[Board] offer of support to OSGeo from GeoForAll Iberoamerica

Sat May 14 00:23:36 PDT 2022

Dear Sergio,

The OSGeo budget is approved:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022
The budget you requested is included, please contact the treasurer when 
you need to invoice.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 5/2/22 21:02, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:
> Hi Angelos. I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the board meeting. I don't know if you need more clarification from me. I would also like to know if the budget we requested for the contest (within GeoForAll) among students, which this year will be international, was finally approved.
> Thank you
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
>
>
> ________________________________
> De: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
> Enviado: miércoles, 20 de abril de 2022 15:38
> Para: Angelos Tzotsos
> Cc: OSGeo Board Private; board at lists.osgeo.org
> Asunto: Re: offer of support to OSGeo from GeoForAll Iberoamerica
>
>
> Thank you Angelos,
>
> The concern arises as a result of this project that I previously mentioned called GeoLIBERO. It is a project whose intention was to invigorate GeoForAll, especially the Ibero-American section. It is turning out to be a success, despite the pandemic. We had a face-to-face meeting last year here in Uruguay where several of us who participated had the opportunity to meet personally. Some of them are already OSGeo charter members. There are several open lines of research in the project, with education being the most active. There are 3 initiatives under development: one, for the creation of a free geomatics course (diplomado) for Ibero-America; another, for the development of research on the use of Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIT) at the higher level of education (university education prior to postgraduate); and a third, to extend to a regional level the Uruguayan experience of developing a course-contest of projects with students (high school) and gvSIG Batoví (open source GIS). We would like to share all this experience more widely, with the entire OSGeo community. There is also the concern of these project members who are charter members to be able to collaborate more actively with OSGeo. They have asked me how to do it and honestly I did not know what to answer. So I had this idea to transfer the question to the Board. I hope I have clarified the situation somewhat.
>
> Again, thanks,
>
>
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
> ________________________________
> De: Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> Enviado: miércoles, 20 de abril de 2022 4:18:08
> Para: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
> Cc: OSGeo Board Private; board at lists.osgeo.org
> Asunto: Re: offer of support to OSGeo from GeoForAll Iberoamerica
>
> Dear Sergio,
>
> The board discussed this topic during the previous board meeting and we
> would like to get some more feedback from you regarding the concerns to
> make contributions from the geolibero project. Can you please elaborate
> more on the concerns?
> We would definitely like any help we can get to promote OSGeo more.
> Perhaps you would like to join our next board meeting to discuss further?
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-04-25
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 3/7/22 19:36, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote:
>> Thank you Angelos. We'll be looking forward to receiving that feedback soon.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Sergio Acosta y Lara
>> Departamento de Geomática
>> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
>> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
>> URUGUAY
>> (598)29157933 ints. 20329
>> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
>> ________________________________
>> De: Angelos Tzotsos <tzotsos at gmail.com>
>> Enviado: lunes, 7 de marzo de 2022 12:55:33
>> Para: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
>> Cc: OSGeo Board Private
>> Asunto: Re: offer of support to OSGeo from GeoForAll Iberoamerica
>>
>> Dear Sergio,
>>
>> Thank you for your e-mail, I did not receive the previous one (wondering if osgeo e-mail was actually working this last week).
>> I am forwarding your request to the board's private mailing list and we will provide feedback soon.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 4:58 PM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy<mailto:sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Angelos. Last thursday I sent this email (see below) seeking to have your reaction. How can we contribute to OSGeo from our -humble- position? We'll be very pleased to hear your opinion.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Sergio Acosta y Lara
>> Departamento de Geomática
>> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
>> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
>> URUGUAY
>> (598)29157933 ints. 20329
>> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> De: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
>> Enviado: jueves, 3 de marzo de 2022 13:08
>> Para: tzotsos at osgeo.org<mailto:tzotsos at osgeo.org>; mmtobias at ucdavis.edu<mailto:mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>; vicky at georepublic.de<mailto:vicky at georepublic.de>; codrina at geo-spatial.org<mailto:codrina at geo-spatial.org>; michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com<mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
>> Asunto: offer of support to OSGeo from GeoForAll Iberoamerica
>>
>>
>> At GeoForAll IbA we have proposed to develop a project with external funding called GeoLIBERO (https://www.cyted.org/es/geolibero). The project (which was approved and is under development) spans 4 years (we are starting the third now) and many professionals and academics from several Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal participate in it. There are several (new) Charter Members among these members with the concern of making contributions to OSGeo from this project, beyond its completion. I particularly see that OSGeo has been losing dynamism and I would like to discuss with the Board the way to contribute to its reactivation since it is something that we would be interested in doing. Is there any way to do this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Sergio Acosta y Lara
>> Departamento de Geomática
>> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
>> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
>> URUGUAY
>> (598)29157933 ints. 20329
>> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>> President, Board of Directors
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>
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> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
>

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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos