From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Nov 21 01:57:14 2025 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:57:14 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Charter Member election 2025 results In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-charter-member-election-2025-results/ Dear all, the CRO is pleased to announce the list of new OSGeo Carter Members: ?* Carlos Eduardo Mota from Brasil ?* Lu?s Calisto from Portugal ?* Kateryna Konieva from Portugal ?* Benjamin Webb from United States of America ?* Joseph Emile Honour Percival from Samoa ?* Weston Renoud from Netherlands ?* Felix Delattre from Germany ?* Julia Signell from United States of America ?* Simon Nitz from New Zealand ?* Pete Gadomski from United States of America ?* Gabriel De Luca from Argentina ?* Ulrike Assmann from Germany ?* Mikha?l Jean de Dieu Dotou Padonou from Benin ?* Sunghoon Cha from South Korea ?* Max Jones from United States of America ?* Huidae Cho from United States of America ?* Heather Hillers from Germany ?* Juan Pablo Duque Ordo?ez from Colombia ?* Evelyn Uuemaa from Estonia ?* Jani Kylm?aho from Finland ?* Nicklas Larsson from Hungary ?* Michael Barton from United States of America ?* Jarrett Keifer from United States of America ?* C?line Vilain from Belgium ?* Niklas Alt from Germany ?* Christian Strobl from Germany ?* Andr?s G?mez Casanova from Colombia ?* Mirko Blinn from Germany ?* Alastair Graham from United Kingdom ?* James Milner from United Kingdom ?* Jonny Huck from United Kingdom ?* Michel Stuyts from Belgium ?* Marc Ducobu from Belgium You may visit the nominations page to learn more about the new members [0]. This year there were 33 valid nominations and all were accepted. 260 charter members cast their vote, with each nominee attaining more than 100 votes. The OSGeo Foundation now counts 468 active Charter Members. The board approved the new members days ago[1]. Warm regards, Lu?s de Sousa (your 2025 CRO [2]) [0] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2025 [1] https://www.loomio.com/p/v5S38Red/motion-to-approve-osgeo-charter-member-2025-election-results [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Nov 26 00:34:09 2025 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:34:09 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] TorchGeo 0.8.0 Release Message-ID: <19abf4b825b.f1030cb3592091.7313825997759945402@osgeo.org> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/torchgeo-0-8-0-release/ Full release notes at https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo/releases/tag/v0.8.0 TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data. TorchGeo 0.8 includes 28 new pre-trained model weights and a number of improvements required for better time series support, including a complete rewrite of all GeoDataset and GeoSampler internals, encompassing 8 months of hard work by 23 contributors from around the world. Highlights of this release Open and independent governance You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident! Note - TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings! TorchGeo was initially created as an intern project at Microsoft's AI for Good Lab back in 2021. Once we made it open source, we were blown away by how quickly it was adopted by the AI4EO community! Since then, over 100 people from around the world have contributed to making TorchGeo what it is today. Despite being open source, we have received feedback from many current and potential contributors that they have found it difficult to contribute to TorchGeo due to its ownership by Microsoft. While Microsoft has been an excellent incubator for TorchGeo over the past four years, we believe TorchGeo has outgrown its incubation phase. Over the past year, we have been working diligently with Microsoft to come up with a solution. As of this release, we are excited to announce the formation of the TorchGeo /Organization/, a governing body designed to ensure the independence and longevity of the TorchGeo /Project/. The TorchGeo Organization is led by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC), initially composed of the current maintainers of the TorchGeo Project: * @adamjstewart (TUM) - Chair * @calebrob6 (Microsoft) * @anthonymlortiz (Microsoft) * @isaaccorley (Wherobots) * @ashnair1 (Space42) * @nilsleh (TUM) TorchGeo now lives at https://github.com/torchgeo, and Microsoft has graciously volunteered to give away the copyright to YOU, the TorchGeo /Contributors/. We would like all TorchGeo users and developers to take ownership of the project, and thus invite each and every one of you to join our TSC meetings. Please join the |#technical-steering-committee| channel in the TorchGeo Slack for more information on our monthly meeting schedule. Other than this new open and independent governance, not much will change with the TorchGeo Project. TorchGeo will always remain open source under an MIT license and be free for all users and developers. We hope this change will open up opportunities for more collaboration, more awesome libraries built on top of TorchGeo, and more confidence in the long-term future of the project!