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Standards Committee

2023-04-19T11:30:05Z

Kotzino: /* Committee Membership */

== OSGeo OGC Committee ==

=== Terms of Reference ===

This Terms of Reference are effective as of 2023-02-01 and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Board.

==== Mission ====

The OSGeo Standards Committee aims to harmonize OSGeo representation and efforts with standards organizations to ensure coordination and consistency between OSGeo projects.

Responsibilities of this committee include (but are not limited to):

* Coordinating OSGeo membership to standards organizations (OGC, ISO TC211, etc.)
* Supporting MoUs, liaisons and agreements between OSGeo and standards development organizations
* Planning joint code sprints and meetings with standards organizations
* Contributing OSGeo representation within standards development efforts
* Encouraging projects to participate in the OSGeo Community and Incubation Programs

==== Membership ====

* To join the Committee, interested individuals are to send a nomination (self nomination is fine) with an introduction of the candidate/self. The committee will then make a motion at the next meeting
* Members shall add themselves to this page and request membership to a given standards organization via the Issue Tracker (see [[#Communications]])
* Members shall subscribe to the OSGeo Standards Mailing List (see [[#Communications]])
* Members are expected to attend Committee meetings, contributing to discussions, planning and issues

====Voting====

* Voting occurs as required
* Voting takes place once a Committee member opens a motion on the OSGeo Standards Mailing list
** Voting period is as follows:
*** Updates to Terms of Reference: 5 business days
*** Other: 3 business days
** Committee members vote using the following rubric:
*** +1: support the proposal
*** +0: mild support, but has no effect
*** 0: no opinion
*** -0: mild disagreement, but has no effect
*** -1: veto the proposal, but must provide clear reasoning and alternate approaches to resolving the issue
** Anyone can comment on proposals, but only Committee member votes will be counted
* A proposal will be accepted as follows:
** Updates to Terms of Reference: 50% quorum (including the author) and no vetoes (-1), based on current membership
** other: 25% quorum (including the author) and no vetoes (-1), based on current membership
* If a motion does not gather quorum within the voting period, the Committee reserves the right to revisit its active member list and removing members that have not voted within the last year
* If a proposal is vetoed, and it cannot be revised to satisfy all parties, then it can be resubmitted for an override vote in which a majority of all eligible votes indicating +1 is sufficient to pass it
* Note that this is a majority of all committee members, not just those who actively vote
* Upon completion of discussion and voting the author should announce whether they are proceeding (proposal accepted) or are withdrawing (vetoed)
* The Chair gets a vote

====Communications====

* Communications take place on the [https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards OSGeo Standards public mailing list]
* Issues and managed at the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/standards-committee/issues OSGeo Standards Committee issue tracker]
* Meetings are held in public on [https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo Jitsi]. Participation and attendance is open to anyone

====Bootstrapping====

* Prior to forming the Committee, this Terms of Reference must be distributed to the OSGeo Standards mailing list / community for review and comment.
* Tom Kralidis is declared initial Chair of the Committee
* Initial Committee members are listed in [[#Committee_Membership]]

=== Meetings ===
[[Standards_Committee/Meetings|Meetings]]

=== Committee Membership ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Areas of interest
|-
| [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (chair) || OGC APIs, Earth Observation Exploitation
|-
| [[Angelos_Tzotsos|Angelos Tzosos]] || OGC API Records, Earth Observation Exploitation
|-
| [[User:Kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] || OGC GeoAI (co-chair of the DWG), OGC GeoSemantics DWG, GeoSPARQL SWG, OGC University DWG
|-
| Jonah Sullivan || TBD
|-
| [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]] || TBD
|-
| [[User:Tfr42|Torsten Friebe]] || OGC APIs, OGC TEAM Engine, Standards Certification
|-
| Pirmin Kalberer || TBD
|-
| [[User:RajatShinde|Rajat Shinde]] || TBD
|-
| Howard Butler || TBD
|-
| Krishna Lodha || TBD
|-
| [[User:Rouault|Even Rouault]] || TBD
|-
| [[User:Francbartoli|Francesco Bartoli]] || TBD
|-
| [[User:Doublebyte|Joana Simoes]] || OGC API Records, Tiles and Features, JSON-FG, Location Building Blocks
|-
| [[User:codrina|Codrina Maria Ilie]] || TBD
|-
| [[User:aanthieni|Ariel Anthieni]] || OGC APIs, Earth Observation Exploitation, SmartCity
|-
| add yourself || TBD
|}

=== Issue tracker ===

https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/standards-committee (login with OSGeo id)

Standards Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2023-02-17

2023-04-16T15:00:42Z

Kotzino: /* Attendees */

== Date/Time==
[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=2&day=17&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=152&p4=195 Friday 17 February 2023 2023 14h - 15h UTC]

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

==Attendees==

* [[User:Ivansanchez|Ivansanchez]]
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]]
* [[Angelos_Tzotsos|Angelos Tzosos]]
* [[User:Codrina|Codrina Ilie]]
* [[User:Kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:Rouault|Even Rouault]]
* [[Doublebyte|Joana Simões]]
* [[User:Tfr42|Torsten Friebe]]
* [[User:RajatShinde|Rajat Shinde]]

==Agenda==
* Review of [[Standards_Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2023-01-20#Actions|previous meeting actions]]
* Terms of Reference Update
** clarify voting processes

==Notes==

* OGC discussion
** member meetings
*** who gets free ticket
**** need process for membership itself
*****who attends?
*** needs to be a Charter member
*** needs to be on committee
*** avoid situations where free membership, never reports, etc.
*** ACTION: complete registration for Howard, Pirmin, Krishna, Even, Francesco
*** ACTION: figure out free ticket process

** Frascati member meeting
*** ACTION: Joana/OGC will unregister Angelos, and register Francesco

* Tor
** Voting quorum
*** AT: 2 votes is low
*** DK: percentage of current membership
*** DK: revise percentage
*** qualify vote:
**** Terms of Reference: 50%
**** Day-to-day: 20% of votes
**** TF: 20/25/30% for day to day
**** TK: 100% vote for Torsten?
**** DK: could block
**** decision:
***** ToR: 50% (rounding up or down)
***** day to day / other: 25% (rounding up or down)
** Vote duration
*** AT:
**** ToR: 5 working days
**** day to day / other: 3 working days
**** ACTION: Tom to send email to committee, then standards mailing list for final motion/vote
**** ToR membership: needs to be charter member?
**** ACTION: allow members to specify their areas of interest on membership page

==Actions==

* complete registration for Howard, Pirmin, Krishna, Even, Francesco
* establish process for OGC member meetings and free ticket/attendance
* unregister Angelos, and register Francesco for Frascati meeting (Joana/OGC)
* Tom to send email to committee, then standards mailing list for final motion/vote
* ask members to specify their areas of interest on membership page

== Next meeting==
[[Standards_Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2023-04-19|2023-04-19]]

OSGEO at ISPRS2020

2018-05-25T09:07:39Z

Kotzino: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */

=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===

==== About ====

The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.
OSGeo was invited to organize:

- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/technical aspects.

- a '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where to group open-source companies to give them higher visibility and a stronger impact during the congress.

==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====

[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]

[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]

[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]

[[Category:Conference]]

FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Bof

2017-07-19T08:34:13Z

Kotzino: /* GeoForAll meeting L006 */

BoF ''(Birds of a feather)'' is an informal discussion group. Unlike special interest groups or working groups, BoFs are informal and often formed in an ad hoc manner. The acronym is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue.

A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.

FOSS4G-Europe is offering rooms for self-organized discussion groups. Please, if you feel an urge to meet and discuss some topic, block the room by editing this wiki page, propose BoF's topic, write yourself down and meet.

here is the list of available rooms:

* ground floor : L004, L005 (computer lab with folding computer tables, L006 (codesprint room - might be used but not sure)
* first floor : L102-L103 (computer lab with folding computer tables), L109 (same)
* second floor : L201

== Wednesday 2017-07-19 18:30 - 20:30 ==

=== The approaches to massive 3D geospatial dataset representation | L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* Ondřej Procházka
* [[User:Jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* Ladislav Horký
* Tomáš Kavan

=== GeoForAll meeting L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

Meeting to discuss ideas on GeoForAll plans

* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand
* [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

=== MapServer L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description:

Catch up with some of the MapServer project team, and discuss upcoming releases, needs, ideas, etc.

Participants:

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Stephan Meißl]]
* ...

=== [BoF OSGeo Europe - administrative workshop (slot 4)] L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Finalise some administrative work.
Make final decisions for the preparation of OSGeo Europe.
I propose to have the BOF also online trough IRC channel #OSGeo, especially the decisions taken during the BOF.
As the BOF is in parallel with

* Dirk Frigne
* Till Adams
* Kari Salovaara
* Marc Vloemans
* Jachym Cepicky
* add your name here

=== GeoSever BOF | L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Catch up and discussion with the project team
* Discussion on developer user-list participation
* ...

Participants
* [[User:atd|Arne Schubert]]

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

== Friday 2017-07-21 19:00 - 20:30 ==

=== [Empty BoF slot 1] L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* List of particpants
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 2] L005 ===
* Where: '''L005''' (25 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 3] L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 4] L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== Google Summer of Code L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Short description:

* catch up with the GSoC admins
* help develop guidelines (who can attend mentor summit etc.)

Participants:

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]] via IRC
* [[User:cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] via IRC
* [[User:atd|Arne Schubert]]

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 7] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:Bof]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

UnitedNations Committee

2017-04-02T22:04:34Z

Kotzino: /* Committee Meetings */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee, and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Committee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 start its activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course were:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course was issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses were scheduled:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who were involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops held in Seoul 7-11 November

For details see

the webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5THhj51-g
and the slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwcvLoMZAurNWN2dmNzQnd1OW8/view

===January 2017===
* The 16th January 2017 the second UN virtual class of Spiral 2 started its activity with Boundless PostGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this course are:
Mike Pumphrey Ivana Ivanova Gregory Giuliani Paolo Corti Victoria Rautenbach. Alberta Albertella is helping in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* '''APRIL 10th, 9 am GMT'''.

Please write here if you are able to attend in such a way that Maria can call you:

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Patrick Hogan / Silicon Valley / patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
* Dimitris Kotzinos / Paris / kotzino at gmail.com

; Previous meetings:

* 27 March 2017, 10 am GMT
Attended by: Maria Brovelli, Max Cannata, Arnulf Christl, Sanghee Shin and Cameron Shorter

Discussion on UN OpenGIS Initiative and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) initiative and code sprint.
Discussion about possible sinergies between UN and OSGeo Live DVD.

* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

Kotzino

2015-11-21T09:32:42Z

Kotzino: Created page with "{{OSGeo Member |Name=Dimitris Kotzinos |Country=France |City=Pontoise |Coordinate=49.043429 2.084548 |Email=kotzino@gmail.com }}"

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User:Kotzino

2015-11-21T09:20:30Z

Kotzino:

=== [http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos] ===

[[File:kotzinos.JPG|thumb|right|100px|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

Faculty member at the [http://depinfo.u-cergy.fr Department of Computer Science] of [http://www.u-cergy.fr University of Cergy Pontoise].

Location: Cergy Pontoise, France

Dimitris's interests are in the areas of Web Information Systems, Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Social Networks, etc.
Dimitris is a frequent speaker at GI Conferences both national and international and also an organizer of events or special sessions dedicated to Open Geospatial Software/Data/Protocols.
More information on Dimitris [http://www.kotzinos.eu here].

;OSGeo Experience
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:* Uses and teaches applications such as Geoserver, Mapserver, Mapbender, GeoTools, gvSIG, QGis, Pogresql/postgis etc.
:* Founder of the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter
:* Section Editor of the OSGeo Journal (at times) and here's [[A_proposal_for_the_OSGeo_Journal]]!

;Contact:
: Email: kotzino at gmail dot com

;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English

;Profile last updated: 10 March 2015

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[[Category:Greek]]
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]

A proposal for the OSGeo Journal

2015-11-21T09:00:58Z

Kotzino:

== '''A proposal for the OSGeo Journal''' ==

'''Scope'''

Reading everybody's reactions I get the feeling that what we need is closer to a newsletter and a step away from an academic/scientific journal. Although being an academic myself I a leaning more towards an academic character of the journal, I can also understand that people find more necessity into less academic tasks - which, on the other hand have or can eventually create their own forums for publication, under the OSGeo auspices or not.
The idea of an academic publication can be pursued if more people find that useful and interesting either as a separate publication or as a sub-publication in the near future. To make things more clear: in my view an academic publication should be an independent fully peer-reviewed publication and cannot be a section in another publication. If we want that to carry any academic merit that is.
So I suggest a more community oriented Journal that will have the goal to capture the community activities and the developments in projects and the local chapters. It will also include specific sections that will be more generic (like use cases or studies) and could possibly have a central theme in each issue (I elaborate a bit more in the "Contents" section). More or less we keep the character of the Journal with some changes and settle a publication schedule that we KEEP! :)

'''Publication Schedule'''

I suggest that we publish the journal once a year, excluding any special issues that we might want to have like the Annual Report or proceedings of workshops and conferences. I suggest that we publish on "1st of December" or "1st of July" to capture people's free reading time during Christmas and summer and not to mix it up with anybody 's vacations.
I suggest that at the beginning of each calendar year we send out invitations for Guest Editors of each issue (each Guest Editor can be selected by Tyler or by the group of Section Editors all together). The Guest Editor can be responsible for suggesting a special theme (or we can do that beforehand and then ask for Guest Editors). Guest Editors will be responsible for finding material for specific sections of the Journal that will adhere to the central theme, the material will still be reviewed by the appointed section editors and would follow the standard publishing guidelines that apply to all. I will mark in the "Contents" sections which sections the Guest Editor will be responsible (or semi-responsible) for. Moreover the Guest Editor would be responsible to write a guest editorial (or central theme essay or whatever we want to call that) introducing the central theme properly.

If we manage well and we have a wealth of news or other items for publication then we can reconsider the scheduling - make it 3 or 4 times a year.

'''Title'''

I find Tyler's proposal excellent: "The Open Source Geospatial Journal" (OSGeo Journal for short).

'''Contents'''

I propose the following sections for the Journal:

1. Editorial (Tyler)

2. News & Events (2 section editors)
A. General News
B. Developer News
C. Events (possibly in calendar friendly format?)

3. Projects' Spotlight (1 section editor)

4. Sponsor Perspectives (1 section editor)

5. Local Community Reports (1 section editor)
A. Reports on Events
B. Reports on Activities
C. Individual members' reports

6. Central Theme Editorial (1 guest editor)

7. Studies (Related to Central Theme) (2 section editors + 1 guest editor)
A. Case studies
B. Integration Studies
C. Topical Studies

8. Programming Tutorials (Related to Central Theme) (1 section editor + 1 guest editor)

The Guest Editor will be responsible (individually or jointly) for sections 6, 7, and 8.

Also if we want to publish more than 2 issues a year, we can consider publishing some issues with sections 1 to 5.

UnitedNations Committee

2015-11-01T08:52:50Z

Kotzino: /* Members */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table", and is interested in an exchange of official letters (an MoU would take many years to pass through on their side apparently) to formalize the relationship. Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

== Goals ==

* Develop a closer relationship with the UN.

* Establish a formal agreement between OSGeo and the UN.

* Establish communication between the UN GIS team and the OSGeo community.

* Promote the use of Open Source geospatial tools by the UN's member states and committees.

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list will be created (see [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1567#ticket ticket])

== Activities ==
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

== Next steps ==
* put out call for members for this new committee to Discuss list
* organize a monthly meeting, possibly using IRC or Slack
* draft official letter for formalizing relationship with UN

== Meetings ==

*

== Members ==

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* ''add your name''

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

Greek

2015-10-30T13:11:02Z

Kotzino:

[[File:Foss4g2016_banner_720x150_01.png‎|link=http://2016.foss4g.org]]

__FORCETOC__

= '''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter''' =
This is a starting effort to introduce a Greek Local Chapter of OSGeo! 
Please register with OSGeo and then add your name in this page if interested.

='''Communication - Επικοινωνία'''=
Please register at the wiki so that you can edit this page. 
Please add your name here. 
Please register yourself with the discussions list, by sending e-mail to discuss at lists.osgeo.org 
You can find instructions at discussion-list at [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss] 

== Greek Mailing List ==

Please register at the Greek mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/greek

so that we can have more precise communication - in Greek, too!

== Greek IRC Channel ==

[[File:new-post-it.jpg]] Please join us at Freenode [irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo-gr #osgeo-gr] channel

== Translation of the main OSGeo web pages to Greek ==
[[File:new-post-it.jpg]]

[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_translators_responsibilities Translators & Responsibilities - Μεταφραστές & Υποχρεώσεις]

[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_translation_terms Terms - Όροι]

[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_translation_progress Progress of translations in Greek - Πρόοδος μεταφράσεων στην Ελληνική]

See also - Βλέπε επίσης: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Portal_Translation_Status#Greek Status of translations in Greek]

='''Activities'''=
* To get an idea of our activities during 2007, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2007 Annual Report 2007 Greek Chapter]
* To get an idea of our activities during 2008, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2008 Annual Report 2008 Greek Chapter]
* To get an idea of our activities during 2009, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2009 Annual Report 2009 Greek Chapter]
* To get an idea of our activities during 2010, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2010 Annual Report 2010 Greek Chapter]
* To get an idea of our activities during 2011, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2011 Annual Report 2011 Greek Chapter]

= '''Current Members''' =

*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos], Serres, Greece (initiated)
*[http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON, Canada (observing)
*Demetris Stathakis, Joint Research Centre
*[http://www.geographer.gr/ Leonidas Liakos], Geographer, Paramythia-Thesprotia, Greece
*Giorgos Xalaris, Athens, Greece
*Poulicos Prastacos, Heraklion, Greece
*Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Dept. of Geography, Athens, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Athina_Trakas Athina Trakas], Bonn, Germany
*Demetrios Panayotakopoulos, Attiko Metro S.A., Athens, Greece.
*Marinos Kontomatis, Geologist, Athens, Greece.
*Dimitris Sardelianos, Patra, Greece
*John Spyrakos, Athens, Greece
*Vasilis Vlastaras, Athens, Greece
*Vassilis Trigkas, Environmental Cartographer, Athens, Greece
*Evangelia Kappa, Athens, Greece
*Spiros Athanasiou, [http://www.imis.athena-innovation.gr/ IMIS/RC "Athena"], Athens, Greece
*Panagiotis Tziachris, Thessaloniki, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Arnaud_Deleurme Arnaud Deleurme ], WebMapping & Bretagne romantique, France
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ant.mihalakis Antonis Michalakis], forester, Megara, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nikos_Kolios Nikos Kolios], Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Giannis_Tsimpiris Giannis Tsimpiris], Serres, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ChIossif Christos Iossifides], Athens, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos Angelos Tzotsos], Charter Member, Athens, Greece
*Angelos Mimis, Panteion University, Dept. of Economic & Regional Development, Athens, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michail_Tziotis Michail Tziotis], Athens, Greece
*[http://gr.linkedin.com/in/michelakis Dimitrios G. Michelakis], Degree in Forestry and Natural Environment, MSc in Geographical Information Science, Heraklion - Crete, Greece
*[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nikos_Alexandris Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (Nikos Alexandris)]
*[http://gr.linkedin.com/in/panovoudouris Pano Voudouris], Thessaloniki, Greece
*[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top Spyros Spyratos], Ispra, Italy
*[http://users.ntua.gr/arargyr/ Argyros Argyridis], Athens, Greece

[[Category:Local_Chapters]]
[[Category:Greek]]

FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

2015-07-14T05:28:48Z

Kotzino: Undo revision 85082 by Kotzino (talk)

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==
During the [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ FOSS4G Europe 2015] conference in Como, Italy, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

 
The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program].

 
=== Rooms ===
We have available the three rooms of the conference (VS9, V08, V2.12) from 8 am up to 8 pm.
Therefore the BOFs can be there when there are not sessions.

=== Capacities ===
* Room VS9: 236
* Room V08: 98
* Room V2.12: 93
 

==FOSS4G Contact==
* conference-europe(at)lists.osgeo.org
 

== Wednesday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || FOSS4G 2016 || Planning meeting || [[Till Adams]]
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

== Thursday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || GeoForAll || Discussions about open education || JM
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || Launching a European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group || A meeting place for OSGeo interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on || Peter Löwe
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry || Discussion: OSGeo Europe as a legal entity, OSGeo membership discussion and how OSGeo relates to the geo-ict industry || Dirk Frigne
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || OSM editing time || Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party || Luca Delucchi / Peter Mooney
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== Friday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || H2020 || Discuss topics and possibilities to apply for an H2020 project || aperezn at uoc dot edu
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || OSGeo Board meeting || Board face-to-face meeting || JM
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF ==

* Description: Planning for the 2016 conference that will be held in Bonn, Germany
* When/Where: Wednesday 15th of July, 13h-14h, '''Room V08'''
* Topics:
** Marketing & PR activities (Gert-Jan)
** Sponsorship (Arnulf) (Do we need Media sponsors?)
** FOSS4G-EU 2016? (Till, @all)
** Timetable (Till)
** Relation FOSSGIS <-> OSGEO (Till, Jeff)

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[user:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== GeoForAll BOF ==

* Description: Discussions about open education. Sharing within the OSGeo, ICA, and ISPRS communities. http://www.geoforall.org/
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 08:00-09:00, '''Room VS9'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* Phillip Davis
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* Lene Fischer
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[Martin Landa]]
* [[User:Imincik|Ivan Minčík]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne aka aghisla]]
* [[Georg Gartner]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato]
* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand (attending by Skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:Mmiler|Mario Miler]]

== GeoForAll BOF 2 ==

* Description: Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.
* When/Where: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00 '''Room 3.6'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* Suchith Anand (attending by skype - sanand1976)

== OSM editing time ==

* Description: Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 '''Room V08'''
* More info: [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Como_foss4ge_2015 OpenStreetMap wiki page]

Who is coming:

* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter Mooney]]

== European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group BoF ==

* Description: A meeting place for OSGeo people interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on

* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July,, 13:00-14:00 hours, '''room VS9'''

Who is coming:
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]]
* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]]

== OSGeo Europe BOF ==

* Description: Follow up of the conversation started at FOSS4G Europe 2014 about Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 18:00-19:15 hours, '''room VS9'''
* More info: [[FOSS4G Europe 2015 OSGeo Europe BOF Agenda|Agenda]]

Who is coming:
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:ecosyd|Kari Salovaara]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:OliverMay|Oliver May]]
* [[User:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== Your BOF Name Here ==

* Description:
* When/Where:

Who is coming:
*
*

----

* See [[FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather|FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather]] for inspiration!

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

2015-07-14T05:20:31Z

Kotzino: /* OSGeo Europe BOF */

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==
During the [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ FOSS4G Europe 2015] conference in Como, Italy, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

 
The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program].

 
=== Rooms ===
We have available the three rooms of the conference (VS9, V08, V2.12) from 8 am up to 8 pm.
Therefore the BOFs can be there when there are not sessions.

=== Capacities ===
* Room VS9: 236
* Room V08: 98
* Room V2.12: 93
 

==FOSS4G Contact==
* conference-europe(at)lists.osgeo.org
 

== Wednesday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || FOSS4G 2016 || Planning meeting || [[Till Adams]]
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

== Thursday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || GeoForAll || Discussions about open education || JM
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || Launching a European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group || A meeting place for OSGeo interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on || Peter Löwe
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry || Discussion: OSGeo Europe as a legal entity, OSGeo membership discussion and how OSGeo relates to the geo-ict industry || Dirk Frigne
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || OSM editing time || Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party || Luca Delucchi / Peter Mooney
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== Friday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || H2020 || Discuss topics and possibilities to apply for an H2020 project || aperezn at uoc dot edu
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || OSGeo Board meeting || Board face-to-face meeting || JM
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF ==

* Description: Planning for the 2016 conference that will be held in Bonn, Germany
* When/Where: Wednesday 15th of July, 13h-14h, '''Room V08'''
* Topics:
** Marketing & PR activities (Gert-Jan)
** Sponsorship (Arnulf) (Do we need Media sponsors?)
** FOSS4G-EU 2016? (Till, @all)
** Timetable (Till)
** Relation FOSSGIS <-> OSGEO (Till, Jeff)

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[user:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== GeoForAll BOF ==

* Description: Discussions about open education. Sharing within the OSGeo, ICA, and ISPRS communities. http://www.geoforall.org/
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 08:00-09:00, '''Room VS9'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* Phillip Davis
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* Lene Fischer
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[Martin Landa]]
* [[User:Imincik|Ivan Minčík]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne aka aghisla]]
* [[Georg Gartner]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato]
* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand (attending by Skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:Mmiler|Mario Miler]]

== GeoForAll BOF 2 ==

* Description: Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.
* When/Where: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00 '''Room 3.6'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* Suchith Anand (attending by skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]

== OSM editing time ==

* Description: Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 '''Room V08'''
* More info: [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Como_foss4ge_2015 OpenStreetMap wiki page]

Who is coming:

* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter Mooney]]

== European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group BoF ==

* Description: A meeting place for OSGeo people interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on

* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July,, 13:00-14:00 hours, '''room VS9'''

Who is coming:
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]]
* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]]

== OSGeo Europe BOF ==

* Description: Follow up of the conversation started at FOSS4G Europe 2014 about Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 18:00-19:15 hours, '''room VS9'''
* More info: [[FOSS4G Europe 2015 OSGeo Europe BOF Agenda|Agenda]]

Who is coming:
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:ecosyd|Kari Salovaara]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:OliverMay|Oliver May]]
* [[User:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== Your BOF Name Here ==

* Description:
* When/Where:

Who is coming:
*
*

----

* See [[FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather|FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather]] for inspiration!

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

2015-07-14T05:19:36Z

Kotzino: /* GeoForAll BOF 2 */

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==
During the [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ FOSS4G Europe 2015] conference in Como, Italy, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

 
The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program].

 
=== Rooms ===
We have available the three rooms of the conference (VS9, V08, V2.12) from 8 am up to 8 pm.
Therefore the BOFs can be there when there are not sessions.

=== Capacities ===
* Room VS9: 236
* Room V08: 98
* Room V2.12: 93
 

==FOSS4G Contact==
* conference-europe(at)lists.osgeo.org
 

== Wednesday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || FOSS4G 2016 || Planning meeting || [[Till Adams]]
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

== Thursday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || GeoForAll || Discussions about open education || JM
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || Launching a European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group || A meeting place for OSGeo interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on || Peter Löwe
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry || Discussion: OSGeo Europe as a legal entity, OSGeo membership discussion and how OSGeo relates to the geo-ict industry || Dirk Frigne
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || OSM editing time || Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party || Luca Delucchi / Peter Mooney
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== Friday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || H2020 || Discuss topics and possibilities to apply for an H2020 project || aperezn at uoc dot edu
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || OSGeo Board meeting || Board face-to-face meeting || JM
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF ==

* Description: Planning for the 2016 conference that will be held in Bonn, Germany
* When/Where: Wednesday 15th of July, 13h-14h, '''Room V08'''
* Topics:
** Marketing & PR activities (Gert-Jan)
** Sponsorship (Arnulf) (Do we need Media sponsors?)
** FOSS4G-EU 2016? (Till, @all)
** Timetable (Till)
** Relation FOSSGIS <-> OSGEO (Till, Jeff)

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[user:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== GeoForAll BOF ==

* Description: Discussions about open education. Sharing within the OSGeo, ICA, and ISPRS communities. http://www.geoforall.org/
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 08:00-09:00, '''Room VS9'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* Phillip Davis
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* Lene Fischer
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[Martin Landa]]
* [[User:Imincik|Ivan Minčík]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne aka aghisla]]
* [[Georg Gartner]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato]
* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand (attending by Skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:Mmiler|Mario Miler]]

== GeoForAll BOF 2 ==

* Description: Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.
* When/Where: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00 '''Room 3.6'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* Suchith Anand (attending by skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]

== OSM editing time ==

* Description: Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 '''Room V08'''
* More info: [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Como_foss4ge_2015 OpenStreetMap wiki page]

Who is coming:

* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter Mooney]]

== European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group BoF ==

* Description: A meeting place for OSGeo people interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on

* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July,, 13:00-14:00 hours, '''room VS9'''

Who is coming:
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]]
* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]]

== OSGeo Europe BOF ==

* Description: Follow up of the conversation started at FOSS4G Europe 2014 about Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 18:00-19:15 hours, '''room VS9'''
* More info: [[FOSS4G Europe 2015 OSGeo Europe BOF Agenda|Agenda]]

Who is coming:
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:ecosyd|Kari Salovaara]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:OliverMay|Oliver May]]
* [[User:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[Till Adams]]

== Your BOF Name Here ==

* Description:
* When/Where:

Who is coming:
*
*

----

* See [[FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather|FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather]] for inspiration!

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

2015-07-14T05:19:07Z

Kotzino: /* FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF */

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

== General Information ==
During the [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ FOSS4G Europe 2015] conference in Como, Italy, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

 
The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program].

 
=== Rooms ===
We have available the three rooms of the conference (VS9, V08, V2.12) from 8 am up to 8 pm.
Therefore the BOFs can be there when there are not sessions.

=== Capacities ===
* Room VS9: 236
* Room V08: 98
* Room V2.12: 93
 

==FOSS4G Contact==
* conference-europe(at)lists.osgeo.org
 

== Wednesday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || FOSS4G 2016 || Planning meeting || [[Till Adams]]
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|}

 

== Thursday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || GeoForAll || Discussions about open education || JM
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || Launching a European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group || A meeting place for OSGeo interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on || Peter Löwe
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry || Discussion: OSGeo Europe as a legal entity, OSGeo membership discussion and how OSGeo relates to the geo-ict industry || Dirk Frigne
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || OSM editing time || Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party || Luca Delucchi / Peter Mooney
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== Friday ==

=== Room VS9 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || H2020 || Discuss topics and possibilities to apply for an H2020 project || aperezn at uoc dot edu
|}

 

=== Room V08 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || OSGeo Board meeting || Board face-to-face meeting || JM
|}

 

=== Room V2.12 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 08:00-09:00 || || ||
|-
| 13:00-14:00 || || ||
|-
| 18:00-19:15 || || ||
|}

 
 

== FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF ==

* Description: Planning for the 2016 conference that will be held in Bonn, Germany
* When/Where: Wednesday 15th of July, 13h-14h, '''Room V08'''
* Topics:
** Marketing & PR activities (Gert-Jan)
** Sponsorship (Arnulf) (Do we need Media sponsors?)
** FOSS4G-EU 2016? (Till, @all)
** Timetable (Till)
** Relation FOSSGIS <-> OSGEO (Till, Jeff)

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Till Adams]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[user:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== GeoForAll BOF ==

* Description: Discussions about open education. Sharing within the OSGeo, ICA, and ISPRS communities. http://www.geoforall.org/
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 08:00-09:00, '''Room VS9'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* Phillip Davis
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* Lene Fischer
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[Martin Landa]]
* [[User:Imincik|Ivan Minčík]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne aka aghisla]]
* [[Georg Gartner]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato]
* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand (attending by Skype - sanand1976)
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:Mmiler|Mario Miler]]

== GeoForAll BOF 2 ==

* Description: Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.
* When/Where: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00 '''Room 3.6'''
* More info: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda Agenda]

Who is coming:
* [[Charlie Schweik]]
* [[BarendKobben]]
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos]
* Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
* [[Helena Mitasova]]
* [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
* [[User:Aperezn|Antoni Perez-Navarro]]
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* Suchith Anand (attending by skype - sanand1976)

== OSM editing time ==

* Description: Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 '''Room V08'''
* More info: [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Como_foss4ge_2015 OpenStreetMap wiki page]

Who is coming:

* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter Mooney]]

== European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group BoF ==

* Description: A meeting place for OSGeo people interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on

* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July,, 13:00-14:00 hours, '''room VS9'''

Who is coming:
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]]
* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]]

== OSGeo Europe BOF ==

* Description: Follow up of the conversation started at FOSS4G Europe 2014 about Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry
* When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 18:00-19:15 hours, '''room VS9'''
* More info: [[FOSS4G Europe 2015 OSGeo Europe BOF Agenda|Agenda]]

Who is coming:
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:ecosyd|Kari Salovaara]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:OliverMay|Oliver May]]
* [[User:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[Till Adams]]

== Your BOF Name Here ==

* Description:
* When/Where:

Who is coming:
*
*

----

* See [[FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather|FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather]] for inspiration!

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

2015-06-11T09:41:19Z

Kotzino: /* GeoForAll BOF 2 */

Kotzino: /* Who is participating */

Public Geospatial Data Project

2013-01-22T17:12:02Z

Kotzino: /* People interested in participating */

There is an [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF, ISO19115 through ISO19139).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A [[Geodata_Repository]] shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a public mailing list and [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geodata/ archive] for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata.

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

*'''Awase Khirni Syed''' - awasekhirni at gmail.com
*David Bitner
*Allan Doyle
*Florian Kindl
*Pericles S. Nacionales
*Markus Neteler
*[[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
*[[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
*Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
*Daniel Brookshier
*Schuyler Erle
*Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
*Steve Coast
*Mikel Maron
*Alessandro Frigeri
*David Blasby
*[[User:Kevinyam|Kevin Yam]]
*[[User:Putler|Dan Putler]]
*[[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
*Ned Horning
*[[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
*[[User:epifanio|Massimo Di Stefano]]
*Colin Gowens
*[[User:Smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
*[[User:Fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
*[[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
*Stefan Keller
*[[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
*[[User:Kablukiw|Kevin Ward]]
*[[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]
*Nick Black
*[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
*[[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]]
*David Jonglez
*[[User:Dandye|Daniel Dye]]
*[[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]]
*[[User:Milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
*[[User:Ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
*[[User:Rduivenvoorde|Richard Duivenvoorde]]
*Artem Pavlenko
*[[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]
*[[User:Chorner|Cory Horner]]
*[[User:Vdb|François Van Der Biest]]
*[[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]]
*Brent Wood
*[http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan]
*[[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]]
*[[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]]
*Hans-Jörg Stark
*Paul Brous
*[[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]]
*Nikos Alexandris
*[[User:Dcampbell|David Campbell]]
*[[User: Pacuad| Pablo Cuadrado]]
*[[User: Dongpo| Dongpo Deng]]
*[[User: kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
*''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]
* [http://www.upct.org/ Un point c'est tout]
* [http://civicaccess.ca/ CivicAccess]

=== Events ===

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== References ==

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ GeodataCommons project at U. Maine]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery
* [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork FAO-UN GeoNetwork portal to spatial data and information]
* [http://geodata.grid.unep.ch UNEP GEO Data Portal] - more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
* [http://www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility] - Global SRTM, Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR datasets
* [http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information] - Global SRTM data

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)
* [http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1524&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en) Proposal to open public data] by Neelie Kroes, European Commission

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

=== Geodata formats ===
* [[Geodata formats]] Discussion

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA

[[Category:Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-08-01T14:23:02Z

Kotzino: /* Outlook for 2012 */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and was carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the Greek GI Association (HellasGI) and the Greek Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the Greek GI Association (HellasGI) and the Greek Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of the event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).
* Open Source Geospatial Software adaption in classes in universities (e.g. TEI of Serres with gvSIG and a bit of GRASS).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result. (This has successfully started to happen but more involvement is needed).

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.
* Become an official OSGeo chapter.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T11:23:17Z

Kotzino: /* Key Accomplishments */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and was carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the Greek GI Association (HellasGI) and the Greek Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of the event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).
* Open Source Geospatial Software adaption in classes in universities (e.g. TEI of Serres with gvSIG and a bit of GRASS).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result. (This has successfully started to happen but more involvement is needed).

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.
* Become an official OSGeo charter.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:08:27Z

Kotzino: /* Key Accomplishments */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).
* Open Source Geospatial Software adaption in classes in universities (e.g. TEI of Serres with gvSIG and a bit of GRASS).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result. (This has successfully started to happen but more involvement is needed).

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.
* Become an official OSGeo charter.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:07:02Z

Kotzino: /* Outlook for 2012 */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result. (This has successfully started to happen but more involvement is needed).

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.
* Become an official OSGeo charter.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:06:23Z

Kotzino: /* Opportunities to Help */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result. (This has successfully started to happen but more involvement is needed).

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:05:34Z

Kotzino: /* Areas for Improvement */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.
* Translating the OSGeo web site and some of the OSGeo Software stack to Greek will definitely bring more people.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result.

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:04:24Z

Kotzino: /* Key Accomplishments */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv). The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result.

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:03:29Z

Kotzino: /* Key Accomplishments */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''
* OSGeo Live Greek Translation for versions 4.5 and 5.0 (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv).
The Greek translation of the OSGeo Live DVD is one of the most complete.
* Weekly tutorials and presentations at the National technical University of Athens (NTUA) about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software (approx 15-20 students attending weekly).

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result.

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]

Greek Language Chapter Report 2011

2012-07-30T10:00:55Z

Kotzino: /* Key Accomplishments */

== Greek Language Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2011
* Contact name: Dimitris Kotzinos
* The OSGeo Greek Local Chapter was initiated only in November 2007. During 2011 membership grew somewhat but we still need more people. Specific interesting actions started in 2011 (see below).

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* One main event was organized and ws carried out with great success. It was a joint organizing effort by the OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK).
** '''1st GRASS and GFOSS Users' Camp'''
*** When: ''17 - 19 June, 2011''
*** Where: ''Paou Monastery - University of Thessaly, Pelion, Volos, Greece''
*** Organized: ''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter, the National GI Association (HellasGI) and the National Open Source Association (E/ELLAK)''
*** ''The event was highly successful with over 50 participants (while about 30 were anticipated given the dates and the remote location) who stayed for the whole duration of the event. Many Greek and international experts (people from GRASS and gvSIG communities were invited) presented issues evolving around the main theme. The repetition of th event was highly suggested by all participants.''

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* We still do not have the participation in OSGeo we expected. We need to intensify the efforts to increase the membership and the overall awareness. A big problem is securing funding for organizing further events.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In the future we will definitely need some speakers for national FOSS or just simple GIS events.
* We would also like to demonstrate some cases of successful use of FOSS GIS by the public sector to local government officials.
* We would like to plan some demo classes on FOSS GIS for students in universities and how these can be integrated in their curricula in order to show that we can achieve the exact same educational result.

=== Outlook for 2012 ===
* We would also be very interested in having the ability to apply for funding as a chapter/organization and we would like to seek help/information from other local chapters that do or plan to do the same.

[[Category: Reports 2011]]