From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Aug 7 14:27:28 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:27:28 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Board Election Results Message-ID: <46B8E3C0.7010802@pobox.com> The election for the OSGeo Board of Directors in now completed. The following, in alphabetical order, were elected to fill the 5 vacant positions: * Jeroen Ticheler * Jo Walsh (re-elected) * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Paul Ramsey * Robert (Bob) Bray We had good voter turnout - 90% of the charter members voted. Your resulting new Board will be composed of: * Arnulf Christl * Chris Holmes * Dave McIllhagga * Frank Warmerdam * Jeroen Ticheler * Jo Walsh (re-elected) * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Paul Ramsey * Robert (Bob) Bray Please join me in welcoming the new directors and thanking the outgoing directors for their critical involvement during OSGeo's first year. Also, please thank all nominees for letting their names stand during the election. Voters had tough voting decisions as all nominees came with strong recommendations and experience. Sincerely, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Chief Returning Officer & Secretary OSGeo tmitchell at osgeo.org +1-250-277-1621 From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Aug 9 08:17:00 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:17:00 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2008 Awarded to Cape Town, South Africa Message-ID: <46BB2FEC.1000408@pobox.com> The OSGeo Conference Committee is pleased to announce that the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, with the tentative dates of September 29th to October 3th 2008. The OSGeo Conference Committee would like to thank all of those who submitted to host the 2008 conference, we were all very impressed with the number and quality of proposals. With the 2007 conference approaching (http://www.foss4g2007.org/) and the excitement building in the FOSS4G community, the 2008 conference will be an important date on the calendar not to miss. The 2008 organizing committee has already begun preparations, and will be following up with a larger announcement. The detailed proposal is available at: http://www.osgeo.org/files/webfiles/conference/proposals/South_Africa_proposal_to_host_FOSS4G_2008.pdf Again, thank you for all of the excellent submissions. -- OSGeo Conference Committee From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Aug 9 21:32:18 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:32:18 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations Message-ID: <46BBEA52.6030407@pobox.com> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2007 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://www.cancer.org/asp/donate/don_multi_donate.asp?navToScreen=don_1. Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to SolKatzAward at osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until midnight UTC on September 7th (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=09&day=07&year=2007&hour=23&min=59&sec=59). A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by an OSGeo designated selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced on September 27th at the FOSS4G 2007 conference (http://www.foss4g2007.org/) closing plenary in Victoria, Canada. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. Past Awardees: 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee: Frank Wamerdam (chair) Jeff McKenna Paul Ramsey Venkatesh Raghavan Markus Neteler Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org From warmerdam at pobox.com Sat Aug 18 06:44:01 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:44:01 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G Program Finalized Message-ID: <46C6F7A1.9010206@pobox.com> The FOSS4G event is coming fast - register and book your hotel now! Some of the final parts of the plenary program were finalized this week, including plenary speakers, lightning talkers and our discussion panelists. The opening and closing plenary speakers are all selected, and it's a great lineup! As keynoters, we have: * Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology, Autodesk * Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, OSGeo * Peter Rushforth, Technology Advisor, GeoConnections Then we move into a great set of Lightning Talks [1], including bits from Schuyler Earle, Peter Batty, Scott Morehouse, and Arnulf Christl. The opening plenary will be capped off with our featured speaker, Damian Conway [2], who will treat us to his observations of open source culture in Geek Eye for the Straight Guy. The closing plenary will include a great panel [3] discussion from: * Peter Batty, Independent Consultant * Tim Bowden, Director, Mapforge Geospatial * Mark Sondheim, BC Integrated Land Management Bureau * Frank Warmerdam, President, OSGeo Adena Schutzberg, of Directions Magazine [4] will moderate the panel, and provide us a conference wrap-up address. Only one month to go! Book your hotels! Register! [1] Lightning Talks -- http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/lightning/ [2] Damian -- http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/#damianconway [3] Panel -- http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/#panel [4] Directions -- http://www.directionsmag.com/ [5] Hotels -- http://www.foss4g2007.org/accommodations/ [6] Register now -- http://www.foss4g2007.org/register/ From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Aug 20 15:14:15 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:14:15 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Mapbender 2.4.2 Released Message-ID: <46CA1237.2080304@pobox.com> Hello lists, the new Mapbender-release 2.4.2 is available for download. Thanks to all developers who were involved :) Download: http://www.mapbender.org/download/ Find out more about the changes in Mapbender 2.4.2 in the Mapbender Wiki. Have a look at: http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Template:Changelog_2.4.2 http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/MapbenderHistory Please read the description of the installation in the Mapbender Wiki http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Installation We are looking forward to your feedback. ------ german version ------ Hallo , der neue Mapbender-Release 2.4.2 steht zum Download bereit. Dank an alle Entwickler, die daran beteiligt waren :) Der Download erfolgt ?ber: http://www.mapbender.org/download/ Die Liste der ?nderungen, Verbesserungen und neuen Funktionen sind im Mapbender-Wiki in der History nachzulesen unter: http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Template:Changelog_2.4.2 http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/MapbenderHistory Eine Beschreibung der Installation findet sich unter: http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Installation -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en Astrid Emde