[OpenGeoscience] Report for OSGeo Annual General Meeting 2022

[Peter Löwe]

Dear Open Geoscience list,

the OSGeo Annual General Meeting 2022 is scheduled as a virtual meeting during FOSS4G 2022 in Florence.

Details here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2022

For this we need to create a slide and record a 1 minute video. The deadline for this is August 8.

For activities, there was OSGeo involvement at the EGU hybrind conference, supporting the Data Help Desk organised by ESIP.
Details here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_DataHelpDesk_2022 (todo: add more lessons learned)

It might be interesting to use the Open Geoscience presentation also as a "innovation radar" to highlight crosscuttinh topics which are relevant for multiple OSGeo projects:

Regarding the adoption of persistant identificators (DOI), there was a massive push among OSGro projects to register both Concept DOI and Version DOI, which are already being used in scientific publications (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 -> check the reference section!). Overview for DOI for OSgeo software repositories here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI

Further, TIB Hannover (German National Library for Science and Technology) has introduced DOI for series of videos, including the "series" for each FOSS4G conference. This is a very useful feature, as this gives us aggregated video lists for each conference. The TIB wiki page already uses this mechanism - clicking on a particular FOSS4G reference will open the corresponding series DOI: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/TIB#FOSS4G_Conferences

TIB now also provides all metadata for a FOSS4G conference video series as Linked Open Data in multiple formats (TRDF, Dublin Core, etc.). This might become a very interesting capability for OSGeo in the near future for information mining.

Are there any other events, like workshops or reach out activities, that should be mentioned at the AGM ?

Best,
Peter

 <peter.loewe at gmx.de>