From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Dec 8 23:44:00 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:44:00 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?b?Rk9TREVNIDIwMjIgKE9ubGluZSkg4oCTIGdl?= =?utf-8?q?ospatial_devroom_Call_for_Participation_-_Deadline=3A_26=2E12?= =?utf-8?q?=2E2021?= Message-ID: <2d1d68044a662d94e4d98cae54ffd6ee@posteo.de> News item https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-at-fosdem-2022-online-call-for-participation-for-the-geospatial-devroom/ 2021-12-09 Submission Deadline: 26.12.2021 FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be Online. As in the last year we will have a Geospatial devroom. The Geospatial devroom will be on Sunday 6 February 2022. In 2022 it will be our opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. We hope you will submit a talk or come around at FOSDEM 2022. Call for Participation ------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: 26.12.2021 We are looking for you to be part of the geospatial devroom. The geospatial devroom aims to host talks about geospatial topics, GIS, and geodata projects, standards and open data. Please submit your talk till 26 December 2021. About The FOSDEM ---------------------------- FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - FOSDEM website https://fosdem.org/2022/ - FOSDEM code of conduct https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ New rules / What changes since last year -------------------------------------------------------- For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online. - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event - Q/A session will be take live - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions - Food and drinks is now allowed during the talks, but you are responsible for cleaning your own space Key dates ---------------------------- - Submission deadline: 26 December 2021 - Announcement of selected talks: 31 December 2021 - Conference dates 5 & 6 February 2022 online - Geospatial devroom date: Sunday 6 February 2022 online Desirable topics ---------------------------- The Geospatial devroom aims to host talks about all geospatial topics, GIS, geodata projects and open data. The talks can cover the following subjects: - New geo FOSS projects - Update of existing geo FOSS projects - User cases using geo FOSS - Open Geodata or VGI data project - News about Standards Practical ---------------------------- General details - The default duration for talks is about 45 minutes including discussion. - If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don?t ! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track. - If the Geospatial devroom is not your first choice, just let us know, and give us a chance to save you a slot. - Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. For accepted talks - Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you a deputy to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. - The deputy will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. The deputy is also responsible to ensure the content is into the system and ready to broadcast. - During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session. Submit a talk ---------------------------- Visit the FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website (see account creation bellow) https://penta.fosdem.org/submission Create an ?event? and click on ?Show all? in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information Your contact Email - The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) select ?Geospatial devroom? as the track. - A short abstract of one paragraph - A longer description if you wish to do so - Links to related websites / blogs etc. Account creation ---------------------------- If you already have a Pentabarf account, please don?t recreate a new one. If you forgot your password, reset it. If not, follow the instructions to create an account. Contact Us ---------------------------- - Twitter: @osgeo - Contact Email: Vissarion Fisikopoulos: fisikop at gmail dot com Astrid Emde: astrid_emde at osgeo org And if you would like the organizing team you are very welcome. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ -- Best regards 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 victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Mon Dec 13 09:33:28 2021 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:33:28 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Winners_announcement=3A_Pitch_your_re?= =?utf-8?q?search_=E2=80=93_GeoforAll_student_competition?= Message-ID: Published at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/winners-announcement-pitch-your-research-geoforall-student-competition/ We are honoured to announce the first winners of the *Pitch your research ? GeoforAll student competition*. Firstly, we want to thank all the students that submitted their work for the Pitch your research competition. The range of the topics and the quality of the work were impressive! Below are the winners: *Best Spanish presentations:* 1st Carla Cadena Valdivia 2nd Iv?n Eduardo Alonso Ram?rez 3rd Ulises Francisco Ruiz Gomez *Best English presentation:* 1st Ashfak Mahmud 2nd Arvind Gauns 3rd Zelb? Boshoff *Promising tools: * Bence P?ter Hrutka Mohamed Shamroukh Mohamed Nicholas De Kock *Open mapping award:* Patrick Ken Kalonde Thank you to the judging panel for their time and effort. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Dec 13 10:53:58 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:53:58 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021 Message-ID: Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/ 2021-12-13 OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021. In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2021. We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as OSGeo Charter Members: Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana Maia Williams (2021) Australia John Duncan (2021) Australia Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador Julien Cabi?ces (2021) France Lo?c Bartoletti (2021) France Ashish Kumar (2021) India Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland Linda Kladivov? (2021) Czech Republic Nick Bearman (2021) UK Adrien Andr? (2021) France Nicolas Rochard (2021) France Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members. You find a list of all charter members [1]. OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is a summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]). Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021. Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4]. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ [2] https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos From lists at jorgesanz.net Tue Dec 14 01:04:33 2021 From: lists at jorgesanz.net (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:04:33 -0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo would like to welcome our 15 new OSGeo Charter Members 2021 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <163947267382.9.5053599432789481124.21400296@jorgesanz.net> Congrats and welcome!! ? On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 19:54, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) - astrid_emde at osgeo.org wrote: > Newsitem: > > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2021/ > 2021-12-13 > > > OSGeo would like to welcome our new OSGeo Charter Members 2021. > > In 2021, we had 15 nominations and all were accepted. This year, 230 > votes were casted. It was a lower number than last year (304 in 2020, > then 209 in 2019, 276 in 2018 for comparison). The OSGeo board approved > the new members in November 2021. > > We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as > OSGeo Charter Members: > > Enock Seth Nyamador (2021) Ghana > Maia Williams (2021) Australia > John Duncan (2021) Australia > Amin Mobasheri (2021) Germany > Peter Rushforth (2021) Canada > Fernando Mino (2021) Ecuador > Julien Cabi?ces (2021) France > Lo?c Bartoletti (2021) France > Ashish Kumar (2021) India > Stefan F. Keller (2021) Switzerland > Linda Kladivov? (2021) Czech Republic > Nick Bearman (2021) UK > Adrien Andr? (2021) France > Nicolas Rochard (2021) France > Malika Gunawardana (2021) Sri Lanka > > We send a warm welcome to our new OSGeo Charter Members. > > You find a list of all charter members [1]. > > OSGeo now has a total number of 497 members for 64 countries. Below is a > summary of our membership (you can access the interactive version [2]). > > Thanks a lot to Anne Ghisla and Jorge Gustavo Rocha (2021 OSGeo > Elections CROs) for organizing the OSGeo Election 2021. > > Now it is time for the OSGeo Board Election 2021. You find the > nominations [3] and the candidate manifestos [4]. > > About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) > organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The > software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach > and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal > support for the open source geospatial community. > > OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other > sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to > software, standards, data and education. > > Open Source Geospatial Foundation > https://www.osgeo.org/ > > [1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/ > [2] > > https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/d05b9316-41f6-4bf3-b959-eb3f2333afce/page/zgVoB > [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2021 > [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2021_Candidate_Manifestos > > _______________________________________________ > Announce mailing list > Announce at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/announce > -- Jorge Sanz http://jorgesanz.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Dec 29 10:23:33 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:23:33 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Board Election 2021 - congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members Message-ID: <49b04e062c91436173f804d040bd0fda@posteo.de> News Item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2021/ 2021-12-29 Congratulations and warm welcome to our five new OSGeo Board Members. In this cycle of the Board of Directors election, there were five open seats for the 2022 board. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 321 from a total of 497 Charter members casted their votes for the Board of Directors (65% participation). Refer to [1] for more information on the election results. We are happy to announce that the following people were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order): - Adam Steer https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ (Norway) - Codrina Maria Ilie https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ (Bucharest, Romania) - Marco Bernasocchi https://www.osgeo.org/member/bernasocchi/ (Switzerland) - Rajat Shinde https://www.osgeo.org/member/shinde/ (India) - Vicky Vergara https://www.osgeo.org/member/vicky-vergara/ (Naucalpan, Mexico) Codrina Maria Ilie and Vicky Vergara were reelected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2022. Read more about the OSGeo Board of directors [2]. Lastly, the OSGeo Board of Directors and Charter members would like to express their gratitude to Tina Cormier (https://www.osgeo.org/member/cormier/) for her nomination, and the Chief Returning Officers, Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla, for their hard work during the last election cycle. Happy onboarding to the new Board Members and all the best for your term. About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community. OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2021_Results [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/