[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-NA 2019 CFP Closes Next Week

Hi Folks, Wanted to post a reminder that the Call for Proposals for FOSS4G North America 2019 Closes next week. FOSS4G-NA 2019 will be held in San Diego, California April 15-18, and this year marks a return to a more grass-roots type event with a local organizing committee that is working hard

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

Very happy to second this nomination. Maria is an incredible asset to the OSGeo community and would make an amazing Director for the foundation. On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Forwarding nomination of María Arias de Reyna by Jeff McKenna.

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

We have that kind of page here http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/about/migrate-open-source-gis/ ... The link was removed from the hero area when Steve Feldman changed this in Boston, so there is no content there now. Are we not willing to even mention the names of these proprietary products for fear

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis

+1 for Ben. We have worked with him and his team at the Center for Geographic Analysis as part of the GeoNode project for several years and they have contributed greatly to the development of that project. On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Simone Dalmasso wrote: > A big

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Stephen Mather

+1 on this nomination for sure. Stephen has been doing alot of community outreach at workshops and trainings for several years now and is a very valuable member of our community. On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Forwarding Stephen Mather

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination for Alessio Fabiani

Wholeheartedly support Alessio's nomination +1 ... another person I just assumed was already a member. He has been very instrumental in the growth of the geonode community in the last years and now is a very key contributor to our project. On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Vasile Craciunescu

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

Indeed, strong +1 from my end too. Thanks for your ongoing leadership Sean! On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Tom Kralidis wrote: > > Strongly seconded. To add, Sean's valuable contributions also include > early days of MapServer Python (MapScript) support. > > > ..Tom > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Rob Emanuele as OSGeo Charter Member

+1 for Rob's nomination. On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > On mercredi 30 août 2017 18:33:02 CEST Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > >> Forwarding Rob Emanuele nomination by Doug Newcomb. The 2017 member > >> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1]. >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Flickr OSGeo group admins wanted

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 28 August 2017 at 17:07, Jody Garnett wrote: >> Happy to help. > > You're in. Thanks. > >> I had considered using google photos more now that yahoo has sold. Flickr >> has received a couple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Flickr OSGeo group admins wanted

Happy to help and to 'represent' the marketing committee here. On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > Hi All, > > There are two 'official' OSGeo groups on Flickr: > > OSGeo [1] (the community) > FOSS4G [2] (the conference) > > Both have been there for very

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations period

I was wondering thesamething On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Sara Safavi wrote: > Hi all, > > Has the window to nominate new charter members opened? I see some noms are > starting to go out, and I have a few to put forward myself this year - but > as I hadn't seen the CRO's

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

discussion before they are signed. > > So the short answer is - keep the wiki page for organizing and make any > updates you (or others) need to make there. > > Jody has a better idea what was moved from wiki to website and other way > around but the wiki stays. > > H

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

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:58 Andrea Aime wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Polimi wrote: > >> 1) in my opinion the size matters and it is not in se something negative >> to be a small startup or company instead of a big one.

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

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

ce 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> > naps

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

JeffM, It seems you are making a leap from asking service providers how big they are to this alienating them or somehow excluding ones of a certain size (big or small it's not clear). Can you explain the thoughts behind your argument here? I think the rest of us are saying that everyone should be

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

wheel that need not be re-created. > -Patrick > > -Original Message- > From: Jeffrey Johnson [mailto:ortel...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 8:42 PM > To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) > Cc: Jody Garnett; OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Listing

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

please > know that we, ESA and NASA, are sincerely doing everything we can to deeply > support the principles of OSGEO. > > -Patrick > > > > From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 7:45 PM > To: Jeffrey Johnson; Hogan, Patri

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

Patrick, you are welcome to include it. I can send you a login if you like. We made an open call on the projects list, but it seems many people are not on this list. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote: > It appears that one of the original

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

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 wrote: >

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

Lets bring this up with the vendor at our meeting on wednesday. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is that date going to be okay with our contract Jeffrey? > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 21 August 2017 at 17:14, Jeffrey Johnson &l

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

Also, please feel free to contact me if you would like a login and have not been given one yet. Again note these will be migrated to OSGeo LDAP accounts once we move the site to production. They are temporary during this content collection Phase. It has been suggested we have a freeze date so we

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

Hi All, I think we are talking about several different issues here. Let me try to summarize. 1) JeffM is suggesting that we should *not* ask Service Providers what size they are in terms of number of employees to avoid 'alienating' them. I'm not sure I see how any would be alienated, but I dont

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

Please keep asking questions. It's healthy and how we (try to) arrive at consensus. On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 17:13 Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > Dear Venka, Dear Helena, Dear Marc, Dear OSGeo Community, > > I'm some kind of surprised about the reactions and long threads about my >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly

Just for clarity and background. We announced the project form on discuss and imported the results/submissions of that form. There hasn't been any process other than that up to now. For the record, I'm very much in favor of a "big tent" approach. If a software had an OSI approved license and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] @OSGeo Booth in Boston

Ill be around to help friday! On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Marc Vloemans wrote: > Dear Boston-attendees, > > We are still Looking for people who want to spend some time at our booth: > answering questions of visitors etc. > > Especially for the Friday breaks, but

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

Note the LocationTech badge is not showing correctly ... and there is still an open discussion about which badge to use for projects in incubation. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bingo. 1) is fixed. http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

Bingo. 1) is fixed. http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ ... Hopefully they can add the default filter tomorrow. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just got off the phone with the vendor. They are going to do 2 things ASAP. > > 1) Add

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

eed. Feel free to file new issues in GitHub. Angelos will take care of filing one about how to sort appropriately. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure at all, but it was a suggestion. > > Can someone open a ticket on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

gt; On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I should also point out that it has been suggested that we have a way >> to 'rank' projects in these pages somehow that indicates their >> popularity ... for instance when we have a page of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

is section and we encourage feedback ... but understand its not working to our satisfaction yet either. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Moritz Lennert > <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> wrote: >> On 16/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

Helmut, We appreciate the gratitude. We've worked really hard on this site and want it to be something we can all be super proud of. We also, appreciate your concerns, indeed its now the very first item on the Agenda with our vendor today. I will report back in a few hours with our intended

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

Note that several of these issues are on the list to be discussed with the vendor today. There is also the issue of actual OSGeo projects that simply havent responded to various requests for input. I've had to just add them in myself so they are there and can be hooked up to the choose a project

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

The intention is to let any open source geospatial project be listed, bug feature OSGeo projects. Jody probably has a better explanation of this than I do. On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 14:54 Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > Hi, > > thanks to all for the effort to bring up the new website! >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - list local chapter in time for foss4g

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > It’s a nice website, but not without errors: I am very sure I did not put in > the form that the location of our Dutch Chapter is Basel, Switzerland! https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/22 > BTW, there was no form entry for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - list local chapter in time for foss4g

SGeo login work? > > bobb > > > > > On Aug 14, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also, I have started adding users and letting them update their own > profiles. You can see these here > http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/community/members/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - list local chapter in time for foss4g

Also, I have started adding users and letting them update their own profiles. You can see these here http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/community/members/ (note paging doesnt seem to work on this page https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/38). If you would like to setup an account and update your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] final call friday - for software projects on beta website

Also, I have started adding users and letting them update their own profiles. You can see these here http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/community/members/ (note paging doesnt seem to work on this page https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/38). If you would like to setup an account and update your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo website/rebranding May Update

Note that it wasn't really specified in the EOI/RFP, but we should be able to use Wordpress forms for alot of these things and other places we need to collect structured data. I'm not really opposed to using anything that makes our lives easier, but we should take care to make sure we are keeping

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where to hire a FOSS4G freelane developer?

le in their particular project web pages for their > product (as well as related products). > > bobb > > > > On May 11, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We (marketing committee) are baking this kind of thing into the new > we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where to hire a FOSS4G freelane developer?

We (marketing committee) are baking this kind of thing into the new website quite prominently. That doesn't help you now, but its coming. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Luí­s Moreira de Sousa wrote: > Thank you all the replies. > > Perhaps the portfolio page should

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

Hi All, We can share the initial cut of the branding process. It is available as a PDF here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1D61nG9ZgtbdmpmcTh4SnBYMFU/view?usp=sharing Feel free to comment here or on the marketing list. We will go through a few sets of revisions with the vendor. Jeff On

[OSGeo-Discuss] Branding & Marketing Project is *kicked off*!

or on the marketing list. We are extremely excited to finally be able to update our brand and external facing presence. We look forward to your input and participation! Jeffrey Johnson (on behalf of the Marketing Committee) [1] http://www.osgeo.org/marketing/rebranding.html [2] https

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

ction_2016_Results > > Pasting here too: > Detailed results > >- Membership: 312 >- Valid votes: 246 >- Not finished votes: 6 >- Not voted: 60 > > NameCount > Maria Antonia Brovelli 164 > Vasile Craciunescu 122 > Michael Smith 117 > Angelos Tzotso

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

Congrats to the new Board and thanks to everyone who voted for me. Looking forward to seeing whats next for OSGeo. On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Dear OSGeo community, > > These are the results from the 2016 elections[1] for the 4 open > seats[2] of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

l 26 sept. 2016 15:53, "Jorge Sanz" <js...@osgeo.org> escribió: >> >> On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to >> > participate anywhe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

8:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > >> Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have >> a hangout 'debate'? :) > > If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout". > Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo > > Or ev

[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

Hi All, I've posted my Campaign Statement on the wiki here https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2016_Candidate_Manifestos#Jeffrey_Johnson Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have a hangout 'debate'? :) I agree with previous statements noting the strength of *all*

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGeo Board: Marc Vloemans

+1 on this nomination. I've only had the pleasure of interacting with Marc recently in Bonn, but I believe he is the exact kind of person we need to take OSGeo to the next level with a clear, focused and well executed marketing strategy. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jeff McKenna

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

Im also an 'interested party' and would definitely like an extra week to prepare answers to the simple question that Nikos proposes, but also think its a good idea if we replicate the Candidate Manifesto page for 2016 and all of us write something there. Jorge can you setup the stub? On Fri, Sep

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] board elections: campaign week?

+1 if felt pretty rushed last year. On Saturday, September 10, 2016, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Hi Gert-Jan thanks for the reminder :-) > > Candidates are encouraged to start, as you say, campaigning anytime. I > already mentioned on the nominations announce that'd be great to see >

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

Im also definitely +1 on this nomination. Angelos is a HUGE asset for OSGeo and certainly has the right set of skills to represent the community on the board. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > Forwarding Angelos Tzotsos nomination to the board of directors by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Michael Smith

Very much +1 on this nomination. Michael, thanks for being willing to stay on and continue the great work with the finances. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Andrea Ross wrote: > Third, or +1. Can't say enough positive things about Mike. It's so great > he's willing to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [GeoNode-users] GeoNode (and GIS) software usability survey

Hi Folks, Cross posting from geonode-users. The GeoNode community is working with a User Research team on improving Usability and Experience in GeoNode. The survey linked below is fairly generic about use of GIS software in general, so if you could take some time to fill it out, we would greatly

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostgreSQL

I've used these many times. http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-intro/ http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-spatialdbtips/ On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Maria Brovelli wrote: > Dear All > is there nobody who has a course about PostreSQL to be put in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short course series on 'Open Science goes Geo'

This looks really great. Thanks for sharing Suchith! shameless-plug A startup that I am involved with won a Horizon 2020 grant this round using open source geospatial tools including Glob3Mobile http://www.glob3mobile.com/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Your weekly dose of FOSS4G 2013 News

Hi Jo et al, I'm curious what (if any) current thinking there is on some joint activities with the State of the Map conference attendees. Its a bit sad that these events are so far apart temporally yet close spatially, but I think there will be a pretty significant overlap and it makes sense (to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [mil-oss] Fwd: Open source GIS in military or defense sector?

Cross posting. Miles is right, there is plenty of info out there. Let us know if you cant find what you are looking for. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Jeffrey Johnson wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Shin, Sanghee endof