[Board] GeoForAll website form and map

Tue Feb 26 06:08:32 PST 2019

Will have a look into it today
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2253

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:35 AM Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thank you Peter.
>
>
> It is important that the new labs submission forms works properly and
> information is not lost.  I really hope SAC and OSGeo Website team will
> look into this and help find a solution. The Map function of the
> GeoForAll website is also not working , so I request OSGeo Board to advise
> and help us on this. Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 15 February 2019 14:02
> *To:* Helena Mitasova
> *Cc:* Victoria Rautenbach; Suchith Anand; Board
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] Welcome Victoria Rautenbach as new Chair of the
> GeoForAll initiative
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am one of the people who receive an email notification that a new
> submission has been made via the submission form on the GeoForAll section
> of the OSGeo website.
>
> Thanks to Helena for mentioning a few important issues here.
>
> 1. I was under the assumption that the Wiki table was not going to be used
> in future now that we had the new OSGeo website and GeoForAll labs form.
> Hence I have not been updating or looking at the Wiki table in some time
> now.
>
> 2. There are people using the GeoForAll lab form to submit questions about
> OSGeo Software to GeoForAll (see some attached screenshots). This to me is
> most certainly the wrong place for these questions to be posted.
>
> 3. There are also some spam/vendors posting on this lab form also.
>
> 4. As indicated in a recent email thread we have some form data being
> submitted completely and wholly in a language other than English. Whilst I
> absolutely am in favour of each lab communicating in their native tongue or
> official national language we do need (at least) the description translated
> to English. Yes, I could drop this into Google Translate but that is
> probably not the most accurate way to translate. See some attached
> screenshots.
>
> Re: Kurt Menke. I've looked at the submissions and I cannot find him.
>
>
> Peter
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:24 AM Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Victoria,
>
> Welcome from me as well, I am very much looking forward to working with
> you supporting the geoforall initiative
>
> I wanted to ask about the website - I tried to get back to updating the
> wiki
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#sortable_table_id_0
>
> based on what is new on the website (I know there is a couple new labs
> missing in the wiki table)
> https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/
>
> But I found that the form probably uses the contact names instead of labs
> names, so we need find a way how to fix it.
> Also I got an email from Kurt Menke (Birds Eye View GIS, lab #89 in wiki
> table) who has done amazing work developing material for Geoacademy and
> QGIS saying that he has submitted the form some time ago and he is still
> not listed on the website, so I am wondering whether there may be more of
> the forms that need to be approved. As an OSGeo charter member
> he may be able to add and edit his entry directly as he has access but
> there may be others who cannot do it.
>
> Best regards, Helena
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Victoria Rautenbach <
> victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Suchith
>
> Thanks for the well wishes. Appreciate it.
>
> I logged a ticket with SAC and Vicky helped me with this end of last week.
> The form is now sent to me and Peter.
>
> Regards
> Victoria
>
>
>
> On 06 Feb 2019, at 15:50, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Welcome and congratulations to Victoria.
>
> Victoria is added as administrator for GeoForAll list and AB lists.
>
> Can someone in SAC please help with adding Victoria's email in the
> GeoforAll lab submission form at
> https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/lab-submission/  so
> Victoria gets notification of new lab submission and can approve etc.
> Thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody Garnett <
> jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 05 February 2019 23:22
> *To:* Astrid Emde
> *Cc:* Board
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] Welcome Victoria Rautenbach as new Chair of the
> GeoForAll initiative
>
> Thanks Astrid (and Victoria).
>
> Since GeoForAll is a committee I do not think it needs to join the
> "projects" list.
>
> GeoForAll is already listed on the boards and officers
> <https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/> page so we should keep that current.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 11:26, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Victoria,
>
> at the last Board  Meeting [1] we recognized you as new project officers
> for the GeoForAll initiative. Congratulations and welcome as new Chair.
>
> You are not listed yet  as new officer for GeoForAll at [2]. We have to
> discuss in the next board meeting whether we should list GeoForAll here
> too.
>
> Please register at the projects mailing list [3] and board mailing list
> [4] and say hi.
>
> And please check this list of Geo4All Advisory Board [5]. Maybe you
> should be listed here too.
>
> Astrid
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-01-21
> [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
> [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/projects
> [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
> [5] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/advisory-board/
>
> Regards
>
> Astrid Emde
>
>
> --
> Astrid Emde
>
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> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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