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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli via Discuss]

Congratulations and thanks to you all!
Maria


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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli

Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano



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Da: Discuss  per conto di María Arias de Reyna 
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Inviato: giovedì 29 dicembre 2022 12:47
A: Vicky Vergara 
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Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: 2022 Board elections

Congratulations!

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 6:24 PM Vicky Vergara via Board 
mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:


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From: Jorge Gustavo Rocha mailto:j...@di.uminho.pt>>
Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 5:19 PM
Subject: 2022 Board elections
To: OSGeo Board mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org>>
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>


Dear Board Members,

The voting period for board members is over. As we all know, this year
we only had 4 nominations for same number of vacant positions.

The results confirm that the nominees are well known within the
community and all receive an expressive number of votes.

The count for each nominee is:

Member  Count   Percentage
Ariel Anthieni  224 77.24%
Tom Kralidis247 85.17%
Michael Smith   218 75.17%
Angelos Tzotsos 248 85.52%

We would like to congratulate the new board members.

Best regards,

Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Vicky Vergara and Vasile Craciunescu
(your 2022 OSGeo Elections CROs)



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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Wiki access

[Maria Antonia Brovelli via Discuss]

Hi, dear Markus.
Me too, I have the same problem.

LDAP login failed

This is what I got, trying to enter my login.
Hugs
Maria


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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli

Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano



P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  
maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>



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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-5561

Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it=qXBjE_AJ


Da: Discuss  per conto di Margherita Di Leo 
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Inviato: martedì 13 dicembre 2022 09:55
A: Markus Neteler 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki access



On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:50 PM Markus Neteler 
mailto:nete...@osgeo.org>> wrote:
Hi madi,

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 2:36 PM Margherita Di Leo 
mailto:direg...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Ciao Markus,
>
> I have the same problem. In addition my user seems to no longer exist
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUserRights=madi
> There is no user by the name "madi". Check your spelling.
>
> Any suggestions?

Yes :-)
It is actually:
Wiki-Madi ... account in progress of converting (which got stuck as with many).

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:UserRights
Enter a username: Wiki-Madi

I unchecked the following groups (anybody in these groups can't edit)
[ ] wiki account
[ ] account in progress of converting

Converted users should be in at least this group:

[x] merged account

Reason: Fix edit access

Saved.
Can you try logging out and logging back in?

Thank you Markus. I tried and got the following error:  Cannot log into LDAP 
with a prefixed username

Thanks
madi


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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: GIS4School - using GIS to assess Climate Change impacts

[Maria Antonia Brovelli via Discuss]

Dear Suchith, yes, it is a project where I'm involved 

The material is open to everyone. It is enought to register for downloading it 
in many languages.

Elisa, of Euronike, is the leader of the project, and we are happy that you 
find it interesting. Please spread it with your colleagues and friends!!

Cheers
Maria


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Inviato: mercoledì 22 giugno 2022 16:04
A: Suchith Anand ; GeoForAll 
; discuss@lists.osgeo.org ; 
labri...@eled.auth.gr ; Victoria Rautenbach 

Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: GIS4School - using GIS to assess Climate Change 
impacts

Dear Suchith,

I share the link to the project website where you can find official contacts: 
https://gis4schools.eu

We participated as partners with the team of Maria Brovelli. The project leader 
is Euronike  (associazi...@euronike.it)

Best,


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Office: +39 02 2399 6409
Mobile: +39 339 8697385
Skype: danieleoxoli
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Da: GeoForAll  per conto di Suchith Anand 

Inviato: mercoledì 22 giugno 2022 13:22
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Victoria Rautenbach 
Oggetto: [Geo4All] GIS4School - using GIS to assess Climate Change impacts


Colleagues

I came across this excellent education initiative called GIS4School - using GIS 
to assess Climate Change impacts.


https://gis4schools.thinkific.com/courses/Basics-of-QGIS


Does anyone know who are the main contacts of this project ? Please let me 
know, so I can invite the project team for sharing more details about this 
excellent project in GeoForAll newsletter? Thanks.


Are there any plans to expand this education program ?


Are there any similar initiatives in other countries and regions ? Thanks.


Best wishes


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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli via Discuss]

A warm welcome to our chapter members!!!
Looking forward to working with you all.
Maria 

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Da: Announce  Per conto di Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
Inviato: lunedì 13 dicembre 2021 19:54
A: Discuss ; Announce 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter 
Members 2021

Newsitem: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/
2021-12-13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/
[2]
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Special Issue of Transaction in GIS - Open Source Geospatial Science, Software and Education

[Maria Antonia Brovelli via Discuss]

Dear All

We are happy to announce the new Special Issue "Open Source Geospatial Science, 
Software and Education" of Transaction in GIS [1].
Please consider submitting to the Special Issue original research contributions 
on all aspects of open source geospatial science, software and education as 
well as its applications.

Important Dates
Abstracts Due: 30/11/2021 (by email to: 
a.mobash...@uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:a.mobash...@uni-heidelberg.de> with cc'ing 
amin.mobash...@gmail.com<mailto:amin.mobash...@gmail.com>)
Approved Abstracts: 10/01/2022 (put as planned papers online)
Manuscripts Due: 30/06/2022
Decision to Authors: 31/08/2022
Final Papers Due: 31/12/2022

More pieces of information are available at [2]

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679671
[2] 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/14679671/CfP_Open%20Geospatial%20Science%20Software%20and%20Education-1626741108927.pdf

Happy summer week to you all!
Maria

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Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
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P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: OSGeoLive 14.0 “Malena” Released - 21. May 2021

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Yes, I also believe so. And thanks for having dedicated it to our Malena!
Cheers
Maria

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Da: Discuss  Per conto di SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Inviato: mercoledì 26 maggio 2021 13:49
A: Discuss ; OSGeoLive ; 
Announce ; astrid_e...@osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 14.0 “Malena” Released - 21. May 2021

I think Malena would be proud of this release...

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


De: Discuss  en nombre de Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 

Enviado: martes, 25 de mayo de 2021 14:50
Para: Discuss; OSGeoLive; Announce
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 14.0 “Malena” Released - 21. May 2021

OSGeoLive 14.0 "Malena" Released
-
25 May 2021
See news item:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeolive-14-0-malena-released/

The OSGeoLive team are proud to announce the release of version 14.0 [1] of the 
​OSGeoLive GIS software collection.

We would like to dedicate this version to our friend Malena Libman who passed 
away shortly before OSGeoLive 14.0 was released. FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires was 
her dream.
Farewell Malena, we will miss you.

Release Highlights
--
Highlights for this release include:

- Based on Lubuntu 20.04.1 Focal
- New applications pygeoapi, Re3gistry, GeoStyler.
- Version ​updates to most of the included packages [2].
- The Virtual Machine version now includes applications that could not fit into 
the iso version. List of VM only applications available here.
- Additional Python modules like Fiona, rasterio, cartopy, pandas, geopandas, 
mappyfile, Jupyter.
- Improved documentation and four new translations, now supporting:
English | Deutsch | Español | Suomen kieli | Français | Italiano | 日本語 | 
Hungarian.
- 100 % translation to Hungarian. Zoltán Siki, one of the Hungarian 
translators, pointed out the need for the translation and will use it at GIS 
courses at University in Budapest.
- 100 % translation to Spanish. Special thanks to Martha Vergara that did 99% 
of the translation.
- Command line introduction.
- Improved Quickstart for OpenStretMap? thanks to Enock Seth Nyamador.


Marco Minghini, Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission, says 
"Open source geospatial software is a key building block of many data 
infrastructures managed and operated by the European Commission, powering 
high-level, pan-European initiatives such as INSPIRE and Copernicus. The role 
of OSGeoLive to teach and promote the use of open source geospatial software 
has no equivalent. Big thanks to OSGeo and the OSGeoLive team!"

OSGeoLive 14 is ready to be used at events. It will be used at ​FOSSGIS 
Konferenz 2021 [3] in June and ​FOSS4G 2021 [4] in September 2021.

Download
-
Download the OSGeoLive 14.0 image at
https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html [5]

About OSGeoLive
-
​OSGeoLive is a ​Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, 
available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is pre-installed with 
robust open source geospatial software, which can be tried without installing 
anything.

It includes:
- Close to 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and 
pre-configured
- Free world maps and sample datasets
- Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
- Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
- Translations to multiple languages

Credits
--
Hundreds of people have directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, documenting 
and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged 
software. Thank you to all involved.

Sponsoring organisations
--
​- OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting 
infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included applications.
​- Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of 
California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support.
​- Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, 
provides hardware resources and development support.
- The ​Debian GIS and ​UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the 
core packages.
​- Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso 
images.

Enjoy the new Version!

The OSGeoLive Team

[1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
[2] Changes
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/master/CHANGES.txt
[3] https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021
[4] http://foss4g.org/
[5] Download https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Academic track deadline (?)

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

The deadline was today. We decided to close the submission for the Academic 
Track on Friday. Please, pay attention that there will be no more extension. 
Therefore, hurry up, please!
Cheers
Maria

Ottieni Outlook per Android


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Cannata 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:49:06 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions ; OsGeo, GeoForAll 

Subject: [Geo4All] Academic track deadline (?)


Hi there, from the submission page [1] it seems the deadline is the 2021-04-03 
23:59 while the geoforall page indicates today (30/03/2021) as deadline.

Can we consider the 3rd April as deadline then?

Cheers,
maxi


[1] https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g-2021-academic/cfp
[2] https://2021.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic.html

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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congrats for your work, Alex and Marco! Very useful indeed!
Thanks. Cheers,
Maria

Da: Discuss  Per conto di Jochen Albrecht
Inviato: giovedì 12 dicembre 2019 17:17
A: Marco Minghini 
Cc: marco.mingh...@ec.europa.eu; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G 
client applications


This is extremely useful!
Thank you, Marco.

Dr. Jochen Albrecht, GISP
Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography
Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Hunter College, City University of New York
695 Park Avenue - HN 1030
New York, NY 10065


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:09 AM Marco Minghini 
mailto:marco.minghin...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) we have been working 
with our Contractors (WeTransform and Epsilon Italia) on a set of actions aimed 
at improving the usability of INSPIRE data sets. For those who are not familiar 
with INSPIRE [1], this is the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) built 
on top EU Member States infrastructures to support European environmental 
policies.

The rationale behind these actions is that GML is the default encoding for 
INSPIRE data because INSPIRE xml schemas are generated automatically from the 
conceptual UML models. These schemas are complex and many existing (web, 
desktop and mobile) client applications are not able to fully consume or make 
use of data shared according to these schemas.

Two actions have been completed over the last year in order to:
1) improve client support for INSPIRE data
2) develop an alternative encoding for INSPIRE data (GeoJSON)

Within the first Action [2], we compiled a "can I use" matrix [3] describing 
which functionality associated with the consumption of INSPIRE data (both in 
GML and GeoJSON) is supported by which client. The clients tested are QGIS, 
GRASS GIS, hale studio, OpenLayers and LeafletJS as well as some proprietary 
solutions.

This e-mail is first of all to inform you about this Action and to show that, 
as you can notice in [3], open source solutions are currently the most 
successful ones, but some improvement is still possible. In this regard, we 
have established communication with the software PSC and/or communities and 
discussed the prioritisation of functionalities that should be improved or 
developed for each software to best satisfy user needs.

Whenever other encodings (e.g. GeoPackage) for INSPIRE data will become 
available, the same approach should be followed.

In addition, since the Action is formally completed but the outcomes will still 
be very important for the INSPIRE community in the future, we are currently 
exploring how to ensure the sustainability of the tool. In particular, we would 
open an invitation to anyone (project developers, users or communities, or 
simply interested people) to contribute to keep the matrix up-to-date by 
testing new/future versions of specific OSGeo tools (in particular those 
mentioned above - QGIS, GRASS GIS, OpenLayers and LeafletJS - but also other 
tools). The tests, described at [4], consist of general GIS tasks and do not 
require INSPIRE-specific knowledge. Interested people can also submit content 
through issues or pull requests in the GitHub repository [5] or contact us.

Thank you all for your attention.
Best regards,
Alex and Marco


[1] https://inspire.ec.europa.eu
[2] 
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=418580131
[3] https://inspire-mif.github.io/caniuse/generator/out.html
[4] https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/caniuse/tree/master/docs
[5] https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/caniuse
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: My last letter as President

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Maria 
Thank you for serving OSGeo as a President with your expertize and enthusiasm!
Your dedication needs a big applause from we all.
You have been always present with decision and with the gentle touch of a Lady 
President.
See you soon somewhere else. With respect and love.
Maria B



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Da: Discuss  Per conto di María Arias de Reyna
Inviato: mercoledì 4 dicembre 2019 08:08
A: OSGeo Discussions ; osgeo-board List 

Oggetto: [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 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] R: Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks, Anne and Jorge and congrats to the new charter members!
Maria

For the new special issue "Geodata Science and Spatial Analysis in Urban 
Studies" click here: 
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/geodata_spatial_urbanstudies

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Da: Discuss  per conto di SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 

Inviato: lunedì 11 novembre 2019 14:00
A: Jorge Sanz ; Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019


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De: Discuss  en nombre de Jorge Sanz 

Enviado: lunes, 11 de noviembre de 2019 4:58
Para: Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019

Welcome everyone and thanks Jorge and Anne for your continued efforts!!

--
Jorge Sanz
https://jorgesanz.net

Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity and typos

El lun., 11 nov. 2019 8:52, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
mailto:astrid_e...@osgeo.org>> escribió:
see also news item:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2019/

OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2019 from all
over the world.

In 2019 we had 39 nominations and 33 passed. The OSGeo board approved
the new members in the November 2019 board meeting.

Now we are happy to have 460 Charter Members in total. The charter
members are coming from several countries. We are proud to have this
global community with activities on the whole globe.

Ana Leticia Ma (2019) USA
Andi Lazăr (2019) Romania
Andrea Trovant (2019) Argentina
Antonio Cerciello (2019) Netherlands
Carmen Tawalika (2019) Germany
Cécile Le Calvez (2019) France
Cristina Vrînceanu (2019) Romania
Dan Ormsby (2019) UK
Daniel Santillan (2019) Austria
Daniel Silk (2019) New Zealand
Dennis Bauszus (2019) UK
Dimitris Karakostis (2019) Greece
Edoardo Neerhut (2019) Australia
Felipe Sodré Barros (2019) Brazil
Fiona Hemsley-Flint (2019) Scotland
Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala (2019) Mexico
Ion Nedelcu (2019) Romania
Ionuț Ungurianu (2019) Romania
Ivana Ivanova (2019) Australia
Ji Yoon Kim (2019) South Korea
Julia Wagemann (2019) Italy
Mahdi Farnaghi (2019) Iran
Marius Budileanu (2019) Romania
Narcélio de Sá (2019) Brazil
Olimpia Copăcenaru (2019) Romania
Pēteris Brūns (2019) Latvia
Robert Coup (2019) UK
Romel Vázquez Rodríguez (2019) Cuba
Ross McDonald (2019) Scotland
Saber Razmjooei (2019) UK
Seth Girvin (2019) Ireland
Sylvain Beorchia (2019) France
Tom Armitage (2019) UK

Special thanks to the CRO for the organization of the elections.

Congratulations from the OSGeo Board
and welcome again to the new OSGeo Charter Members 2019


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[OSGeo-Discuss] ISPRS Congress 2020 Forum - update

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
we are going ahead with the organization of the Forum on "Openness and 
Innovation" at the ISPRS Congress 2020 (http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/). The 
Forum will be June 18th (Thursday).

We discussed with many people in Bucharest and the Forum is now shaping.
If you are interested, there is a shared file here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWil0jrAHXsjGSu1rBDOrdxO47jIeaK8R95k1dYZYuM/edit

where you can contribute (in case you want to co-organise with us, please add 
your name and contact).

Again, I want to recall you that the Congress will be attended by more than 
3000 people and therefore it could be a good occasion of visibility.

Best regards,
Maria & Serena







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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic TRack Proceedings

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
Andreea and I  are happy to announce that the FOSS4G Academic Track Proceedings 
are ready!

https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/1/2019/

Enjoy reading them while traveling to Bucharest. See you next week.

Maria & Andreea


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Winners of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2019

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
Serena and I are glad to announce the winners of the OSGeo UN Challenge 2019 
(https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/).
A Jury composed of: 4 distinguished members of OSGeo UN Committee (active in 
the UN Open GIS Initiative), 2 UN members and the President of OSGeo decided 
that the winners are:
1) Challenge 1: Mayra Zurbaran
2) Challenge 2: Berk Ambaroglu

More pieces of information will be available in the next days. By now, 
congratulations to the winners and good work to the winners and the mentors of 
the Challenges!

We want to thank the Jury for their kind work and the mentors for their future 
work with Mayra and Berk.
Best
Maria and Serena




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Forum at ISPRS 2020 (June 2020)

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
time ago I wrote about the possibility of organizing a one-day Forum at ISPRS 
2020 about "Open Science and New Technologies". I highlighted the importance of 
this event, given that ISPRS Congress (http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/) gather 
generally more than 3000 people and therefore it could be a good window for 
open data/software/education/science and so on. The Forum will be on Thursday 
18 June and we need now to decide the contents and the format of the Forum.

I put in gdrive a document where interested people can add ideas (first sheet) 
and their name (second sheet) if they want to be involved in the Forum and 
attend the Congress and Forum

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWil0jrAHXsjGSu1rBDOrdxO47jIeaK8R95k1dYZYuM/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you very much if you want to contribute.
Best regards
Maria & Serena

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
I had a meeting with Nicolas Paparoditis, the Director of the XXIV ISPRS 
Congress in Nice (June 2020) [1].
There are many interesting points.
1) Around 3500-4000 participants will attend. It is the main Congress of ISPRS 
(every other 4 years).
2) Nicolas proposed OSGeo to co-organise a Forum about "Openness and 
Innovation". The Forum can last one or more days. He will send me more details 
about the Forums in the next days. I will circulate it with the people who are 
interested.
3) He proposed us also to organize 2 mapathons: one humanitarian mapathon and a 
mapathon for enriching the OSM data in Nice, using higher resolution imagery 
(they can provide them) and data (for instance heights of the buildings) 
obtained with photogrammetric packages. These are the starting ideas but we can 
work on them
4) He is offering us an OSGeo booth if we help with the previous tasks.

This is very in summary and it is just the beginning.

As already said, we are creating now a team of OSGeo people who are interested 
in attending the conference and organizing events and activities there.
Helena created a wiki page [2] for that.

If you are interested, please put your name on the wiki page and ADD YOUR EMAIL 
ADDRESS. Next operative emails will be sent only these people in order to avoid 
spamming the discussion list.

Lovely weekend,
Maria

[1] http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020





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Da: Maria Antonia Brovelli
Inviato: domenica 16 giugno 2019 08:37
A: Moritz Lennert; Helena Mitasova; OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: R: Fw: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) 
and OSGeo

Moritz, Helena and All
I contacted Nicolas Paparoditis (Director of the ISPRS Congress) and I have a 
meeting with him next Tuesday. He will tell me how the Forum will be organised. 
Please add your email to the wiki page in such a way that I will directly  
write to the people interested in collaborating to the organisation instead of 
spamming the discuss mailing list.
If there is somebody from the industrial branch of the community who want to 
take the leadership for the Pavilion, this is the last call.

Lovely Sunday
Maria



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Da: Moritz Lennert 
Data: 12/06/19 17:38 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli , Helena Mitasova 
, OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: Fw: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) 
and OSGeo

Hi Helena, Hi Maria,

Has there been any follow-up on this initiative ?

Moritz

 - Message Transféré -

 Date : Thu, 24 May 2018 21:29:36 -0400
 De : Helena Mitasova mailto:hmit...@ncsu.edu>>
 À : discuss osgeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
 Sujet : Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France
 (2020) and OSGeo


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

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

Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,

Helena


  > On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
  > mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
  >
  > Dear All
  > probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which
is the
  > International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a
Society
  > with a long history and which is our partner  for instance in the
  > GeoForAll initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018. ISPRS
  > has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial
  > Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they
  > are very open to collaboration with OSGeo. Last year Gerald Fenoy
  > co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good success.
  >
  > Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand
  > of people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administr

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Moritz, Helena and All
I contacted Nicolas Paparoditis (Director of the ISPRS Congress) and I have a 
meeting with him next Tuesday. He will tell me how the Forum will be organised. 
Please add your email to the wiki page in such a way that I will directly  
write to the people interested in collaborating to the organisation instead of 
spamming the discuss mailing list.
If there is somebody from the industrial branch of the community who want to 
take the leadership for the Pavilion, this is the last call.

Lovely Sunday
Maria



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Da: Moritz Lennert 
Data: 12/06/19 17:38 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli , Helena Mitasova 
, OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: Fw: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) 
and OSGeo

Hi Helena, Hi Maria,

Has there been any follow-up on this initiative ?

Moritz

 - Message Transféré -

 Date : Thu, 24 May 2018 21:29:36 -0400
 De : Helena Mitasova mailto:hmit...@ncsu.edu>>
 À : discuss osgeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
 Sujet : Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France
 (2020) and OSGeo


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

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

Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,

Helena


  > On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
  > mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
  >
  > Dear All
  > probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which
is the
  > International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a
Society
  > with a long history and which is our partner  for instance in the
  > GeoForAll initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018. ISPRS
  > has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial
  > Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they
  > are very open to collaboration with OSGeo. Last year Gerald Fenoy
  > co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good success.
  >
  > Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand
  > of people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations,
  > etc). In 2020 it will be in Nice (France).
  >
  > http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
  >
  > I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the
Congress)
  > who proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress,
  > these two initiatives:
  >
  > -  a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and  Geo-Open-Data.
  > The motivation of fora is  to encourage strong exchanges between
  > academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring
  > subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of
  > the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only
  > scientific/tecnical aspects.
  >
  > - a pavilion,  where to group open-source companies to give them a
  > stronger impact during the congress.
  >
  > The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for
  > answering positively, we need to have a team of people who are
  > interested in collaborating on that. Consider please that there is a
  > great curiosity and interest with respect to open source and we have
  > the occasion of showing the potential of our technologies in a new
  > context. It is a challenge but, if well played, with many
  > opportunities.
  >
  > Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are
  > interested. We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e.
  > people/energy) for accepting this challenge and answer consequently
  > to such an offer. Best regards! Maria
  >
  >
  > 
  > Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
  > Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
  > Politecnico di Milano
  >
  > P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
  > Tel. +3

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Moritz,  looking at the wiki page, I see that there is an interest by the 
OSGeo Academic Community.  In my opinion, we can go ahead with the Forum (not 
with the OSGeo Pavilion because there are not volunteers for it). I will 
contact the Director of Congress and ask him more pieces of information about 
the Forum.
I will inform you as soon as I have news.
Many thanks!
Best regards
Maria

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Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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Da: Moritz Lennert 
Inviato: mercoledì 12 giugno 2019 17:38
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; Helena Mitasova; OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: Fw: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) 
and OSGeo

Hi Helena, Hi Maria,

Has there been any follow-up on this initiative ?

Moritz

 - Message Transféré -

 Date : Thu, 24 May 2018 21:29:36 -0400
 De : Helena Mitasova mailto:hmit...@ncsu.edu>>
 À : discuss osgeo mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
 Sujet : Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France
 (2020) and OSGeo


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

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

Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,

Helena


  > On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
  > mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
  >
  > Dear All
  > probably many of you know ISPRS (http://www.isprs.org/), which
is the
  > International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a
Society
  > with a long history and which is our partner  for instance in the
  > GeoForAll initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018. ISPRS
  > has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial
  > Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they
  > are very open to collaboration with OSGeo. Last year Gerald Fenoy
  > co-organised  FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good success.
  >
  > Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand
  > of people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations,
  > etc). In 2020 it will be in Nice (France).
  >
  > http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/
  >
  > I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the
Congress)
  > who proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress,
  > these two initiatives:
  >
  > -  a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and  Geo-Open-Data.
  > The motivation of fora is  to encourage strong exchanges between
  > academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring
  > subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of
  > the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only
  > scientific/tecnical aspects.
  >
  > - a pavilion,  where to group open-source companies to give them a
  > stronger impact during the congress.
  >
  > The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for
  > answering positively, we need to have a team of people who are
  > interested in collaborating on that. Consider please that there is a
  > great curiosity and interest with respect to open source and we have
  > the occasion of showing the potential of our technologies in a new
  > context. It is a challenge but, if well played, with many
  > opportunities.
  >
  > Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are
  > interested. We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e.
  > people/energy) for accepting this challenge and answer consequently
      > to such an offer. Best regards! Maria
  >
  >
  > 
  > Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
  > Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
  > Politecnico di Mil

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: 2019 OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks for your comment.  I have a different opinion.
People with more than 40 years can apply.
Moeover the scores will be compensated by their experience, as there are also 
scores for this:


  1.  Proposer’s documented experience in education and training: 20 (max)

And I believe that, for a person with experience, it is easier to write a 
better proposal (40 scores).

In my opinion, on the opposite, our choice goes into the direction of being  
inclusive with young people.

Anyhow there is a Code of Conduct Committee. If they decided that the criteria 
as a whole are against inclusion, we would change as they propose.

Best regards
Maria



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Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge


I've just taken a look at this and noticed this line as one of the evaluation 
criteria:


> Proposer’s age (20 if <= 40 years old; 0 if >40 years old): 20 (max)

When did explicit age discrimination (i.e. ageism) become acceptable?


It seems to run counter to the OSGeo Goal of:
"be a welcoming and inclusive worldwide organization at all levels;"


Not to mention the Code of Conduct:

"OSGeo welcomes and encourages participation by everyone" - as long as you're 
young?




On 2019-05-18 17:33, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
Dear All
it is the time for a new exciting OSGeo UN Challenge.

Proposals are invited for developing open geospatial educational material for 
two challenges:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and 
strong institutions

Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is sponsored by OSGeo.

Deadline for submission is 9 July 2019 (with no extension).

Information is available here:

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Happy weekend!
Maria and Serena



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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2019 OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
it is the time for a new exciting OSGeo UN Challenge.

Proposals are invited for developing open geospatial educational material for 
two challenges:

Challenge 1: PostGIS training material update
Challenge 2: Open geospatial data and software for UN SDG 16, Peace justice and 
strong institutions

Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is sponsored by OSGeo.

Deadline for submission is 9 July 2019 (with no extension).

Information is available here:

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Happy weekend!
Maria and Serena




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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for: Training School in Coimbra, Portugal, 17 - 19 Jun 2019

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

This can be of interest to some of you: Quality Control of OpenStreetMap Data

https://www.cs-eu.net/events/internal/call-training-school-coimbra-portugal#overlay-context=events/internal/call-training-school-coimbra-portugal


We are inviting applications from researchers (priority will be given to 
Early-Career Investigators - individuals who are within a time span of up to 8 
years from the date they obtained their PhD/doctorate); high education students 
in different fields (BSc, MSc or PhD); members of non- governmental 
organizations (NGOs), educators, entrepreneurs, civil servants or citizens that 
are interested in contributing to OpenStreetMap (we are specially targeting 
individuals with no or little priori knowledge on OpenStreetMap). Applicants 
must be based in COST Member and Cooperating 
States<http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_member_states> or from 
Near-Neighboring 
Countries,<http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/strategy/international_cooperation/nnc>
 whose participation has been approved by the Action Management Committee of 
this Action.  At present, only applicants from Albania are eligible to apply, 
among the Near-Neighboring Countries. About 12-20 participants will be selected 
to participate to the training school with financial support from the Action.

Best regards!
Maria








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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track deadline extension!!!!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
due to the many requests, we are extending the deadline for submitting 
abstracts to FOSS4G until 8 March 2019.

Submit your contributions here: 
https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic-sessions/<https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic-sessions/?fbclid=IwAR23PUEhxJtL7npXNqfo34vH0x1vPTR-bwqg-pBmPZ0uKmvTU0BDBsLCRTI>
 and join us for a memorable 
#foss4g<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/foss4g?source=feed_text=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAPzKN8tSq-H_F_dGQLRQZGm7tHJQpzrMF7UJanLMd9lPvNRHgxhHirWLQHskWREspHJ0TlsSev_WNfl4DFV9ReKOkXMhUe9QUkNXy12W9IkGO1pTJFdnyhw6Tq3EYDASIGqBraPULFzvARQqXeJaRb5oIlAhnuGqpxs1p0ZvLd3h75A6JeOSlWz1l9km47P5SxWRCuxBfBcMX2ZQ2-AWwEgZdBWx6z1YVtcTG9BDOr5sQiTpS-M_PgMWdmvjx0NXrxtODpu4KEamhSpIldUnRe7lWXXu7ZOmidR1XEudWglumYnTOur9y6Z5iVdlFdfevRqJAVpxCCikG_Qgrld-0&__tn__=%2ANK-R>

Best regards!
Maria Brovelli and Andreea Marin





Geoinformatics Engineering http://www.geoinformatics.polimi.it/



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1 for Victoria!!

She is contributing so much both to GeoForAll and UN Committee activities!

Best

Maria


Please pay attention to these two opportunities:

A new IJGI Special Issue
"State-of-the-Art in Spatial Information Science"
(deadline for submissions: 1 may 2019)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/ISPRS_2020_Nice

A new Transaction in GIS  Special Issue
"Open Source Geospatial Science, Software and Education"
(deadline for abstract submissions: 15 february 2019)
https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/14679671/Open%20Geospatial%20Science%20Software%20and%20Education.pdf



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Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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maria.brove...@polimi.it
https://orcid.org/-0003-3161-556






Da: Discuss  per conto di serenacoetzee 

Inviato: domenica 18 novembre 2018 15:17:58
A: b.j.kob...@utwente.nl
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach

+1. Victoria will be able to make valuable contributions to OSGeo!

Sent from my iPhone

On 17 Nov 2018, at 19:30, mailto:b.j.kob...@utwente.nl>> 
mailto:b.j.kob...@utwente.nl>> wrote:


I’m happy to second Victoria’s nomination!





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Barend Köbben





On 17/11/2018, 00:07, "Discuss on behalf of Vasile Craciunescu" 
mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on 
behalf of vas...@geo-spatial.org<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> wrote:



Forwarding nomination of Victoria Rautenbach by Astrid Emde and Jeff

McKenna. The Board Nominations page has been updated:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018





Vasile, Vicky & Jorge

CRO 2018 Elections







 Forwarded Message 

Subject: OSGeo Board nomination: Victoria Rautenbach

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:49:53 +0100

From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) mailto:astrid_e...@osgeo.org>>

Reply-To: astrid_e...@osgeo.org<mailto:astrid_e...@osgeo.org>

To: Cro mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>

CC: victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com<mailto:victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com>, Jeff 
McKenna

mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>



Victoria Rautenbach

Pretoria, South Africa

victoria dot rautenbach at gmail dot com



It is our honour to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for the OSGeo Board of

Directors.



Many will know of Victoria’s effort and passion through several OSGeo

educational activities, where she helps young students and young

professionals become introduced to the OSGeo community of projects. She

is both an administrator and mentor for this year’s Google Code-in

contest (working with pre-university OSGeo students aged 13-17), and she

has also been a mentor for the Google Summer of Code the past years

(working with university OSGeo students).  She also helped with the UN

OpenGIS initiative as well.



For her day job Victoria Rautenbach is a senior lecturer in the

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the

University of Pretoria, South Africa.



She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of Pretoria since

its inception in 2012. She is very passionate about the use of open

source in education and also the increased use of open source in

developing countries. She teaches at the University of Pretoria and

makes use of open source GIS products in all the Geoinformatics modules

that she teaches.



She has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged

student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.



Victoria would be a great asset to have on the Board. Please welcome her

onto the OSGeo Board of Directors.



https://www.osgeo.org/member/rautenbach/



Astrid Emde & Jeff McKenna



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Astrid Emde



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Astrid Emde

OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? Register Now!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I didn't know. Wonderful! Let us see who else is there and in which session. I 
forgot that also Ivana Ivanova is attending. And probably Patricia Solis. 
Please if you will be in Deqing, raise show you up!

Cheers

Maria


A new IJGI Special Issue
"State-of-the-Art in Spatial Information Science"
(deadline for submissions: 1 may 2019)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/ISPRS_2020_Nice



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Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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maria.brove...@polimi.it






Da: Marguerite Madden 
Inviato: mercoledì 24 ottobre 2018 21:44:03
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? Register Now!


Hi Maria,


I will be there too. I apologize that I haven't been active in GeoForAll, but I 
will volunteer if you need any help!

Marguerite


Marguerite Madden, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for Geospatial Research (CGR)
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-2379 (Office)
706-340-7945 (Cell)

From: GeoForAll  on behalf of Maria Antonia 
Brovelli 
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:18:02 PM
To: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? 
Register Now!


Dear Sergio

OSGeo/GeoforAll is not officially present but there are some people, like 
Serena and I, who will go there. Good to know if there is somebody else. Are 
you coming?

Best,

Maria


A new IJGI Special Issue
"State-of-the-Art in Spatial Information Science"
(deadline for submissions: 1 may 2019)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/ISPRS_2020_Nice



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Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano


P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
maria.brove...@polimi.it








Da: GeoForAll  per conto di SERGIO 
ACOSTAYLARA 
Inviato: mercoledì 24 ottobre 2018 15:23:11
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] RV: Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? 
Register Now!


Is OSGeo/GeoForAll taking part in this Congress? I couldn't find anything 
related to it... (my apologies if I missed something)


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

De: UNWGIC 
Enviado: miércoles, 24 de octubre de 2018 5:40
Para: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Asunto: Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? Register Now!

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IT'S ALL ABOUT MEANINGFUL IMPACT



The true potential of geospatial in the realm of digital transformation is 
enormous.



Creating a buzz in the geospatial fraternity, the UNWGIC is all set to have a 
high-level Opening Ceremony, Ministerial Dialogue, four Plenary Sessions and a 
comprehensive programme of Parallel Sessions in Deqing International Convention 
Center from 19 to 21 November 2018.



The Plenary Sessions will engage the audience with thought provoking topics and 
deep insights from stalwarts of the industry, including:





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Plenary 1 - Sharing the Digital Economy



Moderator:


Mr. James Fallows, Author and Journalist


Panellists:


  *   Mr. Jack Dangermond, President, Esri
  *   Mr. Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu Inc.
  *   Mr. William Priest, Director, UK Geospatial Commission
  *   Mr. Nigel Clifford, Operating Executive, Marlin Equity Partners
  *   Mr. Daniel Zhang, Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group






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Plenary 2 - Attaining Sustainable Development



Moderator:


Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Director, UNSD


Panellists:


  *   Mr. Gombojav Zandanshatar, Minister and Chief Secretary of Cabinet, 
Mongolia
  *   Ms. Rosamond Bing, CEO, Mi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? Register Now!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Sergio

OSGeo/GeoforAll is not officially present but there are some people, like 
Serena and I, who will go there. Good to know if there is somebody else. Are 
you coming?

Best,

Maria


A new IJGI Special Issue
"State-of-the-Art in Spatial Information Science"
(deadline for submissions: 1 may 2019)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/ISPRS_2020_Nice



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Politecnico di Milano

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






Da: GeoForAll  per conto di SERGIO 
ACOSTAYLARA 
Inviato: mercoledì 24 ottobre 2018 15:23:11
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] RV: Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? 
Register Now!


Is OSGeo/GeoForAll taking part in this Congress? I couldn't find anything 
related to it... (my apologies if I missed something)


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

De: UNWGIC 
Enviado: miércoles, 24 de octubre de 2018 5:40
Para: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Asunto: Looking for thought-provoking discussions at UNWGIC? Register Now!

[https://geospatialmedia.net/mailer/sep/un-wgic-header.jpg]



IT'S ALL ABOUT MEANINGFUL IMPACT



The true potential of geospatial in the realm of digital transformation is 
enormous.



Creating a buzz in the geospatial fraternity, the UNWGIC is all set to have a 
high-level Opening Ceremony, Ministerial Dialogue, four Plenary Sessions and a 
comprehensive programme of Parallel Sessions in Deqing International Convention 
Center from 19 to 21 November 2018.



The Plenary Sessions will engage the audience with thought provoking topics and 
deep insights from stalwarts of the industry, including:





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Plenary 1 - Sharing the Digital Economy



Moderator:


Mr. James Fallows, Author and Journalist


Panellists:


  *   Mr. Jack Dangermond, President, Esri
  *   Mr. Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu Inc.
  *   Mr. William Priest, Director, UK Geospatial Commission
  *   Mr. Nigel Clifford, Operating Executive, Marlin Equity Partners
  *   Mr. Daniel Zhang, Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group






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Plenary 2 - Attaining Sustainable Development



Moderator:


Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Director, UNSD


Panellists:


  *   Mr. Gombojav Zandanshatar, Minister and Chief Secretary of Cabinet, 
Mongolia
  *   Ms. Rosamond Bing, CEO, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Tonga
  *   Dr. Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist, Climate and Land Use Change, USGS
  *   Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Secretary-General and CEO, World Geospatial Industry 
Council
  *   Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UNOOSA






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Plenary 3 - Building Smart Societies



Moderator:


Ms. Dorine Burmanje, Co-Chair, UN-GGIM


Panellists:


  *   Dr. Bowen Zhou, Vice-President, JD.com
  *   Mr. Tan Boon Khai, CEO, Singapore Land Authority
  *   Mr. Jonathon Hoeflinger, President and CEO, Sharemeister
  *   Mr. Colin Bray, Chief Executive Officer, Ordnance Survey, Ireland
  *   Dr. Stuart Minchin, Chief, Environmental Geoscience Division, Geoscience 
Australia






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Plenary 4 - Growing International Cooperation



Moderator:


Ms. Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Administrator-General, National Geographic Institute, 
Belgium


Panellists:


  *   Ms. Persis Namuganza, Minister of State for Lands, Uganda
  *   Mr. Sergio Fernández de Córdova, Chairman, PVBLIC Foundation
  *   Mr. Ross Comstock, Vice President, Information Systems and Technology, 
Kellogg Foun

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: FOSS4G TGP experiences

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Steven, this is amazing! Thanks a lot! Congrats,
Maria



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, Conference Dev 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G TGP experiences

Here is a blog post summarising some of our TGP recipients experiences 
https://www.osgeo.org/foss4g-travel-grant-experiences/

Cheers
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: The Open Revolution Book

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thank you, Suchith. A very good suggestion.
Best
Maria



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Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Open Revolution Book



This book might be of interest. Details below.


Best wishes,


Suchith


==



The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age

by Rufus Pollock


About the Book:


The Open Revolution Book

An Open World, A World In Which Information Is Openly And Freely Available To 
Us All


Will the digital revolution give us digital dictatorships or digital 
democracies? Forget everything you think you know about the digital age. It’s 
not about privacy, surveillance, AI or blockchain—it's about ownership. 
Because, in a digital age, who owns information controls the future.


Today, information is everywhere. From your DNA to the latest blockbusters, 
from lifesaving drugs to the app on your phone, from big data to algorithms. 
Our entire global economy is built on it and the rules around information 
affect us all every day.As information continues to move into the digital 
domain, it can be copied and distributed with ease, making access and control 
even more important. But the rules we have made for it, derived from how we 
manage physical property, are hopelessly maladapted to the digital world.


In this urgent and provocative book, Rufus Pollock shows that we must make a 
choice between making information Open, shared by all, or making it Closed, 
exclusively owned and controlled, and how today’s Closed digital economy is the 
source of problems ranging from growing inequality, to unaffordable medicines, 
to the power of a handful of tech monopolies to control how we think and vote. 
Choosing Open is the path to a more equitable, innovative and profitable future 
for all.


Details at https://openrevolution.net



About the Author:


Dr Rufus Pollock is a researcher, technologist and entrepreneur. He has been a 
pioneer in the global Open Data movement, advising national governments, 
international organisations and industry on how to succeed in the digital 
world. He is the founder of Open Knowledge, a leading NGO with a presence in 
over 35 countries, empowering people and organizations with access to 
information so they can create insight and drive change. Formerly, he was the 
Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He has 
been the recipient of a $1m Shuttleworth Fellowship and is currently an Ashoka 
Fellow and Fellow of the RSA. He holds a PhD in Economics and a double first in 
Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.



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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks, Victor! Let us hope to have more possibilities next time. 
Congratulations for your work. You are doing amazing things.
Best
Maria



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Hello OSGeo,
I am so happy,that ,we at the UniqueMappersTeam-University of Port 
Harcourt,Nigeria,were not out from sharing FOSS4G 2018.The Travel Grant Program 
made it possible otherwise,we wont be there
I had so many from my community of Youthmappers-UniqueMappersTeam and other 
chapters in Nigeria,who ,applied for the TGP.We needed real travel cost 
grant,but,the grant coverage of the cost of the conference plus $200 was a good 
start,and luckly,we got one of slot for Faith Umukoro just the day I pushed her 
to get an international passport ,which she processed with N25,000.
 My next challenge was to raise additional $800 to make up for $1000 cost of 
flight from Nigeria to Tanzania.We must have someone from my team to present 
our  featured 5 papers on female gender ...mapping.Our university was 
unable to help out and I had only God's favour and the TSG committee to look up 
for help.
I got into exchange of mails with the committeThank you Alyssa Wright for 
taking it kind with my mails pushing you and your committee to your wit-end.I 
sincerely,appreciate you all,Prof Maria,Prof Serena,Regnalvd, as well as 
Tyler,Racheal and Rebecca of HOT,for coming to our aid
It was highly impacting on our  whatsaap chat groups of more than 200 community 
members ,sharing pictures and updates from FOSS4G  as Faith Umukoro got fully 
participated and presented our papers with help from You and all our FOSS4G/HOT 
summit sponsor.
Faith will be sharing with us all she got knowledge wise in a training I am 
going to fix next week as she comes back.
Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019 
Europe!!!

May the FOSS be with You All

Victor N.Sunday
Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor
UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria
University of Port Harcourt







On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Victor Sunday 
mailto:victor.sun...@uniport.edu.ng>> wrote:
Hello OSGeo,
I am so happy,that ,we at the UniqueMappersTeam-University of Port 
Harcourt,Nigeria,were not out from sharing FOSS4G 2018.The Travel Grant Program 
made it possible otherwise,we wont be there
I had so many from my community of Youthmappers-UniqueMappersTeam and other 
chapters in Nigeria,who ,applied for the TGP.We needed real travel cost 
grant,but,the grant coverage of the cost of the conference plus $200 was a good 
start,and luckly,we got one of slot for Faith Umukoro just the day I pushed her 
to get an international passport ,which she processed with N25,000.
 My next challenge was to raise additional $800 to make up for $1000 cost of 
flight from Nigeria to Tanzania.We must have someone from my team to present 
our  featured 5 papers on female gender ...mapping.Our university was 
unable to help out and I had only God's favour and the TSG committee to look up 
for help.
I got into exchange of mails with the committeThank you Alyssa Wright for 
taking it kind with my mails pushing you and your committee to your wit-end.I 
sincerely,appreciate you all,Prof Maria,Prof Serena,Regnalvd, as well as 
Tyler,Racheal and Rebecca of HOT,for coming to our aid
It was highly impacting on our  whatsaap chat groups of more than 200 community 
members ,sharing pictures and updates from FOSS4G  as Faith Umukoro got fully 
participated and presented our papers with help from You and all our FOSS4G/HOT 
summit sponsor.
Faith will be sharing with us all she got knowledge wise in a training I am 
going to fix next week as she comes back.
Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019 
Europe!!!

May the FOSS be with You All

Victor N.Sunday
Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor
UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria
University of Port Harcourt





On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Rohith,


Thank you for sharing your experiences from FOSS4G 2018. It is really great to 
see lot of students taking active role in OSGeo.  With all your experience 
gained, I request you to spread the ideas to more students and universities in 
India and worldwide. Please join and contribute to our open education efforts 
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall


I also want to take the opportunity  to say big Thank You  all the amazing LOC 
volunteers who made FOSS4G 2018 possible and also the great Travel Grant 
Program which enabled wider participation possible.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Discuss 
mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> on 
behalf of 

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Sorry Suchith
I made confusion between this mail and the mail about the ICA Conference. I do 
attend FOSS4G. I'm not able to attend the ICA Preconference. But I'm in Dar for 
the GeoForAll Meeting ;-)
I apologise for the mess
Maria




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Da: Suchith Anand 
Data: 14/08/18 13:59 (GMT-05:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli , 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates


I am also not able to attend FOSS4G 2018 but I hope Serena, Yves , Msilikale  
and others who are there will share the meeting updates to the lists later and 
keep us all updated.


I do hope to send the website updates before the event. I understand that 
Jeffrey  and others are working to get it ready in time for the FOSS4G meeting.


Happy to see the OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G taking shape.  Special thanks 
to LOC for their efforts for the Travel Grant Program. Let me wish you all a 
great FOSS4G.


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Sent: 14 August 2018 18:01
To: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; Suchith Anand; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: R: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates

Thanks Suchith. I'm not able to attend (too many conferences and commitments) 
but, as Sergio said, please keep us informed!
Best regards and good luck for the event,
Maria



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Da: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
Data: 14/08/18 10:58 (GMT-05:00)
A: Suchith Anand , geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates


Thank you Suchith. Although I won't be attending I'll be looking forward to 
hearing any news about the meeting later. Good luck,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
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geoportal.mtop.gub.uy
Hacia una representación cartográfica única de la red de caminería rural. 
Uruguay cuenta con más de 40 mil kilómetros de red de caminería rural, cuya 
gestión y mantenimiento son responsabilidad de las Intendencias.




De: GeoForAll  en nombre de Suchith Anand 

Enviado: martes, 14 de agosto de 2018 5:08
Para: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates


Dear colleagues,

For those of you planning to attend FOSS4G 2018, you are welcome to join the 
GeoForAll meeting on 31 August 2018 from 8:00am-9:00am  at the Julius Nyerere 
International Convention Centre (JNICC). Details at

https://2018.foss4g.org/geoforall/


We are hoping that the functionality updates of GeoForAll website 
(functionality to add new labs etc) will be ready before that, so colleagues 
can start testing this,  give feedbacks, add content etc. We would like to 
thank Peter Mooney, Jeffrey Lasut and everyone who worked for making these 
updates possible.


Best wishes,


Suchith


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Thanks Suchith. I'm not able to attend (too many conferences and commitments) 
but, as Sergio said, please keep us informed!
Best regards and good luck for the event,
Maria



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Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates


Thank you Suchith. Although I won't be attending I'll be looking forward to 
hearing any news about the meeting later. Good luck,


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

De: GeoForAll  en nombre de Suchith Anand 

Enviado: martes, 14 de agosto de 2018 5:08
Para: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [Geo4All] GeoForAll website updates


Dear colleagues,

For those of you planning to attend FOSS4G 2018, you are welcome to join the 
GeoForAll meeting on 31 August 2018 from 8:00am-9:00am  at the Julius Nyerere 
International Convention Centre (JNICC). Details at

https://2018.foss4g.org/geoforall/


We are hoping that the functionality updates of GeoForAll website 
(functionality to add new labs etc) will be ready before that, so colleagues 
can start testing this,  give feedbacks, add content etc. We would like to 
thank Peter Mooney, Jeffrey Lasut and everyone who worked for making these 
updates possible.


Best wishes,


Suchith


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Diversity in FOSS4G

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Maria, Jonathan, Peter (and All)

in my opinion, we shall distinguish between equality and equity. Even supposing 
that there were countries where there is equality  (but this is not true: think 
simply to the "gender gap", i.e. the difference in salary between men and 
women), the point is not of ensuring equality because there are great 
differences inherited by our history and by our culture. If we want to reach 
equality of outcomes, we have to consider equity, which is more than simply 
giving the same opportunities. Obviously, this is a choice. This is my choice, 
even if sometimes it is difficult and if sometimes I make mistakes. What we 
have collectively to decide is if, as OSGeo, we want to go in this direction. 
And, about that, I'm thinking of diversities that are wider than the gender 
(and, also about gender, better not to limit ourselves to the binary logic ;-) 
).  I'm absolutely positive about having a BOF on diversities at next FOSS4G. 
The more diversities, the better.

Thanks for starting this thread!

See you in Dar.

Maria





A paper to read this summer ;-)

http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/8/289

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Da: Discuss  per conto di María Arias de Reyna 

Inviato: domenica 12 agosto 2018 16:54:23
A: jonathan-li...@lightpear.com
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: 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 going to take a couple of steps back and start again, to see if
you can see the flaw. Sorry for not having the best bibliography, but
I have a weak connection here so I have to rely on things I have
already offline. But I am sure you will be capable of following the
lead and find better sources.

Those researchers have the prejudice that a country that has better
indexes regarding gender equality means there should be more women
studying STEM because nothing stops them to do so. So they call it a
paradox that "the more equal a country is, the fewer women go into
STEM". But the thing is, if they have researched a bit more (even just
asking the women of the study why they don't follow a STEM career!!)
they wouldn't call it a paradox, but something natural coming from
other causes.

In Europe, the percentage of women studying Science is increasing,
while percentage of women studying Technology is decreasing, according
to Eurostat[it was a bunch of links with data from different years,
just use the search engine from Eurostat]. That's one of the reasons
why talking about STEM is already a first bias because you are mixing
stuff. But many authors do this, so let's just skip it.

In Tech, women are leaving studies and the industry at higher rate
than men[2]. Which means, we have even less women working in our
industry than the real percentage of women that would like to work in
our industry. This unfriendly environment causes a lack of successful
happy role models that could encourage other girls to enter the field
too.[3] Role models are even more important to girls than to boys
because of the Otherness[4]. By default, everything is male.

So, first loop that explains the "paradox".

But even then, why are there fewer female college students in STEM?
Because, as all the links I posted previously already explained,
society pushes you out of STEM [5] [6]. Only stubborn woman like me
get far and it is just a matter of time to get burned because of this
unfriendly environment.

And there's more variables that influences why women are not into STEM
in supposedly "more egalitarian countries", but I don't think I should
extend more here. I am more than happy to have a BoF session about
diversity in next FOSS4G to extend the subject. Or in any other FOSS4G
I can attend.

So yes, that study is highly biased. In just a couple of paragraphs I
dig deeper than they did on their study about why that "paradox". And
yes, even the peer reviews were unable to see something so obvious.
Maybe because they are biased too[1]? Probably. I am not saying they
are evil on purpose or anything. I'm just saying their study is very
superficial. Just crunching a lot of data from one side and trying to
explain a multi-variable outcome with that.

To summarize: what can we do from OSGeo? Provide a welcoming friendly
environment, encourage those that are already on their path and
provide enough role models for all diverse groups. That

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Hokkaido live stream now...

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Toru

thanks for your activity as OSGeo Japan President for so many years! It has 
been a huge effort but the Community is strong and plenty of innovative ideas. 
Well done!

And a warm welcome and best wishes to Iwasaki-san!

Great success to Mola Mola!

Maria


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

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






Da: Discuss  per conto di Toru Mori 

Inviato: sabato 23 giugno 2018 07:17:24
A: Jeff McKenna
Cc: osgeo
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Hokkaido live stream now...

Hi Jeff,

I am so glad to receive your message.

12 years of huge growth of Japan OSGeo community makes me that it is the time 
to support younger generation as an individual contributor.
Iwasaki-san has strong leadership and has been one of the most active 
contributors to Japan community.
I will continue to be a part of OSGeo community with passion.

Jeff, we miss you very much and wish to have fun talk with you in the future.

Toru Mori
morit...@cocoa.plala.or.jp<mailto:morit...@cocoa.plala.or.jp>



2018/06/23 13:54、Toru Mori 
mailto:morit...@cocoa.plala.or.jp>>のメ�`ル:

Hi Jeff,

I am so glad to receive your message.

12 years of huge growth of Japan OSGeo community makes me that it is the time 
to support younger generation as an individual contributor.
Iwasaki-san has strong leadership and has been one of the most active 
contributors to Japan community.
I will continue to be a part of OSGeo community with passion.

Jeff, we miss you very much and wish to have fun talk with you in the future.

(Sep. 12 2004 in Bangkok Thailand)
<スクリ�`ンショット 2018-06-23 13.50.24.png>

Cheers.
Toru Mori


2018/06/23 12:53、Jeff McKenna 
mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>のメ�`ル:

Hi Mori-san,

It is me and the whole OSGeo community that must take a moment, more than a 
moment, and thank you directly.  I have been meaning to write here to thank you 
for 12 years as President of the OSGeo-JP chapter.  I noticed your message a 
few weeks ago to the OSGeo-JP community and it really moved me.

What words can I say.

I can see your smile.  It is that smile and focus that has helped build a fun 
and vibrant community, and you have indeed helped grow it into one of the 
largest and most successful OSGeo chapters in the world. (so amazing to see 
your original 2006 event website ha! http://www.seminar.jp/osgeo/ )

But of course one of my favorite memories is still captured on the "About" page 
of the chapter website, the mola-mola group picture ha: 
https://www.osgeo.jp/about

I am of course very happy to learn that Iwasaki-san[1] has become the new 
President of the OSGeo-JP chapter, and I know that he will do an amazing job as 
well.  (others should read his Welcome from the New President[2]

I can go on (we have so many stories and laughs: me so confused and lost at 
Narita airport the first time haso many laughs)

My heartfelt thank you for all of your passion and time that you have given to 
OSGeo. And I know you are not going anywhere, we can't lose this passion, there 
is no on/off switch ha.

It is great to talk here with you again! :)  Have a great event there and 
please share a kampai together with Mayumi for me - I hope to share a laugh 
with you all soon.

I bow my head to you as an utmost sign of respect.

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Iwasaki
[2] https://www.osgeo.jp/archives/1575

-jeff

PS. my neighbors here in Canada must think they are in Japan, hearing the 
FOSS4G-Hokkaido talks coming from my TV speakers all night tonight ha!  Even 
the 'white noise' of the chatting and networking happening between sessions, 
caught perfectly through the youtube stream and sent across the world to my 
little fishing village, calms me and makes me smile.  Community.


On 2018-06-22 11:31 PM, Toru Mori wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Thank you so much sharing our FOSS4G Hokkaido event.
And admire the creativity and fun of the printed program: 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkWSHSzhb7NFZlnOdxmcCeII1i7WiSOO7zghTc0/

Yeah, I even wouldn't expect to see that kind of excellent artwork. Very happy 
to work with great team.
Toru Mori OSGeo Japan
2018/06/23 11:23、Jeff McKenna 
mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> 
<mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>のメ�`ル:

Please take a brief moment to watch and hear the passion, the spirit and fun at 
FOSS4G-Hokkaido in Japan.  (currently a GeoDjango talk) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnlZJdFdX4

And admire the creativity and fun of the printed program: 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkWSHSzhb7NFZlnOdxmcCeII1i7WiSOO7zghTc0/

:)

-jeff


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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Yes, I think this is a good alternative giving also more visibility to 
GeoForAll.
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Mark Iliffe 
Data: 19/06/18 18:39 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Cc: Serena Coetzee , Suchith Anand 
, ML osgeo discuss , 
Rebecca Firth 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the 
Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event whereas 
the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?

Best,

Mark

Sent from my iPhone

On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:


Dear Mark

I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing.

Best

Maria



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

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
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Da: Serena Coetzee mailto:serenacoet...@gmail.com>>
Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
A: Mark Iliffe
Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could use 
the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za<mailto:serena.coet...@up.ac.za> · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis<http://www.up.ac.za/cgis> · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: 
+27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
mailto:markili...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Suchith,

Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All obviously, 
please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the DLOC!

Cheers,

Mark

On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Mark and DLOC Team,


Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your 
attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging student 
contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and administer 
the student competition  and give them at the event with a short blogpost to 
the community after the event.

We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look 
forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Conference_dev 
mailto:conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>>
 on behalf of Mark Iliffe mailto:markili...@gmail.com>>
Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31
To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this 
August… it’s going to be amazing!!

Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on Twitter 
about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that span from 
here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop presenters and 
keynotes and against.

I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to 
workshop presenters.

When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by the 
quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 
submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to 
widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the same 
as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. Everything was 
a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I believe (and I hope 
you as the community will agree), that we got the balance right.

We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G in 
Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups within 
our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the world. 
Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and 
participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we want 
to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be holding 
this in Dar es Salaam.

As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring thei

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Mark

I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing.

Best

Maria



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

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






Da: Serena Coetzee 
Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
A: Mark Iliffe
Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could use 
the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za<mailto:serena.coet...@up.ac.za> · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis<http://www.up.ac.za/cgis> · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: 
+27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
mailto:markili...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Suchith,

Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All obviously, 
please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the DLOC!

Cheers,

Mark

On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Mark and DLOC Team,


Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your 
attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging student 
contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and administer 
the student competition  and give them at the event with a short blogpost to 
the community after the event.

We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look 
forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Conference_dev 
mailto:conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>>
 on behalf of Mark Iliffe mailto:markili...@gmail.com>>
Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31
To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this 
August… it’s going to be amazing!!

Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on Twitter 
about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that span from 
here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop presenters and 
keynotes and against.

I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to 
workshop presenters.

When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by the 
quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 
submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to 
widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the same 
as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. Everything was 
a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I believe (and I hope 
you as the community will agree), that we got the balance right.

We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G in 
Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups within 
our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the world. 
Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and 
participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we want 
to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be holding 
this in Dar es Salaam.

As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring their 
travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services offered 
by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous conferences 
not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for example) and no 
stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led my committee and we 
resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.

However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a volunteer(and 
unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting things wrong… but 
we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.

In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively, this pays 
for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop days. The cost 
of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper than previous 
wor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS is now OSGeo Project

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congratulations to the PyWPS team!

And many thanks to Tom Kralidis and the Incubation Committee!

Another great success of/for OSGeo.

Best

Maria



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Da: Discuss  per conto di Jachym Cepicky 

Inviato: mercoledì 30 maggio 2018 22:15:57
A: OSGeo Discussions; pywps-dev; wps-discuss
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] PyWPS is now OSGeo Project

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] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

up to now I see,  in the list of people interested in contributing to the 
organization https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020, only  educators.


I wonder if this means that companies  and the business component of the 
Community are not interested. This is important to decide  if we want to have 
the pavillon or not.


I wonder also if OSGeo projects want to contribute in the organisation of the 
event or they don't see any interest.


Have a good week!

Maria




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Da: Helena Mitasova <hmit...@ncsu.edu>
Inviato: venerdì 25 maggio 2018 03:29:36
A: discuss osgeo
Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and 
OSGeo

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

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

Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,

Helena


On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocacy for Advocates

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thank you, Nicolas.  It is very simple, but it catches the most import points.


Best,

Maria


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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Nicolas Roelandt 
<roelandtn@gmail.com>
Inviato: lunedì 28 maggio 2018 07:42:34
A: ML osgeo discuss
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advocacy for Advocates

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 attention. 
This one was made by Nathan Haines about Advocacy for 
Advocates<https://people.ubuntu.com/~nhaines/documents/events/2018/ubucon-europe/Advocacy%20for%20Advocates.odp>.

It is very simple, a few strong word concepts on how to advocate on FOSS. I 
think it can be interesting for community. Because it is addressing some issues 
we have, comfort us in some good things we do and it might enlight some things 
we missed.


Nathan was kind enough to give access to his presentation (with notes in the 
.odp one) [1], so if you can take 5 minutes to read it, please do.


Cheers from France,

Nicolas Roelandt
OSGeo Charter Member
OSGeoLive PSC member

 [1] https://people.ubuntu.com/~nhaines/documents/events/2018/ubucon-europe/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo UN Committee Challenge: update

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

please pay attention to this important update about UN Challenge: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/


Considering the many requests, the following condition

"The proposal will be shortlisted and its content reviewed only if the sum of 
the first four criteria is at least 40. "

has been changed in

"The proposal will be shortlisted and its content reviewed only if the sum of 
the first four criteria is at least 25. "

Deadline for submitting is 8 May 2018.

Best regards
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[OSGeo-Discuss] UN Committee Educational Challenge: deadline extended

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

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

Best regards,

Maria & Serena


Why not to apply for these Challenges?


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



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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo UN Challenge deadline 30 April

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
Please be aware that the deadline for applying to  the OSGeo UN Challenge (3000 
dollars) is 30 April 2018.
Details here:


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

Best!
Maria & Serena
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[OSGeo-Discuss] ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
I want to share with you information about this interesting Symposium

ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018

Delft, The Netherlands October 1 - 5, 2018

3D Spatial Information Science - The Engine of Change


It is my pleasure to invite you to submit papers, register for a workshop or 
follow the scientific sessions during the ISPRS TC IV symposium: 
http://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2018/. The symposium is jointly organised 
with UDMS SDSC, FIG 3D Cadastre and 3DGeoinfo 
(https://www.tudelft.nl/geodelft2018/).

The focus of this symposium is on 3D representations, integration of data from 
different domains (indoor/outdoor, above/below the surface, design/real world) 
and applying the information for a variety of applications. The joint event 
aims to bring together researchers, professionals and users from different 
domains to discuss, exchange ideas, and demonstrate new developments. It will 
provide great opportunities to learn users’ requirements and interact with 
software developers. Much attention will be given to 3D standards, open access 
and exchange of spatial information. Best practices on 3D applications will be 
showcased.

Five keynote speakers will discuss emerging 3D spatial information topics:

· Prof Dr. Ruizhi Chen: Smartphone positioning and 3D mapping indoors

· Dr. Rod Thompson: 3D cadastres: 30 years back, 30 years ahead

· Dr. Claus Nagel: Use cases of 3D City Information Models

· Dr. Antonio Jara: Smart Destinations: Challenges and opportunities to create 
sustainable smart cities in the data economy

· Dorine Burmanje: The Netherlands Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping

ISPRS symposium will host two workshops and one mapaton. More information on: 
http://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2018/workshops.html .

Conference Themes

The symposium covers the following research themes:

· Open geospatial standards (organised in cooperation with OGC and UDMS)

· Multi-dimensional Modelling

· Ontologies, Semantics, and Knowledge Representation for Geospatial Information

· Spatial Data Analysis, Statistics and Uncertainty Modelling

· Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping

· Indoor/Outdoor Seamless Modelling, LBS and Mobility

· SDI: Internet of Things and Spatial Decision Support

· Geo-Data Management

· GeoComputation and GeoSimulation

· Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality

· Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Regions

· Geospatial Big Data and Urban Studies

· Global Mapping: Updating Verification and Interoperability More details here: 
http://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2018/topics.html

Important Dates

· Full paper submission: May 1, 2018

· Abstract submission: May 30 2018

· Notification of acceptance: June 15 2018

· Final paper submission: July 15 2018

Paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isprs-tciv2018

Papers accepted after full paper review will be published in ISPRS annals. 
Papers accepted after abstract review will be published in the ISPRS archives.

One registration for the joint event allows presentation of 3 accepted papers. 
A tentative programme of the symposium is available here: 
http://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2018/programme.html

We are looking to see you at in Delft, 1-5 October 2018.

ISPRS Technical Commission IV ‘Spatial Information Science’

E: isprs-cp...@isprs.org W: http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4.html W: 
http://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2018/ W: https://www.tudelft.nl/geodelft2018/


See you in Delft!!!

Maria



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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

only 20 days for submitting your proposal for the OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge.

Proposals for developing open geospatial educational material for three 
challenges are invited. Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is 
sponsored by OSGeo and Boundless.


More information here:


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


Best,

Maria and Serena



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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] AWorldBridge GeoForAll Lab Delivers for FAO in Africa

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I agree with Charlie! Ron Fortunato and his team are clearly  an example of 
excellence in research and education: kudos to them!!!
Cheers
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


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Da: Charlie Schweik 
Data: 05/04/18 14:17 (GMT+01:00)
A: Suchith Anand 
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org, geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] AWorldBridge GeoForAll Lab Delivers for 
FAO in Africa

I couldn't resist publicly giving a shout-out to Ron Fortunato and AWorldBridge 
and their connection to these other organizations. In my view, they are leading 
the globe in this kind of cross organizational "commons-based peer production" 
effort and all GeoForAll labs should consider trying to mimic what they are 
doing.

Great work Ron and teams!

Charlie Schweik



On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:

Dear colleagues,


I would like to congratulate our GeoForAll lab colleagues -  Ron Fortunato’s 
and his students at AWorldBridge for their exceptional determination and 
efforts in contributing technical excellence and substantive achievements to 
assisting small-holder farmers in Africa in managing the Fall Armyworm through 
the Fall Armyworm Monitoring & Early Warning System mobile app .  They built 
this for FAO that FAO then released as their app! Details at  
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1106850/icode/


The Fall Army Worm is having a devastating impact on Africa. If you want to 
know more about the Fall Army Worm FAW, see this,

http://www.fao.org/food-chain-crisis/how-we-work/plant-protection/fallarmyworm/en/



Ron’s AWorldBridge is one of the GeoForAll Labs (they have two labs - one  
running projects for NASA and UN FAO in Middletown, NY, USA and a second one 
running delivering corresponding data including climate change studies for 
USGS, NOAA and NASA at Barrow, Alaska, USA. Everything they produce is open 
source.



Please see  FAO thank you certificate

https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/fao/WorldBridgeCertificate.pdf



Thanks to Patrick for sharing this excellent news.


A World Bridge is an international award-winning program for learning 21st 
Century Skills, using advanced teaching methods that incorporate real- world 
projects involving industry and government partners. A World Bridge continually 
advances educational models for international leadership, economic development, 
and educational research. These dynamic projects involve the design and 
implementation of Real-world, Real-time Project- Based Learning into the 
curriculum. Students develop professional skills while working on 
locally-oriented projects that have relevance to the larger global community, 
such as urban management and sustainable resources. Details at 
http://aworldbridge.com


I am particularly impressed by their work with students through NASA Europa 
Challenge. Alaska’s A World Bridge program in Kodiak won back-to-back NASA 
Europa - International Grand Challenges the past two years, competing against 
the world’s “Best and the Brightest” to generate solutions to societal issues 
that will benefit both the local and world communities.  The students are also 
working on the NASA OpenCitySmart global initiative, which challenges “the 
world’s best and brightest” to find solutions for creating sustainable 
communities. They are looking for renewable energy solutions and the 
development of shared energy grids suitable for Arctic conditions.


Please see the amazing work that the students are doing that was summarised in 
our June 2017 Newsletter at 
https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/Newsletter-Vol-3_6.pdf


We are very grateful to the contributions of these amazing students to 
GeoForAll. It is important that we can share these amazing ideas with all so 
that it keeps building more synergies. We are a global community, and it is 
this global perspective which gives us strength. It is important that we 
highlight and share ideas from colleagues in different parts of our home planet.


Best wishes,


Suchith


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Sorry for having forgot. Yes, now I've searched for your picture in internet 
and I remember! Names are more difficult than faces to remember. In any case, 
keep in touch! And participate all the same. Charter Membership is only 10 
scores up to 100!

Maria





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Da: Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de>
Inviato: martedì 3 aprile 2018 13:37:29
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear Maria,


thanks, I know and I have absolutely no problem with the UN! I just thought 
they have a multi billion dollar budget, so I they could support with some 
money, but I understand fully your arguments in this regard...


And we met before at ISPRS 2016 in Prague, I had a talk in the OSGeo Session 
you and Helena organized. :-)


Best,

Christian

Am 03.04.2018 um 13:28 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:
Dear Christian
UN Open GIS is a big Initiative, where many are contributing. UN is also 
contributing, obviously. This that you see now is only part of the  
contribution that OSGeo gives. The greatest contribution is in our volunteer 
time, which overpasses definitely the budget that OSGeo is investing. Please 
consider that all mentors, administrators and people of the UN Committee are 
putting a lot of energy in this Initiative, which will create the first 
official open source solution for UN. The Initiative is inclusive, therefore is 
there are people who want to contribute, they are more  than welcome.  As an 
example, you can consider the training effort in QGIS and PostGIS that we 
offered to the Initiative. Many people where voluntarily involved and they 
deserve our estimate.
About Charter Member, this is something related to the life of our Community 
and it is considered as a way of aknowledging people showing themselves for 
their activity at local, regional or global level.
I don't know if this is the best mechanism we can, as Community, implement. As 
a matter of fact, by now, it is what we have chosen. But discussion can be 
opened and, if we find something better, next challenges will take into account 
new modalities.
Thanks for your comments. I'm happy also to know you (we have not occasion of 
meeting each other before). I invite everybody, until we have the Charter 
Member way of including new members, to nominate them.  It is vital for our 
organization to promote and aknowledge the activity of our volunteers. And this 
is a way (or, better, at the moment, the official way).
Have a good day!
Maria




Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf


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Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano


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Da: Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de><mailto:c.will...@uni-koeln.de>
Inviato: martedì 3 aprile 2018 10:58:37
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear Maria,


thank you for your answers. The first answer makes sense now, even if I think 
the UN could add some money to the prices, if we promote their things in our 
name. But its fine...


The second thing about Charter Members is still not clear. I know the 
membership process for OSGeo, I can claim for my own, that I fulfill all the 
listed criteria for being a member. But I never stood for election for Charter 
membership, because I do not like to ask someone for nominating me for an 
election and then for votes from the community to confirm me being a Charter 
member. This process had and has a "funny" taste to me (but this is maybe just 
my personal peculiarity).


Best,
Christian

Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

1. Why is this call connected to the UN, if they do not sponsor it?

Because OSGeo is partner of an Initiative leaded by UN (UN Open GIS Initiative, 
you find the link to the initiative in the call).


2. And this is a more basic thing about OSGeo itself. The "Criteria for 
evaluation" states as first criteria "Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member".

May I ask ho

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Christian
UN Open GIS is a big Initiative, where many are contributing. UN is also 
contributing, obviously. This that you see now is only part of the  
contribution that OSGeo gives. The greatest contribution is in our volunteer 
time, which overpasses definitely the budget that OSGeo is investing. Please 
consider that all mentors, administrators and people of the UN Committee are 
putting a lot of energy in this Initiative, which will create the first 
official open source solution for UN. The Initiative is inclusive, therefore is 
there are people who want to contribute, they are more  than welcome.  As an 
example, you can consider the training effort in QGIS and PostGIS that we 
offered to the Initiative. Many people where voluntarily involved and they 
deserve our estimate.
About Charter Member, this is something related to the life of our Community 
and it is considered as a way of aknowledging people showing themselves for 
their activity at local, regional or global level.
I don't know if this is the best mechanism we can, as Community, implement. As 
a matter of fact, by now, it is what we have chosen. But discussion can be 
opened and, if we find something better, next challenges will take into account 
new modalities.
Thanks for your comments. I'm happy also to know you (we have not occasion of 
meeting each other before). I invite everybody, until we have the Charter 
Member way of including new members, to nominate them.  It is vital for our 
organization to promote and aknowledge the activity of our volunteers. And this 
is a way (or, better, at the moment, the official way).
Have a good day!
Maria




Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf



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

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






Da: Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de>
Inviato: martedì 3 aprile 2018 10:58:37
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear Maria,


thank you for your answers. The first answer makes sense now, even if I think 
the UN could add some money to the prices, if we promote their things in our 
name. But its fine...


The second thing about Charter Members is still not clear. I know the 
membership process for OSGeo, I can claim for my own, that I fulfill all the 
listed criteria for being a member. But I never stood for election for Charter 
membership, because I do not like to ask someone for nominating me for an 
election and then for votes from the community to confirm me being a Charter 
member. This process had and has a "funny" taste to me (but this is maybe just 
my personal peculiarity).


Best,
Christian

Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

1. Why is this call connected to the UN, if they do not sponsor it?

Because OSGeo is partner of an Initiative leaded by UN (UN Open GIS Initiative, 
you find the link to the initiative in the call).


2. And this is a more basic thing about OSGeo itself. The "Criteria for 
evaluation" states as first criteria "Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member".

May I ask how do you came to this criteria? Was it maybe an arbitrary decision? 
Or did thought about this? If you thought about this, I would be very 
interested in your arguments for having this criteria?


Charter members are "special" members of OSGeo and every year we have, as 
Community, the nomination of the new Charter members.

They participate to the OSGeo elections (and therefore vote for OSGeo 
governance) and


Promote OSGeo through the use of FOSS4G tools
Register as an OSGeo Member See Getting Started
Take active part in OSGeo Mailing Lists
Hack the OSGeo Wiki
Help build a stronger OSGeo community through interactions with academia, 
businesses and research organizations
Help organize workshops, trainings, conferences related to FOSS4G
Find an opportunity/reason to wear an OSGeo T-shirt
Ask good questions and provide answers when possible


(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction)


Obviously this criteria was thought, exactly like the other parts of the Call 
(it has taken a lot of time in thinking and discussing). We want to award 
people with a recognisable role in our community but we don't exclude the other 
people.


For me personally this means, I can not take part in this challenge, because I 
never saw a sense in becoming a charter member of OSGeo. Also, I never saw / 
read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able to find it via google, may you 
help me with a link here?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

1. Why is this call connected to the UN, if they do not sponsor it?

Because OSGeo is partner of an Initiative leaded by UN (UN Open GIS Initiative, 
you find the link to the initiative in the call).


2. And this is a more basic thing about OSGeo itself. The "Criteria for 
evaluation" states as first criteria "Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member".

May I ask how do you came to this criteria? Was it maybe an arbitrary decision? 
Or did thought about this? If you thought about this, I would be very 
interested in your arguments for having this criteria?


Charter members are "special" members of OSGeo and every year we have, as 
Community, the nomination of the new Charter members.

They participate to the OSGeo elections (and therefore vote for OSGeo 
governance) and


Promote OSGeo through the use of FOSS4G tools
Register as an OSGeo Member See Getting Started
Take active part in OSGeo Mailing Lists
Hack the OSGeo Wiki
Help build a stronger OSGeo community through interactions with academia, 
businesses and research organizations
Help organize workshops, trainings, conferences related to FOSS4G
Find an opportunity/reason to wear an OSGeo T-shirt
Ask good questions and provide answers when possible


(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction)


Obviously this criteria was thought, exactly like the other parts of the Call 
(it has taken a lot of time in thinking and discussing). We want to award 
people with a recognisable role in our community but we don't exclude the other 
people.


For me personally this means, I can not take part in this challenge, because I 
never saw a sense in becoming a charter member of OSGeo. Also, I never saw / 
read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able to find it via google, may you 
help me with a link here?


Here the Membership Process.

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process .

In any case, you can participate to the Challenge, because it is not mandatory 
to be a Charter Member. Being a Charter Member gives you 10 scores, but 
everybody is free of participating.


Thank you and best regards,
Christian


Thank to you.

Best regards

Maria



Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf


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Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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<c.will...@uni-koeln.de>
Inviato: martedì 3 aprile 2018 09:57:34
A: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational 
Challenge


Dear all,

this is a very nice initiative. But I have two remarks/questions about this 
call:

1. Why is this call connected to the UN, if they do not sponsor it?

2. And this is a more basic thing about OSGeo itself. The "Criteria for 
evaluation" states as first criteria "Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member".

May I ask how do you came to this criteria? Was it maybe an arbitrary decision? 
Or did thought about this? If you thought about this, I would be very 
interested in your arguments for having this criteria?

For me personally this means, I can not take part in this challenge, because I 
never saw a sense in becoming a charter member of OSGeo. Also, I never saw / 
read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able to find it via google, may you 
help me with a link here?

Thank you and best regards,
Christian


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Datum:  Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:25:53 +0200
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Link to the OSGeo Foundation News:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

Proposals for developing open geospatial educational material for three
challenges are invited. Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is
sponsored by OSGeo and Boundless.

The OSGeo UN Committee promotes the development and use of open source
software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. In the
last few years, the Committee has mainly worked on the UN Open GIS
Initiative (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/un-initiative/), a project
  "... to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the
requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of
mission partners (partner nations, technol

[OSGeo-Discuss] UN Committee

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

We are happy to announce that the OSGeo UN Committee launched yesterday the 
OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge [1], thanks also to the support of 
Boundless [2], who is sponsoring one of the three challenges.

Two challenges are related to the UN Open GIS Initiative [to know more about 
that,look here 3, 4, 5], the last one is more general.

Deadline for submitting the proposals is April 30, 2018. Thanks to all people 
contributing in creating this challenge.

Best regards

Maria & Serena





[1] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

[2] https://boundlessgeo.com/

[3] https://vimeo.com/237469564

<https://vimeo.com/237469564>[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g

[5] 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view?usp=sharing









<https://vimeo.com/237469564>







Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf


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Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Postdoc position at PoliMI

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

For those interested in a postdoc position at PoliMI, please have a look here

Politecnico di Milano: Call for MSCA EF Master Class 2018 @ Polimi

https://www.polimi.it/en/faculty-and-staff/calls-and-competitions/call-for-msca-ef-master-class-2018-polimi/

ENV Environment and Geoscience --> Connected vehicles and Enhanced 
OpenStreetMap.

Good luck!
Maria



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[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks and congratulations to you all for the excellent work!
Cheers
Maria




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Data: 14/03/18 16:07 (GMT+01:00)
A: "OsGeo, GeoForAll" , OSGeo Discussions 

Cc: Erin Jerome 
Oggetto: [Geo4All] Good news! We now have five past FOSS4G Conference Academic 
Proceedings (full proceedings and individual papers) available online

Dear OSGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,

I'm pleased to report that we now have full academic proceedings and individual 
papers from the last five FOSS4G conferences [1].
The website is: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/

This system provides readership (download) statistics and distribution maps 
(see attached). For instance, as of today, across all volumes we already have a 
total of 3,409 full proceeding and individual paper downloads worldwide. 
Individual authors can see their individual download statistics by going to 
their individual paper entry (for example, see [2]). Scholarworks also feeds 
library database search engines.

Some thanks are in order:

1. To Barend Köbben, Venka Raghavan, and Sanghee Shin, for their assistance and 
encouragement on publishing their edited volumes;
2. To each conference program committee for their service;
3. To Andy Anderson, Franz-Joseph Behr, and Muhammad Yahya for their efforts 
formatting and publishing one or more volumes;
4. To Erin Jerome at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's Library's 
Scholarly Communication office who 
provides us the Scholarworks platform and terrific technical support at no cost 
to OSGeo or GeoForAll; and last, but not least,
4. To Mohammed Zia who is the person behind the scenes who contributed time and 
expertise to really make this happen.

I apologize if I have forgotten someone!

We hope that we can continue to publish FOSS4G Academic proceeding pre-prints, 
both global and regional events, through this system, to maintain a longterm 
repository of FOSS4G scholarship. Proceeding editors of future conferences: 
Please contact us to coordinate.

Sincerely,

Charlie Schweik for the FOSS4G Proceedings editorial team:
(Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson, and Franz-Josef Behr)

**

[1] Nottingham, 2013; Portland, 2014; Seoul, 2015; Bonn, 2016; and Boston, 2017

[2] As an example, the Boston 2017 FOSS4G paper by Agarwal and Rajan "Analyzing 
the performance of NoSQL vs. SQL databases for Spatial and Aggregate queries" 
has had 838 (!) downloads since Sept 22, 2017.  See 
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/4/

--
Charlie Schweik

Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation & School of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Facebook: Charles.Schweik
Twitter: @cschweik

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I share the same postion of Stefano, Sandro and Andrea. And, above all, in my 
opinion, the discussion on this list has to be respectful.


About the specific topic, organising a survey among the Charter Members could 
be interesting. In this way we have a clearer picture of our community (I don't 
have it at the moment).


Thanks

Maria


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


Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf



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<s...@kbt.io>
Inviato: domenica 25 febbraio 2018 16:18
A: Dan Little
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 08:54:32AM -0600, Dan Little wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2018 08:43, "Stefano Campus" <skam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > am I the only one feeling that this sponsorship is
> > not exactly 'normal'?
>
> You are the only one, and serving a very limited perspective.

No, he's not the only one. I also don't like to see OSGeo advertising
brands of companies having a mission in hiding source code of the
software they publish and preventing others to implement same
functionality via patents.

--strk;

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[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

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

Best,

Maria


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


Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf



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<skam...@gmail.com>
Inviato: domenica 25 febbraio 2018 15:26
A: Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

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

Thank you for your reply

Stefano Campus
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Two days left for submitting abstract to FOSS4G 2018 Academic Track!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Please remember to submit your abstract  to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018 
(http://2018.foss4g.org/).


Deadline: 15 February 2018!

At this first step you have to submit an abstract written in English comprising 
500‐800 words and containing sufficient details for evaluation (including the 
approach, results, concepts, reasons why it should be considered and why it 
would be interesting for the audience).

The contributions are accepted on the abstract blind review process. Submitted 
abstracts will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the 
Scientific Committee. Authors will receive feedback and suggestions for 
improvement to their papers to be submitted in a second step for publication in 
the International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (listed in the 
ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, 
the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)).

For submitting your abstract go to 
http://2018.foss4g.org/call-for-papers.htmland follow the instructions.

We are looking forward to receiving your contribution and see you in Dar!

 Maria and Ally Hassan on behalf of the LOC


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission deadline is 15 February 2018

Abstract  acceptance notice is 15 March 2018

Early Bird Registration closes 15 May 2018

Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by 30 April 2018




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


Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf



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[OSGeo-Discuss] Only four days for submitting YOUR ABSTRACT to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Please hurry up and submit you abstract here:


http://2018.foss4g.org/call-for-papers.html


<http://2018.foss4g.org/call-for-papers.html>The deadline is February 15th.

Best regards

Maria on behalf of the LOC



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


Have a good reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65633-5.pdf



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congratulations Barend!

Best regards

Maria



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

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




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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben



Dear colleagues,


On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour Barend 
Köbben as our GeoAmbassador.  Barend holds an MSc in Geography, specialising in 
Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He  worked for 9 years 
as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then moved to the 
International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation 
(ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing courses on GIS and 
Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short 
courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. 
Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Barend is 
at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic visualisation in the 
Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).


His  teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, 
Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization. Outside ITC, 
Barend is  involved in teaching short courses and workshops in Open Source GIS 
& WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source geospatial applications and 
data.  The Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies of the 
International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a series of short 
courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for which they at ITC 
have developed course materials and provide teaching staff and resources.These 
are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to introduce the 
possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and webmapping to 
people who are interested in this technology, but that do not yet have much 
experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications.



Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a 
webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the 
desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using 
Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a 
interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in general 
the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the OSGeo 
LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in many 
forms: >From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either face-to-face or 
using Distance Learning technology.


Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include:


·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff 
<http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/SOMAP-OSGEO-workshop/> -- 24 & 25 November 2014 
-- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of staff 
of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities.

·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World 
<http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/visualisation-hands-on/> -- 3 October 2013 -- 
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·EuroSDR EduServ11 <http://www.eurosdr.net/eduserv11/> Open Standards & Open 
Source WebMapping<http://www.eurosdr.net/eduserv11/> <http://eurosdr.net/> -- 
8-19 April 2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)

Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization 
<http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/SENSE-PhD-day/> -- 13 December 2012 -- Amsterdam 
(Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB

·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN 
staff<http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/SOMAP-OSGEO-workshop/> -- 20 & 21 November 
2012 -- Vienna (Austria)

·EuroSDR EduServ10 <http://www.eurosdr.net/eduserv10/index.htm> Open Standards 
& Open Source WebMapping<http://www.eurosdr.net/eduserv10/index.htm> -- 7-18 
May 2012 -- On-line course (organised by

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 Academic Track: abstract deadline 15 February 2015

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Friends

the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018 
(http://2018.foss4g.org/) is approaching (15 February 2018!)

At this first step you have to submit an abstract written in English comprising 
500‐800 words and containing sufficient details for evaluation (including the 
approach, results, concepts, reasons why it should be considered and why it 
would be interesting for the audience).

The contributions are accepted on the abstract blind review process. Submitted 
abstracts will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the 
Scientific Committee. Authors will receive feedback and suggestions for 
improvement to their papers to be submitted in a second step for publication in 
the International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (listed in the 
ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, 
the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)).

For submitting your abstract go to 
http://2018.foss4g.org/call-for-papers.htmland follow the instructions.

We are looking forward to receiving your contribution and see you in Dar!

 Maria and Ally Hassan on behalf of the LOC


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission deadline is 15 February 2018

Abstract  acceptance notice is 15 March 2018

Early Bird Registration closes 15 May 2018

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

sorry if I made some confusion. My previous mail was an old one that Suchith 
asked me to send again. Please consider only the first part, which is a general 
one. The last part ("Also for your information ...) refers to a past event and 
therefore now it is definitely old. But this year there will be other events 
and therefore if you are interested consider to apply to the Network.

Best.

Maria


New paper: 
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12518-017-0201-3?author_access_token=iDQ8jgz285f0l10H_B1DI_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5Oj2dLa3I2iut-Pfw7YKp_joEoV6-Z0RDTVaLQOK4z2SNtVJhRm6WZYr5WfZQ6Yx6nqR-ECh1KTdLEhsEogOczkostvkTV766KFQP2SCTkGA%3D%3D

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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
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Da: UN <un-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Inviato: domenica 21 gennaio 2018 18:08
A: Suchith Anand; u...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Ki-Joune Li; Kyoung-Soo Eom
Oggetto: Re: [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM


Dear All

The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management [1] 
develops and uses geospatial information to address key global challenges. The 
priorities and work programs of UN-GGIM are driven by Member States and UN-GGIM 
is looking for university and research center partners from across the globe to 
help support its aims and objectives.

UN-GGIM has formed in the UN-GGIM Academic Network [2]. This is a strategic arm 
for UN-GGIM to achieve their vision [3]. The members of this Academic Network 
will be comprised of relevant universities, academic institutions or research 
centres where geospatial information research and/or education are accomplished 
and also want to voluntarily collaborate with UN-GGIM. Qualifications of 
universities and research institutions to become members are listed in the 
Terms of References [4].

Although there are no membership dues required, there is an expectation for 
each member to regularly contribute to one or more objectives of the UN-GGIM 
Academic Network.

If the aims and goals of your geospatial scholars, scientific and academic 
institution are in alignment with those of UN-GGIM, I as the Chair of this 
Academic Network encourage you to review the UN-GGIM Academic Network website 
and, submit and join this Network by sending an Expression of Interest [5]. 
Because the EOI must be submitted online in one sitting currently, I recommend 
that you download the pdf containing the EOI questions so you may have all 
responses ready to cut and paste into the form as well as the letter of support 
from your chief administrative officer.

We look forward to your submission. If you would like to discuss any issues or 
ask questions, please feel free to contact me.

Also for your information, we are conducting an International Forum as part of 
the upcoming UN-GGIM meeting in NY later this month, so if your are attending 
this meeting I would be delighted to extend our invitation to you and your 
colleagues to attend this Forum, which will be on Monday 31 July. The focus and 
the theme of the Forum will be on:  Secure Land Rights and Smart Cities - 
Making it Work for Sustainable Development.


Best Regards,
Maria

[1] http://ggim.un.org/

[2] http://unggim.academicnetwork.org<http://unggim.academicnetwork.org/>

[3]
The primary objective of the UN-GGIM Academic Network is to support the aims 
and objectives of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial 
Information Management (UN-GGIM), as UN-GGIM sets the agenda for the 
development of global geospatial information and promotes its use to address 
key global challenges.

The network will facilitate access globally to research and education 
capabilities for UN-GGIM and its affiliated members in order to identify and 
respond to challenges and opportunities for UN-GGIM and related UN offices. The 
UN-GGIM Academic Network will be a coalition of recognized universities and 
research and education centers involved in research, development and education 
on geospatial, land information and related matters, run on a volunteer basis.

[4

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management [1] 
develops and uses geospatial information to address key global challenges. The 
priorities and work programs of UN-GGIM are driven by Member States and UN-GGIM 
is looking for university and research center partners from across the globe to 
help support its aims and objectives.

UN-GGIM has formed in the UN-GGIM Academic Network [2]. This is a strategic arm 
for UN-GGIM to achieve their vision [3]. The members of this Academic Network 
will be comprised of relevant universities, academic institutions or research 
centres where geospatial information research and/or education are accomplished 
and also want to voluntarily collaborate with UN-GGIM. Qualifications of 
universities and research institutions to become members are listed in the 
Terms of References [4].

Although there are no membership dues required, there is an expectation for 
each member to regularly contribute to one or more objectives of the UN-GGIM 
Academic Network.

If the aims and goals of your geospatial scholars, scientific and academic 
institution are in alignment with those of UN-GGIM, I as the Chair of this 
Academic Network encourage you to review the UN-GGIM Academic Network website 
and, submit and join this Network by sending an Expression of Interest [5]. 
Because the EOI must be submitted online in one sitting currently, I recommend 
that you download the pdf containing the EOI questions so you may have all 
responses ready to cut and paste into the form as well as the letter of support 
from your chief administrative officer.

We look forward to your submission. If you would like to discuss any issues or 
ask questions, please feel free to contact me.

Also for your information, we are conducting an International Forum as part of 
the upcoming UN-GGIM meeting in NY later this month, so if your are attending 
this meeting I would be delighted to extend our invitation to you and your 
colleagues to attend this Forum, which will be on Monday 31 July. The focus and 
the theme of the Forum will be on:  Secure Land Rights and Smart Cities - 
Making it Work for Sustainable Development.


Best Regards,
Maria

[1] http://ggim.un.org/

[2] http://unggim.academicnetwork.org<http://unggim.academicnetwork.org/>

[3]
The primary objective of the UN-GGIM Academic Network is to support the aims 
and objectives of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial 
Information Management (UN-GGIM), as UN-GGIM sets the agenda for the 
development of global geospatial information and promotes its use to address 
key global challenges.

The network will facilitate access globally to research and education 
capabilities for UN-GGIM and its affiliated members in order to identify and 
respond to challenges and opportunities for UN-GGIM and related UN offices. The 
UN-GGIM Academic Network will be a coalition of recognized universities and 
research and education centers involved in research, development and education 
on geospatial, land information and related matters, run on a volunteer basis.

[4] 
http://unggim.academicnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/UNGGIM_AcademicNetwork_TOR.pdf

[5] http://unggim.academicnetwork.org/eoi/





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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: UN <un-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Suchith Anand 
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Inviato: domenica 21 gennaio 2018 17:30
A: u...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Ki-Joune Li; Kyoung-Soo Eom
Oggetto: Re: [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM


Hi Maria,


Thank you for informing. Apologies if I missed any emails on this. Please 
resent this.


With these excellent structures in place, it will be good to also share ideas 
and work together  with UN colleagues on free and open geo tools for SDG 
mapping and evaluation to help the UN GGIM work. This is very important for 
developing countries .


Best wishes,


Suchith


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From: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Sent: 21 January 2018 15:09
To: Suchith Anand; u...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Kyoung-Soo Eom; Ki-Joune Li
Subject: R: [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM

Dear Suchith
This is something that I already introduced under the supervision of the c

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Suchith
This is something that I already introduced under the supervision of the chairs 
of the initiative, Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom and Prof. Ki-Joune Li. Please consider 
that Mr. Kyoung-Soo is part of UN and of UN GGIM as well. I'm the Deputy Chair 
of UN GGIM Academic Network (I sent an invitation to the geoforall mailing list 
to invite you to get involved in it, probably it is better me to send it again, 
in case somebody missed it.I will do that in next days)
Please let me know better what you need.
Happy Sunday!
Maria




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Data: 21/01/18 15:41 (GMT+01:00)
A: u...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [UN] Reaching out to UN GGIM


Hi all,


Great to see the UN OpenGIS Initiative. Can anyone please let me know if the UN 
OpenGIS has reached out to UN GGIM? It is important we reach out to them and 
work together for expanding synergies.Thanks.


Best wishes,


Suchith




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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA Academic Track: Call For Papers

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Please pay attention to the FOSS4GNA 2018 deadlines:


FOSS4GNA 2018 (Academic Track)

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2018 (Academic Track)

Date: May 14-16, 2018

Conference website<https://2018.foss4g-na.org/>: https://2018.foss4g-na.org/

St. Louise, MO, United States


FOSS4G-North America (FOSS4G-NA) organizes an academic track that will run with 
the regular FOSS4G-NA tracks. FOSS4G-NA invites original research contributions 
on all aspects of open-source or open standard-based geospatial software and 
its application. Submissions focusing on emerging geospatial research topics, 
such as big data, linked data, UAVs, the Internet of Things, and solving 
real-world problems are particularly encouraged. All types of papers are 
welcome, such as on results achieved, case studies, work in progress, and demos.


Submission Guidelines

Authors can submit contributions by choosing one of the following options:

  *   Long abstracts (up to 2 pages)
  *   Demos and Work-in-Progress long abstracts (up to 2 pages)

Submissions must be written in English and follow to the template available in 
ODT<http://bit.ly/2kNpvVF> and DOC<http://bit.ly/2BLijnu> format. The papers 
must be submitted in the same ODT or DOC format (no PDF) to allow the proper 
formatting of the volume.


Program Committee will select papers based on their merits in scientific 
novelty, relation to the state of the art, presentation of the paper and 
overall quality. Authors will receive feedback and suggestions for improvement 
to their paper before submission of the final camera-ready version of the paper.

The deadline to submit abstracts is February 8, 2018.

To submit your abstract, please click on the following 
link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foss4gna2018.


Important Dates

The important dates for all these events are indicated below. Please follow 
@foss4gna<https://twitter.com/foss4gna?lang=en>to get the latest news.

Deadline for submission: February 8, 2018

Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2018

Program announced: February 28, 2018


For more questions about submissions, please contact: Kan 
Luo<mailto:kan@ucalgary.ca?subject=[FOSS4G]%20Questions%20about%20submissions>
 
(kan@ucalgary.ca<mailto:kan@ucalgary.ca?subject=[FOSS4G]%20Questions%20about%20submissions>)


We look forward to seeing you at FOSS4GNA 2018!


Maria (on behalf of the Academic Track Scientific Committee)


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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Google Code-in - a half time report: a success

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Helmut

you are doing a so great job. Congratulations to you and to the team of 
mentors!!

Kudos

Maria



New paper: 
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12518-017-0201-3?author_access_token=iDQ8jgz285f0l10H_B1DI_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5Oj2dLa3I2iut-Pfw7YKp_joEoV6-Z0RDTVaLQOK4z2SNtVJhRm6WZYr5WfZQ6Yx6nqR-ECh1KTdLEhsEogOczkostvkTV766KFQP2SCTkGA%3D%3D

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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Helmut Kudrnovsky 
<hel...@web.de>
Inviato: venerdì 15 dicembre 2017 22:57
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Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Google Code-in - a half time report: a 
success

Dear OSGeo community,

Google Code-in is in on the way to half time of the young students contest and 
it can be called a success.

Some general stats over all participating orgs [1]:

* Total registered students: 6,146
* Number of students who have completed at least one task: 1,573 (51% of those 
students have completed more than 3 tasks, earning them a GCI t-shirt)
* Total number of tasks completed: 5,499
* Most tasks completed by one student: 39

Regarding OSGeo, our mentors are doing an amazing work to help young students 
to complete taks. A big thank you to our mentors!

GCI tasks are create by these OSGeo projects and initiatives:

FOSS4G, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeo, 
OSGeoLive, pgRouting, PostGIS,  QGIS

Are you interested in these tasks, have a look in [2].

Also young students are very motivated to try completing OSGeo tasks:

* 121 tasks are already done by students

That's great: videos how to use/install OSGeo software, T-shirts for coding 
sprints, graphics for manual pages and many more.

As an example [3]:

* d.rgb: added figure to example, thanks to Jerry Huang and Google Code-in

Stay tuned! And help young students when they're asking on the MLs. It's their 
first step to join our community.

Kind regards
Helmut (on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC/GCI admin team)


[1] 
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/12/google-code-in-is-breaking-records.html
[2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-organization=5139786496999424
[3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2017-December/042808.html



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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: New Member to the OSGeo community!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Very welcome Ameya!
Maria



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Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Member to the OSGeo community!

Hello everyone,
I am Ameya Deshmukh, a student participating in the Google Code-In 2017. I 
study in class 10, and will be working with and contributing to the OSGeo 
community in my time at the GCI 2017. Here's my OSGeo wiki page, if you wish to 
know more about me: 
wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ameyad22
Thank you, hoping to contribute to the community
Ameya Anand Deshmukh
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador– Professor Charlie Schweik

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congrats Charlie
Maria



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Oggetto: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador– Professor Charlie Schweik

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoForAll community , it is my great pleasure to honour Charles 
(Charlie) Schweik  as our GeoAmbassador. Charlie Schweik is a full professor at 
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA in a joint appointment between 
the Department of Environmental Conservation and the School of Public Policy.

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, a Masters of Public 
Administration from Syracuse University, and a PhD in Public Policy from 
Indiana University. At UMass, since 1999 he’s offered regularly an introduction 
to Geographic Information Systems to undergraduate and graduate students in 
natural resource conservation majors, as well as to students in UMass’ Masters 
of Public Policy and Administration program. Schweik began his research career 
studying landcover change -- usually deforestation or reforestation -- using 
GIS and Landsat satellite-based remote sensing, and connecting that to the 
social science study of natural resource “commons” governance and management. 
But beginning around the year 1998, his computer science background converged 
with this interest in commons and common property regimes, when he first heard 
the phrases “Free/Libre” or “Open Source” software. Since then, much of his 
research has focused on the study of Free/Libre and Open Source Software 
(FLOSS) as a form of Internet-based collective action. In 2012, he published 
his book, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons (MIT Press) 
[1], which included a statistical analysis of over 170,000 open source software 
projects, looking for factors that lead projects either to ongoing 
collaboration or project abandonment. One of the chapters in the book studied 
qualitatively six OSGeo projects, investigating similarities and differences in 
the way they are governed and managed. Among other things, he learned from this 
study that open source software collaboration is not about the establishment of 
large development teams, but are usually made up of smaller teams of two to 
three developers with an interest or a “user-centered need” for that software. 
He also discovered that more than half of the successful ongoing collaborations 
in his dataset gained a developer from another continent [2]. Since completing 
that work, Schweik continues to expand his interest in the potential and 
promise of global Internet-based collaboration in the development of open 
source scientific hardware and in open educational resources (OER).

Most recently, he gave a GeoForAll webinar [3] where he emphasized the untapped 
potential of the GeoForAll network in online collaboration in Free and Open 
Source for Geospatial research and education, and is actively trying to 
encourage educators and geospatial scientists at GeoForAll labs to find areas 
of mutual need and interest, to start cross-lab collaborations in 
FOSS4G-related research or educational content development. GeoForAll lab 
members with an interest in collaborating with another lab on educational 
material, make your interests known by entering a record in the OSGeo wiki 
table at https://tinyurl.com/GFA-collaborations  or contacting Charlie directly 
at cschw...@umass.edu

GeoForAll is committed to work towards the vision of the United Nations 2030 
Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for everyone. 
Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a 
public good and that technology in general and the internet in particular 
provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse 
knowledge. Openness is key for true empowerment and sustainability.

We are proud to honor Charlie as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely 
grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith


[1] e-book freely available for download at 
https://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/29/
[2] https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.397/
[3] https://youtu.be/dVCDME7cxUA





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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] R: FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Mark
These are prizes for the best presentations or posters of young authors at the 
conference. They are given at the closing session and there will be a jury at 
the conference evaluating posters and presentations.
It is different from the travel grants.
Best,
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Mark Iliffe <markili...@gmail.com>
Data: 20/11/17 13:11 (GMT+01:00)
A: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: discuss osgeo <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, 
conference <conference_...@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] R: FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines 
extensions

Dear All,

Thank you for this!

Suchith, can you help clarify the differences between this program and the 
Travel Grant Program please? I just want to ensure that the two differing 
programs are coordinated and that we’re targeting different constituencies with 
the funding - I believe that the two programs are targeting similar 
constituencies in groups that need to have their participation widened, so 
understanding GeoForAll’s specific guidelines will help guide the LOC in the 
appropriate approach. In that respect, with the LOC, I’m happy for this to be 
ran within the LOC, as a LOC effort too.

Let us know what further information you require/want to discuss too!

Thanks!

Mark


> On 20 Nov 2017, at 02:44, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> 
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Maria, Serena for your help and volunteering for this. Greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> 
> From: serenacoetzee <serenacoet...@gmail.com>
> Sent: 20 November 2017 7:42 AM
> To: Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Cc: Suchith Anand; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] R: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines 
> extensions
>
> Dear Maria, happy to assist if you need help.
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 20 Nov 2017, at 09:39, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> <maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
>
> Dear Suchith I can lead the prizes commission and celebration for FOSS4G 2018 
> Dar, being the Chair of the Academic Track. If there is somebody else willing 
> to help me, please show you up.
> Best.
> Maria
>
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Suchith Anand 
> <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>
> Data: 20/11/17 02:07 (GMT+01:00)
> A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>, discuss osgeo 
> <discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are now working to put proposal for GeoForAll budget and OSGeo student 
> awards at FOSS4G conferences are important way for us to support excellent 
> students. It will be great to have these awards given at FOSS4G Dar.
>
> My suggestion is  that 7500 USD in the budget is kept for OSGeo student 
> awards at FOSS4G  conferences (global or local). These awards will be decided 
> and given by the FOSS4G LoC. But before we make this request to OSGeo Board , 
> I would like to know if FOSS4G 2018 LOC  in Dar Es Salaam will like to give 
> Student awards (max 3500 USD in total for global event) and is there anyone 
> in the LOC willing to coordinate this. Unless there is someone in LOC willing 
> to do this, we cannot make this possible. If there are any other FOSS4G local 
> events happening in 2018 and wish to give student awards , the LOC can 
> contact the GeoForAll mail lists informing their interest and contact person 
> and we can plan to allocate the rest (maximum 1000 USD per local event - so 
> maximum 4 local events will be supported per year)
>
> My question is - Is there any one in FOSS4G 2018 LOC and local FOSS4G 
> conferences happening in 2018 interested to give student awards and willing 
> to be point of contact for this. Ideally, if the LOCs can match fund this 
> with external funding the better for expanding impact .
>
> Please let us know asap, so we can make an informed decision. thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> 
> From: Discuss 
> <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> on 
> behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> <maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>>
> Sent: 19 November 2017 4:15 PM
> To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>; discuss osgeo
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: 

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] R: FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks Serena. Definitely I need!!!
Cheers
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: serenacoetzee <serenacoet...@gmail.com>
Data: 20/11/17 08:42 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Cc: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>, geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, 
discuss osgeo <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] R: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines 
extensions

Dear Maria, happy to assist if you need help.

Regards,
Serena

Sent from my iPhone

On 20 Nov 2017, at 09:39, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:

Dear Suchith I can lead the prizes commission and celebration for FOSS4G 2018 
Dar, being the Chair of the Academic Track. If there is somebody else willing 
to help me, please show you up.
Best.
Maria

Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: Suchith Anand 
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>>
Data: 20/11/17 02:07 (GMT+01:00)
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>, discuss osgeo 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

Dear all,

We are now working to put proposal for GeoForAll budget and OSGeo student 
awards at FOSS4G conferences are important way for us to support excellent 
students. It will be great to have these awards given at FOSS4G Dar.

My suggestion is  that 7500 USD in the budget is kept for OSGeo student awards 
at FOSS4G  conferences (global or local). These awards will be decided and 
given by the FOSS4G LoC. But before we make this request to OSGeo Board , I 
would like to know if FOSS4G 2018 LOC  in Dar Es Salaam will like to give 
Student awards (max 3500 USD in total for global event) and is there anyone in 
the LOC willing to coordinate this. Unless there is someone in LOC willing to 
do this, we cannot make this possible. If there are any other FOSS4G local 
events happening in 2018 and wish to give student awards , the LOC can contact 
the GeoForAll mail lists informing their interest and contact person and we can 
plan to allocate the rest (maximum 1000 USD per local event - so maximum 4 
local events will be supported per year)

My question is - Is there any one in FOSS4G 2018 LOC and local FOSS4G 
conferences happening in 2018 interested to give student awards and willing to 
be point of contact for this. Ideally, if the LOCs can match fund this with 
external funding the better for expanding impact .

Please let us know asap, so we can make an informed decision. thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Discuss 
<discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>> on 
behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>>
Sent: 19 November 2017 4:15 PM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geofor...@lists.osgeo.org>; discuss osgeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

Sorry for my mistake. Below the correct version (Early Bird 15 May 2018)


Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  15 May 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018

I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the First 
Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences”, which are 
open access publications, published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 
License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of 
the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access 
Journals (DOAJ).


Here the call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA


We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam (http://2018.foss4g.org/)


Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC



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

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




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

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

UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Suchith I can lead the prizes commission and celebration for FOSS4G 2018 
Dar, being the Chair of the Academic Track. If there is somebody else willing 
to help me, please show you up.
Best.
Maria

Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Data: 20/11/17 02:07 (GMT+01:00)
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss osgeo <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

Dear all,

We are now working to put proposal for GeoForAll budget and OSGeo student 
awards at FOSS4G conferences are important way for us to support excellent 
students. It will be great to have these awards given at FOSS4G Dar.

My suggestion is  that 7500 USD in the budget is kept for OSGeo student awards 
at FOSS4G  conferences (global or local). These awards will be decided and 
given by the FOSS4G LoC. But before we make this request to OSGeo Board , I 
would like to know if FOSS4G 2018 LOC  in Dar Es Salaam will like to give 
Student awards (max 3500 USD in total for global event) and is there anyone in 
the LOC willing to coordinate this. Unless there is someone in LOC willing to 
do this, we cannot make this possible. If there are any other FOSS4G local 
events happening in 2018 and wish to give student awards , the LOC can contact 
the GeoForAll mail lists informing their interest and contact person and we can 
plan to allocate the rest (maximum 1000 USD per local event - so maximum 4 
local events will be supported per year)

My question is - Is there any one in FOSS4G 2018 LOC and local FOSS4G 
conferences happening in 2018 interested to give student awards and willing to 
be point of contact for this. Ideally, if the LOCs can match fund this with 
external funding the better for expanding impact .

Please let us know asap, so we can make an informed decision. thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Maria Antonia 
Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Sent: 19 November 2017 4:15 PM
To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

Sorry for my mistake. Below the correct version (Early Bird 15 May 2018)


Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  15 May 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018

I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the First 
Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences”, which are 
open access publications, published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 
License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of 
the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access 
Journals (DOAJ).


Here the call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA


We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam (http://2018.foss4g.org/)


Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC



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

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



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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Maria Antonia 
Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Inviato: domenica 19 novembre 2017 16:56
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions


Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  31 March 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Sorry for my mistake. Below the correct version (Early Bird 15 May 2018)


Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  15 May 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018

I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the First 
Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences”, which are 
open access publications, published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 
License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of 
the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access 
Journals (DOAJ).


Here the call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA


We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam (http://2018.foss4g.org/)


Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC



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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Maria Antonia 
Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Inviato: domenica 19 novembre 2017 16:56
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions


Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  31 March 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018

I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the First 
Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences”, which are 
open access publications, published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 
License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of 
the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access 
Journals (DOAJ).


Here the call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA


We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam (http://2018.foss4g.org/)


Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC



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

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



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


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


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


Sol Katz Award 2015



P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
maria.brove...@polimi.it






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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Academic Track: deadlines extensions

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

please be noticed that, due to the extension of the Early Bird Registration and 
to the many requests, the deadlines of the FOSS4G Academic Track in Dar Es 
Salaam have been changed in this way:


Abstract Submission deadline is  15 February 2018
Abstract acceptance notice is 15 March 2018
Early Bird Registration closes  31 March 2018
Camera ready paper for the Proceedings has to be submitted by  30 April 2018

I recall you that the Proceedings of the Academic Track will be ready the First 
Day of the Conference. They are published in “The International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences”, which are 
open access publications, published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 
License and listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of 
the Web of Science, SCOPUS, the E/I Compendex,and the Directory of Open Access 
Journals (DOAJ).


Here the call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/FOSS4G2018ACA


We are looking forward  to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam (http://2018.foss4g.org/)


Maria, Ally Hassan and the whole LOC



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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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





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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT Collaborative education research across GeoForAll labs?

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Charlie
Thanks for organising the event. I'm not able to attend and, as I'm currently 
in China, I can't reach Google applications and fill the form.
Marco, who is the point of contact for GEOLab can fill it (probably he already 
did).
Have a good meeting!
Maria


Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: Charlie Schweik 
Data: 10/11/17 08:42 (GMT+08:00)
A: "Moreno-sanchez, Rafael" 
Cc: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Participatory webinar Friday Nov 10 7:00 PM GMT 
Collaborative education research across GeoForAll labs?

Dear GeoForAll community,

I appreciate the opportunity to speak to some of you tomorrow at 7:00 PM GMT in 
the GeoForAll webinar [1]. The goal is to discuss how we can create some real 
substantive collaborations across GeoForAll labs.

One favor (even if you can't attend). Could you take this brief survey about 
GeoForAll lab collaboration by 5:00 PM GMT tomorrow?

https://goo.gl/forms/qP1eDxtsz2Cf444o1

Thank you!

Charlie Schweik
University of Massachusetts, Amherst



[1] To join participatory webinar: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/563231430
7:00 PM GMT, Friday November 10th

"Can we initiate GeoForAll lab collaborative education and/or research?"

We undoubtedly agree: The GeoForAll network is terrific. We have ~120 labs 
scattered throughout the world, we’ve identified some collaborative research 
and education areas (e.g., OpenCitySmart, GeoAgriculture), and there are some 
significant collaboration going on across nodes, such as the NASA Europa 
Challenge. But we may have only scratched the surface on what we can, 
collectively, accomplish. Can we do even better?

In this participatory webinar, Charlie Schweik of the University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst, will be posing the question to the GeoForAll community: 
Can we initiate and “incubate” some GeoForAll collaborative research or 
educational projects? After presenting this idea in more detail, we will open 
the webinar to community discussion and how to possibly move, collectively, 
forward.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Professor Luciene Stamato Delazari

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Great!!! Congratulations Luciene.

I had last month the opportunity  of seeing directly the activity of the 
Universidade Federal do Paraná and I was really impressed. Absolutely deserved!

Best

Maria


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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: GeoForAll <geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Suchith Anand 
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Inviato: giovedì 2 novembre 2017 10:54
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador – Professor Luciene Stamato Delazari

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour  Prof. 
Luciene Stamato Delazari  from the Universidade Federal do Paraná  in Brazil as 
our GeoAmbassador. Luciene  is a full professor in Cartography and GIS at the 
Federal University of Parana.  She graduated in Cartographic Engineering in 
1993 and obtained herMaster degree in Geodetic Science (1996) and PhD in 
Engineering (2004). In1997 she joined the Department of Geomatic in 
undergraduate and graduate level. Since 2015 , Luciene is  the Head of Geodetic 
Science Program at the Federal University of Parana. She is the Editor-in-Chief 
of the Bulletin of Geodetic Sciences. Her research interests and publications 
are in cartographic visualization, interface design for cartographic products,
automated cartographic design, and in the last few years, Indoor Mapping.

 In 2012, Luciene along with her colleagues helped to establish the Open Source 
Laboratory for the South America at the Federal University of Parana. Since 
2008 , Luciene has a fellowship of  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento 
Científico e Tecnológico– CNPq (Brazilian Funding Agency). Over the years 
Luciene has taught many courses in Cartography and GIS, both at undergraduate 
and graduate level. In all lectures she uses open software and open data. 
Luciene gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and 
conferences in many cities around Brazil and abroad. She has been supervisor of 
about 30 MSc and PhD students. Luciene is leading Cartography and GIS research 
at Geodetic Science Program and published over 30 journal papers in this field. 
In the ICC 2009 and 2011 her PhD students received the ICA Travel Award. In ICC 
2015, together with other colleagues from Brazil, Luciene was part of the 
Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee. Since 2014 she has a research 
project collaboration with Massey University (New Zealand) (grant from CNPq) in 
the field of Ontologies and Semantics.

>From July 2013 to July 2014 , Luciene did a post-doctoral period at University 
>of Nottingham and I had the great opportunity to work with Luciene on various  
>joint research and  publications in Schematic maps for indoor environments.

Geo for All is a worldwide movement that provides immediate benefit to the 
world. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and 
open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and 
contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society 
and for our future generations.

We are proud to honour  Luciene as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely 
grateful for her contributions to GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith




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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Sanghee

Many thanks for your frank email. I also want to congratulate the new friends 
elected but, at the same time, I share your same  considerations. I feel not 
confortable in a Board that is only, as you correctly pointed out, European and 
North American. That is not becasue I don't like the current Board Members. On 
the opposite, they are wonderful and I love them. But there is something wrong 
if we missed one part of the world which before was represented and we have not 
added any new one.

With respect to point 2 of your mail, I also agree with you. It seems me not 
serious to change ideas every other day. Also in this case, I have nothing 
against Jeff, whose activism, enthusiasm and help is so important for all of 
us, but I can simply say that I would not behave in this way.

Writing this mail was a bit tough and I thank you, Sanghee, for starting this 
discussion (I imagine how difficult it was by you). Sometimes we need also to 
discuss about weak points in the life of the Foundation.

Best regards and love to all of you.

Maria


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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Sanghee Shin 
<shs...@gaia3d.com>
Inviato: domenica 29 ottobre 2017 15:17
A: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections


Dear All,



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



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



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

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Vasile, dear Community
I want first of all to thank the CRO for the great and committing work. You 
were really fantastic! Thanks!

And then,  congratulations, welcome and the best wishes to the new elected 
ones. Respect and love for the non elected for accepting to run this election. 
I hope to have you all (as the whole Community) helping us in the activities 
and the decisions of the Board.
Greeting from a wonderful FOSS4G Argentina.
Maria





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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
Data: 26/10/17 16:08 (GMT-03:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: CRO <c...@osgeo.org>
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Election 2017 Board of Directors elections results

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
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Thanks to all candidates to ongoing through the elections process.
Election figures are:

* Membership: 390
* Valid votes: 308
* Not finished votes: 5
* Not voted: 77

There were no scores to arbitrate. One candidate withdraw during the
voting period. A final position is expected from the candidate ASAP.
Thank you all who voted!!

The complete resulting Board (wiki order) for 2017/2018 is:

* Vasile Craciunescu
* Maria Antonia Brovelli
* Michael Smith
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Astrid Emde
* Jody Garnett
* Jeff McKenna
* Helena Mitasova
* María Arias de Reyna

Personally I just want to express my joy for the excellent scores of our
ladies candidates, elected or not.

Please congratulate the new OSGeo Directors!

My job as CRO is almost finished now, I will update the wiki with the
detailed results (CSV with every vote and the timestamp) as soon as
possible.

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Thanks Vasile!


Maria


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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
<sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy>
Inviato: martedì 24 ottobre 2017 17:34
A: Vasile Craciunescu; OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

Big thanks to you Vasile! (I don't envy you... :-))

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Departamento de Geomática
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Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
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De: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org>
Enviado: martes, 24 de octubre de 2017 12:31
Para: OSGeo Discussions
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elections deadline extension by 24h

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 Tuesday 25th October
2017". Of course, Tuesday is today and today is the deadline according
with our official calendar. However, just to make sure no one is mislead
by this phrasing, I will extend the voting period with 24 hours. Is my
mistake and I would like to apologize for this as is adding more
problems an an already complicated situation. Hopefully, more members
will have the chance to vote. Until now, 277 from the total of 390
charter members voted. Later tonight I will also publicly sent my
position to the board on the situation caused by Jeff's request to
withdraw from elections.

Thank you for your patience!

Best,
Vasile
CRO 2017
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Vasile (and All)

greetings from Buenos Aires where I am for representing OSGeo at FOSS4G 
Argentina.

As pointed out by many, and with excellent motivations, that I don't repeat, 
the election must go ahead.

Thanks a lot, Vasile, for your difficult commitment.

Best.

Maria

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Ben Caradoc-Davies 
<b...@transient.nz>
Inviato: lunedì 23 ottobre 2017 02:24
A: Vasile Craciunescu; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

Vasile,

+1. You have my full support for this course of action.

I am not aware of any voting system that permits withdrawal of a
candidate during the voting period. In my view, withdrawal during the
voting period is out of order. Should the candidate be elected, the
candidate may then formally resign. This will not be the CRO's problem.

If a vacancy occurs immediately after a board election, I urge the board
to use their authority to appoint as the replacement board member the
unsuccessful candidate with the most votes. This would be in order, be
in accord with the bylaws, and in keeping with the spirit of the
election. Voters are no more disadvantaged than if they had voted for an
unsuccessful candidate.

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 23/10/17 02:19, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please accept my apologies for the delayed reply. I was heavily involved
> in organizing the 20th edition of FOSS4G Romania [1].
>
> I will try to express my opinion on what was said here and the board
> mailing list.
>
> 1. Neighter CRO or the Board cannot refuse Jeff's request to withdraw
> from the elections. In the absence of a specific rule, this is a
> unilateral act which does not require the CRO/Board acceptance in order
> to be valid. So, is up to Jeff to decide, based on people feedback, if
> he maintains his request or not.
>
> 2. We cannot remove Jeff's name from the voting ballot for at least two
> reasons. First one if of technical nature. LimeSurvey, the tool used for
> the electronic voting system, does not allow such changes in a running
> survey. Second, it is not correct/moral to change the list. Almost half
> of our charter members voted already based on that list and, actually,
> this is the main problem. Jeff's withdrawal has the potential to affect
> the result of this elections. We will never know where his votes could
> go and we have no clue how his decision will impact the votes that are
> still to come. Unfortunately, I see no good solution for the situation.
>
> My proposal to the Board and the OSGeo charter members is to leave the
> list as it is and make sure that the people that did not vote yet are
> aware of Jeff's request to withdraw from the Board elections. I can
> insert the information in the reminder mail that I'm planing to submit
> tonight/Monday morning.
>
> Best,
> Vasile
> CRO 2017
>
>
> [1] http://www.geo-spatial.org/osgeo/bucuresti2017
>
>
> On 10/21/17 3:34 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Dear CRO,
>>
>> Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election.  I am sorry to
>> cause all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here
>> publicly this election.
>>
>> I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for
>> volunteering their time for the OSGeo community.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> -Jeff McKenna
>>
>>
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Concurso “Proyectos de geografía con gvSIG Batoví”

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I hope we will be able to connect with you. It is really a good example for 
everybody! Thanks Sergio and see you on Monday!
Maria



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Da: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
Data: 19/10/17 19:42 (GMT+01:00)
A: Suchith Anand , 
geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org, geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Concurso “Proyectos de geografía con gvSIG Batoví”


I'll try to be there virtually by VC (Monday afternoon). And I'll be talking 
about this obviously :-)


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

De: GeoForAll-Iberoamerica  en 
nombre de Suchith Anand 
Enviado: jueves, 19 de octubre de 2017 14:32
Para: geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: Re: [GeoForAll-Iberoamerica] Concurso “Proyectos de geografía con gvSIG 
Batoví”

I would also request colleagues attending FOSS4G-Argentina 2017 [1] next week 
to share these ideas and build long term collaborations. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://www.foss4g-ar.org



From: Anand Suchith
Sent: 19 October 2017 6:27 PM
To: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: Concurso “Proyectos de geografía con gvSIG Batoví”

Hi Sergio,

Congratulations on the excellent Nation-wide contest for public High School' 
groups (belonging to Plan Ceibal) .

Many congratulations to all the teachers and students.

It will be great if someone can translate the website content of the news into 
English , so other colleagues can take ideas and expand for the future.This 
excellent idea is a great model to replicate by GeoForAll colleagues in other 
countries and regions globally.

Great work again by you and colleagues.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: GeoForAll-Iberoamerica  
on behalf of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
Sent: 19 October 2017 1:53 PM
To: geoforall-iberoamer...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GeoForAll-Iberoamerica] Concurso “Proyectos de geografía con gvSIG 
Batoví”

Hola. Quisiéramos compartir esta experiencia, ampliamente satisfactoria para 
todas y todos los que participamos de ella, y perfectamente trasladable (con 
las adaptaciones que fueren necesarias) a otros países:

https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/concurso-gvsig-batovi-premiacion/
[https://gvsigbatovi.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/img_6792.jpg]

Concurso gvSIG Batovi: 
premiación
gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com
Ha culminado el concurso Proyectos de trabajo con estudiantes y gvSIG Batoví. 
Esta muy gratificante y enriquecedora primera experiencia para Uruguay resultó 
todo un desafío, desde el punto de vista…





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8IATbTsp28


Quedo a la orden para lo que sea. Saludos,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 Academic Track: the call for contributions is now open!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Here we  are!

We are ready for collecting your proposals for the Academic Track of FOSS4G 
2018 in Dar Es Salaam.


Please read carefully the instructions here:

http://2018.foss4g.org/call-for-papers.html


The first step is to upload your abstract (500-800 words) by November, 20 2017.


A Scientific Committee will accept the best proposals (deadline 15 December) 
which will go to the second step: camera ready paper for the Proceedings  by 31 
March 2018. Remember that  you MUST register (at least one author for one 
paper) to the Conference for having your paper published. Therefore the 
registration is mandatory before 31  March 2018.


And then, see you in Dar!


Best regards,

Maria and Ally Hassan





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http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All

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





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Politecnico di Milano

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GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-IT February 2018

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I'm glad to announce that it is now open the Call for Papers of FOSS4G-IT 2018. 
The Conference (held in Italian) will be in Rome from 19th to 22nd February 
2018.  More details here
http://foss4g-it2018.gfoss.it

Best regards
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Board nomination: María Arias de Reyna

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Definitely I second the nomination of Maria!
Cheers
Maria



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Data: 02/10/17 15:28 (GMT+01:00)
A: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: María Arias de Reyna

I also want to second the nomination of Maria.

Dirk

On 29-09-17 20:33, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> Very happy to second this nomination. Maria is an incredible asset to
> the OSGeo community and would make an amazing Director for the
> foundation.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Jeff McKenna
>  wrote:
>> Forwarding nomination of María Arias de Reyna by Jeff McKenna. The Board
>> Nominations page has been updated:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017
>>
>> (note that this was originally submitted 2017-09-27 but I waited, to try to
>> avoid being both the CRO sending to Discuss list, and the one who submitted
>> the nomination. So I'm happy to finally share my nomination ha!)
>>
>> -Jeff & Vasile
>> CRO 2017 Elections
>>
>>
>>  Forwarded Message 
>>
>> Name: María Arias de Reyna
>> Country of Residence: Spain
>>
>> It is my pleasure and honour to nominate María Arias de Reyna[1] for the
>> Board of Directors of OSGeo. You may remember that I nominated María last
>> year for the Board, but since then she has gone on to give several great
>> keynote talks at various events around the world, bringing much-needed
>> discussions of diversity and sharing to the forefront of events.
>>
>> María is well known in the OSGeo community for her relentless efforts as a
>> core contributor for the GeoNetwork project, and for her longtime
>> contributions to the SIG Libre conference (the Spanish FOSS4G). Locally she
>> is very active through the OSGeo microchapter network Geoinquietos, and more
>> recently also through the Spanish national geomatics association, AESIG. She
>> works for GeoCat providing SDI solutions all over the world.
>>
>> So you can see, María is a leader locally, nationally, and internationally.
>> You can often find her live-tweeting[2] at every FOSS4G event, and sharing
>> her passion for all things OSGeo. I see in her a very strong voice, full of
>> youthful energy and passion, and a true leader that is absolutely ready for
>> the global spotlight.
>>
>> Please show your support for María, and help to bring her passion to the
>> Board of the OSGeo foundation.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Delawen
>> [2] https://twitter.com/delawen/
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McKenna
>> President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Board nomination: Astrid Emde

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I second with pleasure the nomination of Astrid!
Cheers
Maria



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Da: Jeff McKenna 
Data: 02/10/17 20:34 (GMT+01:00)
A: osgeo 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Astrid Emde

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] GeoAmbassador – Sven Schade

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congrats Sven!!

Well deserved!

Maria


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

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<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
Inviato: domenica 1 ottobre 2017 17:59
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] GeoAmbassador – Sven Schade

Dear colleagues,

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

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

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

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

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

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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination results

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I join Jorge in thanking you, Vasile and Jeff.
And welcome to the new members!!!
Best!
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Jorge Sanz 
Data: 25/09/17 16:31 (GMT+01:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions , OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 

Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination results

Thanks for the hard job Vasile and Jeff and a warm welcome to our new 78 
elected members.

I've updated also the small report on CM demographics available here 
http://bl.ocks.org/jsanz/raw/779f9b9954b92461fa50/

Cheers!

On 25 September 2017 at 10:35, Vasile Craciunescu 
> wrote:
Dear members of the OSGeo community,

After a period of three weeks, we close the membership process to
confirm and share the results.

*All* the candidates[1][2] are accepted as all of them:

- were nominated by an existing charter member;
- were seconded by at least one charter member;
- no veto votes registered.

Hence, it is our pleasure to welcome our 78 candidates to the OSGeo
Charter Membership, increasing its size to a total of 390 individuals. 
Congratulations!

New members, we encourage you all to update your wiki profiles with the
Charter Member badge[3], adding yourselves to the category[4] and
finally if you have not yet done so, add your profile to the OSGeo
Advocates list[5].

We will inform the board for formal acceptance of the list, update the official 
list[6], pass to the secretary the revised contacts, and subscribe the new 
members to the charter-members list[7]
as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
CRO 2017 Elections

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Charter_Member
[5] 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate
[6] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
[7] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charter-members


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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

This is my last mail on this topic, because it is stupid to go ahead in this 
conversation and I don't want to become upset. I want only to highlight that 
what you call "social pressure" is simply to listening to the community 
thoughts. Community is more than a beautiful picture of people... Thanks Jody 
and have a good night.
Maria



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Da: Jody Garnett 
Data: 20/09/17 21:46 (GMT+01:00)
A: Helmut Kudrnovsky 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

Okay folks this conversation thread is starting to make me upset; we have gone 
from a productive discussion and has escalated.

To be clear we have an open bug report, the specific feature is part of the 
website template and I do not have the ability to edit it directly. Listing 
"migrate from" is optional and project leaders can change this page to reflect 
the area in which they work.

This conversation appears to be missing the point of the exercise of the 
website as a whole and applying social pressure to get-something-to-change.

I do not believe social pressure is an effective tool:
- Are you actually offended and speaking from personal feeling? If so can you 
explain more how you feel we need to balance the communication goals of the 
website vs your feelings as community member
- Are you applying social pressure to have this "Migrate to" information 
removed? I am interested in respecting the project leadership (who has control 
of these pages) and the marketing committee (who has an outreach 
responsibility). I feel that listening, rather than social pressure, is a good 
way to make responsible decisions.
- Are you thinking ahead to how a specific community, say the QGIS community in 
this case, may feel about having "Migrate from: ArcMap, MapInfo" on this page? 
If so you are correct this original bug report came from the QGIS community, 
and I hope it has been addressed. I think the QGIS community offers a far 
better experience both in support and freedom then the alternatives listed. 
This initial information is provided by each PSC, and if we could get our LDAP 
working it would be their responsibility to edit or remove on a case by case 
basis, there should be no cause for projects to be offended.
- Are you concerned about inviting comparison to open source to proprietary at 
all? If so you are a bit stuck as we have an outreach mandate at OSGeo. If you 
have specific concerns about comparison we can address them, and help write the 
"why open source" page explaining that open source is a much better way to geo 
:)

Please be respectful of the contributors working on the website/rebranding and 
during the foss4g sprint.




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

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

Kind regards
Helmut
OSGeo charter member

[1] https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/036217.html
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Jody this is not respectful of me and the community.  Might I know why the 
people working for the project want ABSOLUTELY to keep the names and links to 
proprietary software on our open source software website?

Anyhow, I think that the Board can express ourselves about this point. I 
remember you  that we were voted and that the people who voted me don't want 
those names and links. I'm speaking on behalf of many. In case, we will ask the 
whole community to express ourselves about that.
I want to apologise with the people working at the website if my tone could 
have seen as rude. Who knows me, knows that I'm not a native speaker and 
sometimes my words seem to be worse than what I have in mind. I want to claridy 
that I appreciate a lot their work ( I suppose they appreciate my work all the 
same) and I thank them with all my hearth.  But absolutely I don't agree with 
this choice and I explained you also the reasons.
Best
Maria





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Da: Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
Data: 20/09/17 21:24 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Cc: Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com>, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de>, 
OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo-Marketing 
<market...@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

Maria your request is at odds with the goal of this website.

Already I have private chats about participants being discouraged. I do not 
think that using the board to control the process is a productive or respectful 
of those working on the project.

Please reconsider how to interactive positively with the community.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:10 PM Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
If somebody is interested in knowing more about foss4g, we are here. If 
somebody, using whichever proprietary software,  wants to have more pieces of 
information they can contact us and we will provide them with all the 
information they need.
Contacting and working with us is a definitely different attitude than simply  
downloading and using. And we are interested in the first type of people 
because we want our community growing.
Therefore no needs at all to put the names and links to proprietary software.
Please again remote them.
I'll open a loomio vote of the Board about that.
Have a good evening
Maria




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Da: Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>>
Data: 20/09/17 20:40 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>>
Cc: Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com<mailto:direg...@gmail.com>>, Helmut 
Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de<mailto:hel...@web.de>>, OSGeo Discussions 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>, OSGeo-Marketing 
<market...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:market...@lists.osgeo.org>>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

I like your language that our open source projects are much more than 
proprietary software - it is this reason we are focusing on a team photo for 
each page (rather than a screen shot of the software).

The original bug report reported a direct link to ESRI which was fixed, this is 
where the "advertising" came in - which was never the original intention and 
was fixed.

The "Migrate from: ArcMap, MapInfo" idea looks like it does a way better job of 
communicating and is a positive result of this discussion.
- This information is mission critical for outreach and driving adoption of 
open source, the top question this website and those new to open source ask is 
"I am using XXX, what is available?"
- In many cases I do not know the proprietary software and a link to wikipedia 
article would give a visitor like me useful context (of course we can remove 
the link and just have text because the website is not for me).
- It also occurs to me to be respectful of trademark; listing competitors is a 
good practice but it can be done with respect.

Maria of course no offence is intended to volunteers (myself) included. Thanks 
for participating in this discussion.

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On 20 September 2017 at 10:29, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
Jody, I see very difficult  the existence of a  vast majority of GIS industry 
that has honestly not heard about open source yet.  Anyway I refuse the idea of 
"similar proprietary software" because our projects are much more than pieces 
of code. Behind our software there are communities and limiting our projects to 
pieces  of code is offensive and insulting for the volunteers behind them. We 
a

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Jody
Personally I agree with Helmut and I don't see any necessity of putting 
"similar proprietary software" on our web pages. I don't think proprietary 
software need to be advertized. We are a Foundation about Open Software and I 
want to see the open source projects on the website that we have been paying as 
OSGeo.
I ask please to remove the "similar proprietary software"  and the related 
links.
Many thanks
Best,
Maria





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Da: Jody Garnett 
Data: 20/09/17 14:45 (GMT+01:00)
A: Margherita Di Leo , Helmut Kudrnovsky 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions , OSGeo-Marketing 

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

Thanks for the discussion on the bug report. Please keep in mind that this 
website is written by us, but it is not intended for us - it is intended for 
the vast majority of the GIS industry that has honestly not heard about open 
source yet.

These sections are optional, if one of our open source projects has a 
particular target market in mind filling in this information would really help! 
Indeed when I go to a normal GIS conference this is the top question - since I 
have not had a chance to use the proprietary software it is not one I can 
easily answer.

In the above bug report I would like to change the heading from "Similar 
Proprietary Products" to "Migrate From", but perhaps that is too 
confrontational? I would also like to avoid advertising proprietary software, 
linking to the associated wikipedia entry if appropriate.

I am not interested in reciprocity, I am interested in OSGeo projects taking 
competition to the GIS industry which as been missing.


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:09 AM Margherita Di Leo 
> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:41 AM, 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 with Venka that the item "Similar Proprietary Products" 
should be removed. There isn't only one proprietary GIS software out there, 
there are several others. IMHO such comparisons may be part of e.g. a reviewed 
scientific paper/elaboration, where our OSGeo projects - if they want to - may 
link to. I see no added value for OSGeo to serve such links. As already 
elsewhere mentioned by me, reciprocity is the key if such items are listed, but 
I can't see this happen. "

I agree. I don't understand it either.

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

Thanks for mentioning that, Helli. May I add that suitable tasks for students 
may include design of web pages and / or promotional material, see for example  
https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2015/organization/4777925899452416/task/5259692246827008/
I take the liberty of cc'ing the marketing committee, because it would be nice 
to see some members joining the code-in mentors pool. Let us know that you want 
to join, writing an email to gsoc-ad...@osgeo.org 
and I'll send you the subscription form.
Hoping that I didn't go much off topic respect to the original meaning of this 
email

Thank you





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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Jody, I see very difficult  the existence of a  vast majority of GIS industry 
that has honestly not heard about open source yet.  Anyway I refuse the idea of 
"similar proprietary software" because our projects are much more than pieces 
of code. Behind our software there are communities and limiting our projects to 
pieces  of code is offensive and insulting for the volunteers behind them. We 
are more and diverse. This is the reason why there are not "similar proprietary 
software".
Thanks for removing the links.
Best
Maria




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Da: Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
Data: 20/09/17 18:53 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it>
Cc: Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com>, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de>, 
OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo-Marketing 
<market...@lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

Thanks Maria,

I reject the idea that we are advertising proprietary software, so each time it 
is phrased that way of course everyone well say "no".

I want to help our software reach visitors that feel locked into proprietary 
software, please recognize this goal and how "migrate from" can help.

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On 20 September 2017 at 09:49, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
<maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
Dear Jody
Personally I agree with Helmut and I don't see any necessity of putting 
"similar proprietary software" on our web pages. I don't think proprietary 
software need to be advertized. We are a Foundation about Open Software and I 
want to see the open source projects on the website that we have been paying as 
OSGeo.
I ask please to remove the "similar proprietary software"  and the related 
links.
Many thanks
Best,
Maria





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Da: Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>>
Data: 20/09/17 14:45 (GMT+01:00)
A: Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com<mailto:direg...@gmail.com>>, Helmut 
Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de<mailto:hel...@web.de>>
Cc: OSGeo Discussions 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>, OSGeo-Marketing 
<market...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:market...@lists.osgeo.org>>
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

Thanks for the discussion on the bug report. Please keep in mind that this 
website is written by us, but it is not intended for us - it is intended for 
the vast majority of the GIS industry that has honestly not heard about open 
source yet.

These sections are optional, if one of our open source projects has a 
particular target market in mind filling in this information would really help! 
Indeed when I go to a normal GIS conference this is the top question - since I 
have not had a chance to use the proprietary software it is not one I can 
easily answer.

In the above bug report I would like to change the heading from "Similar 
Proprietary Products" to "Migrate From", but perhaps that is too 
confrontational? I would also like to avoid advertising proprietary software, 
linking to the associated wikipedia entry if appropriate.

I am not interested in reciprocity, I am interested in OSGeo projects taking 
competition to the GIS industry which as been missing.


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:09 AM Margherita Di Leo 
<direg...@gmail.com<mailto:direg...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky 
<hel...@web.de<mailto:hel...@web.de>> wrote:
Dear OSGeo community

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

My comment there:

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

I agree. I don't understand it either.

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

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: GeoAmbassador – Bridget Fleming

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congratulation Bridget!!! Well deserved!
Maria



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Data: 10/09/17 09:57 (GMT+01:00)
A: discuss@lists.osgeo.org, geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Bridget Fleming

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to introduce 
Bridget Fleming from South Africa as our GeoAmbassador. Bridget Fleming is the 
regional chair of GeoForAll Africa (along with Serena Coetzee and Rania Elsayed 
) and has been actively expanding geoeducation opportunities for all. Bridget 
is a passionate advocate for using Geotechnologies in the classroom. She is the 
IEB (Independent Examination Board) geography national moderator and has 
authored a number of textbooks and digital classroom resources. She has 
recently returned to the classroom after a few years of running a start-up GIS 
company where she was involved in Geospatial education and training. She is on 
the National GISSA council (Education portfolio) and is the Chair of the 
Southern African Geography Teachers’ Association (SAGTA). She is presently HOD 
Geography at St John’s College  in South Africa. Bridget is also one of the key 
organisors behind the success of the recent SAGTA+FOSS4G Africa conference 
hosted by St John’s College in Houghton, Johannesburg. More details at 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/09/geoambassador-bridget-fleming/

I am sure Bridget and colleagues will expand these ideas for the future. We are 
looking forward to building  strong research and teaching collaborations  
worldwide in Open Geospatial Science. We are proud to honour Bridget as our 
GeoAmbassador and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to GeoForAll.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Mohammed Zia

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1 for Mohammed for his excellent work with the FOSS4G 2018 Academic Track!

Maria


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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org>
Inviato: venerdì 8 settembre 2017 15:02
A: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Mohammed 
Zia

Forwarding Mohammed Zia nomination by Andy Anderson. 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: Re: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination for Ben Lewis
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:56:53 +
From: Andy Anderson <aander...@amherst.edu>
To: c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>
CC: Mohammed Zia <mohammed.zi...@gmail.com>

[Still 11:56 PM, Thursday, September 7, 2017, Samoa Standard Time (SST)
-1100 UTC  in American Samoa in the central Pacific! :-)]

I would like to nominate Mohammed Zia for charter membership.

Zia is a GeoSpatial Developer at the National Innovation & Research
Center for Geographical Information Technologies in Turkey. As part of
his PhD research in Geomatics Engineering, he is making extensive use of
FOSS4G technologies in the study of vehicle routing, including the use
of OpenStreetMap data and Mapbox for visualization, and published his
algorithms as open-source [1]. He presented his results at the
International FOSS4G 2017 conference this August. Zia also served as the
co-chair of the FOSS4G Academic Program Subcommittee and co-editor of
the Conference Proceedings, and was essential to organizing the review
of and the selection of the submitted academic papers. He also
participated in moderating the presentations there and was an important
part of making the conference a success.

[1] https://github.com/Zia-

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Anujit Vanasarochana from Thaialnd

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Jody

I'm a bit disappointed about this request. Many people were seconded as charter 
members simply typing +1 and the name of the person seconding.

Why do you want more explanation from Hayashi-san and Kenya-san and you didn't 
ask in other cases?

Hayashi-san and Kenya-san  are our charter members (they have the 
characteristics that you had listed). To better say, they are great charter 
members, relevant contributors to the Japanese and Asian Community. They don't 
deserve a behaviour different from all the other charter members. We didn't 
request explanation about the support, only about nomination. Please don't 
frustrate the volunteers of our community creating differential requests. 
Obviosly Hayashi and Kenya are able to provide pieces of information but they 
are also asking themselves why this different behaviour with them. And me too, 
I ask you: why? do you have some pieces of information about the people who 
were nominated that I don't have?


Best,

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ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
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<jody.garn...@gmail.com>
Inviato: giovedì 7 settembre 2017 20:42
A: 林博文
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Anujit Vanasarochana from 
Thaialnd

Can I ask the people who have seconded this nomination to provide information 
on what positive attribute Dr. Anujit Vansarochana displays in the our 
community to be considered as a charter member.

For reference here is the positive 
attributes<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes> 
list from the membership process we are following:

Recommended membership selection criteria include:

  *   Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To support 
and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and 
data in a collaborative manner.
  *   Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities
  *   The person should already have made a contribution to free and open 
source geospatial software, education or open data.
  *   The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the Foundation, 
perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the 
Foundation going.
  *   Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards 
the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.

Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:

  *   Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions, 
diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.
  *   Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g., 
corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).
  *   Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including gender 
and race

This is a reference to my own ignorance of Dr. Anujit Vansarochana activities 
and no slight is intended or implied. I have tried to search the discussion 
email list, geoforall email list and osgeo wiki to learn more.

--
Jody Garnett

On 7 September 2017 at 00:15, 林博文 
<haya...@apptec.co.jp<mailto:haya...@apptec.co.jp>> wrote:
+1 for nomination of Dr. Anujit Vansarochana.

Best regards,

Hayashi.

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Hi,

+1 for nomination of Dr. Anujit Vansarochana.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Gabriele Prestifilippo

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I support this nomination. Gabriele is a young talented contributor of NASA WWW 
as well as other open source projects (see 
https://github.com/GabrielePrestifilippo/).

Cheers,

Maria



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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>
Inviato: giovedì 7 settembre 2017 20:56
A: osgeo
Cc: c...@osgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Gabriele Prestifilippo

Forwarding Gabriele Prestifilippo nomination by Marco Minghini. 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 


It is my pleasure to nominate Gabriele Prestifilippo as a Charter Member
for OSGeo. Gabriele is involved in the OSGeo community for some years
now. He started by collaborating on the OSGeo Live to include the NASA
WorldWind project, and since then he contributed to many open source
software projects and still is an active developer for some OSGeo projects.
He was a student in the Google Summer of Code program last year with
OSGeo, working on NASA WorldWind, while this year he helped by
volunteering as a GSoC mentor.
He represents a valuable resource for our community. His enthusiasm and
passion for OSGeo software make him an excellent candidate for becoming
an OSGeo Charter Member.
Best,

Marco

Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy)
+39 02 23996409
marco.mingh...@polimi.it <mailto:marco.mingh...@polimi.it>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I second this nomination. Eylul is a brilliant developer of FOSS4G applications 
(including NASA WWW) and an activist of open data.
Cheers
Maria



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Da: Vasile Craciunescu 
Data: 07/09/17 18:24 (GMT+01:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar

Forwarding Candan Eylül Kilsedar nomination by Marco Minghini. 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



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Subject: Nomination of Candan Eylül Kilsedar
Date:Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:49:27 +0200
From:Marco Minghini 
To:  OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
CC:  Candan Eylül Kilsedar 



Dear CRO,
I would like to nominate Candan Eylül Kilsedar as an OSGeo Charter
Member. She is currently a PhD student at the GEOlab (Geomatics and
Earth Observation lab) of Politecnico di Milano. She is a young and very
active open source GIS developer, who also participated in GSoC this
summer working on NASA Web WorldWind API. She developed or took part in
developing many open source Web GIS projects (see e.g.
http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/app/
,
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/migrate
,
http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/ViaRegina/
,
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/buriedtorrents/
,
http://osm.eoapps.eu/) in the lab.
She was also a member of the LOC at FOSS4G Europe 2015 in Como and
assistant of the LOC at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn, and since 2016 she is the
President of PoliMappers (https://polimappers.github.io/
), supporting mapping using FOSS4G for
humanitarian purposes.
I know Candan Eylül for many years now and her dedication to open source
GIS development and promotion are terrific. Please welcome her as a
Charter Member.

Marco

Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy)
+39 02 23996409 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2017 Results!

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear MaDi

Many thanks to all of you!! This is a very important result!

Congrats,

Maria


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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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<direg...@gmail.com>
Inviato: giovedì 7 settembre 2017 09:40
A: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Cc: gsoc-adminosgeo.org
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2017 Results!


Dear OSGeo community,


it is our pleasure to announce that 13 GSoC students have successfully 
completed the program this year! You can find out more at: 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4660070039158784/#projects


We would like to wholeheartedly thank all the mentors who dedicated their 
invaluable time and experience to this program, you are the core of GSoC! 
Thanks also to our students, we are sure you learnt a lot and also had some 
fun, and we hope you decide to remain in the OSGeo community becoming active 
developers and the future generation of GSoC mentors!


If you participated this year as a student or as a mentor, please take the time 
to leave us your feedback, as we try to improve the experience each year. We 
created a page 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Improvements where you 
can leave your comments and suggestions, please feel free to expand it, or to 
contact us directly to discuss your ideas. We are also collecting your 
questions and topics that you would like us to bring to the mentor summit 
(13-15 October, where Rohith Reddy and Margherita Di Leo will represent OSGeo).


Our activities don’t end here! You’ll soon receive our call to participate to a 
virtual meeting to discuss about OSGeo’s participation at “Google Code-in”, a 
program addressed to kids aged 13-17. We are very excited about that!

Meanwhile, read more at: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/


That’s all for now! Stay tuned..


Your OSGeo-GSoC Admins


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting Jack Reed Nomination

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Vasile

I strongly support Jack Reed's nomination by Peter Loewe.

Many thanks and best regards!

Maria


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http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

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Sol Katz Award 2015

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1 for Niroshan!

Maria

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Inviato: martedì 5 settembre 2017 05:34
A: Massimiliano Cannata
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; CRO
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

+1 for Niroshan's nomination!

Hayashi.

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2017-09-04 1:26 GMT+09:00 Massimiliano Cannata 
<massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch<mailto:massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>>:
I strongly support niroshan membership

Il 03 set 2017 1:53 PM, "Vasile Craciunescu" 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> ha scritto:
Forwarding Niroshan Bandara nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




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Subject:Nomination for Niroshan Bandara
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:27:33 +0900
From:   Venkatesh Raghavan 
<ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp<mailto:ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>>
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org<mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>, 
Niroshan Sanjaya <nsan...@gmail.com<mailto:nsan...@gmail.com>>



Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Niroshan Bandara  [1]
as a new OSGeo Charter Member.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He is one of the founders
of the OSGeo-SL (SL-Sri Lanka) community. He actively participates
in FOSS4G-Events in Asia and Europe, not only as a presenter but also
conducts workshops on WPS, Mobile-GIS and Open Hardware

He is participating in GSoC projects since 2016 and contributing his time
and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.

His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
makes him an excellent choice for being an OSGeo  Charter Member.

I have obtained consent form Niroshan before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Niroshan_Bandara

P.S. Am sending this nomination again as I messed up with the subject line
earlier.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1 for Natraj!
Maria



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Da: Vasile Craciunescu 
Data: 03/09/17 19:11 (GMT+01:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi

Forwarding Natraj Vaddadi nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017
member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017


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Subject: Nomination for Natraj Vaddadi
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:46:33 +0900
From: Venkatesh Raghavan 
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Natraj Vaddadi


Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Natraj Vaddadi [1]
as a Charter Member to OSGeo.

Although he is a late entrant to the OSGeo world, Natraj
has been super active in promoting OSGeo technology and
tools at educational institutions and non-profit organizations
in India and Thailand. He has also participated in OSGeo events
in India and Thailand and is mainly focused on technologies
for field data collection. He is also working on preparing
training documentation for OSGeo community projects
(QGIS, ZOO-WPS etc). He also is doing indian language localization
for geospatial software.

  He conducts his training using FOSS4G tools. His keen interest in
promoting
OSGeo software makes him a great candidate for nomination as Charter
Member for OSGeo.

I have obtained consent form Natraj before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vnatraj

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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter membership

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+ 1.
Maria



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Da: Venkatesh Raghavan 
Data: 04/09/17 10:15 (GMT+01:00)
A: Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Discussions 

Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Markus Metz for charter 
membership

On 9/4/2017 4:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Forwarding Markus Metz nomination by Moritz Lennert. The 2017 member
> nominations listwas updated [1].

I strongly support the nomination of Markus Metz.

Best

Venka

P.S. Amazed that MarkusM was not a Charter Member already.

>
> 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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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Charter member nomination: Michael Terner

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I warmly second the nomination of Michael!
Maria


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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Vasile Craciunescu 
Data: 03/09/17 19:19 (GMT+01:00)
A: OSGeo Discussions 
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Michael Terner

We confirm that Michael Terner accepted the nomination by Sara Safavi
and Regina Obe. 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: Michael Terner
Date:Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:33:35 -0500
From:Sara Safavi 
To:  OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 



Nominee: Michael Terner, m...@appgeo.com 

I would like to nominate Michael Terner for OSGeo Charter Membership. I
imagine I will not be the only person nominating Michael this year, but
I would be remiss if I did not. Michael, of course, co-chaired FOSS4G
2017, and his leadership was an integral part of the event's massive
success. Having known Mike for many years, I can speak personally to his
passion for and dedication to growing the open source geospatial community.



On 8/25/17 5:29 AM, Regina Obe wrote:
 > Name: Michael Ternier
 >
 > I would like to nominate Michael Ternier for OSGeo Charter Membership.
 > Michael has been a strong supporter of OSGeo projects for a number of
years.
 > The company, AppGeo, which he co-founded has been using FOSS4G tools
for a
 > number of years  and have been sponsors of several OSGeo events.
He's given
 > talks on building your product around FOSS4G software.
 >
 > Just recently he was the Co-Chair of FOSS4G 2017 where he did much of the
 > legwork of putting out the proposal, doing the budget, garnering funding
 > from many sponsors (I think FOSS4G2017 hit a record on sponsorship), and
 > also making everything come together.
 >
 > He has something special that we are short on in OSGeo, and that is the
 > ability to bring the conversation of FOSS4G to the business decision
makers
 > and how it can streamline their business processes.
 >
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Regina
 >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1!

Maria


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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di nicolas bozon 
<nicolas.bo...@gmail.com>
Inviato: domenica 3 settembre 2017 14:44
A: Angelos Tzotsos
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

I support Niroshan's nomination too

Best,

Nick



2017-09-03 14:35 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos 
<gcpp.kal...@gmail.com<mailto:gcpp.kal...@gmail.com>>:
I would like to second Niroshan's nomination.
Angelos

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org<mailto:vas...@geo-spatial.org>> wrote:
Forwarding Niroshan Bandara nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan. The 2017 member 
nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].

Best regards,
Vasile & Jeff
2017 OSGeo Elections CROs

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017




 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nomination for Niroshan Bandara
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:27:33 +0900
From:   Venkatesh Raghavan 
<ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp<mailto:ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>>
To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <c...@osgeo.org<mailto:c...@osgeo.org>>, 
Niroshan Sanjaya <nsan...@gmail.com<mailto:nsan...@gmail.com>>



Dear CRO,

It is my great pleasure to nominate Niroshan Bandara  [1]
as a new OSGeo Charter Member.

He is a young researcher who has shown dedication and commitment
to the OSGeo mission. He exclusively FOSS4G tools for his research and
has contributed to ZOO-WPS and MapMint projects. He is one of the founders
of the OSGeo-SL (SL-Sri Lanka) community. He actively participates
in FOSS4G-Events in Asia and Europe, not only as a presenter but also
conducts workshops on WPS, Mobile-GIS and Open Hardware

He is participating in GSoC projects since 2016 and contributing his time
and effort to improve FOSS4G tools.

His enthusiasm in spreading the use of OSGeo software
makes him an excellent choice for being an OSGeo  Charter Member.

I have obtained consent form Niroshan before filing his nomination.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Niroshan_Bandara

P.S. Am sending this nomination again as I messed up with the subject line
earlier.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

I support this nomination.

Hae-kyong is one of the main actors of UN Open GIS project!

Best,

Maria


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

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




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

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

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

Sol Katz Award 2015

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








Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Vasile Craciunescu 
<vas...@geo-spatial.org>
Inviato: venerdì 1 settembre 2017 13:51
A: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Hae-Kyong Kang for charter 
membership

Forwarding Hae-Kyong Kang nomination by Sanghee Shin. 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 Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership
Date:Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:43:37 +0900
From:신상희 <shs...@gaia3d.com>
To:  c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>
CC:  강혜경 <hkk...@krihs.re.kr>, 강혜경 <kang.kr...@gmail.com>



Dear CRO,

I’d like to nominate Dr. Hae-Kyong Kang for charter membership of OSGeo.
As a researcher in KRIHS(Korea Research Institute of Human Settlements),
she has carried out many open source GIS projects and produced multiple
fruitful results including OpenGDS. She is a leader of OpenGDS projects,
which is partly being adopted in UN Open GIS Initiative. Also she has
played a key role in UN Open GIS Initiative as a chair of Spiral 3. And
she has put many efforts to spread the open source GIS in Asia region. I
believe she will be a great asset to OSGeo.

Kind regards,

신상희
---
Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com

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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1!!!
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: Alexandre Neto 
Data: 30/08/17 21:08 (GMT+01:00)
A: Matthias Kuhn , Aurelio Pires 
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões


+1 for Joana

On qua, 30/08/2017, 15:31 Matthias Kuhn 
> wrote:
+1, great candidate

On 08/30/2017 03:51 PM, Aurelio Pires wrote:
> +1
>
> Aurelio Pires
>
>
> On 2017-08-30 13:51, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> > Forwarding Joana Simões nomination by María Arias de Reyna. The 2017
> > member nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vasile & Jeff
> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Forwarded Message 
> > Subject: Fwd: Nomination Joana Simões
> > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:50:35 -0400
> > From: Jorge Sanz >
> > To: CRO >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: *María Arias de Reyna* 
> > >>
> > Date: 24 August 2017 at 03:21
> > Subject: Nomination Joana Simões
> > To: CRO  
> > >>, Joana Simoes
> >  
> > >>
> >
> >
> > I want to nominate Joana Simões (in cc)
> >
> > Joana is already a member of the OsGeo Pt board. She is a free
> > software advocator and very active on all kind of activities around
> > OsGeo and FOSS4G. She is currently working both for qGIS and
> > GeoNetwork among many other OsGeo software.
> >
> >
> >
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

+1
Maria



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 Messaggio originale 
Da: nicolas bozon 
Data: 30/08/17 07:29 (GMT+01:00)
A: Aurelio Pires 
Cc: OSGeo Discussions 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

+1

Nick



2017-08-29 17:38 GMT+02:00 Aurelio Pires 
>:
+1

Aurelio Pires



On 2017-08-29 16:17, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
+1

Jorge Gustavo Rocha

On 29-08-2017 15:40, Pedro Pereira wrote:
+1

Pedro Pereira

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Marc Vloemans 

>> wrote:

 +1

 Kind regards,
 Marc Vloemans


 > Op 29 aug. 2017 om 01:43 heeft Vasile Craciunescu
  
>> het
 volgende geschreven:
 >
 > Forwarding Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus nomination by Gérald Fenoy
 and Jachym Cepicky. The 2017 member nominations list will be updated
 ASAP [1].
 >
 > Best regards,
 > Vasile & Jeff
 > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
 >
 > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
 
 >
 >  Forwarded Message 
 > Subject: Charter Member Nomination  for Jorge de Jesus
 > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:02:50 +0200
 > From: Fenoy Gerald 

 >>
 > To: OSGeo CRO  
>>
 > CC: jorge. dejesus 

 >>
 >
 >
 > Dear All,
 > it is a great honor for me to nominate Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus.
 >
 > Jorge is active and recognized for his work for years in the world
 of FOSS4G. He is currently working at Geocat and is involved in
 various Open Source ProjectS, amongst them the famous GeoNetwork and
 PyWPS. Jorge is someone with a clear vision and positive thinking.
 >
 > Jorge attends the FOSS4G on a regular manner and often make
 presentation and workshop there.
 >
 > I have faith in Jorge and feel that he is someone representative
 and that will be of big benefit for OSGeo.
 >
 > All the best,
 >
 > --
 >
 > Best regards CRO,
 >
 > Gérald Fenoy
 > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
 
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