[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan
The following policy published on the web site of the Cabinet's CIO might be of interest http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp http://www.cio.gov.uk/documents/open_source/090224opensource.pdf Best Wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] meruvian program
Hey Frans, I was out of office for several weeks and only now found your mail. This sounds very interesting, I can see that you have been very aactive in the past years! Congratulations. Best regards, Arnulf. Frans Thamura wrote: hi there i just create a slide, still mixed indonesia and english, will create the english soon but you can see what am i doing here http://www.slideshare.net/flatburger/leadership-20-982609 i am also create new program here, leadership this is the slide http://www.slideshare.net/flatburger/leadership-20 right now, because of arnulf training and material of mapguide, i will put a program of GIS shortly in our program. meruvian is non profit organization based in Indonesia, we have 8 offices all over java island and bali island. we work closely with goverment such as ministery of research, ministery of education and ministery of infocom, and industry, also with gudang garam the biggest cigarete company in indonesia, makin group the plantation company, mitra 2000 a spare part manufacturing, and a lot of education school i am glad if we can have more firm relationship with all of you in the future NB: we also exchange open education content with blender, ___ 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] FOSS4G 2009: One week extension to Workshops and Tutorial abstract submissions
Cameron Shorter wrote: Sydney, Australia. 2 March 2009. In response to requests from presenters, the deadline for the FOSS4G 2009 workshop and tutorial abstract submissions has been extended by one week, to Monday 9 March 2009. If you are considering submitting a workshop, please notify your intent by emailing the Workshop/Tutorial coordinator, Mark Leslie m a r k . l e s l i e AT l i s a s o f t . c o m About FOSS4G FOSS4G, held 20-23 October 2009 in Sydney, Australia, is the international gathering of tribes for open source geospatial communities. The theme for the FOSS4G 2009 conference will be User Driven. Users and developers are encouraged present their latest projects and software to demonstrate the power of Open Source for system integration through a series of workshop sessions and tutorial presentations. Session participants should expect to see presentations on both geospatial open source and propriety software integration along with pure open source solutions. Workshops Workshops are expected to be a hands-on experience with participants following along with the instructor, working directly with the application under discussion. All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers (two students sharing one system) to support this vision. Workshop computers will pre-installed with a basic image containing standard packages running in a Windows XP environment. A projector will be provided for each computer room for use within a workshop. Instructors will need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the Conference Organising Committee if required. Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop. Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs etc. Due to the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop, instructors will receive a single complementary registration to the conference for delivering a workshop. All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics: * Practical Introduction to * Integrating Open Source * Spatial Data Privacy and Security Tutorials Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with computers, however presenters may optionally make use of delegate laptops and the FOSS4G LiveDVD. At least 80% of delegates are expected to be carrying a laptop and FOSS4G LiveDVDs will be given to all delegates. Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials. Any hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description. Presenters making use of the Live DVD or Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) will be expected to contribute to testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is properly installed. To discuss your requirements for LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/. All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics: * Practical introductions * Interoperability * Spatial data accuracy * Spatial data privacy * Spatial data security * System implementation * Data migration Submission instructions and templates are available at http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/ and http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/. The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 2, 2009. FOSS4G 2009 Highlights *The Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP)*: FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world. *FOSS4G Live DVD*: LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc *Installfest*: The Installfest
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan
Suchith, It is great to see this type of support for open source software in government. I wish we saw this same type of support for open source software in government agencies within the United States. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:22 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source,Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan The following policy published on the web site of the Cabinet's CIO might be of interest http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp http://www.cio.gov.uk/documents/open_source/090224opensource.pdf Best Wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code?
Again this is GPL, not BSD, but GRASS GIS has TIN support: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.delaunay.html --Wolf On 02.03.2009 20:34, Traian Stanev wrote: Not sure about the BSD licensing part, but here are some cool TIN triangulators which are open source. This one (Streaming Delaunay) has BSD-like license, but may be overkill for what you need: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/sd/ This one (FIST) has nebulous licensing (different for commercial and non-commercial uses): http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~held/projects/triang/triang.html And finally, this one is pretty good, but also has unclear licensing: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html Traian -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:17 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source TIN code? The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in 3-space). It doesn't have to be really good, just good enough for some simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed). I know there are a bunch of TIN algs out there on the net in various places, but I don't have much experience with any of them. If anyone has any pointers, I'd appreciate it. Thanks -- -mpg ___ 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 -- :3 ) Wolf Bergenheim ( 8: ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Call for speakers
Hi Everyone, We extended the call for speakers however - 32 of the roughly 40 speaking slots are now full. Thank you kindly to those that submitted talks. If you're interested in submitting a talk, I expect things will fill up in the next couple of days. Also, registration has opened - we're offering a 33% discount until March 31st. Thank you, Andrew _ From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: January 19, 2009 8:28 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Call for speakers Hi Everyone, It is my pleasure to announce a call for speakers for Geocamp2009. This is the 2nd annual Geocamp. This year, we've decided to expand and invite developers and users from other communities such as Eclipse, Drupal, Perl, Python, Ruby, and more. We hope that this stimulates cross pollination of ideas and plenty of outreach. The event will take place at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on May 13, 14, and 15. Please see details and instructions on submitting presentation proposals on the http://fosslc.org web site: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/summercamp2009 (presentation proposals are due by midnight February 21st eastern) Thank you kindly, Andrew on behalf of the Summercamp/Geocamp2009 organizing team. p.s. Anyone who's interested - there's videos from last year's event available from the fosslc web site. Enjoy! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: March Issue of OSBR Available
Hi, Thought this might be of interest to many of you. I was asked to be guest editor for the geospatial edition of the Open Source Business Resource monthly journal. A big thank you to Paul Ramsey, Tyler Mitchell, Mark Lucas, Scott Bortman, Andrew Ross, Haris Kurtagic and Geoff Zeiss for their contributions to this effort. Some excellent papers that provide a great perspective on the OSGeo world. You can follow the links in the announcement to go to the website, or you can get the PDF directly here: http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/848/817 Dave Dave McIlhagga www.dmsolutions.ca Begin forwarded message: From: Dru Lavigne d...@osbr.ca Date: March 2, 2009 1:31:49 PM GMT-05:00 To: Dru Lavigne d...@osbr.ca Subject: March Issue of OSBR Available Readers: The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now available in HTML and PDF formats at http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/83 . The theme this month is Geospatial and the articles and authors include: Paul Ramsay, a Senior Consultant with OpenGeo, examines how geospatial open source provides an example of the market challenges of a mid-sized vertical market. Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, discusses the factors needed to get open source geospatial products into the hands of users, the value of marketing open source projects, and the advantages provided by an open source ecoystem. Mark Lucas, a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc., and Scott Bortman, system architect and primary developer for the OMAR web processing system, introduce the OMAR web based system for archival, retrieval, processing, and distribution of geospatial assets. Andrew Ross, a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres, provides a primer on geospatial technology and discusses some of the lessons learned from Ingres' geospatial open source project. Haris Kurtagic, General Manager and Founder of SL-King, and Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology at Autodesk, introduce a standards-based framework for providing geospatial web services. The editorial theme for the upcoming April issue of the OSBR is Open APIs and the guest editor will be Michael Weiss from Carleton University. Contact me if you're interested in a submission. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Dru Lavigne Editor, Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] meruvian program
yah i am expanding from Java area now to more GIS :) thx to Geoff that send several MapGUide training material and I am also try to revamp the Arnulf work, but the work is amazing hard, i am glad if my foundation (Meruvian) can work together with OSGEo to penetrate the OpenSource spirit in this country ARnulf, the work is getting amazing busy, because i have several office that helping to reach more students in this island (java island) and i am glad have support from all of your in any work, that can make us work to 50% students that unreachable outside java island F On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Arnulf Christl arnulf.chri...@wheregroup.com wrote: Hey Frans, I was out of office for several weeks and only now found your mail. This sounds very interesting, I can see that you have been very aactive in the past years! Congratulations. Best regards, Arnulf. Frans Thamura wrote: hi there i just create a slide, still mixed indonesia and english, will create the english soon but you can see what am i doing here http://www.slideshare.net/flatburger/leadership-20-982609 i am also create new program here, leadership this is the slide http://www.slideshare.net/flatburger/leadership-20 right now, because of arnulf training and material of mapguide, i will put a program of GIS shortly in our program. meruvian is non profit organization based in Indonesia, we have 8 offices all over java island and bali island. we work closely with goverment such as ministery of research, ministery of education and ministery of infocom, and industry, also with gudang garam the biggest cigarete company in indonesia, makin group the plantation company, mitra 2000 a spare part manufacturing, and a lot of education school i am glad if we can have more firm relationship with all of you in the future NB: we also exchange open education content with blender, ___ 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 -- -- Frans Thamura Meruvian One Stop Java and Enterprise OSS Provider Mobile: +62 855 7888 699 Blog Profile: http://frans.thamura.info Training JENI, Medallion (Alfresco, Liferay dan Compiere).. buruan... URL: http://www.meruvian.com Promo: Beli Zmanda Backup di Meruvian, 10% discount dari pricelist.. Buruan sekarang!!! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code?
Here goes another one from TerraLib: http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terralib/html/v320/html/group___math_const.html ---Original Message--- From: Wolf Bergenheim wolf+gr...@bergenheim.net Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code? Sent: Mar 02 '09 19:46 Again this is GPL, not BSD, but GRASS GIS has TIN support: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.delaunay.html --Wolf On 02.03.2009 20:34, Traian Stanev wrote: Not sure about the BSD licensing part, but here are some cool TIN triangulators which are open source. This one (Streaming Delaunay) has BSD-like license, but may be overkill for what you need: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/sd/ This one (FIST) has nebulous licensing (different for commercial and non-commercial uses): http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~held/projects/triang/triang.html And finally, this one is pretty good, but also has unclear licensing: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html Traian -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:17 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source TIN code? The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in 3-space). It doesn't have to be really good, just good enough for some simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed). I know there are a bunch of TIN algs out there on the net in various places, but I don't have much experience with any of them. If anyone has any pointers, I'd appreciate it. Thanks -- -mpg ___ 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 -- :3 ) Wolf Bergenheim ( 8: ___ 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] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan
I'd love to see a FOSS4G presentation, or even a thread of presentations + panel, about Open Source Policy initiatives at the Government level, especially if it can be discussed in conjunction with specific geospatial examples. Could also be a good Birds of a Feather session. Who knows a good person to invite to give such presentations? Suchith Anand wrote: The following policy published on the web site of the Cabinet's CIO might be of interest http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp http://www.cio.gov.uk/documents/open_source/090224opensource.pdf Best Wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source TIN code?
On 2-Mar-09, at 10:17 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in 3-space). It doesn't have to be really good, just good enough for some simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed). I know there are a bunch of TIN algs out there on the net in various places, but I don't have much experience with any of them. If anyone has any pointers, I'd appreciate it. Looks like Sextante GIS has some tools coming too: https://lists.forge.osor.eu/pipermail/sextante-devel/2009-February/ 26.html ... using Josef Bezdek's work. Perhaps if you're looking for code samples, his work is a good example to look at: http://bezdek2009dp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/myAlgorithmSextante/src/ es/unex/sextante/vectorTools/ http://sextantegis.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please translate the FOSS4G 2009 description
Hi Our Japanese community will add Japanese translation this week on that wiki. Toru Mori @ OSGeo Japan Chapter Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wroteF Thank you Jorge and Yves. Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: 2009/3/1 Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr: Hi Cameron, The french translation will be available this week at this wiki page : http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annonces_foss4g_fr#Fr Regards, And using Yves wiki page, I've added the Spanish one[1]. Cheers [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annonces_foss4g_fr#ES -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ 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
