[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G video archives prior to 2013?

2025-04-29 Thread Eli Adam via Discuss
Hi all, Does anyone have video archives of FOSS4G talks prior to 2013? Recently while revisiting some 2014 FOSS4G details, I found the TIB video archive of FOSS4G from 2013 to present, https://tib.eu/nhfj. The value of preserving tech videos may be questionable until they get old enough, see f

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal archiving and dormancy

2024-02-14 Thread Eli Adam via Discuss
Hi all, Over the years the Journal has been both an OSGeo newsletter of activity and a publication of peer reviewed articles. The OSGeo Journal has not been indexed*. The OSGeo Journal has been dormant for many years. The previous effort and interest that brought it to fruition seems to have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Conference resources working group

2022-08-29 Thread Eli Adam via Discuss
Hi Luca and all, That sounds like a great idea! Best regards, Eli From: Discuss on behalf of Astrid Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 11:15 PM To: Luca Delucchi Cc: OSGeo-Conf ; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023 (extended deadline)

2022-03-18 Thread Eli Adam via Discuss
Letters of intent are due March 21. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2023_Bid_Process Merry mapping, Eli On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:43 PM Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Dear OSGeo/FOSS4G Community, > > The deadline for proposals to host our beloved global conference was > extended. Please take a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Poll: Change FOSS4G structure to have some continuity of organization and management

2022-02-03 Thread Eli Adam via Discuss
bly start at the Board. Best regards, Eli > > I hope this message is not ignored.. > > Maxi > > > > Il giorno gio 3 feb 2022 alle ore 15:04 Eli Adam > ha scritto: > >> Hi all (particularly voting committee members), >> >> The current FOSS4G struct

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

2020-07-22 Thread Eli Adam
Hi Sergio, Adam recommends a good method for post processing maps. Before going to post processing, it is worth trying to get the results you want within QGIS. There have been some major labeling improvements and overhauls over the years giving QGIS some powerful labeling options. Here are a few

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
we can return to our mostly productive work in the various realms of OSGeo. Best regards, Eli > > > [1] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-04-12.log > > > > On 10/18/17 10:15 PM, Eli Adam wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Jody Garnett >> wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
ection I could not see a clear way to > deliberate the current election that would not be viewed as a personal > attack, or dismissed as campaigning. > > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 18 October 2017 at 10:23, Eli Adam wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jorge Sanz

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
unning for reelection would be obligated to show up for quorum and abstain from discussion and voting. The issue would be decided by the portion of the Board with their term running until 2018 and those who are not running for reelection. But yes, I do see how you personally would be hampered fro

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
reason to have a process and follow it even when you maybe don't "need" it, is so that you also follow the process when you *do* need it. Best regards, Eli > > Kind regards > > > > On 18 October 2017 at 18:07, Eli Adam wrote: >> >> Hi Venka, all, >&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: > Dear all, > > Based on the feedback received from two of our members (thank you Dimitris > and Gert-Jan), I did a small change in the voting system. The change is on > the number of votes than one can cast. The initial system was maximum

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-18 Thread Eli Adam
Hi Venka, all, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Eli Adam wrote: > Hi Venka, > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan > wrote: >> Hi Eli, >> >> First of all, thanks to Jorge for volunteering to be co-CRO >> and fixing the CRO a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-11 Thread Eli Adam
Eli, > > I did it yesterday without having a ticket involved. My bad sorry. > > I confirm that the CRO alias is now sending emails only to Vasile and me. > -- > Jorge Sanz > https://jorgesanz.net > > Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity and typos > > El 11 oct. 2017

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-11 Thread Eli Adam
17-October/036449.html > > > Gérald Fenoy > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay > >> Le 11 oct. 2017 à 16:04, Eli Adam a écrit : >> >> Nicolas, >> >> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:48 PM, nicolas bozon >> wrote: >>> >>> It is my ho

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-11 Thread Eli Adam
Nicolas, On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:48 PM, nicolas bozon wrote: > > It is my honor to nominate Jeff McKenna for the OSGeo Board of Directors > election. I don't think that you can nominate the CRO, nor can the CRO accept your nomination, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer. In some

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help fund the OSGeo Travel Grant Programme!

2017-07-20 Thread Eli Adam
Hi all, Demand for travel grants is fast outpacing funds and we've got many great applicants. Will you help us bring more people to Boston? Please donate to the cause. If you would like to support increasing access to FOSS4G, you can donate to the Travel Grant Programme here, https://www.paypal.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed OSGeo Vision

2015-11-19 Thread Eli Adam
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden wrote: > Suchith, Cameron, Board Members and everybody else, > > Our board has a face2face meeting in January 2016 (althought the wiki > mentions "2015") [3] (in a cold, wet -but thanks to Jeroen Ticheler > welcoming- Holland). > Some ide

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

2015-09-23 Thread Eli Adam
Hi Board Candidates, Charter members and all OSGeo members, Thanks to Steven for prompting to get some content into this election [0] along with the candidates who responded. Also thanks to Darrell [1] and mpg [2] for asking direct questions of the candidates. Are any candidates going to answer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

2015-07-08 Thread Eli Adam
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steven Feldman wrote: > Interesting idea > > What do you think the outcome would be? Seems to me that it would make it > would reduce competition in ‘elsewhere group’. Would it increase S American > chance of hosting a global FOSS4G? > That is an interesting point

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2017 RFP

2015-07-08 Thread Eli Adam
The OSGeo Conference Committee is happy to announce the call for hosting the FOSS4G 2017 event. Year after year, building on the success of previous conferences, excitement builds for the next FOSS4G! This year is no different with much excitement for Seoul, South Korea (http://2015.foss4g.org/). O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-02 Thread Eli Adam
Vasile, Great work pulling this together. We keep calling this discussion things like "Charter member elections" and addressing it during election periods. I think that topic is really something else, "the nature and types of OSGeo Membership" or something similar. If we evaluate our existing s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct Implementation Plan Was: Code of Conduct in Real Case

2015-06-24 Thread Eli Adam
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Eli Adam wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Bart van den Eijnden > wrote: >> Hey Jeff, >> >> if you truly feel this way, please put forward a motion on the next board >> meeting. This needs to be decided by the board as a w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct Implementation Plan Was: Code of Conduct in Real Case

2015-06-24 Thread Eli Adam
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > if you truly feel this way, please put forward a motion on the next board > meeting. This needs to be decided by the board as a whole I guess. > > Personally I’m not in favour of destroying all that good work, but I also

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

2015-04-21 Thread Eli Adam
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Iván Sánchez wrote: > El Martes 21. abril 2015 10.10.13 Serena Coetzee escribió: >> Dear all, >> >> on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to >> the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization >> with 192

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Earth View

2015-04-21 Thread Eli Adam
Hi Clement, That looks like some cool stuff! On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Iván Sánchez wrote: > El Lunes 20. abril 2015 08.44.03 Jachym Cepicky escribió: >> looks nice, keep pushing. Maybe you could integrate it with some already in >> place tool, like OL, Leaflet? > > Yeah, I'd be intereste

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on statement : avoiding slang. Was: Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation (call for input)

2015-04-02 Thread Eli Adam
> > With so many variants on the CoC/Diversity Statement, it would be great if a > international standard could be created, such as done for Open Source > Licenses. I think that there are a few CoC consolidation efforts like that currently, here is one [4] and another [5] that reference the first.

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC seeks public comment on candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard

2015-02-20 Thread Eli Adam
For anyone interested, the OGC is in a comment period for 3D Portrayal Service Standard. Details below. Best regards, Eli http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/130 Please note: This Request is scheduled to close on 27 February 2015. In the last decade, progress in airborne and mobi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Portland: volunteers for OSGeo Booth

2014-08-15 Thread Eli Adam
We all know that an exciting FOSS4G is just around the corner in Portland, OR September 8-13th. See all the great activities drawn together here, https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/ Check the sessions here, https://2014.foss4g.org/schedule/sessions/ and then... Registration here:http://foss4

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSS4G 2014 Code Sprint Sept. 13th

2014-08-11 Thread Eli Adam
Hi all, Only one month until the FOSS4G code sprint! That means it is just the right time for projects and individuals to fill out the Code Sprint wiki, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2014_Code_Sprint Merry Mapping, Eli On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jeff McKenna < jmcke...@gatewaygeo

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G and so much more - Volcanoes, Megafauna, Sprinting, Hieroglyphics and Beer, oh my!

2014-08-07 Thread Eli Adam
August 6, 2014 Portland, Oregon, USA View html version in browser http://eepurl.com/0nzhD Stay up to date on the website: https://2014.foss4g.org/ After you register [1] for FOSS4G and as you make your plans to join us in Portland, Oregon this September 8th - 13th, you might be wondering what ot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!

2014-08-01 Thread Eli Adam
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another non-profit > software org there is a hostile take-over trying to happen...so our bylaws > on elections are very important. When I approach someone who I want to nominate for chart

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Eli Adam
I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Pat Tressel wrote: > Tim -- > >> This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so >> obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list >> will know very q

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2 more nominations (2 of 2)

2014-07-31 Thread Eli Adam
This is a great nomination and I strongly support it. Dan stays as quiet as he can in preference of writing code. You might have seen his contributions in various commit logs. You can see what list activity he has [0] [1]. http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2 more nominations! (1 of 2)

2014-07-31 Thread Eli Adam
I also support Jim's nomination. Jim makes substantial contributions to GeoMoose including lots of sys admin'ing and infrastructure. He also contributes to the ruby binding of GDAL. You can see some of Jim's list activity [0] [1]. http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?mac

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

2014-07-24 Thread Eli Adam
Reclaiming "Like a girl" to no longer be an insult highlights that language is an important part of our interactions. While on campaigns, here are another two specifically on tech and gender, both with major corporate backing [0][1]. Circling back to OSGeo Charter Member nominations, Jeff receive

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello

2014-07-24 Thread Eli Adam
I second this nomination. I know Andrea mostly through his work on Geopaparazzi [0]. You can find more about Andrea's contributions through his github account [1] or his involvement in email lists [2][3] Best regards, Eli [0] https://geopaparazzi.github.io/geopaparazzi/ [1] https://github.com/m

[OSGeo-Discuss] Are you excited yet? FOSS4G Program details, Birds of a Feather, Call for Maps, and more!

2014-07-22 Thread Eli Adam
July 22, 2014 Portland, Oregon, USA Excitement builds as FOSS4G 2014 approaches! Join us in Portland, Oregon this September 8th - 13th. Half a dozen workshops have already filled up -- register now [1] to secure your seat in pre-conference workshops and your place at the conference. ** Call for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

2014-06-29 Thread Eli Adam
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > On 06/30/2014 12:07 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote: >>> >>> >>> 2. Charter members then vote (in/out) nominated charter members. This >>> will >>> be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a fixed number of >>> members for a larger sel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

2014-06-17 Thread Eli Adam
I like the idea of the new Charter Membership rules. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > Hi List, > > Regarding the new proposal for voting in charter members- it's slightly > off topic, but I doubt all existing Local Chapter representatives have been > voted in by at least 3 char

[OSGeo-Discuss] Community voting open through May 5th

2014-04-22 Thread Eli Adam
Hi all, more exciting FOSS4G news, help us by voting and spreading the news. Html version available online, https://2014.foss4g.org/foss4g-community-voting-open-through-may-5th/ Eli April 22, 2014 Portland, OR, USA Community voting open through May 5th What presentations do you want to see at F

[OSGeo-Discuss] Regular Session and Academic Track proposals due early next week (4/15)

2014-04-11 Thread Eli Adam
April 11, 2014 Portland, OR, USA Regular Session and Academic Track proposals due A reminder to all FOSS4G attendees - the proposal submission deadline for both the Academic Track[1] and Regular Sessions[2] is next Tuesday, April 15th. For the Regular Sessions, we strongly recommend reviewing our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom discussions

2013-09-27 Thread Eli Adam
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > The translation tools Drupal 7+ look quite good. On the flipside there's > much discussion of Pootle[1] I think that udig and geopaparazzi switched to https://www.transifex.com/ for translation. Eli > > I was more thinking of splitting out t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?

2013-04-03 Thread Eli Adam
PDX will also be completing their report for inclusion. Eli On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Yves Jacolin wrote: > Landon, > > Does this catégory is linked to Volume 12? > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Reports_2012 > > Y. > Le mardi 2 avril 2013 16:38:07 Landon Blake a écrit : >> Today I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award Nomination procedure (was Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan)

2012-09-18 Thread Eli Adam
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) wrote: > I am completely with Howard on this. +1 Same here, +1 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award#Process In past years, it seemed that only the rather small selection committee has known who did not win the Sol Katz award. In fact,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Convert a scanned map to vector format

2012-08-10 Thread Eli Adam
There is also gdal_polygonize and the reverse gdal_rasterize. I've had best success with these for large contiguous areas of the same value, like land cover/class. http://gdal.org/gdal_polygonize.html http://gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html Regards, Eli On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Zhengfan Li

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-PDX local chapter formation announcement (Oregon, United States)

2012-06-06 Thread Eli Adam
To all, especially those in the Pacific Northwest region, The local Open Source GIS group that meets in Portland is turning 4 years old. We are finally officially becoming an OSGeo Local Chapter after being an unofficial chapter for years. We are a geographically based chapter welcoming members fr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Board] OSGeo Elections

2012-05-24 Thread Eli Adam
but dangerous for continuous innovation and agility. > > Thanks, > Arnulf > > > On 05/18/2012 07:20 AM, Eli Adam wrote: >> Arnulf, >> >>> >>> Folks, >>> I have been on the board for six consecutive years which is a long time >>> for an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the Board Meeting in Seattle

2012-02-09 Thread Eli Adam
> take part but seven of nine directors still were a good turn out given I found this number listing funny (and factual). Bests, Eli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: RE : [OSGeo-Discuss] Distracting discussions of discussing [was:] What is North America?

2011-11-25 Thread Eli Adam
Mark, On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Mark Lucas wrote: > Daniel, > There is no disagreement that it would be good to coordinate and work with > other local chapters - that is certainly in our thinking. > To keep it simple and focused, we are not proposing any formal or implied > hierarchy betwe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSs4G + SoTM

2011-11-16 Thread Eli Adam
Frans, FOSS4G 2012 is in Beijing, China. SOTM not yet decided (at least according to this, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sotm) Eli On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: > ok -ok :) > thx for the reply.. > because i just got a lot of "OSM" in last FOSS4G Tokyo.. > and got t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nominating Eli Adam

2011-11-15 Thread Eli Adam
keting) to speak of. A perhaps important distinction for those making substantial contributions to the Marketing Committee, the results of which are widely enjoyed. Eli On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Percy wrote: > I'd like to nominate Eli Adam to be a charter member. Eli has be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Eli Adam
I thank the Board and all others for discussing this and encourage others to join in. It sounds like we will all have plenty of opportunity to contribute to the OSGeo vision and tasks. Arnulf asked for clarification on something that I wrote, >> From paying attention to Board traffic, it wa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] designing databases,organizing data formats to work with open source and proprie

2011-08-10 Thread Eli Adam
Karsten, I've not tried it myself, but this Q&A indicates that with 10.1 you can read directly from PostGIS. Although not entirely clear, simple editing may be available as well but not "complex spatial data and transactions ... ( i.e., topology, rasters, networks, replication, and arch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds forOSGeoprojects?

2011-06-05 Thread Eli Adam
PostGIS Raster seems to be doing pooled funding here: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster/PlanningAndFunding I don't know how well the effort has been promoted and publicized, I just learned about it from a recent email on the PostGIS list: http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeoprojects?

2011-06-03 Thread Eli Adam
Duarte, I agree with you and have similar ideas. I just recently sent an email similar (cites National Public Radio and Wikipedia examples) to these ideas to the Board. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2011-June/003816.html The premise of my idea is that there are numerous agencie