[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to free Ordnance Survey Developer Evening @ OSGIS 2010
Dear All, We would like to invite you to OS OpenSpace Developer Evening Drinks Reception (kindly sponsored by the Ordnance Survey) on 21st June 2010 at the Second Open Source GIS UK Conference 2010. This Ordnance Survey OpenSpace event is free and open to all and will be allocated on first come basis. If you wish to attend this OpenSpace event please email suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk OS OpenSpace developer evening agenda: Date :21st June 2010 (Monday) from 17:00 Venue: A42, Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham 17:00 -18:00 - Registration,Drinks Reception networking (A42 , Sir Clive Granger Building) 18:00- 21:00 - OS OpenSpace Workshops (Ebdon Lab,Sir Clive Granger Building) More details at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis10/os_home.html We look forward to seeing you at the University of Nottingham. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science The Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suc hith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Su chith%20Anand.htm http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ 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] StackOverflow like GIS website
On 4 June 2010 04:05, Adrian Custer wrote: As I understand it, the folk behind Stack Overflow have already started on plans to expand the design to many other topics---you might want to follow the evolution over there and propose a GIS forum on the new site when it goes live. The Area 51 site that George set up is actually part of that process. I'm highly in favour of this proposal. Many of the most common (and important) GIS questions are not programming-based, and not on topic for Stack Overflow. There is certainly some overlap, but having a dedicated geospatial answers site would be a boon to many, especially non-geek GIS users who are easily daunted by Stack Overflow. Jason ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone
Couple comments based entirely off the PDF: - The typography needs some work. Mix of serif, sans serif, italics, bold is a bit confused. - Would be nice to see some header/footer graphics or at least colour. - I really, really, really, really don't like the inclusion of the commercial support line. Unless it points at the OSGeo service provider registry. Jason On 4 June 2010 04:34, Cameron Shorter wrote: To support this, I've created the attached pdf template. Please review and provide feedback before we set the template in stone, and ask all projects to create material against this template. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone
Thanks for the feedback Jason: On 05/06/10 05:50, Jason Birch wrote: Couple comments based entirely off the PDF: - The typography needs some work. Mix of serif, sans serif, italics, bold is a bit confused. Typography is not my strong point. Does anyone have suggestions as to what should be used? Even better would be to edit the styles at: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/descriptions/postgis_overview.odt - Would be nice to see some header/footer graphics or at least colour. - I really, really, really, really don't like the inclusion of the commercial support line. Unless it points at the OSGeo service provider registry. One of the standard questions people as at FOSS4G stands at conferences is Who do I call if my Open Source application breaks? Hence I think it is important to link to commercial support. Many projects have a jump page listing companies which provide support for their project. Would that be suitable? I agree that using the OSGeo support service is a good idea: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile Any chance we could create sexier URL for the support page, which is easier to remember. Eg: http://support.osgeo.org And http://support.osgeo.org/postgis (for project specific search) Note, the OSGeo LiveDVD also contains project which are not listed on the OSGeo Support service, so they will need to link elsewhere. Jason On 4 June 2010 04:34, Cameron Shorter wrote: To support this, I've created the attached pdf template. Please review and provide feedback before we set the template in stone, and ask all projects to create material against this template. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Director 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
