OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing a reliable home for open source geospatial software. It also serves as a vehicle for promoting open source software and is a place where the community can gather to drive ahead innovations and maturation of the technologies we collectively share.
Although we have a tremendous volunteer community -- including corporations as well as individuals -- involved in the advancement of open source technologies, some things still have hard costs. To cover these costs we need your help. Your support will help ensure that OSGeo will be a sustainable and healthy organization representing open source geospatial technologies long into the future.
Mapbender is the tip of the iceberg, a thin layer of software providing access to the OSGeo SDI stack.
The end-user interfaces are highly focused, only showing the required functionality, making is easy to use. At the same time, it is possible to create full-fledged interfaces with security proxying, digitizing, auto snapping and more.
Votes will be submitted to Laura by email (at mailto:chicago@osgeo.org), and she will collect them until 11:00am pacific time on February 27th. Only members may vote, and each member may vote give 10 votes for candidates for membership. All votes should be in one email from the member, and the member who is voting should be clearly identified.
Laura will tally votes by candidate and order them, submitting them to the board for final approval. In case of ties (very likely) the board will select from the tied group to complete the 24 candidates using whatever criteria it sees fit to use.
The new members will be announced to the list once approved by the board.
I
guess it has to be one of the PMC, since the foundation requires the PMC
contact to the board being member. So I'd say; you Cameron :) You've been
very active in promoting mapbuilder into OSGF and other projects and you've
got a good idea of the future of mapbuilder and OSGeo I believe.
Alain Grignon has a long standing history, working in the Web mapping/Web
GIS field from its early beginnings. He has over 10 years experience with
various web mapping technologies, initially with proprietary technologies
such as the former Autodesk Mapguide and ArcIMS and now more recently
Mapserver and GDAL/OGR. Having worked many years for a geomatics research
company, Alain has had early exposure to many new and innovative
technologies. Installing his first Linux workstation in 1994, Alain is no
stranger to open source software and its benefits and challenges. Alain has
worked in both the private and public sectors and understands the needs of
both parties with respect to technologies and innovation. Not only does Mr.
Grignon have his own Mapserver implementation running and accessible to the
public (http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/landslides/clp/interactive_maps_e.php) but he
is actively promoting its use to other projects within Natural Resources
Canada (NRCan). As a member to the OS Geospatial Foundation, Alain hopes to
bring his experience and knowledge as a client to open source to help the
foundation in developing it's capabilities and services to incorporate this
very important element. Alain attended last year's Open Source GeoSpatial
2005 conference and is also on the organizing committee for this year's
FOSS4G 2006 conference in Switzerland. Alain is an enthusiastic supporter of
open source GIS both in his work environment and outside working hours, and
hopes to leverage this enthusiasm and his expertise as a member for the
benefit of the OS Geo Foundation.
Thank you for your consideration and support.
I
would like to second the nomination of Alain Grignon.The Government of Canada in general, and
Natural Resources in particular have been strong supporters of open source
geospatial over the past five years, and having Alain as a member to
represent that user community would be extremely helpful to the continuing
development of open source geospatial in Canada.Other members of NrCan have expressed their
support for having Alain as a member to help voice their needs, and his
personal history as a user and promoter of open source geospatial within the
government make him an excellent candidate to be a member and representative
of that particular user community.
Andrey Kiselev
Frank Warmerdam
Andrey
is the primary maintainer of libtiff, and the a key member of the GDAL/OGR
team.He has been selected to
participate in the GDAL/OGR Project Steering Committee. Andrey is based in
Russia and is professionally involved in an open source geospatial enterprise
there.He also brings connections to a
variety of open source geospatial technology activities in Russia.
Antonio
Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Gilberto Camara
Dr.
Miguel Monteiro is currently the head of the Image Processing Division of
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He holds a DPhil from
the Sussex University (UK), and has been involved in the development of image
processing and GIS software for the last 20 years.
The OSGeo Web Site Committee (WebCom) was established at the first OSGeo board meeting. In general, you can blame us for all content in www.osgeo.org, and other non-project-specific web sites. Committee status information, policies, meeting minutes and working documents live
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OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing a reliable home for open source geospatial software. It also serves as a vehicle for promoting open source software and is a place where the community can gather to drive ahead innovations and maturation of the technologies we collectively share.
Although we have a tremendous volunteer community -- including corporations as well as individuals -- involved in the advancement of open source technologies, some things still have hard costs. To cover these costs we need your help. Your support will help ensure that OSGeo will be a sustainable and healthy organization representing open source geospatial technologies long into the future.
OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing a reliable home for open source geospatial software. It also serves as a vehicle for promoting open source software and is a place where the community can gather to drive ahead innovations and maturation of the technologies we collectively share.
Although the core of OSGeo is a set of dedicated volunteers, OSGeo relies on donations from generous sponsors and supporters to fund day-to-day activities and events.
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