Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Hi, Does anyone know what's the best (cheapest) option to get to Bolsena by train or bus from directions like Germany (Berlin), Czech Republic (Prague) or - would be best - Poland (Warsaw)? Any tested traveling options? Perhaps there someone is going to travel by car from Germany or Czech Republic, and has 1-2 free sits. Certainly, I'll share costs. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
I guess I'm assuming that Mateusz talked to Christopher before posting this? Anyway, I'd certainly welcome this kind of service. If there is community buy-in and Christopher isn't interested in setting it up, I'd be happy to install it on osgeo2. I've worked with it a bit for an unrelated project, and it's really easy to deal with in its basic configuration, even to the extent of pulling its subscription list from an external (Google Docs, etc) CSV file. If there's enough interest on this list, then let's pull it over to WebCom for discussion of details and take care of it from there. Jason From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo Regardless, setting up the planet stuff wouldn't be huge maintenance, but would still need someone keen to set it up and some support from web committee to get started. winmail.dat___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
Folks, Is there any plan or motion to setup an official OSGeo Planet? Chris developed and maintains it at http://planetosgeo.crschmidt.net/ and it gathers a number of OSGeo bloggers, so the idea works! Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to planet.osgeo.org and make it more an official OSGeo Community thing. There is a number of well-known and popular planets around the Web: http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.gnome.org/ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ etc. and all of them play very important role in these communities. Perhaps this subject has been discussed already, but I couldn't find anything in the archives. Any thoughts? Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
On 12-Feb-08, at 8:31 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to planet.osgeo.org and make it more an official OSGeo Community thing. I support the idea and have often daydreamed about having a more community-centric site in addition to our main outward focused one. Highlighting blogs from Friends of OSGeo would be neat, along with other things I like: * polls * job postings * script sharing * event planning tools * more that I can't remember... Unfortunately I don't have the time to really give that a start and it would require support from the web committee. Regardless, setting up the planet stuff wouldn't be huge maintenance, but would still need someone keen to set it up and some support from web committee to get started. You've got my vote :) Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
I like the idea Mateusz. I think I'd probably have to remove my blog from the list though, as I sometimes blog about proprietary software as well :) How does this work for the other planets; do they allow wishy-washy open source proponents like me? Jason From: Mateusz Loskot Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to planet.osgeo.org and make it more an official OSGeo Community thing. winmail.dat___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for free Country/State/City/districts maps
Hi folks, I have a specific need for a customer: they have a flash application which let users to click an object and then open child levels. Example: when users click a country, he can see the states of this country and so on. This application handle the following levels: Country - State - City - District The application is running but there are some itens from this dataset which are currently missing. It´s not difficult to find country or even states boundaries. But cities and districts boundaries I thought would propably hard to find or it will be a country-by-country research. A last note: we can´t re-make the application - which will probably be easier using WMS or Google Maps. thanks for any help -- Eduardo P. Kanegae ps.: the list bellow shows for what CITIES we can´t found district limits and the STATES(*) we can´t found cities boundaries. COUNTRY STATE CITY Algeria *Annaba ProvinceAnnaba City Algeria Tebessa ProvinceOuenza City Algeria Tebessa ProvinceBoukhadra City Argentina Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires Argentina Santa Fe Province Villa Constitucion Belgium Wallonia Province Liège Belgium Brussels Province Brussels Belgium *Flanders Province Gent Belgium Wallonia Province Liège Belgium Brussels Province Brussels Belgium Wallonia Province Charleroi Bosnia HerzegovinaZenicko-Dobojski Province Zenica Bosnia HerzegovinaRepublika SrpskaPrijedor Bosnia HerzegovinaRepublika SrpskaPrijedor Brazil Minas GeraisTimóteo Brazil Santa Catarina São Francisco do Sul Canada Québec Contrecoeur Canada Ontario Hamilton China Beijing Beijing Czech Republic Northern MoraviaOstrava France Lorraine region Amnéville France Paris region (Ile de France)Saint Denis France Paris region (Ile de France)Saint Denis France Nord - Pas de CalaisDunkerque France ProvenceFos sur Mer France Pays de Loire Basse-Indre France ProvenceSt Chély d'Apcher France Paris region (Ile de France)Saint Denis France LorraineFlorange Germany Nordrhein Westfalen Duisburg Germany Brandenburg Eisenhüttenstadt India Delhi New-Delhi Italy Toscana Piombino Kazakhstan *Karaganda Temirtau Liberia Monrovia (Monteserrado) Monrovia Liberia *Nimba county Yekepa Liberia *Grand Bassa county Buchanan Malysia *Wilayah Persekutuan (Selangor) Kuala Lumpur Mexico Michoacan Kuala Lumpur Morocco *Grand Casablanca regionCasablanca Morocco *Nador province Nador Morocco *Doukkala-Abda El Jadida province Poland *Mazowieckie (Mazovia) province Warsaw Poland Slaskie (Silesia) province Katowice Poland Slaskie (Silesia) province Dabrowa Poland Malopolskie province (Lesser) Cracow Poland Slaskie (Silesia) province Sosnowiec Poland Slaskie (Silesia) province Swietochlowice Romania Transylvania region Hunedoara Romania Moldavia region Galati South AfricaGauteng provinceVanderbijlpark South AfricaGauteng provinceVereeniging South AfricaKwa-Zulu Natal province Newcastle South AfricaWestern Cape province Saldanha Spain Madrid province Madrid Spain Madrid province Madrid Spain *Valencia province Sagunto Spain *Guipuzcoa, Pais Vasco Zumarraga Spain *Guipuzcoa, Pais Vasco Bergara Spain *Vizcaya, Pais VascoSestao Spain *Navarra province Aranguren Spain
[OSGeo-Discuss] Jobs list
Hi all, we have 40 subscribers until now. I'm sure there's more people interested to signin and offer or find beautiful long/short/progamming/scholar/etc jobs. this is the page: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs ciao Lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoWeb 2008 CFP student competition ($$$!)
The deadline for papers for GeoWeb 2008 is March 7th: http://www.geoweb.org/cfp-08.asp Having been involved with this conference for several years, I find it yields a nicely different set of offerings than the usual fare. This year, the focus is very much on GIS infrastructures -- both information and physical infrastrucutres. (And, the venue is great too: Vancouver BC in the summer is glorious...) This year there is also a student competition for best technical contributions, likely with significant cash prizes: http://www.geoweb.org/student_contest.asp As a member of the program committee, I strongly encourage members of the open source community to submit papers, both students and otherwise. I see a good fit for projects that show the value in using and combining OS systems into existing or new infrastructure ecosystems. If any questions, feel free to contact me directly. -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Ciao Chris, I heard from aaime about this plan, I actually think it would be pretty nice to spend a few days all together, even though a whole week is probably a bit too much for me. Jeroen, are you sure you cannot hold a bit more? It is not that easy to spare a whole week but it might be nice! Btw, since now developers seem to have become a limitating factor, probably some supporting company could donate some funding to this event. The ROI should be good since in a monastry there would not be much to do besides working :-)! Simone. On Feb 12, 2008 5:50 PM, Chris Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh shoot. We were discussing this internally for awhile (maybe too long...). I think TOPP can commit to funding at least 6 of our people to come. And potentially another 4-5 if things work out well and there's some other OpenLayers critical mass. And we're hoping to encourage some other GeoServer devs to come. Any chance there's another 6 people that could confirm participation? Or a chance that we could rent just half of the place? Chris Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Dear all, Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. Cheers, Jeroen Dear all, Further to my earlier email (below), I have now created a WIKI page and filled out the possible weeks that an event could be held. To make a final booking, I want to be sure to have at least 15 people that confirm their participation and an indication of at least another 20 people that the have an interest to join. Otherwise it may end up being an expensive experiment from my side ;-) You can sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Hacking_event Please sign up before 8 February, after which a decision will be made. Greetings, Jeroen Dear all, I've been thinking of getting an OSGeo hacking or code sprint event setup in an Italian monastry. Friends of mine take care of the place which is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . Its probably one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, although I wouldn't bet my hand on it if we all start to download satellite images. It should be perfect for SVN, IRC and mail. The cost would be about 200 Euro per person for the week (food not included, we can organize that separately). There's a large kitchen and large dining space. Obviously since the weather most likely permits, we would eat outside overlooking the lake. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery: http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Where: http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Are people interested in such a thing? Looking at availability of the place, best would be June or possibly in May (not always available!). If there's enough interest, I can start getting people to sign up and get a booking done. There would be 7 days time, so it can also be divided into smaller time chunks that are occupied by different projects. Let me know, greetings from Rome, Jeroen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss !DSPAM:4005,47b1bddd213671628642973! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- --- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob:+39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it --- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Oh shoot. We were discussing this internally for awhile (maybe too long...). I think TOPP can commit to funding at least 6 of our people to come. And potentially another 4-5 if things work out well and there's some other OpenLayers critical mass. And we're hoping to encourage some other GeoServer devs to come. Any chance there's another 6 people that could confirm participation? Or a chance that we could rent just half of the place? Chris Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Dear all, Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. Cheers, Jeroen Dear all, Further to my earlier email (below), I have now created a WIKI page and filled out the possible weeks that an event could be held. To make a final booking, I want to be sure to have at least 15 people that confirm their participation and an indication of at least another 20 people that the have an interest to join. Otherwise it may end up being an expensive experiment from my side ;-) You can sign up here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Hacking_event Please sign up before 8 February, after which a decision will be made. Greetings, Jeroen Dear all, I've been thinking of getting an OSGeo hacking or code sprint event setup in an Italian monastry. Friends of mine take care of the place which is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . Its probably one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, although I wouldn't bet my hand on it if we all start to download satellite images. It should be perfect for SVN, IRC and mail. The cost would be about 200 Euro per person for the week (food not included, we can organize that separately). There's a large kitchen and large dining space. Obviously since the weather most likely permits, we would eat outside overlooking the lake. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery: http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Where: http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Are people interested in such a thing? Looking at availability of the place, best would be June or possibly in May (not always available!). If there's enough interest, I can start getting people to sign up and get a booking done. There would be 7 days time, so it can also be divided into smaller time chunks that are occupied by different projects. Let me know, greetings from Rome, Jeroen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss !DSPAM:4005,47b1bddd213671628642973! begin:vcard fn:Chris Holmes n:Holmes;Chris org:The Open Planning Project adr:;;349 W. 12th Street, #3;New York;NY;10014;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Managing Director, Strategic Development x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://topp.openplans.org version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] problem viewing U.S. map w/ Quantum GIS
I have opened a shape file of the U.S. showing U.S. Congressional Districts. Alaska does not appear correctly in the Map View window of Quantum GIS. I have previously opened this file using ArcGIS without this problem. Here is the link to the file I'm using: http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html#cgd110p The title is Congressional Districts of the United States - 110th Congress http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/cgd110p.html and the zip file is cgd110p020.tar.gz http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/nationalatlas/cgd110p020.tar.gz . So, does anyone know why Alaska does not look right? I need to be able to work with this file as part of an important job assignment. I am a novice w/ GIS, btw. Thanks, Roger ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. One more confirmation that develpers are *the* limiting resource in FOSS ecosystems. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
Could you please explain what you mean to a poor OS developer? Simone. On Feb 12, 2008 4:44 PM, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. One more confirmation that develpers are *the* limiting resource in FOSS ecosystems. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- --- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob:+39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it --- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
On 2/12/08, Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. One more confirmation that develpers are *the* limiting resource in FOSS ecosystems. I have no idea how you reached that conclusion. I would love to spend a week in monastery in Bolsena communing with fellow developers and FOSS enthusiasts... I would be happy to show that I am not a limiting resource if you can come up with approx. USD 2000 or so to make it possible for me. Hard money is more difficult to come by than time, although to some extent they are translatable bi-directionally. Given a choice to use my money to pay my mortgage or attend a conference, I would choose the former. I hope this event becomes a reality, but the distance * critical mass factor is a very important thing to consider in communities that require physical presence. Bypassing this limitation has been the real power of the internet, but it sure is a poor substitute for the real experience of a monastery or Bolsena. Virtual *anything* is just not as good as the real thing, but it makes do in a pinch. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
