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

[Volker Mische]

+1
Bastian is really passionate about getting the videos from past FOSS4Gs
up into the archive. He's very supportive finding ways of making it happen.


On 2017-08-31 17:08, Vasile Craciunescu 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
>