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EGO versus ECO
A great article about who we think that we are: http://www.ecohustler.co.uk/from-ego-to-eco-a-new-sense-of-self/
Quote of the day
“If fifty million people say a stupid thing, it’s still a stupid thing.” – Anatole France
Best in sales 2014 Award
Geosparc is the proud owner of the best in sales 2014 Award of the founders circle.
This is a perfect incentive to do better next year!
Goodbye to my father
Last month, my father passed away. During this strong emotional period I only posted some private thoughts, remembering this period. A couple of weeks after the funeral, I received following recording of my Godchild Jonas playing for my father a last post. Expressing his feelings during that moment.
I asked him to perform this and am very grateful he did this.
I also want to thank Tomas who was so attentive to take his phone and record the scene.
Tomas was the funeral director of the ceremony, which was executed with a lot of respect.
Afscheid
Wanneer ik mijn papa in 3 woorden zou typeren dan is dat
dankbaar
bescheiden
content
maar dan ga ik voorbij aan de vele andere talenten die hem sierden:
doorzetter, groot hart, verstandig, rationeel-emotioneel, een lieve echtgenoot, papa en opa.
Als ik mijn papa mag beschrijven in zijn eigen afscheidswoorden
Ik ben content.
Ik heb heel veel geluk gehad
Ik heb een goed leven gehad
de laatste woorden van mijn papa aan mijn mama:
lieve schat, het is mooi geweest, laat me gaan, dikke zoen, slaapwel
Het is goed geweest
De heiland heeft mij omarmd
En verlossing gebracht.
Het is goed geweest
Mijn ogen hebben Hem aanschouwd
Ik heb hem in mijn hart gesloten
Mijn innigste wens is nu
met vreugde te mogen heengaan.
met vreugde te mogen heengaan.
Vertaald door Lieselot, Kristien en Julienne!
Entrepreneurial spirit
Just a small thought snippet about a blog I've read ….
I Founded a couple of companies, I bought a couple of companies, Merged a couple of companies – and I even sold one. Still surviving and happy with the things I’m doing.
The good thing is, I learned a lot from these experiences.
As reaction on the blog of Bruno Segers he mention's from his experience the 5 basic principles for his new venture:
1. Not working on a payroll
2. Don't take the lead of a multinational organisation
3. Don't take the lead of a stock listed company
4. No company where unions are too strong represented
5. No politics.
Well I think I've done all that and the strange thing is. I don't see myself as a serial entrepreneur. I see myself as somebody who want to change the world (even glad with small mini-mini-mini- things I can contribute) and make other people happy. Doing small things, trying to create some impact.
This makes me happy and gives me a lot of energy.
No multinational organisations, but working with companies in other countries.
No payroll for those who take ownership and responsability
No Public listed stocks, but stakeholders you can talk to and give you the power and energy to go on
No unions, but people you can talk to as your own family, and empower them to believe in the story you have to tell
and of course – be open – be honest and respectful – no politics
The company I started with DFC Software Engineering 21 years ago still exists and is super valuable as a bespoke software specialist.
Also The spin-out I created from DFC (Geosparc) is even more valuable, and is after 6 years already bigger than DFC. Generating global revenue but with a strong focus on the European market.
Maybe we should spin-out a third company out of Geosparc Which will grow in 3 years towards a bigger company than Geosparc… 🙂
D.
How Open Source and INSPIRE can be used as a tactical weapon for economical growth in Europe
What My presentation on INSPIRE-Geospatial World Forum 2015
When 25-29 May 2015, in Lisbon Congress Center, Portugal
Co-Authors
Torsten Friebe (LatLon)
Giacomo Martirano (Epsilon-Italia)
Abstract
Europe is well known for its broad network of SME's. In fact, more than 99% of all European businesses are SME's. The recognition that SME's are important for the successful deployment of a platform like INSPIRE is proven by projects such as SMESpire and programs such as ARE3NA. This paper builds on the observation of Torsten Friebe (member of the technical commitee of the deegree project) and other OSGeo community members saying that still a lot of inefficiencies exist between the different projects from various administrations in different countries. Often the consequence of a “not invented here” syndrome. Currently there is no OSGeo project which provides a full INSPIRE compliant stack consisting out of INSPIRE View (INSPIRE VS TG WMS Profil und INSPIRE), Download (direct access WFS 2.0.0) and Discovery Service (CSW 2.0.2 ISO AP) implementations. On the other hand we challenge the experience of Giacomo Martirano, the project lead of the SMESpire project, an initiative to create a community of SME's building INSPIRE related solutions. During this presentation, Dirk Frigne (founder and spiritual father of the geomajas project will combine these observations and lessons learned to point out some ideas and possibilities how to launch an ambitious initiative where Europe and here SME's can form a strong player on the global market to offer solutions for business needs world wide and to support tackling the ever increasing environmental challenges. These ideas are based on Dirk’s passion to create a great European software industry and his experience of founding an open source community and contributing to other technology projects with strong impact on the INSPIRE needs. As the hands-on person he is, the idea's presented here will be supported by first hand experience of setting up such an initiative, based on the co-operation of open source communities and a part of the SMESpire network.
My Toyota is fantastic
Being on a hacking event in Essen at the Linux hotel (fossgis) to work on OSGeo open source and preparing the next FOSSGIS conference, I put my luggage in my car at 9:01 exactly. I remember the exact time, because somebody called me at that right moment on my cell when he saw me walking with my luggage from within the hotel. I decided to leave my coat also in the car, since it wasn't raining anymore and there was no wind (like the night before).
After breakfast, the meeting started (foto).
Suddenly, people went into the room telling a tree has fallen down and one car was severely damaged. I am very lucky I was not in the car when it happened. It was as if the tree was waiting for the right moment to fall.
Examining the tree, it seems that he was not very deeply attached into the soil. Only a small root into the ground for the stability. The tree was very old and I suppose rotten. (foto)
Unluckily, the tree had chosen my car as a target, right in the middle.
A branch of the tree pierced the front window, through the drivers seat, just to the bottom of the car.
Parking "nur für gäste" ….
After removing the fallen tree, 2 other trees needed to be removed also.
After some hours I'm trying to have myself organized again and to get my mobility back, as I have a busy agenda next week.
Charlie Hebdo est mort
Today, January 7th, France is shocked about a terroristic attack in Paris against Charlie Hebdo.
He died because he protected one of the most important assets we have:
Our freedom of speech.
I suggest to change the open source licenses in such a way, that the software under those licenses may never be used to support terroristic activities. (@: EUPL, GPL, AGPL, Apache, BSD, MIT, Mozilla, …)