From jon at scios.tech Wed Sep 2 05:16:06 2026 From: jon at scios.tech (jon at scios.tech) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 05:16:06 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] IOSP Workshops 2026 in Leiden: Build a community-owned open science system Message-ID: The Institute of Open Science Practices is hosting its 2026 workshops in Leiden from October 12 to 15, and we'd like you in the room. *It's free to attend.* Across the two main working days, the event will establish a participant-owned data storage consortium, publish datasets, code, and knowledge objects to it, create our own algorithms that assess the trust and value of what's published, and assemble community-owned collaboratives that route funding based on their interpretation of that analysis. The result will be a fully functional open science system, owned by the community that builds it, to test, build on, and iterate over the coming months and years. The pieces of open science already exist. It's time they were woven into a coherent system. You can already see the emerging data network here: https://www.iosp.science/datanetwork And the full workshop line-up is here: https://iosp.science/workshops Four ways to participate: 1. *Register.* The room holds 100 people, and last year 425 registered for an 80-person room, so a registration isn't yet a seat and we confirm by email. The form asks whether you'd need travel support; say so if you would. https://www.iosp.science/?signup=participant 2. *Contribute to the community track.* It runs alongside the main track on both working days and is an open space for talks, workshops, panels, and discussions around the four themes. https://www.iosp.science/submit-community-session 3. *Building a tool? Submit it to the showcase.* We'll stress-test it and build on it in Leiden. https://www.iosp.science/?signup=showcase 4. *Join the resilient data workshop.* The workshop that opens IOSP 2026 has you stand up an IPFS node and join a member-owned resilient data consortium. Your node will run either on your own laptop or on a Raspberry Pi kit you take home. There are only 20 seats and 10 take-home Raspberry Pi kits. Earlier sign-ups get first consideration if it fills. Signing up for this workshop also registers you for IOSP 2026. https://www.iosp.science/resilient-data-signup And finally, spread the word. Forward this, post the community-track call, or point a builder at the workshop or showcase. *Hope to see you in Leiden!* Jon, Ellie, and the IOSP organizing team *P.S.* The resilient data consortium needs data worth keeping. If you know a public dataset that could vanish?a shuttered project's archive, a retiring server, data whose funding ended?recommend it and we'll consider adding it to the network. Recommend a dataset: https://www.iosp.science/resilient-data-signup See what the network holds now: https://www.iosp.science/datanetwork -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lr at pcorp.us Tue Sep 8 14:01:04 2026 From: lr at pcorp.us (Regina Obe) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 17:01:04 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostGIS Day 2026 coming November 19th Message-ID: <000001dd3fd5$29a8b890$7cfa29b0$@pcorp.us> PostGIS Day 2026 will be November 19. Call for talk ideas is open now. Registration is free! This is a virtual community conference all about PostGIS geospatial. Details: https://www.snowflake.com/en/postgis-day/ CFP: https://talks.osgeo.org/postgis-day-2026/cfp From even.rouault at spatialys.com Thu Sep 10 23:32:36 2026 From: even.rouault at spatialys.com (Even Rouault) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:32:36 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] About organizing a general strike Message-ID: Hi, People are generally shy about expressing opinions that might appear to be revolutionnary, but it is always interesting to speak up to count forces So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live hygiene. So here's my motion: "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next press release, or not." Starting with my +1 Even And no, this is not a prank. -- http://www.spatialys.com My software is free, but my time generally not. LLMs contribute to global warming and brain rot. Let's guillotine them! "Ah ! ?a ira, ?a ira, ?a ira !" From gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr Fri Sep 11 01:27:17 2026 From: gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr (=?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A9rald_Fenoy?=) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:27:17 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] About organizing a general strike In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <805CF56A-CF8A-4440-9AED-AAE2AFCCA5D8@geolabs.fr> Hi, So great to hear from you! I follow up with my +1. Warm regards, Gerald Fenoy > Le 11 sept. 2026 ? 08:32, Even Rouault via Discuss a ?crit : > > Hi, > > People are generally shy about expressing opinions that might appear to be revolutionnary, but it is always interesting to speak up to count forces > > So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community > > Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live hygiene. > > So here's my motion: > > "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next press release, or not." > > Starting with my +1 > > Even > > And no, this is not a prank. > > -- > http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > LLMs contribute to global warming and brain rot. > Let's guillotine them! "Ah ! ?a ira, ?a ira, ?a ira !" > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.d.steer at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 02:19:25 2026 From: adam.d.steer at gmail.com (Adam Steer) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:19:25 +1000 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] About organizing a general strike In-Reply-To: <805CF56A-CF8A-4440-9AED-AAE2AFCCA5D8@geolabs.fr> References: <805CF56A-CF8A-4440-9AED-AAE2AFCCA5D8@geolabs.fr> Message-ID: Hi, for many reasons I support this action. +1 with warm regards from Oceania, although I cannot claim to represent the myriad cultures of my region. Adam -- Dr. Adam Steer https://iamadamsteer.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.hocevar at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 08:10:20 2026 From: andreas.hocevar at gmail.com (Andreas Hocevar) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:10:20 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] About organizing a general strike In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: +1 from me, mostly because funding for Open Source software stops at feature development, leaving us with the much larger and growing burden of maintenance in our free time. Kind regards, Andreas. On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 9:32?AM Even Rouault via Discuss < discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi, > > People are generally shy about expressing opinions that might appear to > be revolutionnary, but it is always interesting to speak up to count forces > > So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community > > Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much > things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really > need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live > hygiene. > > So here's my motion: > > "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next > press release, or not." > > Starting with my +1 > > Even > > And no, this is not a prank. > > -- > http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > LLMs contribute to global warming and brain rot. > Let's guillotine them! "Ah ! ?a ira, ?a ira, ?a ira !" > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch Fri Sep 11 09:00:24 2026 From: luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch (=?utf-8?Q?Lu=C3=AD=C2=ADs_Moreira_de_Sousa?=) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:00:24 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] About organizing a general strike In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Even, strikes, and general strikes, were some of the first tools (many times effective) in what became knownw as the Class Struggle. A strike is an action taken by a percieved weak faction (union, workers association) facing a strong faction (employer, owner of means of production). Before devising motives, it would be important to identify against which faction the community would be striking. We contribute to projects and the Foundation itself, none of which fit the traditional understanding of owners of means of production. Regards. -- Lu?s Moreira de Sousa