From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Oct 3 03:04:33 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 12:04:33 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo and the International Geographical Union (IGU) sign MoU Message-ID: Tsu, Japan, 30 September, 2017: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Geographical Union (IGU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a collaborative relationship between the global community of Geography professionals and the Open Source Geospatial community. The goal of this agreement is to promote the distribution and use of open geo-data in research, teaching and applications, promote the development of related GIS and Remote Sensing Open Source software, to work closely with the GeoForAll initiative in promoting open principles in education and science, and to organize joint international workshops on global geo-information sharing through the use of open geo-data and Open Source Geospatial software. Professor Yukio Himiyama, President of the IGU, said "The IGU Executive Committee believes that this MoU offers potential of to IGU and OSGeo to make great contribution to society, and is excited to assist bridging the world geographic community with the Open Source geospatial community, and to support this bottom-up initiative.Some IGU Commissions may plan to organize joint international meetings on global geo-information sharing, while still others may wish to promote the distribution and use of open geo-data sets, So, let?s work together!" Venkatesh Raghavan, President of OSGeo, said "Partnership with IGU will help further the goals and objectives of the OSGeo Foundation and foster R&D of high societal value. This MoU will bring OSGeo and IGU communities closer and complement each others strengths and extend their global reach. This is exciting news for the OSGeo community and its GeoForAll educational outreach. Look forward for fruitful collaborations between IGU and OSGeo" *About IGU* The International Geographical Union (IGU) is an international, non-governmental, professional organization devoted to the development of the discipline of Geography.The purposes of the IGU are primarily to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching in all countries of the world. *About OSGeo* The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. GeoForAll is a collaborative education and research outreach initiative of OSGeo for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. [1] http://www.geoforall.org/ Pictures: 1) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Igu_osgeo_pic1.JPG 2) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Igu_osgeo_pic2.jpg 3) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Igu_osgeo_pic3.jpg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Oct 19 02:13:19 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:13:19 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Board Election 2017 Message-ID: It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like in the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. Emails with personal voting link has been sent to all our charter members. If you did not receive your voting please contact Chief Returning Officer(s) at cro at osgeo.org. Before doing that please also check your "Spam" folder for the e-mail with the personal voting link. Sending hundreds of messages at once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some of the filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change but the charter member contact database is not up to date. We have 9 nominations [1]. According to the 2017 election calendar[2], the voting will take place over a period of one week between 2017-10-18 - 2017-10-24. Details of the candidates contesting the elections are available at [3]. [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017 [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Oct 24 04:00:49 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:00:49 -0300 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Live: Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing Message-ID: Dear OSGeo members and contributors, We are excited to announce that after many months work, we have set up the Transifex platform to run OSGeo-Live translations [1], and we want help battle testing it in several languages. Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst process). It offers machine translation. It provides a review process. It shows us what is changed in the English doc version. It shows translation progress What is involved We describe what to do in our first draft of the translator guide [2]. For testing the infrastructure, translated files are needed. You can translate based on the priority mark, or on the amount of lines to be translated, or complete a translation that someone else started, or start with your own project. Note that we already marked files that don't need translation. Please tell us if the guide makes sense. (The guide is probably more for a reviewer than for a translator.) If the images below don't show in your mail, they are included in our translator guide [2] They are mark with a red >> on the left. Link to image: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OSGEo-Live_transifex_01_ index.png After that testing phase, we will work on translating included projects, where people from the projects can help us. Those files generally start by overview-- or quickstart-- and are mark with an orange > Link to image: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OSGEo-Live_transifex_02_ second_priority.png The files marked with a green dash don't need to be translated (and would be retired at some point). Link to image: https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/thumb/9/95/OSGEo-Live_ transifex_03_retired_files.png/500px-OSGEo-Live_ transifex_03_retired_files.png Best way to start is to filter for v11 files and descending priority: Link to image: https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/thumb/3/3c/OSGEo-Live_ transifex_04_priority.png/500px-OSGEo-Live_transifex_04_priority.png As you can see on the dashboard [3], we already have 8 languages registered waiting for translators: - finnish - french - german - greek - japanese - polish - spanish - Mexican spanish If you can help us translating those languages, or help us with another, please create an account on transifex and join us. Pro. tip: you can copy/paste translations from current documentation [4] or from github [5] and check whether it still fits in with the string to translate. If you have any question, please join us through the Transifex platform, on IRC or on the OSGeo-Live mailing list [6]. Best regards, Vicky Vergara and Nicolas Roelandt OSGeo-Live team [1] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#WO RK_IN_PROGRESS [3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/languages/ [4] https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html [5] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/ [6] OSGeo-Live contact us: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Li ve_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us [7] OSGeo-Live Press Release : https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Li ve_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_80 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Sat Oct 28 08:05:10 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:05:10 -0300 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017! Message-ID: Dear OSGeo community, we're happy to announce that OSGeo has been ccepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017 [1]! "Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it?s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have. Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it?s like to work on an open source project. Participants get to work on real software and win prizes from t-shirts to a trip to Google HQ!" [1] It's to emphasize that OSGeo is one of the 6 new orgs accepted in this contest as Google doesn't accept that many new orgs as in GSoC! The GCI timeline can be ssen in [2]: Thursday, October 26 Mentoring organizations announced Tuesday, November 28 (17:00 UTC) Contest opens for entries by student participants 2018 Monday, January 15 (17:00 UTC) Deadline to claim new tasks Wednesday, January 17 (17:00 UTC) All student work must be submitted; contest ends Thursday, January 18 (17:00 UTC) Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students? work Wednesday, January 31 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced Basic information regarding our application can be found under [3]. If interested to volunteer as GCI mentor, then check [4]. More information will come, stay tuned. Kind regards Helmut (on behalf of the GSoC/GCI admin team. [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Mentors