Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?
As the current chair or that committee, I'd love to see someone step in and take the helm to rejuvenate things! On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > Yes indeed, we are on the same team here. Since you mentioned my name, I > tried very hard to make relationships with so many communities (remember, > at some point I was told that OSGeo was being too inclusive, reaching out > to too many groups); so it is hard to please everyone. For sure there is > more to do, and OSGeo's OpenData committee needs love, needs more > passionate voices, as I hear in your voice. Maybe Jachym you could > kick-start that committee? Sometimes committees need a little nudge, to > get things moving again. Call a meeting of the data committee, create an > agenda, and set some tasks (it's a good way to get things going again). > > -jeff > > -- > Jeff McKenna > President Emeritus, OSGeo > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna > > > > On 2016-10-17 8:22 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > >> I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on >> the same board. I try to push open (geo)data topic as well, in or out >> of OSGeo >> >> J >> >> po 17. 10. 2016 v 13:17 odesílatel Jeff McKenna >> <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>> >> napsal: >> >> Hi Jachym, >> >> I have given talks on OSGeo and open data. I am sorry to hear that >> you >> believe I said that about the foundation. I do believe we've >> discussed >> this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you >> heard this? I remember a discussion of adding open data into our >> foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did. >> >> -jeff >> >> >> -- >> Jeff McKenna >> President Emeritus, OSGeo >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna >> >> >> >> On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: >> > Hi Sanghee, >> > I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we >> > (OSGeo.org) are solely software foundation - therefore we do not >> care >> > about open data >> > >> > maybe things have changed? >> > >> > J >> > >> > po 17. 10. 2016 v 5:08 odesílatel Sanghee Shin <shs...@gaia3d.com >> <mailto:shs...@gaia3d.com> >> > <mailto:shs...@gaia3d.com <mailto:shs...@gaia3d.com>>> napsal: >> >> > >> > Dear all, >> > >> > Can anybody share presentation file about the OSGeo and open >> data, >> > if any? I’m invited to give a keynote talk at ‘Open Data in >> Action >> > Conference’[1] in Korea and I don’t want to make the file from >> the >> > scratch. >> > >> > FYI, OSGeo Korea[2], R Korea[3], Open Data Institute(ODI) >> Seoul[4], >> > Open Knowledge(OK) Korea[5] will co-host the event on 15th Nov >> near >> > Seoul. The main theme of the conference is ‘Experiment on Open >> Data >> > based Society.’ Anybody who has similar interest can join this >> > conference. >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > 신상희 >> > >> > [1]http://event.r-kor.org/ >> > [2]http://www.osgeo.kr/ >> > [3]http://r-kor.org/ >> > [4]http://seoul.theodi.org/ >> > [5]http://okfn.kr/ >> > --- >> > Shin, Sanghee >> > Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company >> > http://www.gaia3d.com >> > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nomination for OSGEO Board: Jeffrey Johnson
Another big +1 for Jeff from me. Jeff has been very engaged with many activities surrounding OSGeo. Jeff is a strong leader who has demonstrated ability to work through consensus while maintaining a very practical sense of getting things done. David On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Bart van den Eijnden <bart...@osgis.nl> wrote: > +1 > > Jeff would be a great asset to the OSGeo board. I’ve always enjoyed > working with him, very professional and energetic, with a good vision. He > has what it takes to be on the board for sure. > > Best regards, > Bart > > On 14 Sep 2016, at 17:26, Paolo Corti <pco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 here as well. > > I am really glad that Jeff is accepting the nomination. I know him since > many years now, and we worked closely on a lot of different projects. He > has an outstanding knowledge of OSGeo projects and its community, literally > endless energies, a huge commitment to the open source movement, and a > great attitude to help others. > As remembered by Jody he contributed a great part of his spare time in the > last few years for volunteering with civic hacking initiatives. > > I think he would represent without doubt an awesome asset for OSGeo. > > p > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote: > >> Forwarding Jeffrey Johnson nomination for the Board of Directors by Tim >> Sutton >> >> All the best >> >> -- >> Jorge Sanz >> CRO 2016 >> -- Mensaje reenviado -- >> De: "Tim Sutton" <t...@kartoza.com> >> Fecha: 13 sept. 2016 22:54 >> Asunto: Nomination for OSGEO Board: Jeffrey Johnson >> Para: "OSGeo Chief Returning Officer" <c...@osgeo.org> >> Cc: >> >> I would like to nominate Jeffrey Johnson for a position on the OSGEO >>> board. Jeffrey is an extremely energetic and active proponent of FOSSGIS. >>> Among other things, Jeff is co-founder of the US QGIS User's Group and >>> co-maintainer of the GeoNode project. His friendly enthusiastic approach >>> and desire to marry business interests with his passion of FOSS GIS will be >>> a great asset for OSGEO. I believe that as an OSGEO board member, Jeff will >>> exert a positive influence on how the OSGEO project is managed and >>> perceived by members of the public at large. >>> >>> I have made contact with Jeffrey prior to sending this email and he is >>> happy to accept my nomination. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Tim >>> — >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Tim Sutton* >>> >>> *Co-founder:* Kartoza >>> *Project chair:* QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> >>> >>> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: >>> >>> Desktop GIS programming services >>> Geospatial web development >>> GIS Training >>> Consulting Services >>> >>> *Skype*: timlinux >>> *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >>> >>> Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial >>> >>> >> ___________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Paolo Corti > Geospatial software developer > web: http://www.paolocorti.net > twitter: @capooti > skype: capooti > ___ > 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 > -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference May 25-26
Hey any folks in the upper midwest, Just want to remind you all about the Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference coming up really soon May 25-26. While it's not a dedicated open source event, there are many open source workshops and presentations including FREE GeoMoose and CartoDB workshops. Cost for full registration is only $185 with a $50 student rate making this a great event for folks in the region who may have difficulty getting to other events. This conference is a being put on as a collaboration of the main GIS professional associations in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota along with the non-profits GITA, ASPRS, and SharedGeo (who provided an invaluable role in the production of FOSS4GNA 2013). Keynotes include Trevor Taylor of the OGC, Darryl Murdock from the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, and Chris Diller of the National States Geographic Information Council. Aside from Open Source there are a number of presentations on: - Geodesy with many presentations from the National Geodetic Survey - Open Data initiatives particularly coming out of state and regional initiatives - UAV's/Drones - Visualization - Mobile Data - The Cloud - LiDAR -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference
For those folks in the Upper Midwest, there's a great conference coming up May 25-26 in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. It's an event that is being put together by the Statewide GIS organizations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa along with the non-profits ASPRS, GITA, and SharedGeo. This event offers a great opportunity for presenters and sponsors to reach out to folks who do not normally see much of what is happening in OSGeo and the broader Open Source communities. The event planning committee has shown a keen interest in trying to bring in folks from the Open Source community as part of the program. Coming so soon after FOSS4G North America in Raleigh, NC at the beginning of May, this would be a great opportunity for those already pulling together a presentation to get double-duty out of all of their work. It would also be a great opportunity for those in the region who may find it hard to travel to FOSS4GNA to get together! Lacrosse in May should be a gorgeous time to come spend some time in the Mississippi River Bluffs! I hope to see some of you there. The call for presentations closes NEXT WEEK January 18th along with Early Bird vendor and Sponsor registration. Call for Proposals: http://www.uwlax.edu/conted/geocon/present.html Vendor/Sponsor Information: http://www.uwlax.edu/conted/geocon/sponsor-vendor.html David Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o
Big +1 On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wrote: > Agree w/ Daniel in all ways. We want our events to succeed, no? So we > use marketing techniques to do so. Emails and so on. And we track who > opens them so we can get better at marketing. Like any other business > trying to succeed. Mail chimp is currently convenient, in the past > other technologies were convenient (I spammed people in 2007 using a > custom perl script, because I am a God Among Men), in the future > different technologies will be convenient. But they are all going > towards making a good event. > > Naturally the first targets of marketing the event will be people who > have attended past events under the same/similar umbrella. I provided > the 2007 attendance list to foss4g events for a number of years until > it had grown entirely stale. I felt good about it. I revelled in the > goodness of it. > > I have spammed. I will spam again, in the service of a good cause. > That is my weakness. That is my strength. > > P. > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Daniel Morissette > <dmorisse...@mapgears.com> wrote: > > On 2015-12-16 10:00 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: > >> > >> On 2015/12/16 18:37, Pat Tressel wrote: > >>> > >>> MailChimp is a very popular product. If you have a provable accusation > >>> against them -- that they were acting **independently of the account > >>> administrator** to alter lists, then that would be significant. As Rob > >>> has stated, MailChimp did not do something by itself. The list was > >>> aggregated from previous lists and events in which people participated. > >> > >> > >> I have also received a similar unsolicited mail. I would like to know > >> who has authorized > >> the aggregation and usage of email address from "previous lists and > >> events in which > >> people participated". I think every event has a privacy policy and > >> e-mail address provided > >> are only to be used for communicating about the specific event and not > >> for aggregating for > >> future use. > >> > > > > > > For the record, the use of such mailing services for FOSS4G promotion is > not > > new. Even FOSS4G 2015 (Seoul) used MailChimp in a very similar way, I > still > > have some of their mails in my archives, and I'm sure other past events > did > > as well but I didn't bother digging any further. > > > > How can you realistically expect to do outreach to new people if you only > > announce your event on osgeo-discuss? > > > > This anti-anything-locationtech-does drama is becoming boring, please > let's > > get over it. > > > > -- > > Daniel Morissette > > http://www.mapgears.com/ > > T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 > > > > http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy > > > > ___ > > 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 > -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Munich Orientation Convention, Mapcodes, and All the Rest
to the common good. Yet, the reality of these plans and promotions fly in the face of the Harry S. Truman quote: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” In an effort to be “the hero” who solves the street address problem – the hawking of these half-baked plans here and elsewhere (see the recent New Yorker magazine Map Codes article: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/should-mapcodes-replace-gps?mbid=social_facebook) is creating geospatial confusion at the cost of lives. A little research on the topic of USNG/MGRS and how it works would be of benefit to those who wish to slam a worldwide referencing system created after WWII when a NATO armed forces business review determined the Allies got too many people killed trying to use latitude/longitude when street addresses don’t work. The answer isn’t hypothetical, it’s written in blood. I return to my original point in response to the Munich Orientation Convention posting. “If OSGeo wanted to do something to truly help the world gain better situational awareness, it would stop for a moment and reflect on the realities of these new best ideas for relating location - the same way it has inserted itself into the open LiDAR discussion - and begin working to understand and promote the Military Gird Reference System (MGRS). “ It DOES MATTER what you build into your Open Source Software for location referencing – in a big way. Regards, Steve This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl http://www.mailcontrol.com/, a service from BlackSpider Technology Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/1YuXD28qfFLGX2PQPOmvUkHxlm0SZLPCU9Io9VWyl551gFh6bHaPhcG+AJqwcBxyLtOI3TDZ9OHCXaTERp6oIw== to report this email as spam. -- *HR Wallingford and its subsidiaries* uses faxes and emails for confidential and legally privileged business communications. They do not of themselves create legal commitments. Disclosure to parties other than addressees requires our specific consent. We are not liable for unauthorised disclosures nor reliance upon them. If you have received this message in error please advise us immediately and destroy all copies of it. HR Wallingford Limited Howbery Park, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BA, United Kingdom Registered in England No. 02562099 -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Munich Orientation Convention, Mapcodes, and All the Rest
OSGeo does in fact have a Standards Committee (which perhaps if misdirected, this conversation should be happening on the standards committee mailing list rather than the general list). In the GIS world, software, standards, and data are quite inseparable and as such when we are writing our software, we need to be cognizant of what standards are out there. As with the choice to fork a software project, the choice to develop new formats/APIs/standards should be something we only do if there are not existing standards that can effectively do the job. New standards are great when they help push the state-of-the-art as to what we are able to accomplish (ie more space/network efficiency, better understandability), but are bad when they only serve to fragment a market and make it more difficult to communicate. On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com wrote: Now that I have your attention, I believe you and the rest of the OSGeo community would be well served by spending some time truly learning about this issue. In so doing, I’m sure the open minds among you will come to the conclusion that USNG/MGRS is the answer to the issue I am addressing. OSGeo could do the world a heap of good in doing so. Fascinating as this discussion is I can't help wondering if you (as a group) are confused as to what OSGeo does? - we write software and if you publish a standard there is a fair chance we will write some code to integrate that code into our software, especially if there is user demand. So I expect you are preaching to the wrong people - either we care or we don't but most of us have no power to change the world. At the risk of prolonging this discussion I'll add the following. Currently I'm not seeing any demand for this from users - I hear a lot of talk about military and 1st responders but the last time I talked to a military guy he was telling hair raising stories of US Army planes bombing UK troops because they both use a grid system but the the US has letters up the side of the map and the UK has letters across the bottom (it was slightly more complex than that but basically that was the problem), so their requirement was for WGS84 coordinates to match their GPS. Ian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Future Directions
Hey everyone, I just want to make sure to point you to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/foss4gna_selection where we are having discussions on where we are going with the FOSS4G North America event. I would really love to have input there from more of the OSGeo community! David -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Kate Chapman
Huge +1 from me as well. Kate has trained countless people (who have trained countless others) in leveraging open source and open data through her work with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: I also want to support the nomination for Kate Chapman. Schuyler wrote an excellent summary of her activities. For me, I've been in her circles for a long time and I've watched her become a worldwide leader in helping challenged areas of the world share information. I finally got to sit down and have a beer with her at FOSS4G-CEE in Bucharest and it was an honour to share that time with her. She would indeed be an excellent addition to the OSGeo organization. -jeff On 2014-07-25, 7:47 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Kate Chapman nomination by Schuyler Erle Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Schuyler Erle Date: 2014-07-23 1:21 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSGeo Nomination: Kate Chapman To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Kate Chapman I'd like to nominate Kate Chapman for charter membership in OSGeo. Kate has been an active advocate of Open Source GIS software for many years, and a regular presenter at FOSS4G. For the last several years, Kate has served as Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, where she works tirelessly to promote the development of Open Source software and data as part of a comprehensive response to problems of international crisis response and economic development. Kate continues to be a vocal proponent of OSGeo and its ideals, and would be an ideal addition to our organization. -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference
Andrew, First of all, thank you for stepping up as willing to take on FOSS4G NA 2015. Having made two calls to the broader community over the last several months looking for folks to express interest in hosting the NA event for 2015 with no response, I am excited to see someone with your experience stepping forward. Unless this thread spurs on another bid, at this point, I would not envision necessity for a competitive bid for this event. I think that co-hosting the event with Eclipse and LocationTech can both help boost the profile and the make this event logistically easier. I think the most critical piece in joining these events this year will be in making sure that we can keep the FOSS4G and OSGeo branding prominent. Keep in mind as well (anyone else here too that might want to provide a competing bid!), that we have earmarked ~$20K from the Minneapolis event to help bootstrap a 2015 NA FOSS4G. David On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote: Hello Everyone, Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's discussion list. I'm hoping to enable inclusive discussion about an idea. Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), LocationTech Summit is co-hosted with Location Intelligence in Washington D.C.http://www.locationintelligence.net/. Travel restrictions for Federal Government employees for instance meant holding this in D.C. was important in 2014. We have started planning for 2015, and I wanted to reach out and see if an idea might be of interest to the greater community. The idea is to co-host LocationTech Summit, FOSS4G North America, and EclipseCon next year in the spring. For those that haven't been: - EclipseCon is a great developer conference covers topics that I feel may be a really nice complement such as Science, Internet of Things, Automotive, Software development best practice, and more. While there are some awesome talks in the area, it's not just about the IDE. :-) - FOSS4G NA is the regional sibling of FOSS4G Global, also a great developer conference, and focused on geospatial technologies. It is a must attend event if you're into web mapping or looking for open source GIS solutions. - LocationTech Summit is new (first one this May), similar to FOSS4G however perhaps has a stronger focus on high performance geoprocessing technologies and new technologies like GeoGit for instance. - My feeble attempt at contrast aside, I think these last two will see a lot of the same speakers audience. A few thoughts: - We believe a combined event could likely be done to prioritize camaraderie which is so important for open source projects community. i.e. avoid anyone feeling lost in a huge event. - We feel the mutual outreach to people across communities would be really useful, interesting, and spark wonderful ideas we can't predict. - The logistical work can be done by full time conference organizers who organize EclipseCon each year. The program is up to the communities to set. - For those seeking suppliers, partners, customers, this should make for more opportunities. - Profit sharing with significant participating groups is doable. We're glad to help figure out a fair and amicable solution. - Ensuring each group are well served is a priority of course. We think this combined event might attract people who might not otherwise come to any of them. But we'll have to try and see. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea? Interested? Kind regards, Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America 2015 Expressions of Interest
With the second FOSS4G North America in Minneapolis in the history books and looking forward to the Big Show in Portland next Fall, I'd love to start the ball rolling to drum up interest in hosting FOSS4G North America in the Spring of 2015. There are two parts here: 1) Who's interested? If you have a local community that you think would be great to host, speak up! If you have questions as to what it takes, ask. If there's a city you'd love to see take this on - start pestering them. 2) If there is competing interest, we'll need identify the selection process/committee. We can take the easy route here and do something simple like prior Conference Program Chairs make up the committee, or we can try (again) to create a more formal group for North America to handle things like this. If you have $.02 on this - bring it up now! I'd love to see us be able to move on this and be able to select a venue by the end of November if possible to make sure there is ample time for planning. Important thing right now is to start the discussion and get folks thinking about what we need to do to make the next FOSS4G NA another awesome event! Cheers! David -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-NA videos and slides
We are working at pulling the slides we can gather together. If you search for foss4gna on Twitter, you can find many folks who have already posted their slides on their own. Other than a few presentations OpenGeo filmed on our sponsor day, we did not take any videos. We will post on http://foss4g-na.org and tweet at @foss4gna when we have more information. I am sorry that in order to get the full MapFart experience, you'll have to track down Aaron Racicot and the CUGOS crew in the Seattle area. David On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:41 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Are there any? Slides are good but videos are much better. Looking forward to watch the mapfart talk. :) -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inviting regional FOSS4G enthusiasts into the OSGeo Conference Committee
Hey Cameron, As indicated by Jeff, I am recovering after last week's North America event (which went awesome -- I'll provide a wrap up and final financial statement to the board once we close all the books out) but would certainly be willing to make sure our lessons learned get baked into the cookbook and would be willing to work with the conference committee to make sure we collaborate on the booming network of FOSS4G events. David On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.comwrote: Jeff McKenna prodded me to invite someone involved in regional FOSS4G event into the OSGeo Conference Committee, and I'd like to extend that invitation to other regional events around the world. I see our topical question at the moment is working out how to collate our collective knowledge to support future foss4g initiatives, which we can collectively weave into a FOSS4G Cookbook [1]. So if you are interested in FOSS4G regional and global events, please say hello on our conference email list [2] (alive and listening from region). We can then update our current member list [3] [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**FOSS4G_Cookbookhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Cookbook [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/conference_**devhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Conference_Committee#Current_**Membershttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager 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/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G NA Program Announced, Early Bird Deadline April 1
Preliminary Program Announced! The Program Committee has announced the preliminary programhttp://foss4g-na.org/preliminary-program/. We received a lot of great abstracts and are excited about the quality and diversity of the program. Early Bird Deadline Just a reminder, the Early Bird deadline for registration is sneaking up on us very soon. Please make sure to register http://foss4gna.eventbrite.com/ by April 1st to get the discount rate! Sponsors We've got a great list of sponsors http://foss4g-na.org/sponsor/ lined up for the conference, but are certainly looking for more. Don't be left out in the cold on this opportunity! Many thanks to all those who have committed to sponsoring to date, this conference would not be possible without your support. Student/Mentor Opportunities If you are a student or a seasoned professional willing to act as a mentor, please check out our Student Opportunities pagehttp://foss4g-na.org/student-opportunities/ . Workshops The Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium in collaboration with the FOSS4G North American Conference is pleased to present a diverse list of workshop offerings on Tuesday, May 21st, at the University of Minnesota Minneapolis (the day before the FOSS4G NA conference!). These workshops will encompass both open source and proprietary solutions. Registrationhttps://m360.mngislis.org/event.aspx?eventID=76603 for this event is handled by the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium. Visualizing Neighborhoods Hackathon The University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and Open Twin Cities is scheduling a hackathon to coincide with FOSS4G NA and the Neighborhoods, USA conference that will also be in Minneapolis. *Visualizing Neighborhoods* http://visualizingneighborhoods-es2004.eventbrite.com/?rank=1is a day-long event to bring together neighborhood leaders, technologists, data visualizers, designers, artists, scientists, civil servants, and anyone else interested to explore how data can be used for research, analyzing, mapping, outreach, engagement, and communication in our neighborhoods. The goals are to start conversations, build community, experiment, and prototype projects for neighborhoods. -- David William Bitner FOSS4G North America 2013 Conference Chair dbSpatial LLC bit...@dbspatial.com 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Announcements
Dave, As indicated by Jeff and Doug, this has not been an issue at any previous FOSS4G event. What has been an issue has been the diversity that we have been able to bring into both our community and our events. We are still a predominantly White European/US/Canadian male community. There has been a lot of work done by many tech conferences to try to make sure that conferences are more welcoming to a more broad array of folks (the rotation of NA/Europe/Elsewhere is one thing FOSS4G has done). The anti-harassment policy follows the lead of others and pulls from the template provided by Geek Feminism http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Conference_anti-harassment_policy. Additionally following advice from other events as well as many members of our community, we are making the community review process for presentation submission author anonymous as a concern with how we have done this in the past has been the fear that many folks have of feeling publicly shamed with critique and voting of their proposals. These are only two small steps that we are taking to addressing an environment in the overall open source world that by the numbers is very unwelcome to women and other groups (while there have not been any overt issues that I know of as part of any FOSS4G, if you look at the percentage of female conference goers or developers in our community, we do have a long ways to go). Hope this helps understand the rationale, David On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: DaveP, There have been no specific problems at FOSS4G events but I support the FOSS4G-NA's initiative for diversity and harassment-free policies. -jeff On 13-01-16 12:56 AM, Dave Patton wrote: David et al: I have no issue with the Harassment Policy, but I am curious as to it's origin. Is it a result of specific problems at other FOSS4G-related events? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?
are free to take this passion and mold it into their own vision. Events such as FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008 are proof of this. I worry that such a 'cookbook' will hinder this open passion and vision for a local committee. The first drafts of such a cookbook came many years ago from Paul Ramsey, from his 2007 experiences. Since then I've heard rumblings from Arnulf, Cameron and others. I guess it is time for such guidelines. For sure we need a conference Content Management System internal to OSGeo that is required for all FOSS4G local committees to use (not external systems such as Basecamp); this is critical. -jeff On 12-09-05 7:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: In analysing the downfall of FOSS4G 2012 [1] one of the key lessons that became apparent to me is that we are not very efficient at passing on Lessons Learned from one conference to the next. Could we do a better job of knowledge transfer by building an OSGeo Conference Body of Knowledge? Something like a FOSS4G Cookbook [2]? If so, what should be the scope of the cookbook? Should it only be for the international FOSS4G event? Should it cover regional conferences too? Should it also cover FOSS4G steams in other conferences? Who thinks this idea is important enough that you would like to help write sections of the Cookbook, or help with editing? What format should we use to write the Cookbook? Maybe a wiki? I'm interested to help push this idea forward if we as a community think that there will be value in such a collaboratively edited document. If you have an interest, please respond on the OSGeo conference_dev email list (rather than OSGeo Discuss) [1] http://cameronshorter.**blogspot.com.au/2012/08/**analysing-http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/analysing- downfall-of-f oss4g-2012.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**FOSS4G_Cookbookhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Cookbook [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/conference_**devhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager 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/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
I think it important however that people *do not* use Inkscape, unless of course it is being put up as an fosGIS package. Using Inkscape has come about due to the inherent deficiencies in map production in various packages. Any maps produced for such a book need to be produced solely using the package they are meant to be showcasing. Otherwise the resulting map is not representative of what can be produced using a particular GIS package but rather the artistic skill of the cartographer! Simon, I strongly disagree here. One of the best things about Open Source tools is that they often follow the Unix Philosophy of being able to have very task specific tools. Cartography is most certainly a very different task than data analysis and I think that tools like InkScape are a very important part of the toolbox. While I do agree that we need to do a better job integrating better cartographic tools into individual pieces of fosGIS packages, it is equally important to me that we create the linkages to make it easier to use complementary tools like InkScape as well. David ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013 Conference
*May 22-24, 2013 FOSS4G North America 2013 Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/ Minneapolis, MN - USA Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced that the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference http://foss4g-na.org/ (FOSS4G-NA) will take place May 22-24 at the Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/in Minneapolis, MN. FOSS4G brings together public and private-sector stakeholders, innovators and developers who are at the forefront of free and open source software for geospatial applications. FOSS4G-NA 2013 will offer a broad program to discuss and build tools to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems and business needs. Notably, 2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the first MapServer Users Meeting in Minnesota, the immediate predecessor of the FOSS4G Conference Series. FOSS4G-NA 2013 follows on the success of the 2012 conference held in Washington, DC. This regional event complements the larger FOSS4Ghttp://www.foss4g.org/International Conference, the leading global conference organized by OSGeo focusing on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. The 2013 FOSS4G International Conference http://2013.foss4g.org/ ihttp://2013.foss4g.org/s currently scheduled for September 17-21 in Nottingham, UK. Sponsorship Exhibition and Sponsorship information will be made available shortly. If you're interested in exhibiting or sponsoring please email sponsors [at] foss4g-na [dot] org for more information. Related Links - http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America - http://foss4g.org/ FOSS4G International Conference - http://osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation * ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013 Conference
*May 22-24, 2013 FOSS4G North America 2013 Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/ Minneapolis, MN - USA Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced that the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference http://foss4g-na.org/ (FOSS4G-NA) will take place May 22-24 at the Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/in Minneapolis, MN. FOSS4G brings together public and private-sector stakeholders, innovators and developers who are at the forefront of free and open source software for geospatial applications. FOSS4G-NA 2013 will offer a broad program to discuss and build tools to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems and business needs. Notably, 2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the first MapServer Users Meeting in Minnesota, the immediate predecessor of the FOSS4G Conference Series. FOSS4G-NA 2013 follows on the success of the 2012 conference held in Washington, DC. This regional event complements the larger FOSS4Ghttp://www.foss4g.org/International Conference, the leading global conference organized by OSGeo focusing on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. The 2013 FOSS4G International Conference http://2013.foss4g.org/ ihttp://2013.foss4g.org/s currently scheduled for September 17-21 in Nottingham, UK. Sponsorship Exhibition and Sponsorship information will be made available shortly. If you're interested in exhibiting or sponsoring please email sponsors [at] foss4g-na [dot] org for more information. Related Links - http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America - http://foss4g.org/ FOSS4G International Conference - http://osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation * -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate's Statement: David Bitner
Thank you very much for your consideration to become a member of the OSGeo Board. I have been involved with the community that came to be OSGeo since working on the planning committee for The MapServer Users Meeting in Minnesota in 2005 (the immediate predecessor to the FOSS4G conference) and helping to found the Twin Cities MapServer Users Group (now a local OSGeo chapter) with the others who were involved in planning that conference. I have been the OSGeo Public Geospatial Data Committee chair since 2007. It is my experience with that committee that leads me to want to work more strategically with the OSGeo Board. The Geospatial Data Committee has been largely ineffective and dormant throughout it's existence. The importance of geodata has always been recognized as a critical part of OSGeo leading to the formation of this committee alongside the founding of OSGeo. There have been a number of false starts at creating a central catalog on OSGeo resources. There have been loosely affiliated efforts such as the FlightGear Scenery Project and Open Aerial Map take 1. The only truly successful geodata project coming directly out of OSGeo has been led not by the Geospatial Data Committee, but by the Education Committee with the set of data pulled together for educational usage. I don't see the inactivity of this group as a failure, but more as a recognition that while an absolutely critical component of using OSGeo products, there simply is not the energy within our organization to tackle everything that we would like. I have been very excited to see the partnerships and MOUs that have been coming down the pipe recently. One critical way that we can help to prevent spreading our resources too thin that we are ineffective is to work with other like minded groups. The partnerships that we have with the OGC and now in the works with several educational groups is a great way for us to leverage the strengths and particular audiences that these other groups bring in. In particular, I think that there are significant opportunities for OSGeo to support and partner with domain-specific groups. Having worked significantly in the humanitarian/emergency response world through my involvement with the Sahana Software Foundation, OSGeo software is being heavily used throughout this domain by people and projects like Sahana, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, CrisisMappers, and Crisis Commons. By supporting these groups through cooperation we can help more people in this domain become aware of and use OSGeo software (and correspondingly can make more OSGeo folks aware of opportunities that they may have to support these humanitarian efforts). I see additional opportunities in finding ways to work with groups that have traditionally been stovepiped. In particular there is much work being done in domains such as public transportation, aviation noise, city/county public information, large government or organization SDI. Whether through creating MOUs or informal partnerships with groups that are already supporting these domains or extending our local chapter concept to create domain users groups with mailing lists this is the key direction that I would like to push for OSGeo. Again, thank you very much for your consideration and I look forward to seeing many of you in Denver! David -- David William Bitner -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination -- Regina Obe
I nominate Regina Obe for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Regina is a member of the PostGIS steering Committee and has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2009. Regina has a particular strength that is very rare in the Open Source world and that is her dedication to making open source software and programming accessible to the often non-technical savvy GIS user. Regina (along with her husband Leo) have maintained the BostonGIS blog and the Postgres Online Journal for many years providing quick and understandable tutorials, guides, and cheat sheets for various projects with a particular focus on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, much of this has culminated in the recent publication of *Postgis in Action.* While Regina has a very strong technical background, I believe that Regina could help drive a focus on the usability and accessibility of OSGeo projects. Cheers, David -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteer Assistance for Pakistan Relief Efforts
Dear OSGeo Community, As most of you are likely aware there is a major natural disaster continuing to unfold in Pakistan due to major flooding. The Sahana Software Foundation is currently standing up an instance of Sahana Eden that is being used in support of the relief efforts in Pakistan at http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org. Sahana Eden is an open source rapid application development framework that is built on the Web2Py framework including a mapping portal that is built using OpenLayers and GeoExt. Sahana Eden works with open standards wherever possible. The Sahana Software Foundation is seeking volunteers to help with the following tasks: - Data Entry - OpenLayers/GeoExt Enhancements and Bug Fixing - Finding supporting data layers and services for the mapping portal, standing up OpenLayers accessible web services (WMS/KML/GeoRSS etc) where data is available but no services exist - Integration of MapFish or GeoServer Print Service - General Python development with Web2Py Volunteers will need to be patient and understand that our ability to help you help us may be limited by the work that our developers need to maintain in coordination with those who are using this portal for their responses. Further information about the Sahana Software Foundation Flood Response can be found at http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Pakistan. Our current development needs can be found at http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/PakistanDevelopers. Those interested in assisting our efforts should sign up to the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-pakistan-2010. Our developers are coordinating our response on IRC on Freenode channel #sahana-eden, please join and introduce yourselves. Thank you, David Bitner Sahana Software Foundation Board of Directors *The Sahana Software Foundation mission is to help alleviate human suffering by giving emergency managers, disaster response professionals and communities access to the information that they need to better prepare for and respond to disasters through the development and promotion of free and open source software and open standards.* ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Haiti Response
OSGeo Folks, As you all are all aware there is a large international response to the Earthquake in Haiti right now. One of the more difficult tasks at hand is to aggregate all the incredible work that is being done by NGOs, Governments, Companies, and Individuals. Of particular interest to myself and the work that I am doing to support the Sahana Software Foundation's ( http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php/haiti:start) efforts is making sure we have a good catalog of the Web Services that are being put out there right now. One wiki that appears to have a critical mass of support amongst a wide group is the one put up by Crisis Commons at http://www.crisismappers.net/forum/topics/task-force-haiti-earthquake. I am hoping that I can engage some folks from the OSGeo community to help scour the web and mailing lists to fill in the Web Services portion of this wiki. Please add notes to the services if you know that a service might be on unreliable hosting -- we may have some further work that we can engage our community in as we identify these so that we can find more suitable and scalable places to host these services. Thank you all for any help you can give! David -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion of Public GIS Data Access Agreement
Yes, the geodata list would be an appropriate place. David On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Is there a topic-specific mailing list on which it would be best to discuss aspects of an agreement put out by a local government agency in relation to their publicly funded GIS data? Maybe the geodata list is the best place? If there is no topic-specific mailing list for this topic, I will bring it up here. SLB *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 -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to OSGeo Beijing User Group Lecture
Gao, Could you clarify where Open Source Geospatial software fits into these lectures? From the description of the lectures it is not clear why these lectures would be relevant to an OSGeo local chapter. Thanks, David On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Gao Ang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: OSGeo Beijing User Group Lecture is coming at Nov 6. Lecture 1 is about Web Service in ArcGIS Server Lecture 2 is about High performance computing and cloud computing We're gonna provide juice and cake free talk in free talking section. If you are at Beijing China by coincidence on this day, please join us. Detailed Agenda is available via this link: http://www.osgeo.org.cn/ And registration form http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pBd6U31DklvAYV1d5tqZUGQ I apologize it's not been translate in English. But we will upload the photos afterwards. Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat
rant Why on earth are we giving Jaisen a hard time about using his native script to display his name? One of OSGeo's goals is to be a truly international organization. Yes, the main language of communication is English for this list, but Jaisen's name is his name for goodness sakes. It may be true that many people don't have the ability to read the script -- or even have their computers set up that it doesn't even display right -- but it is all of our collective responsibility to understand that when we are taking part in discussion in an international list that sometimes we are going to deal with people whose native tongue may be different then ours. /rant Jaisen, welcome to our community! On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:39 AM, നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് Jaisen Nedumpala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/29 നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് Jaisen Nedumpala [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/8/28 Paulo Marcondes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The language is Malayalam. It is my name, displayed in this script. It reads Nedumpala Jaisen. But in English, my name is stated as Jaisen Nedumpala. :) Jaisen, then, for the sake of easy communication, you could, besides the Malayam script, add you name in english. It is not Malayam but, Malayalam. Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language http://ml.wikipedia.org/ Or, provide it in the signature. Done. :) Just my 2 cents. -- Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ (`'·.¸^¸.·'´) ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* Jaisen Nedumpala. *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ (`'·.¸ ¸.·'´) `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´¸.·´¸.·´¸.·^ `'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·)´ `·.¸ (.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ (`'·.¸^¸.·'´) ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* Jaisen Nedumpala. *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ (`'·.¸ ¸.·'´) `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´¸.·´¸.·´¸.·^ `'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·)´ `·.¸ (.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Map of Wiki/OSGeo Members
Mateusz, I think this sounds like a great idea, but it would be especially cool if we could somehow scrape Category:OSGeo_Member entries and create a feed (GeoRSS, KML, WFS, WMS, ...) from that. From that feed we could then actually make use of some of our software like OpenLayers to display the data. David On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During Cascadoss events, Markus and I, we discussed that it could be interesting to build a map of all OSGeo Members [1], events and other geographically referenced content of our Wiki. There is number of geo-plugins available for MediaWiki, so it's easy to get lost. I found Google Map Extension [2] for MediaWiki that looks interesting. I'd like to hear opinions about such map and recommendations of map extensions for MediaWiki, that we could use for that purpose. After I have necessary technical details collected for this new features, I'm going to ask Webcom if it's possible to get it implemented. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member [2] http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:Google_Map_Extension Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?
I would agree with Paul. The biggest hole in the FOSS stack is in easy, high quality printed map production. This is the one task where the Arc tools beat anything I have seen in FOSS GIS hands down. David On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Paul Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd buck up for a copy of ArcView (much cheaper than ArcGIS), and use GRASS / PostGIS / etc tools for things like analysis. You can use ArcView to generate the paper and do some quick low-end analytics and the other tools for more involved stuff. My general synopsis: for server-side, for scriptability, for automation, for web-based, open source wins for most use cases, given a technically savvy user; for ad hoc, for cartographic production, for a user who is used to a point-n-click experience end to end, proprietary still wins. This equation hasn't changed much in the 10 years I've been running it. The goal posts have moved, open source is better at adhoc now than before, but still not at the level of ESRI, and ESRI is better at the server stuff now, but still not at the level of open source. P. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Jennifer Horsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thread that was started today with the subject Your open source career got me thinking about asking a question that has been rolling around in my head. This is pointed at those people who have experience with ESRI products as well as OS GIS products. I have been a long-time user of ESRI products, but I want to start my own contract business and will not be able to afford the license for ArcGIS/ArcInfo. So I recently set up a Linux box with GRASS installed, but it has been over 10 years since I have used GRASS (it has probably changed since then too!) Does GRASS have the same analysis and display capabilities as ArcGIS? I know this is a very general question, so perhaps another question would be where does GRASS fall short and where does it excel in comparison to the ESRI products? Thanks, Jennifer ___ 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 -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
Lorenzo, I think this would be counter to the accepted definition of membership levels. From http://www.osgeo.org/Membership *We emphasize that the only real difference between a Member and a Charter Member is the right and responsibility to vote at the Foundation level. It is not our intent to make the Charter Members out to be some privileged class. Furthermore, the only real difference between a Member and a Participant is the self-registration on the Foundation's website. All mailing lists, projects, committees, and other Foundation activities are uniformly open and available to all friends of the Foundation.* On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Lorenzo Becchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: ... The OSGeo Community is pretty open and there is no formal membership - everybody invloved in FOSS4G initiavites is allowed to call herself an OSGeo member. So, in the OSGeo Planet idea, everybody involved in FOSS4G is welcome to add her blog to the Planet, without any artificial requirements (post about FOSS4G or do not post at all). However, I'd limit the OSGeo Planet to people who are involved in OSGeo activities in some way (users, speakers, developers, translators, any other contributors). Just to keep some orientation to the OSGeo world. what about just Charter Members? will it be just boaring because of we the Charter Members? Lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
Lorenzo, I think this would be counter to the accepted definition of membership levels. From http://www.osgeo.org/Membership *We emphasize that the only real difference between a Member and a Charter Member is the right and responsibility to vote at the Foundation level. It is not our intent to make the Charter Members out to be some privileged class. Furthermore, the only real difference between a Member and a Participant is the self-registration on the Foundation's website. All mailing lists, projects, committees, and other Foundation activities are uniformly open and available to all friends of the Foundation.* On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Lorenzo Becchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: ... The OSGeo Community is pretty open and there is no formal membership - everybody invloved in FOSS4G initiavites is allowed to call herself an OSGeo member. So, in the OSGeo Planet idea, everybody involved in FOSS4G is welcome to add her blog to the Planet, without any artificial requirements (post about FOSS4G or do not post at all). However, I'd limit the OSGeo Planet to people who are involved in OSGeo activities in some way (users, speakers, developers, translators, any other contributors). Just to keep some orientation to the OSGeo world. what about just Charter Members? will it be just boaring because of we the Charter Members? Lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Search and Rescue Software group
David, One group that you may want to look into is the Sahana (http://sahana.lk) Open Source disaster management group. There is a fair bit of overlap between people and resources (TelaScience) between this group and OSGeo. I believe this type of capabilities is also well within the scope of work that they do or have on their roadmap. David On Feb 4, 2008 2:07 PM, Sampson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Folks, Two things. 1. I am looking for people interested in developing existing open source software for use in Search and Rescue. Specifically interested in mapping, but personnel management is definitely a part of that. One example of using GRASS in a SAR scenario includes * http://www.swcp.com/~russo/080103/* http://www.swcp.com/%7Erusso/080103/ A personally management software package that includes mapserver, GDAL, maptools and proj4 named E-GADS is found here * http://e-gads.sourceforge.net/* http://e-gads.sourceforge.net/ . This project is pretty dead from 2004 but the developer says the code is stable and a patch was updated in 2007. Perhaps a general OPEN SOURCE SAR list would be beneficial for other fringe projects. Essentially the group would focus on two parts. Continuing development of SAR specific applications like E-GADs would be one. This might include customizing interfaces and increasing functionality and ensuring interoperability. Also of course documentation would be required. The other would be adding SAR specific functionality to existing GIS packages. This would include SIMPLE interfaces through GRASS/QGIS to run specific scripts (python or other). Also, of utmost import is customization of user interface that can be used by a non-techie volunteer at 3am in the morning after 1 litre of coffee. The group would probably focus on OSGEO mapping solutions (GRASS/QGIS) as well as other software that has ties to OSGEO packages. If you're interested, let me know. There is also a discussion thread on the GRASS users list. 2. Is there a place in OSGEO to house such a mailing list? Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- David William Bitner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Twin Cities, Minnesota Local Chapter
The Twin Cities MapServer Users Group would like to announce our intention to become an Official OSGeo Local Chapter. We would like to cordially invite anyone in the region surrounding the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, USA to join our group. The Twin Cities MapServer Users Group was formed alongside the organizing committee for MUM3/OSG '05http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/in the Fall of 2004. TCMUG has met near monthly since that time with a mix of social gatherings and technical presentations hosted at various locations around the Twin Cities, MN Metropolitan Area. TCMUG is made up of people representing government, non-profit, academic, and private interests. Members of TCMUG are active in several areas within OSGeo. In addition, TCMUG has a strong presence in state and regional GIS initiatives through MetroGIS http://metrogis.org/, the Governor's Council on Geographic Information http://www.gis.state.mn.us/, and Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortiumhttp://www.mngislis.org/as well as work with FGDC grant funded projects [2] http://openmnnd.org/. Members of TCMUG are active users and developers and have been a forum in the region for not just MapServer, but also many other Open Source GIS packages. Further information about our group and links to join our mailing list can be found on our OSGeo Wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Twin_Cities ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: idea for an OSGeo project -- a new, open data format
I have created a (now empty) space on the OSGeo wiki to start to fill in concrete details that come out of this discussion at http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_formats. Please use the wiki to put your wishlists for a new open data format, lists of existing data formats with links to their specifications etc in the wiki. Please join the Geodata Mailing list (http://www.osgeo.org/geodata) and continue this thread with debate and discussion relating to a new format on that list as I believe it is a more appropriate venue. David On Nov 13, 2007 12:55 PM, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, On 11/13/07, David William Bitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of the mission of the OSGeo Geodata committee (http://www.osgeo.org/geodata) is to promote the use of open geospatial formats. If there is a group that wants to continue pursuing the creation of a new open geodata format, I would like to encourage the use of the geodata mailing list. That being said, I think part of the discussion that needs to be had is whether or not OSGeo should be creating standards in the first place. A couple comments that I have on some of the discussion that has taken place in this thread: Regarding the suggestion that MapServer takes on this new format as the primary format: I think this is way beyond the scope of what OSGeo should be doing. Even if we spec a new standard, we (OSGeo) have no teeth to be able to make any of our projects do any kind of implementation of that standard. The choice of formats that are used by any of our projects is driven by the needs of the users and developers and the resources (time, money) that have been dedicated towards implementing them. If someone takes OpenShape or whatever and decides they have a business need that they can spend the time or money to get it implemented then it will be implemented. Shapefile has and will continue to be an important format for many projects as it is one of, if not the most distributed formats in the GIS world. I respectfully disagree. I think OSGeo has plenty teeth for those who want to believe in it. In the end, yes, just like any real project, it needs a core of committed developer and plenty of time (or money -- usually they are synonymous). This is not something that can happen overnight, but if good, it deserves a start and support. That the long, long-term effects of a solid, relational, transactional, geodata format would be very good is a reasonable assumption for me. Regarding the comments on standards wanking: Standards can get in the way of progress along a straight line, but they can also encourage interoperability that can create better progress for everyone. To get a singular task done, standards often can slow things down, but there *are* gains to be had from playing well with everyone else. Here I totally agree. I am not sure how to interpret the standards wanking statement. On the one hand it is a reasonably accurate assessment of a lot of public hand-wringing and open alliances (for a really funny take on this, read Fake Steve's tirade on the open handset alliance at http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-not-phone-its-alliance.html). But, on the other hand, it is a pretty damning judgment on any attempt to do things via collaboration, and thus, on OSGeo and such efforts itself. My take is that if I can't do it alone, I will lay it out in the open hoping someone better than me will work on it as well. If I can do it alone, I will do it until I think it is ready to benefit from extra eyeballs. Sometimes getting started is the biggest hurdle. David Bitner OSGeo, Public Geospatial Data Project Chair On Nov 13, 2007 11:40 AM, Allan Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:24 , Steve Coast wrote: OSM: $0 CCBYSA: $0 Donation of entire Netherlands: Priceless Real artists ship. For everyone else there's standards wanking. Perhaps there's an art to wanking standards as well. Seriously though, this is so kafka-esque. When OSM started it was like this: We should have got a committee to design a standard, then we could think about a committee to design an ontology... and choose a name... and on some sunny distant day make a map. On 13 Nov 2007, at 17:09, P Kishor wrote: On 11/13/07, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puneet, You wrote: Should be easy to transition to. By building the new format on the structure of the Shapefile format, and *in fact*, calling it open shapefiles or some such thing, we indicate from its name that the transition is not that revolutionary but is evolutionary. This, hopefully, will bring some name-familiarity, and make the transition less scary. I really think you are going to run into problems using the Shapefile as part
