RE: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
More from the Canadian perspective - the GeoConnections program policy group has produced a Best Practices Guide for licensing of geospatial data which might help to inform the debate: http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_v12_finale_e.pdf It provides a good overview of the background issues and proposes 3 types of licences to standardize on: unrestricted-use with licence acknowledgement (click-through), an end-user licence and a distributor licence. Michael Adair GeoConnections Secretariat / Secrétariat de GéoConnexions 615 Booth St, 6th Floor / 615 rue Booth, 6e étage Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E9 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone / Téléphone: (613) 947-1342 Fax / Télécopieur: (613) 947-2410 www.geoconnections.org / www.geoconnexions.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Patton Sent: April 1, 2007 2:05 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata Jason Birch wrote: I'm sure that most of you have seen this, but these two free data resources (provincial and federal Canadian governements) are both employing a form of copyleft: Kamloops (Canadian municipality) takes an interesting approach. Given the interest, maybe the 'OSGeo people' who are already involved could organize a BOF session, and also do some presentations. If there are 'local' resources such as Canadian municipal/provincial/federal managers(or perhaps even better, people from their legal departments) who could attend, then perhaps they could also participate in the BOF/presentations. Also, maybe there are lawyers who are local(e.g. Victoria or BC) any who have some interest or expertise who could attend - even if their perspective is based on Canadian law, it might still help illuminate the discussions. -- Dave Patton Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project http://www.confluence.org/ Personal website - Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal articles and preparation
Hi, this topic would be interesting Jachym 2007/4/2, Daniel Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tyler, We've just finished a research paper that reviews the OGC Web Processing Service protocol and provides some suggested improvements and an example implementation. Is the OSGeo Journal ready for this type of entry? - Dan On 3/26/07, Tyler Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contributors to the upcoming release of the OSGeo Journal (formerly called the Newsletter) have been hard at work and we starting to wrap up draft versions. This is the last call for any news tidbits, event summaries or developer announcements about open source software projects. Drop me a note or add your content to: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Newsletter_Volume_1 and we'll be in touch. Deadline for all submissions is the end of the month. If you want to plan ahead, you are welcome to add yourself to the list of contributors for the next volume: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Newsletter_Volume_2 Of particular interest are interviews and case studies. Dates for next volume have not been set. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal articles and preparation
Hi Tyler, I will include an article about projects or cases from Brazil in the volume 2. My sugestion is call the OSGeo local chapter to translate the Journal to many languages. I can work with Brazilian OSGeo Chapter to translate to portuguese (BR). In this month, a new version of GeoLivre.org.br portal (the brazilian community of open source GIS - over than 700 users) will be finished and will include many informations about OSGeo. This new version was developed under Drupal. My idea is to use the GeoLivre as a portuguese language chanal to OSGeo news. Uchoa 2007/3/26, Tyler Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Contributors to the upcoming release of the OSGeo Journal (formerly called the Newsletter) have been hard at work and we starting to wrap up draft versions. This is the last call for any news tidbits, event summaries or developer announcements about open source software projects. Drop me a note or add your content to: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Newsletter_Volume_1 and we'll be in touch. Deadline for all submissions is the end of the month. If you want to plan ahead, you are welcome to add yourself to the list of contributors for the next volume: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Newsletter_Volume_2 Of particular interest are interviews and case studies. Dates for next volume have not been set. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Helton UCHOA :: [EMAIL PROTECTED];geolivre.org.br;open3dgis.org} Consultant in Free Software for Geomatics - 55 21 8272-4899 OpenGEO :: On-demand training and solutions :: www.opengeo.com.br Geolivre Conference 2007 :: FOSS GIS solutions :: www.geolivre.org GEO Livre community:: Because Geoinformation should be free :: www.geolivre.org.br Open3DGIS.org :: The Open Source Web 3D GIS :: www.open3dgis.org Be free by using Free Software, such as MapServer, uDIG, Open 3D GIS, QGIS... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [Viscom-dev] FW: Conference Proposal Notification
Well, as part of the sponsorship I got for Autodesk, we get a 45 minute speaking opportunity in the Products and Services Track. I could donate this time to OSGeo and you could present the topic below or refine further. Would this be of interest? Nathalie Nathalie Mainland Product Marketing Manager - MapGuide Autodesk, Inc. 3900 Civic Center South San Rafael, California 94903 Direct 415 507-8221 Cell 415 302-2635 Fax 415 507-8005 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Racicot Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:58 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Cc: 'Visibility Committee Discussion List' Subject: [Viscom-dev] FW: Conference Proposal Notification H... looks like my proposal for an OSGeo session at OSCON did not go over well. Anyone have a suggestion as to how to re-approach them to try and convince the powers that be that we should be there. Last year was a great success... maybe it was my proposal they did not like ;-( Any thoughts are welcome... A ++ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer 360.221.2441 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ e c o t r u s t pobox 1614 langley wa 98260 www.ecotrust.org ++ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:47 PM To: Aaron Racicot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Conference Proposal Notification Dear Aaron, On behalf of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 program committee, I want to thank you for your recent proposal: OSGeo: Practical Maps, Practical Apps Thank you for your interest in sharing your work with the open source community. While your proposal was considered closely, we are not able to include it in the program this year. In most cases proposals are declined because the topic of the talk or tutorial was already covered in another presentation, or the subject matter was too narrow or vendor specific. This year we again had far too many great talks to fit into the number of slots available. We encourage you to submit a proposal for next year's conference, and we thank you again for taking the time to submit your proposal. We would like to offer you a 25% discount off the registration fee if you simply want to attend. Just register as an Attendee and use this code in the discount code field: os07dsd There are still opportunities to sponsor or exhibit at the event. For sponsor/exhibitor possibilities, please contact Yvonne Romaine, Sales and Exhibits Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We hope to see you there! Regards, Vee McMillen Speaker/Operations Manager O'Reilly Media, Inc. image001.gif Description: image001.gif ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
