From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Tue Nov 27 12:38:00 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:38:00 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2018 Message-ID: Read the news item at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2018/ OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2018 from all over the world. In 2018 we had 35 nominations and all passed. The OSGeo board approved the new members in the November 2018 board meeting. Now we are happy to have 427 Charter Members in total. The charter members are coming from several countries. We are proud to have this global community with activities on the whole globe. Adam Steer (2018) Australia Alex Leith (2018) Australia Ariel Anthieni (2018) Argentina Baovola Marie Anna (2018) Madagascar Cayetano Benavent (2018) Spain Fernando Quadro (2018) Brazil Simon Georget (2018) France Guillaume Pasero (2018) France Horacio Castellaro (2018) Argentina James Hughes (2018) United States of America John Bryant (2018) Australia Kristian Evers (2018) Denmark Malena Libman (2018) Argentina Manuel Retamozo (2018) Argentina Marco Bernasocchi (2018) Switzerland Matt Travis (2018) United Kingdom Miriam Gonz?lez (2018) Mexico Sidney Schaberle Goveia (2018) Brazil Selene Yang (2018) Nicaragua Alexander Kotsev (2018) Bulgaria Carmen Diez (2018), Spain Cristian Zamar (2018), Argentina Diego Moreira Carvalho (2018), Brazil Eugene Cheipesh (2018), USA George Porto Ferreira (2018), Brazil Jeff Hamm (2018), Canada J?ssica Sena Garcia (2018), Spain Karine Jean (2018), Canada Luiz Motta (2018), Brazil Mike Saunt (2018), United Kindom Peddada Jagadeeswara Rao (2018), India Thomas Starnes (2018), United Kingdom Tom Ingold (2018), USA Vivek Saxena (2018), India V Rajesh Chowdhary (2018), Thailand Have a look at the charts and map by Jorge Sanz to find out more about the evolution and distribution of the OSGeo Charter Members. You can see how the members increased within the thirteen elections ? animated Image by Jorge Sans https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jsanz/779f9b9954b92461fa50/raw/8a755dbb28be5e1404930e9fc332e6b77f88062f/osgeo_charter_members.gif All the best to our new Charter Members. Greetings from the OSGeo board! -- Astrid Emde ------------------------------------------------------------- Astrid Emde OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ astrid_emde at osgeo.org From tom.hengl at gmail.com Fri Nov 30 01:36:11 2018 From: tom.hengl at gmail.com (Tomislav Hengl) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:36:11 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Summer_School_on_spatial_and_spatiotem?= =?utf-8?q?poral_computing=3A_processing_large-scale_Earth_observation_=28?= =?utf-8?q?IfGI=2C_University_of_M=C3=BCnster=2C_Sept_1=E2=80=937=2C_2019?= =?utf-8?q?=29?= Message-ID: Registrations for the 2019 Summer School on spatial and spatiotemporal computing: processing large-scale Earth observation (University of M?nster, Sept 1?7, 2019) are now open. For more info see: https://opengeohub.org/summer_school_2019 Registration deadline: 15th of February 2019 24:00 CET. This summer school is limited to 65 participants. In the case of higher number of applications invitations candidates will be selected based on a ranking system, which is based on: solidarity, academic output and contributions to the open source projects. To remove geographical bias, participants coming from more distant areas have a priority on the rankings list. Lecturers: - Edzer Pebesma: Analyzing large amounts of Earth Observation data with R and openEO - Roger Bivand: Not just R-spatial: sustaining open source geospatial software stacks / Data, data everywhere, nor any drop to analyse (without making brave assumptions about how the data represent underlying processes) - Michael Sumner: Computer graphics data structures for geo-spatial / Building a data library and R toolkit for domain-specific research group / Challenges of working with data in polar regions - Markus Neteler: Cloud based processing of geo and Earth observation data / Introduction to GRASS GIS / Advanced data analysis in GRASS GIS - Veronica Andreo: Analysis of space-time satellite data for disease ecology applications with GRASS GIS and R stats / Analyzing space-time satellite data with GRASS GIS for environmental monitoring - Martijn Tennekes: Creating thematic maps in R (tmap package) - Tomislav Hengl: Computing with large rasters in R: introduction to tiling and parallelization / Spatial and Spatiotemporal prediction using ensemble Machine Learning - Hanna Meyer: Machine learning strategies for spatio-temporal data - Anita Graser: Analyzing movement data - Madlene Nussbaum: Mastering machine learning for spatial prediction - overview and introduction in methods / model selection and interpretation, uncertainty - Meng Lu: Assessment of global air pollution exposure Dates: - February 15th 2019 ? Registration deadline; - Mid March 2019 ? All invitation letters send to applicants; - May 15th 2019 ? Deadline for settling registration fees (working programme confirmed); - July 15th 2019 ? Final programme, data sets and exercises published; - Sun 1st September to Sun 8th September 2019 (arrival Sunday, departure Sunday; 7 night accommodation) Summer School; Note: OpenGeoHub Summer school will be held week after the FOSS4G conference (Bucharest, 26?30 August 2019). Registration fees: The registrations fees for this Summer School will be in the range 400?500 EUR. Registration fees cover costs of using facilities, lunch and coffee breaks, administration costs, local travel costs, and costs of travel and accommodation for lecturers. Participants from ODA countries (employed by an organization or company in ODA-listed country; http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist.htm) typically receive a subsidized price for the registration costs. Also, full-time students (MSc or PhD level) are offered subsidized price, provided that they are, at the moment of application, not employed at any University or research institute. Summer school hosts: This Summer School is hosted by the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149 M?nster. Local organizing committee: - prof. dr. Edzer Pebesma: Summer School programme, discussion sessions, - dr. Christian Knoth: logistics, lecture rooms, accommodation, social programme, OpenGeoHub is a not-for-profit research foundation with headquarters in Wageningen, the Netherlands (Stichting OpenGeoHub, KvK 71844570). The main goal of the OpenGeoHub is to promote publishing and sharing of Open Geographical and Geoscientific Data and using and developing of Open Source Software. 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