<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap">Some people from the community asked for a couple of word on </span><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">vision/plans from the Board candidates, so here is my vision and </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap">a few things about me to supplement the kind presentation provided by Professor Venkatesh.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:24px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">My Vision</font></span><br>
</div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-9a6a1453-0002-6e55-3577-3923156a2bb8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In the last decade OSGeo has matured and cemented his role as an important leading actor in the geospatial sector, often driving changes and bringing innovations thanks to the impressive work done by the community in a broad sense: the board, the committees, the local chapters, the projects and the people.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Since Bangkok 2004, that we can consider as the father of all the FOSS4G conferences, the community had the feeling that Open Source Software were underestimated and that to compete with proprietary software we would had need to demonstrate that “our” software is stable, reliable and of great quality. All this has been achieved, thanks to the commitment of many people, and we can see today the effect of this effort: FOSS4G software used in production in critical services of Governments, Administrations, Organizations, Universities and Industries.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.15;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">At the same time, with the above mentioned attainment, the community has massively grown. </span><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">So much that today we can count on developers, passionate advocates, users and curious from all over the world which provide an impressive kaleidoscope of </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">expertise</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap"> (engineers, architects, geologists, urban planners, computer scientists, designer, educators, biologists… and many others) and represent an incredible variety of cultures (</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">Anglo-Saxon</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">Latin</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">African</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">Indo</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">, Islamic, Arab, Sinosphere, European, Asiatic… and many others). We are a kind of Utopia of biodiversity, and we all know that from high biodiversity </span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">come</span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap"> high productivity and stability.</span></font></span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">My vision is that in the next years FOSS4G will become more and more important bringing innovation and reliable solutions in particular it will facilitate the widely implementation of Open Geo Data, the management and analysis of Big Geo Data, the implementation of the Digital Earth and Smart Cities: all this with the ultimate goal to  effectively impact the societies and the quality of life of people located all over the globe.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Succeeding means striking a balance between OSGeo communities, sectors and cultures. As board member my priorities will be:</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Foster FOSS4G education</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: teaching Open Source has been in the past a key feature in creating FOSS4G advocates that massively contributed to the realization of OSGeo. In the future we should go further: reaching more countries and offering courses of outstanding quality, in the same way we do for projects.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Lower the barriers to attend FOSS4G</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: conferences are one of the few moments where we have the opportunity to meet up,  discuss face to face and take inspiration by attending talks, workshops and sprint codes. Unfortunately costs has become higher, year after year, and I believe that this is a undesired barrier for many: particularly for students, people from developing countries or individuals which do not attend in the name of any organization or company.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Encourage continental chapters</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: OSGeo strongly rely on local chapters to act locally and spread FOSS4G. This approach allows to correctly address the specificity and needs of different countries or region. Nevertheless in the last years we have seen the natural growing of continental conferences (FOSS4G North America, FOSS4G Europe, FOSS4G Asia, FOSS4G South America) which I believe should grow more as an important moment to address issues, needs and opportunities which are particularly meaningful for that continent or that may not apply to other part of the world. They could also be an option to lower barriers to attend international meetings.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Listen to individual</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: like it has always been in OSGeo, the community is OSGeo and ideas and needs expressed by each single member are the gas of our community. I will be committed to bring those to the board discussion table. </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">About me</font></span></div><div style="text-align:start"><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks to the type of projects I have carried out </span></font></span><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I used to consider myself academic with a private company </span><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">perspective.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent"><br>
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<span style="text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I am Professor in Geomatics and head of the Geomatic Division, which is one of the established ICA-OSGo-labs, </span><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) [1]</span><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9a6a1453-0002-6e55-3577-3923156a2bb8"><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">I 'm 43 and I have a long participation record in what is the OSGeo community today: </span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">I had the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">chance</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap"> to participate in all the FOSS4G conferences, from Bangkok to Nottingham.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">I approached FOSS4G during my master thesis, then I </span></font></span><span style="text-align:start;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">strengthened</font></span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent"> its knowledge during my PhD and my visit at DM Solutions and finally I cemented in the last decade.</span><br>
</p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Applied Science University in Switzerland are committed to provide education, applied research and services in support of the local region, this allows me in the last decade to carry out different type of works, for example: mandates from the local administration on critical services, international R&D projects of large dimensions, world bank projects and several </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap">courses in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">base and continuing education.</span></p>
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</span></div></div></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Massimiliano Cannata</b><br><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Responsabile settore Geomatica</span></p>
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