Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentoring program @OSGeo[-women]

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Puttick
At terrible risk of going against the grain here, but I don't like discrimination, whatever its guise and whatever its motive. Call me idealistic, but it has been my experience that discrimination has only one outcome and that is discrimination. Me, I'm human; so far I've never worked or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentoring program @OSGeo[-women]

2010-09-12 Thread Alan Palazzolo
Chris, I think your point is extremely valid, and is important to be said. But I don't think this is the goal or direction of mentoring specifically for women. Given that there are underrepresented peoples, like women, in OSGeo (or IT at large), supporting a mentorship program that is based on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mentoring program @OSGeo[-women]

2010-09-12 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:04 +0200, Alan Palazzolo wrote: Chris, I think your point is extremely valid, and is important to be said. But I don't think this is the goal or direction of mentoring specifically for women. Given that there are underrepresented peoples, like women, in OSGeo (or IT

[OSGeo-Discuss] Where to, OSGeo?

2010-09-12 Thread Ari Jolma
All, Thanks for a fine FOSS4G conference again to all who organized and participated. I wrote the text below after the board f2f (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Barcelona_2010) to clear my head and also to perhaps give to the broader community an idea of what the board

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 45, Issue 21

2010-09-12 Thread Jo Walsh
Collecting some thoughts... On 12/09/2010 17:00, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: OSGeo-women has been created as a chapter, similar to local chapters. The final aim is to promote participation of women in OSGeo groupings, like most others, are entirely artificial I signed up,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where to, OSGeo?

2010-09-12 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
On 09/12/2010 05:12 PM, Ari Jolma wrote: Where to, OSGeo? I've seen, heard, and discussed now twice Tyler's (Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo CEO) presentation on OSGeo strategy. First in Nottingham in June and now in Barcelona. The presentation is a mind map, and it introduces the phases organizations

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pictures and video from FOSS4G2010

2010-09-12 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
thanks Mateusz to all, please, tag it foss4g2010 too Lorenzo On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: On 12/09/10 12:48, Lorenzo Becchi wrote: For those that want to contribute their pics and video, I've created a wiki page to share your links:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Chairpersons at foss4g2010 in Barcelona

2010-09-12 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
Hi Maria, thanks again for your help this is the list of abstracts at the moment: http://2010.foss4g.org/papers/ I've seen I've received other papers but I had no time yet to publish them. hope to do it asap Lorenzo 2010/9/12 maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it Dear Lluis at first I would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Chairpersons at foss4g2010 in Barcelona

2010-09-12 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Lorenzo, Would it be possible to have an index file (e.g. index.pdf) for all these abstract with the numbers and title of the presentation/paper? These abstracts are relatively large file, some are 1.0 M. I think not everybody is incline to download all these abstracts just for browsing.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Women] Post FOSS4G2010 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Simon Cropper
On Saturday 11 September 2010 9:09:33 pm Anne Ghisla wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 02:01 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Dear Ladies, During the conference, Athina shared her impression about gender mix in the board of directors. I thoroughly support Athina's opinion it would be beneficial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Women] Post FOSS4G2010 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 13/09/10 02:41, Simon Cropper wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2010 9:09:33 pm Anne Ghisla wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 02:01 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Dear Ladies, During the conference, Athina shared her impression about gender mix in the board of directors. I thoroughly support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Women] Post FOSS4G2010 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Simon Cropper
On Monday 13 September 2010 10:46:27 am Mateusz Loskot wrote: You clearly haven't understood my post which was dedicated to women and trying to encourage them to stand out a bit more. Hello Mateusz, I don't think I misunderstood your email at least the tenor of your email. Your response also

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Women] Post FOSS4G2010 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 13/09/10 03:05, Simon Cropper wrote: I am sorry I (...) have trouble understanding why you wish to politicise a group dedicated to Open Source GIS. Please, let me to repeat, you have misunderstood my message. Moreover, you're getting at something I have not said or suggested. Best