[OSGeo-Conf] RfP 2020 - Questions

[Karine Jean]

Dear Venka,

Thank you for your questions. Here are the answers from Halifax team.
You'll find them in the wiki page as well.


   1.

   Highlight the contributions (code contributions, documentation, outreach
   etc.) that the chair/co-chair have made to FOSS4G communities


Jeff McKenna began his efforts through the MapServer community, becoming
the lead of the documentation team, and joining its Project Steering
Committee.  Focusing on the users, Jeff maintains the very popular MS4W
installer for Windows users, which is downloaded 6,000 times per month, and
contains many OSGeo projects configured to use, including ZOO-Project,
Mapbender, GeoMoose.

Jeff has recently begun focusing on students within the FOSS4G community,
as an admin of OSGeo’s 2017 and 2018 Google Code-In Initiatives, where
small tasks are created for highschool students.  Jeff is also an admin of
OSGeo’s Google Summer of Code program, which each summer funds university
students to work on OSGeo projects; in fact Jeff is this week at Google
headquarters in Silicon Valley, for the Google Summer of Code Mentor
Summit, with fellow OSGeo representatives Victoria Rautenbach (GeoForAll)
and Vaclav Petras (GRASS GIS).

Karine Jean has been active in the FOSS4G community for 10 years,
specializing in planning outreach events for the OSGeo and LocationTech
communities.


   1.

   How have the chair/co-chairs been involved in promotion/governance
   (Charter Membership, involvement in Committees etc.) of OSGeo foundation.


Jeff McKenna is a founding charter member of OSGeo, and has been involved
in the governance of the OSGeo foundation since its beginning, active in
many OSGeo committees. Jeff is a former president of OSGeo, and has sat on
its Board of Directors for many years, including now as an OSGeo Vice
President.  Jeff has always focused on relationships with partner
organizations, and has helped drive these relationships through formal
agreements with many groups. One example is the UN OpenGIS initiative,
which began with a formal meeting between the UN GIS team and Jeff in Seoul
in 2015, which has now become a very active initiative.  Jeff McKenna has
also been a long-time supporter of the GeoForAll initiative, and sits on
its Advisory Committee.

Karine Jean is a long-time OSGeo-Qc chapter member, and is currently on the
Board of OSGeo-Qc.  She has been nominated as an OSGeo Charter member this
year.


   1.

   Please elaborate on your local committee member's experience in planning
   OSGeo events (such as involvement in FOSS4G-global event teams, OSGeo local
   chapter event planning, or OSGeo code sprints).


Karine Jean has organized 2 events in partner with the OSGeo-Qc chapter,
the OSGeo-Ottawa chapter, and LocationTech.  Karine was also on the
organizing committee of OSGeo-Europe 2015 in Como, Italy. She was on the
local committee for the FOSS4G-Ottawa 2017 bid. Most recently she organized
the 10 year celebration of the OSGeo-QC chapter in Quebec City this
summer.  Soon she will be organizing a GeoHack in Morocco in collaboration
with OSGeo-Qc in 2019.

Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis, an OSGeo Charter Member since 2016, was the
co-chair of the FOSS4G-Ottawa 2017 bid.

Thierry Badard, an OSGeo Charter member since 2008, is a board member of
the OSGeo-francophone chapter.  He also has been on the organizing
committee of several OSGeo-Qc events.

Tom Kralidis, an OSGeo Charter member since 2007, organized the very first
OSGeo Code Sprint back in 2009, in Toronto.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009

Jeff McKenna, a founding OSGeo Charter member since 2006, has been involved
in FOSS4G since its beginning.  In 2004, Jeff met Venkatesh Raghavan,
Markus Neteler in Thailand, and the three of them agreed to create a global
FOSS4G event every year.  Jeff would then go on to chair the new OSGeo
Conference Committee, and draft a document to help call for hosts (that is
still being used today) and develop a process to move the event around the
globe each year.  Jeff has also been active in many FOSS4G global
committees, including being part of every local committee at FOSS4G from
2006 to 2011. Jeff since then has been active on many smaller FOSS4G
regional event teams, in Asia, Europe and more.

Jeff McKenna is always actively helping OSGeo local chapter events, and
helping them form and grow, in areas all around the world, touching every
continent on the planet.

The FOSS4G-HFX team also contains several other OSGeo Charter Members, who
actively participate in FOSS4G global and regional events: Assefa
Yewonwossen, Matthew Hanson, and Vicky Vergera.


Jeff & Karine

FOSS4G-HFX 2020 co-chairs




Le jeu. 11 oct. 2018 à 04:27, Venka <venka.osgeo at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks to the three teams for submitting their LoIs
>
> My questions to the teams are as below;
>
> 1) Highlight the contributions (code contributions,
> documentation, outreach etc.) that the chair/co-chair have
> made to FOSS4G communities
>
> 2) How have the chair/co-chairs been involved in
> promotion/governance (Charter Membership, involvement
> in Committees etc.) of OSGeo foundation.
>
> 3) Please elaborate on your local committee member's experience in
> planning OSGeo events (such as involvement in FOSS4G-global event teams,
> OSGeo local chapter event planning, or OSGeo code sprints).
>
> Best
>
> Venka
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