
 Via Fermi, 2749
 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261

 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
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I would agree on that, to start in the wiki. But think, if we want to
get some input from the charter members, it should be more active and
structured effort - therefore I propose continue then with google
forms

Another question: of course, I'm talking about goals and OSGeo future,
but FOSS4G is one of OSGeo's most important event, it has some
functions, can be decide who it should be organised without knowing,
what we want to do?

J

2014-09-19 8:32 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl:
 Hey Jachym,

 wasn't Cameron referring specifically to what options we have to
 professionalize FOSS4G organising?

 And you were talking more about OSGeo's goals etc. ?

 Also, I think it makes sense to create some content in a Wiki first, and use
 that content to create a questionnaire. It's hard to create a good
 questionnaire from scratch if the solutions haven't been discussed in detail
 and worked on by multiple people IMHO.

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 19 Sep 2014, at 08:02, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 I proposed to prepare Google forms for that in other thread. Could have IMHO
 more valuable output

 ?

 J

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 On Sep 19, 2014 3:38 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I'll volunteer to start a wiki collating options for the FOSS4G future,
 with sections that people can add comments into.
 I should have something up for review and contributions within 24 hours.

 On 18/09/2014 7:04 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:

 Dear All
 I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking
 themselves what it is happening.
 Please who was and is involved, please write the history of what has
 happened on a wiki page. When the plot is finalised the charter members
 vote.
 Maria



 Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
 Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano

 Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data
 collection

 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF



 ISPRS WG IV/5 Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications -
 Co-chair - OSGeo Charter Member - ICA - OSGeo Advisory Board Member - SIFET
 Scientific Commitee Member



 Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALIA)
 Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
 e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it
 e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it



 
 Da: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org per
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 Inviato: giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13
 A: Jachym Cepicky
 Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; conference; osgeo-board List; Steven
 Feldman
 Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members

 Dear All,

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky
 jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Just noting,

 discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
 since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
 (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
 .. or LocationTech.

 It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
 developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
 case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
 we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
 community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
 organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
 for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
 If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.


 If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about the
 topic, here i can offer my 2 cents..
 It is true that this is a long story, but it's hard to find all the
 elements needed for judgement. I'd ask those that have personally followed
 the steps, to kindly fill a wiki page with the most important facts. Another
 thing is that, for those that couldn't make it at FOSS4G, it is (I believe)
 not easy to understand on what exactly the community of charter members is
 being called to express their opinion. What does it mean to cooperate and
 what does it imply for the organizations involved? Is it a case by case
 cooperation what you're talking about? why it looks like is the FOSS4G event
 at stake here?

 Thanks for any pointers


 --
 Best regards,

 Dr. Margherita DI LEO
 Scientific / technical project officer

 European Commission - DG JRC
 Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
 Via Fermi, 2749
 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261

 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu

 Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not
 in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] prepare questionnaire for our members, about osgeo mission, goals review, ...

[Jachym Cepicky]

OK, we can start in the wiki with question structure and convert it to
lime survey we have it later (?)

see the other thread (polling charter memebers)

J

2014-09-19 8:32 GMT+02:00 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org:
 El 18/09/14 a las #4, Jachym Cepicky escribió:
 Hi,

 great mails after FOSS4G. I wish, we had chance to talk about stuff
 openly face2face on FOSS4G, but there was no timeslot, nor members
 (not so many).

 If you agree, I (any help welcomed) volunteer for creating
 questionnaire (using google forms) with questions to our charter
 members. The results should be:

 * review of OSGeo goals as described on [1]
 * feedback from local chapters, why they need OSGeo
 * feedback from projects, future projects - why did they want to be
 osgeo project, why do they still want to remain osgeo project, why
 there are not so many new osgeo projects
 * feedback from members: why are you member, what are you expecting from 
 osgeo
 * ... others ...

 Someone else might put it into mail in more structured way.

 Any agreement? Co-volunteer? Good idea? Absolutely bad idea?

 Jachym


 We have at our disposal the UC Davis Lime Survey instance we used for
 the elections.

 Creating a questionnaire for the CMs is not really difficult, I
 volunteer for that task, following the work done as CRO.

 Lime Survey has by far, more flexibility and question types than google
 forms. We can set up the survey for Charter Members, open to everyone,
 public or private, timed or not, whatever.

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Hi,

great mails after FOSS4G. I wish, we had chance to talk about stuff
openly face2face on FOSS4G, but there was no timeslot, nor members
(not so many).

If you agree, I (any help welcomed) volunteer for creating
questionnaire (using google forms) with questions to our charter
members. The results should be:

* review of OSGeo goals as described on [1]
* feedback from local chapters, why they need OSGeo
* feedback from projects, future projects - why did they want to be
osgeo project, why do they still want to remain osgeo project, why
there are not so many new osgeo projects
* feedback from members: why are you member, what are you expecting from osgeo
* ... others ...

Someone else might put it into mail in more structured way.

Any agreement? Co-volunteer? Good idea? Absolutely bad idea?

Jachym


[1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html

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. But any reaction welcomed. Generally speaking: I think, we are
requiring too much from LOC. If there is helping organisation around,
who has know-how and power to make things happen, who can take care on
some details, we as volunteers are not, I would welcome it. If they
should be co-organising the event, I'm fine identify them clearly in
the marketing materials as co-organising organisation (what ever
that means). I believe, OSGeo's growth is dependent on FOSS4G success,
therefore it's significant appearance, as hosting organisation, is
crucial. Or any other solution with similar marketing impact :-) If
some other org. is having profit out of it, I'm fine with that.

thanks for continuing.

Jachym



 Kind regards,

 Andrew



 On 17/09/14 02:29, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

 Hi Jurgen,

 some of the discussions started on the conference e-mail list a while back
 (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/) but only recently this
 discussion moved to the discuss list. That might explain some of the
 confusion.

 I don't think there is any information which is not out in the open as yet.

 Andrew is best to comment on your other question, but I personally was
 mostly interested to see how conference organising could benefit from
 LocationTech's offer to help.

 No board decision has happened as yet. Normally after discussion settles in
 the community, the board might vote on specific motions that are brought to
 the table, but this step of the process has not yet been reached.

 Hope this clarifies a bit, and sorry for the unsettling irritation all this
 has caused.

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 17 Sep 2014, at 10:21, Jürgen E. Fischer j...@norbit.de wrote:

 Hi Bart,

 On Wed, 17. Sep 2014 at 09:49:51 +0200, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

 can you please at least give the board a chance to form an opinion on this?
 If it ever gets to the point that a motion is on the table and you have not
 been persuaded, you can always vote -1.

 Did an essential piece of information not get into the open yet, did I
 merely
 miss it or just missed to see it's importance?

 Is it just the FOSS4G event organisation that LocationTech apparently
 wants
 to help (more?) with or is there more?

 What pending board decision is causing all this (rather unsettling)
 irritation?


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Just noting,

discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
(actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
.. or LocationTech.

It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.

Jachym

2014-09-17 22:42 GMT+02:00 P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com:
 My guess is, just as I do, most Charter Members find this entire thread very
 alien. For us who don't go to FOSS4G, OSGeo means something completely
 different (here is where I disagree with an earlier email--I think it was Jo
 Cook--that folks know OSGeo products but not OSGeo). To suddenly hear of all
 this chatter about FOSS4G being used as a football between OSGeo and
 LocationTech (an org I heard about for the first time also in this thread)
 is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers chatting in your
 living room.

 Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice thing
 to do.

 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote:

 Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local chapters,
 it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local chapters
 chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am sure
 they must have a view
 __
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 On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, conference-europe-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

 From: Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch
 Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo
 Date: 17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST
 To: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com
 Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org


 Puneet,
 I agree with you, this is an hot decision that cannot be taken by a
 small group of people without at least have heard about what the OSGeo
 community think about.

 In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that
 pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really feel
 the desire to help and foster geospatial open source software from those
 guys.

 BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event.

 For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and share it
 with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we need a
 deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter
 members, Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility to
 vote on this.

 So, my proposal is:
 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of
 collaboration, commitments and guarantees
 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for
 people to look into this proposal
 3) Call for a vote from charter members
 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local
 Chapters
 5) Publish publicly the results
 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a
 letter of motivation from the Board


 BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (http://foss4g-e.org/) states clearly at
 the home page: OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source Software
 for Geospatial.


 I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of discussion.

 It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've
 lost some best practice currently in place.

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, 2014, at 07:38, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
 wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 To clarify publicly, I have no problem with LocationTech, and in fact I feel
 that its foundation plays an important role in our ecosystem.

 The issue actually boils down to OSGeo's only event, FOSS4G.  We, as OSGeo,
 present this event each year and it is a large part of our annual revenue.
 It is very important to the OSGeo foundation, as it is our flagship event.

 It was made clear to me that LocationTech is not interested in having their
 own global event, and that they are in fact interested in our event, FOSS4G.

 So maybe to remove this stress, or fear, I would prefer to pull back on
 the throttle, start with an MoU between the two foundations, and then begin
 to share booths at events, or donate booths at each other's events.  In
 other words, take baby steps, and build the relationship slowly, as we do
 with every other foundation.

 I apologize for not bringing this issue to the community sooner.  In fact
 this all really came to a head in Portland, and you can see that now we must
 deal with this all together.

 I always try to represent the entire OSGeo community well, if you feel that
 I have made mistakes please share this here with everyone.  I am here to
 represent you.

 The last few days have been very hard on me.

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 be fixed. OSGeo projects were well represented
  on
  the 2013 LocationTech tour and again in 2014. I hope these things are
  seen as a significant positive force.
 
  I would like to draw attention to the fact that LocationTech's growth
  has not taken anything away from OSGeo. In fairness, building upon
  what
  Steven Feldman eloquently put, the problems OSGeo faces are problems
  today were faced before LocationTech existed, and since.
 
  It's fair to say there is tension to collaborate more closely since
  the
  strengths of OSGeo  LocationTech complement each other despite some
  overlap. LocationTech  the Eclipse Foundation are *offering* to help
  solve some of the problems we've been talking about in OSGeo for many
  years. It's been 4 years and the offer hasn't been withdrawn nor
  really
  pushed despite fearful attempts to portray it as otherwise.
 
  Andrew
 
  On 15/09/14 20:28, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
  On 9/16/2014 10:48 AM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
  I don't get it, and my question is moot at this point in time, but
  why do
  we need a new foundation? Why couldn't OSGeo have provided what
  LocationTech purports to provide? Was there any discussion, or
  awareness,
  in the OSGeo board prior to the formation of LocationTech?
 
  Very pertinent questions form Rich. I hope we will receive some lucid
  answers.
 
  Best
 
  Venka
  Rich
 
 
  On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jeff McKenna
  jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
  wrote:
  Arnulf,
 
  I definitely agree that both foundations fill a role and need to
  exist.
 
  The point I am trying to make is that we have the power to change
  OSGeo,
  if we feel some needs are not being met well.
 
  I used too strong of words again, I am sorry.
 
  -jeff
 
 
 
 
  On 2014-09-15 2:59 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
 
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  Jeff,
  I believe that Daniel is actually right in what he says - given
  that I
  understand the point he is trying to make. There are differences
  between OSGeo and LocationTech and trying to talk them away will
  not
  get us anywhere. And its not bad or goo either way, we just
  operate differently.
 
  The point is that in OSGeo you cannot move anything at all as a
  business, not directly. In LocationTech you become a corporate
  member,
  pay money and in return have influence over certain things and get
  support. Directly geared towards your specific needs. OSGeo does
  none
  of those things.
 
  As an individual (with or without business) you can become the
  committee chair and an OSGeo officer with absolutely no
  preconditions,
  no money needed, no organizational backing and no other hierarchy.
  Just because othes think you are doing a cool job and have
  accumulated
  enough merit to go ahead as a leader. This would not work in this
  way
  in LocationTech.
 
  Both ways have reasons to exist and are good. Right?
 
  Cheers.
  Arnulf
 
  Am 2014-09-15 10:45, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
 
  On 2014-09-15 1:22 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
 
  the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in
  Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses
 
  Daniel this statement is not true, regarding OSGeo.  OSGeo
  members
  are made up of all walks of life, and many are running private
  businesses all around the world.  I have visited their
  organizations/offices myself in my FOSS4G travels throughout the
  years.
 
  However I cannot change how you feel.
 
  This part is unfortunate, these strong statements made publicly,
  which I feel are made to divide our community.
 
  Let me reinforce: our OSGeo community and our FOSS4G events (of
  all sizes) are geared for everyone and anyone, with no sole focus
  on one type of community.  And as the President of OSGeo, I am
  happy to represent all of the members, of any kind :)
 
  -jeff
 
 
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What about speeding OSGeo incubation in a way, that projects, who made it
through locationtech, would have to work only at the differences between
both incubations, afaik the community aspect and maybe something else, in
order to make it to OSGeo project? It would be more easy for them to make
it through OSGeo incubation, things would be speeding up a bit

I'm I completely wrong?

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On Sep 15, 2014 7:55 AM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good questions/discussion:

 Going to chime in as I enjoy both working with OSGeo incubation and
 LocationTech. I am a couple timezones west of Daniel but sleep is on the
 horizon.

 TLDR: I am not 100% positive of either organisation, which is why I am
 trying to make them better.
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 On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Massimiliano Cannata 
 massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote:

 As you said the final goal is the same: open source Geospatial software
 affirmation. And this is the best thing I can wish to all of us.

 Agreed, and I was very heartened by aspects of foss4g this year.

 Nevertheless what I just have not clear is: what location teach do
 differently with respect to osgeo?

 A lot of questions :) The two organisations share the same goals, but have
 different talents with respect to outreach.

 I am going to try and do a single Pro/Con for each organisation just so
 you can see how they differ. I suspect this is a better conversation over
 beer or coffee since I cannot tell what kind of differences you are
 interested in?

 OSGeo Incubation
 Pro: OSGeo incubation has the advantage of being less formal, and thus
 able to adapt to the needs of the projects in incubation today. This
 message gets lots repeatedly, which makes me a bit sad. I usually pick on
 my own projects, but perhaps the pycsw crew would not mind being used as an
 example. We have an checklist item about user / developer interaction,
 with an example provided of user list collaboration around releases. This
 example is dated and does not fit with an amazing aspect of the pycsw story
 - pycsw have great downstream projects fulfilling this role (risk
 mitigation around release based on bug reports, testing, collaboration).
 OSGeo incubation has the flexibility to recognise this value ... and get on
 with life.
 Con: OSGeo incubation has a look but don't touch attitude - we like to
 leave projects as we found them and not disturb the way each projects is
 already functioning. This is great low impact approach for when we were
 taking on fully-fored projects like MapServer, MapGuide and PostGIS. What
 could possibly be the drawback? We are not in position to offer much
 guidance to organisations that are new to open source struggling to know
 where to start.
 Contrast: We are great at reviewing project viability to try and protect
 OSGeo users from adopting projects that have gone stale.

 LocationTech Incubation
 Pro: LocationTech is a working group in an already established Software
 Foundation. They have a long history of teaching new projects how to do
 OpenSource. Many of the conventions we work with in our open source
 projects (voting +1 to accept a new committer on a project) have been
 automated into a developer portal. This structure can help those new to
 open source feel confidence they are doing it right.
 Cons: The workload associated with checking License/Headers is both harder
 and easier then OSGeo. There are staff to do the checking, but you need to
 submit each thing you depend on - even down to the build tools used to
 compile, build diagrams or generate docs. While I can kind of respect this
 (protecting potential developers from needing to purchase tools) was not
 prepared for the workload.
 Contrast: Eclipse incubation does not say much about if a project is stale.

 does it somehow overlap with incubation or not? What are the distinctive
 features?


 There is an overlap, but differences:
 * A project graduating out of OSGeo ...would have to do a formal IP check
 to graduate out of LocationTech. There is paid staff to do the work, but it
 is still a lot of work to submit all the code. I think there is like a TM
 check and other stuff. Lots of work, with some assistance on offer.
 * A project graduating out of LocationTech ... would have to do
 organisation viability, documentation checks, user/developer collaboration
 and similar. Soft concerns but hard to do.

 They also have a similar issue: projects are (quite rightly) more focused
 on the next release and any publicity .. then actually completing
 incubation.

 Personally I wonder why some of the most eminent person of osgeo (like
 you) decided to work into location teach? Don't misunderstood me, I'm not
 judging nor criticizing,  I'd just like to understand opportunities

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Daniel, I would see this similarly, thanks

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On Sep 15, 2014 6:31 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com
wrote:

 Hi Maxi, All,

 You raise an excellent question and the answer varies depending on what
 one is looking for. This whole discussion should help understand why both
 organizations are complementary and not really competing that much.

 Jody and Rob already pointed out some similarities and differences related
 to software projects and incubation so I won't touch on that.

 In my case, the motivation to get involved with LocationTech is for the
 business aspect: I am a citizen of both the software developer community
 (with MapServer, GDAL, etc.) and the business community (with Mapgears),
 and while OSGeo does a great job for the software community, it is lacking
 on the business side and I see hope in what LocationTech is trying to build.

 Why two orgs you'll ask? Can't OSGeo do it all? Can't LocationTech do it
 all? I don't think a single organization can address all the needs of all
 people. So diversity is good and allows different orgs to have different
 and complementary priorities and strengths, and if those orgs work together
 on the parts that overlap that will be in the best interest of the overall
 community of people, businesses, institutions, etc who care about free/open
 source geo software.

 So what's different in LocationTech? My opinion is that the main
 differences between the two orgs start with their different structure and
 history: the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in
 Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses. This leads to setting the priorities
 differently and using different approaches to reach the same goal of
 supporting open source software. Essentially the result is that today OSGeo
 is more community oriented, and LocationTech is more business-oriented.

 Before someone says that I'm over-generalizing, I know that OSGeo has many
 businesses revolving around it (including Mapgears, and we're not going
 anyway), and LocationTech has project committers reps on its board, so both
 are not purely black or white. But the core of each org is very different,
 we need to recognize that and work on those strenghts.

 BTW, on a side note, 8 years ago I would have said that OSGeo is
 software-project-driven, but I seem to have noticed a shift over the years
 towards education and community. Not that this is a problem or that
 projects are less important than they used to be, but just that the
 membership has grown with more community and academic people than software
 people, and that resulted in a small shift of priorities. Maybe it's also
 that software projects have a bit less needs now that their basic needs are
 served, and the next challenges are on the education and community side?
 I'm not saying this is a bad thing at all (quite the contrary), just
 pointing out that this shift is happening and as part of the evolution of
 our organizations (OSGeo, LocationTech and others) other shifts are to be
 expected over the coming years.

 Back to OSGeo vs LocationTech: both approaches have their pros and cons,
 and no one is better than the other, they are complementary and
 LocationTech aims to fill a void for businesses that OSGeo could not
 address well due to its nature. Having both is a good thing, and if they
 can find a way to cooperate efficiently then we all win.

 Having two orgs doesn't mean that people or projects need to choose a
 camp. I believe projects could incubate under both orgs to reach their
 different communities as others pointed out already, but that should not be
 a requirement, and it is also perfectly fine for individuals to play on
 both fronts as I, Jody and a few others do. For instance in my case as I
 wrote already, I am in OSGeo for the software developer network that it
 provides me, and in LocationTech for the business network that it is aiming
 to build.

 For those who still don't see the complementarity between OSGeo and
 LocationTech after reading the multiple replies in this thread, think of
 the coo-petition between MapServer, GeoServer and Mapnik, or between
 OpenLayers and Leaflet. That kind of diversity is good and we treat it as
 friendly coo-petition (or most of us do anyway), and it leads to faster
 evolution, and many users use all of the above on different days /
 different projects depending on the specific needs/features they are
 looking for. Open Source doesn't force you to choose a camp, you just use
 the best tool for the task you are working on at a given time. Why could it
 not be the same with OSGeo vs LocationTech as coo-peting orgs addressing
 different needs?

 Daniel

 P.S. FWIW, I am not going away from OSGeo, I plan to continue to be
 involved in both OSGeo and LocationTech since

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 distinct.

 See you soon,

 Andrew

 On September 12, 2014 7:28:08 PM PDT, Jeff McKenna
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

   For the record Arnulf forgot that the Board meeting starts at 8am
 at the
   same location, discussing of course the exact topics that he
 mentioned
   (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-09-13).  But please
 don't
   let me hinder your energy, definitely tackle the areas that need
 love
   (reviving the marketting committee, picking your favorite project
 in
   incubation and give some nudges...lots to do!)

   Thanks, see you early at the sprint.

   PS. the Board meeting, and any Board meeting, is open to anyone and
   everyone.

   -jeff





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   Folks,
   if anybody indicates interest in hacking OSGeo at the code
 sprint in
   Portland tomorrow please answer.

   In past years we have brain stormed around Marketing,
 Sponsorship,
   Education, Data (specifically how OSGeo can support the Open
 Data
   model) and so on. It is a aunique opportunity to evolve OSGeo
 as an
   organization and I would be happy to contribute to anything you
   might
   want to achieve for within and around OSGeo as an organization.

   This can also include how (or rather if at all) OSGeo manages
   FOSS4G.
   In my experience the day directly after the event is the best
   time to
   actually do this, impressions are still fresh and lots of
 ideas have
   popped up. If we do not invest some time into realizing them
 we are
   not going to get anywhere. So if you think OSGeo needs a push
 in a
   certain direction, join. There will be representatives from the
   board
   of directors, the president (I guess you are there Jeff,
 right?) and
   other folks in key roles. It is probably the only time in the
 year
   when you will get so many bright OSGeo folks in one place.

   Here is a link to drop your ideas. Its a Wiki, just go hack it
   as you
   like:
   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Hack_2014

   Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

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Looking forward to see things happen.

Good luck

Jachym

2014-09-14 17:07 GMT+02:00 Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org:
 Dear Jachym, Everyone

 Just a few quite thoughts.

 I encourage anyone who has concerns, or fears anything resembling a
 take-over to please speak up on the list, off-list with any other person
 from OSGeo  me, or even just me in private. We, people involved with both
 OSGeo  LocationTech, have been talking for roughly 2 years. I don't think
 everyone is fully aware of the fact that at each step collaboration was
 possible, we approached the OSGeo board  other leaders in the community
 discretely to talk about it and once there was a rough plan,
 followed-through publicly such as bidding on FOSS4G 2014, organizing FOSS4G
 NA 2015. I can't think of anything that was done improperly. We're very open
 to feedback in public or private about this.

 The team organizing  assembling the program for FOSS4G NA 2015 is a team of
 11 people volunteering from the community. These are people well known to
 OSGeo and many have participated in past FOSS4G teams. They are freed up
 from the burden of the logistics of organizing the conference by Anne
 Jacko's team at the Eclipse Foundation who organizes conferences for a
 living. I believe that there will be more control in such a circumstance.
 For what it's worth, when discussing with the OSGeo board yesterday we
 noticed obvious signs of this like much more prominent mention of OSGeo 
 OSGeo's logo on the FOSS4G NA web site. Also, FOSS4G NA 2015 speakers will
 get free passes. We hope this is seen as a nice positive step forward.

 Kind regards,

 Andrew


 On 14/09/14 07:25, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

 Guys,

 as long as I understand it: some members of the community are scared
 of LocationTech taking over whatever (FOSS4G conference, OSGeo
 projects and community). This can be based on real action, taken on
 either site, unofficial statement, misunderstandings or personal
 dislikes.

 Yesterday, we had short (about 2hours) face 2 face discussion with
 Andrew here in PDX (me, Vasile, Jeff and Gerald) and I personally
 believe, that it is not in interest of LocationTech to crush OSGeo
 or FOSS4G conference. It was clearly stated, that LocationTech would
 like to contribute to FOSS4G and make it to better conference,
 regarding (again) some remarks of some members of the community
 (including myself), that the way, FOSS4G is organised, does not
 necessary meet some of the community aspects, we would like to stress.
 I would like to note, that the discussion was very open on both sides,
 still calm and productive.

 To contribute of course means to work and LocationTech is anything
 but volunteer driven organisation. It has been stated, that FOSS4G-NA
 next year will be organised primarily by LocationTech, but OSGeo willl
 be represented clearly and (so to say) loudly.

 This could be one of the firsts steps towards closer cooperation
 between LocationTech and OSGeo.

 Everybody is aware, that on some points, LocationTech is not that
 good, as OSGeo currently is. OSGeo is certainly failing in other
 things. Looking for ways, how to strengthen common strengths and
 weaken our weaknesses should have non-zero-sum effect.

 We, as OSGeo shall later evaluate, whether the price for helping us
 LocationTech with conferences (regardless if on regional or global
 level), was too hight or quite ok. In case of disagreement, we shall
 try to find solution for the next time.

 In the worst case, we find out, that cooperation is not possible and
 everybody can go it's way than.

 I hope, you get my point(s) and that I did not misinterpreted
 anything, what was said.

 Thank you


 Jachym




 2014-09-14 10:07 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl:

 Barend,

 I'm talking about the burn-out signals that have been given recently by
 the current LOC (mostly because they have to re-invent the wheel every year
 and do a lot more than can be expected from them).

 So IMHO organising it this way is not sustainable in the long run, past
 organisers will not come back for a second round. It simply has gotten too
 big to organise it this way.

 There have been many related threads on the conference committee about
 this recently.

 Sorry if my brief summary does not reflect all of those discussions.

 Best regards,
 Bart

 On 14 Sep 2014, at 09:10, b.j.kob...@utwente.nl b.j.kob...@utwente.nl
 wrote:

 What actually do you perceive to be the problem with FOSS4G
 organising?

 I see it being a rather succesful, pretty large conference for the last
 two years, bringing in a substantial amount of income to OSGEO. One
 might
 perceive it as being not the same as it used to be, but that is
 because
 size DOES matter, and once such a thing grows over a certain size (I
 guess
 around 700+ participants or so), you just cant have the informal cosy
 event that used to be...

 Yours,
 Barend

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board of Directors elections results

[Jachym Cepicky]

Thank you,

Looking forward to co-work with you all on the board.

This time it was hard decision, too many very good candidates. We can not
say who would be better over whom.

Thank you all for participating and thank you, Jorge, for this year's
process, it's running very smooth so far

Jachym

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On Aug 30, 2014 2:25 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:

 Dear all,

 Theses are the final results from the 2014 elections[1] for the open
 seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
 and they have been filled by (in no particular order):

 - Massimiliano Cannata
 - Michael Smith
 - Vasile Craciunescu
 - Jeff McKenna
 - Anne Ghisla

 Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections and exposing
 themselves. Overall voting participation was 82% (200 out of 244) and
 there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!

 Your complete resulting Board for 2014/2015 is:

 - Anne Ghisla
 - Bart van den Eijnden
 - Gérald Fenoy
 - Jáchym Čepický
 - Jeff McKenna
 - Jorge Sanz
 - Massimiliano Cannata
 - Michael Smith
 - Vasile Craciunescu

 With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
 becomes effective as of now.

 Congratulations and please dear members, welcome the new and and
 re-elected OSGeo directors!

 We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
 OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
 membership and lots of energy. Cameron, Frank, Daniel, thank you very
 much!!

 We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
 Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Dirk, Landon, thanks
 for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the rest
 of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.

 Warm regards.

 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2014
 [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2014_Results
 [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Vasile Crăciunescu

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+1



Jachym

2014-08-18 11:55 GMT+02:00 Ivan Mincik ivan.min...@gmail.com:
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 Gérald Fenoy

 Hi, I also second the nomination of Vasile Crăciunescu. I think, that just
 little time is needed to realize that Vasile has real long term interest and
 skills to move OSGeo world further. Go on Vasile !


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Jeff McKenna

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And I hope, he will stand for another term as President

+1

thank you

Jachym

2014-08-15 16:25 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org:
 Forwarding Jeff McKenna nomination for the board by Markus Neteler

 Best
 Regards

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Markus Neteler
 Date: 2014-08-15 10:58 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Board Nomination for Jeff McKenna
 To: CRO

 I'd like to nominate Jeff McKenna for the board election. Little needs
 to be said about Jeff as he is widely known in and outside the OSGeo
 community for his passion of our community, straight forward approach
 and a fantastic sense of humor.

 Jeff whom I know personally since the famous initial FOSS4G 2004
 conference in Bangkok is supporting the ideals and daily business of
 FOSS4G community and OSGeo Foundation with all his energy. Jeff is
 well known for more than a decade in the Mapserver community and its
 PSC, and he is known as a driving force of OSGeo around the globe.
 Jeff is one of the original charter members (from 2006, year of
 birth of OSGeo) and has years of experience serving on the OSGeo
 board.

 Jeff is always available to listen to existing or potential community
 members in order to bring the community ideals of OSGeo forward. He is
 truely international, proven by his wide, visible network. Jeff has
 assisted in the formation of several OSGeo local chapters worldwide
 and especially supported the FOSS4G conferences the world over.

 He is being a important friend to many community members. I am glad
 that Jeff has agreed to stand for re-election and continue to lend his
 voice, face and wisdom to OSGeo.

 See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

 Best regards,
 Markus


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination - Dirk Frigne

[Jachym Cepicky]

I would like to second Dirk's nomination for the board,

someone with vision and business experience, willing to help with
OSGeo is important

Jachym

2014-08-18 9:19 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org:
 Forwarding Dirk Frigne nomination to the board by Jeff McKenna.

 Best
 Jorge

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Jeff McKenna
 Date: 2014-08-11 16:31 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Board nomination - Dirk Frigne
 To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: dirk frigne

 It is my pleasure to nominate Dirk Frigne[1], from Belgium, to join
 OSGeo's Board of Directors.

 Having been involved in the Board for so long, I know what makes a
 good OSGeo Board member, and I see that in Dirk.  He has that rare
 passion and vision for community, and speaks strongly about building
 and maintaining a healthy OSGeo 'ecosystem' made up of both the
 development community as well as professional service providers.

 I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with Dirk way back at
 FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008, and he has since went on to form the company
 Geosparc[2], and build the OSGeo project geomajas[3] into a healthy
 community.  More recently, many community leaders pulled me aside and
 were impressed with his views on the 'membership' topic, and
 specifically his views on what are the core principles of OSGeo.

 Dirk understands the industry today, our community, the software, and
 is willing to help guide the growth of the foundation.  I feel
 strongly that he would be a wonderful addition to the OSGeo Board of
 Directors.

 -jeff

 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf
 [2] http://www.geosparc.com/
 [3] http://www.osgeo.org/geomajas

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board nomination for Anne Ghisla

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+1 for Anne's nomination

Jachym

2014-08-16 8:19 GMT+02:00 Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com:
 I also support Anne's nomination. Her contribution to OSGeo project
 is really great and invaluable: Geo4All coordination, GSoC administration
 etc.

 2014-08-16 4:35 GMT+03:00 Helena Mitasova hmit...@ncsu.edu:

 I would like to express my support for Anne's nomination -
 as already mentioned by others she has done fantastic job coordinating
 the highly successful geo4all initiative  and osgeo rel network both
 as representative of OSGeo and as contact for Asia  Australia.
 Also, her leadership in osgeo participation in GSoC as one of the two
 OSGeo project administrators has been invaluable for both mentors and 
 students,

 Helena

 Helena Mitasova
 Associate Professor
 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
 North Carolina State University
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 On Aug 15, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

 Forwarding Anne Ghisla nomination for the board by Suchith Anand.

 Best
 Jorge

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Suchith Anand
 Date: 2014-08-13 23:05 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Board nomination for Anne Ghisla
 To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
 Cc:


 It is my great pleasure to nominate Anne Ghisla for the OSGeo board.

 Anne has been actively working to spread open source GIS among
 students and researchers through various initiatives (for example
 being OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator and mentor over the
 last 4 years).

 I have worked with Anne in the Geo for All initiative and Anne is
 the coordinator for Asia  Australia. Anne has been working actively
 to further our education activities globally.

 Anne has also been board member of OSGeo contributing her ideas for
 the community and i believe her continued contributions to OSGeo Board
 will be of immense benefit.

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
 http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/

 Best wishes,

 Suchith

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Board nomination for Michael Smith

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Another great nomination for the Board.

+1

Jachym

2014-08-16 3:54 GMT+02:00 Helena Mitasova hmit...@ncsu.edu:
 I too would like to express my support for nomination of Michael Smith.
 He brings enormous expertise in both the OSGeo software development
 infrastructure and its deployment in government organizations that is
 important for the board and our organization to move forward. Daniel has
 captured his contribution and qualifications really well,

 Helena

 Helena Mitasova
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 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall
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 On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

 I second the nomination of Mike Smith for the Board of Directors, so nicely 
 written by DanielM.

 Mike is one of those who could join the Board and make an impact right away 
 (because is so familiar already with how the Board runs, and knows the OSGeo 
 community so well).  He was also nominated for last year's Board election, 
 but true to his nature, it never phased his commitment to the community when 
 others were selected.  I feel the time is perfect for Mike's input, and his 
 vision, for the foundation.

 As an example of his dedication to OSGeo, all those WMS Benchmarking 
 exercises at past FOSS4G events were hosted on infrastructure that he set 
 up, he provided, he opened up fully to the development teams...his kind 
 dedication has touched the whole community of OSGeo.

 Please strongly consider Mike Smith for the Board of Directors.

 -jeff



 On 2014-08-13 5:07 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
 Forwarding Michael Smith nomination by Daniel Morissette

 Best
 Jorge

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 From: Daniel Morissette
 Date: 2014-08-13 20:51 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Board nomination for Michael Smith
 To: OSGeo CRO c...@osgeo.org


 I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

 Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS
 Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor
 of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the
 MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL
 project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with
 the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the
 perspective of government organizations, which is a very important
 group of users and contributors of OSGeo software that needs to be
 represented on the board in my opinion.

 He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer
 Users Meeting), and was an active participant and supporter of the
 FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise for several years.

 Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the
 last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC
 board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I
 believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for
 the challenges of serving on the board.

 See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

 Daniel



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Suggested text for Suggestions for Board Membership

[Jachym Cepicky]

Arnulf wrote simething very handy some time ago

http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/49-OSGeo-Director-Retrospective.html

Jachym

2014-08-15 0:44 GMT+02:00 Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org:
 On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Cameron Shorter
 cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm copying this email thread (started on OSGeo-Board) to OSGeo-Discuss
 list, as people considering joining the OSGeo-Board will likely be
 interested to read and potentially contribute to the discussion.

 Jeff,
 As per your suggestion, I've copied the proposed text to a wiki page here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Suggested_involvement_from_board_members
 It is still in draft format.

 On a sidenote, please consider to merge it with (the draft) page:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Director_Responsibilities

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[OSGeo-Discuss] sharing room in portland at foss4g

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Hi,

no doubt, everybody already has accommodation for FOSS4G in Portland.
I'm asking, whether there is chance to share room with someone
(assumed he (or fearless she)) already booked room with two beds.

Any chance?

Thanks

Jachym

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