<div dir="ltr">Dear Venka,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your questions. Here are the answers from Halifax team. You'll find them in the wiki page as well.<br><div><br></div><div><span id="m_-1981110589857560177gmail-docs-internal-guid-febd3ab9-7fff-7391-d999-826ee5613679"><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Highlight the contributions (code contributions, documentation, outreach etc.) that the chair/co-chair have made to FOSS4G communities</span></p></li></ol><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff McKenna began his efforts through the MapServer community, becoming the lead of the documentation team, and joining its Project Steering Committee.  Focusing on the users, Jeff maintains the very popular MS4W installer for Windows users, which is downloaded 6,000 times per month, and contains many OSGeo projects configured to use, including ZOO-Project, Mapbender, GeoMoose.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff has recently begun focusing on students within the FOSS4G community, as an admin of OSGeo’s 2017 and 2018 Google Code-In Initiatives, where small tasks are created for highschool students.  Jeff is also an admin of OSGeo’s Google Summer of Code program, which each summer funds university students to work on OSGeo projects; in fact Jeff is this week at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, for the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, with fellow OSGeo representatives Victoria Rautenbach (GeoForAll) and Vaclav Petras (GRASS GIS).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karine Jean has been active in the FOSS4G community for 10 years, specializing in planning outreach events for the OSGeo and LocationTech communities.</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" start="2"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How have the chair/co-chairs been involved in promotion/governance (Charter Membership, involvement in Committees etc.) of OSGeo foundation.</span></p></li></ol><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff McKenna is a founding charter member of OSGeo, and has been involved in the governance of the OSGeo foundation since its beginning, active in many OSGeo committees. Jeff is a former president of OSGeo, and has sat on its Board of Directors for many years, including now as an OSGeo Vice President.  Jeff has always focused on relationships with partner organizations, and has helped drive these relationships through formal agreements with many groups.  One example is the UN OpenGIS initiative, which began with a formal meeting between the UN GIS team and Jeff in Seoul in 2015, which has now become a very active initiative.  Jeff McKenna has also been a long-time supporter of the GeoForAll initiative, and sits on its Advisory Committee.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karine Jean is a long-time OSGeo-Qc chapter member, and is currently on the Board of OSGeo-Qc.  She has been nominated as an OSGeo Charter member this year.</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" start="3"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please elaborate on your local committee member's experience in planning OSGeo events (such as involvement in FOSS4G-global event teams, OSGeo local chapter event planning, or OSGeo code sprints).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="m_-1981110589857560177gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="m_-1981110589857560177gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karine Jean has organized 2 events in partner with the OSGeo-Qc chapter, the OSGeo-Ottawa chapter, and LocationTech.  Karine was also on the organizing committee of OSGeo-Europe 2015 in Como, Italy.  She was on the local committee for the FOSS4G-Ottawa 2017 bid. Most recently she organized the 10 year celebration of the OSGeo-QC chapter in Quebec City this summer.  Soon she will be organizing a GeoHack in Morocco in collaboration with OSGeo-Qc in 2019. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis, an OSGeo Charter Member since 2016, was the co-chair </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">of the FOSS4G-Ottawa 2017 bid.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thierry Badard, an OSGeo Charter member since 2008, is a board member of the OSGeo-francophone chapter.  He also has been on the organizing committee of several OSGeo-Qc events.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tom Kralidis, an OSGeo Charter member since 2007, organized the very first OSGeo Code Sprint back in 2009, in Toronto. </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff McKenna, a founding OSGeo Charter member since 2006, has been involved in FOSS4G since its beginning.  In 2004, Jeff met Venkatesh Raghavan, Markus Neteler in Thailand, and the three of them agreed to create a global FOSS4G event every year.  Jeff would then go on to chair the new OSGeo Conference Committee, and draft a document to help call for hosts (that is still being used today) and develop a process to move the event around the globe each year.  Jeff has also been active in many FOSS4G global committees, including being part of every local committee at FOSS4G from 2006 to 2011.  Jeff since then has been active on many smaller FOSS4G regional event teams, in Asia, Europe and more.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff McKenna is always actively helping OSGeo local chapter events, and helping them form and grow, in areas all around the world, touching every continent on the planet.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The FOSS4G-HFX team also contains several other OSGeo Charter Members, who actively participate in FOSS4G global and regional events:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Assefa Yewonwossen, Matthew Hanson, and Vicky Vergera.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff & Karine</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:1pt">FOSS4G-HFX 2020 co-chairs  <br></p></span><br class="m_-1981110589857560177gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le jeu. 11 oct. 2018 à 04:27, Venka <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks to the three teams for submitting their LoIs<br>
<br>
My questions to the teams are as below;<br>
<br>
1) Highlight the contributions (code contributions,<br>
documentation, outreach etc.) that the chair/co-chair have<br>
made to FOSS4G communities<br>
<br>
2) How have the chair/co-chairs been involved in<br>
promotion/governance (Charter Membership, involvement<br>
in Committees etc.) of OSGeo foundation.<br>
<br>
3) Please elaborate on your local committee member's experience in <br>
planning OSGeo events (such as involvement in FOSS4G-global event teams, <br>
OSGeo local chapter event planning, or OSGeo code sprints).<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Venka<br>
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