[Board] osgeo mail address

Fri Aug 21 15:55:29 PDT 2015

Dear Eli
I verified with Suchith that having emails for all chairs is a good idea and we will do that for every chair following your instructions. 
Thanks a lot.
Maria

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 

Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
e-mail2: prorettrice at como.polimi.it

> Il giorno 21/ago/2015, alle ore 21:05, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> ha scritto:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
> <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
>> That's all correct.
>> But information is not easy to find and not all osgeo members are developers
>> and are used with tickets.
> 
> I know that the information is not always that apparent.  That is why
> locally in PDX-OSGeo and through email I try to let as many people
> know as possible.  Hopefully these people learn and teach others.
> 
> As OSGeo expands beyond mostly developers into education, conferences,
> users, etc, the processes should maybe be revised or greater efforts
> to included everyone in the processes.
> 
>> Then is there an official procedure to pass or not a request? What are the
>> evaluatio crita if any?
> 
> Not that I know of.  I think it is mostly the OSGeo do-ocracy way;
> once a ticket is entered, if some SAC member thinks it is a reasonable
> request, has time, access, skills, and desire to do it, then they do
> it and close the ticket.  SAC operates as other OSGeo committees so I
> guess if really needed, SAC would meet and vote but from what I've
> seen, that is rarely needed.  I certainly don't see why that would be
> needed for what appears to be a routine reasonable email alias
> request.
> 
> Here are some email list creation guidelines which may be able to be
> extrapolated to general SAC guidelines.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists#Requesting_a_new_list
> 
>> 
>> My question is just to make it more clear and transparent to everybody.
> 
> Yes, hopefully many people will learn from this email exchange and
> spread it to others.  Right now the default method is to contact Jeff
> and have Jeff take care of everything.  That method works but isn't
> really fair to Jeff or anyone who wants to request something.
> 
> Cheers, Eli
> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Maxi
>> 
>> Il 21/Ago/2015 19:10, "Eli Adam" <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> Hi Maria,
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Many thanks, Jeff.
>>>> I'll try to do that, even if I don't understand what I have to do.
>>>> Sorry but this sentence is not clear to me:
>>>> 
>>>> Please do file this request directly, login and file a new ticket with
>>>> this request (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/).
>>> 
>>> Your request is to have SAC (System Administration Committee) do
>>> something (make an email alias).  The way you ask SAC to do something
>>> is through a ticket with the component set to Systems Admin.  They
>>> have directions and links here,
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC#Task_Tracking
>>> 
>>> Ideally many OSGeo members can learn the inter workings of the
>>> organization so that it is accessible to all.  Jeff as President and
>>> the Board really have nothing to do with this request.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps, Eli
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'll ask also Suchith if he thinks that also other chairs could be
>>>> interested.
>>>> 
>>>> Best.
>>>> Maria
>>>> 
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>>> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>>>> Politecnico di Milano
>>>> 
>>>> FOSS4G 2015 / - Don't miss it!
>>>> http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/keynote-speech/
>>>> 
>>>> http://smartgeoexpo.kr/eng/conference/conf_call_info.php
>>>> 
>>>> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and
>>>> Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa
>>>> Challenge; SIFET
>>>> 
>>>> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
>>>> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
>>>> e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>>>> e-mail2: prorettrice at como.polimi.it
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> Da: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per
>>>> conto di Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>>>> Inviato: venerdì 21 agosto 2015 17.39
>>>> A: board at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Oggetto: Re: [Board] osgeo mail address
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Maria,
>>>> 
>>>> You e-mailed me yesterday asking this, I was about to respond directly
>>>> to you (obviously my response time was not fast enough for you).
>>>> 
>>>> Please do file this request directly, login and file a new ticket with
>>>> this request (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/).
>>>> 
>>>> You might also speak with Suchith about this, and instead of just one
>>>> GeoForAll alias, you might want aliases for each region.  Then you or
>>>> Suchith can file one ticket there with all of the aliases.  Then the
>>>> Systems committee tackles your ticket.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for my apparent slow response.
>>>> 
>>>> -jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2015-08-21 11:47 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>>>>> Dear All
>>>>> together with Peter Mooney we are wondering if it is possible to have a
>>>>> shared (between Peter and I) osgeo email address as Eu GeoForAll chairs,
>>>>> something like: eu.gfa.chair at osgeo.org.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It will be easier to work just with one address instead of using our
>>>>> two "private" ones.
>>>>> Moreover the same address could be used by next chairs (once we are no
>>>>> more chairs)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is it possible and whom we have to contact?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> See you in Seoul!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maria
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