Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: 2022 Board elections

Congratulations! On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 6:24 PM Vicky Vergara via Board < bo...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message - > From: Jorge Gustavo Rocha > Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 5:19 PM > Subject: 2022 Board elections > To: OSGeo Board > Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Conference resources working group

Hi! This has been largely discussed for years and never implemented (well, Steven Feldman did his part on the sponsorship team in 2021) so I am all for it! Thanks Luca! On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:24 PM Eli Adam wrote: > Hi Luca and all, > > That sounds like a great idea! > > Best regards, Eli

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference selection transparency (Was Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023)

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 1:13 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss wrote: > I don't think there's any need to reinvent the wheel here; a number of > open-source initiatives seem to use scoring for evaluating proposals. Chances > are something from one of them can be borrowed. > > Apache use it for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:50 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss wrote: > On the surface, this is a good idea, but unfortunately it has a fundamental > problem: > There are no "criteria for selection" of the conference beyond "the committee > members voted for this proposal". There's zero

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

Hi, This is my personal opinion as co-chair of FOSS4G 2021 and not any official OSGeo statement. Take it with a grain of salt. I am still recovering from the burnout of organizing it, so I may be very biased :) On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:42 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss wrote: > Why? If it can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] 2021 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

Congratulations to all the candidates! This was not an easy voting :) On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 10:41 AM Anne Ghisla via Board < bo...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Dear OSGeo members and friends, > > Thanks to all candidates for going through the election process and > thank you all for your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Facebook Page?

atial Data Specialist > DataLab: Data Science & Informatics > Data & Digital Scholarship > UC Davis Library > > 370 Shields Library > (530)752-7532 > mmtob...@ucdavis.edu > ORCID: -0002-2954-8710 > > Pronouns: she, her, hers > > > -Original Me

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Facebook Page?

Hi Michele, FOSS4G 2021 LOC has no idea, we used this one: https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2021ba On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:45 PM Michele M Tobias via Discuss wrote: > > Does anyone know who owns or manages the FOSS4G page on Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G/ ? I tried messaging the

[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G] OSGeo Projects swag

Hi everyone! As this year we will not be able to give any kind of swag or merchandise in person, we want to add a virtual "swag bag" for attendees. We were toying with the idea of offering things from the projects. Like the instant classic joke of giving free QGIS licenses. So I want to ask

[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G] Schedule released!

Good news everyone! We have published a first version of the schedule![1] Note that you can change the timezone using the drop-down selection at the top left of the schedule. Default timezone shown is Buenos Aire's timezone. The schedule is still subject to change, as we are still tweaking minor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2021: Community vote is open!

Dear geogeeks, The community voting will close on Saturday. Don't forget to rate our proposals so we can curate the best schedule possible! On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 1:04 PM Veronica Andreo wrote: > Dear all, > > The traditional *community vote is open*!! > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Academic track deadline (?)

Hi! The deadline for the academic track is still 30th of March. But we did add that "buffer" in case someone is waiting for the last minute and their connection fail. We may close it sooner if there's no one asking for it because technical issues. Don't wait for the last minute. On Tue, Mar 30,

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G news: We are going online!

Dear folks interested in the FOSS4G, We want to inform you that FOSS4G 2021 will finally take place online. Given current circumstances, we cannot guarantee the safety of a face-to-face conference, but we were committed to organizing a FOSS4G come hell or high water! So online it is. This is a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Happy New Year 2021!

Happy New Year! I wish you all a healthy and happy 2021! I hope that among your New Year's resolutions is to participate in the next FOSS4G[0]. Did you know that we have the call for papers already open[1]? Don't wait till the last day to send your proposal. And remember that you can send more

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

That's part sad and part happy to hear. Sad because you will be surely missed. And happy because I know you are moving to what sounds like a great adventure. Lots of luck to you, wherever you go! On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:45 PM Cameron Shorter wrote: > Hi all, > I've decided that I need to

[OSGeo-Discuss] My last letter as President

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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2019 OSGeo board members

Thank you for stepping forward to the Board! Baovola has been very active pushing her local/regional community forward. She is one of those important assets on our community that makes it work like a well-oiled engine. If you haven't crossed your path with her yet I am pretty sure you will very

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo board Nomination

Thank you for accepting the nomination! I think you are doing a great job already and I really feel you should get the opportunity to amplify your voice by being in the board. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:18 PM Msilikale Msilanga wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have been nominated in the OSGeo board

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo board nomination

Codrina for president! I warmly nominate her. If you haven't heard about her awesomeness yet, where have you been hiding? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Charter-members] OSGeo 2019 Board of Directors elections: call for nominations

nybody can nominate a board member. > > María Arias de Reyna, Astrid Emde, Jody Garnett, Jeff McKenna and Helena > Mitasova have reached the end of their 2-year term. So we have 5 vacant > seats on the Board. > > Briefly, to nominate new Board members, you should: > 1) Please confi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

Hi Sergio, Yes, there are two cities on play right now: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process#Letter_of_Intent_Review On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 4:18 PM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA < sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote: > Till, did you receive any proposal? > > Sergio Acosta y Lara >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:43 PM Jorge Sanz wrote: > Just for comparison as I happen to maintain three meetups for groups in > Spain (kind of microchapters called Geoinquietos[1]), mailing list versus > meetup is as follows: > > * Valencia: list 71; meetup: 729; telegram: 36 > * Seville: list 80;

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Even Rouault receives the 2019 Sol Katz Award

This is a huge reminder that most of the time, people that are essential to OSGeo are not the noisiest ones. Big congratulations to Even! This had to happen sooner or later and it was sooner than later :) On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:26 PM Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote: > Even Rouault was honoured

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

Hi, I think we can do both. I mean: OSGeo should sign it (from my perspective) because it is saying the same thing we say all the time: FLOSS is better :) And at the same time, we can use the European Chapter to talk to the FSF(E) if this is an european initiative to lobby and if we can join

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo AGM 2019 - FOSS4G Bucharest

=id.g403f0344e9_1_0 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1imiG7x09ry7lGvmS15FCVq2Z7yaICY00fcpXBK27TXY/edit?ts=5d3686f8#slide=id.g3ffe66376c_16_0 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1imiG7x09ry7lGvmS15FCVq2Z7yaICY00fcpXBK27TXY/edit?ts=5d3686f8#slide=id.g599757ec6b_0_8 Have a nice day! María Arias de

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: OSGeo selected as an umbrella organisation for GSoC 2019

Congratulations to all members involved! This is a huge effort and a very nice one. I am very happy to see it going forward and growing every year :D On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:17 PM Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > Dear OSGeo community, > > we’re pleased to announce that OSGeo has been selected as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo budget 2019

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:52 PM Jody Garnett wrote: > > Gotten a couple folks asking for an update, the budget has indeed passed: > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019 > > The vast majority of budget request have been met as requested, with the > board scaling back some of its own

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

As I understand it, this kind of greyish styles are used when you want to show the full list but don't want people to get distracted with each and every icon. But I'm not a designer expert. On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:05 AM Vicky Vergara wrote: > I still dont understand why does pgRouting logo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:31 PM Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 12/12/2018 23:08, Jonathan Moules wrote: > > Personally I'm not a fan of the Covenant; it has big subjective > > loopholes and components that be used to retroactively change the rules. > > My biggest problem with the Covenant is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

ticon > >> that's commonly used to signify "it's all good" and "thanks". Well, > >> it turns out that it's "an obscene insult" in some cultures! I didn't > >> know that until a few seconds ago when I went searching for a simple > >&g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regarding Instagram Page for OSGeo

Hi Sunveer, I think you should ask the Marketing Committee On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 3:27 PM Sunveer Singh wrote: > sorry I forgot to include link: https://www.instagram.com/osgeofoundation/ > Thank You > Sunveer > https://sunveersingh.github.io/ > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:56 PM Sunveer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

res! I didn't know that > > until a few seconds ago when I went searching for a simple example. > > > > I have learnt over the years from experiences in both directions that > > it's best to always assume good faith if possible. Humans may be the > > species with th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct... followup to avoid lobbies

Hi, I think that more than in the CoC, that should be on the member nomination. And yes, it makes sense. Can you propose a change on the membership procedure so the board can vote on this? We have some phrase about taking over OSGeo, maybe we can rephrase that. Although it is also true that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

the open source community, and I commend you for your efforts. > > Happy Human Rights Day! Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the adoption > of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948: > <https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/> >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct

Dear OSGeo community, As you may already know, I have been working for the last months in improving our community procedures[1] to make it a safer space. Recent events in the community have shown that we have a lot of work ahead. We all, as OSGeo, must remove the recent bullying and campaigning

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: How to retire membership status?

Dear Maxi, Things are being done to prevent this kind of situations in the future. I was waiting for this past foss4g asia to talk to the community there and have a more global perspective (I have now comments from almost every continent, missing Oceania, but their conference approach fits with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Kudos to the CRO, Board, Members and OSGeo in general

Thank you! It means a lot that you say this. I want to thank the CRO team and the SAC too, they have been very efficient :) On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:20 PM Arnulf Christl < arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net> wrote: > This is just a big Thank-You and Well-Done to the CRO, current Board, > new

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hall of Fame

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate > On 15/11/18 1:53 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > > This is an excellent idea. > Our history is part of who we are. > > Best, > Angelos > > On 11/14/18 9:20 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > Dear community, > > Due

[OSGeo-Discuss] Hall of Fame

Dear community, Due to the recent passing of another of our members, I really think we should start some kind of Hall of Fame with people who contribute to OSGeo. As someone who hasn't been here from the beginning, I would like to have some kind of (virtual) museum-like place where I can learn

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Elections: OSGeo needs you now!

Dear fellow members, We are on the process of electing board members for the next two years. This is the moment when you can leave a good footprint on OSGeo. Is there something you think we should do better? Is there something you think we can improve? Is there something you want to make sure

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Angelos Tzotsos

Seconding Angelos too. Reliable and tough, he deserves to be on the board. On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:17 PM Sandro Santilli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > > Forwarding nomination of Angelos Tzotsos by Astrid Emde. The Board > > Nominations page has

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

I warmly second Michael. The treasury of OSGeo would be a nightmare without him. On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:46 AM Luigi Pirelli wrote: > I second Michael, I met him in Brighton but more deep knowledge come from > his tutorial and presentations produced to support PDAL use. Tnx Michael. > > Luigi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to participate in the 2018 OSGeo Charter Member elections

Hi, Surprisingly I prefer this year's procedure. All information is there at the moment of voting on the links and there hasn't been all the noise from other years that distract from what we really want to know: who they are and what they do. El sáb., 20 oct. 2018 2:29, Jody Garnett escribió:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

Thanks Steven, It is very important to understand *why* TGP is important. Why we do what we do. It is not charity. It is not throwing money to feel better. It is not spending money for washing bad behavior.* The intent is to grow and improve our community with more and more people that,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Java 11 code sprint taking shape for October 22-26th

Hi, I have a tentative proposal from the local Java developer group here in Sevilla to host and participate with volunteers on the codesprint for GeoNetwork (which is where I can help most). Not sure how well this will go, as most of them has no GIS experience, but I'm excited! On Tue, Sep 18,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

I understand it is difficult to see your own privileges and biases[1]. That's why I always prefer that a PoC talks about racism instead of me. But I can still talk about inequality regarding women. Remember that 90% of said here applies to all PoC. And that WoC suffer this from both sides. So I'm

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

ity to choose whatever career they wish, and I believe FOSS4G > and OSGeo should have a similar aim. Anything else will be a dis-service > to people of both genders. > > > On 2018-08-12 10:14, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Jonathan M

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Peter Baumann wrote: > +1 for every word in Jonathan's excellently worded message. Science at its > heart > is open (!) to any and all provable insights (and even conjectures expressed, > and all of that may be disproven of course), which works only if not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Jonathan Moules wrote: >> Let me tell you something: having legal rights doesn't mean you have >> equal opportunities. Those studies are falling into the wrong >> conclusions probably because bias of the researchers. > > > Apologies, but that's a general

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Jonathan Moules wrote: >> This is a common mistake. If you aim for the already declining percentage >> of women, you will not get far. You have to aim for the percentage of >> population. The fact that only 37% of our industry is female is itself a >> problem we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Jonathan Moules wrote: >> Once we have a 50% of speakers that are women (even 40%), we can start >> saying that having a full keynoter line of women speakers is no diversity. > > At the risk of asking a question that I know isn't meant to be asked - why > 50%? Or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

o, good time to remind amazing work of TGP for bringing economic diversity to FOSS4G (which is another huge concern). > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > > On 2018-08-09 10:43, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > I agree this is a good topic to bring into the open, and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

I agree this is a good topic to bring into the open, and not an easy one. For what I have seen, FOSS4G Asia organization is doing a good job, this is just a hard subject to address. Even if that keynote lineup was full of women (like in main FOSS4G!) we still have to check about the rest of

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoChicas take Tanzania! Women event for welcoming FOSS4G

Dear women attending incoming FOSS4G, Join us to meet other women attending FOSS4G + HOT Summit who are interested in closing the gender gap and working towards diversity in our communities. GeoChicas started gathering more than 2 years ago in the State of the Map events and are excited to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Draft of Open Letter on the importance to protecting independent peer review frameworks for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations

be. Kind regards, Maria. El sáb., 28 jul. 2018 19:48, Peter Baumann escribió: > Dear Maria, > On 25.07.2018 10:06, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Peter Baumann < > p.baum...@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > >> Hi Christian, >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Draft of Open Letter on the importance to protecting independent peer review frameworks for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Peter Baumann < p.baum...@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > > while I could not agree more to what you say there is one point to > disagree with: > > On 24.07.2018 18:43, Christian Willmes wrote: > > Dear Suchith, > > I understand your point, and I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Draft of Open Letter on the importance to protecting independent peer review frameworks for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations

Hi, I can't agree more with you :) On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > > > I have prepared a draft letter with my ideas/suggestions .I am just a > volunteer and I feel sad that that I have to raise this issue through

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving Code-of-Conduct

keep in pace with our community. > > On 22 Jun 2018, at 18:18, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > That's exactly what I'm trying to do. > > Massive +1 > I want to start with a common CoC for OSGeo (at least as a best practices model) while keeping conversations with other organiza

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving Code-of-Conduct

to a team of people, > who would draw together the various authors of Codes-of-Conduct, and > attract a commitment from a few projects to use the new Code-of-Conduct. > > Maybe this might be your calling? It would be a huge amount of effort, but > would also be hugely valuable and an ex

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

El vie., 22 jun. 2018 23:35, Cameron Shorter escribió: > > Maria, re the Code-of-Conduct, I agree with Christian. Rewriting it to > create rules which consider all future opportunities for human conflict is > utopian, impractical and ultimately unachievable. > I agree with that. But a static

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to retire membership status?

This is me writing as a person, not as board. This is my personal opinion. Again: not the board, not the president speaking. Nothing official. Just me. On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Christian Willmes wrote: > I think this email, cited by Sara Safavi, from Marc Vloemans [1] is just >

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Sponsoring FOSS4G 2018

://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/ Even the smallest amount can make a huge difference to people who can't afford to travel to FOSS4G. Have a happy day! María Arias de Reyna. OSGeo President. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Dear Mark, Your effort for this FOSS4G is impressive! In my opinion, changing previous rules and experimenting with different approaches is a good thing. If we see that the outcome is not what we expected, we can always rollback for following years. But what if the outcome is better than ever?

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

Hi, I think it makes sense to have WorldWind at least as a community project. But it has to be WorldWind who requests it as a project. We can only invite WorldWind to join, as we have already done. If Jody was not explicit enough, I can do it again: *WorldWind, do you want to be an OSGeo

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

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Mark Iliffe wrote: > Hi All, > > I’m going to sleep after I send this, it’s been a very stressful few weeks > for various reasons, one of the biggest being our conference in Dar es > Salaam. I’m sitting here having my first whiskey in a while, looking out >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocacy for Advocates

Hi Nicolas, Good catch! On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Nicolas Roelandt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Last month, I was able to attend the Ubuntu Convention (UbunCon) Europe in > Gijon (Spain). > > There was a lot of very good quality presentation and one catch my >

[OSGeo-Discuss] What would you need to come to a FOSS4G?

Hi, As part of the "improve diversity" actions, one of the things we should do is make a list of all the things that would help people coming to FOSS4G/OSGeo events. Off the record I have made a draft list of items,but we need more brainstorming to make sure we cover all kind of inclusive ideas.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Next Member Meeting

Dear fellow members, Save the date! Monday 14th we will have the next face to face member meeting at FOSS4G-NA: https://2018.foss4g-na.org/bof-session/osgeo-members- meeting If you have any topics you want to discuss, please add them to the wiki page:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Call out] Diversity team volunteering

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:10 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: > María, congratulations for your concern in this. I think we still have > strong barriers regarding gender and language. The latter particularly > affects the "Third World" (to put it in some way). And all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Call out] Diversity team volunteering

El sáb., 14 abr. 2018 20:27, María Arias de Reyna <dela...@gmail.com> escribió: > Dear all, > > We haven't had much movement around this subject since the call-out. > And this is bad. Very bad. This means one or more of the following: > * Our community is too heterogeneou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Call out] Diversity team volunteering

difficult it is to get to a conference on a wheelchair until I saw it with my own eyes). We are losing a lot of talent by not taking care of this. Kind Regards, María. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 2:08 PM, María Arias de Reyna <dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear fellow members, > > W

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GRASS-user] Helena Mitasova awarded 2018 Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize

Congratulations! On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:11 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > forwarding: > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2018-April/078052.html > > - > https://gi-science.blogspot.com/2018/04/helena-mitasova-awarded-2018-waldo.html > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO US National Chapter

Hi Randal, How is the chapter creation going? I see there is no page yet on the osgeo.org webpage: https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/ Can you make sure there is at least a draft page where the contact point and the status of the chapter are reflected? Also I see there are some local chapters

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO US National Chapter

Hi, This is really good news! On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Randal Hale wrote: > Greetings, > > Thanks to a few successful events here in the US, (Especially Boston > FOSS4G 2017) several of us have been working toward formation of a US > OSGEO Chapter. We've

[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadline for FOSS4G Tanzania

Dear fellow colleges, I know we are all busy and time runs fast and maybe you didn't realize but we are getting close to the deadline for submitting presentations, workshops, posters, and maps! Don't miss the opportunity to visit this year's FOSS4G in Tanzania and submit your proposals to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsorship opportunities for 2018

Also, don't forget SigLibre: https://www.osgeo.org/events/jornadas-sig-libre-2018/ We have a lot of small and medium events we should sponsor, not everyone can travel to the big ones! And please, if you are running a FOSS4G event, make sure you add it to the web page so it reaches more people:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] LGBT in OSGeo

Dear Mark, Thank you very much for your email. I agree we should continue the discussion in the open. Now we have a clear view of the current situation from the board (and people following that list). A reason why I personally haven't moved this quicker more open is because I don't want OSGeo to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:02 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA < sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote: > Stefano, certainly you are NOT the only one. In the past I have expressed > my concern about this fact. It's as if Monsanto were sponsoring an organic > food event. I don't think ESRI (or Google or IBM

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

Hi, I share your fears. But on the other hand, the list of sponsors is not closed for this year, I know for sure there are open source companies that are still pending to be shown there. GeoCat for example, being a small SME in comparison, will do the yearly effort to be a key sponsor proving

[OSGeo-Discuss] Letter from the new OSGeo President

to everyone participating in OSGeo. It is you who make this organization what it is. Cheers, María Arias de Reyna President, OSGeo Foundation ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Hostile Takeover" -- what do we mean by this?

Hi, So the concern is not for the current board, but for future boards that may not be involved in free and open source software and follow different goals using OSGeo. I don't see that happening in the short term from OSM or similar organizations, but the answer to your questions are on the

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

Dear all, Sorry for the late response. I was busy going back from different timezones and that is a killer for me (travelling, being sleepy, etc...). I agree with Sanghee that we have gone one step backwards. We have lost Asia in the board. That's a step backwards we shouldn't have had. And I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

gt; >> Dear OSGeo community, >> >> These are the results from the 2017 elections for the 5 open >> seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. The results in alphabetical >> order are: >> >> * Astrid Emde >> * Jody Garnett >> * Jeff McKenna >

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

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Anita Graser wrote: > Thank you for your summary and assessment of the situation, Vasile! > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Jody Garnett > wrote: >> >> I am not sure I have collected my own thoughts, in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Dear all, > > I was just notified by one of our charter members (thank you, Jody!) about > a mistake in the vote invitation email. The email contains this phrase "The > deadline for this election is 23:59 GMT

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > GFOSS.. Commercial Support.. +1 for this. > But.. now that this has come to a boil.. > > WHY NOT THE BOARD AND WOULD BE BOARD COME OUT CLEAR ON THIS.. > SURE THIS WILL HELP THE CHARTER.. WHOM TO VOTE.. > 'Free and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Hello all > > A significant group who have possibly not yet chimed in on this issue are the > commercial organizations who sell GFOSS support and development. I presume > that FOSS4G is one of their best

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections 2017: roles and positions

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: > Hi all, > > > > One of the questions asked to our nominees to write down in their Manifesto > is "which role you wish to fulfil in the Board". > > Apparently a though question, since not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections Debate

Indeed a last minute idea, we could at least had a quick doodle about the time. I will try to be there, but can't be sure. On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Vicky Vergara wrote: > Hello all > > Announcing the 2017 Board Elections Debate on IRC. > > Time: 14:00 UTC > Place:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > > > Question (would be Board). 'Do you agree that FOSS4G is turning out to > be a hangout for those who can afford it'.. costs (of participation) are > so high that many might not afford.. If selected to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Rewording the diversity argument

ere. We will be happy if they join." And that's not how it works. In my opinion, we have to be actively welcoming and inclusive at all times. The slippery moment we forget, we are making people move away. Op 13 okt. 2017 om 08:23 heeft María Arias de Reyna <delawen+os...@gmail.com> &g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Vicky Vergara wrote: > Hello all, Gret-Jan > > In my view section of my manifesto I mention OSGeo is here to serve the > people of the world. > People in the world are Geographically distributed, have different > cultures and using some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate Manifestos: 3 questions

Hi Ger-Jan (and all), On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: > Hi Board member candidates (and fellow voter members), > > = And one to all of you: > > Some of you talk about being an inclusive organization. > > For the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Manifesto: María Arias de Reyna

Hi, You can find my manifesto here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifest os#Mar.C3.ADa_Arias_de_Reyna_Dom.C3.ADnguez Don't be shy in asking questions, it will be a tough decision and it will not be easy to choose between the candidates.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

> > >- All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work >on within the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and achieve in >the next 2 years? > > I think this is answered here on the Manifesto:

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

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote: > Looks like I goofed bigtime! > > In my oversight, I mistakenly thought this was a nomination for Maria Antonia > Brovelli. > > And so was wishing to advance that in the most positive way. > > Maybe my

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

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Andy Turner wrote: > Hi, > > It is possible to come up with a set of tasks and tests used to confirm and > classify what software are capable of. Working out what is included and how > this is included is non-trivial and I think this

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

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > Moreover I wonder that no one react on my main sentence: > > "I'm pretty much convinced that more effort to help our OSGeo projects > improving on every level (e.g. documentation, reach out, testing, etc) is > the key

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

>> On 20 September 2017 at 02:41, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: >>> >>> Dear OSGeo community >>> >>> I want to bring you a discussion on a github ticket about linking to >>> "similar proprietary products" [1] to your attention. >>> >>> My comment there: >>> >>> "I support and concur

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership process & email

On Sep 8, 2017 6:46 PM, "Massimiliano Cannata" < massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote: Why not just nominate people on the list but collect seconding on online system, like a form? SImilar to those for voting presentation at foss4g!!! In previous years it was like this and people still flood

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