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Standards Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2026-01-09

2025-12-09T15:20:06Z

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== Date/Time==
[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2026&month=1&day=5&hour=144&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=152&p4=195 Friday 09 January 2026 14h - 15h UTC]

==Location==
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

==Attendees==

==Agenda==
* Review of [[Standards_Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2025-12-05#Actions|previous meeting actions]]
* OGC membership status on Agora
** OSGeo has 12 members on Agora
* GeoCroissant https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2025-November/001453.html
* PROJJSON as community Standard update
* Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF sprint

==Notes==

==Actions==

== Next meeting==
TBD

Board Meeting 2025-12-30

2025-12-08T11:54:23Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 30 December 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=12&day=23&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-11-25]]
# Election process
# Results of election/ what it means to be a charter member
# Cyber Resilience Act
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2026-01-27]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-12-30

2025-12-08T11:53:45Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 23 December 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=12&day=23&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-11-25]]
# Election process
# Results of election/ what it means to be a charter member
# Cyber Resilience Act
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2026-01-27]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-12-23

2025-12-08T11:52:42Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-12-07T11:37:52Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 25 November 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=11&day=25&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-10-28]]
# Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint in 2026
# AGM feedback
# OSGeo Budget 2026
# FOSS4G Asia 2026, Nashik, India Budget Request
# Election Process
# Election results/ what it means to be a charter member
# Review pending action items [https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues]
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding: Angelos
* Scribing: Rajat, Angelos
* Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Joana, Michael, Rajat
* Guests:

=== Review and approve past minutes ===

* [[Board_Meeting_2025-10-28]]
* Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/kcw90QEM/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2025-10-28

=== Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint in 2026 ===

* There are 3 OGC code sprints for 2026
* The first one is end Jan in Colorado
* Venue is identified in Fort Collins, Colorado; Travel support is available within the US and also, international
* Second one is planned with Geovation in London; Funding not confirmed; venue and catering cost is confirmed
* Third one is planned in Barcelona, Spain, end of November; Venue is confirmed
* Note: FOSS4G Hiroshima is in August 2026
* ACTION: Joanna to send an email to the sprint mailing list

=== FOSS4G Asia 2026, Nashik, India Budget Request ===

* No seed money request.
* Request for: Travel grant - $3000, Marketing and branding - $1000, Code Sprint - $500
* ACTION: Rajat to send email to Krishna with the guideline document (https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf)
* We currently have 2000$ in the travel grant for this year, 500$ for the code sprint.
* Marketing budget should be requested from the Marketing committee.

=== AGM feedback ===

* Proposal to do the AGM separately from the conference. The last session is not a good time, participation is low and everyone is tired from the conference.
* Feedback that OSGeo ID is too difficult to get. Getting people involved has to be very easy.
* ACTION: Discuss options with SAC
* Add more description to the web site about committees.
* The sponsorship plan had positive reactions, implementation details to be discussed.

=== OSGeo Budget 2026 ===

* ACTION: Angelos to prepare the wiki page.
* ACTION: Angelos to send email for budget requests.

=== Election results/ what it means to be a charter member ===

* Move this to next meeting

=== Review pending action items ===

* Revisit in later meetings for updates
* ACTION: Angelos to bring items in the agenda of next meeting

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-12-30]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Standards Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2025-12-05

2025-12-04T17:38:43Z

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== Date/Time==
[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=12&day=5&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=152&p4=195 Friday 05 December 2025 14h - 15h UTC]

==Location==
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

==Attendees==

==Agenda==
* Review of [[Standards_Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2025-09-17#Actions|previous meeting actions]]
* OGC membership status
* GeoCroissant https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2025-November/001453.html
* PROJJSON as community Standard: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2025-November/001449.html
* Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF sprint
** 2026 planning
* OSGeo members on Portal/Agora

==Notes==

==Actions==

== Next meeting==
TBD

Standards Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2025-12-05

2025-11-27T15:16:25Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-11-18T16:41:48Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-11-18T16:41:18Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-11-18T16:40:40Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-11-06T17:19:00Z

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Board Meeting 2025-11-25

2025-11-06T17:18:37Z

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Board Meeting 2025-09-30

2025-09-29T14:26:11Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 30 September 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=09&day=30&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''11:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

This is a F2F meeting during the [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025]] event (2pm local time).

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-08-26]]
# ''OGC and OSGeo MoU''
# ''OSGeo fundraisers''
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-10-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-09-30

2025-09-29T14:24:21Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 30 September 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=09&day=30&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''11:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

This is a F2F meeting during the [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025]] event (2pm local time).

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-08-26]]
#* [[OGC and OSGeo MoU]]
#* [[OSGeo Funding]]
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-10-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

User:Doublebyte

2025-08-29T16:35:18Z

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|Company=ByteRoad/OGC
|Country=Portugal
|City=Lisbon
|Coordinate=38.736946,-9.142685
|LocalChapter=Portugal
|Email=joana_at_doublebyte.net
|SocialMedia=https://noc.social/@doublebyte;
|Website=https://doublebyte.net/
|Photo=Doublebyte1.png
|Languages=Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian;
|Info=Joana is a software engineer with more than fifteen years of experience, with a sound expertise in the field of geospatial tech and analytics. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems, at the University College of London (2007), her drive to solve real-world problems has led her to SMEs, an international organization, a research foundation and a start-up. Joana has been very much involved in the Free and Open Source Software community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led her to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 she also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.
Joana is the founder of ByteRoad, an R&D company in the field of spatial data infrastructures and leads Developer Relations at OGC. She is also a reviewer for the European Commission, and has been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data analysts.
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=Yes
|Translate=Yes
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=Yes
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[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Portugal]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

Board Meeting 2025-08-26

2025-08-07T08:54:33Z

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This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 26 August 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=08&day=26&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-07-29]]
# ''CRO Update'': Luis de Sousa

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-09-30]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-31T11:24:08Z

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Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''pygeoapi'''
** Dockerfile profiling
** Dockerfile update to Noble
** CITE testing
** data validation for transactions
* '''pycsw'''
** repository refactoring

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi, QGIS || x || x || x || x || || x || Yes || Pescetarian || Yes ||
|-
| 7 ||[[User:todaka|Tina Odaka]] || FR || todaka(at)ifremer.fr || IFREMER,Pangeo, Grid4earth || xdggs, HEALPix || x || (hackathon zarr/dggs) || x|| x || x || x || High || No ||
|-
| 8 ||[[User:jmdelouis|Jean-Marc Delouis]] || FR || jean.marc.delouis(at)ifremer.fr || CNRS, Grid4earth || xdggs, HEALPix, foscat || x || (hackathon zarr/dggs) || x|| x || x || x || High || No ||
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-31T11:23:35Z

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Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''pygeoapi'''
** Dockerfile profiling
** Dockerfile update to Noble
** CITE testing
** data validation for transactions
* '''pycsw'''
** repository refactoring

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi, QGIS || x || x || x || x || || || Yes || Pescetarian || Yes ||
|-
| 7 ||[[User:todaka|Tina Odaka]] || FR || todaka(at)ifremer.fr || IFREMER,Pangeo, Grid4earth || xdggs, HEALPix || x || (hackathon zarr/dggs) || x|| x || x || x || High || No ||
|-
| 8 ||[[User:jmdelouis|Jean-Marc Delouis]] || FR || jean.marc.delouis(at)ifremer.fr || CNRS, Grid4earth || xdggs, HEALPix, foscat || x || (hackathon zarr/dggs) || x|| x || x || x || High || No ||
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-09T09:58:29Z

Doublebyte: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi, QGIS || || || || || || || High || Pescetarian || Yes
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-09T09:56:54Z

Doublebyte: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi, QGIS || || || || || || x || High || Pescetarian || Yes
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-09T09:56:24Z

Doublebyte: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi || || || || || || x || High || Pescetarian || Yes
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2025

2025-07-09T09:55:22Z

Doublebyte: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025|Riga]] (2025)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023|Vienna]] (2023)
* [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020|Virtual Event]] (2020)
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Co-Host</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:BIDS25.jpg|340px|Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS)|link=https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/]]
 
https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
* Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day

== Other Events in Q4 2025 ==

* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga Riga, Latvia]

=== BIDS25 ===

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org Big Data from Space 2025] (BiDS) event.

=== Coding Venue ===
* The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
** Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.936462/24.097751 OpenStreetMap])
** Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia ([https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.941051/24.09682 OpenStreetMap])

=== Parking ===

=== Accommodation ===

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.

=== Social Evening ===

Not planned yet

=== How to get there ===

TBD

==== Metro ====

==== Suburban Rail ====

==== Bus Services ====

==== Taxi ====

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''project name''':
** Work items

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/big-data-from-space-2025/registration-portal/Site/Register BIDS portal].

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
!width="60"|social event
|-
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA || x || x || x || x || x || || Yes || No ||
|-
| 2 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython || x ||x || x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com|| OSGeo || gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython || x || x ||x || x || x || || Mostly || No ||
|-
| 4 ||[[User:allixender|Alexander Kmoch]] || EE || alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee|| Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC || pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 5 ||[[User:felixcremer|Felix Cremer]] || DE || felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de|| Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo || JuliaGeo || x || x ||x || x || x || x || Yes || No ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || PT || joana(at)doublebyte.net|| OGC, OSGeo || pygeoapi || || || || || || x || Yes || Yes ||
|-
|}

'''Participants remote:'''

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
* Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Riga
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints longstanding tradition] of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.

Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by [https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org, Big Data From Space '25] and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025 community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]

== Budget ==

* The 2025 budget will be available soon.

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

Board Meeting 2025-05-27

2025-05-27T09:20:51Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 27 May 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=05&day=27&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-04-29]]
# EOPF updates
# OGC certification budget
# Joint Code Sprint 2025
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-06-24]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-04-29

2025-04-29T10:17:05Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 29 April 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=04&day=29&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-03-25]]
# FOSS4G 2024 financial update
# CRO update: Information about the inactive members
# OSGeo Code Sprint 2025 (BiDS) - Request for total number of participants.
# Request for formal recognition OSGeo Slovenija as an official OSGeo Local Chapter [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-April/013686.html]
# Feedback from OSGeo presentation to WMO. Potential interest to sign an MOU.
# Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Sprint Update
# EOPF updates
# OSGeo in Tokyo Sprint
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-05-26]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-04-29

2025-04-29T09:26:30Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 29 April 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=04&day=29&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-03-25]]
# FOSS4G 2024 financial update
# CRO update: Information about the inactive members
# OSGeo Code Sprint 2025 (BiDS) - Request for total number of participants.
# Request for formal recognition OSGeo Slovenija as an official OSGeo Local Chapter [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-April/013686.html]
# Feedback from OSGeo presentation to WMO. Potential interest to sign an MOU.
# Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Sprint Update
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-05-26]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-04-29

2025-04-29T09:26:12Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 29 April 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=04&day=29&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-03-25]]
# FOSS4G 2024 financial update
# CRO update: Information about the inactive members
# OSGeo Code Sprint 2025 (BiDS) - Request for total number of participants.
# Request for formal recognition OSGeo Slovenija as an official OSGeo Local Chapter [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-April/013686.html]
# Feedback from OSGeo presentation to WMO. Potential interest to sign an MOU.
# Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Update
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-05-26]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-03-25

2025-03-25T17:49:39Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 25 March 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=03&day=25&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-02-25]]
# FOSS4G 2025 status update
# FOSS4G 2024 financial update
# Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprint at LPS
# OSGeo Code Sprint Location - BIDs
# Financial proposal [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-March/013670.html]
# Hactivism in OSGeo projects - boards response
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-04-29]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-03-25

2025-03-19T14:07:23Z

Doublebyte: /* Current items */

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 25 March 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=03&day=25&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2025-02-25]]
# FOSS4G 2024 financial update
# OSGeo Code Sprint Location - BIDs
# Financial proposal [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-March/013670.html]
# FOSS4G 2025 status update
# Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprint
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-04-29]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-22T18:11:04Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Social media accounts/x.com (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-January/013626.html)
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# Plan another meeting to discuss ways to increase revenue
# OSGeo Code Sprint Location
# Removal of inactive charter members
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-17T19:46:31Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# Plan another meeting to discuss ways to increase revenue
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-17T19:44:17Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# SPAM in the OSGeo email
# Plan another meeting to discuss ways to increase revenue
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-11T19:48:46Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# SPAM in the OSGeo email
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-11T19:48:26Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# SPAM in the OSGeo email
# OSGeo partnerships
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board of Directors/OnboardingChecklist

2025-01-11T19:39:11Z

Doublebyte: /* Reading */

=Overview=

This page provides new incoming Board members with a checklist of infrastructure/tools, as well as (in reverse) safe off boarding of same.

==Tasks==

There are distinct tasks that the Board is responsible for, including, but not limited to:
* Appoint executive positions
* Approve budget
* Approve policy and procedures
* Resolve issues that can not be resolved within OSGeo Committees
* Formally represent OSGeo

==Annual events==

In a given year, the below compose the core events and processes that the Board interacts with:

* Welcome the new Charter members and new Board members.
* On-boarding with the new Board members
* Budget meeting for discussion (contact committees, draft, revise, etc...)
* Regional FOSS4G events (representation and possible board meeting)
* Global FOSS4G event (possible f2f board meeting and/or member meeting)
* Annual General Meeting AGM
* Member elections: approve CRO members and Charter members results
* Executive positions appointment

==Monthly events==

* Board meetings

=Checklist=

== Board Wiki ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

== Documents ==

=== Nextcloud ===
* Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org (needs Board privileges)

These are all our internal documents (contracts, agreements) and possibly sensitivity in nature.

=== Github ===

* some documents are at https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo and are linked from the website

=== Gitea ===

* CLAS, MoUs
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/board

== Mailing lists ==

* Public: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
* Private: [[SAC]] (open issue in https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo)

== Video Conferencing ==

* Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard

== Chat ==

* Telegram Messenger: https://telegram.org

Also:

* IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/#osgeo or through [[Matrix]] bridges
* Slack: https://osgeo.slack.com/ (Could not login to slack)
* Gitter: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/home (Could not find it)

Possible:

* Element: https://element.io

== Voting ==

* Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board

== Issue Tracker ==

* Gitea: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== Board Officers and History ==

* current Board: https://www.osgeo.org/about/board
* history of all Board members https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#History_of_OSGeo_Foundation_Boards_of_Directors

== [[Website|Website Roles]] ==

* editor - news, events, etc...
* partners editor - edit partner pages
* board - list on board and officer pages

== Social Media ==

* https://twitter.com/osgeo
* https://www.facebook.com/OSGeoFoundation
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/osgeo/about
* https://noc.social/@osgeo@fosstodon.org

== Conflict of Interest Policy for Directors ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conflict_Of_Interest_Policy

== Reading ==

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws Bylaws]

* Relationships
** Sponsors
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors Sponsors]
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor How to become a sponsor]
** Partnerships
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/partners Partners] (maybe we miss a section here on what does it mean and how to become a partner?)

* Voting
** [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Voting_Procedure Voting Procedures]

Budget and Finances
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Osgeo_financial_guidence.pdf Budget and Money Guidance]

Outreach

*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/introduction-to-osgeo Introduction to OSGeo]</s>
*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo Open Source Practice and Passion at OSGeo]</s>
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QiLmg073Ce0AdDpm-NtbyAE22i1t99Ql7rnWOc5tx6Q/edit#slide=id.p4 Introduction to OSGeo]
* [[:Category:Annual_General_Meeting|Annual General Meetings]]

[[Category: Board]]

Board Meeting 2025-01-28

2025-01-11T19:30:01Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 28 January 2025''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=01&day=28&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-30]]
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# SPAM in the OSGeo email
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-02-25]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2025]]

Board of Directors/OnboardingChecklist

2025-01-05T16:42:32Z

Doublebyte: /* Social Media */

=Overview=

This page provides new incoming Board members with a checklist of infrastructure/tools, as well as (in reverse) safe off boarding of same.

==Tasks==

There are distinct tasks that the Board is responsible for, including, but not limited to:
* Appoint executive positions
* Approve budget
* Approve policy and procedures
* Resolve issues that can not be resolved within OSGeo Committees
* Formally represent OSGeo

==Annual events==

In a given year, the below compose the core events and processes that the Board interacts with:

* Welcome the new Charter members and new Board members.
* On-boarding with the new Board members
* Budget meeting for discussion (contact committees, draft, revise, etc...)
* Regional FOSS4G events (representation and possible board meeting)
* Global FOSS4G event (possible f2f board meeting and/or member meeting)
* Annual General Meeting AGM
* Member elections: approve CRO members and Charter members results
* Executive positions appointment

==Monthly events==

* Board meetings

=Checklist=

== Board Wiki ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

== Documents ==

=== Nextcloud ===
* Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org (needs Board privileges)

These are all our internal documents (contracts, agreements) and possibly sensitivity in nature.

=== Github ===

* some documents are at https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo and are linked from the website

=== Gitea ===

* CLAS, MoUs
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/board

== Mailing lists ==

* Public: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
* Private: [[SAC]] (open issue in https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo)

== Video Conferencing ==

* Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard

== Chat ==

* Telegram Messenger: https://telegram.org

Also:

* IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/#osgeo or through [[Matrix]] bridges
* Slack: https://osgeo.slack.com/ (Could not login to slack)
* Gitter: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/home (Could not find it)

Possible:

* Element: https://element.io

== Voting ==

* Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board

== Issue Tracker ==

* Gitea: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== Board Officers and History ==

* current Board: https://www.osgeo.org/about/board
* history of all Board members https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#History_of_OSGeo_Foundation_Boards_of_Directors

== [[Website|Website Roles]] ==

* editor - news, events, etc...
* partners editor - edit partner pages
* board - list on board and officer pages

== Social Media ==

* https://twitter.com/osgeo
* https://www.facebook.com/OSGeoFoundation
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/osgeo/about
* https://noc.social/@osgeo@fosstodon.org

== Conflict of Interest Policy for Directors ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conflict_Of_Interest_Policy

== Reading ==

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws Bylaws]

* Relationships
** Sponsors
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors Sponsors]
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor How to become a sponsor]
** Partnerships
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/partners Partners]

* Voting
** [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Voting_Procedure Voting Procedures]

Budget and Finances
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Osgeo_financial_guidence.pdf Budget and Money Guidance]

Outreach

*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/introduction-to-osgeo Introduction to OSGeo]</s>
*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo Open Source Practice and Passion at OSGeo]</s>
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QiLmg073Ce0AdDpm-NtbyAE22i1t99Ql7rnWOc5tx6Q/edit#slide=id.p4 Introduction to OSGeo]
* [[:Category:Annual_General_Meeting|Annual General Meetings]]

[[Category: Board]]

Board of Directors/OnboardingChecklist

2025-01-05T16:41:58Z

Doublebyte:

=Overview=

This page provides new incoming Board members with a checklist of infrastructure/tools, as well as (in reverse) safe off boarding of same.

==Tasks==

There are distinct tasks that the Board is responsible for, including, but not limited to:
* Appoint executive positions
* Approve budget
* Approve policy and procedures
* Resolve issues that can not be resolved within OSGeo Committees
* Formally represent OSGeo

==Annual events==

In a given year, the below compose the core events and processes that the Board interacts with:

* Welcome the new Charter members and new Board members.
* On-boarding with the new Board members
* Budget meeting for discussion (contact committees, draft, revise, etc...)
* Regional FOSS4G events (representation and possible board meeting)
* Global FOSS4G event (possible f2f board meeting and/or member meeting)
* Annual General Meeting AGM
* Member elections: approve CRO members and Charter members results
* Executive positions appointment

==Monthly events==

* Board meetings

=Checklist=

== Board Wiki ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

== Documents ==

=== Nextcloud ===
* Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org (needs Board privileges)

These are all our internal documents (contracts, agreements) and possibly sensitivity in nature.

=== Github ===

* some documents are at https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo and are linked from the website

=== Gitea ===

* CLAS, MoUs
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/board

== Mailing lists ==

* Public: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
* Private: [[SAC]] (open issue in https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo)

== Video Conferencing ==

* Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard

== Chat ==

* Telegram Messenger: https://telegram.org

Also:

* IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/#osgeo or through [[Matrix]] bridges
* Slack: https://osgeo.slack.com/ (Could not login to slack)
* Gitter: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/home (Could not find it)

Possible:

* Element: https://element.io

== Voting ==

* Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board

== Issue Tracker ==

* Gitea: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== Board Officers and History ==

* current Board: https://www.osgeo.org/about/board
* history of all Board members https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#History_of_OSGeo_Foundation_Boards_of_Directors

== [[Website|Website Roles]] ==

* editor - news, events, etc...
* partners editor - edit partner pages
* board - list on board and officer pages

== Social Media ==

* https://twitter.com/osgeo
* https://www.facebook.com/OSGeoFoundation
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/osgeo/about
* https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QiLmg073Ce0AdDpm-NtbyAE22i1t99Ql7rnWOc5tx6Q/edit#slide=id.p4

== Conflict of Interest Policy for Directors ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conflict_Of_Interest_Policy

== Reading ==

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws Bylaws]

* Relationships
** Sponsors
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors Sponsors]
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor How to become a sponsor]
** Partnerships
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/partners Partners]

* Voting
** [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Voting_Procedure Voting Procedures]

Budget and Finances
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Osgeo_financial_guidence.pdf Budget and Money Guidance]

Outreach

*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/introduction-to-osgeo Introduction to OSGeo]</s>
*<s>[https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo Open Source Practice and Passion at OSGeo]</s>
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QiLmg073Ce0AdDpm-NtbyAE22i1t99Ql7rnWOc5tx6Q/edit#slide=id.p4 Introduction to OSGeo]
* [[:Category:Annual_General_Meeting|Annual General Meetings]]

[[Category: Board]]

Board of Directors/OnboardingChecklist

2025-01-05T16:40:36Z

Doublebyte:

=Overview=

This page provides new incoming Board members with a checklist of infrastructure/tools, as well as (in reverse) safe off boarding of same.

==Tasks==

There are distinct tasks that the Board is responsible for, including, but not limited to:
* Appoint executive positions
* Approve budget
* Approve policy and procedures
* Resolve issues that can not be resolved within OSGeo Committees
* Formally represent OSGeo

==Annual events==

In a given year, the below compose the core events and processes that the Board interacts with:

* Welcome the new Charter members and new Board members.
* On-boarding with the new Board members
* Budget meeting for discussion (contact committees, draft, revise, etc...)
* Regional FOSS4G events (representation and possible board meeting)
* Global FOSS4G event (possible f2f board meeting and/or member meeting)
* Annual General Meeting AGM
* Member elections: approve CRO members and Charter members results
* Executive positions appointment

==Monthly events==

* Board meetings

=Checklist=

== Board Wiki ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

== Documents ==

=== Nextcloud ===
* Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org (needs Board privileges)

These are all our internal documents (contracts, agreements) and possibly sensitivity in nature.

=== Github ===

* some documents are at https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo and are linked from the website

=== Gitea ===

* CLAS, MoUs
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/board

== Mailing lists ==

* Public: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
* Private: [[SAC]] (open issue in https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo)

== Video Conferencing ==

* Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard

== Chat ==

* Telegram Messenger: https://telegram.org

Also:

* IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/#osgeo or through [[Matrix]] bridges
* Slack: https://osgeo.slack.com/ (Could not login to slack)
* Gitter: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/home (Could not find it)

Possible:

* Element: https://element.io

== Voting ==

* Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board

== Issue Tracker ==

* Gitea: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== Board Officers and History ==

* current Board: https://www.osgeo.org/about/board
* history of all Board members https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#History_of_OSGeo_Foundation_Boards_of_Directors

== [[Website|Website Roles]] ==

* editor - news, events, etc...
* partners editor - edit partner pages
* board - list on board and officer pages

== Social Media ==

* https://twitter.com/osgeo
* https://www.facebook.com/OSGeoFoundation
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/osgeo/about

== Conflict of Interest Policy for Directors ==

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conflict_Of_Interest_Policy

== Reading ==

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws Bylaws]

* Relationships
** Sponsors
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors Sponsors]
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor How to become a sponsor]
** Partnerships
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/partners Partners]

* Voting
** [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Voting_Procedure Voting Procedures]

Budget and Finances
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Osgeo_financial_guidence.pdf Budget and Money Guidance]

Outreach

<s>* [https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/introduction-to-osgeo Introduction to OSGeo]</s>
<s>* [https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo Open Source Practice and Passion at OSGeo]</s>
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QiLmg073Ce0AdDpm-NtbyAE22i1t99Ql7rnWOc5tx6Q/edit#slide=id.p4 Introduction to OSGeo]
* [[:Category:Annual_General_Meeting|Annual General Meetings]]

[[Category: Board]]

Board Meeting 2024-12-30

2024-12-30T10:03:07Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 30 December 2024''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2024&month=12&day=30&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
# Welcome new board members
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Pretalx use for external conference [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013584.html]
# Transfer of geoext.org domain to OSGeo [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013585.html]
# Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013592.html]
# Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013595.html]
# Request for funding the GeoStyler Code Sprint 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013598.html]
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization:
#* at time there are former OSGeo members with full access to everything (including deletion of the entire OSGeo GitHub organization)
#* details: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3298
# 5 mins OSGeo pitch in different languages
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-01-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2024]]

Board Meeting 2024-12-30

2024-12-30T10:02:38Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 30 December 2024''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2024&month=12&day=30&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
# Welcome new board members
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Pretalx use for external conference [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013584.html]
# Transfer of geoext.org domain to OSGeo [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013585.html]
# Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013592.html]
# Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013595.html]
# Request for funding the GeoStyler Code Sprint 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013598.html]
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization:
#* at time there are former OSGeo members with full access to everything (including deletion of the entire OSGeo GitHub organization)
#* details: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3298
# 5 mins OSgeo pitch in different languages
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-01-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2024]]

Board Meeting 2024-12-30

2024-12-30T10:02:17Z

Doublebyte:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Monday 30 December 2024''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2024&month=12&day=30&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''18:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2024-12-01]]
# Welcome new board members
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Pretalx use for external conference [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013584.html]
# Transfer of geoext.org domain to OSGeo [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013585.html]
# Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013592.html]
# Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013595.html]
# Request for funding the GeoStyler Code Sprint 2025 [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013598.html]
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization:
#* at time there are former OSGeo members with full access to everything (including deletion of the entire OSGeo GitHub organization)
#* details: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3298
#* 5 mins OSgeo pitch in different languages
# ''Add your topic here''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

=== Actions ===

* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2025-01-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T22:05:25Z

Doublebyte: /* What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run [https://byteroad.net/ ByteRoad], an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that currently have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu or the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I would be hnoured to take any role that is assigned to me, although I would prefer to not be the treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T22:02:07Z

Doublebyte: /* What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run [https://byteroad.net/ ByteRoad], an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that currently have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu or the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I would be hnoured to take any role that is assigned to me, but I would prefer to not be the treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T22:01:07Z

Doublebyte: /* Any things that you would like to change or introduce */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run [https://byteroad.net/ ByteRoad], an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that currently have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu or the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T22:00:31Z

Doublebyte: /* Any things that you would like to change or introduce */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run [https://byteroad.net/ ByteRoad], an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that currently have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu and the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T21:58:52Z

Doublebyte: /* Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal (OSGeo profile) */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run [https://byteroad.net/ ByteRoad], an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that that have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu and the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T21:57:16Z

Doublebyte: /* My vision */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run ByteRoad, an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data F.A.I.R] data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that that have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu and the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T21:56:17Z

Doublebyte: /* What your interests are in terms of the board */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run ByteRoad, an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of F.A.I.R data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs that are part of the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that that have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu and the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T21:55:35Z

Doublebyte: /* Any things that you would like to change or introduce */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run ByteRoad, an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of F.A.I.R data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs to the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Proposals
|-
! Interests !! Proposed changes
|-
| '''Diversity and Inclusion''' || Promote events in parts of the world that that have less coverage, due to language barriers, financial constraints, or others; organise more birds of a feather events for groups that are currently less represented or less visible within OSGeo; review the gender diversity of software projects, in particular in what regards technical tasks, which can inform an action plan.
|-
| '''Collaboration/alliances'''|| Organise OSGeo sessions within other FOSS events like FOSSDEM, or Festa do Software Livre; organise more joint code sprints/hackathons with organisations like the Apache Software Foundation, the Ubuntu and the makers community.
|-
| '''Geospatial Standards''' || Bring more OSGeo projects to the OGC Code Sprints; encourage more OSGeo charter members to get involved in the development of Standards and keep track of their activities through the OSGeo Standards committee; promote the participation of an OSGeo consortium in OGC Testbeds and pilots.
|}

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2024]]

Election 2024 Candidate Manifestos

2024-12-05T21:26:43Z

Doublebyte: /* My vision */

A space for the candidates for election to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

You are welcome to follow the template, and add further relevant info as you need:

== ''Michael Smith'' - ''United States'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''msmitherdc''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

=== About me ===
For those of you that don't know me, I'm Michael Smith, a physical scientist at the US Army Corps of Engineers. I've been involved with the MapServer community since 2001 and OSGeo since its inception. For the last 10 years, I've been honored to be a OSGeo Board member and the OSGeo treasurer. It’s been quite a learning experience and I greatly thank Daniel Morissette, the previous OSGeo treasurer for so much support in handling the transition.

=== My vision ===
In my time on the board and as treasurer, my focus has been on encouraging governments (in general) and the US in particular, especially the Department of Defense which, personally I know makes extensive use of OSGeo projects, to more actively participate is OSGeo and the projects beyond just use and occasional commits. Long term, we do need to work on the sustainability of the OSGeo Foundation financial health.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
In general, I work a lot with the project managers of the various OSGeo projects as well as the Code Sprint and Event coordinators.

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer. It's been a bit of a learning experience handling the funds from OSGeo, learning how to do the non profit tax filings for the US Government (where OSGeo is incorporated) and handling distributions of funds to Code Sprints and Events. It has also been a lot of fun to work directly with groups and individuals all over the world with OSGeo. Its been a very rewarding experience.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
The next board will begin to look at how other foundations approach their long term sustainability and look to work closer with the regional events and our sponsors.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
If reelected, I plan to continue as OSGeo Treasurer.

It’s really wonderful to see a great group of new candidates to the board. It is wonderful to see the diversity and multiple regions of the world represented in the candidates. Thank you for the nomination, OSGeo Community!

== Tom Kralidis, Canada ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/tom-kralidis OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkralidis
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tomkralidis
* https://github.com/tomkralidis
* https://noc.social/@tomkralidis

I've been involved in FOSS4G since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s 1990s]. Starting as a user with
no open source or development experience, I was drawn to the principles and inclusiveness of
FOSS and the rest (as they say) is history. I develop, use and advocate for
FOSS4G/OSGeo tools both in a volunteer capacity as well as my role at the
Meteorological Service of Canada as a Senior Geospatial Architect.

Best of luck to all candidates! It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2024#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] again for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. FOSS4G is neither too big or too small for any requirement,
project or activity.

This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* OSGeo member since inception
* Board member 2018-present. Contributions include:
** OGC MoU renewal (2022)
** Chair of OSGeo Standards Committee (2022)
** Update of policies and procedures (budget, bylaws)
** Helping onboard numerous new community projects
** Creation of Board member onboarding checklist
** Charter member onboarding
** Sponsorship communications
** OSGeo Annual Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
** OGC coordination
*** OSGeo / OGC code sprints cross pollination
*** [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-certification-services-for-ogc-compliance-and-reference-implementations OGC Compliance Certification Services] (CITE, SAC infra)
*** OSGeo Certification services for OGC compliance
*** [https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/ OGC/W3C Web mapping workshop] program committee and "Open Source for Web Mapping" panel moderator
** ISO TC211 liaison setup

* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [https://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] (graduated 2023)

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Software leadership
|-
! project !! core committer !! PSC membership !! Founder
|-
| [https://pygeoapi.io pygeoapi] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://pycsw.org pycsw] || x || Chair || x
|-
| [https://mapserver.org MapServer] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://qgis.org QGIS] || x || x ||
|-
| [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck] || x || || x
|-
| [https://pywps.org PyWPS] || x || ||
|-
| [https://mapproxy.org MapProxy] || || x ||
|-
| [http://geonode.org GeoNode] || x || ||
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa pygeometa] || x || || x
|-
| [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib OWSLib] || x || ||
|}

* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | first ever OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada) in 2009]]
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017-present)

=== What your interests are in terms of the Board ===

During my time with the Board thus far I have been lucky to work with a strong and diverse team
and was exposed to many facets of OSGeo. I also realized the significant part that
standards play in numerous OSGeo projects. As a firm believer of do-ocracy and
collaboration, if re-elected I will continue to advocate on lowering the barrier to
geospatial tools for anyone across numerous organizations and jurisdictions. This
includes strengthening our position on standards requirements and implementation (OGC, ISO).

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

Recent activities at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have resulted in a new frontier: a WMO position and framework of Free and Open Source Software. If re-elected, as Chair of the new WMO Task Team on Open Source Software, my goal is to help build the relationship between WMO and OSGeo to help cross pollination (MOUs, code sprints, etc.), and to help solidify open source geospatial and open standards in support of weather/climate/water data.

As well, if re-elected, with the OSGeo/OGC MoU having been renewed in 2022, as well as the creation of the OSGeo Standards Committee, I look forward to continuing to help shape OSGeo's story for OGC collaboration.

Since 2018, the OGC has embarked on significant efforts on modernizing their API
suite of standards via [https://ogcapi.ogc.org OGC API]. The OGC API movement
is proving to lower the barrier to implementation more than ever before. This,
combined with OSGeo's TC211 liaison membership in 2020, provides our community a
huge opportunity to lead and direct the future of international standards, either
by providing requirements/feedback, writing software as well as providing reference
implementations. OSGeo's standards efforts need to undergo a similar review and
renewal activity so we can participate more efficiently, have our voice heard
and have FOSS4G projects be a key contributor and option to users.

This will not happen by accident. Continuous improvement on our Certification
services, OSGeo participation in OGC events, CITE compliance and infrastructure,
and OGC threads at OSGeo sprints will all contribute to adding value for FOSS4G as
the best option for standards based implementations.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

To continue as a trusted voice as part of a strong leadership team and community to help steer OSGeo in achieving its goals for the long term.

== Joana Simoes (She/Her), Portugal ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/simoes/ OSGeo profile)] ==

=== About me ===

I am a Portuguese/Spanish data engineer and data scientist, who fell in love with programming with a ZX Spectrum 128k. After acquiring a PhD in Geographic Information Systems at the University College of London, my drive to solve real-world problems has taken me to SMEs, a UN agency, a research foundation and a start-up, across three different European countries (UK, Italy, Spain).

I have been very involved in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, in particular in what concerns geospatial technologies, standards and data. This has led me to become a charter member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in 2017, and the vice-president of the Portuguese chapter of OSGeo. During 2017 I also took a leading role at the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), as a board director of the Industry Advisory Council.

Currently I lead [https://doublebyteblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/devrel-what-is-that/ developer relations at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] and run ByteRoad, an R&D company in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures. I am also a reviewer for the European Commission, and have been deeply involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data scientists at [https://codeop.tech/ CodeOp] and [https://barcelonatechnologyschool.com/ Barcelona Technology School].

* https://doublebyte.net/
* https://github.com/doublebyte1/
* https://noc.social/@doublebyte

=== My vision ===

Geospatial information is already ubiquitous, and a growing number of users want to be able to consume it. I envision a world where geospatial information is a first class citizen in mainstream tech, and spatial functionality is no longer a niche, but native in most applications. In order to achieve that, we need to be able to establish alliances with other communities and to increase the overall visibility of OSGeo projects within the wider software community, including Startups.

I also think that the growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlights the need of F.A.I.R data; I am deeply committed to making geospatial information, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and reusable, and avoid the growing of ''data swamps'' or ''data silos''. Increasing the interoperability of OSGeo projects and encouraging the creation of Standards based metadata are important steps towards that goal.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===

* Contributed to different Free and Open Source projects, like: pygeoapi, geonetwork, GDAL, QGIS and docker.
* Attended several OSGeo project code sprints (QGIS, pygeoapi, GeoNetwork).
* Participated in several FOSS4G regional and World conferences and presented keynotes at [https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2018/ FOSS4G UK 2018] and [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ FOSS4G Thailand 2022].
* Participated in the organization of [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G- Europe 2018] in Guimaraes as marketing lead.
* Participated in the Portuguese and Spanish chapters of OSGeo.
* Joined the [[Standards_Committee|OSGeo Standards Committee]] and co organized the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF Code Sprints in [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/15/ 2022], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/ 2023], [https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/24/ 2024].
* Contact person at OGC for the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/ogc-memorandum-understanding/ OSGeo and OGC Memorum of Understanding] (MoU).
* Regular guest at the Podcast of the [https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/ Portuguese Ubuntu Community].

=== What your interests are in terms of the board ===

* Increase diversity and inclusion within OSGeo.
* Increase collaboration/alliances with other Free and Open Software communities like Apache or Ubuntu.
* Increase the uptake of geospatial Standards within OSGeo projects and increase OSGeo participation within OGC.
* Bring the point of view of industry, in particular of SMEs to the FOSS ecosystem.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===

If I am elected, I would like to introduce concrete actions that would drive us to achieve the goals layed out on the previous point.

=== What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

I am happy to take any role that is assigned to me, other than treasurer.

== ''Name'' - ''Country'' ([https://www.osgeo.org/member/''name''/ OSGeo profile]) ==

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