[Lexicon] Reintroducing OSGeo veterans

[Ankita Tripathi]

Welcome, Peter!
I have been working as a community liaison and tech writer with Cameron for
this project along with two more ETch Writers.
Glad we could have you here.

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We handle all our discussions under the #glossaries channel.

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On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:42 PM Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Cameron, all,
>
> apologies for not introducing myself earlier.
>
> My name is Peter Löwe, I'm a Geographer with strong ties into into
> computer science and library (e.g. "journals, books and data") communities.
> I'm based in Germany, greater Berlin area and have been involved in FOSS
> GIS / OSGeo activities for about two decades in several roles (
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe
> https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-0517).
>
> For the OSGeo Glossary initaitive, I would like to advance topics related
> to software citation, including defined terms (a controlled vocabulary ?)
> to give proper credit not just for original writers of software, but also
> maintainers, "extenders", reviewers and translators.
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>
>
> *Gesendet:* Samstag, 05. September 2020 um 22:42 Uhr
> *Von:* "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> *An:* "Codrina Maria Ilie" <codrina at geo-spatial.org>, "Jorge Gaspar Sanz
> Salinas" <jsanz at osgeo.org>, "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> *Cc:* lexicon at lists.osgeo.org
> *Betreff:* Reintroducing OSGeo veterans
> Hi Codrina, Peter, Jorge,
> I see some of you have joined the glossary slack channel. That is great.
> A bunch of new people have joined this project who won't know you.
> Assuming you are still keen to be part of the OSGeo Glossary initiative,
> would you mind sending an introduction message saying who you are, where
> you live (coordinating timezones
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=4&month=9&year=2020&p1=22&p2=240&p3=248&p4=102&p5=44&p6=26&p7=136&p8=179&p9=224&iv=0>
> is a challenge), and if you have any particular thoughts about how you'd
> like to be involved.
> To get you up to speed, this Glossaries Manifesto
> <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1Fjrl34ErnYammel9WmvXJ3rMWFANjoSiiGyyNSYOXUg/edit>
> should be helpful. (Please add your name to the Collaborators list if you
> wish to take part.)
>
> We are blessed to have three tech writers offering to help with both
> writing and coordinating. However they are new to open source and newer to
> OSGeo. It would be great to pair them with OSGeo veterans such as
> yourselves. I see you could help with:
> * Using your social capital to help access the right people in
> organisations.
> * Help define OSGeo terms (while they would get the terms written
> correctly).
> I think that most people who fit this group are in IN/US/EU timezones.
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
>
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