From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Dec 10 01:00:27 2024 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:00:27 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Tom Kralidis receives the 2024 Sol Katz Award Message-ID: <4225af6f-351c-496c-a6e0-143300d17331@osgeo.org> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/tom-kralidis-receives-the-2024-sol-katz-award/ Tom Kralidis was honoured with the 2024 Sol Katz Award, presented on 6 December 2024 at FOSS4G 2024 in Bel?m, Brazil. This was the 20th year of the award. 2024-12-09 We are honoured to announce that Tom Kralidis is the recipient of the 2024 Sol Katz Award. You may know Tom through his activities within the GeoPython community, specifically through pygeoapi, pycsw, OWSLib, GeoHealthCheck, pygeometa, and the list goes on.? Tom also plays a critical role in promoting OGC standards, throughout FOSS4G projects and also connecting the OGC + OSGeo communities. Tom is very active at the OSGeo Board level, and other committees within the foundation.? He is also active in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). But you will most likely know him from various FOSS4G workshops around the world, where he helps users share their spatial information through known standards and Open Source software. Tom Kralidis is a longtime leader in the FOSS4G community, and it warms our heart to finally thank him for his decades of tireless effort, in promoting sharing. The FOSS4G community is full of people doing amazing work, and today we take a moment to shine the spotlight on one person, who has long deserved a thank-you, Tom Kralidis. Thanks Tom! 2024 Sol Katz award *About the award* The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award acknowledges both the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Read more about Sol Katz at Awards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Dec 17 04:25:02 2024 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:25:02 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] pgRouting graduates OSGeo Incubation Message-ID: <514f62be-5e1c-4595-be8d-87fb45242722@osgeo.org> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pgrouting-graduates-osgeo-incubation/ OSGeo welcomes pgRouting to its growing ecosystem of projects. OSGeo is pleased to announce that pgRouting has graduated from incubation and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. pgRouting is an open-source extension in the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database, providing geospatial routing functionality. Graduatingincubation includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in the viability and safety of the project. The pgRouitng Steering Committee collectively recognizes this as a big progressive step for the project. pgRouting has been an active contributor and participant to various open source initiatives inside and outside OSGeo such as FOSS4G, OSGeo Code Sprints, OGC Code Sprints, Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF (Apache Software Foundation) Code Sprints, and Google Summer of Code. The pgRouitng PSC says, ?/We are excited about the future of the project within the OSGeo?s project ecosystem. We have been working to have a community of developers for the project sustainability. It is our honor to be an OSGeo project?./ The pgRouting PSC would like to thank our mentor, Angelos Tzotsos, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their assistance during this Incubator process. Congratulations to the pgRouting community! *About pgRouting* pgRouting extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality. It is written in C++, C and SQL. It is an open source PostgreSQL extension which implements several graph algorithms. pgRouting library contains the following features: * All Pairs Shortest Path algorithms: Floyd-Warshall and Johnson?s Algorithm * Shortest Path and bi-directional algorithms:? Dijkstra, A* * Graph components, analysis and contraction algorithms. * Traveling Sales Person * Graph components, analysis and contraction algorithms. * Shortest Path with turn restrictions pgRouting is able to process geospatial and non geospatial graphs. It?s processing extension execute a number of existing graph algorithms based on reliable software and libraries. It is written in such a way that gives the ability to hook a new graph algorithm in a clean way including the connection code to the database. The pgRouting functions are standardized in terms of parameter types and names, decreasing the learning curve of a user. pgRouting is very flexible with graph data input, in an inner SQL query and output with standardized column names, so you can process almost any kind of graph data stored in the database. *About OSGeo* The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is not-for-profit 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 Re:Earth, QFieldCloud, GeoCat, T-Kartor, and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data, and education. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Sun Dec 22 03:01:13 2024 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:01:13 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Board Election Results 2024 - Congratulations to the new board members Message-ID: 2024-12-22 see Newsitem https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/board-election-2024-results/ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its Board of Directors elections 2024. There were four open seats for the 2024 board in this cycle of the Board of Directors election. The Chief Returning Officers reported that 310 out of 568 Charter members cast their votes for the Board of Directors (54% participation). More information on the election results is available on the dedicated OSGeo wiki page [1]. We are happy to announce that the following people were elected to the Board of Directors (in alphabetical order): - Angelos Tzotsos - Joana Sim?es - Michael Smith - Tom Kralidis Angelos Tzotsos, Michael Smith, and Tom Kralidis were reelected. The President and Executive Positions will be announced in early 2025. 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 Ariel Anthieni [3] for his service in the 2022-2024 cycle and the Chief Returning Officers, Iv?n S?nchez, Vicky Vergara, and Lu?s de Sousa, for their hard work during the last election cycle. About OSGeo ------------------- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation [4] is not-for-profit 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 Re:Earth, QFieldCloud, GeoCat, T-Kartor, and other sponsors [5], along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data, and education. Share this [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2024_Results [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/ [3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/anthieni/ [4] https://osgeo.org [5] https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/