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FOSS4G 2018

2018-04-10T11:05:35Z

Wiki-Ragnvald: /* Local Organizing Committee */

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== Local Organizing Committee ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="text-align:left;"|LOC_Members
! style="text-align:left;"|Name
! style="text-align:left;"|Organization
! style="text-align:left;"|Sector
! style="text-align:left;"|Title
! style="text-align:left;"|Location
! style="text-align:left;"|Role
|-
|[https://twitter.com/msilikale05 Msilikale Msilanga]
|World Bank
|Geo
|Geospatial expert; Geospatial Fellow at D-Lab, Dar es Salaam
|Dar es Salaam
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018
|-
|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppesollazzo Giuseppe Sollazzo]
|St George's, University of London
|Academia
|Open Data expert and activist HPC lead / Senior Systems Analyst
|London
|
|-
|Ketty Adoch
|GIZ/Map Uganda
|Energy
|GIS/Survey Consultant
|Kampala
|Member Communication and Outreach Committee
|-
|[https://twitter.com/markiliffe Mark Iliffe]
|N-LAB
|Geo
|FOSS4G Chair
|London
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018
|-
|Maria A. Brovelli
|Politecnico di Milano
|Geo
|GIS Professor OSGeo Board ISPRS Chair of WG IV/4 UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team
|Milan
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G AT Dar es Salaam 2018
|-
|[https://twitter.com/kateregga1 Geoffrey Kateregga]
|Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Map Uganda
|Community
|Community Mapping expert GIS Specialist
|Kampala
|
|-
|Daniel K. Nanghaka
|Geo4Africa / ILICIT Africa
|Community
|GIS trainer /Executive Director
|Kampala
|
|-
|Yves Barthélemy
|OBSCOM
|Geo
|Geospatial expert UNEP PCDMB Consultant SUZA GEO Advisor
|Zanzibar
|
|-
|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ragnvald Ragnvald Larsen]
|Mindland consulting
|Government
|Geospatial expert Works with Norwegian Environment Agency.
|Norway
|Program committee chair
|-
|Gavin Fleming
|Kartoza / OSGeo
|various Geo / ICT
|Joint MD of Kartoza Professional GISc Practitioner
|Johannesburg
|ex FOSS4G 2008 Chair
|-
|[https://twitter.com/enock4seth Enock Seth Nyamador]
|OpenStreetMap Ghana / HOT
|Geo / ICT
|Community manager GIS Trainer
|Tarkwa
|Member Outreach & Communications Committee
|-
|}

== Community Committee ==

=== Past Activities ===
[[FOSS4G 2018/Logo Contest|Logo Contest]]

[[FOSS4G 2018/Logo Entries|Logo Entries]]

== Program Committee ==

==Communication and Outreach Committee==

FOSS4G

2018-04-10T11:04:55Z

Wiki-Ragnvald: Added FOSS4G 2018

== Introduction ==
FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. It is the annual recurring global event hosted by OSGeo since it's inception in 2006. Its predecessors were rooted in the GRASS and MapServer communities and can be traced back to the beginning of this millennium. Find all recent conference web sites under the year followed by foss4g.org as in http://2011.foss4g.org/

== History of the Acronym ==

The FOSS4G was first coined in early 2004 as an acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics by a research group working on I18N of GRASS and MapServer. The first publication defining and using the FOSS4G acronym was published in Japan in March 2004 in a paper entitled [http://dlisv03.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/contents/osakacu/kiyo/DB00011169.pdf "Development of training material and internationalization of GRASS GIS and MapServer for advancing FOSS4G solutions"] published in the Bulletin of Osaka City University Media Center(ISSN: 1345-4145). It was later used at the

[http://www.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/water/paper/fossgrdss/conference.htm Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics: GIS-GRASS Users Conference]
held between September 12 - 14, 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand in a publication entitled [http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/viewabstract.php?id=33 Implementation of Web Map Server Test-bed and Development of Training Material for Advancing FOSS4G Solutions] and subsequently in several
other international and national conferences and meetings.

[[File:foss4g2004bkk.jpg]]

== History of foss4g.org domain name ==

The foss4g.org (and grass-japan.org) domain was registered to make available to the public the outcome of the project on Internationalization of GRASS5.0 and Mapserver. The project was funded by IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency,Japan). The project was carried in cooperation between Orkney Inc. and Osaka City University(OCU). Apart form software internationalization (i18n), OCU was also responsible for testing, preparation of test data, sample applications and implementation and management of the portal site. The main portal site was made available at www.foss4g.org/FOSS4G/ and also www.grass-japan.org/FOSS4G/

The domains were registered with Venkatesh Raghavan (aka Venka)and Shinji Masumoto of Osaka City University, Japan in 2003 and the project portal site went online in March 2004. Venkatesh Raghavan (aka Venka)and Shinji Masumoto agreed to donate the foss4g.org domain name to OSGeo on 3rd October 2007 with the understanding that there will be no restrictions on the free usage of the FOSS4G acronym for the legitimate purpose of promoting Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics. Subsequent to the transfer of foss4g.org domain name to OSGeo, it was used as a domain name for FOSS4G events since FOSS4G2008 held in Cape Town, South Africa.

== Organizing FOSS4G ==
The OSGeo [[Conference Committee]] is the steadying factor of FOSS4G over the years. Organization of FOSS4G starts roughly 2 years in advance as the venue rotates around the world when a call for bids is sent out.

=== Local Organizing Committee ===
All the hands-on ground work is done by a volunteering Local Organizing Committees that form each year and have so far always excelled themselves at putting together a great conference. OSGeo is very thankful and excited to see this much effort going into each conference. As of 2007 all conference web sites can be found under the generic OSGeo URL by replacing the year as in http://2010.foss4g.org/

=== Overview of past conferences and attendances ===
{| border="1"
! Event !! Location !! Number of Attendees
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|-
| [[FOSS4G 2018]] || Dar es Salaam, Tanzania || upcoming
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2017]] || Boston, USA || upcoming
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2016]] || Bonn, Germany || ~1,000
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2015]] || Seoul, South Korea || 562
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2014]] || Portland, OR, USA || 858
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2013]] || Nottingham, England || ~800
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2012]] || Beijing, China || cancelled
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2011]] || Denver, USA || 914
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2010]] || Barcelona, Spain || 869
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2009]] || Sydney, Australia || 436
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2008]] || Cape Town, South Africa || 550
|-
| [[FOSS4G 2007]] || Victoria, Canada || 721
|-
| [[FOSS4G2006 | FOSS4G 2006]] || Lausanne, Switzland || 560
|-
| 2005 OSG conference || Minneapolis, MN || 350
|-
| [http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/ OSGIS 2004] || Ottawa, Canada || ~200
|-
| FOSS4G 2004 - [http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/ Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics]: GIS-GRASS Users Conference || Bangkok, Thailand || ~150
|-
| 2003 Mapserver Users Meeting || St Paul, MN, United States || 125
|-
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html Open Source Free Software GIS] - GRASS users conference 2002 || Trento, Italy || 140
|}

More detailed metrics of the more recent conferences are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BpkO5WOFQ_DZEWNMLj_hAhEre0m0io_j-JGf7geAW5Y/edit?hl=en_GB#gid=57

== Localized FOSS4G Conferences ==
Some Local Chapters put on localized FOSS4G conferences, for example:
* [http://www.osgeo.kr/ Korean chapter] has held annual FOSS4G Korea conference in Seoul since 2011.
* [http://www.osgeo.jp/ Japan chapter] holds FOSS4G events in Tokyo, Osaka, and Hokkaido each year.
* Germany has the [[FOSSGIS]] conferences in German language.
* Portugal Local Chapter conferences: [http://osgeopt.pt/sasig4 SASIG 4, Guimarães, 2011], [http://lisboa.sigaberto.org SASIG III, Lisboa, 2010], [http://evora.sigaberto.org SASIG II, Évora, 2009], [http://agueda.sigaberto.org SASIG, Águeda, 2008]
* [http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America] is an annual event since 2012
* [[Europe]] (formerly "Central and Eastern Europe") is an annual event since 2012
* [http://www.foss4g.org.ar/ FOSS4G Argentina] first occurred in 2013
* [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/ FOSS4G India] first occurred in 2013
* ''(please add your own event)''

=== Roll Your Own Conference ===
If you are interested in organizing "your own" conference please contact the [[Conference Committee]] and advertize on the Discuss Mailing List. OSGeo is always interested in lending a helping hand to seed organize local events. We are also building a [[FOSS4G Cookbook]] to help in planning and executing a FOSS4G conference.

=== Using the Name FOSS4G ===
FOSS4G is not registered as a trademark but has a long tradition of being used in the context of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. The domain was originally registered by [[Venkatesh Raghavan]] (Venka) who later graciously [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2007-August/000379.html donated] it to OSGeo - under the condition that using the name should stay open to anybody who does something reasonably related to Free and Open Source Geospatial. If you are not sure, simply ask on the main mailing list (starting from [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-November/009762.html here]).

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:History]]

User:Ragnvald

2018-03-14T02:38:07Z

Wiki-Ragnvald: "Objective" version initiated.

Ragnvald Larsen is the program commiteee chair of FOSS4G 2018 as well as being part of the local organizational committee for FOSS4G 2018 to be hosted in Dar es Salaam.

Ragnvald has hold a Masters Degree in Geography ("hovedfag") from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is not much of a paper writer, but contributes if necessary and within his field of expertise.

He is employed at the Norwegian Environment Agency. This is the executive body of the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. In his current position as a chief engineer with the Directorate he work with serving, using and developing systems for environmental information data management. Procurement of external consultant services is part of this work.

Part of his time is used on the project Oil for Development where he contribute to the development of environmental data management systems in countries partner to Norway's development aid programs.

He [http://twitter.com/raglar tweets] once in a while, makes a fair amount of maps and plays around with Geoserver, Geonode, QGIS and OpenLayers these days.

User:Ragnvald

2017-01-16T16:01:59Z

Wiki-Ragnvald:

I am in the local organizational committee for FOSS4G 2018 to be hosted in Dar es Salaam.

My daytime is spent working with the Norwegian Environment Agency, the executive body of the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. In my current position as a chief engineer with the Directorate I work with serving, using and developing systems for environmental information data management. Procurement of external consultant services is part of this work.

Part of my time is used on the project Oil for Development where I contribute to the development of environmental data management systems in countries partner to Norway's development aid programs.

I hold a Masters Degree in Geography ("hovedfag") from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

I [http://twitter.com/raglar Tweet]once in a while, makes a fair amount of maps and plays around with Geoserver, QGIS and OpenLayers these days.

User:Ragnvald

2010-10-05T20:44:21Z

Wiki-Ragnvald:

Ragnvald Larsen works at the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management. [http://twitter.com/raglar Twitters ]once in a while, makes a fair amount of maps and plays around with Geoserver and OpenLayers these days.

User:Ragnvald

2010-10-05T20:36:10Z

Wiki-Ragnvald: Created page with 'Ragnvald Larsen jobber på IT/Geodataseksjonen ved Direktoratet for Naturforvaltning.'

Ragnvald Larsen jobber på IT/Geodataseksjonen ved Direktoratet for Naturforvaltning.

Nordic

2010-10-05T20:35:37Z

Wiki-Ragnvald: /* Interessenter */ La til meg selv.

= OSGeo Nordic chapter =

This is a first try at getting the Nordic users to get to know each other and who is doing what, the goal is to create a formal OSGeo Nordic chapter. From this point onwards, the page will be in any of the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish or Norwegian).

== Potensielle medlemsnasjoner ==

Denne OSGeo gruppen er ment for de [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries nordiske landene]

*Norge
*Danmark
*Sverige
*Finland
*Island

== Språk ==

Norsk, dansk og svensk vil være offisielle arbeidsspråk for et nordisk OSGeo chapter.

Om engelsk skal tillates eller ikke kan være opp til gruppen, etter hvert som den formes, å bestemme. Å tillate engelsk muntlig og skriftlig i gruppen vil nok være fornuftig, men muligens ikke som offisielt språk.

== Målsetting ==

Hovedhensikten med et nordisk OSGeo chapter er å skape en felles arena der de nordiske landene kan samarbeide om bruk av fri geoprogramvare. De nordiske landene har mange felles utfordringer og burde derfor kunne trekke veksler på hverandres erfaringer. Noen hovedoppgaver landene har felles og står overfor er:

*Implementering av [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE] tjenester
**View Services
**Download Services
*Metadatakatalog
*En robust og effektiv nasjonal geografisk infrastruktur

Et [http://beta.geonorge.no/wiki/index.php/Main_Page nordisk initiativ] er allerede opprettet for utvikling av [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork Opensource] programvaren, der medlemslandene deler på kostnadene ved utvikling og deler kildekoden og funksjonaliteten som utvikles. Denne måten å gjennomføre utvikling på er effektivt for alle, og kostnadene reduseres. Etableringen av et nordisk OSGeo chapter er et forsøk på å utvide dette samarbeidet til å gjelde flere programvarekomponenter, og forankre samarbeidet i en større helhet som OSGeo.

'''OSGeo gruppen bør ha et teknisk fokus og samarbeidet i gruppen skal ha fokus på teknologisk utvikling''' for å løse felles problemstillinger. Kunnskapsdeling om hvordan man kan utnytte FOSS4G programvareporteføljen bør være en viktig del av OSGeo Nordic chapter. Erfaringer aktører i hver enkelt nasjon har gjort, er viktig for at de andre nasjonene fortere å kunne nå sine egne mål.

Generell utveksling av kompetanse og erfaring på teknisk nivå.

== Organisering ==

TBD

Kommersielle aktører er velkommen til å delta i gruppen på like vilkår som alle andre.

=== Interessenter ===

Hvis du er interessert å delta i en nordisk OSGeo gruppe, vennligst fyll inn personlig innformasjon i tabellen under. Hvis du i tillegg er interessert i å bidra til å forme gruppen, skriv Ja/Nei/Kanskje i feltet ''bidra til organisering''.

 ''Tips: Bruk Rich Editor (valg rett over redigeringsboksen) for enklere redigering av tabellen.''

 

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| [[User:Kripal|Pål Kristensen]]
| Norsk
| Statens kartverk
|
| Ja
|-
| [[User:Relet|Thomas Hirsch]]
| Annet
| Statens kartverk
|
| Nei
|-
| [[User:Dybrol|Rolf Dybdal]]
| Norsk
| Statens kartverk
|
| Ja
|-
| [[User:Trondmm|Trond Michelsen]]
| Norsk
| Meteorologisk institutt
|
| Ja
|-
| [[User:Geira|Geir Aalberg]]
| Norsk
| Meteorologisk institutt
|
| Ja
|-
| [[User:Arneke|Arne Kepp]]
| Annet
| Infinite Loop AS
|
| Ja
|-
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Demartino Jørgen Larsen de Martino]
| Dansk
| Kort og matrikelstyrelsen
|
| Nej
|-
| [[User:Julian Hollingbery|Julian Hollingbery]]
| Dansk
| Kort og matrikelstyrelsen
|
| Nej
|-
| [[User:Runarbe|(Stein) Runar Bergheim]]
| Norsk
| AVINET
|
| Ja
|-
| [[User:Halset|Tore Halset]]
| Norsk
| Electronic Chart Centre
| Stavanger, Norge
| Ja
|-
| [[User:ragnvald|Ragnvald Larsen]]
| Norsk
| Direktoratet for Naturfovaltning
| Trondheim, Norge
| Ja
|}