From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Feb 1 22:21:59 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:21:59 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - join us in the geospatial devroom an Sunday February 7th 2021 Message-ID: <79243bdd9ebe0ccc9336f40ad353cf1f@posteo.de> OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - join us in the geospatial devroom an Sunday February 7th 2021 Sunday 7. February 2021 10:00 - 17:00 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 an online event. We will have a geospatial devroom again and are pleased to invite you to join us there. No registration is necessary. Program --------------- We prepared a nice program for you with a many exciting talks and speaker from all over the world. https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ Times are in CET (UTC+1) 10:00 Introduction to OSGeo Angelos Tzotsos / Till Adams 10:30 OSGeoLive your geospatial toolkit - Get to know OSGeoLive and discover a whole world of geospatial tools and data Astrid Emde 11:00 MoveTK: the movement toolkit - A library for understanding movement Aniket Mitra 11:45 Iaso: Geo-aware Data Collection, Curation and Analysis. A new web+Android platform geared toward enhancing geographical data by benefitting from the routine health data collection activity. Martin De Wulf 12:35 Telegram Bot For Navigation - A perfect map app for a neighbourhood doesn't need a map Ilya Zverev 13:05 OpenStreetMap in Africa - The Rise of participatory mapping in Africa Enock Seth Nyamador 13:50 two-flavoured Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis - an exercise on Bolivia elections 2019 / 2020 with Python and R Cesar Ariel Perez Mercado 14:40 r.accumulate: Efficient computation of hydrologic parameters in GRASS - Improving the performance of geospatial computation for web-based hydrologic modeling Huidae Cho 15:30 Spatial data exploration in Jupyter notebooks - The power of interactive vizualizations with GeoPandas and HoloViews Anita Graser 16:05 YouthMappers - Building a global community of young changemakers using open maps Laura Mugeha See the schedule to find out about the program in the other rooms: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/ How to join the Geospatial devroom? --------------------------------------------------- You find information aout how to join here https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/online/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/ There will be livestream and the talks will be recorded. Code of Conduct ------------------------- https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ Sponsor the event ------------------------- You are very welcome to sponsor the event! https://fosdem.org/2021/about/sponsors/ See you at FOSDEM 2021 Astrid Emde & Luca Delucchi Organising Team of the FOSDEM Geospatial Devroom 2021 -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Feb 3 14:51:58 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 23:51:58 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires (Argentina) - September 27 to October 2 2021 Message-ID: Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-buenos-aires-argentina/ 2020-02-03 FOSS4G is the international edition of the FOSS4G; the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference of OSGeo. The 2021 edition will be presented for the first time in South America with the collaboration of GeoLibres Asociaci?n Civil. The LOC invites you to share a new global FOSS4G, this time in Buenos Aires. It will take place from September 27 to October 2. Each FOSS4G has its own special aura, wisely and kindly crafted by each Local Organizing Committee, sharing the local culture and spirit with the larger community. We have made wonderful friends around the world by attending global and regional FOSS4G and we are eager to return the pleasure to our friends, as well as to make new friends who will continue this tradition. Our conference will have days of talks, workshops, meetings of the different communities, social events and more things... we are waiting for you! With that in mind, check out our website (https://2021.foss4g.org) regularly for new updates on how your event is shaping up: https://2021.foss4g.org Follow us on social media: - Twitter https://twitter.com/foss4g - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/foss4g2021/ - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2021ba - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4g-2021-ba *The cancellation policy in case the event is hosted online can be found on our website Come hell or high water, FOSS4G. From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Feb 3 23:30:47 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:30:47 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] The FOSS4G 2021 team invites you to be official sponsor! Message-ID: <0f80270fa3fef13968256ed0113c9141@posteo.de> Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-invites-you-to-become-an-official-sponsor/ 2021-02-04 Hello community! From the LOC FOSS4G 2021 team we want to invite you to be our official sponsor! The conference FOSS4G 2021 will cover many different topics in GeoSpatial Data and Technologies. Some of the expected topics will be the usage of GeoSpatial in a variety of industries including Location Intelligence, Data Analysis, PredictiveModels or Data Infrastructures. Our conference will have days of talks, workshops, meetings of the different communities, social events and more things... Your financial support is vital for our community and for this event's success. This year we invite you to you to share a new global FOSS4G, this time in Buenos Aires, Argentina ? We have different categories of sponsorship adapted to your needs, with great benefits! For more information check our website (https://2021.foss4g.org) or you can contact us at sponsors at foss4g.org https://2021.foss4g.org/documents/sponsors_brochure.pdf Follow us on social media: - Twitter https://twitter.com/foss4g - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/foss4g2021/ - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2021ba - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/foss4g-2021-ba *The cancellation policy in case the event is hosted online can be found on our website Come hell or high water, FOSS4G. From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Thu Feb 4 12:03:34 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:03:34 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Happy 15th Birthday, OSGeo! Message-ID: <4b67213cdb8027ada4c0f3d8ae5b441a@posteo.de> Published at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/happy-15th-birthday-osgeo/ 2021-02-04 Happy 15th Birthday @OSGeo! Today we celebrate 15 years of OSGeo. You can join the party https://twitter.com/search?q=15YearsOSGeo&src=typed_query&f=live On 04 February 2006 OSGeo was born in Chicago USA. Read the initial OSGeo press release https://web.archive.org/web/20090209052731/http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html Thanks to those passionately involved back then, and the thousands contributing since, now our community has expanded and has reached many countries all over world. Congratulations to everyone for continuing to share the passion for Open Source geospatial. Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/ From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Feb 17 12:21:30 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:21:30 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Sponsorship Opportunities 2021 Message-ID: <44b151d72a637485339e0b72d4f96f39@posteo.de> Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-sponsorship-opportunities-2021/ 2021-02-17 Thank you for considering Open Source Geospatial Foundation 2021 sponsorship. Your financial support of OSGeo events, initiatives, local chapters, or projects is vital to our community. The OSGeo community has risen to the challenge covid-19 and remains active and engaged in 2021. In response to this challenge many of our events and activities have moved online, and the opportunities for sponsorship and reaching new customers has adjusted accordingly. DIRECTLY FUNDING THE OSGEO FOUNDATION The Foundation helps support projects, events, activities, infrastructure and services in order to facilitate a healthy community of volunteers. Directly funding OSGeo helps greatly in supporting day to day activities as well as operating expenses (mailing lists, issue trackers, etc.). SPONSOR RECOGNITION Sponsoring is a great way to reach a wide audience of enthusiastic and engaged geospatial practitioners. Sponsor benefits range from website placement, inclusion in promotional material, placement in presentations and press releases such as this one. SPONSORSHIP LEVEL DIAMOND PLATINUM GOLD SILVER BRONZE Sponsorship amount $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $3000 $500 Website sponsorship page logo size 500 x 500 400?400 300?300 250?250 200?200 Website footer logo included included included included -- OSGeo marketing materials placement logo logo -- -- -- OSGeo booth placement logo logo -- -- -- Sponsorship Announcement press release blog post blog post blog post -- About OSGeo placement (marketing material) included included -- -- -- OSGeo Partners and Guests Networking event included included included included -- OSGeo Sponsorship Logo diamond platinum gold silver bronze For more information on sponsorship benefits please visit our page on sponsorship [1]. HOW TO SPONSOR OSGEO Sponsors are asked to contact treasurer at osgeo.org to request an invoice. Options to directly donate via PayPal [2] and GitHub [3] are also available. Your OSGeo sponsorship level is accumulated across projects, initiatives and events as illustrated in the following email: _SUBJECT: __OSGeo Sponsorship of Company/Organisation XY_ _TO: __treasurer at osgeo.org_ _Treasurer:_ _We would like to take this opportunity to sponsor OSGeo, we recognize the value in supporting open source and community outreach._ _Thus far in 2021 we have sponsored FOSS4G ($5000 USD) and FOSS4G-Europe (4000 EUR). Additionally, we would like to extend our support to the OSGeo Foundation, and request an invoice for $1000 USD._ _This brings our total up to slightly over $10,000 USD to be recognized as a gold sponsor (please see attached company logo)._ _Regards,_ _Marie Tharp_ _earth_observatory.svg_ Sponsorship levels are adjusted for lower-middle income economies and prior sponsors. For more information on sponsorship benefits please visit our page on sponsorship [1]. Thank you for your support. OSGEO SPONSORSHIP RENEWAL For returning sponsors we have expedited renewal options: * Commitment: Contact us with your committed level of funding at the start of the year, a great opportunity for a joint press-release and updated logo placement. * Running total: Send us an email as your sponsorship level changes over the course of the year. * Final total: You may wish to wait until the end of the year, and make a joint press-release describing your financial contributions in 2021. FUNDING OSGEO FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES INDIVIDUALLY For increased reach you have the option to directly fund individual projects, events, initiatives and local chapters. Direct sponsorship allows you to choose the activities your organization is associated with. OSGEO PROJECTS The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is seeking sponsorship and donations to support our valuable open source projects and project teams. The following projects have asked for your financial support (in alphabetical order): * deegree [4] * GeoServer [5] * GeoNetwork [6] * GRASS GIS [7] * gvSIG [8] * OpenLayers [9] * pgRouting [10] * pycsw [11] * pygeoapi [12] * QGIS [13] * Zoo-project [14] Free and Open Source Software delivers immense value to geospatial practitioners and your organization, but it is not developed in isolation or for free. It is important to financially support our project teams recognizing their hard work, technical excellence and dedication in building the software and tools we love to use. OSGEO EVENTS Reach geospatial practitioners by sponsoring OSGeo events: * FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires (Argentina) [15] (27. September - 2. October 2021) * For more information see upcoming events [16] We understand that a FOSS4G booth is a great chance to promote your organization and meet potential customers. While we cannot replace this experience, sponsoring online events offers great brand visibility, with FOSS4G videos [17] serving as a reference for years to come. OSGEO INITIATIVES OSGeo has a number of ongoing initiatives that request your financial assistance:: * FOSS4G Travel Grant Program [18] (on-hold) * GeoForAll [19]: opportunities to fund student competitions expected LOCAL CHAPTERS Local chapters are active promoting the use of free and open source software and provide regional sponsorship opportunities: * OSGeo:UK [20] * OSGeo:JP [21] Check with the local chapter [22] near you for more information. ABOUT OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is 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 and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education. 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URL: From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Wed Feb 17 20:51:41 2021 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:51:41 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Elections results and new GRASS GIS PSC Message-ID: *[Online version of this announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2021_02_05_new_grass_psc/ https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/new-grass-gis-project-steering-committee/ ]News item by Ver?nica Andreo * *New GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee* By the end of last year, the GRASS GIS project called for PSC members election. A total of 13 GRASS GIS contributors were nominated by the community to cover the nine PSC positions. After the election itself, the new GRASS GIS PSC is composed of the following nine members ranked by number of votes: Markus Neteler (95) Anna Petr??ov? (88) Helena Mit??ov? (86) Martin Landa (83) Ver?nica Andreo (76) Moritz Lennert (74) V?clav Petr?? (68) Michael Barton (58) Huidae Cho (56) For completeness, all relevant candidacy communications, as well as details about the voting process, have been published at: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020 On behalf of the GRASS GIS project, we would like to thank Hern?n De Angelis who agreed to serve as Chief Returning Officer (CRO) and all community members for their participation. Furthermore, we want to acknowledge the contributions of former PSC members and all nominees. The development of GRASS GIS is a collective effort and we are all part of it regardless of our role. So, CONGRATS to everyone! *New PSC chair person* There?s yet one more change to report. GRASS GIS PSC has a new chair person: Veronica Andreo. She works as a researcher in Argentina focusing on environmental drivers of vector-borne disease outbreaks and works primarily with satellite imagery and GIS-based time series analysis. For years, Vero has been very active in the GRASS GIS project, especially with documenting complex topics in a user friendly way, testing, development of the new website, coding of addons, outreach, social media and more. She regularly introduces GRASS GIS to new users and teaches introductory and advanced courses and workshops. We thank Vero for accepting this challenge! We want to acknowledge and thank Markus Neteler for his enormous efforts and passionate work on pushing the GRASS GIS development for more than 20 years. While Markus was re-elected as PSC member, he preferred to pass on the position of chairperson to a new PSC member. Markus is one of the long runners in the project, as he already started to discover the software in 1993 as a student. In 1998, he set up a ?European GRASS site? at the University of Hannover, which evolved into an international development team. From manual source code management, he was part of the journey to a modern, GitHub-based development system including code quality testing. Markus is known to be active in conferences, code sprints, bug fixing, user support, infrastructure management, project and release management, etc. He will continue to do so! *PSC roles & tasks* In addition to the chair role, in the first PSC meeting, we have defined some basic areas/tasks and PSC members responsible for them: - Treasurer - Moritz - Release manager - Markus, Martin - Infrastructure manager - Markus - Translation manager - Huidae - Website & Marketing manager - Michael, Vero - Github manager - Vaclav Of course, everyone is invited to join and contribute in these and other areas: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles. *The GRASS Development Team, Feb 2021* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Feb 17 23:06:46 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:06:46 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Successful Geospatial Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 Message-ID: <8c725655b1d5b7ee48a22bcff81c8e33@posteo.de> Newsitem: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/successful-geospatial-devroom-at-fosdem-2021/ 2021-02-17 OSGeo organized the Geospatial Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 on Sunday 7. February 2021. HTTPS://FOSDEM.ORG/2021/SCHEDULE/TRACK/GEOSPATIAL/ [1] FOSDEM is the largest annual free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). In 2021 it was online. The FOSDEM Geospatial devroom has a history. It started in 2014 and was part of FOSDEM since then. We enjoyed beeing in Brussels, but the online version was great too. In 2021 we had the opportunity to bring our global community to FOSDEM. We had speaker from all over the world like Kenia, Ghana, Greece, Belarus, United States, Austria, Argentinia. During the day people could join and leave the room according to their possibility to attend, we got a maximum of around 140 people in the room and also an unknown number of people in the live stream. Slides and videos The videos from FOSDEM are published at https://video.fosdem.org/ [2] You find the slides and further links related to the talks added to the event pages https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ [1] Thank you We would like to thank all the speakers and people involved. We had speakers from all over the world. Some were still asleep when the first talk started. Thanks also to the great audience. It was great to see so many geospatial enthusiasts from all over the world in our devroom. Thanks for the discussions and the applause. Big thanks to the FOSDEM team. It was an amazing conference and you provided an amazing setup. T-Shirt time Get your FOSDEM 2021 T-Shirt https://fosdem.org/2021/tshirts/ [3] or maybe a GDAL T-Shirt https://teespring.com/shop/gdal?pid=793&cid=103538 [4] or both? See you next year at FOSDEM 2022! Links: ------ [1] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/geospatial/ [2] https://video.fosdem.org/ [3] https://fosdem.org/2021/tshirts/ [4] https://teespring.com/shop/gdal?pid=793&cid=103538 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Tue Feb 23 12:25:27 2021 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:25:27 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2021 news: We are going online! Message-ID: <7a6107ff2cc698b39959be61e8ccda88@posteo.de> Newsitem 2021-02-23 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2021-news-we-are-going-online/ Dear folks interested in the FOSS4G, We want to inform you that FOSS4G 2021 will finally take place online. Given current circumstances, we cannot guarantee the safety of a face-to-face conference, but we were committed to organizing a FOSS4G come hell or high water! So online it is. This is a big change, and we know there are a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as soon as possible, so please be patient with us! We can assure you that we are working to provide the best experience for the social, business and academic facets of the conference. Online tickets will be available to purchase as soon as we polish some details. Now, celebrate with us and answer the call for papers! Remember: you have until March 31st 2021 to send your talk and workshop proposals, and until March 8th 2021 to submit abstracts for the academic track. Are you using FOSS4G? We want to hear about your biggest success, your wildest use cases, your day-to-day difficulties, the strangest outcome, an unexpected happy finding, and your tricks to interconnect all the pieces. Are you contributing to a FOSS4G project? We want to learn the state of the art, the latest fun feature, the biggest refactor failure, how you interact with your community, what your roadmap is, how you do code review, how fast your processes are, and how you ensure the higher quality of the software. We are looking both for experienced and new voices of our community. Panels, ask-me-anything, live action dynamics,... anything you ever wanted to try, this is the time to do it. This FOSS4G is going to be completely different, make the most out of it. This is our FOSS4G, this is your FOSS4G, own it! Plus, this year all speakers will have a free ticket[1]! If you ever wanted to come to FOSS4G this is your chance. See you soon! FOSS4G 2021 Local Conference Committee. [1] One ticket per talk assigned to the main speaker. If a speaker has more than one talk selected, they will not be able to donate the ticket. If you are sending more than one proposal, consider making another peer the main speaker in order to promote them.