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

[Christian Willmes]

Thank you very much Andy!

I see this document for the first time... very interesting.

I believe some (most?) of the actual OSGeo Charter Members may also see 
this certificate the first time now? ;-)


Cheers,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 13:51 schrieb Andy Anderson:

Hi, Christian,

The "charter" of OSGeo is its certificate of incorporation:

https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/osgeo_certificate.pdf

There is not actually much detail, it's minimal boilerplate for 
establishing a nonprofit corporation. There is much more information 
in its bylaws, including its "Purposes":


https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/

— Andy


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*To:* Markus Neteler
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*Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN 
Committee Educational Challenge


Dear Markus,

thanks, I know that there is a list of Charter Members, I also know 
about the election process. My question was about "what is the OSGeo 
Charter". E.g. a document, or something intangible, I do not know? My 
point is, if this suddenly becomes a criteria for an evaluation, this 
needs to be well defined.


Best,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 10:32 schrieb Markus Neteler:
Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de 
<mailto:c.will...@uni-koeln.de>> schrieb am Di., 3. Apr. 2018, 10:07:


...

Also, I never saw / read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not
able to find it via google, may you help me with a link here?

That's unfortunately an open issue:

#2127: List of charter members not yet migrated
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2127

Best,
Markus


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

[Andy Anderson]

Hi, Christian,

The "charter" of OSGeo is its certificate of incorporation:

https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/osgeo_certificate.pdf

There is not actually much detail, it's minimal boilerplate for establishing a 
nonprofit corporation. There is much more information in its bylaws, including 
its "Purposes":

https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/

— Andy


From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Christian Willmes 
[c.will...@uni-koeln.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 4:44 AM
To: Markus Neteler
Cc: OSGeo-discuss
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear Markus,

thanks, I know that there is a list of Charter Members, I also know about the 
election process. My question was about "what is the OSGeo Charter". E.g. a 
document, or something intangible, I do not know? My point is, if this suddenly 
becomes a criteria for an evaluation, this needs to be well defined.

Best,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 10:32 schrieb Markus Neteler:
Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de<mailto:c.will...@uni-koeln.de>> 
schrieb am Di., 3. Apr. 2018, 10:07:

...

Also, I never saw / read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able to find it 
via google, may you help me with a link here?

That's unfortunately an open issue:

#2127: List of charter members not yet migrated
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2127

Best,
Markus


--
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AG GIS & Fernerkundung  | GIS & RS Group
Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography
Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234
http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html
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http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

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

Maria





Have a good reading:

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



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

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
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Da: Christian Willmes <c.will...@uni-koeln.de>
Inviato: martedì 3 aprile 2018 13:37:29
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear Maria,


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


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


Best,

Christian

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




Have a good reading:

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



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


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

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








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


Dear Maria,


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


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


Best,
Christian

Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

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

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


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

May I ask ho

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

[Christian Willmes]

Dear Maria,


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



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



Best,

Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 13:28 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:

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

Have a good day!
Maria




Have a good reading:

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


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

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

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






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


Dear Maria,


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



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



Best,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:


Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

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

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



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


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



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


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


/
/

/Promote OSGeo through the use of FOSS4G tools
Register as an OSGeo Member See Getting Started
Take active part in OSGeo Mailing Lists
Hack the OSGeo Wiki
Help build a stronger OSGeo community through interactions with 
academia, businesses and research organizations

Help organize workshops, trainings, conferences related to FOSS4G/
/Find an opportunity/reason to wear an OSGeo T-shirt
Ask good questions and provide answers when possible/
/
/

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


/Obviously this criteria was thought, exa

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

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




Have a good reading:

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



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

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






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


Dear Maria,


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


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


Best,
Christian

Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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


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


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

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

[Christian Willmes]

Dear Maria,


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



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



Best,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Maria Antonia Brovelli:


Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

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

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



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


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



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


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


/
/

/Promote OSGeo through the use of FOSS4G tools
Register as an OSGeo Member See Getting Started
Take active part in OSGeo Mailing Lists
Hack the OSGeo Wiki
Help build a stronger OSGeo community through interactions with 
academia, businesses and research organizations

Help organize workshops, trainings, conferences related to FOSS4G/
/Find an opportunity/reason to wear an OSGeo T-shirt
Ask good questions and provide answers when possible/
/
/

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


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



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



/Here the Membership Process./

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

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



Thank you and best regards,
Christian


Thank to you.

Best regards

Maria



Have a good reading:

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


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

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

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






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*Inviato:* martedì 3 aprile 2018 09:57:34
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*Oggetto:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee 
Educational Challenge


Dear all,

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


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

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


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


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


Thank you and best regards,
Christian



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Betreff:[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge
Datum:  Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:25:53 +0200
Von: 	Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_e...@osgeo.org> 
<mailto:astrid_e...@osgeo.org>

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

[Christian Willmes]

Dear Markus,

thanks, I know that there is a list of Charter Members, I also know 
about the election process. My question was about "what is the OSGeo 
Charter". E.g. a document, or something intangible, I do not know? My 
point is, if this suddenly becomes a criteria for an evaluation, this 
needs to be well defined.


Best,
Christian


Am 03.04.2018 um 10:32 schrieb Markus Neteler:
Christian Willmes > schrieb am Di., 3. Apr. 2018, 10:07:


...

Also, I never saw / read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able
to find it via google, may you help me with a link here?

That's unfortunately an open issue:

#2127: List of charter members not yet migrated
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2127

Best,
Markus


--
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AG GIS & Fernerkundung  | GIS & RS Group
Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography
Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234
http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14126.html
http://www.sfb806.de
http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de
http://publons.com/a/1316706/
http://orcid.org/-0002-5566-6542

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

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Christian

Thanks for your interest; here my answers.

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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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


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


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


Here the Membership Process.

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

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


Thank you and best regards,
Christian


Thank to you.

Best regards

Maria



Have a good reading:

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



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

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






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Dear all,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you and best regards,
Christian


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Link to the OSGeo Foundation News:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

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

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

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

[Markus Neteler]

Christian Willmes  schrieb am Di., 3. Apr. 2018,
10:07:

...

> Also, I never saw / read the OSGeo Charter, and I am also not able to find
> it via google, may you help me with a link here?
>
That's unfortunately an open issue:

#2127: List of charter members not yet migrated
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2127

Best,
Markus
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[Christian Willmes]

Dear all,

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


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

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


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


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


Thank you and best regards,
Christian



 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Betreff:[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge
Datum:  Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:25:53 +0200
Von:Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
Antwort an: astrid_e...@osgeo.org
An: Announce 



Link to the OSGeo Foundation News:
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/

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

The OSGeo UN Committee promotes the development and use of open source
software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. In the
last few years, the Committee has mainly worked on the UN Open GIS
Initiative (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/un-initiative/), a project
  "... to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the
requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of
mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries,
international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The
strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles,
standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses
capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member
States or entities. The UN Open GIS Initiative strategy shall
collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate,
and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate
documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to
improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS
around the world." (more details at [1]).

The first two challenges (one of them sponsored by Boundless) are
related to the UN Open GIS Initiative. The third challenge is more
general and relates to the use of high resolution and high quality
global datasets available for environmental, social and economical
analysis everywhere, especially in developing countries. This challenge
is aimed at addressing the current lack of training material for using
such data with open source software in support of UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).

Winners will be guided by mentors from Boundless [2], the UN Open GIS
Initiative [3] and OSGeo [4] to ensure that the material meets the
requirements of the target audience. Winning material will be included
and distributed in OSGeoLive [5], a freely available and self-contained
bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu,
containing a wide variety of open source geospatial software that can be
tried out without installing anything.


Challenge 1: Spiral 1 of UN - GeoSHAPE platform for data collection

Prize: USD 3,000 sponsored by Boundless

Requirements: This call is for the development of education material
that teaches the user how to apply the GeoSHAPE platform [6] to assist
in a real-life scenario involving a relevant theme in today’s world.
Themes could include humanitarian aid, disaster management, emergency
management, or sustainable development.  The scenario could be an
ongoing, recent, or historical event or could be created for the
purposes of the challenge. If the scenario is created, it should be as
realistic and relevant to today’s challenges as possible and use data
relevant to a geographic location on the earth. The instructional
materials should teach the user how to perform specific workflows
relevant to the scenario.  The proposal should specify:

1. A description of the applied scenario.
2. A list of workflows to be included in the scenario. The list should
be specific enough to highlight how the platform can be used in assist
in the effort. For example, distributed editing could be used to track
and share the location of resources in the field in real-time.
3. A list of the types of relevant datasets to be used with a short
description. The datasets should include freely available and open
geodatasets. Given the nature of the challenge, datasets may need to be
created for the purposes of the scenario.

Target audience: professionals at local,