[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination of Bastian Drees from TIB as OSGeo charter member

[Markus Neteler]

I second the nomination!

Markus

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Vasile Craciunescu
<vasile at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
> Forwarding Bastian Drees nomination by Astrid Emde. The 2017 member
> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Nomination of Bastian Drees from TIB as OSGeo charter member
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:47:52 +0200
> From: Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> To: cro at osgeo.org
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to nominate Bastian Drees [1].
>
> Bastian organizes the publishing of our conference recordings at TIB AV
> Portal [2]. These are recordings from FOSS4G [4], FOSSGIS [5], FROSCON [6]
> and other conferences and for example the GRASS video from 1987 spoken by
> William Shatner [7].
>
> Bastian cares for the long term availability of OSGeo material, especially
> videos such as conference recordings but also research data or proceedings:
> - works on improving the discoverability and visibility of those materials
> and wants to make them citable and interlinkable
> - helps developing necessary infrastructures for these purposes based on the
> needs of the OSGeo community [3]
> - gives advice on publishing under open access licenses
> - works together with the organizing committees of different FOSS4G and
> FOSSGIS conferences on publishing conference recordings in the AV-Portal of
> TIB
> - helps us with our ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) [8].
>
> Read the article "404: Video not found – The TIB AV-Portal stops scientific
> videos from disappearing" [9]
> Read articles in Bastians blog about favorite highlights [10] & an interview
> with Till Adams after FOSS4G 2016 [10].
>
> See a talk from Bastian about "OSGeo Konferenzaufzeichnungen im TIB
> AV-Portal" at FOSSGIS 2017 [12]. He finished his talk with the words based
> loosely on William Shatner[13]:
>
> "So don’t keep your scientific videos, your simulations, your animations,
> your
> video tutorials and conference recordings rolled up in your private homepage
> or stuffed into commercial platforms. Keep it in the TIB AV-Portal!"
>
> Would be great to have him in the team as OSGeo Charter Member.
>
> Astrid
>
> [1] Bastian Drees @ OSGeo https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bastian
> [2] TIB AV Portal https://av.tib.eu/
> [3] Information about TIB @ OSGeo https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/TIB
> [4] Recordings from FOSS4G
> https://av.tib.eu/search?f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/FOSS4G
> [5] Recordings from FOSSGIS
> https://av.tib.eu/search?f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/FOSSGIS_e.V.
> https://av.tib.eu/series/300/fossgis+konferenz+2017+passau+22+25+marz+2017
> [6] Recordings from FROSCON
> https://av.tib.eu/search?q=FROSCON&f=publisher%3Bhttp://av.tib.eu/resource/Free_and_Open_Source_software_Conference_%2528FrOSCon%2529_e.V.&o=0
> [7] GRASS Video from 1987 https://av.tib.eu/media/12963
> [8] about ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
> https.//orcid.org/0000-0003-3508-602X
> [9]
> https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2016/11/16/404-video-not-found-the-tib-av-portal-stops-scientific-videos-from-disappearing/
> [10] Blog
> https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2017/06/14/10-000-videos-im-av-portal-unsere-persoenlichen-highlights/
> [11] “The AV-Portal enables us to preserve ‘for eternity’ conference videos
> for our community free of charge” – an interview with Till Adams
> https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2017/01/10/the-av-portal-enables-us-to-preserve-for-eternity-conference-videos-for-our-community-free-of-charge-an-interview-with-till-adams/
> [12] Talk about TIB AV Portal at FOSSGIS 2017 "OSGeo Konferenzaufzeichnungen
> im TIB AV-Portal" (german) https://av.tib.eu/media/30541
> [13] Quotation based loosely on William Shatner
> https://doi.org/10.5446/30541#t=13:56,14:12
>
> --
> Astrid Emde
> Charter Member
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde
>
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