[SAC] [Board] GeoForAll website form and map

Vicky Vergara vicky at georepublic.de
Tue Feb 26 09:21:04 PST 2019


Hi all
Map is showing again
greetings

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:19 AM Victoria Rautenbach <
victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Vicky.
>
> I will have a look at both to check if there is any labs missing on
> either list.
>
> Regards
> Victoria
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 4:08 PM Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Will have a look into it today
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2253
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:35 AM Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you Peter.
> >>
> >>
> >> It is important that the new labs submission forms works properly and
> information is not lost.  I really hope SAC and OSGeo Website team will
> look into this and help find a solution. The Map function of the GeoForAll
> website is also not working , so I request OSGeo Board to advise and help
> us on this. Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >>
> >> Suchith
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: 15 February 2019 14:02
> >> To: Helena Mitasova
> >> Cc: Victoria Rautenbach; Suchith Anand; Board
> >> Subject: Re: [Board] Welcome Victoria Rautenbach as new Chair of the
> GeoForAll initiative
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am one of the people who receive an email notification that a new
> submission has been made via the submission form on the GeoForAll section
> of the OSGeo website.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Helena for mentioning a few important issues here.
> >>
> >> 1. I was under the assumption that the Wiki table was not going to be
> used in future now that we had the new OSGeo website and GeoForAll labs
> form. Hence I have not been updating or looking at the Wiki table in some
> time now.
> >>
> >> 2. There are people using the GeoForAll lab form to submit questions
> about OSGeo Software to GeoForAll (see some attached screenshots). This to
> me is most certainly the wrong place for these questions to be posted.
> >>
> >> 3. There are also some spam/vendors posting on this lab form also.
> >>
> >> 4. As indicated in a recent email thread we have some form data being
> submitted completely and wholly in a language other than English. Whilst I
> absolutely am in favour of each lab communicating in their native tongue or
> official national language we do need (at least) the description translated
> to English. Yes, I could drop this into Google Translate but that is
> probably not the most accurate way to translate. See some attached
> screenshots.
> >>
> >> Re: Kurt Menke. I've looked at the submissions and I cannot find him.
> >>
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:24 AM Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Victoria,
> >>
> >> Welcome from me as well, I am very much looking forward to working with
> you supporting the geoforall initiative
> >>
> >> I wanted to ask about the website - I tried to get back to updating the
> wiki
> >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives#sortable_table_id_0
> >>
> >> based on what is new on the website (I know there is a couple new labs
> missing in the wiki table)
> >> https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/
> >>
> >> But I found that the form probably uses the contact names instead of
> labs names, so we need find a way how to fix it.
> >> Also I got an email from Kurt Menke (Birds Eye View GIS, lab #89 in
> wiki table) who has done amazing work developing material for Geoacademy
> and QGIS saying that he has submitted the form some time ago and he is
> still not listed on the website, so I am wondering whether there may be
> more of the forms that need to be approved. As an OSGeo charter member
> >> he may be able to add and edit his entry directly as he has access but
> there may be others who cannot do it.
> >>
> >> Best regards, Helena
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 6, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Victoria Rautenbach <
> victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Suchith
> >>
> >> Thanks for the well wishes. Appreciate it.
> >>
> >> I logged a ticket with SAC and Vicky helped me with this end of last
> week. The form is now sent to me and Peter.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Victoria
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06 Feb 2019, at 15:50, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Welcome and congratulations to Victoria.
> >>
> >> Victoria is added as administrator for GeoForAll list and AB lists.
> >>
> >> Can someone in SAC please help with adding Victoria's email in the
> GeoforAll lab submission form at
> >> https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/lab-submission/  so
> Victoria gets notification of new lab submission and can approve etc.
> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Suchith
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody Garnett <
> jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: 05 February 2019 23:22
> >> To: Astrid Emde
> >> Cc: Board
> >> Subject: Re: [Board] Welcome Victoria Rautenbach as new Chair of the
> GeoForAll initiative
> >>
> >> Thanks Astrid (and Victoria).
> >>
> >> Since GeoForAll is a committee I do not think it needs to join the
> "projects" list.
> >>
> >> GeoForAll is already listed on the boards and officers page so we
> should keep that current.
> >> --
> >> Jody Garnett
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 11:26, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Victoria,
> >>
> >> at the last Board  Meeting [1] we recognized you as new project officers
> >> for the GeoForAll initiative. Congratulations and welcome as new Chair.
> >>
> >> You are not listed yet  as new officer for GeoForAll at [2]. We have to
> >> discuss in the next board meeting whether we should list GeoForAll here
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Please register at the projects mailing list [3] and board mailing list
> >> [4] and say hi.
> >>
> >> And please check this list of Geo4All Advisory Board [5]. Maybe you
> >> should be listed here too.
> >>
> >> Astrid
> >>
> >> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-01-21
> >> [2] https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
> >> [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/projects
> >> [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
> >> [5] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/advisory-board/
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Astrid Emde
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Astrid Emde
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Astrid Emde
> >> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
> >> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> >> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
> >> astrid_emde at osgeo.org
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