Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter Held First Annual Meeting
Landon, cool to see lots of activity in your local chapter. I think the idea of awarding good geo data stewardship is very good and hopefully some other local chapters are interested in picking up this idea. The list of chapter members who are willing to serve as outreach speakers could also be extended to the international level. Do you have any suggestions of how we could organize this? Some questions that come up to my mind are whether people would be required to have some formal relationship with OSGeo in order to do this? What level of official endorsement would this mean for OSGeo? How can we keep this both easy to manage (not do anything) but prevent having people talk nonsense in the name of OSGeo? An informal list of speakers who are at least recognized by some other OSGeo members would probably be a good start. Best regards, Arnulf. Landon Blake wrote: On Saturday, February 21, 2009 the California Chapter held its first annual meeting in Davis, California. We had 10 people in attendance. (I want to thank Alex Mandel and the other people at UC Davis for setting up the meeting and hosting it.) I wanted to share two (2) things that developed during the meeting with everyone on the discuss list, since the ideas might be used by other local chapters. We talked about putting together a list of chapter members that would be willing to serve as outreach speakers to other professional groups and societies. You can view this list (which is just starting) on this wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Outreach_Speakers We also decided the chapter would give an annual award to a public agency or other organization in California that we wanted to recognize for efforts to promote free and open access to California geodata. This idea is still taking shape, but I think the final award will be a framed certificate and letter. (Something that would look nice hanging on the wall.) I hope to start the design of the letter and certificate soon, so if others wanted to help, I'd appreciate that. The idea of the award is to reward and encourage good geo data stewardship in California. You can see the wiki page for the award here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Geodata_Access_Award Landon Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Arnulf Benno Christl http://www.osgeo.org (OSGeo Board Member) +50.7342N +7.0707E ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w stack building notes: maybe a dedicated wiki?
G. Allegri wrote: osgeo4w is making its way in various institutions. The tam-tam has begun and I hear people beginning to ask about it. The Windows users are the most between GIS users, so it is an expected clamour. Right yesterday I've been asked if it's possible to manage GRASS/QGIS/GDAL/R/Python bindings building with the same ease as on Linux platforms. I've left the Windows world some years ago, but now I need to start again with it, and I need to answer this question to my boss and collegues. I've read in the recent MLs threads about QGIS and MSVC, GRASS on MSYS, R... I'm not sure but AFAIU MSYS too... My boss has asked me to have a build of GRASS7, with the new Python bindings, and the rest of the stack I said before. Is it possible to organize in the OSGEO wiki some notes on how to start up with the building of it? There are various sparse notes (for GRASS and QGIS), but they mostly refer to the single executables, and not to the Osgeo4w way. I know it's not easy to realize it, first of all because everything is evolving very fast, and things change in a day... But it could help, at least to have a first reference (notes and people working on that specific topic). OsGeo4w wiki could be the right place. Anyway, next days I will start the long way to GRASS7+QGIS building! :) Giovanni, I would first note that the http://osgeo4w.osgeo.org/ is already a Trac wiki and anyone can extend it. Where it is of interest I think it would be nice to add extensive detail on how packages are built. In particular the GRASS + QGIS group are fairly involved and it would be nice to have the process described - perhaps referencing existing docs (like the WinGRASS build topic that already exists in the GRASS wiki) as appropriate. To some extent this will depend on those who are doing the builds now to describe details - in this case Jurgen. I will note that some package include associated source packages which include adjustments made for OSGeo4W builds. For instance, the GDAL source packages for 1.5 and 1.6 include the actual nmake.opt file that was used, and some cygwin-bash scripts used to prepare the package file. These can be useful if someone else needs to pick up maintenance of the packages. There is also a an existing general topic on how to build OSGeo4W packages which I would encourage anyone interested in packaging to review: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions You might also want to join the OSGeo4W mailing list for detailed discussions of packaging. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w stack building notes: maybe a dedicated wiki?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com wrote: ... To some extent this will depend on those who are doing the builds now to describe details - in this case Jurgen. We are looking forward to this. Also for the aspect of a potential maintenance transition to someone else (since Juergen seeks another maintainer). We need to enable more people to make builds, please document the instructions in OSGeo4W-trac. Then it will be much easier to find a new maintainer. Congratulations for the hard work so far. Thanks for this, Markus (selling OSGeo4W currently at the Italian GRASS/GFOSS meeting http://gfoss2009.crs4.it/ ) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
