RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Making my pitch

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for that information Jo. It is helpful.

Landon

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On Behalf Of Joanne Cook
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:09 AM
To: discuss
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Making my pitch

Dear All,

In light of the request that Charter Member nominees state their case for 
nomination, here goes...

For those that don't know- I'm the local representative of the UK Local Chapter 
of OSGeo. I helped found the local chapter after FOSS4G2006 in Lausanne, and 
since then have been trying to raise the profile of OSGeo and open source 
geospatial software in general in the UK. I believe this has been quite 
successful. The local chapter has grown significantly since Lausanne, and we 
now have a core team of very committed people, who are organising events such 
as the very successful OSGIS conferences at the University of Nottingham Centre 
for Geospatial Sciences. I speak at industry conferences such as the 
Association of Geographic Information, on OSGeo and open source GIS. I help 
teach open source gis at workshops around the UK. I blog at www.archaeogeek.com 
(though less frequently at the moment), on real-life experiences with open 
source GIS, and have been advising companies around the UK on making the 
transition from proprietary software. In all these cases I cite OSGeo as one of 
the reasons why the open source approach is viable, sustainable and 
professional. 

Charter Membership would mean a lot to me, personally, and would (I think) help 
me when I am trying to raise the profile of the foundation. Having more female 
charter members will help address the gender imbalance within the organisation 
that was identified at FOSS4G in Barcelona. The UK is also currently quite 
under-represented, so it would be nice to see more Brits on the list as well.

I hope that helps...

Jo

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Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Making my pitch

[Anne Ghisla]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:09 +, Joanne Cook wrote:
 Dear All,

 In light of the request that Charter Member nominees state their case
 for nomination, here goes...

Hi all,

I follow the thread and toot my own horn [0] :)

To add more info to the presentation on the wikipage, I'm member of QGIS
Documentation and Release teams, and one of the core GRASS developers.

My participation within OSGeo started with Google Summer of Code 2008.
After two positive experiences as student and one as mentor, I would
like to come further behind the scenes, and make it a testing ground to
improve communication among the various foundation projects. It is also
a good entry point for students interested in experiencing how open
source works. Actually the rate of students who joined a project for the
first time during SoC and continued developing after it is quite low. As
SoC has been for me the gateway to OSGeo, I want to help to make this
happen more often. I think also of replicating the idea and make an
OSGeo $season of code, tailoring it to the Foundation's goals and
resources.

I'm co-founder of OSGeo Women chapter and also of Donne at
softwarelibero.it, a newborn group focused on women participation to
free software in Italy [1]. Within this latter group, that collects
people scattered among various distributions and associations, I noticed
how valuable are people who act as bridges among projects. A net of them
can be the best start for a profitable cross-project communication. My
primary goal as charter member is to be a node of this net, to encourage
an effective connection among foundation projects.

Let me end with a quote from Ravi [2]:
This is the Indian season for the 'Festival of Lights', known as
Deepavali, and may this OSGeo Charter member election, fill OSGeo with
new light.

best regards

Anne Ghisla

[0] http://xkcd.com/757/
[1] http://www.fsugitalia.org/donne/ (in Italian)
[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-November/008185.html
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