[OSGeo-Discuss] Open source GIS conference in The Netherlands
Dear OSGeo Discuss, Please consider joining the third international open source conference sponsored by the MapWindow community and OSGeo DotNet community and the Dutch OSGeo chapter this June in Velp, The Netherlands! An information sheet is here: http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012/promotions/poster3-ENG.pdf The conference web page is here: http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 Dan Ames -- - Dan -- Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE Associate Professor, Geosciences Idaho State University - Idaho Falls dan.a...@isu.edu geology.isu.edu www.mapwindow.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Abstracts due today for iEMSs Conference in Leipzig, Germany, June 2012
Dear OSGeo Discuss, Today is the deadline for abstracts for the 2012 IEMSS (International Environmental Modeling and Software Society) bi-annual conference in Leipzig, Germany in 2012. (Flyer attached). It will be held the week following the 2012 MapWindow/OSGeo DotNet conference in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Email me directly if you have any questions about either meeting ( dan.a...@isu.edu). This is usually an outstanding conference for anyone interested in modeling with GIS and has good cross-over with OSGeo (you'll often see several OSGeo people publishing in the journal EMS and attending this conference). There is a special session of the conference on GIS that you might be interested in participating in: *D6. Geographic Information Systems and geoprocessing workflows for environmental modelling* *Daniel P. Ames, Robert Argent, Susan Cuddy, Nigel W.T. Quinn, Raul Zurita-Milla* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html - Dan -- Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE Associate Professor, Geosciences Idaho State University - Idaho Falls dan.a...@isu.edu geology.isu.edu www.mapwindow.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can we use a LiveDVD for workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009?
For South Africa, we just needed Windows XP or Vista and Visual Basic .NET Express Edition (though C# or SharpDevelop would also work). Of course these have to be installed before hand - can't be run from a live CD (I'll look into what can be done from a Live CD with Windows and post back here.) In any case, I hate to be the Sarah Palin supporter at an Obama rally (or for that matter, an open source GIS guy at a Spanish ESRI conference!), but Windows is a bit of a pragmatic choice for us and for our target users. So thanks to those of you who haven't told us to hold our meetings outside the conference at the cafe or something :) Maybe time to move this thread to the Conference mailing list? - Dan On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thanks Daniel, It is good to know that there are projects which depend upon Windows. For MapWindws, (and any other windows based workshops), what should we install on our lab computers? Can we cover everything using OSGeo4W? Or should we use something different? Maybe we should set up the lab computers to dual boot with Windows + OSGeo4W / LiveDVD. Daniel P. Ames wrote: Hi folks. As you all know, there is a growing interest in open source for Windows. Especially with Microsoft's release of its developer tools in free express editions and the availability of such tools as SharpDevelop and Mono. MapWindow is .NET based and the bulk of our developers and users are strictly MS based. I don't think this makes them any less human, it just says that their threshold for open source is set such that a $90 Windows operating system is considered acceptable but a $1 GIS is not. We had a great turnout at the MapWindow lab and worshop in South Africa and got lots of hey it's great to see .NET open source GIS here comments. So, call us mudbloods, but it's an approach that we see has a huge added value for lots of folks. Bottom line, if having Windows on some lab computers doesn't add a huge expense, then we'd hope that Windows based labs and/or workshops would be encouraged. Indeed, consider the opportunities for demonstrating QGIS and GRASS and others on Windows to help convert Linux avoiders over to OSGeo. - Dan -Original Message- From: Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:02 PM To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can we use a LiveDVD for workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009? On 2008/10/19 1:30 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: I'm wondering whether it will be achievable and desirable to use a GeoFOSS LiveDVD as the only installed operating system at workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009. So my questions to communities are: Do you and your project think you would commit to packaging your project into a debian based LiveDVD before FOSS4G in October 2009? For presenters, would you want to add tutorial material to the LiveDVD, which would mean using an Open licence like Creative Commons? I would start by asking a different question - does anyone foresee any issue with not having MS Windows available as an option for Workshops/Labs for FOSS4G 2009? We might not want to restrict the discussion to OSGeo projects. What if a Sponsor, or Exhibitor, or 'some software company', or 'some non-OSGeo project' submitted a proposal to deliver a Workshop/Lab, and it merited consideration for inclusion in the conference, but it required MS Windows? Were there Workshops/Labs at FOSS4G 2008 that could not have been delivered without having MS Windows? If we assume that there was 'some need' for MS Windows for FOSS4G 2009, but that it wasn't needed for all the PCs, how would people react to Workshops/Labs that required MS Windows also requiring a higher registration fee? (i.e. higher by the incremental cost of the license to use MS Windows on the PC for the Workshop/Lab) P.S. It helps if everyone uses the term Instructors when referring to Workshops/Labs, because Presenter makes people think of Presentations, and sometimes that causes confusion. -- 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 -- Daniel P. Ames PhD, PE Department of Geosciences Idaho State University - Idaho Falls [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.MapWindow.org www.Hydromap.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can we use a LiveDVD for workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009?
Hi folks. As you all know, there is a growing interest in open source for Windows. Especially with Microsoft's release of its developer tools in free express editions and the availability of such tools as SharpDevelop and Mono. MapWindow is .NET based and the bulk of our developers and users are strictly MS based. I don't think this makes them any less human, it just says that their threshold for open source is set such that a $90 Windows operating system is considered acceptable but a $1 GIS is not. We had a great turnout at the MapWindow lab and worshop in South Africa and got lots of hey it's great to see .NET open source GIS here comments. So, call us mudbloods, but it's an approach that we see has a huge added value for lots of folks. Bottom line, if having Windows on some lab computers doesn't add a huge expense, then we'd hope that Windows based labs and/or workshops would be encouraged. Indeed, consider the opportunities for demonstrating QGIS and GRASS and others on Windows to help convert Linux avoiders over to OSGeo. - Dan -Original Message- From: Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:02 PM To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can we use a LiveDVD for workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009? On 2008/10/19 1:30 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: I'm wondering whether it will be achievable and desirable to use a GeoFOSS LiveDVD as the only installed operating system at workshops and labs at FOSS4G 2009. So my questions to communities are: Do you and your project think you would commit to packaging your project into a debian based LiveDVD before FOSS4G in October 2009? For presenters, would you want to add tutorial material to the LiveDVD, which would mean using an Open licence like Creative Commons? I would start by asking a different question - does anyone foresee any issue with not having MS Windows available as an option for Workshops/Labs for FOSS4G 2009? We might not want to restrict the discussion to OSGeo projects. What if a Sponsor, or Exhibitor, or 'some software company', or 'some non-OSGeo project' submitted a proposal to deliver a Workshop/Lab, and it merited consideration for inclusion in the conference, but it required MS Windows? Were there Workshops/Labs at FOSS4G 2008 that could not have been delivered without having MS Windows? If we assume that there was 'some need' for MS Windows for FOSS4G 2009, but that it wasn't needed for all the PCs, how would people react to Workshops/Labs that required MS Windows also requiring a higher registration fee? (i.e. higher by the incremental cost of the license to use MS Windows on the PC for the Workshop/Lab) P.S. It helps if everyone uses the term Instructors when referring to Workshops/Labs, because Presenter makes people think of Presentations, and sometimes that causes confusion. -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.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
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4g 2007
Is OSGEO making plans for a FOSS4g 2007? -- - Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE Department of Geosciences Geospatial Software Lab Idaho State University Idaho Falls Campus http://www.isu.edu/geology/ http://www.MapWindow.org/ - ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
