From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Jul 4 22:31:18 2022 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 05:31:18 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2023 to take place in Prizren, Kosovo Message-ID: <1af77a1d677831ea328ccd4e4e895654@posteo.de> We are thrilled to announce that the 2023 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G) will be hosted by FLOSSK in Prizren, Kosovo. FOSS4G (https://foss4g.org) is the annual event organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) since 2006 and one of the largest global meetings on geospatial software of the year. FLOSSK (https://flossk.org) is a Kosovo NGO promoting FLOSS since 2009. Set in the foothills of the Sharr Mountains, Prizren was once a capital city, being a large cultural and trading center. The town has always been one of Kosovo's most beautiful cities, with unique roads, churches, mosques, and lots of old houses, which now serve for visual storytelling on the city's history and tradition. Local team looks forward to living up to Kosovo's renowned hospitality. News item on the web here https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/foss4g-2023-to-take-place-in-prizren-kosovo/ On behalf of LOC, Arianit 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 Camptocamp, GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D, Astun Technology, WhereGroup, GeoSolutions 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/ From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Tue Jul 5 03:51:14 2022 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 12:51:14 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Reminder: Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just a reminder that the nominations for the Sol Katz Award will close end-of-day on 8 July. Please see below for more information. On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 2:34 PM Victoria Rautenbach wrote: > > News item by Jeff McKenna > Published at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2/ > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2022 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. > > The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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://donate.cancer.org . > > Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaward at lists dot osgeo dot org with a description of the reasons for this nomination (after sending, please wait for the moderator to accept your message). Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day July 8th Anywhere on Earth. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. > > The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2022 event in Florence, Italy. 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: > > 2021: Malena Libman > 2020: Anita Graser > 2019: Even Rouault > 2018: Astrid Emde > 2017: Andrea Aime > 2016: Jeff McKenna > 2015: Maria Brovelli > 2014: Gary Sherman > 2013: Arnulf Christl > 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan > 2011: Martin Davis > 2010: Helena Mitasova > 2009: Daniel Morissette > 2008: Paul Ramsey > 2007: Steve Lime > 2006: Markus Neteler > 2005: Frank Warmerdam > > Selection Committee 2022: > > Jeff McKenna (chair) > Frank Warmerdam > Markus Neteler > Steve Lime > Paul Ramsey > Sophia Parafina > Daniel Morissette > Helena Mitasova > Martin Davis > Venkatesh Raghavan > Arnulf Christl > Gary Sherman > Maria Brovelli > Andrea Aime > Astrid Emde > Even Rouault > Anita Graser > Ariel Anthieni From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Mon Jul 18 22:36:09 2022 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:36:09 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo AGM 2022 event In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Published at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-agm-2022-event/ * Hello OSGeo Community! We would like to invite you to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) during FOSS4G on Friday, August 26 2022 from 15:30h to 17h UTC. We are happy to meet you all, face to face, at our global FOSS4G conference again. For 2022, we are continuing with last year?s concept. We would like to publish the OSGeo annual update as a video, in advance of the AGM on the OSGeo Youtube channel. This way, we will have time for an open discussion during the AGM slot at FOSS4G. Thus, all local chapters, projects, committees and initiatives are invited to prepare a short audio or video of 1 minute to present their status report, updates, COVID-19 impact, achievements and future plans. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJEf8hXbyeVqaYaS8sLvw We hope you like the idea! However, you have to get active in advance, so please take a close look to the timeline below: Timeline - 2022-08-08: send us your video and update the AGM slides - 2022-08-14: AGM 2022 complete video will be published - 2022-08-26: Join the AGM 2022 meeting at FOSS4G 17:30hrs Firenze time [2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Mis580FlD29HjaymfL9OC72X9IqcM4uvnqVH57jQLqI/edit#slide=id.g13d29ca6724_0_0 [3] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2022&month=8&day=26&hour=15&min=30&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=217&p6=312&p7=215&p8=240&p9=248&p10=71&p11=176&p12=269 Your AGM video is going to be one minute of fame and shine for our community, so don't let it pass! It is important for all of us to know what is happening everywhere. OSGeo is huge and this is the best way to get a summary of all the amazing work we are doing! Check this wiki page for an overview of the AGM 2022 and for the upload link for your video that we will soon provide. In the wiki, you will find all the important information, but don?t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. If you plan to touch a particular topic, on the face to face meeting, please add it to the AGM agenda [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2022 [5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2022#AGM_Agenda Please, don?t forget to also add your information to the AGM slides, but make sure you use only one (or two) slides per team. If you want to edit it and still don't have privileges to do so, please let us know and tell us which team you represent so we can provide write access. Spread the information about the AGM 2022 and save the date! We hope to see as many of you at the AGM in August. Stay safe, Angelos Tzotsos President of OSGeo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Sun Jul 31 08:01:47 2022 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 15:01:47 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Less than a month to the FOSS4G Community Sprint 2022 - August 27th and 28th Message-ID: Dear FOSS4G community, as you all know, in less than a month, between August the 27th and 28th, the University of Florence will be stage for the gathering of the developers, translators, power users and anyone interested in their most important hands-on meeting of the year: the codesprint of FOSS4G 2022 This is a gentle reminder to add your name and project to this year's wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2022/Community_sprint The better we get an idea of the number of participants and the better we will be able to organize rooms and supplies. And remember, this year we invite seasoned community members to donate time to guide new members through the setup of the development environment or translation tools of their projects. Please state availability in the wiki page. We are looking forward to meeting you! The Codesprint Organization Committee