[OSGeo-Conf] PRE Conference FOSS4G/ OSGEO LATAM 2019

Sun Feb 24 14:08:38 PST 2019

Dear Maria,
Thank you very much for answering my communication.
Since 2013, we created the chapter OSGEO Peru and we had direct
communication with Jeff McKenna who was president of OSGEO years ago. In
2014 we formalized the chapter OSGEO Peru with the conference, meeting of
users and programmers to invite them to be part of the local chapter,
unfortunately we could not find the economic funds for the invitation to
the or any member of the OSGEO board of directors activities such as OSGEO
o FOSS4G, this year we expect to have these funds.

Years ago the OSGEO Bolivia Chapter was created by Bolivian friends with
the support of Arnulf Christl and we have permanent contact with them and
we organize events in Bolivia and Peru, with respect to Chile and Argentina
we have tried various communications for their experience of organizing
FOSS4G and it has been As you say you have not answered to date, which we
also regret.

In 2016 we presented the candidacy of Lima to organize the FOSS4G but we
did not reach the goal but it was very rich to learn about the candidacies
and objectives of the international events FOSS4G

In 2016 I suffered an accident and I am recently leaving therapy, we got
economic funds and sent the Bolivian teacher Javier Nuñez to the FOSS4G in
Bonn and met with some OSGEO managers, unfortunately the registration fees
for the FOSS4G events were beyond the possibility to send another
representative.

In 2017 I traveled to Boston and met with Guido Stein who was part of the
local organizers FOSS4G - LOC and who supported us in answering many of our
questions on how to organize a FOSS4G event.

We have always informed Jeff McKenna of our interest and ideas for Peru and
Latin America, and since 2015 we have always had the support and
collaboration of Ragi Burhum who is part of the OSGEO Board of Directors,
we regret not participating in the list that you tell us exists in the
Spanish language, but we have not received an invitation communication
despite being visible in the wiki, also years ago we had a website like
osgeoperu.org but was attacked by malware and spyware.

Our proposed activity for April 2019 is within the XVIII EGAL 2019 QUITO
https://egal19.puce.edu.ec/, Latin American congress of geographers, we are
going to meet users, programmers and leaders of free software projects in
their majority QGis from different countries of Latin America. The activity
is more informative, more than creating networks, commercial and academic
contacts. Although there is already a lot of expectation because it is the
first time we try to do an OSGEO activity within the Latin American event.

I am not new creating national or Latin American networks and events
because at this moment I am the coordinator of the Working Group on
Critical Geographical Thinking of the Latin American Council of Social
Sciences - CLACSO and chairman of the Commission of Latin American Studies
of the International Geographical Union - IGU, to whom I sumo to OSGEO as
allies in all the activities I do as you can see in the attached posters.

In the last years I have been traveling through Latin America between
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile and Argentina where I have had
contact with local users of OSGEO software and I have done advocacy and
training so that they can be socially grouped in a local chapter, I think
Soon there will be results. In the case of Argentina, I am very surprised
that it is a FORMAL CHAPTER because since 2014 we have tried to communicate
with them and the communication has been bad, I think that from
GeoInquietos communication is more dynamic, such is the case in November
2018 At the University of Buenos Aires we held a QGis social and
participatory mapping event with the friends of the CAMBALACHE and CLACSO
cooperative, we invited the organizers of the FOSS4G Argentina in various
ways and the objective could not be achieved, days later we learned that it
already existed a local chapter Argentina and recently created in wikipedia
because it was not visible in any case on the web, we hope that the
community grows and can work together.

As a university professor in Peru we have created an electronic magazine
and we are going to propose a dossier for 2020 on geotechnologies and
geospatial free software, in Latin America
http://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/espiral/index

We hope to create a LATAM event or failing to apply to organize an
international FOSS4G event and thus show the industry, the innovative
ecosystem and the utility of free geospatial software for the good living
of our peoples.

I hope not to disturb you, thanking you for your communication and I am at
your disposal for any comment about it.

Best regards,

*Prof. Juan Manuel Delgado*
National University of San Marcos
International Geographical Union
Latin American Council of Social Sciences

El dom., 24 feb. 2019 a las 8:57, María Arias de Reyna (<delawen at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Dear Juan Manuel,
>
> I am a bit confused, maybe you can help me. The working meeting event you
> are referring is this one, right? http://foss4g-ar.org/
>
> About the OSGeo Perú I see you have an OSGeo Perú Facebook account and an
> intention to create a chapter in 2014, but that was never formalized,
> right? Do you intent to pursue this further and become an official chapter
> as Argentina just did?
>
> About the FOSS4G Perú, I have been trying to get some information as I
> wasn't aware of it besides the intention to get into the global FOSS4G and
> a conference back in 2014. I can only find things in facebook, is that
> right? Am I missing some other channel of communication here?
>
> Having more regional conferences is good and I totally encourage you to
> continue, but I am a bit worried that this has happened all outside the
> OSGeo channels of communication, with not even a note on the Spanish
> mailing list (which is the one you are officially covered by at this
> moment). Specially worried if it is true that everything is only on
> Facebook, which is not a very public and easy to access forum. Do you think
> we can improve this and get a better communication from now on with the
> rest of OSGeo?
>
> I am worried about LatAm being too disconnected from the general OSGeo and
> have been working on the past years to try to reach out, but even then I
> wasn't aware we had this working chapter in Perú going on. Please, can you
> share more info on what you have been doing and what are your plans for the
> future?
>
> Cheers,
> María
> OSGeo President.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:12 AM Juan Manuel Delgado Estrada <
> juanmanueldelgado at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sirs of the FOSS4G Conference Committee, As part of the
>> dissemination of the OSGEO community in Latin America we have contacted the
>> OSGEO Bolivia communities and OSGEO users in Ecuador, where collectives
>> from Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia will participate and it has been
>> proposed to carry out a user activity and local OSGEO chapters of Latin
>> America, to align activities of each country and to explore a Latin
>> American one.
>>
>> In April 2019 the most important event of geographers of Latin America is
>> held and within that event as OSGEO community and local chapters we have
>> proposed a conference and work meeting.
>>
>> The proposal is open and complying with the OSGEO and FOSS4G protocols.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *JUAN MANUEL DELGADO*
>> *OSGEO - Perú*
>>
>>
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