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Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-23T07:22:42Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!)
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committees and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Push forward stronger engagement with the industry and governments to stimulate endowment and sponsorship for OSGeo.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-23T07:14:04Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-23T05:37:53Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!)
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committees and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Push forward stronger engagement with the industry and governments to stimulate endowment to OSGeo

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-22T23:13:32Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!)
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committees and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Push forward stronger engagement with the industry and governments to stimulate endowment to OSGeo and improve the sponsorship program.
* Find ways and funds to encourage companies involved in OSGeo to gather force. i believe the GDAL Barn effort or the QGIS.org funded projects are great examples to follow, as they allow to make our software better and let the OSGeo Service Providers collaborate and grow at the same time.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-22T22:59:47Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!)
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committees and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Push forward stronger engagement with the industry and governments to stimulate the OSGeo sponsorship and endowment
* Find ways and funds to encourage companies involved in OSGeo to gather force. i believe the GDAL Barn effort or the QGIS.org funded projects are great examples to follow, as they allow to make our software better and let the OSGeo Service Providers collaborate and grow at the same time.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-22T22:21:24Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!)
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committee and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Push forward stronger engagement with the industry and governments to stimulate the OSGeo sponsorship and endowment
* Find ways and funds to encourage companies involved in OSGeo to gather force. i believe the GDAL Barn effort or the QGIS.org funded projects are great examples to follow, as they allow to make our software better and let the OSGeo Service Providers collaborate and grow at the same time.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-22T20:29:49Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!).
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committee and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Encourage OSGeo companies and entrepreneurs to gather force, i believe the GDAL Barn effort or the QGIS.org funded projects are great examples to follow, as they allow to make our software better and let the OSGeo Service Providers collaborate and grow at the same time.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos

2018-11-22T20:22:51Z

Wiki-Nickbozon:

A space for the candidates for [[Election 2018|election]] to the Board to share some information about themselves, their aspirations for OSGeo, what they would like to change, improve or introduce and what role they would like to play on the board.

== Candidate ==

=== About me ===

=== My vision ===

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

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

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

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

== Steven Feldman ==
[https://www.osgeo.org/member/steven-feldman/ My OSGeo Member Profile]
=== About me ===
I'm passionate about tech, geography, everything open and communities. I have worked in commercial and leadership roles in geo for over 20 years and for the last 10 years have been active in open data and open source. I am an advisor, mentor and investor in tech businesses (usually with a location focus) and a volunteer.

You might want to look at my blog where I have been writing about geo and open for over a decade: [http://https:knowwhereconsulting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting]

I also recently started a site to share fun images of Maps in the Wild called [https://mappery.org Mappery]

=== My vision ===

I want to ensure that there is a long term sustainable future for OSGeo to support and grow the use of Open Source geo.

=== What you have done within the community in the past ===
I first became involved in OSGeo in 2012 when I was invited to chair FOSS4G in Nottingham by the UK chapter. Since then I have been elected as a Charter Member, a former chair and now active member of the Conference Committee, vice chair of FOSS4G UK and Treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter.

I have helped to update the process for selecting the LOC to run FOSS4G global and I helped initiate and lead 2 Travel Grant Programmes (2017 & 2018). I'm an enthusiastic and at times noisy advocate for OSGeo.

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

I would like to play a role in the development of a medium term strategic direction for OSGeo that identifies our vision, objectives and most importantly the actions that we need to take.

=== Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
* As part of a strategic review I would like to consider whether our current governance structures are the ones that we need for the future. Put simply, if we were starting OSGeo today would we structure it the way it is? (I don't have a preconceived view on this but I do think it is worth consulting and considering this topic)
* We have a lot of charter members and list members but often we struggle to get active volunteers when non-code tasks need undertaking. I would like to explore how we can increase the pool of contributors and activists.

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

I believe that I could bring my commercial experience to the board in both strategic planning and by acting as the lead to strengthen OSGeo's relationship with its corporate members and sponsors (extending the initiatives already underway)

== Tom Kralidis ==
=== About me ===

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

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

Best of luck to all candidates. It is an honour and a privilege to be [[Board_Member_Nominations_2018#Tom_Kralidis|nominated]] for the Board. Thank you!

=== My vision ===

For Geospatial Open Source to always be a strong viable option for implementation
by anyone, anywhere. This is realized by a balanced, interoperable, sustainable and healthy OSGeo.

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

* OSGeo member since inception
* long term dedicated effort on user, development and advocacy of FOSS4G / OSGeo in support of interoperability
* Charter member since 2007
* user training and workshops
* Incubation Committee
* Project mentor for OSGeo incubation of [http://pywps.org PyWPS] (graduated 2018)
* PSC memberships: [https://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [http://pywps.org PyWPS]
* core committer: [https://qgis.org QGIS], [http://geonode.org GeoNode], [http://pywps.org PyWPS], [https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ OWSLib]
* founder: [http://pycsw.org pycsw], [https://geohealthcheck.org GeoHealthCheck], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi pygeoapi], [https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa pygeometa]
* contributor: [https://live.osgeo.org/ OSGeo-Live], numerous others
* helped organize the first OSGeo C tribe code sprint (Toronto, Canada)
* code sprints attendance (2009, 2011, 2014 [FOSS4G-PDX], 2017, 2018)

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

* do-ocracy
* continuous improvement on lowering the barrier to geospatial tools for anyone
* I regard participating in the Board a continuation of helping OSGeo in any way I can in another capacity. In addition, having a term on the Board will also help infuse new thinking in both day-to-day and strategic issues

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

* balance of hosted services vs. OSGeo infrastructure to maximize efficiency of our precious resources
* sandbox infrastructure
* put forth the concept of an OSGeo registry of resources (datasets, software, applications) that are local to OSGeo or remote
* increase focus / lower the barrier to OGC implementation given the new direction of OGC service specifications
** participation in OGC hackathons
** CITE compliance
* more sprints ('working sessions', i.e. code, docs, projects, etc.), promote remote sprint concept more
* harden core packaging efforts (UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, etc.) to become more sustainable

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

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

== Nicolas Bozon ==

Dear Charter Members,

Thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential OSGeo director. This is a great honor to take part to this election once again and to run along with excellent candidates.

=== About me ===

I am a geo data expert in the business hours, and a (map) designer in my free time.
I came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was looking for tools that i could fully control to reach my research goals. It did not take long at that time to meet OSGeo people and tools, adapt the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then just feel like at home in our community.

I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since then, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make them interact. Most recently, i am experiencing life inside a major proprietary software company for better or worse. I am trying to take the best of both worlds everyday, with strong open source and open data ethics in the background. Please follow the links bellow to learn a bit more about me.

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon/
* https://twitter.com/cartogenic
* https://github.com/nbozon

=== My vision ===

Today, my passion and commitment to the OSGeo Foundation have never been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant technical and educational achievements, I am even more proud to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.

OSGeo has entered an important transition period, from a group of active developers to an inclusive community of users, developers, advocates and entrepreneurs. It must yet strengthen its aura and adoption across the broader geospatial community and industry. Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work even better, and make open source geospatial rules.

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

* Charter member since 2011
* Marketing committee member since 2012.
* Already nominated for the Board elections in 2012 and 2016.
* Attended and sometimes talk or workshop at FOSS4G in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Europe organisation committee in 2015 and 2017.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Asia organisation committee in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
* Part of the FOSS4G-Fr organisation committee in 2013 (FROG) and 2014
* Co-founded ZOO-Project in 2008 and member of its PSC since 2009.
* Co-founded MapMint in 2011, the 100% service-oriented open source SDI.
* Help redesign the GRASS GIS website back in 2012
* Created mapsk.in, the visual language for geospatial in 2016 (to be continued)
* Currently working on the OSGeo symbols set and branding style guide.

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

* Simply do my best to serve our community and represent our international family.
* Help continue to implement our vision, especially on the marketing and outreach sides.

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

* Avoid this year situation, where there were not enough motivated people to run for the board elections after the nomination deadline (never again!).
* Propose new ways of governance that may help us to be more efficient, or at least attract more volunteers to the chapters, committee and board.
* Empower charter members in a more efficient way, i think we need to be part of more strategic decisions
* Keep FOSS4G event affordable for everyone, encourage regional events and initiatives like travel grants, academic bursaries, student awards etc..
* Encourage OSGeo entrepreneurs to gather force, i believe the GDAL Barn effort or the QGIS.org funded projects are great examples to follow, as they allow to make our software better and let the OSGeo Service Providers collaborate and grow at the same time.

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

I am ready for any role.

Happy voting to all !

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election_2018]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-19T15:02:56Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, are linked to immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael P Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012255.html Support] by [[Just van den Broecke]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] '''*''' ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael P Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012249.html Support] by [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012262.html Support] by [[Massimiliano Cannata]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012264.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[User:Shiguera|Santiago Higuera]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012251.html Support] by [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012266.html Support] by [[Francisco José Peñarrubia]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/thread.html Support] by [[Barend Kobben|Barend Köbben]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012254.html Support] by [[Matt Walker]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012257.html Support] by [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012263.html Support] by [[Mike Saunt]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012272.html Support] by [[Rollo Home]]

-------------------------------

== [[User:Msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012243.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012245.html Support] by [[Steve Lime]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012267.html Support] by [[Doug Newcomb]]
---------------------------------

== [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012269.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[User:Maning|Maning Sambale]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012244.html Support] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012247.html Support] by [[Shin, Sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012248.html Support] by [[Hhayashi|Hirofumi Hayashi]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012250.html Support] by [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012261.html Support] by [[Massimiliano Cannata]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012274.html Support] by [[Angelos Tzotsos]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-17T02:08:11Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012243.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012245.html Support] by [[Steve Lime]]
---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[Maning Sambale]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012244.html Support] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012247.html Support] by [[Sanghee Shin]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012248.html Support] by [[Hirofumi Hayashi]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012250.html Support] by [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-17T00:54:51Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012243.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012245.html Support] by [[Steve Lime]]
---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[Maning Sambale]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012244.html Support] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012247.html Support] by [[Sanghee Shin]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012248.html Support] by [[Hirofumi Hayashi]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T13:42:20Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012243.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[Maning Sambale]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012244.html Support] by [[Jeff McKenna]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T13:24:15Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Michael Smith */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012243.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[Maning Sambale]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T13:09:24Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html Support] by [[Maning Sambale]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T13:09:03Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012242.html] by [[Maning Sambale]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T11:25:01Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Sanz]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T11:21:59Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012241.html Support] by [[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T11:08:03Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T11:07:44Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012240.html] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T10:39:55Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012235.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012234.html Seconded] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012236.html Support] by [[Nicolas Bozon]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012238.html Support] by [[Anne Ghisla]]

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T09:17:19Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: Undo revision 72989 by Nickbozon (talk)

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the [[Election 2013]] process. '''The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.'''

This list is presented in the order nominations were received.

Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).

Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.

== [[Bart van den Eijnden]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.

Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.

See also his profile at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]

------

== [[Jáchym Čepický]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.

I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html Seconded] by [[Michael Gerlek]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html Support] by [[Daniel Morissette]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html Support] by [[Peter Baumann]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html Support] by [[Maria Brovelli]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html Support] by [[Marco Lechner]]

-----------------

== [[Jorge Sanz]] ==

; Nomination by: Jeff McKenna

I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.

I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.

I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html Seconded] by [[Javier Diaz]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html Support] by [[María Arias de Reyna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html Support] by [[Valenty Gonzalez]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html Support] by [[Gabriel Carrión]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html Support] by [[Jáchym Čepický]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html Support] by [[Oscar Fonts]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html Support] by [[shiguera]]
------------------------------------------------

== [[Ian Edwards]] ==

; Nomination by: Jo Cook

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

Thanks

* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012225.html Acceptance and thoughts] from [[Ian Edwards]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html Seconded] by [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html Support] by [[Suchith Anand ]]

-------------------------------

== [[Michael Smith]] ==

; Nomination by: Daniel Morissette

I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.

Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.

He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.

Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.

See also http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc

---------------------------------

== [[Gérald Fenoy]] ==

; Nomination by: Maria Brovelli

Dear All

I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.

Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.

Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(http://geolabs.fr).

Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (http://zoo-project.org) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.

Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.

Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.

More info on Gérald:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy

[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Election 2013]]

Board Member Nominations 2013

2013-08-16T09:13:31Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Gérald Fenoy */

The following nominations have been received for the OSGeo Board in 2013 through the <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Election 2013">Election 2013</a> process. The nomination period ends on 20 August 2013.
This list is presented in the order nominations were received.
Incumbent board members are marked with an asterisk (*).
Candidate statements and support by OSGeo participants or members, if they have been provided, provided immediately after the candidate name as a bulleted list.
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Bart van den Eijnden">Bart van den Eijnden</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Daniel Morissette
</dd></dl>
I'd like to nominate Bart van den Eijnden for the OSGeo board election.
Bart's involvement in the OSGeo community and its projects is well known and predates the creation of OSGeo itself. He is a regular at FOSS4G, is very familiar with OSGeo and its mission and often contributes to discussions related to OSGeo activities, so I think he could bring valuable inputs and contributions to the board. He started his own consultancy in The Netherlands back in 2005 (OSGIS.nl) and now works with OpenGeo.
See also his profile at <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bartvde</a>

<ul><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012217.html">Acceptance and thoughts</a> from <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Bart van den Eijnden">Bart van den Eijnden</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012207.html">Seconded</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Michael Gerlek">Michael Gerlek</a>
</li></ul>
<hr />
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Jáchym Čepický">Jáchym Čepický</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Jeff Jeff McKenna
</dd></dl>
I would like to nominate Jáchym Čepický[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jáchym has already served one year on the Board, having
graciously stepped into an empty position that needed filling. Coming
from the Czech Republic in Central Europe he has brought a much needed
global perspective into the Board activities. He is of course very
active at the project level, and has been one of the community leaders
helping to create and bring FOSS4G-CEE around the region.
I strongly recommend that we bring Jáchym back onto the OSGeo Board.
[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chym_%C4%8Cepick%C3%BD</a>

<ul><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012227.html">Acceptance and thoughts</a> from <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Jáchym Čepický">Jáchym Čepický</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012210.html">Seconded</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Michael Gerlek">Michael Gerlek</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012212.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Daniel Morissette">Daniel Morissette</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012211.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Peter Baumann">Peter Baumann</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012213.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Maria Brovelli">Maria Brovelli</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012214.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Marco Lechner">Marco Lechner</a>
</li></ul>
<hr />
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Jorge Sanz">Jorge Sanz</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Jeff McKenna
</dd></dl>
I would like to nominate Jorge Sanz[1] for the 2013 OSGeo Board
elections. Jorge is a very active community member from Spain, with his
hands into many different parts of OSGeo. Not only at the project
level, but he is an active representative and speaker of the Spanish
Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES), as well as through his local area of
Valencia.
I've had the pleasure of listening to some of his presentations, and I
see Jorge as an excellent global representative of OSGeo. I have no
doubt that through his experience, his confidence, and his leadership,
that he will be able to give important input into the shape of the OSGeo
foundation.
I strongly recommend that Jorge become a member of the OSGeo Board.
 
[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz</a>
 
PS. thank you to Jorge for accepting this nomination during his
vacation. A sign of his dedication

<ul><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012218.html">Seconded</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Javier Diaz">Javier Diaz</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012219.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="María Arias de Reyna">María Arias de Reyna</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012221.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Valenty Gonzalez">Valenty Gonzalez</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012230.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Gabriel Carrión">Gabriel Carrión</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012228.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Jáchym Čepický">Jáchym Čepický</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012229.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Oscar Fonts">Oscar Fonts</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012231.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Shiguera">Shiguera</a>
</li></ul>
<hr />
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Ian Edwards">Ian Edwards</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Jo Cook
</dd></dl>
Hi CRO and Discuss,
I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0], and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013 [1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

<pre class="_fck_mw_lspace"> [0] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom</a>
[1] <a href="http://2013.foss4g.org/">http://2013.foss4g.org/</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html">http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html</a>
[3] <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/">http://live.osgeo.org/</a>
</pre>
Thanks

<ul><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012225.html">Acceptance and thoughts</a> from <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Ian Edwards">Ian Edwards</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012223.html">Seconded</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Jeff McKenna">Jeff McKenna</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-August/012224.html">Support</a> by <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Suchith Anand">Suchith Anand</a>
</li></ul>
<hr />
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Michael Smith">Michael Smith</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Daniel Morissette
</dd></dl>
I'd like to nominate Michael Smith for the board election.
Mike works for the US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center and has been a long time power user, supporter and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer PSC and is also one of the instigators behind the PDAL project, the GDAL of Point Clouds. In addition to his experience with the OSGeo projects and community, he would bring to the board the perspective of government organizations.
He is a FOSS4G regular (he has not missed one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting), and an active participant and supporter of the FOSS4G WMS Benchmarking exercise each year.
Finally, Mike has been following the activities of the board for the last few years (at least), often present as a quiet observer in IRC board meetings and even in one of the face to face meetings, so I believe he is well aware of the way OSGeo operates and prepared for the challenges of serving on the board.
See also <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc</a>

<hr />
 

<h2> <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Gérald Fénoy">Gérald Fénoy</a> </h2>
<dl><dt> Nomination by</dt><dd> Maria Brovelli
</dd></dl>
Dear All
I would like to nominate Gérald FENOY for the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections.
Gérald is promoting, using and developing FOSS4G with passion since 2004.
He has a very global and generic vision of both the Foundation
activities and its software projects.
Gérald has a keen interest in technical innovation which he manages to
leverage for both community and business related issues.
Gérald is committed to Open Source and is very willing to help the OSGeo
projects grow. As an example, he frequently funds OSGeo developers to
add enhancements to their software, for using in his personal projects
or those from GeoLabs, his geospatial consulting company based in France
(<a href="http://geolabs.fr">http://geolabs.fr</a>).
Gérald co-founded the ZOO-Project (<a href="http://zoo-project.org">http://zoo-project.org</a>) WPS plateform
back in 2008, is PSC chair and main developer of this innovative and
incubating OSGeo project. He also contributed to several projects
through the years including GDAL/OGR, MapServer and PostGIS, with
patches, translations, ideas and more.
Gérald is also a regular at the FOSS4G conference since 2006, where he
often gives workshops and talks. He also participated and helped many
times in several local chapters in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Gérald collaborates passionately with many Universities both in Europe
and in Asia.
Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, regarding both coding and
open source good practices, but also about international collaborations
and community management.
More info on Gérald:
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#G.C3.A9rald_Fenoy</a>
 Elections Election 2013

OSGeo Advocate

2013-08-14T17:52:45Z

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= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= Advocates =

== Advocate Map ==


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== Africa:Ghana ==

== Africa:South Africa ==
=== Gavin Fleming ===
{{User:Gfleming}}

== Asia:India ==

== Asia:Japan ==
===[http://cse.niaes.affrc.go.jp/niwasaki/ Nobusuke Iwasaki]===

[[File:Iwasaki.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Nobusuke Iwasaki]]

Senior Researcher, [http://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences]

Location: Tsukuba, Japan

Nobusuke Iwasaki is researcher of land use change and rural planning and extensively using FOSS4G. Also, he is one of the main organizers of FOSS4G-Japan event and proactively commits promotion and dissemination of FOSS4G, especially academic sector. He strongly contributes [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-mext/ some academic project which aims utilization of satellite image and FOSS4G for beginners and non-specialist user].
The major his product is [http://habs.dc.affrc.go.jp Historical Agro-Environmental Browsing System (HABS)], which is commended [http://psgsv2.gsi.go.jp/koukyou/G-award/list_award1.html the first Cyber Japan Award].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* [http://www.osgeo.jp/ OSGeo Japan Chapter] Board member since 2008
:* member of [http://www.gisa-japan.org/ GIS Assosiation of JAPAN]
:* member of [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gsig/ FOSS4G special interest group] in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN

;Contact:
: Email: wata909 AT gmail DOT com
: Skype: wata909

;Profile last updated
:2013-07-11

== Asia:Korea ==
{{User:Sanghee}}

==Asia:Philippines==

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}
{{User:NathanW}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Dmorissette}}

== Europe:Czech Republic ==

== Europe:France ==

=== [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] ===
[[Image:Gérald Fenoy.jpg|thumb|right|100px]]

Founder and CEO of [http://www.geolabs.fr GeoLabs SARL].

Location: Lattes, France.

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]][[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]

* [http://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] Developper and PSC Chair,
* Creator of the original [http://www.postgis.fr french web site for PostGIS],
* Provide training, use and develop (WEB-)GIS applications based on OSGeo Libraries / Applications,
* Active in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Senegalease OSGeo Senegal Local chapter],
* Provide Gentoo packaging and patches for proj, geos, postgis, pgRouting, mapserver and gpsbabel,
* Active at all FOSS4G international events since 2006.

;Contacts

: Phone: +33670082539
: Skype: gfenoy
: Mail: gerald DOT fenoy AT geolabs DOT fr
: IRC: djay

[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]

=== Nicolas Bozon ===
[[Image:nicolas_bozon.png|thumb|right|100px|Nick at Abikocho station]]
Principle, [http://www.cartogenic.com Cartogenic].

Nicolas Bozon is an open source enthusiast and specializes in designing user interfaces and experiences for mapping and web applications. Nicolas runs [http://www.cartogenic.com Cartogenic], a geospatial consutling company located in Lyon, France. He is also a researcher in geomatics and environmental sciences, and currently pursues a post-doctoral fellowship in Osaka, Japan.

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]] [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]

* Co-founder and PSC member of [http://zoo-project.org ZOO-Project], the Open WPS platform
* [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo
* Member of the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee Marketing Committee] of OSGeo

;Academics
* Post-doc fellowship (JP, 2011/2013)
* PhD Maths/GIS (FR, 2006/2009)
* Master GIS (FR, 2005)
* Undergraduate Env Sc (QC, 2002/2004)
* Undergraduate Geo (FR, 2000/2002)

;Contact
:Email: nicolas dot bozon at gmail dot com
:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon Linkedin profile ]
:Skype: nicboz1
:IRC: nbozon

{{#umSetParam: 4.856216|45.770527|Lyon, France|Nbozon|Nicolas Bozon}}

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]

== Europe:Germany ==
{{User:Arnulf Christl}}
{{User:Pebau}}

== Europe:Greece ==

== Europe:Italy ==
{{User:Madi}}
{{User:Lucadelu}}

== Europe:The Netherlands ==
{{User:Ticheler}}
{{User:BarendKobben}}
{{User:Just}}
{{User:bartvde}}

== Europe:Portugal==

== Europe:Romania ==

== Europe:Spain ==
{{User:Lluís}}
{{User:vehrka}}
{{User:Michogar}}
{{User:Delawen}}
{{User:Adiez}}
{{User:Jsanz}}

== Europe:United Kingdom ==
{{User:Ian}}
{{User:JoCook}}

== Latin America:Argentina ==

== Latin America:Brazil ==

== Latin America:Chile ==

== Latin America: Colombia ==

== Latin America:Mexico ==

== United States ==
{{User:EliL}}

=== [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/printingpress/landon-blakes-bio/ Landon Blake] (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor) ===

[[File:landon_blake_portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Landon Blake]]

Owner, [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com Redefined Horizons]

Location: Stockton, California, United States of America

Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization.

* Web Page: [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com]
* Blog: [http://www.redefinedhorizonsblog.com]
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/mapit4u]
* LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake]

;OSGeo Experience
* Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal
* Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter

;Contact:
: Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com
: Phone (Home): 209-464-2612
: Phone (Cell): 209-298-7521
: Skype:

;Profile last updated: 07 14 2013

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

== Africa:Ghana ==
{{User:Eyedol}}

== Africa:South Africa ==
{{User:Sokolic}}
{{User:Timlinux}}

== Asia:India ==
{{User:ravivundavalli}}

== Asia:Japan ==
{{User:Yoichi}}

== Asia:Korea ==

==Asia:Philippines==
{{User:Maning}}

== Australia ==
{{User:jive}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Aross}}
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Mdavis}}
{{User:Pwramsey3}}

== Europe:Czech Republic ==
{{User:Jachym}}
{{User:KarelCharvat}}

== Europe:France ==
{{User:Djay}}
{{User:JRM}}
{{User:grizonnetm}}
{{User:NBozon}}
{{User:volaya}}

== Europe:Germany ==
{{User:Arnulf Christl}}
{{User:Astrid_Emde}}
{{User:misev}}
{{User:Stefan_A._Tzeggai}}
{{User:Thomas_Baschetti}}

== Europe:Greece ==
{{User:Kalxas}}
{{User:ArArgyridis}}
{{User:kotzino}}

== Europe:Italy ==
{{User:Aaime}}
{{User:Aghisla}}
{{User:Lucadelu}}
{{User:Madi}}
{{User:Maxi71}}
{{User:epifanio}}
{{User:Moovida}}
{{Talk:Markus_Neteler}}

== Europe:The Netherlands ==
{{User:Just}}
{{User:Milovanderlinden}}
{{User:Genuchten}}

== Europe:Portugal==
{{User:Lutra}}

== Europe:Romania ==
{{User:Vasile}}

== Europe:Spain ==

== Europe:United Kingdom ==
{{User:Ianturton}}
{{User:Stevenfeldman}}
{{User:Sanand}}

== Latin America:Argentina ==
{{User:Maurimiranda}}

== Latin America:Brazil ==
{{User:Fsc7}}

== Latin America:Chile ==
{{User:Perriger}}

== Latin America: Colombia ==
{{User:Eamado}}

== Latin America:Mexico ==
{{User:Aborrell}}

== United States ==
{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
{{User:Dnewcomb}}
{{User:Amyonthemap}}
{{User:warmerda}}
{{User:Helena}}
{{User:Surveyor}}
{{User:Mark Lucas}}
{{User:mpg}}
{{User:pmbatty}}
{{User:Rburhum}}
{{User:Sdlime}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 9 active OSGeo board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

==== [[File:SolKatz.png]] Sol Katz Award ====
: Every year, OSGeo presents the prestigious [http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz Sol Katz Award] to one individual who has demonstrated leadership and contributed significantly to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or board member of a Regional Chapter, or a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Add a portrait photo of yourself using the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Upload Upload file] link in left margin in each page.
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Region:Country, names ordered alphabetically by First name, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Expenses =

This OSGeo Advocate list has been designed to help event organisors find local authoritative speakers. Events wishing to import keynote speakers should anticipate covering expenses of these speakers. Note that OSGeo is a volunteer driven organisation without paid positions of authority and OSGeo doesn't budget to cover travel expenses. Note also that unlike proprietary companies, a company promoting Open Source software don't earn license fees when a delegate is convinced to start using the free software.

When budgeting for keynote speakers expect to cover the following expenses:
* Travel, typically including:
** airfare
** visa
** travel insurance (including overseas medical, trip disruption, lost luggage, etc)
** meals during travel
** transit costs to local and host airports
* Accommodation
** standard 3 or 4 star hotel within walking distance of the event
** high speed internet
* Per diem costs
** 3 meals a day
* Speakers fee
** typically $US 1000 per day. (Note that OSGeo volunteer speakers usually have a full time job and will be loosing wages for the duration of the event)

For a rough guide of travel costs refer to the [http://aoprals.state.gov/web920/per_diem.asp US Department of State costs]

Individual speakers may waive any of these costs if attracted to the event for other reasons, and final costs are to be negotiated with the selected speaker.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

ZOO-Project Incubation Status

2013-07-10T12:53:30Z

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= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 0.1

'''Status''': draft

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Frank Warmerdam

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: no, but we can set up a stub page pointing to the project site on short terms
; If not why, and has the project page got a prominent link to the real home?
: there is an established web presence ([http://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project website]) actively maintained by project members

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: We do not use the OSGeo bug tracker cause we already got one in place based on the same Trac technology and available at : http://zoo-project.org/trac . Note that some specific modules are required to get the web site functionning.

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: Yes we migrated the zoo-discuss and zoo-psc mailing lists from Osaka City University (OCU) server to OSGeo one.

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: We do not use the OSGeo SVN because we already got one in place using the same technology and gracefully hosted at OCU.

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: no, but filed a [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1155 ticket] to add ZOO-Project as an external link on the OSGeo download page.
; If not, why?

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
; indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).
: ticket system, mailing lists (zoo-discuss, zoo-psc)

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes the source code is available for the package. By now, one package is provided but it is possible that, in future, the source code may be splited in smalled packages (ZOO-Kernel, ZOO-Services and ZOO-API). There is no plan for binary distribution except for the WIN32 platform.

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes a Project Steering Committee has been formed and have effective control on the project.

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: There is a contributor guidelines [http://zoo-project.org/docs/community/developer.html here] and for PSC decisions there is the Project Steering Committee Guidelines [http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/process here].

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: contributions come from GeoLabs SARL, Fundazione Edmund Mach, 3LIZ SARL, Cartogenic SARL and further more.

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Mention to current incubation status can be done in short terms, the "OSGeo Project In Incubation" logo was added to the web site.

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: There was always a link with OSGeo (including branding such as logos) as the ZOO-Project's initial goal was to become a "standardized bus" on top of OSGeo softwares so reference to OSGeo was there from the begining. note that the OSGeo Project in Incubation was added when we was accepted by the board to enter in incubation process. Nevertheless, there was no adaptation by applying a non-existing style (''note: currently an OSGeo web style has not bee established'')...

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Yes, the Code Provenance Review is [http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/Provenance%20Review here].

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: Some issue about the mixture between BSD and MIT-X11 was found long time ago in ZOO-API and addressed.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: Yes, we used the GDAL Project [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters RFC 3] as a base document to create our own, which is available [http://zoo-project.org/docs/community/developer.html here]. On the way for adoption and agreement ..

[[Category:Incubation]]

ZOO-Project Incubation Status

2013-07-10T12:52:27Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Code Copyright Review */

= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 0.1

'''Status''': draft

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Frank Warmerdam

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: no, but we can set up a stub page pointing to the project site on short terms
; If not why, and has the project page got a prominent link to the real home?
: there is an established web presence ([http://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project website]) actively maintained by project members

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: We do not use the OSGeo bug tracker cause we already got one in place based on the same Trac technology and available at : http://zoo-project.org/trac . Note that some specific modules are required to get the web site functionning.

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: Yes we migrated the zoo-discuss and zoo-psc mailing lists from Osaka City University (OCU) server to OSGeo one.

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
; If not, why?
: We do not use the OSGeo SVN because we already got one in place using the same technology and gracefully hosted at OCU.

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: no, but filed a [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1155 ticket] to add ZOO-Project as an external link on the OSGeo download page.
; If not, why?

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
; indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).
: ticket system, mailing lists (zoo-discuss, zoo-psc)

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes the source code is available for the package. By now, one package is provided but it is possible that, in future, the source code may be splited in smalled packages (ZOO-Kernel, ZOO-Services and ZOO-API). There is no plan for binary distribution except for the WIN32 platform.

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes a Project Steering Committee has been formed and have effective control on the project.

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: There is a contributor guidelines [http://zoo-project.org/docs/community/developer.html here] and for PSC decisions there is the Project Steering Committee Guidelines [http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/process here].

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: contributions come from GeoLabs SARL, Fundazione Edmund Mach, 3LIZ SARL and further more.

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Mention to current incubation status can be done in short terms, the "OSGeo Project In Incubation" logo was added to the web site.

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: There was always a link with OSGeo (including branding such as logos) as the ZOO-Project's initial goal was to become a "standardized bus" on top of OSGeo softwares so reference to OSGeo was there from the begining. note that the OSGeo Project in Incubation was added when we was accepted by the board to enter in incubation process. Nevertheless, there was no adaptation by applying a non-existing style (''note: currently an OSGeo web style has not bee established'')...

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Yes, the Code Provenance Review is [http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/Provenance%20Review here].

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: Some issue about the mixture between BSD and MIT-X11 was found long time ago in ZOO-API and addressed.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: Yes, we used the GDAL Project [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters RFC 3] as a base document to create our own, which is available [http://zoo-project.org/docs/community/developer.html here]. On the way for adoption and agreement ..

[[Category:Incubation]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:12:36Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
|-

|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
|-

|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
|-

|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON,
Gérald FENOY,
Venkatesh RAGHAVAN,
Bijan MOHAMMADI

||3LIZ(FR),
Geolabs (FR),
Osaka City Univ.(JP),
Montpellier2 Univ. (FR)
|-

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:11:32Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
|-

|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
|-

|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
|-

|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON,
Gérald FENOY,
Venkatesh RAGHAVAN,
Bijan MOHAMMADI

||3LIZ SARL (FR),
Geolabs SARL (FR),
Osaka City University (JP),
University of Montpellier 2 (FR)
|-

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:10:47Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
|-

|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
|-

|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
|-

|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON,
Gérald FENOY,
Venkatesh RAGHAVAN,
Bijan MOHAMMADI

||3LIZ SARL (FR),
Geolabs SARL (FR),
Osaka City University (JP),
University of Montpellier 2 (FR)
|-

|
}

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:09:25Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
|-

|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
|-

|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
|-

|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON
Gérald FENOY
Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
Bijan MOHAMMADI
||3LIZ SARL (FR)
Geolabs SARL (FR)
Osaka City University (JP)
University of Montpellier 2 (FR)
|-

|
}

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:07:52Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
|-

|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
|-

|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
|-

|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON, 3LIZ SARL(FR)
Gérald FENOY, Geolabs SARL (FR)
Venkatesh RAGHAVAN, Osaka City University (JP)
Bijan MOHAMMADI, University of Montpellier 2 (FR)
|-

|
}

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Posters

2009-09-11T07:06:42Z

Wiki-Nickbozon: /* Proposed Posters */

''Note: Details on this wiki still need to be finalised, and is being modeled on FOSS4G 2007's Poster session. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/''

Posters will be accepted from Case Studies, Projects or Programs that are Geospatial and have a strong Open Source and/or Open Standards theme. Refer to http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/posters/ for examples of posters from prior years.

== Coordinators ==
* Shoaib Burq < s a b u r q AT gmail.c om>
* Antti Roppola <ha s t ur AT gmail.c om>

== Format ==

* '''Location''': Posters will be shown in the [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/floorplan.cfm?roomID=128 Lower Parkside Foyer]
* '''Size''': Posters are to be printed as portrait (A0 or A1).
* '''Schedule''': The FOSS4G poster session will be during morning tea breaks on Thursday and Friday. Poster presenters should plan to be near their posters to talk to viewers and answer questions.
* '''Quantity''': The FOSS4G poster session will have room for as many as 32 posters.
* '''Acceptance''': On topic Posters will be accepted "first come, first served" until there is no more room or the deadline passes.
* '''License''': Posters should be made available publicly in PDF format to be displayed on the FOSS4G website as per the timeline.

== Printing ==
* Contributors are responsible for printing their own posters. One option for printing posters close to the conference venue is the [http://tinyurl.com/darling-posters Ultimo/Darling Harbor Kwik Kopy ]

== Timeline ==
* Interested posters should add their

{| border="1"
! Date !! Poster Milestones
|-
| 17 Aug 2009 || Call for posters
|-
| 21 Sep 2009 || Close call for posters
|-
| 6 Oct 2009 || Posters complete and added to website
|-
| 21 Oct 2009 || Posters displayed at FOSS4G conference
|}

==Proposed Posters==
''People are encouraged to add proposed posters to the end of this list.''

{| border="1"
! Title!! Abstract !! Author || Author Affiliations
|-
| 1. International Coastal Atlas Network || ICAN aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases (CWAs). Via the expertise of more than 35 member organisations. ICAN intendes to inform, guide and influence matters related to research, development and use of CWAs. || Kathrin Kopke, Kathy Belpaeme and Juan Arévalo|| Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Kustbeheer, European Environment Agency
|-
| 2. Distant Early Warning System - Information Logistics with FOSS and OGC Standards || Poster will be shown in conjunction with [http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_126 DEWS Live Demonstration]. DEWS user interface based on uDig and GeoTools, workflows, system architecture, details of information logistics and FOSS usage will be depicted on the poster. || Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch || GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
|-
| 3. An open source geo-transformation library for data custodians.
|| The KMStrlib geo-transformation library, which has been in active use and development since the 1960s at KMS (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark), is now finally being released under an open source licence.

KMStrlib provides a unified interface to a large number of cartographic projections, and geophysical transformations (including change of vertical and horizontal datums and epochs).

Due to KMS's role as a long term geodata custodian, care has been taken to ensure that the transformations implemented are two way symmetric (to the extent possible: some transformations are inherently vaguely defined, and must be implemented by stochastic predictions, rather than projections). This has led to the adoption of a technique of dual self-checking transformations, effectively doing a roundtrip "forward-inverse" operation for all library calls. While elaborate, this ensures that uncaught implementation blunders, and asymmetric singularities are diagnosed and reported. This is essential for long term (multiple century scale) geodata interoperability.

The poster presentation will include schematic details of the dual self-checking procedure, and illustrate the characteristics of the KMStrlib implementation of a fast, highly precise transverse mercator projection, remaining accurate at the 0.03 mm level even at distances 7500 km from the central meridian.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Karsten Engsager, Knud Poder, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff
|| KE: DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark; KP: Ølstykke, Denmark (Emeritus, KMS); TK, SLK: National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
|-

| 4. Quality control of digital elevation models.
|| In this poster presentation, we describe how the PINGPONG program (FOSS distributed under the GPL) has been used to implement a quality control procedure for laser scanned DEMs. The approach used is independent of navigational (GPS/INS) data and ground control points.

Fundamentally, PINGPONG is a high speed gridding program for scattered geodata. It uses a simple, but efficient, data management technique to speed up the gridding procedure.

The speed of PINGPONG makes it feasible to include a large amount of gridding in our quality control procedure, even for national scale datasets (in our case involving in the order of 20 billion data points), so the procedure is based on analysis of the local difference of a digital surface model, and a digital terrain model.

Effectively, this means that we are generating two interim elevation models in order to test one point cloud for its suitability for generating a final model. While this may seem somewhat extravagant, experience shows that it is actually both useful and efficient.
|| Thomas Knudsen, Brigitte C. Rosenkranz
|| National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), Copenhagen, Denmark
|-

| 5. INSPIRE compliant geoservices for topographic databases of the Lombardy Region in Italy.
|| Aim of the work is the implementation of geoservices compliant with the European INSPIRE Directive for distributing Lombardy Region geotopographic databases at scale 1:2000.
The services are based on OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (CS-W 2.0.1) and OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS 1.3.0) Implementation Specification as required by the Directive itself. They were implemented with Open Source Software: UMN Mapserver for WMS service and Geonetwork for metadata handling (CS-W).
Test data used for the prototype are compliant with the Standard for modelling geographic data recently approved by the Lombardy Region (february 2008).
The infrastructure is freely available for all territorial Authorities having such a kind of geotopographic database. A website with a demo version is already online (http://ows.como.polimi.it) and will be shown if an internet connection is available.
|| Maria Antonia Brovelli, Michele Beretta, Marco Negretti
|| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
|-

| 6. Electronic Tag Data Visualisation
|| In 1981 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) began development of a database to house data on conventional tagging of marine fishes. Since that time CMAR’s tagging projects have expanded and incorporated a wide range of tags from the simple conventional through to the latest electronic tags, and have began tagging marine mammals and birds. The amount of data being generated has vastly increased since 1981. CMAR has promoted a centralisation of tag data to ensure data are widely accessible, secured against loss, and to reduce redundancy amongst projects. One criticism of this approach has been a difficulty in data access within and across sites. Through the Electronic Tag Support Systems project CMAR has developed a web portal, using SVG, to the tagging database allowing users to browse through the electronic tag data and easily extract data of interest for further analysis. Tag tracks are displayed on an interactive map and archival data displayed in interactive graphs.
|| Paavo Jumppanen, Jason Hartog, Scott Cooper
|| CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
|-

| 7. OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
|| OldMapsOnline.org is a research project targeted to the software development specialized to old map collections. We are designing online tools for collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualization, accuracy analysis and geometadata speciﬁcation.

We provide free software and tutorials for online publishing of your scanned historical maps. We have developed IIPImage JPEG2000 Image Server: open source server software for fast delivery of the ultra high resolution raster imagery directly from your master scans in formats like JPEG2000 or TIFF. This software can be used for free on your servers for the image publishing. You can also publish your maps as pre-rendered tiles (zoomify) without any extensive configuration of your webserver. There is a whole collection of attractive pan&zoom viewers for the visualization of your scanned maps in your web sites - all viewers are compatible with both publishing techniques (JPEG2000/TIFF or prerendered tiles) - and they are mostly available including the source code, so you can easily customize them according your needs.

Once your maps are online you can use our web-based tools to georeference and visualize them in 3D with Google Earth web browser plugin. Your scanned maps can simply overlay each other as well as the popular interactive base maps like OpenStreetMap, Bing, Yahoo or Google Maps. You can even analyze their cartometric accuracy - all of this within the web browser.

Our project is in progress but we have already published several software tools and we have prototypes for the complete workflow. More info at http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

|| Klokan Petr Pridal
|| Moravian Library Brno, Czech Republic
|-

|8. geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G community
||A geospatial portal is a human interface to a collection of online geospatial information resources, including data sets and services (OGC, 2004). geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.
Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or users forum.
The content is managed by Textpattern, a powerful and flexible, open source content management application. For supplementary, specific functionality, custom modules were built. Other free applications are providing server-side functionality: MySQL (relational database management system), PHP, Python, Java (server-side scripting languages), Apache (webserver), Tomcat (servlet container), phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin (web clients for database management). For geospatial data processing and management, top open source applications were also integrated in the website: Mapbender (geodata management using OGC OWS architectures), PostGIS (is an extension for the PostgreSQL enterprise relational database, used to store the geospatial data), GeoNetwork Opensource (a standards based catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources), Geoserver (a standard compliant geospatial server, used to create specific services like WMS, WFS, WCS), OpenLayers (a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data), GeoWebCache (provides a Java-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends), Mapnik (render the base map), GDAL/OGR (used inside chained scripts for data conversion and reprojection).
The website is divided in several functional sections. In each section, the information is placed in predefined categories and sub-categories. Most of the sections contains written materials:
- Articles - theoretical essays on geospatial topics;
- Tutorials - materials indented to teach the user, in a step by step manner, how to work with certain datasets, software, technique etc;
- Reviews - reviews for geospatial datasets, cartographic products, software, articles, books;
- Links - collections of references to other online resources;
- Blog - a non conventional section for publishing thoughts, ideas, findings etc.
The content of these sections can be accessed quickly via RSS and ATOM feeds.
The Download section contains categories for all kind of geospatial data (digital elevation models, processed satellite images, vector data: communication networks, localities, hydrographical networks, contour lines, points of interest etc.) at different scales and spatial extend. Other categories contain documents (PhD thesis, scanned books & articles), old maps, software.
The website interface was carefully designed, respecting the existing W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and separating the structure from the presentation by using strict XHTML markup and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets). New web technologies, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), were also used to increase the interactivity. The goal was to obtain a simple, friendly and accessible environment for geospatial data and knowledge publication.

More details at http://www.geo-spatial.org/

|| Vasile Crăciunescu(1), Ştefan Constantinescu(2)
|| (1) National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania; (2) Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest, Romania
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|9. WEBGIS for the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency
||The ever-growing dissemination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Public Administration highlights the potential and effectiveness of this method of approach to the management of spatial databases. This is applicable both to the tangible and intangible assets of a public agency. An important moment for the sharing and communication of the data in a GIS is their publication and dissemination on the Internet through WebGIS and geoservices.
On the basis of these considerations, we chose to design and build a WebGIS for the management, use and protection of all the tangible and intangible heritage of the municipality of Orgosolo, recorded and documented in a project by the “Centre for monitoring and documenting the local traditions and skills”. The WebGIS was built using only free / open-source software, both for the advantages in terms of customization and interoperability, and in order to limit the building and management costs.
The first part of the work regarded building the GIS. The used software was gvSIG ( Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte Valencia). The database was built in MySQL and then connected with gvSIG.
The GIS included the data on the urban architecture and murals regarding the tangible heritage, and on the traditional skills for the intangible heritage.
The next step was implementing the GIS in a WebGIS system thusly structured:
• Apache Web Server
• Geoserver WebGIS
Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) was chosen due to being an open source (GPL) WebGIS server written in Java and supporting the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, such as the WFS, WMS and WCS geoservice protocols

|| Antonio Pala, Giuseppina Vacca
|| Faculty of Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
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|10. Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project - Improving Community Safety Through Informed Hazard Reduction
||The Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project includes a website with online mapping and a data warehouse, available to all agencies involved in the management of wildfire in northern Queensland. Agencies can access more than 140 pre-contructed fire district maps and have access to over 60 mapping layers in the online tools, provided at no cost to the user.
The project, established by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Systems (ATGIS), with assistance from many stakeholder agencies, took little more than 12 months to complete and was officially launched in June 2008.

The online mapping tools take advantage of free and open source software including: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Apache Webserver, UMN MapServer & GoogleMaps API, and provide users with a rich experience, enabling them to digitise and attribute objects online, and either submit them for QA and inclusion in master datasets, or in emergencies, publish data to all users immediately. Users can also submit entire GIS datasets and other digital files as an input to the regular collation of the key fire infrastructure datasets, maintained as part of this project.

The website contains multiple menu items:
- Help - animated help files and user guides to assist new users of the website;
- News - articles identifying improvements to the website and freshly published data;
- Create maps - online tools for map creation, including online digitising tools;
- Resources - collections of other resources available for download, including documents, maps and GIS datasets in multiple formats.
- Download maps sub menu - collections of existing maps, available for download as PDF or JPG, with the spatial extents of each map presented as objects in a Google map window;
- File Exchange - A facility for publishing documents to the website and for uploading datasets and information for consumption by other stakeholders
- Submit Feedback - An online form for specifying bugs, data issues and suggested improvements, formatted to prompt users to describe what they were doing, what they expected as a result and what they observed.

More details at http://wildfire.atgis.com.au/

|| Alistair Hart, Carl Schedlich
|| Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information System, Atherton QLD, Australia
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|11. Drift-X WPS: An atmopsheric dispersion simulation Web-GIS platform
||Our past research treated the problem of integrating Drift-X, a Gaussian based atmospheric dispersion model within a desktop GIS framework. A dedicated pesticide spray drift model was implemeted within Quantum GIS using its Python bindings capabilities and the results were presented at FOSS4G2008.

The present work aims now to adapt this model to Web-GIS platform using the ZOO Open WPS Platform . WPS implementation is aimed in order to automate the model setup and to perform on-line simulations. The main idea is to use WPS service that are inbuilt in the ZOO Kernel that can respond with XML document to the Getcapabilities, DescribeProcess and ExecProcess requests sent from the client browser. Input parameters needed by the model are sent to the ZOO server from an advanced OpenLayers client.

Subsequently, the Drift-X WPS module processes the DEM layer for the given extent, deliver it to the model with other user-defined parameters, run the model and then send the results to a WMS MapServer installation in a standard GIS format. The results are finally tiled by MapServer and potrayed within the OpenLayers client. The present WPS implementation will be useful for better agricultural practices by minimizing pesitiside use. Further, the ZOO Open WPS Platform implemented in this research could be enhanced with Sensor Network functionality to support precision farming.

|| Nicolas BOZON, 3LIZ SARL(FR)
|| Gérald FENOY, Geolabs SARL (FR)
|| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN, Osaka City University (JP)
|| Bijan MOHAMMADI, University of Montpellier 2 (FR)
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