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</a></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><a name="result_box4"></a>Thank you Roel for your introduction. I can wait to read the others and learn to better know you!<br><br>Jeff when will you be in Belgium, could be great to put our 'social event' in the same time ? :-)<br><br>See you soon,<br>Maë//e </p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-07 11:46 GMT+02:00 Dirk Frigne <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:dirk.frigne@geosparc.com">dirk.frigne@geosparc.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">If you come to Belgium, just let me know.<br>
I don't want to miss the beer :-)<br>
<br>
D.<br>
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On 2016-10-06 22:03, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br>
> Thank you for that great introduction, Roel. I've done some work at the<br>
> federal level here in Canada on soils as well, using the MapServer<br>
> stack. In fact I setup all of their soils data in PostGIS, 15-minute<br>
> readings going back decades, and all queried by MapServer and QGIS etc,<br>
> they absolutely love it. I'm next trying to convince them to use open<br>
> tools for their sensor management, through the istSOS project (a project<br>
> in OSGeo incubation).<br>
><br>
> I'm happy that you are a member of the OSGeo-Belgium community, and I<br>
> look forward to sharing a beer with you soon!<br>
><br>
> -jeff<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 2016-10-06 4:08 PM, Roel Huybrechts wrote:<br>
>> Dear Moritz, Jeff, all,<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you for the warm welcome! Let me introduce myself a little bit.<br>
>><br>
>> At work, I'm a GIS consultant for Realdolmen. At the moment I'm working<br>
>> for the Flemish government, department DOV, where we manage and publish<br>
>> all data related to the soil and the subsoil of Flanders. This ranges<br>
>> from soilmaps, geological formations, boreholes to groundwater data. We<br>
>> do so almost exclusively using OSGeo tools: PostGIS, Geoserver,<br>
>> Geonetwork and QGis to name a few.<br>
>><br>
>> In my spare time I like playing around with other open-source tools (I'm<br>
>> a long time Debian user). I recently started playing around with Mapnik<br>
>> again, to produce some interesting maps of OpenStreetMap data joined<br>
>> together with Open Data from the government and historical maps of my<br>
>> hometown. Hope to share them with you soon.<br>
>><br>
>> This year I had the fantastic opportunity to attend my first global<br>
>> FOSS4G conference (after attening our first Belgian FOSS4G last year)<br>
>> and speak about the tablet app I made using QGis [1]. It was a great<br>
>> experience and I loved meeting the community behind the projects I use<br>
>> on a daily basis. With this membership I'd like to become a (more<br>
>> active) part of this community, spreading the OSGeo spirit in Belgium.<br>
>><br>
>> Other conferences I attended include FOSDEM [2] (I was once active in<br>
>> the Ubuntu-be/-nl teams) and more recently I helped out at State of the<br>
>> Map [3] as a volunteer. I also try to attend the Missing Maps Mapathons<br>
>> [4] of HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team), organised regularly at<br>
>> IPIS (Antwerp), MSF (Brussels) or elsewhere.<br>
>><br>
>> Besided all this geekyness I love hiking in the mountains (which we do<br>
>> not have in Belgium, unfortunately), riding my bike (on flat terrain,<br>
>> which we do have, yay!), gardening and playing boardgames. Also: I<br>
>> recently bought a canoe, which will be fun!<br>
>><br>
>> @Moritz: I requested an account on the wiki just now, I'll add the link<br>
>> to my page afterwards :)<br>
>><br>
>> [1] Slides and video at: <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://roel.huybrechts.re/">http://roel.huybrechts.re/</a><br>
>> [2] <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://fosdem.org/">https://fosdem.org/</a><br>
>> [3] <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://2016.stateofthemap.org/">http://2016.stateofthemap.org/</a><br>
>> [4] <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://www.missingmaps.org/">http://www.missingmaps.org/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Best regards and see you soon!<br>
>> Roel<br>
>><br>
>> Op Ma okt 3 2016, om 14:14 schreef Jeff McKenna:<br>
>>> Welcome Julien, Arnaud, Nicolas, Christophe, and Roel! Thank you for<br>
>>> sharing the passion.<br>
>>><br>
>>> -jeff<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Jeff McKenna<br>
>>> President Emeritus, OSGeo<br>
>>> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Jeff_McKenna</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On 2016-10-02 8:47 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:<br>
>>>> Dear all,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> AFAICT, noone has announced it on this list, yet, but we welcome 5 new<br>
>>>> charter members to OSGeo.be:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Julien Collaer<br>
>>>> Arnaud De Groof<br>
>>>> Nicolas Durane<br>
>>>> Christophe Guisset<br>
>>>> Roel Huybrechts<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Congratulations and welcome to all of you !!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I've added your names to the wiki page:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium#Other_Charter_members">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Belgium#Other_Charter_members</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Please modify this to link to your OSGeo user profile (if you don't<br>
>>>> have<br>
>>>> one, yet, I recommend you create one) and add (correct) whatever you<br>
>>>> think necessary.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I would also recommend that each of you send a short mail to the<br>
>>>> mailing<br>
>>>> list presenting yourself.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thank you for taking your support to OSGeo.be one step further !<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Moritz<br>
>><br>
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