[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto - Nicolas Bozon

[Luigi Pirelli]

Ok, more clear now, thanks
Luigi Pirelli

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On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 22:04, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Luigi,
>
> Thanks for following my links and asking.
>
> First of all, i am not a developer, so please do not expect to find core
> or revolutionary code on my Github nor on the OSGeo projects svn.
>
> I am rather a geo data product manager, cartographer and designer. I also
> like to think that i am an OSGeo power user, with predisposition for
> developer advocacy and community management.
>
> I believe my most significant activity or contribution to open source is
> co-founding ZOO-Project with Gérald Fenoy and Venkatesh Raghavan (former
> board members btw) and promoting it with the ZOO-Tribe since 10 years now.
>
> ZOO-Project is solid and scalable WPS implementation that allows to
> execute and chain many of the OSGeo librairies such as GDAL, GRASS GIS,
> OrfeoToolbox (but also others such as SAGA GIS, CGAL or R) all on the
> server, in a OGC compliant way. I spent hundreds of hours designing the WPS
> architecture along with co-founders, and i believe Gérald and other ZOO
> developers implemented our vision the good way. I also wrote part of this
> project documentation, along with Gérald and Jeff McKenna. If you are
> really curious about my commits, please look way behind in the ZOO-Project
> svn history and search for users like nbozon and nickboz :)
>
> Another significant contribution of mine to geospatial open source is the
> design of the MapMint software. This is built on top of ZOO-Project, GDAL
> and MapServer and also interacts smoothly with some well known clients such
> as OpenLayers or QGIS. Among numerous online processing capabilities,
> MapMint really leverages MapServer for non-developers, as it writes
> mapfiles for them using a friendly UI and crazy mapscript, all served as
> WPS. As for ZOO-Project, i spent uncountable man-days to achieve this work
> with my OSGeo friends, and to share it with the community. I did a little
> bit of coding there too, especially for the front-end prototypes and
> documentation. Once again, if you are really looking at code related to me,
> please have a look at the mapmint-ui directory on the MapMint github.
>
> For the record, these two projects are licensed under MIT styled licenses.
> They were most notably used and extended within an innovative research
> project from 2013 to 2015, funded by the European Commission FP7 Program.
> They are also nowadays in production for a number of commercial projects
> led by multiple private companies.
>
> I believe my open source activity and direct contributions also remain
> through my involvement in numerous local and regional FOSS4G events
> organization.
> Traveling around the globe to help and spread the word, melting with the
> Asian and European chapters, sharing ideas and knowledge with many
> different OSGeo people are also contributions. They do not necessarily
> involve code or development, but they at least allow me to say that i got
> to know many of my fellow charter members and that i now understand OSGeo
> globally.
>
> Past and current work with the OSGeo Marketing Committee are also often
> impalpable yet meaningful contributions.
> My pet project mapsk.in is another open source contribution, and even
> gets a (very quiet) Github :)
>
> Sorry for this long answer Luigi. I hope that it helped you consider that
> i am and will ever be an active OSGeo activist and contributor.
>
> I'd like to conclude by saying that i do not think being an active skilled
> developer is mandatory to become an OSGeo director.
> I think advocacy, strategy and openness are much more important for this
> role.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
>
>
> Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 10:57, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Nicolas, do you have some more repo other this
>> https://github.com/nbozon where to see your OS activities?
>>
>> Luigi Pirelli
>>
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>> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli
>> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli
>> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir
>> * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:
>> *
>> https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition
>> * Hire me: http://goo.gl/BYRQKg
>>
>> **************************************************************************************************
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>>
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 17:55, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi OSGeo,
>>>
>>> Please read my manifesto here:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Nicolas_Bozon
>>>
>>>
>>> And have a good week end !
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
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