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

[nicolas bozon]

Hi all,

I have updated the OSGeo symbols set according to your feedbacks.

Updated Preview:
https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/

Updated material:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206/commits/d4cf2ebc76e3429953980a38dd047d3003a7


Basic changelog:

- Removed every symbols considered as non-compliant to our brand guidelines
- Removed the Get-It project logo which is not a community project at all
- Corrected PostGIS and PgRouting elephant logos (so a bit less scalable
now)
- Corrected mapfish and pywps logos (added missing text)
- Renamed live to osgeolive

As nothing that may considered as non compliant to our guidelines remains,
and that the first batch of community feedbacks have been taken into
account, may i suggest that the OSGeo symbols set could now be pulled into
the branding repo ?

Thanks in advance for any comment

Best,

Nick







Le mer. 21 nov. 2018 à 00:30, Jody Garnett  a
écrit :

> Hi Jody,
>
>>
>> Thank you for your constructive feedbacks.
>>
>> I am a bit confused on this one - part of the point of having our mark
>>> was to use it everywhere on all the OSGeo things.
>>>
>> Our mark is our beloved compass, and these variations on the compass are
>> meant to represent all the OSGeo things :)
>>
>
>
>>  I get your point here, but i think these symbols could be great to help
>> differenciate the many facets of OSGeo.
>> Imagine a new comer that could for example identify each of our activity
>> very clearly. I think that symbols might help him to
>> understand the foundation and find his way, with always the compass shape
>> in mind of course :)
>>
>
> I understand, and indeed I assumed we would go with the sub brand approach
> myself. As such I am not the best person to do the pros/cons between the
> ideas :)
>
> This is a case where I love your work, and want to double check our
> strategy.
>
> The style guide is here:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding
>
> The summary has:
>
> *Logos are as provided for OSGeo and sub-brands (all of which include the
>> unalterned OSGeo mark). Distinct brands (such as GeoForAll and OSGeo Live)
>> maintain their own mark.*
>> *While logos have been produced with Miriam Libre Bold and Sintony
>> Regular the resulting shapes have been reduced to outlines for use on
>> systems that do not have the correct fonts available. A template has been
>> provided for the generation of additional sub-brand logos.*
>
>
> aside: We really need this converted to html for our website.
>
> You are right, and i think Boundless did a great elephant design on the
>> old OpenGeo Suite, so i got inspired :)
>> Slonik is a lovely but very detailed SVG, so difficult to integrate in
>> such a symbol set. That's why i decided to use a simpler one.
>> I will try to modify it before the PostGIS folks complain :)
>>
>
> Chance for collaboration rather than complaints, I think everyone can see
> the design limitation.
>
> Our OSGeo compass outline does not "quite" work, since there is not much
> room for the project identify inside. I think we had sub branding as a
> priority we would of done it a little bit different.
>
>
>> - get-it just added themselves to the website wrong and have not yet
>>> asked to be a community project? I am trying to confirm now ...
>>>
>>
>> Whoa, my bad, sorry ! i didn't know one could become a Community Project
>> so easily :)
>>
>
> We like projects to ask, the code and project is reviewed on the
> incubation list, etc..
>
>
>> Yes, please confirm with the Incubation Committee about their
>> application. I see you already removed it from the website so i will remove
>> it from the set.
>>
>
> Yeah I may of messed up there, trying to figure it out.
>
>>
>> - Loader is being added (it is approved but still has a draft web page)
>>>
>>
>> Good point, will plan to integrate the Loader logo, but i can't find it
>> by now :(
>>
>
> To be honest I do not think they have a logo.
>
>>
>> - GC2/Vidi was just added yesterday
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and the Mapcentia logo is already in the set. I understand both GC2
>> and Vidi use the same logotype right ?
>>
>
> Yeah and that is the logo of the company so ... not the best logo for the
> project? Actually if you wanted to stop by the incubation list we could
> talk to the projects directly.
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks again and talk soon
>>
>
> Indeed!
> Jody
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[nicolas bozon]

Hi Angelos,

Awesome work by Amanda Yoshiizumi !

My preference goes to logo proposal #1 (with new colors, as modified by
Amanda three days ago).

Please inform us when the new pycsw logo will be official, i will update
the OSGeo symbols set accordingly.

Best,

Nick

Le mer. 5 déc. 2018 à 21:39, Angelos Tzotsos  a
écrit :

> Hi Nicolas, all,
>
> Here is the ticket with the proposals for the new pycsw logo:
> https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/577
> https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/files/2617995/brandconcept-pycsw.pdf
>
> Comments are welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Angelos
>
>
> On 11/22/18 6:53 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:
> > Hey Angelos !
> >
> > Thanks for this information, i'll give my input with pleasure, and
> > integrate the new logo in the set :)
> >
> > I am planing regular updates over time in order to keep the set
> > consistent and every project happy.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > Le jeu. 22 nov. 2018 à 14:55, Angelos Tzotsos  a
> > écrit :
> >
> >> Hi Nicolas,
> >>
> >> This is impressive work, thank you!
> >>
> >> FYI pycsw is in the process to change/improve the logo.
> >> I will let you know when we have something to look at (an expert's
> opinion
> >> would be much appreciated :)
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Angelos
> >>
> >> On 11/20/18 9:53 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thank you all for the positive feedbacks !
> >>
> >> Kristian, i already have a few ideas for a PROJ logo and will come up
> >> with a SVG proposal soon !
> >>
> >> Bart, thanks for noticing that mistake, the GeoExt logo has been
> >> removed from the set. Sorry for that.
> >>
> >> Cameron, adding colors to the project logos SVG would indeed be quite a
> lot
> >> of
> >> work. Only the Foundation related logos are available in color for now.
> >> (see:
> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7135374/48731563-a1696800-ec3d-11e8-9a4c-c1b5919a325a.png
> >> orhttps://
> github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg/color
> >> )
> >> Please also note that you can already add a unique color to each
> >> project logo using CSS). I would be glad to work on a colored version,
> but
> >> i would need much more free time for that !
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >>
> >> Le mar. 20 nov. 2018 à 14:52, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
> sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> a écrit :
> >>
> >>
> >> Big thanks to Nicolas! Really impressive!
> >>
> >>
> >> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> >> Departamento de Geomática
> >> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> >> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> >> URUGUAY
> >> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
> >> --
> >> *De:* Discuss  <
> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Cameron
> >> Shorter  
> >> *Enviado:* martes, 20 de noviembre de 2018 8:10
> >> *Cc:* OSGeo-Marketing; OSGeo Discussions
> >> *Asunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set
> >>
> >>
> >> Nicolas, these symbols look very impressive!
> >>
> >> As Kristian noticed, there are a few OSGeoLive projects which have logos
> >> which are not as creative as what you have been creating. (Seehttps://
> live.osgeo.org/en/presentation.html ) I'd be happy to help point
> >> you to our OSGeoLive points of contact for each project if you would
> like
> >> to ask them if you'd like to draw them a logo.
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts on logo colours? I'm guessing it would be quite a
> >> bit of work to adopt logo colours into the SVG?
> >>
> >> Once you are done, we should probably be including your logos into the
> >> OSGeoLive documentation.
> >>
> >> Nice work, Cameron
> >>
> >>
> >> On 20/11/18 8:01 am, Kristian Evers wrote:
> >>
> >> Nicolas,
> >>
> >> Very impressive work!
> >>
> >> Regarding projects that doesn’t already have logo, would you be
> interested
> >> in coming up with logo suggestions for those projects? I can only speak
> for
> >> the PROJ project, but I am sure all projects without a logo would be
> >> interested in having one. At least a new logo for PROJ would be very
> >> welcome!
> >>

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo web style guide

[nicolas bozon]

Hi all,

Greetings from the FOSS4G-Asia code sprint in Colombo, Sri Lanka !

Taking advantage of this session to finally wrap up and publish a very
first version of the OSGeo style guide as HTML.

This is an entry point to our branding material, aimed at providing
guidelines in a more accessible way (only PDF is available for now).

A preview of the style guide is available here:
https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/styleguide/

Code is available here:
https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-styleguide/marketing/branding/styleguide


This is built on top of mdwiki ,
using markdown as a simple structure, rendered with Javascript only.
As markdown styling capabilities are limited, you may notice that i had to
include quite a bit of inline HTML to make it work and meet the guidelines
(for proper use of fonts, colors, reponsive images...). A specific CSS file
was also written with love to make it as shiny as possible :)

This is a first version that needs your feedbacks and remarks to be
completed. I hope we as Marketing Committee can work together to review,
correct, enhance and make it live.
Please review and comment on the dedicated PR available here:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/208

The initial idea (discussed earlier this year with Jeffrey and Jody) would
be to host this work on a subdomain such as https://brand.osgeo.org that
should become the entry point to all the material and guidelines we have on
Github. I would be happy to collaborate with Marketing and SAC to make this
happen.

Code sprint is coming to and end now, all ready for lunch !
This was an awesome FOSS4G-Asia event this week, and i would like to deeply
thank the Sri Lankan LOC again for the great work they did and perfect
organization they provided.

Best regards,

Nick
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto - Nicolas Bozon

[nicolas bozon]

Hi Luigi,

Thanks for following my links and asking.

First of all, i am not a developer, so please do not expect to find core or
revolutionary code on my Github nor on the OSGeo projects svn.

I am rather a geo data product manager, cartographer and designer. I also
like to think that i am an OSGeo power user, with predisposition for
developer advocacy and community management.

I believe my most significant activity or contribution to open source is
co-founding ZOO-Project with Gérald Fenoy and Venkatesh Raghavan (former
board members btw) and promoting it with the ZOO-Tribe since 10 years now.

ZOO-Project is solid and scalable WPS implementation that allows to execute
and chain many of the OSGeo librairies such as GDAL, GRASS GIS,
OrfeoToolbox (but also others such as SAGA GIS, CGAL or R) all on the
server, in a OGC compliant way. I spent hundreds of hours designing the WPS
architecture along with co-founders, and i believe Gérald and other ZOO
developers implemented our vision the good way. I also wrote part of this
project documentation, along with Gérald and Jeff McKenna. If you are
really curious about my commits, please look way behind in the ZOO-Project
svn history and search for users like nbozon and nickboz :)

Another significant contribution of mine to geospatial open source is the
design of the MapMint software. This is built on top of ZOO-Project, GDAL
and MapServer and also interacts smoothly with some well known clients such
as OpenLayers or QGIS. Among numerous online processing capabilities,
MapMint really leverages MapServer for non-developers, as it writes
mapfiles for them using a friendly UI and crazy mapscript, all served as
WPS. As for ZOO-Project, i spent uncountable man-days to achieve this work
with my OSGeo friends, and to share it with the community. I did a little
bit of coding there too, especially for the front-end prototypes and
documentation. Once again, if you are really looking at code related to me,
please have a look at the mapmint-ui directory on the MapMint github.

For the record, these two projects are licensed under MIT styled licenses.
They were most notably used and extended within an innovative research
project from 2013 to 2015, funded by the European Commission FP7 Program.
They are also nowadays in production for a number of commercial projects
led by multiple private companies.

I believe my open source activity and direct contributions also remain
through my involvement in numerous local and regional FOSS4G events
organization.
Traveling around the globe to help and spread the word, melting with the
Asian and European chapters, sharing ideas and knowledge with many
different OSGeo people are also contributions. They do not necessarily
involve code or development, but they at least allow me to say that i got
to know many of my fellow charter members and that i now understand OSGeo
globally.

Past and current work with the OSGeo Marketing Committee are also often
impalpable yet meaningful contributions.
My pet project mapsk.in is another open source contribution, and even gets
a (very quiet) Github :)

Sorry for this long answer Luigi. I hope that it helped you consider that i
am and will ever be an active OSGeo activist and contributor.

I'd like to conclude by saying that i do not think being an active skilled
developer is mandatory to become an OSGeo director.
I think advocacy, strategy and openness are much more important for this
role.

Best regards,

Nicolas





Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 10:57, Luigi Pirelli  a écrit :

> Hi Nicolas, do you have some more repo other this
> https://github.com/nbozon where to see your OS activities?
>
> Luigi Pirelli
>
>
> **
> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli
> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli
> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir
> * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:
> *
> https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition
> * Hire me: http://goo.gl/BYRQKg
>
> **********
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 17:55, nicolas bozon 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi OSGeo,
>>
>> Please read my manifesto here:
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Nicolas_Bozon
>>
>>
>> And have a good week end !
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto - Nicolas Bozon

[nicolas bozon]

Hi OSGeo,

Please read my manifesto here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Nicolas_Bozon


And have a good week end !

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[nicolas bozon]

Hi Vicky,

Thank you for all these interesting questions. I'll try to answer and make
things as clear as possible.

First of all, this work is one of the action of the Marketing Committee for
2018. I released it a bit late, and this is still a work in progress.

It has not been yet 'approved' by Mark'comm nor merged to the OSGeo Github
branding repo. Some additional arrangements are needed, so better not to
use it in 'production' for now :)

I know the time it takes to do a design, as I do the release tweets designs
> for pgRouting.
>
> Maybe I don't understand the difference with the words symbols and logo.
> Can you explain your understanding?
>

Logo belongs to each project, has its own a story and involved most of the
time specific design work by project contributors.
Symbols or glyphs are simplified shapes that everyone can remember easily
and that can possibly scale at 'any' size.


> From my perspective:
> The majority of the projects symbol/logos look like their original design
> but they lost their color and they "look" gray (or is the gray green in the
> guidelines).
>

The goal of the symbol set is to gather all the projects logos in a symbol
collection that can be used as a webfont.
One would basically import the CSS and then just write ** to make it appear in any web document, in any
color, at any size or screen resolution.

I used one of the OSGeo grey color in the demo page you are right, but one
is free to use any other.


> if a project has its own logo/symbol, like, pgRouting, baby elephant
> playing with a compass, full with colors, is there a reason for us to have
> a design change, a gray elephant head with two triangles in the ear?
>

Once again, logo belongs to each project and i wouldn't pretend to change
any of them.

As for PostGIS Slonik, your elephant was difficult to transform as a simple
symbol shape, so i decided to create a simpler one. I feel sorry if that is
hurting you or your
community. Please note that i'm still at taming those two rebel elephants,
so things should be much better shortly :)


> Do the projects PSC need to vote for their logo/symbol change or is the
> marketing committee, from now on be in charge of the logo/symbol designs of
> projects and the projects PSC have no vote on that?
>

Oh no ! Not at All ! Nobody wants to change any logo, just get a useful SVG
symbols collection to represent OSGeo projects in a simpler way when
needed.


> As SAC member:
> Website:
> Can you explain where in the website the projects's  symbol/logo would be
> used
> If applicable: where the original logos would be used?
> Where/how would the OSGeo foundation symbols set would be used.
> Where/how would the initiatives symbols set would be used.
>

I believe each symbol could be used on related page as subtitles icons, as
decorative html elements, as div or page repetitive background, or as
images fallback when needed on mobile, or even in the OSGeoLive submenus or
docs, as Cameron suggested.

These are only ideas. You should probably see this symbol set a basic
resource for websites, prints or any other media where using the official
project logo is not mandatory.


> Wiki:
> In the wiki page we have badges for example:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OSGeo_PSC.png
> We are still using the old logo badges, because there is no specification
> on the guidelines of how a badge should look like.
>

Good point, some of the symbols could replace some of the old badges. I
didn't think of it yet.

It is planned to integrate the symbols set in our branding assets, so its
use will be eventually documented in the style guide.

I hope i answered your question and will let you know when the PgRouting
symbol will be better.


Best,

Nick
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[nicolas bozon]

Hey Angelos !

Thanks for this information, i'll give my input with pleasure, and
integrate the new logo in the set :)

I am planing regular updates over time in order to keep the set
consistent and every project happy.

Best,

Nick

Le jeu. 22 nov. 2018 à 14:55, Angelos Tzotsos  a
écrit :

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> This is impressive work, thank you!
>
> FYI pycsw is in the process to change/improve the logo.
> I will let you know when we have something to look at (an expert's opinion
> would be much appreciated :)
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 11/20/18 9:53 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you all for the positive feedbacks !
>
> Kristian, i already have a few ideas for a PROJ logo and will come up
> with a SVG proposal soon !
>
> Bart, thanks for noticing that mistake, the GeoExt logo has been
> removed from the set. Sorry for that.
>
> Cameron, adding colors to the project logos SVG would indeed be quite a lot
> of
> work. Only the Foundation related logos are available in color for now.
> (see:https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7135374/48731563-a1696800-ec3d-11e8-9a4c-c1b5919a325a.png
> orhttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg/color
> )
> Please also note that you can already add a unique color to each
> project logo using CSS). I would be glad to work on a colored version, but
> i would need much more free time for that !
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas
>
> Le mar. 20 nov. 2018 à 14:52, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
>  a écrit :
>
>
> Big thanks to Nicolas! Really impressive!
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
> --
> *De:* Discuss  
>  en nombre de Cameron
> Shorter  
> *Enviado:* martes, 20 de noviembre de 2018 8:10
> *Cc:* OSGeo-Marketing; OSGeo Discussions
> *Asunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set
>
>
> Nicolas, these symbols look very impressive!
>
> As Kristian noticed, there are a few OSGeoLive projects which have logos
> which are not as creative as what you have been creating. 
> (Seehttps://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation.html ) I'd be happy to help point
> you to our OSGeoLive points of contact for each project if you would like
> to ask them if you'd like to draw them a logo.
>
> What are your thoughts on logo colours? I'm guessing it would be quite a
> bit of work to adopt logo colours into the SVG?
>
> Once you are done, we should probably be including your logos into the
> OSGeoLive documentation.
>
> Nice work, Cameron
>
>
> On 20/11/18 8:01 am, Kristian Evers wrote:
>
> Nicolas,
>
> Very impressive work!
>
> Regarding projects that doesn’t already have logo, would you be interested
> in coming up with logo suggestions for those projects? I can only speak for
> the PROJ project, but I am sure all projects without a logo would be
> interested in having one. At least a new logo for PROJ would be very
> welcome!
>
> Good job,
>
> Kristian
>
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 21:28, nicolas bozon  
>  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have finally been able to put together and publish a first version of
> the OSGeo symbols set.
>
> This is a visual representation of the OSGeo projects and activities aimed
> at supplementing the Foundation branding material.
>
> A preview of the OSGeo symbols set is available 
> here:https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/
>
> The 48 symbols fall into four categories:
> - Foundation (OSGeo fundamentals represented by 'Variations on the
> Compass')
> - Initiatives (mostly based on the compass shape too)
> - Projects (derived OSGeo project logos)
> - Community (derived Community projects logos)
>
> The set is made of two parts, both copyrighted OSGeo:
> - The source SVG documents, licensed under CC-BY-SA
>  
> (seehttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg
> )
> - A cross-browser webfont, licensed under OFL.
> (seehttps://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/font
> )
>
> Important notes:
> - Some projects do not have a logotype, only logotext, and cannot be
> included in the set at this stage (namely PROJ, GEOS, OSSIM and Degree).
> - Some projects logos were heavily modified or redrawn, in order to ensure
> constistency and scalability. I'm listening to project owners feedbacks and
> will be glad to work towards better solutions if needed.
> - All 48 symbols are made available as black SVG. The 16 Foundation and
> Initiatives icons are also available in color, ba

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

[nicolas bozon]

Hi Jody,

Thank you for your constructive feedbacks.

I am a bit confused on this one - part of the point of having our mark was
> to use it everywhere on all the OSGeo things.
>

Our mark is our beloved compass, and these variations on the compass are
meant to represent all the OSGeo things :)
 I get your point here, but i think these symbols could be great to help
differenciate the many facets of OSGeo.
Imagine a new comer that could for example identify each of our activity
very clearly. I think that symbols might help him to
understand the foundation and find his way, with always the compass shape
in mind of course :)

The symbol set for "board" and "local chapter" go against this direction of
> our style guide.
>

I quite disagree here, these symbols are on the contrary designed to
strengthen our compass-based identity.
I imagine they would always be used along with the official mark (for
example on the Board or Local chapter pages, as subtitles :)

We went through one round of compromise for our style guide, for local
> chapters providing guidance on the creation of subbrands. I see no reason
> to encourage the use sub brands within our organization?
>

It would be interesting that the other Marketing Committee members express
their opinion on this one.
I would of course remove every symbol that may be considered as non
compliant to our guidelines.


> I am really enjoying the osgeo project and community project symbols :)
>

Thanks, my pleasure !


> A couple notes:
> - The osgeo-postgis is based on boundless branding for postgis (as part of
> it including it in the old osgeo suite product). The dimond shape used is
> not part of that community's branding (they have an elephant named "Slonik"
> holding the world cheerfully).
>

You are right, and i think Boundless did a great elephant design on the old
OpenGeo Suite, so i got inspired :)
Slonik is a lovely but very detailed SVG, so difficult to integrate in such
a symbol set. That's why i decided to use a simpler one.
I will try to modify it before the PostGIS folks complain :)
That is also true for the PgRouting elephant btw, beautiful but does not
scale well when used within a webfont.


> - get-it just added themselves to the website wrong and have not yet asked
> to be a community project? I am trying to confirm now ...
>

Whoa, my bad, sorry ! i didn't know one could become a Community Project so
easily :)
Yes, please confirm with the Incubation Committee about their application.
I see you already removed it from the website so i will remove it from the
set.

- Loader is being added (it is approved but still has a draft web page)
>

Good point, will plan to integrate the Loader logo, but i can't find it by
now :(

- GC2/Vidi was just added yesterday
>

Yes, and the Mapcentia logo is already in the set. I understand both GC2
and Vidi use the same logotype right ?


Thanks again and talk soon

Best,

Nicolas




--
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 12:28, nicolas bozon 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have finally been able to put together and publish a first version of
>> the OSGeo symbols set.
>>
>> This is a visual representation of the OSGeo projects and activities
>> aimed at supplementing the Foundation branding material.
>>
>> A preview of the OSGeo symbols set is available here:
>> https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/
>>
>> The 48 symbols fall into four categories:
>> - Foundation (OSGeo fundamentals represented by 'Variations on the
>> Compass')
>> - Initiatives (mostly based on the compass shape too)
>> - Projects (derived OSGeo project logos)
>> - Community (derived Community projects logos)
>>
>> The set is made of two parts, both copyrighted OSGeo:
>> - The source SVG documents, licensed under CC-BY-SA
>>  (see
>> https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg
>> )
>> - A cross-browser webfont, licensed under OFL.
>> (see
>> https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/font
>> )
>>
>> Important notes:
>> - Some projects do not have a logotype, only logotext, and cannot be
>> included in the set at this stage (namely PROJ, GEOS, OSSIM and Degree).
>> - Some projects logos were heavily modified or redrawn, in order to
>> ensure constistency and scalability. I'm listening to project owners
>> feedbacks and will be glad to work towards better solutions if needed.
>> - All 48 symbols are made available as black SVG. The 16 Foundation and
>> Initiatives icons are also available in color, based on our brand
>> guidelines.
>> - This work may not be exhaustive and is subject to change.
>>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[nicolas bozon]

Hi,

Thank you all for the positive feedbacks !

Kristian, i already have a few ideas for a PROJ logo and will come up
with a SVG proposal soon !

Bart, thanks for noticing that mistake, the GeoExt logo has been
removed from the set. Sorry for that.

Cameron, adding colors to the project logos SVG would indeed be quite a lot
of
work. Only the Foundation related logos are available in color for now.
(see:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7135374/48731563-a1696800-ec3d-11e8-9a4c-c1b5919a325a.png
or
https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg/color
)
Please also note that you can already add a unique color to each
project logo using CSS). I would be glad to work on a colored version, but
i would need much more free time for that !

Best regards,

Nicolas

Le mar. 20 nov. 2018 à 14:52, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> a écrit :

> Big thanks to Nicolas! Really impressive!
>
>
> 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 Cameron
> Shorter 
> *Enviado:* martes, 20 de noviembre de 2018 8:10
> *Cc:* OSGeo-Marketing; OSGeo Discussions
> *Asunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set
>
>
> Nicolas, these symbols look very impressive!
>
> As Kristian noticed, there are a few OSGeoLive projects which have logos
> which are not as creative as what you have been creating. (See
> https://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation.html ) I'd be happy to help point
> you to our OSGeoLive points of contact for each project if you would like
> to ask them if you'd like to draw them a logo.
>
> What are your thoughts on logo colours? I'm guessing it would be quite a
> bit of work to adopt logo colours into the SVG?
>
> Once you are done, we should probably be including your logos into the
> OSGeoLive documentation.
>
> Nice work, Cameron
>
>
> On 20/11/18 8:01 am, Kristian Evers wrote:
>
> Nicolas,
>
> Very impressive work!
>
> Regarding projects that doesn’t already have logo, would you be interested
> in coming up with logo suggestions for those projects? I can only speak for
> the PROJ project, but I am sure all projects without a logo would be
> interested in having one. At least a new logo for PROJ would be very
> welcome!
>
> Good job,
>
> Kristian
>
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 21:28, nicolas bozon  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have finally been able to put together and publish a first version of
> the OSGeo symbols set.
>
> This is a visual representation of the OSGeo projects and activities aimed
> at supplementing the Foundation branding material.
>
> A preview of the OSGeo symbols set is available here:
> https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/
>
> The 48 symbols fall into four categories:
> - Foundation (OSGeo fundamentals represented by 'Variations on the
> Compass')
> - Initiatives (mostly based on the compass shape too)
> - Projects (derived OSGeo project logos)
> - Community (derived Community projects logos)
>
> The set is made of two parts, both copyrighted OSGeo:
> - The source SVG documents, licensed under CC-BY-SA
>  (see
> https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg
> )
> - A cross-browser webfont, licensed under OFL.
> (see
> https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/font
> )
>
> Important notes:
> - Some projects do not have a logotype, only logotext, and cannot be
> included in the set at this stage (namely PROJ, GEOS, OSSIM and Degree).
> - Some projects logos were heavily modified or redrawn, in order to ensure
> constistency and scalability. I'm listening to project owners feedbacks and
> will be glad to work towards better solutions if needed.
> - All 48 symbols are made available as black SVG. The 16 Foundation and
> Initiatives icons are also available in color, based on our brand
> guidelines.
> - This work may not be exhaustive and is subject to change.
>
> Hope you will like it !
>
> Reviews, comments and ideas are most welcome in the related PR:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas Bozon
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo symbols set

[nicolas bozon]

Hello all,

I have finally been able to put together and publish a first version of the
OSGeo symbols set.

This is a visual representation of the OSGeo projects and activities aimed
at supplementing the Foundation branding material.

A preview of the OSGeo symbols set is available here:
https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/

The 48 symbols fall into four categories:
- Foundation (OSGeo fundamentals represented by 'Variations on the Compass')
- Initiatives (mostly based on the compass shape too)
- Projects (derived OSGeo project logos)
- Community (derived Community projects logos)

The set is made of two parts, both copyrighted OSGeo:
- The source SVG documents, licensed under CC-BY-SA
 (see
https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/svg
)
- A cross-browser webfont, licensed under OFL.
(see
https://github.com/nbozon/osgeo/tree/OSGeo-symbols-set/marketing/branding/symbols/font
)

Important notes:
- Some projects do not have a logotype, only logotext, and cannot be
included in the set at this stage (namely PROJ, GEOS, OSSIM and Degree).
- Some projects logos were heavily modified or redrawn, in order to ensure
constistency and scalability. I'm listening to project owners feedbacks and
will be glad to work towards better solutions if needed.
- All 48 symbols are made available as black SVG. The 16 Foundation and
Initiatives icons are also available in color, based on our brand
guidelines.
- This work may not be exhaustive and is subject to change.

Hope you will like it !

Reviews, comments and ideas are most welcome in the related PR:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206


Best regards,

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

[nicolas bozon]

I second Victoria's nomination !

Best regards,

Nick



Le sam. 17 nov. 2018 à 00:07, Vasile Craciunescu  a
écrit :

> 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) 
> Reply-To: astrid_e...@osgeo.org
> To: Cro 
> CC: victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com, Jeff McKenna
> 
>
> 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
>
> --
> Astrid Emde
>
> -
> Astrid Emde
> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
> astrid_e...@osgeo.org
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo logo metadata - was: Re: osgeo logo svg - empty drawing

[nicolas bozon]

Hi,

I have absolutely no problem with Get Interactive created our new logo
using proprietary software, and the job was nicely done btw.

However, i fully agree with Maxi's comment here ( and i like the
provocative comparison pretty much :) )

The following fixes this concern, among few others:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/200/commits/9d97ebc24f2ee5e35833d04f7d3eb0334194f2cb


Please see details in the related PR:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/200

Best,

Nick






Le jeu. 28 déc. 2017 à 09:34, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> a écrit :

> Anyway,
> I will remove metadata saying it's done with a proprietary software... If
> it is legal to remove it...
>
> I wouldn't like OSGeo distribute a shapefile of members location with
> metadata saying it's done with arcgis ;-)
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 28 dic 2017 02:16, "Jody Garnett"  ha scritto:
>
>> For more information on the use of the logo (including black and white
>> variations) please see the instructions:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/marketing/branding/styleguide-osgeo.pdf
>>
>> Please the a moment to download the file, the GitHub preview does not
>> always display very well. We have a volunteer producing an html version :)
>>
>> For those interested in open formats please consider helping out in 2018.
>> We have asked for help porting some of the designs for business cards and
>> correspondence to open document formats for use in libre office.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 27 December 2017 at 07:07, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
>>
>>> Martin you may prefer to use this one instead of the white version:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/osgeo/master/marketing/branding/logo/osgeo-logo-cmyk.svg
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> On 27 December 2017 at 13:18, andrea antonello <
>>> andrea.antone...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Hi Martin,

 > 2017-12-27 8:54 GMT+01:00 andrea antonello <
 andrea.antone...@gmail.com>:
 >>> I am searching for official OSGeo logo in SVG format. I found [1],
 but
 >>> when I open this file in Inkscape or Firefox I just see empty
 (white)
 >>> drawing. BTW,
 >>
 >> create a big big rectangle of any color. Put it in background and
 >> tada: here it is :-)
 >> The logo is white, so you have to place it on a background to see it.
 >> But export should work.
 >
 > thanks for investigation:-) So if you want to put on your website
 > OSGeo logo in SVG format than you need to modify it?

 No, that is why it is "hidden". So you export it without modifying it.

 > I am still
 > missing the point of hidden logo.

 it is not hidden, it is white (on white background, so it looks
 hidden). Look at the file names, there are other ones.

 Ciao,
 Andrea


 >
 >>> I was surprised that logo of organization that supports open source
 >>> software development is using for promo materials proprietary
 >>> software.
 >>
 >> Well, even if I basically agree, the format is open and accessible.
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > Martin
 >
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>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

[nicolas bozon]

Dear Cameron,

I appreciate the time and effort you have put into framing questions and
remarks for Jeff, although that sounds rather unusual in a Board nomination
thread.

As a Charter Member nominating Jeff, I thought that bygones were bygones
when we honored him with the prestigious Sol Katz award at FOSS4G 2016. The
thunderous applause from one and all present at the Bundeshaus on August
27th 2016 still rings in my ears. And I think none in our community would
have missed the passion that emanated from Jeff in his short acceptance
speech, but also the continued  effort he has silently put in helping the
Foundation since then.

Whishing all candidates a great campain and election.

Best regards,

Nick





Le mercredi 11 octobre 2017, Steven Feldman  a écrit :

> Jeff
>
> I agree with Cameron, I think the charter members are entitled to an
> explanation as to why you resigned from the board twice in the middle of a
> period of service.
>
> I, for one, would like to understand the basis on which we can be assured
> that if you are elected for a third time the pattern of resignation will
> not be repeated
>
> Regards
> __
> Steven
>
>
> On 9 Oct 2017, at 21:42, Cameron Shorter  > wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> I've had a number of people correct me to note that you have resigned
> twice from the board. Also from the conference committee and FOSS4G
> mentoring role as the global FOSS4G China was facing very hard decisions
> based on low registration numbers.
>
> References:
>
> Resignation from board in 2015: https://lists.osgeo.org/
> pipermail/board/2015-December/008820.html
>
> Resignation from board and conference committee in 2012:
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-February/004544.html
>
> Stepping back from mentoring FOSS4G China: https://lists.osgeo.org/
> pipermail/board/2012-January/004514.html
>
> Lessons Learned from FOSS4G China: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
> FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned
>
>
>
> On 9/10/17 10:01 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> While I agree with others that you have been very enthusiastic toward
> OSGeo ideals, I'm also believe that there are some unanswered questions
> which should be addressed.
>
> In particular, a while back you stepped down from the OSGeo Board
> mid-term, while you were in the position of OSGeo president. I don't think
> a public explanation was provided, but I was aware that there was some
> passionate discussion happening in public email lists at the time.
>
> If you are considering sitting on the board again, I think an explanation
> should be provided.
>
> Regards, Cameron
>
>

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

[nicolas bozon]

It is my honor to nominate Jeff McKenna for the OSGeo Board of Directors
election.

Most of you knows Jeff's energy and passion for everything OSGeo, and i
would probably be mistaken trying to summarize his countless contributions
over the years, at every level of our Foundation. His leadership and long
involvement in the OSGeo and FOSS4G communities made him the Winner of the
Solz Katz Award in 2016, and i cannot add more. For those of you who may
really not know Jeff yet, the User:Jeff_McKenna wiki page is a good read
before you vote.

Jeff already served three times at the board and has a deep understanding
of both the director role and the current OSGeo strategic plan. Experienced
with OSGeo governance and bylaws, Jeff also knows a lot about projects and
people. He is always ready to help build locally and to represent globally.

Jeff is a great communicator and enthusiastic community leader, and i
believe he will be an excellent OSGeo director again. Please let us all
welcome Jeff back at the Board!


Best regards,

Nicolas Bozon


---
Jeff McKenna agreed to be nominated and i decided to send the nomination
directly to the Discuss list with cc to CRO, so it avoids Jeff to confirm
to himself that he accepts the nomination. The Board Nominations page still
need to be updated, could you please Vasile ? Sorry for shortening the
nomination process in this special case.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Niroshan Bandara

[nicolas bozon]

I support Niroshan's nomination too

Best,

Nick



2017-09-03 14:35 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos :

> I would like to second Niroshan's nomination.
> Angelos
>
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Vasile Craciunescu  > 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 
>> To: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer , Niroshan Sanjaya <
>> 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: Charter Member Nomination for Jorge de Jesus

[nicolas bozon]

+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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>>>  >
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member nomination for Rémi Cresson

[nicolas bozon]

I support Rémi's nomination

Nick



2017-08-29 7:43 GMT+02:00 Markus Neteler :

> I second the nomination,
>
> Markus
>
> On Aug 29, 2017 2:11 AM, "Vasile Craciunescu" 
> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding Rémi Cresson nomination by Gérald Fenoy. 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: OSGeo Charter Member nomination for Rémi Cresson
>> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:57:17 +0200
>> From: Fenoy Gerald 
>> To: OSGeo CRO 
>> CC: Rémi Cresson 
>>
>> Dear CRO,
>> I would like that your forward the following nomination to the
>> OSGeo-Discuss list.
>>
>> —
>> Dear all,
>> I would like to nominate Rémi Cresson for OSGeo Charter Membership.
>>
>> Rémi works at IRSTEA (french National Research Institute of Science and
>> Technology for Environment and Agriculture) and is involved in various Open
>> Source projects and provide his inputs on many mailing lists. He is an
>> active member of the OrfeoToolBox PSC and accessorily, he has a ZOO-Project
>> developper account. In his activities, he has proven many his value as a
>> developper or to provide his vision on how to handle an Open Source project
>> properly.
>>
>> He has attended many time the OTB Hack Fest over the year and also
>> FOSS4G. He is actively promoting use of Open Source in his research center
>> and abroad.
>> I am sure that Rémi will be a great addition to our Charter Member list.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> —
>>
>> Best regards CRO,
>>
>> Gérald Fenoy
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination of Veronica Andreo as charter member

[nicolas bozon]

+1

Nick

2017-08-30 1:12 GMT+02:00 Nikos Alexandris :

> +1
>
> * Martin Landa  [2017-08-29 23:42:42 +0200]:
>
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> 2017-08-29 23:34 GMT+02:00 Marco Minghini :
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>> one big +1. Ma
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Nicolas Bozon

[nicolas bozon]

Dear OSGeo,

First of all, thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential
OSGeo director.
This is a great honor to take part to this election and to run along with
good and numerous candidates. Only 25% of us will get a sit this year,
exciting !
Charter Members, a real choice is given to you this time so please make use
of your votes ! I a writing this statement to tell you why you should
consider giving me one.
It is also available on the wiki [1], if you are more confortable with
reading long text in a web page rather than in your email client.

About me
-
I am a cartographer in daylight hours, and a UI/UX designer in the night
time.
I have a deep interest into everything visual and love to create
(geo)graphics that may add value to open source technology.
I've came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was
looking for tools and libraries that i could fully control in order to
achieve my research goals.
It did not take long at that time to realize how relevant OSGeo was,
adapt/extend the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then
just feel like at home in our community.
I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since
that time, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make
them interact the good way :)
Please find more details about me on my OSGeo user page [2] and Linkedin
profile [3].

My vision
-
Today, my passion and commitment towards the OSGeo Foundation have never
been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant achievements in
term of technology, education and outreach activities, I am even more proud
to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.
However, OSGeo has entered an important transition period and i believe it
needs to evolve now in order to strengthen its aura and adoption across the
broader geospatial community and industry. Of course OSGeo needs to be more
inclusive, not only about people, country or gender, but also about
software projects, collaborations and the numerous ways of doing open
source, open data and open knowledge.
I believe the Foundation especially needs to find a more appropriate
balance between the non-for-profit, academic and business approaches, but
also between individual and collective interest and way of thinking. It
must also avoid loosing time and energy with useless conflicts, baseless
rumors or low level politics. Implement change probably means taking more
risks, that's why we also need to be careful to protect our open culture
and principles at the same time.
Charter members also need to be empowered in a more effective way according
to me, and every meaningful initiative that meets our goals should be
encouraged and supported.
Enough about governance :) You understood that i am in favor of enhancing
our do-ocraty a bit, and why not mix it with some democratics flavors as we
grow.
Another very important point of my vision is that OSGeo must become more
visible and accessible through a very clear meassage and image, with a
stronger and modern identity.
Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work better, and that
would significantly help us to get the most out of our 501(c)(4) status
IMHO.

What you have done within the community in the past
-
I am a Charter member since 2011 and a Marketing Committe Member since 2012.
I have already been nominated for the Board elections in 2012 [4].
I co-founded ZOO-Project [5] in late 2008 with the goal to provide an open
platform able to make OSGeo librairies communicate with each other. This
was achieved using a cross-project approach and by implementing WPS, which
i've been promoting worldwide along with co-founders since then.
Later on, I co-funded MapMint [6], the 100% service-oriented SDI, in order
to bring the full power of ZOO and MapServer to end users. Not only to
developers.
Most recently, i created mapskin [7], the visual language for geospatial.
This one provides scalable vector icons illustrating concepts and objects
of modern cartography in a clean iconic web font. Please help your self :)
I am also keen on participating in FOSS4G events organization and had the
great pleasure to help for FOSS4G-FR 2014 (program and web), FOSS4G-Asia
2014 (web/print), FOSS4G-Europe 2015 (web) and FOSS4G 2016 (program). I am
presently working on FOSS4G-Asia 2017 (LOC) and FOSS4G-Europe 2017 (LOC).

Any things that you would like to change or introduce
-
I would like to improve OSGeo marketing and branding, and i suggest the Web
and Marketing Committees should merge now to do so.
Mark' Comm recently rebooted and is now fully conscious that our marketing
activities must go way beyond OSGeo-Live, including a stronger identity,
modern branding assets, up-to-dates exhibition packs, a much better web
presence, media coverage and more.

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

[nicolas bozon]

I also support this excellent nomination.

Best,

Nick



2016-07-09 21:20 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand :

> I would like to second Victoria Rautenbach's nomination for Charter
> member. Thanks to Serena for this excellent nomination.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> 
> From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vasile
> Craciunescu [vas...@geo-spatial.org]
> Sent: 09 July 2016 8:08 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination
>
> Forwarding Victoria Rautenbach nomination by Serena Coetzee.
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile
> 2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
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>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:OSGeo Charter Member Nomination
> Date:   Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:36:35 +0200
> From:   Serena Coetzee 
> To: c...@osgeo.org
>
>
>
> Dear CRO,
>
> I would like to nominate Victoria Rautenbach for OSGeo Charter
> Membership. She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of
> Pretoria since its inception in 2012, first as student member and since
> last year also as a lecturer. Victoria makes use of open source GIS
> products in all the Geoinformatics modules that she teaches and is the
> first source of support, advice and encouragement to students using open
> source products. She has and continues to play a significant role in
> students at our university using open source products. Apart from that,
> she has organized a number of OpenStreetMap mapathons and arranged
> student team participation in open data quests in South Africa.
>
> website:
>
> http://www.up.ac.za/en/centre-for-geoinformation-science/article/2060495/victoria-rautenbach
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Our huge thanks to Jeff McKenna

[nicolas bozon]

I also want to hugely thank Jeff McKenna for such a determined, long and
useful service at the Board.
Thank you Jeff for everything you did to make OSGeo and FOSS4G grow, and
thank you also for all the good times.
All the best, and long life to OSGeo.

Best regards,

Nick


2016-02-01 19:09 GMT+01:00 Venkatesh Raghavan :

> Dear All,
>
> Jeff McKenna has tendered his resignation from the position of President
> and Board of Directors on personal grounds.
>
> Jeff is a pillar of OSGeo, being a lively presence at Open Source
> Geospatial events since the early days of MapServer User Meetings [1].
> He was also a key person at FOSS GRASS User Conference [2] where the
> idea of having a joint conference combining GRASS GIS, MapServer and
> other FOSS4G [3] communities was mooted which fruited in the form
> FOSS4G-2006
> held in Laussane [4]. Jeff has been a constant companion and a source of
> inspiration during our decade long OSGeo journey.
>
> During his tenure on the OSGeo Board, Jeff has traversed across the globe
> spreading the message of OSGeo and sharing his passion for FOSS4G. He has
> gone to remote corners of our planet to get local chapters started and
> patiently interacted with diverse audience ranging from under-graduate
> students to top leaders from academia, industry and government. Jeff has
> put
> community before self and worked relentlessly to bring worldwide reach to
> our Foundation. Combined with his rare passion, Jeff possesses a unique
> knack
> of understanding and assimilating different cultures which has greatly
> helped
> in nurturing diversity in our communities.
>
> Apart form his groundbreaking work in representing OSGeo globally, he has
> also made time to produce excellent documentation and packaging for some of
> our leading software products. Jeff's dedication and passion will continue
> to motivate all members of our foundation.
>
> The board received Jeff's request on 12 December 2015 and asked him to
> reconsider his decision. At the 30 January, 2016 Face to Face meeting,
> after
> careful consideration of his reply, the OSGeo Board has motioned and
> unanimously accepted his resignation. The board also passed a motion to
> formally express our sincere gratitude for Jeff's immense contributions to
> the OSGeo Foundation in his capacity as President and Board Member.
>
> Jeff McKenna continues his engagements with the OSGeo Foundation as a
> Charter
> Member and as PSC members in several of the Foundation Projects. We look
> forward
> to seek his advice and active participation in our future endeavors.
>
> Thank you from all of us, Jeff and we look forward to your contributions
> to OSGeo
> in the years ahead.
>
> BoD, OSGeo Foundation
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/Conferences
> [2] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

[nicolas bozon]

I also strongly support this excellent nomination.
As the instigator and advocate of the FOSS4G culture, Venka-sensei is an
open source geospatial visionary as well as a wonderful community builder.
I believe he would be an excellent director once again, and a great asset
for the future of our Foundation.

Best regards,

Nick

2015-09-09 11:46 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos :

> I strongly support Venka's nomination for the board of directors.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
>
> On 09/08/2015 11:04 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>
>> Forwarding Venkatesh Raghavan nomination to the board of directors by
>> Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler and Jeff McKenna.
>>
>> Best,
>> Vasile
>> CRO 2015
>>
>>
>>  Forwarded Message 
>> Subject: Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
>> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:53:34 -0300
>> From: Jeff McKenna 
>> To: c...@osgeo.org 
>> CC: Markus Neteler , Sanghee Shin ,
>> Venkatesh Raghavan 
>>
>> It is our pleasure to nominate Venka Raghavan
>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan), from Japan, for the
>> OSGeo Board.  It is hard to put into (few) words, Venka's influence on
>> FOSS and geo.  The 2012 winner of the Sol Katz Award, he created the
>> term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international
>> event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted FOSS4G all over the
>> globe.  He was also one of the organizers of the recent FOSS4G-Asia
>> event this past December.
>>
>> Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
>> fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
>> is also a long-time board member of the OSGeo Japan chapter.
>>
>> A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
>> encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
>> His influence in Asia wide reaching, being easily the most influential
>> FOSS4G leader there.  Venka also helps organize the GIS-IDEAS Symposium
>> every 2 years in Vietnam, which is always FOSS4G-based.
>>
>> Venka is enthused to be a part of the OSGeo Board again, helping a
>> foundation that he helped form at the beginning.  We could not be more
>> please and honoured to nominate Venka for the Board of Directors.
>>
>>
>> Sanghee Shin, Markus Neteler, & Jeff McKenna
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Milan Antonovic

[nicolas bozon]

I also strongly support Milan's nomination.

Best,

Nick


2014-07-23 18:09 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org:

 2014-07-23 11:48 GMT+02:00 Ing. Milan P. Antonovic 
 milan.antono...@supsi.ch:
  Hi Jorge, Hi all,
  Thank you for nominating me.. I would be very happy and honored to
 became a
  OSGeo  Charter Member.
  So please add me to the nominators list.
 
  Best regards
 
   - Milan Antonovic
 

 Excellent Milan, thanks for accepting. I've added you to the nominators
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Sittichai Choosumrong

[nicolas bozon]

I also second Sittichai's nomination.
Dr.Bomp is using/extending FOSS4G for his academic work, and he actively
promotes OSGeo in Thailand.
He also regularly attending geospatial and open source related conferences
across Asia, and would be a valuable Charter Member.

Nick




2014-07-23 3:13 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
:

 On 2014/07/23 2:34, Jorge Sanz wrote:

 Forwarding Sittichai nomination by Jeff

 I second Sitticha's nomination.

 Venka


 Cheers
 Jorge

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Jeff McKenna
 Date: 2014-07-22 19:06 GMT+02:00
 Subject: Nomination for Sittichai Choosumrong
 To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Bomp


 It is my pleasure to nominate Sittichai Choosumrong (known as Bomp) for
 an OSGeo Charter Member.  I have known Bomp for many years now, and have
 worked with him in Japan while he was doing his graduate schooling under
 Venka-sensei.  Bomp regularly gives workshops and talks on various OSGeo
 projects, and his youthful enthusiasm rubs off on students.  He is now a
 researcher at Naresuan University in his beloved home country of
 Thailand, where I am sure he will continue to promote OSGeo.  He has
 worked very hard to promote OSGeo and I want to thank him for this.

 -jeff



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Gratier

[nicolas bozon]

I second and strongly support this nomination.
Thomas uses and documents a number of open source projects, and is
passionated by everything OSGeo and FOSS4G.
He would be a valuable Charter Member.

Nick


2014-07-22 18:37 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org:

 Forwarding Thomas Gratier nomination by Even Rouault

 Have fun
 Jorge

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Even Rouault
 Date: 2014-07-21 20:35 GMT+02:00
 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Gratier
 To: c...@osgeo.org
 Cc: Thomas Gratier

 Thomas is a member of the OSGeo-FR association and has been involved into
 the
 organization comittees of the FROG 2013 event and the successfull 3-day
 FOSS4G-FR 2014 that took place in last may.

 He contributes to several of our projects, mainly focused on translation :
 - parts of the OSGeo-Live DVD, which he presented as well as OSGeo4W
 during a
 session at FOSS4G-FR
 - contribution to the i18n translation mechanism of MapServer
 - French translation of TinyOWS documentation
 - French translation of ZOO Project

 Thomas is involved into other user forums such as GéoRezo, and has redacted
 tutorials and press reviews for GeoTribu.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] qgis-server issue whit custom CRS. Impossible to work with planetary data!

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Andrea,

Please write to the qgis mailing list for such a specific question.
OSGeo discuss is dedicated to more general discussion about the OSGeo
foundation activities, not about technical questions on an specific OSGeo
project.
BTW, if you're Martian imagery is huge, please also consider/have a look to
other OSGeo map servers/platforms solutions to serve it.

Best regards,

Nick


2013/11/25 andrea pacifici pacif...@irsps.unich.it

 Hi there,

 I'm trying to set-up a WMS server using the qgis-server (qgis 2.0 and
 Ubuntu 12.04) and data of planet Mars. Since Mars is not the Earth I
 must use custom RS. So, I have realized a qgis project with Martian
 data and I have properly filled fields in OWS server of Project
 Properties.

 Then I started a new Qgis project using the same custom RS and I try
 to add the layers using Add layer from a server command. Once Qgis
 is connected to the server the layers name are visible but layers
 don't appears.

 WMS Log Messages report:

 Map request error (Title:Service Exception; Error:Request contains a
 CRS not offered by the server for one or more of the Layers in the
 request.
 The WMS vendor also reported: Could not create output CRS; URL:

 http://localhost/cgi-bin/liz_test/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMSVERSION=1.3.0REQUEST=GetMapBBOX=-112389.97944659927452449,-163304.16266460958286189,99132.64792997627228033,-33665.77575473205070011CRS=USER:10WIDTH=574HEIGHT=352LAYERS=molaSTYLES=FORMAT=image/jpegDPI=96MAP_RESOLUTION=96FORMAT_OPTIONS=dpi:96
 )

 I copied my own CRS in the RS database of Qgis in
 /usr/share/qgis/resources/srs.db but I have still the same issue.

 Any idea?

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Arnulf for Sol Katz Award 2013

[nicolas bozon]

Congrats to both Arnulf and Seven !
Nick



2013/9/26 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com

 Congratulations also from me! Martin

 2013/9/26 Jakob Tworek jakob.two...@metaspatial.net:
  Arnulf,
  congratulations from me too!
 
 
  Jakob
 
 
  2013/9/26 Newcomb, Doug doug_newc...@fws.gov
 
  Congratulations Arnulf!
 
  Doug
 
 
  On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan
  ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote:
 
  Hi All,
 
  I would like to congratulate Arnulf on the Sol Katz 2013 award
  in recognition of his contributions to FOSS4G and the OSGeo
  Foundation.
 
  Looking forward to his many more contributions in the years to
  come.
 
  Cheers, Arnulf.
 
  Best
 
  Venka
 
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Gérald Fenoy

[nicolas bozon]

I second Gérald's nomination and strongly support it.
I believe that he would be an excellent OSGeo director.

Dr.Nicolas Bozon

Best




2013/8/16 Peter Baumann p.baum...@jacobs-university.de

 very much supported from my side! I know Gerald personally as  an
 enthusiastic, competent, and consensus oriented person with strong visions.

 -Peter



 On 08/16/2013 11:00 AM, 
 maria.brovelli@diiar-topo.**polimi.itmaria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.itwrote:

 Dear All

 I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
 elections.

 Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
 He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
 activities and its software projects.
 Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
 leverage for both community and business related issues.

 Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
 projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
 add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
 or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
 (http://geolabs.fr).

 Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
 back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
 incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
 through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
 patches, translations, ideas and more.

 Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
 often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
 times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

 Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
 and in Asia.

 Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
 brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
 open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
 and community management.

 More info on Gérald:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_**Fenoyhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

 Many thanks and best regards to All of You.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Peter Baumann

[nicolas bozon]

I also strongly support Peter's nomination

Best,

Nick




2013/7/16 Andrea Aime andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it

 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Fenoy Gerald gerald.fe...@geolabs.frwrote:

 Hello,
 it is an honor for me to nominate Peter Baumann [1] as OSGeo Charter
 Member.

 I suppose that everybody know Peter Bauman first for the amazing work he
 make at OGC and on rasdaman project which is currently in the OSGeo
 Incubation Process. Peter mixes between research and business, he is
 professor at Jacobs University Bremen and also the founder and CEO of
 rasdaman GmbH. Peter is very active as an OGC member and in general in real
 life he is what I would call a passionate community guy, always open to
 discussion, sharing his view / ideas and trying to find ways to make OSGeo
 projects collaborating with each other. Peter Baumann was one of the
 Keynote speakers at the FOSS4G-CEE this year as our president was.

 I think that Peter can be a real asset for OSGeo for promoting OSGeo with
 the passion, knowledge and relevance which characterize himself.


 I second the nomination too

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Just van den Broecke

[nicolas bozon]

I also support Just nomination.

Best,

Nick


2013/7/9 Andrea Aime andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it

 Seconding Just nomination, well deserved.

 Cheers
 Andrea


 On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nlwrote:

 I'd like to nominate Just van den Broecke for Osgeo charter membership.
 Just has invested a lot of his time in getting the Dutch language chapter
 of Osgeo set up recently (see http://osgeo.nl) .

 He has worked with a lot of the OsGeo software projects and has also
 developed tools in the open source domain on top of this such as Heron
 Mapping Components (http://heron-mc.org) and Streaming ETL (
 http://www.stetl.org/en/latest/).

 In 2012 he organised the Osgeo track at the GeoSpatial World Forum (GWF)
 and he is a regular visitor to FOSS4G and the Bolsena hacking event as well

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoJapan-discuss] Nomination for Daniel KASTL

[nicolas bozon]

I also support Daniel's nomination.

Nick


2013/7/15 Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch

 ++1

 :-D

 Maxi


 On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Toru Mori (森 亮) 
 morit...@orkney.co.jpwrote:

 +1

 I second the nomination of Daniel Kastl.

 Toru Mori

 On 2013/07/10, at 11:27, Venkatesh Raghavan 
 ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote:

  My pleasure to nominate Daniel KASTL as OSGeo Charter Member
 
  Name: Daniel KASTL
  Contact email: daniel AT georepublic.de
 
  Daniel-san's is a regular at FOSS4G since beginning. He leads the
 pgRouting
  project which has become one of the regular and workshops at FOSS4G
 related
  events. He is very active a a mentor in GSoC and has trained several
 young
  developers. He is also very active in the OSM community. He is a very
 active
  user, developer, trainer and promoter OSGeo Source and Open Data at
 several
  forums and projects.
 
  You can know a bit more about Daniel-san at
  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Daniel/Kastl
 
  Best,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] New deadline for CfP FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

[nicolas bozon]

Dear Franz-Josef, Academic Comitee, LOC

Many thanks for extending this deadline.

Best regards

Nick




2013/1/29 Dr. Franz-Josef Behr franz-josef.b...@hft-stuttgart.de

 Dear colleagues,

 upon popular requests we have decided to postpone the deadline of the full
 paper submission for the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2013 conference in
 Nottingham to

 22 February 2013.

 The committee is looking forward receiving your contribution!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

[nicolas bozon]

Hello,

Thanks for discussing this important topic.

The last global FOSS4G editions gathered on average 800+ attendees i think.
I have no clues on how many of them sumitted or attended the academic
track, but i know that this side of the conference is really important, and
that the rules should not be changed without discussion or without some
voting by the Academic and Conference comitees. Of course it won't
necessarly bring some new sponsors or direct business output each year, but
it has been part of FOSS4G since its inception in 2006, and even before,
from 2004 since the first GRASS and MapServer meetings, with all the
motivated activists, developers, researchers and professors we know.
Also there are so many active people that are using, developping and
promoting the use of FOSS4G in academia, education and research nowadays,
so the academic session should be improved, or at least not be changed like
this, IMHO.

An important point is that the Academic Commitee was always formed before
the call for Abstract and the selection and reviewing process, as Maxi and
Venka pointed out.
I've participated to the academic track since 2008, and once again as Maxi
said, i've also always sumitted an abstract first, then been acepted or
rejected by the comitee, and then finally submited a full paper (or a
poster) some time before the conference.
After that, none of my papers were published in any journals (ok, may be
they were bad i reckon, but what about the others ?). I know that that
there were a few intiatitives to publish some of the papers, but i could
never read the academic FOSS4G procedings in any scientific journals i know
(i'm may be wrong once again, but could someone bring some facts on this ?
How many papers where finally published since 2006 and where ?), or may be
in the OSGeo journal i just don't know, sorry.

This being said, i fully understand that calling, selecting, reviewing and
publishing papers takes a long time. This is really true, but what the LOC
is targeting this time ? How many papers could be really published ? What
journal exactly ? Should i subscribe to the University of Sherwood to be
hopefully published (private joke) ?
And who will take care of this very time-consuming task ? Who is being
called for particpating to the Academic comittee (would it be public soon
btw) ? Who will organize and chair the different sessions of the Academic
Track exactly ? I'm sorry for so much questions, but i think that would be
interesting to know right now for submiters or potential authors, before
one week, before trying to submit in fact.

Anyway, i'm also thinking that these new rules and such a short deadline
would just refrain submissions to the Academic track, and would finally
make it poorer. I think that many professors, researchers and students
won't sumit or will be more comfortable with subitting to the general
track, just to avoid impossible deadlines and writing efforts, not being
sure to be published somewhere. That'd just be a pitty.

Sorry for such a long email

Best regards,

Nick




2013/1/25 Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch

 Hi,
 FWIW, I have to say that as far as i remember (and I participate at all of
 the FOSS4G meeting from Bangkok to Denver) I always:
 - submitted and abstract,
 - got acceptance or not as presenter,
 - provided a paper for proceeding, and if selected for publication.

 In Denver this process led me to a publication in 2012 and the deadline
 was 31 Jul 2011, Full Paper (Academic Track) submission deadline, and
 the academic committee was set far before of this.

 Said that, I know I'm not forced to submit scientific works to the
 scientific track (and this is what i'm going to do), but it is still a pity
 from my point of view to set possible barriers and loose contribution.

 That's just my 2 cents.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Call for Papers and shiny website

[nicolas bozon]

Wah !
Clap Clap Clap !
Even better than OSGeo !!! Congrats.
Thanks to LOC and Noami, thats really looks so great, i'm realy impressed.
Power to FOSS4G and WordPress, that is awesome.
Looking forward to meeting you all  in Nottingham. What a great city !
Respect.
Best,

Nick



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 Dear All,

 On behalf of the FOSS4G 2013 organising committee, I'm super-excited to
 announce our shiny new website *and* preliminary Call for Papers. Go to
 2013.foss4g.org for more details.

 We're not actually opening the submission system for papers just yet- so
 there's no pressure just yet. We'll be opening this in early January, then
 the call for papers closes in April, with some sort of fiendish community
 vote after that (details to come). Plenty of time to come up with some good
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

[nicolas bozon]

I also strongly support Venka's nomination.
As one of a the founding member of OSGeo, Venkatesh had, is and will always
share his passion for open source and FOSS4G.
Among his numerous contributions to OSGeo, he notably helped lots of asian
local chapters to be and grow, and participated to several OSGeo projects
that Jeff quoted. He also initiated open source software projects.
Venka is one of best OSGeo assets for software projects and ideas, but also
for human networking and community management.
He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.

Nick





2012/9/18 Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk

 Yes, this is excellent nomination for the great contribution Venka has
 been making for FOSS4G community over many years.

 ** **

 Suchith

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 *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Kastl
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 *To:* solkatzaw...@osgeo.org; osgeo-discuss
 *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

 ** **

 I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already
 said.

 I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
 

 Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also
 in South Osaka ;-)

 ** **

 Daniel

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 On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com
 wrote:

 I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.

 I  agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping
 across Asia and much of the world.

 I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he
 encouraged us resulting in the 

 FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

 ** **

 He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in
 action', and connects to young researchers

 readily. 

 ** **

 The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS
 initiative the world over. 

 His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique.
 

 In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.***
 *

 ** **

 V.Ravi Kumar 

 Friend /Fellow Geologist

 (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) 

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 **· **Development of SISGeM-An Online System
 for 3D Geologic 
 Modelinghttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf
 

 An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh
 Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of
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 I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
 Katz Award.  I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
 FOSS4G.  It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
 it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
 has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
 world.

 Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
 fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007.  He
 is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
 broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

 A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
 encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
 His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
 international character support and translations for projects such as
 MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

 Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
 closely with various international event committees each year for such
 events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India.  In 2010
 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
 Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
 Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

 As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide.  Many people have been
 touched by his passion.  He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
 who is a master at connecting geospatial communities.  Many of us all
 around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
 I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

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Barry,

Hi also think it is a really good idea.

However, one simple question comes to my mind:
How to deal with the data property and rights, ragrding both printing or
spreading on the Web ?

May be such an initiative should accept maps using OpenData or OSM only ?

Best,

Nick




2012/7/28 Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com

 Barry:

 This is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time.

 ESRI does a yearly coffee-table book for Arc-generated maps, the various
 satellite companies make calendars every year with their best hi-res
 shots... We should play the game too.

 Count me in, I'll volunteer to help.

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 On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson 
 b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:

  Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source
  technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was
  thinking:
 
  * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and
  insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or
  Open Data.
 
  * Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group:
  http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/
 
  * Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so.
 
  * Get high-res or vector versions of the winners.
 
  * Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software,
  the techniques, and the impact of their work.
 
  * Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand
  site (eg lulu.com).
 
  * Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe
  all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to
  sponsor it).
 
  * Release the PDF under an open license. Of course.
 
  * Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo]
 
  I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if
  enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger
  (we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be
  sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we
  have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G
  2013.
 
  Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com
  watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a
  perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages
  can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen
  some great-looking maps on posters at conferences.
 
  ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague
  memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of
  maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm
  sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely
  whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high.
  Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves.
 
  Shoot.
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can't convert .dgn file to shape file by using ogr2ogr

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Hello Tai,

For OGR specific questions, please use the GDAL mailing-list.
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev

OSGeo-Discuss list is for general discussion about OSGeo.

Thanks,

Nick



2012/7/12 taibc taibc_colt...@yahoo.com

 Thanks Chaitanya,

 I deleted the existing shapefile files and tried to use -overwrite, but
 still got errors.

 Can you use ogr2ogr to convert .dgn file to shapefiles on your computer ?

 Thanks and regards,

 Tai

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nominations: supporting, Angelos Tzotsos

[nicolas bozon]

A very good +1 to Angelos for CharterMembership !

He did so many Things for PyCSW, ZOO-Project, MapServer, and ZOO/PyCWS, as
well as for OSGeo-Live.

One of our good Advocates, but just natural !

+1

Nick






2012/7/6 Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr

 Dear all,

 this is a note of support of Angelos nomination as a Charter Member for
 OSGeo.
 I have met Angelos and started working with him rather recently and I have
 to say that he is passionate and well versed in the matters of open source
 in general and specifically the GI related open source issues. Angelos is
 finishing his PhD at the National Technical University of Athens and is
 becoming a very active researcher.

 As the founder of the OSGeo Greek Chapter, I have to say that I value his
 contributions to the local community and that we need more people like
 Angelos. Both the chapter and the OSGeo Community in general can greatly
 benefit from his involvement.

 Since I am not a charter member I cannot support him any other way but by
 asking the charter members to consider supporting him - so please do so!

 Best regards,

 Dimitris Kotzinos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata

[nicolas bozon]

Hi All,

I'd also like to second  this great nomination.
Maxi was there since the begining, and he's one of the best OSGeo advocate
i know so far

Nick



2012/6/29 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com

 I would like to second this nomination. I first met Max, or Maxi, back
 in 2004 at the FOSS4G event in Thailand (actually this was the first
 event to use the FOSS4G name); Max has been involved in FOSS4G for a
 very long time.  I've also had the pleasure to work closely with him as
 he stayed several months in Canada in 2005, where he was working on
 floodplain mapping with GRASS and MapServer.  Most recently he was
 involved with releasing GeoShield[1], which tackles that important issue
 of security for interoperable services.

 Max has welcomed me into his beautiful home of Como, Italy, on several
 occasions.  I consider him and his colleagues very good friends.

 Max's passion and experience make him an excellent representative of OSGeo.

 -jeff

 [1] https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/






 On 12-06-28 10:27 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member.
  Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of
 Applied
  Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at
  FOSS4G
  meetings and has presented several interesting results on hazard mapping,
  sensor networks, data security etc. He is a PSC member of the GRASS
  projject
  and the ZOO project. His researches are entirely based on developing and
  using FOSS4G solutions. He is also known internationally through his
  research
  collaborations and wide travels. He has strong links in the academic,
  inter-governmental
  and industry circles.
 
  Venka

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

[nicolas bozon]

Hi all,

Many good points from Jachym, Volker, Bart and Jeff i fully agree here.

According to me, 2012 was the first year FOSS4G was really splitted in such
a way. 4 events, in 3 continents (including the FOSS4G-South-East-Asia
recently announced in Malaysia http://foss4g-sea.org/)
But i think this is very good. Of course we must keep the annual event as
best as the board and community can, with international sponsoring and
attendance.

But as Jeff just said, even if regional events may make the global event
kind of smaller (not even sure!), the OSGeo mission would be spread much
wider, in all continents, nations and tribes, with more regional and 'semi
regional' events popping around.

As there are many local chapters, and that some are sharing the same
languages, others don't, even neighbors, i'm fully supporting the idea of
having both global, regional and let's say 'sub-regional' events at the
same year, or according to a well organized turn over, year by year (odd
and even could be a good base a proposed before here).

I also could notice that depending on the regional event, the conference
may be more academic or more business oriented. May be due to foss4g
traditions or customs according to the organizing local chapters. In any
case, both global, regional and sub-regional would promote OSGeo and may
encourage the formation of new local chapters in countries where OSGeo is
not yet represented.

About FOSS4G-Europe, i fully agree that it must be reconducted and it will
for sure, and as Jachym suggested it should probably happens in a different
country each year, and of course not in the same as global event, at least
for the global Europe years.

About the Meditearranean event we were speaking, initiated by the italian
chapter discuss list, i'm imagining it as a sub regional event.
As said before, and underlined by Stefano, it won't be a european event
only, as people from north africa and middle-east may be interested to join
too. All around that good sea.
That could also be a great occasion for southern european OSGeo people to
meet too.

My 0.002 €

Best,

Nick



2012/6/18 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com

 On 12-06-18 10:50 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
  Volker, I see your point - you are not writing it for the first
  time.
 
  Truth is, there was strong request for FOSS4G-E during CEE event.
  Do you want to prohibit it? I would better support it. Certainly it
  means loss for the global FOSS4G. Does it mean win for OSGeo? I
  think so. We just have to talk about the proper model.
 
  Jachym

 Hello Jachym, Volker, Bart, Nick, Maria, Helena and all my FOSS4G
 friends around the world.

 I have been very quiet since FOSS4G Denver, stepping back from
 FOSS4G/conferences because of some concerns about my leadership
 relayed to me from the OSGeo Board.

 But my FOSS4G passion and energy has never been so strong.  It will
 never go away :)

 I am watching the 'regional' events popping up all around the world in
 fascination and awe; this is really what we have always wanted, to
 spread the good FOSS4G word, whether it is through a large event or a
 small one, an official event or 10 people meeting once a month in a
 pub to discuss FOSS.

 I admit: at first I was hesitant and was against these regional events
 because I was worried it would impact the annual event; but, I realize
 now that there is nothing we can do if people want to get together in
 their own areas, so let's support it!  We can't stop these regional
 events, nor should we.  They're great, allowing local groups to get
 together with a focus on FOSS4G in their area.

 Yes, the annual FOSS4G event may dilute a bit, but the word will
 spread to a wider audience through local/regional events.  I still
 want the annual event to happen each year, to rotate around different
 regions, and I am ok if that event only draws a few hundred local
 enthusiasts.

 I miss you all dearly, and I would jump at the chance to help lead
 FOSS4G, helping all regional and the annual events grow.

 Your passionate friend,

 -jeff


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

[nicolas bozon]

Jeff,

+1 for the Chater members to vote on both the annual conference location
and also about yearly new OSGeo advocates, supposed to go to other  geo
conferences and represent the Foundation.
What a perspicacious point of view !
You've been away for a while, but for sure not stopped thinking [?]

Thanks

Nick



2012/6/18 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com

 Maybe this is off-topic for the subject, but, here's a thought: I
 propose to let OSGeo Charter members vote for the location of the annual
 FOSS4G event.

 Background points:

 - OSGeo Charter members deserve more say in the organization, this vote
 will give them more control

 - I initially created the OSGeo Conference committee years ago, it is
 made up of many past organizers from different areas of the globe, but
 really only contains less than 15 people

 - the OSGeo Conference Committee would still be overlooking the process,
 but the final vote will go to the OSGeo Charter members

 What do you all think?

 -jeff









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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

[nicolas bozon]

What a good idea Maria !
Such a Mediterannean regional event could may be gather italin, greek,
spanish and french local chapters, and may be others.
Very good idea.

Best,

Nick




2012/6/16 Maria Brovelli brv...@gmail.com

 +1. I will be happy to help Greek friends in organizing the meeting.
 Anyway I'm wondering if sooner or later is possible to organize a
 Mediterranean conference
 Maria


 2012/6/15 Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr

 Dear all,

 I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America
 FOSS4G conference.
 Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any
 possible way to those who preceded me.

 The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account
 the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the
 central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional
 Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an
 international and regional conferences.

 Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the
 international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even
 years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences.
 Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more
 difficult and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a
 year I feel that this is an acceptable compromise.
 So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all
 of you to argue in favor :) or against!

 One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest
 that we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is
 agreement also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting
 from 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that
 things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)).
 If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more.

 Thanks for the consideration of both proposals,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Stefano,

Sorry, i've listed only 'northern' med countries (greece is not northern i
guess ?), because i am not aware if there are local chapters at the south
or east, that's why i said 'may be others' too [?]  (OSGeo probably needs a
map of local chapters and members by the way)

I fully agree that such an event could gather regular euro osgeo folks as
well as new comers, and would be a great occasion to form new local
chapters for sure. +1
By the way, do you know if there are osgeo initiative in 'fer' East med or
Maghreb already ? Sorry for my ignorance.

Best,

Nick






2012/6/16 Stefano Costa st...@iosa.it

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  Such a Mediterannean regional event could may be gather italin,
  greek, spanish and french local chapters, and may be others.

 Actually, as most closed seas do, the Mediterranean has countries all
 around it, not only on the Northern side :-)

 I was raising this very idea only a few days ago on the mailing list
 of GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGeo chapter (specifically referring to
 Greece, because that's where I am now). There was some consensus among
 members.

 The point IMHO is not to gather again the same people who would meet
 anyway at any international event (FOSS4G Barcelona was only in 2010,
 by the way). We should try and support the creation of new chapters
 where they are still missing (of course this is true globally, not
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to coming years

[nicolas bozon]

Yes i'd be interested too Jachym.

I've already heard many good feedbacks about FOSS4G-CEE, although i'm not
in Europe now,  and i guess that hosting it at university should have
certainly reduce the costs. That's pretty awesome.

And thank you again for both the report and good pictures !

Happy GRASS GIS Sprint to all

Best,

Nick



2012/5/25 Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com

 Jachym-

 Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event?
 Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did
 you have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc.
 This is good information to have, for others thinking about planning
 similar events.

 -mpg


  -Original Message-
  From: conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky
  Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:38 PM
  To: Discussions, OSGeo; conference-...@lists.osgeo.org; 'conference'
  Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Short report about FOSS4G-CEE 2012 with outlook to
 coming years
 
  Hi,
  if anybody is interested, I'm sending here very short report about
  FOSS4G-CEE  Geoinformatics in Prague 2012, which was organised this
  week (and which is continuing with GRASS Code sprint right now). See
  http://foss4g-cee.org for more details.
 
  Number of registered participants: 120
 
  CZ - 35
  RO - 14
  DE - 12
  FR - 6
  AT - 5
  SK - 4
  EE, HU, CH, PL, TU, USA - 3
  IT, UK - 2
  HR, NRW, NZ, Georgia, Ghana, Nigeria 1
 
  Number of accepted papers cca 60
  Number of accepted workshops: 6
  Number of accepted tutorials: 5
 
  However, relatively high number of presenters did not arrive (at least
  one did announce it soon enough, but has slipped between my fingers,
  sorry one more time) - luckily, present speakers were usually able to
  prolong their presentations operatively.
 
  On some tutorials, no attendees have come :-(
 
  Social events formal and informal: nice!
 
  Lessons learned:
 
  * Double check presenters against list of registrations.
  * Double check list of vegetarians and keep track of it
  * Have more accepted presentations in the stack, for possible
 substitutions
  * and others
 
  List of photos: http://foss4g-cee.org/photos/
 
  PDF version of presentations are being added to
  http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/
 
  Big thanks to the organisation team, general feedback was positive.
 
  Big thanks to all participants: Without them, the conference would not
  happen.
 
  Future of FOSS4G-CEE:
  -
 
  It was agreed, that (unless there is no big obligation), FOSS4G-CEE 2013
  will be organised by  Vasile Crăciunescu and his team at geo-spatial.org
  in Bucharest, Romania. Their situation will be quite difficult thanks to
  global FOSS4G organised somewhere in Europe. But still, they have
  clearly expressed their enthusiasm about organisation the event.
 
  During the event, several participants from various countries (France,
  Italy, Germany, Czech, Romania and others) have indicated their strong
  demand for conference best described as FOSS4G-Europe.
 
  Having FOSS4G-NA in mind, and all the discussions about positives and
  negatives of such proposals, we've had during last months, I do
  personally support this idea: There is demand for more local oriented,
  yet big enough events around the ellipsoid, let's talk about it
  (better in some other thread, at conference_dev list). Such event should
  happen during 2014, so we have about year for clarifying all possible
  questions.
 
  Jachym
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

[nicolas bozon]

Marco, all,

I guess it is difficult to say how many Geo Conferences are planned to be
held, and also which of them are worth attending for OSGeo.

However, this Google Fusion Table (GFT) provides quiete a lot of
information for 2012:
https://fusiontables.googleusercontent.com/fusiontables/api/query?sql=SELECT+*+FROM+2481018

Thanks to the GFT support in GDAL 1.9 (Thanks for this Frank and GDAL team
by the way), and because Gerald Fenoy recently implemented a reverse
geocoding support, allowing OGR to create geometries from an adress field
of a GFT, i could easily create a map of these conferences this morning:

http://demo.mapmint.com/public/conferences

I thought it would be maybe useful to first get an overview of the 2012 Geo
events.
If OSGeo is going further with the idea of having ambassadors, such a map
could then be used to map an updated GFT, and why not to add an Ambassador
attribute to each conference.

Best regards,

Nick



2012/4/20 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de

 Hi,

 Does anybody have an idea on how many conferences, ... we are talking
 about. May be this can be answered depending on continents/countries.
 this could help getting an idea about how many ambassadors would be
 needed where and how much money this could eventuallly cost. in some
 cases it will be necessary to have ambassadors talking in local
 languages (no every conference is using english) about OSGeo.

 Marco Lechner

 Am 20.04.2012 00:14, schrieb Michael P. Gerlek:
  Cameron, thanks for bringing this up for discussion.
 
  A couple things to note:
 
  - in some cases, the Board might decide that it is important enough to
 have an Ambassador at an event that the Foundation would cover travel
 expenses
 
  - it is unlikely that the Foundation would be able to cover the costs of
 the Ambassador's time, however; aside from the expense involved and trying
 to determine a fair uniform hourly rate, I could see that turn into a fight
 for who gets to go; but on the other hand, a nominal fee might help enable
 some of us who are self-employed or similar to fill the ambassador role
 
  - some events/functions might require the Ambassador be a Board member
 as well (as in the case of the email of mine which Cameron quotes)
 
  -mpg
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
  Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:24 PM
  To: OSGeo Discussions
  Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role
 
  On 20/04/2012 4:06 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
  Do we have any policies and cost structures for the Ambassador
 function yet?
  I've seen a few people talking about creating an OSGeo Ambassador role.
  Arnulf I think might have been the first to mention it, and I think it
  is an excellent idea. I'm also aware that the OGC are considering
  developing OGC ambassadors too.
 
  So I'd like to open the floor and see what people think an ambassador's
  role could involve, which leads into the qualities we would wish our
  ambassador's to have, which leads into the ways we may select an
 ambassador.
 
  Let me start by noting some of the driving factors:
  1. Arnulf has noted that as OSGeo president, he has spent a significant
  amount of time on areoplanes travelling around the world to talk on
  behalf of OSGeo. He has suggested that this role should be shared.
  Conference organisors, who have a primary goal of attracting attendees,
  look for authoritative figureheads to talk at conferences. They are
  expected to have a deep insight into a specific domain, such as OSGeo.
  They should also speak well, even better if they are entertaining.
 
  2. OSGeo is a sexy topic has many conferences, and there are hundreds,
  if not thousands of conferences around the world which would like to see
  an OSGeo presence.
 
  3. OSGeo is fortunate to draw membership from around the world,
  including boasting a number of very healthy local chapters. As such, we
  are likely to have potential ambassadors in most counties. (We might be
  a bit short in Antarctica)
 
  4. There are times when negotiating MOUs or similar with other
  countries, it would be useful to have someone local speak with authority
  on behalf of OSGeo.
 
  5. Note that there are conflicting interests here of wanting to open up
  the role for anyone who volunteers, verses maintaining a selectiveness
  and prestige for the role which is the key selection criteria for
  conferences asking for an ambassador.
 
  As such, I think it important that ambassadors can only be voted into
  the position, and not handed out to anyone. We already vote for a board,
  and charter members.
  I think board members should be considered ambassadors by default.
  Should charter members be considered ambassadors? Charter members only
  get this role after demonstrating a commitment to OSGeo, so will likely
  have a reasonable depth of OSGeo knowledge. Maybe we should ask for a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 presentations

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Ravi,

Strangely this is not available on the OSGeo website, but some of the
FOSS4G 2011 presentation videos (not all unfortunatelly) are available here:

http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/category/event/foss4g2011

According to this post:
http://2011.foss4g.org/content/foss4g-follow
there should be some of the presentations available on the foss4g 2011
website or on SlideShare too, but i don't really know where all the PDFs
are, sorry.

Hope it helps

Best

Nick





2012/3/26 Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com

 Hi,
 Please give links to FOSS4G 2011
 presentations

 like earlier FOSS4G hope we have them on the web
 Ravi Kumar

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapnik vs GeoSErver/MapServer

[nicolas bozon]

Hi Frans,

Yes, Mapnik is yet another WMS/WMTS server which specializes in rendering
OSM or GDAL/OGR data as fast and beautiful tiles.

Mapserver and Geoserver also have their own renderers, and their own cache
tile systems (Mapcache, GeoWebCache). They are also implementing other OGC
standards like WFS. As far as i know Mapnik does not support such a
standard and is not planning to. Of course, the Mapnik folks can probably
explain main features and differences much better than me.

Another minor difference is that Mapnik isn't an OSGeo project, compared to
the two other servers you mentionned.

Hope it helps

Best,

Nick







2011/12/10 Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org

 hi all

 anyone can help me, why Mapnik is not map server if we campare with
 GeoSErver and MapSErver

 it is rendering, but if it is rendering server, why we cannot put
 mapnik in Geoserver/Mapserver environment
 anyone can help?



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Post-process DGPS software?

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Charles,

There is also the GoGPS software available for open source differential
correction of GPS data.
It was origanaly developed in MATLAB, and then ported to Java.
By the way, it can also be WPS enabled using the ZOO-Project server.

It is available on sourceforge here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gogps/develop

They also have a website, but down for maintenance at the moment (some more
info  docs available there)
www.gogps-project.org

Best,

Nick


2011/12/2 Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org

 **

 There is also a group of GPS pros over on the foss-gps list:
 http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ in case you still need a hand :)

 - Original message -
  On 12/02/2011 12:58 PM, Charles Schweik wrote:
   Hi all,
  
   Is there any open source software to do post-process differential
   correction of GPS data, similar to Trimble's Pathfinder software?
  
   Thanks in advance,
  
   Charlie Schweik
 
  http://www.rtklib.com/
 
  But if you're using Trimble's you first have to find a way to convert
  ssf files to Rinex.
 
  Enjoy,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2011 Charter Member Election Results

[nicolas bozon]

Michael, all

Done -
The page was created here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction

Thanks to all experienced members to add their thoughts there !

Best,

Nick

2011/12/3 Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com

 Nicolas:

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 This is a great idea.  Could you please start by stubbing out a wiki page
 for this, and then others can add onto it?

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 -mpg

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 *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
 discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *nicolas bozon
 *Sent:* Friday, December 02, 2011 6:56 PM
 *To:* OSGeo Discussions
 *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2011 Charter Member Election Results

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 Hello all,

 As a fresh new charter member, i was precisely wondering if some
 guidelines for charter membership were available somewhere. I was about to
 ask in fact, when this thread came up.
 I knew that voting was one of the duties, but thought that some others may
 exist.
 According to me, charter members should also dynamise and promote their
 respective (and/or prefered) local chapter as much as possible.
 That would be nice if some experienced charter members could start such
 guidelines on the wiki or elsewhere where a kind of brainstorming  could
 occur on that topic.
 My 2 cents
 Thanks

 Nick

 2011/12/3 Mateusz Łoskot mate...@loskot.net

 On 2 December 2011 16:30, Dave McIlhagga dmcilha...@dmsolutions.ca
 wrote:
  I would suggest that on the contrary, being a Charter Member does come
 with
  responsibility -- it may be minimal but is critically important. All
 that is required is
 voting for new Charter Members and voting for the Board.
 
  Assuming, reasonable efforts have been made to be in touch with Charter
 Members,
  I think it's actually important to purge those who don't take this
 responsibility
 seriously. I would suggest it's a necessary part of preserving the
 integrity of the organization.
 
  Keep in mind, for many OSGeo is not just a past-time - it's a vested
  part of our institutions, businesses, and people.

 I support Dave's opinion here.

 OSGeo has no resources for mothering its Charter Members.

 Best regards,
 --
 Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
 Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
 Member of ACCU, http://accu.org

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to the ZOO Project workshop

[nicolas bozon]

Dear all,

*sorry for any cross posting*

The ZOO Tribe is glad to invite you to the ZOO Project Workshop at FOSS4G
2011 in Denver.

http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/ZooWorkshop2011/Invitation

Practical introduction to ZOO Project and WPS Services development , to be
held on Sept. 13th.

Please do not hesitate to spread the word in your community, company,
university ...

The workshop abstract is available here:
http://2011.foss4g.org/workshop-details/

Hope to see you there !

Best regards,

Nick
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GEOSHIELD RELEASE

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Maxi  Milan!

Congrats for this release !
I hope GeoShield will soon support WPS as well, please tell me if i can be
of any help in this direction.
Congrats again folks.
Best,

Nick


2010/12/10 maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it

 Dear Maxi, well done! Congratulations!
 Cheers.
 MAria

 Def. Quota Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch:

  Dear list,
 it is a pleasure to announce the release of GeoShield (version 0.2.1).

 GeoShield is a project born to offer a centralized way to define security
 access-control to geo-services.
 It acts like a proxy, intercepting all the communications between clients
 and OGC compliant services (WMS, WFS, and in future WPS, SOS).
 GeoShield is able to manage users and groups, it handles authentication
 and privileges settings among groups and registered services. It is capable
 to analyse requests applying the filters set to the user and manipulating
 the response.
 It is a server side security software to secure OGC services.

 The interested people can find the source code and a web archive package
 (.war) ready for Tomcat:

   * http://code.google.com/p/geoshield/downloads/list

 While a short installation guide is here (on the project website):

   *
 https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/documentation/installation


 Because documentation is still very poor, if you have questions or
 remarks, please don't hesitate to contact us, using this discussion group:
 http://groups.google.com/group/geoshield-project 
 http://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://groups.google.com/group/geoshield-projectusg=AFQjCNEj17fLeUnSFb-sMb2s3IHLbGIPEQ
 


 Regards,
 Massimiliano and Milan

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 Dr. Eng. Massimiliano Cannata
 Responsabile Area Geomatica
 Istituto Scienze della Terra
 Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana
 Via Trevano, c.p. 72
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 Tel: +41 (0)58 666 62 14
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elevation and profile service

[nicolas bozon]

Hello Cédric,

One of the ZOO Project demo could fit to your second use case.

The user can draw a polyline on a DEM layer and see the corresponding
elevation profile in a jquery dialog.
The calculation is done using GDAL as a WPS ZOO Service, which takes the
drawn LineString and the DEM layer as input data, and outputs the profile.

http://zoo-project.org/site/ZooWebSite/Demo/GdalProfile#ZOOelevationprofiledemo

Hope it helps

Best,

Nicolas BOZON



2010/12/7 Cédric MOULLET cedric.moul...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I'm wondering if there is any standard/standard implementation for
 elevation services (use case: the user would like to know the elevation at
 one position) or profile services (use case: the user would like to know the
 elevation profile of a polyline) ?
 Thanks in advance,
 Cédric

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 Welcome to my world: http://www.cedricmoullet.com/
 My Linked In profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cedricmoullet
 Twitter: http://twitter.com/cedricmoullet
 Home sweet home:
 http://map.geo.admin.ch/?crosshair=bowlzoom=11X=185241.24219Y=561288.90625bgOpacity=0selectedNode=node_ch.swisstopo.fixpunkte-lage1


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Japan chapter receives “Japane se OSS Encouragement Award” by IPA

[nicolas bozon]

Congrats to the Japanese chapter and long life to the MolaMola fish !
Best,

Nick

2010/10/15 Toru Mori（森亮） morit...@orkney.co.jp

 Hi OSGeo community,

 Today IPA (IT promotion agency Japan), a government agency, announced that
 OSGeo Japan Chapter will be awarded “Japanese OSS Encouragement Award” prize
 on 28th October 2010.
 I , as representative of the chapter, am very pleased and honored to
 receive the prize!

 The Japan chapter was established in late 2006 and the local community has
 been growing steadily and dedicating effort to promoting FOSS4G.
 Please join our local conference, FOSS4G 2010 Tokyo/Osaka, held in this
 November to celebrate it with us over bottles of beer!
 http://www.osgeo.jp/


 -- Press release by IPA (in Japanese) --
 http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html

 -- About the award --
 IPA grants “Japanese OSS Contributor Award” to a developer who has
 established and has been managing the development project which has the
 influence, to a superior developer who takes an active role in the global
 projects and to a contributor to spread the OSS. Also IPA grants “Japanese
 OSS Encouragement Award” to the individual or the group which has a
 remarkable activity to develop and/or spread OSS.

 -- About IPA --
 http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/about/index.html

 Toru Mori
 Yokohama Japan

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