[NOMINATION] - json singh

[jashanbhullar]

I have looked at the list of tasks admins do.

• The person I am nominating would be able to support one or more of the items in the listed admin tasks.

The Spatial Community User You Are Nominating

json singh

Nominating for

Self

Your Spatial Community Username

json singh

Why are you nominating this person?

I have been working in the GIS domain for the past 6 years as a developer. After attending the last FOSS4G 2024 in Brazil I have decided to shift gears and work on the community side of things. I am actively volunteering for OSGeo doing various activities such as handling discourse conversations and sharing my few cents of opinion here and there. I have just become active in OSGeo UK and working in "Geobharat", a geospatial community back in India.
If it's 10 minutes - 4 hours / week, it's something I can handle as all my focus is as I said is on "Community Building" this year.

What do you currently like about the community?

I like that it has space where people can connect and talk about GIS things. Slack is very accessible to everyone and anyone can start a conversation on day 1.

What would you consider changing about the community, if anything?

I have been a long time lurker/member of "the Spatial Community" but can't say how I have helped, or it has helped me.
What I would change:

• Add more information on the website about the community, and it can do for an individual
• Although Slack is accessible it's still a closed platform where the conversations eventually die, radical solution is moving to discourse but that raises the entry bar. A middle solution could be a monthly newsletter summarizing an information about various topics discussed on Slack which can be preserved as archives on the website (hello RSS feed)
• Although having passion about GIS is great, at the end of the day everyone has to pay bills. A small focus on the community should be to actively encourage people to share jobs and opportunities in GIS domain.

And I can have more suggestions but not sure what "the spatial community" is about

Which of the listed admin tasks would you be most able to support?

• Engage and welcome new members
• Share news on upcoming Geospatial events
• Remove spam
• Website updates
• Plan additional activities

Any other special skills or relevant experience?

• Have worked in Hugo & Astro, not sure what the current website is using
• Know DNS so can maintain DNS records or email server if necessary
• Jack of all trade - can learn as necessary

What channels do you currently spend time in - or, what are your areas of experience?

• FOSS4G channels as I am a serial attendee
• PostGIS (love the tech)
• Maplibre (very much interested)
• Jobs (actively freelancing)
• Geoserver because I have kinda used it and wrote the documentation on Docker setup

Where in the world are you located, and what timezone are you in?

Moved to London (GMT, UTC + 00) from India