Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

Thanks for the responses- I was looking for a very loose figure for
the community as a whole, so for my purposes the 33K unique
subscribers to the mailing lists works well. The graphs of charter
members per country from the OSGeo AGM slides are also really helpful.
(Thanks Jorge Sanz).

(FYI I'm not doing science with these figures, it's just some factoids
for the purposes of a talk I'll be giving soon)

Best

Jo

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:03 PM Jürgen E. Fischer  wrote:
>
> Hi Jachym,
>
> On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members
>
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members
>
> 1210 entries on https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member
>
> That's also where wiki's Main_Page points to.
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has recently attempted to estimate the size
(in people) of OSGeo?
I thought the easiest approach might be to see the number of people
subscribed to the discuss list. I'm aware it's not going to catch
everyone, but it seems reasonable as a measure of the community.

Thoughts?

Furthermore, how many people attended FOSS4G in Bucharest this year?

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code campaign

[Jo Cook]

Hi Maria et al,

That sounds eminently sensible to me. I guess it's already an agenda
item for the next board meeting so the rest of us can wait to see what
comes out of that.

All the best

Jo

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:14 PM María Arias de Reyna  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think we can do both.
>
> I mean: OSGeo should sign it (from my perspective) because it is
> saying the same thing we say all the time: FLOSS is better :)
>
> And at the same time, we can use the European Chapter to talk to the
> FSF(E) if this is an european initiative to lobby and if we can join
> forces. Or what is the purpose of this (I guess they are not going to
> collect signatures and just wait for something to happen). Whatever
> the FSFE has in mind, we are probably interested in it.
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:11 PM Jo Cook  wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Do we think this is something OSGeo should sign globally, or that
> > individual chapters should decide to sign or not, as appropriate? I'm
> > all for OSGeo signing it, as it's bigger (obviously) and would
> > hopefully have more of an impact, but I guess others may have a
> > different opinion...
> >
> > Jo
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Margherita Di Leo  
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Jody,
> > >
> > > thank you, just added to the agenda. Indeed I think this aims at being a 
> > > global initiative rather than limited to Europe only. I have seen 
> > > signatures from countries all over the world, as well as support from 
> > > international organizations based outside Europe. I  think that OSGeo 
> > > should support this campaign to remark that supports the principle, as in 
> > > this phase no political action is entailed. Local chapters as well should 
> > > sign and, if any, take further political actions when the times come. In 
> > > fact I have forwarded this also to the Italian local chapter and I invite 
> > > all the community to do the same to your own local chapters.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jody Garnett  
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> You are welcome to add it to the agenda to the the next board meeting 
> > >> (edit wiki page Board_Meeting_2019-07-29) , however we try and leave 
> > >> political influencing to local chapters - as it is more effective to 
> > >> have a local voice when talking to politicians. This looks like exactly 
> > >> the kind of initiative OSGeo Europe was formed to support :)
> > >>
> > >> Note despite the "eu" in the domain name the web page does not appear be 
> > >> limited to Europe. When signing it immediately asks which country you 
> > >> are from (no doubt to direct the support to the appropriate region).
> > >> --
> > >> Jody Garnett
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 05:21, Margherita Di Leo  
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Dear members of the OSGeo community,
> > >>>
> > >>> I haven't seen this circulating already in our mailing list, if I just 
> > >>> missed it, apologies.
> > >>> This is to draw your attention to the following campaign: 
> > >>> https://publiccode.eu/
> > >>> I really would like to see OSGeo among the supporters of the open 
> > >>> letter. Like-minded organizations like FOSSGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc have 
> > >>> already signed it.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks
> > >>> Kind regards,
> > >>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code campaign

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

Do we think this is something OSGeo should sign globally, or that
individual chapters should decide to sign or not, as appropriate? I'm
all for OSGeo signing it, as it's bigger (obviously) and would
hopefully have more of an impact, but I guess others may have a
different opinion...

Jo

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Margherita Di Leo  wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> thank you, just added to the agenda. Indeed I think this aims at being a 
> global initiative rather than limited to Europe only. I have seen signatures 
> from countries all over the world, as well as support from international 
> organizations based outside Europe. I  think that OSGeo should support this 
> campaign to remark that supports the principle, as in this phase no political 
> action is entailed. Local chapters as well should sign and, if any, take 
> further political actions when the times come. In fact I have forwarded this 
> also to the Italian local chapter and I invite all the community to do the 
> same to your own local chapters.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jody Garnett  wrote:
>>
>> You are welcome to add it to the agenda to the the next board meeting (edit 
>> wiki page Board_Meeting_2019-07-29) , however we try and leave political 
>> influencing to local chapters - as it is more effective to have a local 
>> voice when talking to politicians. This looks like exactly the kind of 
>> initiative OSGeo Europe was formed to support :)
>>
>> Note despite the "eu" in the domain name the web page does not appear be 
>> limited to Europe. When signing it immediately asks which country you are 
>> from (no doubt to direct the support to the appropriate region).
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 05:21, Margherita Di Leo  wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear members of the OSGeo community,
>>>
>>> I haven't seen this circulating already in our mailing list, if I just 
>>> missed it, apologies.
>>> This is to draw your attention to the following campaign: 
>>> https://publiccode.eu/
>>> I really would like to see OSGeo among the supporters of the open letter. 
>>> Like-minded organizations like FOSSGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc have already 
>>> signed it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> --
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>>> _______
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>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has launched

[Jo Cook]

Hi Cameron,

Yes, definitely. I assume the idea is that OSGeo would apply to become a
mentoring organisation?

Jo

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:36 AM Cameron Shorter 
wrote:

> As per below, Google has just launched a Season of Docs program, designed
> to bring open source and technical writer communities together, to the
> benefit of both. Awesome! I reckon our OSGeo projects should get involved,
> and I'm personally keen to be part of it. Anyone else want to join me?
>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 08:56
> Subject: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents:
> Season of Docs has launched
> To:
>
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> <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/>.
>
> Season of Docs is a Google program that fosters collaboration between open
> source projects and technical writers. It’s similar to Summer of Code, but
> with a focus on documentation and technical writers.
>
> Would you like to take part as a mentor in the inaugural year of Season of
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a single map

[Jo Cook]

Hi Roz,

You might have more luck asking this question on the UK-specific OSGeo
discussion list (see our website at http://uk.osgeo.org/ where there's a
link to the mailing list). As the name suggests, it's focused on the UK,
and no doubt someone there will be able to help you with things like
Ordnance Survey (free) data products and methods you might use for
combining them so that you can remain in possession of all of your limbs
and organs.

Regards

Jo (chair of the UK OSGeo chapter)

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Roz Jones  wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am currently research a Roman road in south-west England, linking Aquae
> Sulis (modern day Bath) and Poole.
>
> At the moment, the route covers about 5 Ordnance Survey Explorer maps.
> But I want to be able to view the route on a single map, of the same scale,
> 1:25 000
>
> I have looked at GIS software, but I can't get my head around it and I
> have enquired with the Ordnance Survey about creating one, and it would
> cost an arm, a leg and a few organs to produce.  Would anyone please help
> me in creating such a map.
>
> Thank you
>
> Roz
>
> My website/blog: http://rhjones19.wix.com/lifesapain?_
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member

[Jo Cook]

I'm also proud to second this nomination.

Jo

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am very happy to second the nomination of Antony Scott.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> 
> From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Vasile
> Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
> Sent: 06 September 2017 2:44 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Cc: OSGeo Chief Returning Officer
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member
>
> Forwarding Antony Scott nomination by Steven Feldman. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:29:51 +0100
> From: Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com>
> To: Cro <c...@osgeo.org>
> CC: Antony Scott <antony.sc...@gmail.com>
>
> I would like to nominate Antony Scott as a Charter Member of OSGeo
>
> Antony has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for a long time and is
> now the secretary of OSGeo:UK
>
> He teaches QGIS both in the UK and overseas via MapAction where he he
> has been a volunteer for over 5 years.
>
> Antony was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and also a member of the LOC
> for FOSS4G UK 2016.
>
> Antony is a dedicated open source person who has travelled the world
> promoting OSGeo technologies in all sorts of environments, he is always
> willing to offer help to others. He would be an excellent Charter Member
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership

[Jo Cook]

I also second this nomination- Matt has been a linchpin of the OSGeo UK
chapter for many years.

Jo

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Suchith Anand <
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> I second this excellent nomination.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> 
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> Sent: 04 September 2017 8:29 PM
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>
> Forwarding Matt Walker nomination by Steven Feldman. The 2017 member
> nominations list was updated [1].
>
> Best regards,
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>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
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>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Nominate Matt Walker for Charter Membership
> Date:   Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:25:22 +0100
> From:   Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com>
> To: Cro <c...@osgeo.org>
>
>
>
> I would like to nominate Matt Walker as a Charter Member of OSGeo
>
> Matt has been active in the UK OSGeo chapter for many years now.
>
> He is the lead developer of the Loader tool that is used by most UK
> organisations to load Ordnance Survey data into PostGIS and has also
> contributed to other projects.
>
> Matt was a member of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC and coordinated the workshop
> programme for that event. He was also a member of the LOC for FOSS4G UK
> 2016.
>
> Matt is a committed open source person who is always willing to offer
> help to others. He would be an exemplary Charter Member
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominate Simon Miles for charter membership

[Jo Cook]

I second the nomination of Simon Miles for OSGeo Charter Membership.
Quietly and unassumingly, Simon has been raising the profile of QGIS and
Open Source GIS in UK local government for a number of years.

Regards

Jo

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org>
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> Forwarding Simon Miles nomination by Ian Turton. The 2017 member
> nominations list will be updated ASAP [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile & Jeff
> 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Nominate Simon Miles for charter membership
> Date:   Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:06:37 +0100
> From:   Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com>
> To: c...@osgeo.org <c...@osgeo.org>
>
>
>
> I would like to nominate Simon Miles for charter membership. Simon works
> in local government in the UK and has been one of the leaders in this
> community in moving from proprietary to open GIS systems. He also runs the
> local QGIS user group in his spare time.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] UCL PhD opportunity

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Hi Lists,

I've been asked to pass on this superb geospatial PhD opportunity from
University College London. Due to funding requirements it's available to UK
residents only. Note the quick closing date if you're interested!

University College London and the Ordnance Survey are currently inviting
applications for a 3-year PhD studentship in "Creating Dynamic3D City
Models for Smarter Cities" which will examine the creation of multiple 3D
models from a single data source (through generalisation/abstraction). The
PhD will be supervised by Dr Claire Ellul (UCL) and by Jeremy Morley
(Ordnance Survey). The closing date is the 28th July.

You can find more details here: "https://www.findaphd.com/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM further details

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Hi All,

A reminder that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be on Tuesday at 5.30PM BST at FOSS4G
UK 2016 in Southampton. You can now find details of this, including the
agenda, on our website at http://uk.osgeo.org/agm/agm2016.html

All are welcome- this is not a closed or members-only event.

Thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM

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Dear All,

This is advance notice that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be held on Tuesday June
14th at 5.30pm, at FOSS4GUK (Ordnance Survey HQ, Southampton). An agenda is
being finalised and will be posted to uk.osgeo.org asap.

If you're attending FOSS4GUK you are more than welcome to attend and find
out some more about what OSGeo:UK does.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Problem Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin

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Hi Rodolfo,

The best place for you to ask this question would be on one of the qgis
support lists or forums- see http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html
for details. This list is for more general discussion rather than specific
software issues.

All the best

Jo

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Rodolfo Souza <rodolfomsso...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to perform a imagery classification using Semi-Automatic
> Classification Plugin in QGis, but when I try to do the training part, my
> QGis shows the error message (please see below):
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/home/rodolfo/.qgis2/python/plugins/SemiAutomaticClassificationPlugin/roidock/roidock.py",
> line 910, in saveROItoShapefile
> self.calculateSignature(cfg.shpLay, cfg.rstrNm, [self.ROILastID],
> cfg.ROIMacroID, cfg.ROIMacroClassInfo, cfg.ROIID, cfg.ROIInfo, 50, 40)
> File
> "/home/rodolfo/.qgis2/python/plugins/SemiAutomaticClassificationPlugin/roidock/roidock.py",
> line 1254, in calculateSignature
> bX = cfg.utls.clipRasterByShapefile(tLP, oList[b], None)
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
>
> Does everyone have the same problem? how can I solve this?
> Many thanks,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GUK reduction in ticket prices

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Dear All

Due to some exceptional generosity from our sponsors, we're delighted to
say that we are reducing the ticket prices for FOSS4GUK 2016. Early bird
tickets are now £75 for the two days, plus there are now single day tickets
available. See http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ for further information.

If you have already purchased a ticket then we will be issuing refunds and
you will  be contacted shortly with details about this.

Many thanks, and we look forward to seeing you in Southampton in June!

All the best

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GUK 2016 early bird tickets will be released tomorrow

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Hi Lists.

Just to let you know that tomorrow morning we are releasing our first batch
of early bird tickets for the FOSS4GUK 2016 event at the Ordnance Survey
offices in Southampton, UK from the 14th to the 16th of June. We expect
these to be very popular, so if you're keen to come along, get in quick!

Check http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/ for more information- tomorrow
morning (BST) we will release the eventbrite link for booking.

We're all really excited about this event, and we look forward to seeing
lots of you there!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] UK local chapter

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Hi All,

This is just a heads up that the UK local chapter, having muddled along
happily as a group of interested individuals for almost 10 years, is now an
unincorporated organisation under UK law, with a constitution setting out
our aims and powers. If you're interested, there's a link to it at
uk.osgeo.org. tldr; we will support the aims of the global OSGeo foundation.

Under UK law, this is the "least formal" sort of organisation that you can
have, but it does allow us to have our own bank account. Due to
circumstances beyond our control, our previous banking arrangement is no
longer available to us...

... and of course we definitely need our own bank account
for our fabulous FOSS4GUK 2016 event, at the Ordnance Survey offices in
Southampton, from the 14th to the 16th of June!
http://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2016/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases and requirements for web maps

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Hi All,

I just wanted to draw your attention to this, from W3C if you have not
already seen it. I don't have the technical know-how to see if there are
any negative implications but there are opportunities to comment.

https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/
http://maps4html.github.io/HTML-Map-Element-UseCases-Requirements/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

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Hi All, and especially Darrel,

In his email Darrel articulated some ideas that I have been having for a
couple of years now, but haven't been able to clearly define.

So firstly I'd like to say that I totally agree with Darrel's points (and
Michael Gerlek's previously)- OSGeo is definitely in danger of becoming
irrelevant. Some of this is down to being a victim of its own success. The
projects have, in many cases, matured and become popular to the point where
they no longer need OSGeo. I'd really like to see a thorough assessment of
our goals and objectives to decide what is still important. The
availability of infrastructure, version control, open data, etc have
improved massively over the last 5 years so now is a great time for a real
spring-clean and decide what we need to keep and what we don't.

What does the world really need from OSGeo that it can't get from anyone
else? What problems could we solve moving forward? Those are the things we
should focus on.

I'm currently trying to write an article on open geospatial in 2020 and I
can honestly say I'm struggling to see a place for OSGeo in it. I'd really
like to be proved wrong (and I'd love some predictions for my article, but
that's for another discussion).

Thanks

Jo
On 26 Sep 2015 1:40 pm, "Just van den Broecke"  wrote:

> Dear Milo,
>
> That you agree Darrel's statements is your opinion and fine in any open
> discussion.
>
> I react here on your phrase: '"empty talkers" from my country run for
> charter membership'.
>
> We have 9 Charter Members from the Netherlands, including me. I know each
> of them, and IMO they are far from "empty talkers". They all spend long
> voluntary hours in an array of activities that support OSGeo's global and
> OSGeo.nl local mission and FOSS in general. To name a few:
> Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2015) spends ample time in Debian packaging
> Barend Köbben (2012) helping/speaking at FOSS4G, org academic track
> We all know what Jeroen and Bart have accomplished. I could go on. Not all
> charter members need to make software, some make things happen like
> organizing local OSGeo.nl events and acting in the LOC for the upcoming
> FOSS4G in Bonn.
>
> So I hope your "empty talkers" phrase came out of a sudden impulse, that
> we all have from time to time. I had to react to clarify some things. Best,
>
> Just van den Broecke
> Secretary OSGeo.nl Foundation
>
>
> On 26-09-15 00:12, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>
>> Being a "don't talk, act" member since 2008, entrepreneur and former
>> chairman of a couple of local initiatives, I strongly agree.
>>
>> Seeing all the "empty talkers" from my country run for charter
>> membership and still not having geoserver, which is the most mature open
>> geospatial product I can think of pas incubation made me completely lose
>> interest in OSGeo.
>>
>> I am disappointed, a little frustrated and plotting a business course
>> that values open source and open knowledge. OSGeo or any in-crowd will
>> have no part in my future.
>>
>> Thank you for your honest and to the point analyses.
>>
>> Milo
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2015 21:58, "Darrell Fuhriman" > > wrote:
>>
>> The recent discussion on the board list
>> > >that
>> came out of the question of the 2014 videos has got me thinking
>> about a few things again, and I want to try to get them out there.
>>
>> Grab a mug of your favorite liquid and hunker down, because I put
>> some time and effort into this, and your own well considered reply
>> is appreciated.
>>
>> Keep in mind that all of these comments are coming from my personal
>> perspective, which, like everyone’s, is an incomplete picture of the
>> whole. Much of what I’m going to say has been rolling around my head
>> for a while, so I’m just going to put it out there.
>>
>> I will start with a provocative thesis:
>>
>> OSGeo lacks visionary unified leadership and without it will become
>> irrelevant.
>>
>> Of course, making such a claim requires support. So let me break
>> down the statement.
>>
>> “Visionary leadership” is really two things, “vision” and
>> “leadership.” I will address each in turn.
>>
>>
>> OSGeo lacks vision
>>
>> I looked at the list of “Goals” for OSGeo
>> . I wonder: when
>> was the last time these goals were evaluated for both success and
>> relevancy?
>>
>> Here is my own opinion of success of some of  these goals. (In the
>> interest of brevity, I haven’t tried to tackle everything. That’s
>> left as an exercise to the reader.)
>>
>>
>>   Example 1
>>
>> To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure,
>> funding, legal.
>>
>> Allow me to break each of those examples down.
>>
>>
>> Infrastructure
>>
>> It’s true that 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Jo Cook]

Brilliant,

I'd be happy to see that blogpost published as a rebuttal.

Jo

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Martin Isenburg <martin.isenb...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We (Oliver and me) had contacted the (new) editor (Roland Mangold who is
> cc-ed) last week and suggested to use the contents of this blog article
>
>
> http://odoepner.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/lidar-news-publishes-uninformed-gpl-rant/
>
> authored by Oliver Doepner as a factual rebuttal of Lewis Graham's FUD
> rant on GPL/LGPL for publishing in the next issue of the LiDAR Magazine
> (the two-month ago rebranded LiDAR News magazine). I have no final word
> from the Roland yet but our communication suggested that this would happen.
> Please check Oliver's column for any errors (should you care) so he can
> correct them prior to this being published.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin @rapidlasso
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Jo Cook <joc...@astuntechnology.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to.
>> Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some
>> factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond?
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <
>> johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
>>> <martin.isenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was
>>> > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by
>>> Lewis
>>> > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer discretion
>>> > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD
>>> > attack:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
>>> >
>>>
>>> I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are
>>> false.
>>> " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
>>> launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed"
>>> not true
>>>
>>> "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which
>>> you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded
>>> your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
>>> patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software
>>> Foundation for free distribution."
>>>
>>> Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You
>>> don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is
>>> the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL.
>>>
>>> I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack
>>> on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software
>>> Foundation Europe to help write a response?
>>>
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I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to.
Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some
factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond?

Jo

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <
johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
> <martin.isenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was
> > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by
> Lewis
> > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer discretion
> > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD
> > attack:
> >
> >
> http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
> >
>
> I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are false.
> " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
> launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed"
> not true
>
> "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which
> you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded
> your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
> patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software
> Foundation for free distribution."
>
> Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You
> don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is
> the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL.
>
> I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack
> on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software
> Foundation Europe to help write a response?
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Venues for FOSS4G UK 2016

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

OSGeo:UK is seeking venues for a conference on Free and Open Source
Geospatial Software, to be held in the UK Spring 2016.

Our requirements are as follows:
Can support a main space for 250
Up to 5 spaces for 50-60
High-speed WIFI that can support up to 500 concurrent connections (assuming
everyone has 2 devices and Gb file downloads are not uncommon)
Decent low cost simple food
Ideally student accommodation at around £50/night
Alternative low cost hotel rooms
Somewhere to host a party one night

If you are interested in putting a venue forward for consideration, or you
require further information, please contact Conference Chair (
joc...@astuntechnology.com), by October 1st at the latest.

Yours,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Predictions about Open Geospatial in 2020

[Jo Cook]

Thanks Jody,

I agree with all of your points here, though the security aspect
disappoints me!

Keep them coming folks- off list is fine too :-)

I appreciate that everyone's busy with FOSS4G (lucky people) but if you
have any thoughts, please pass them on. I'm keen that this article doesn't
just represent my own opinions, but reflects the wider community too.

All the best

Jo

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There was a good academic foss4g13 talk exploring devices communicating
> their location back into a visual console - I think we will need to take
> that idea and run with it.
>
> - IoT will not be a thing, instead things will be things (the internet
> will be assumed)
> - I did not mention location there, because location will already be
> assumed
> - Security will still be a pain, but we will give up privacy rather than
> fix it
> - Giving up the privacy associated with location will actually mean giving
> up real privacy (but we won't notice until a generation has grown up
> without it)
> - We have a tradition of spatial being special (things closer together are
> likely correlated) the mix of this assumption with things
> (internet+location) will result in "GIS" behaviours where the closeness
> assumption no longer holds
>
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>
> On 9 September 2015 at 11:42, Jo Cook <joc...@astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for
>> a Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information (
>> http://www.agi.org.uk/). I contributed to their previous foresight
>> study- on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See
>> http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report for a link to the pdf.
>>
>> In this case, "Open" is not simply limited to Open Source, but also Open
>> Data, Open Standards, and unfortunately many other meanings of the term
>> "Open".
>>
>> I asked for predictions for the previous study here on the OSGeo Discuss
>> list (though I can't find the thread in the archives) and I'm both keen and
>> curious to crowd-source some opinions/predictions again now. Anything I use
>> will be cited, unless you don't want it to be!
>>
>> Grateful thanks in advance
>>
>> Jo
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Predictions about Open Geospatial in 2020

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for a
Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information (
http://www.agi.org.uk/). I contributed to their previous foresight study-
on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See
http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report for a link to the pdf.

In this case, "Open" is not simply limited to Open Source, but also Open
Data, Open Standards, and unfortunately many other meanings of the term
"Open".

I asked for predictions for the previous study here on the OSGeo Discuss
list (though I can't find the thread in the archives) and I'm both keen and
curious to crowd-source some opinions/predictions again now. Anything I use
will be cited, unless you don't want it to be!

Grateful thanks in advance

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Patreon Funding for open source

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

I realise that the question of funding open source GIS development is a
massive topic, but having read https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/08/Funding_OSS/
and following some of the links in the article (eg
http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/08/throwing-in-the-towel/) I'm curious about
how many people within the OSGeo community are using Patreon (
https://www.patreon.com/). In light of discussions we've all had over the
last few years about how to get companies etc to financially support open
source development, I'd like to know whether Patreon is a possible option.

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code of Conduct in Real Case

[Jo Cook]

Hi Sanghee,

My personal opinion (as a female member of OSGeo) is that these slides are
certainly NOT offensive to women. From your description, they are being
used in context and there should be no problems with that.

Jo

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Sanghee Shin shs...@gaia3d.com wrote:

 Dear All,

 It’s now time to apply OSGeo CoC(Code of Conduct)[0] in real case.

 I was asked to remove a few slides from my presentation 7 Reasons why you
 should come to FOSS4G 2015 Seoul”[1], which is at the main page of FOSS4G
 Seoul, as being possibly offensive to women. Specifically to say, slide #6
 (nude female in painting) and slide #20 (row of female models) are those
 controversial ones.

 I refused this asking immediately because I don’t believe my presentation
 breach the OSGeo CoC and I don’t agree with that view.

 However since this is not the first time asking me to remove those slides
 from my presentation and OSGeo now have CoC, I think we’d better discuss
 this issue more openly to reach conclusions.

 I might be wrong and I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this from
 all around the world. Also I expect Conference Committee’s input as well,
 because this is the matter of OSGeo conference.

 I’m open to remove/amend/keep those slides after hearing other people’s
 opinions on this. Also I believe it’ll be a great chance for OSGeo to learn
 how to apply CoC in real cases.

 *Sidenote for defending myself:
 - Slide #6 is the part of Salvador Dali’s well known painting named
 “Lincoln in Dalivision”[2]
 - Slide #20 is the picture of famous girl group, Girls’
 Generation(SNSD)[3], which I believe as symbolic icon of wide spread of
 Korean culture(K-Culture) in/around Asia.

 All the best,

 Sanghee

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

[Jo Cook]

We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the
question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things,
one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD.

Jo

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva georger.si...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.

 Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.

 On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk petrx...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial applications
 on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, MapProxy, PostGIS and
 so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know others opinion.
 I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your
 favorite one?
 The shortlist is as follow:
 OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian

 Thanks for your tips.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Chance for better open source representation at the AGI

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

Here in the UK we have been working towards improving the representation of
open source GIS at the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) for a
number of years, and we've done pretty well so far. Last year at FOSS4G in
Nottingham they were instrumental in helping us to organise the event and
we followed on from their GeoComm conference, where there was a lot of
interaction between the two communities. The AGI have also helped the OSGeo
UK local chapter, providing a bank account for us amongst other things. We
now have an opportunity to increase our representation even further, by
getting a known open source advocate onto the AGI Council.

Mike Saunt has been an enthusiastic proponent of open source for many
years, and Astun Technology's products are built on the open source gis
technology stack. Astun have also sponsored OSGeo and the UK chapter over
the years. Full disclosure, he is my boss, but I would be doing this anyway
as I think it's a great opportunity for us to increase the profile of open
source within the wider UK GIS community, and build on the work that has
already been done in this area.

So, calling all UK people on these lists- if you are a member of the AGI
and eligible to vote, then please consider voting for Mike here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AGICouncilElection2015

Thanks!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] On the subject of tilecache

[Jo Cook]

Dear List,

A while ago I reached out to the tilecache mailing list to try and
understand what's happening with the project. The company that I work for
has a few minor fixes that we would like to contribute back to the main
code, and I also noticed that there are some broken links on the website
(and in the example config) as the metacarta tile server is no longer in
operation, so beginners are going to find it quite tough to set up. A quick
look on github suggests a number of people have forked it and are doing
their own thing, but ideally it would be good to know if the core team are
still doing any work on it, or have any plans to take it forward. Github's
great, but it would also be nice to have a canonical version of the package
that we can all contribute to rather than many versions, all slightly
different.

As I said, I asked this question on the tilecache mailing list and got no
answer, so I thought I'd ask here but if anyone wants to chat about it off
list then please do get in touch.

All the best

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

[Jo Cook]

I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel
that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a
bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying
to be truly global.

Jo


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna 
delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote:




 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna 
 jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:

 It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female
 nominations for Charter members.  I just want to bring this to the
 attention of the whole community.

 Thanks all,

 -jeff


 Agreed.

 On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their
 gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It
 won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am
 female and not because I worked hard.)

 I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this
 stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech
 organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to
 school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)

 Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know
 it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Jo Cook]

Hi Gavin and Bruce,

To add to what Gavin said, we recently did a piece of work assessing how to
use PostGIS as a back end for ArcGIS and as well as the fairly major
constraint around writing to the database we also found issues with
case-sensitivity- all database objects (tables, schemas etc)  need to be
lower-case for ArcGIS to see them, and you will need to use different
connection methods (query layers) to view data in tables with null values
in them.

Jo


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wrote:

  Hi Bruce

 I've done fairly  extensive research as this is a very common situation.
 The landscape is quite fluid though.

 There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had much
 luck with them in a read-write production environment.

 Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been available for
 a few versions now. The clincher is write support. For that you need to pay
 up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor (now called Standard). ArcGIS ArcView
 (now called Basic) won't get you write access. And you can't get around it
 with WFS-T either.

 So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database connection or
 WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or Enterprise ('ArcInfo')
 or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native PostGIS geometry).

 Gavin


 On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:

 Hi,

  Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector spatial data
 source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?

  I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being able to
 create, update and delete spatial data managed within a PostGIS
 environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle wear.

  Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that you’ve had from
 implementation to operational use?


  We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop and open
 source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.

  Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d like to move
 our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and consolidate our vector
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Save the date: PostGIS show and tell day- London- 20th November 2014

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

Just a heads up to say that the OSGeo:UK chapter will be hosting a PostGIS
show and tell day on PostGIS Day (20th November 2014).

The venue is still being confirmed, but it's very likely to be in London.

The basic idea is for people to do short talks about something cool they
have done- it must include PostGIS, but otherwise all bets are off. Sales
Pitches will be considered uncool though.

We're planning to charge a nominal fee for attendance, with all proceeds
going to PostGIS development.

More details, including somewhere you can sign up for tickets or register
an interest in speaking, just as soon as we have the details confirmed.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11

[Jo Cook]

Dear Lists,

You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata
standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite
old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on
Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor.
My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work
to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to
make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of
the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and
will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released
towards the end of 2014.

Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions:

   1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have any
   other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good
   opportunity to get them included in our plans.
   2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this project?

Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer.

Regards,

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[Jo Cook]

Hi Ian,

Certainly creating a new schema plugin will be one part of what we want to
achieve, but there were some code changes made, and we need to assess
whether they have been integrated already into the later releases of
geonetwork.

Jo
On 26 Jun 2014 18:52, Ian Edwards iedwards@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jo,

 Do you know whether you can achieve what you need by only creating a new
 schema plugin, or is the work more complicated (i.e. involves modifying the
 code base)


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 You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata
 standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite
 old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on
 Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor.
 My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work
 to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to
 make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of
 the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and
 will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released
 towards the end of 2014.

 Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions:

1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have
any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good
opportunity to get them included in our plans.
2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this
project?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

[Jo Cook]

Hi List,

Regarding the new proposal for voting in charter members- it's slightly off
topic, but I doubt all existing Local Chapter representatives have been
voted in by at least 3 charter members. That sets the bar quite high for
new chapters as well- under the new regime if they have no existing chapter
members it might not be possible for them to a) elect a chapter
representative and b) get them elected as a charter member. Maybe I've
misunderstood this part of the new rules?

Jo


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 2014-06-15 1:52 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com:

  Within 2 weeks we intend to start our annual process for selecting new
 OSGeo charter members.

 In previous years the Charter Member selection process has been a little
 contentious. We typically receive numerous nominations from high caliber
 members of our community, and insufficient positions to accept them all.
 This typically results in unnecessary disappointment and dissent.

 In response, the OSGeo board has agreed to trial tweaking the voting
 process. The aim is to automatically accept recognised OSGeo community
 leaders, while continuing with our existing process which attracts the many
 valuable community members who contribute in other ways. Community comments
 are encouraged, and will be considered over the next week.



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

[Jo Cook]

There's already a repository for 2013 at
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2013/ it has some files in it (mainly bid
documents at present that I uploaded at the start of the process). I'm
currently wgetting the basecamp project that we were using, so I can verify
that we will also be archiving that- however until it finishes I don't know
how much disk space it's going to take up.

Jo


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Barry Rowlingson 
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 The material for FOSS4G 2013 for possible archiving amounts to:

  1. Static web site, including mapgallery HTML but not including
 mapgallery images: 74Mb

  2. MapGallery imagery: 350Mb

  3. Basecamp archive: ???Mb - contains discussions, documents etc

  4. Google Docs: ???Mb

 I'm responsible for 1 and 2. Is that too much? I could take out the
 map gallery but it is quite nice. Someone else will perhaps be in
 touch about 3 and 4.

 Could someone on the exec kickstart the process whereby I can put
 these things, if OSGeo still want them, onto storage somewhere.

 I don't know if OSGeo would rather put them on a filesystem or have
 everything in SVN, in which case a new SVN repo for 1 and 2 would
 probably be the thing, then I'd push everything to it.

 If we don't get this done by end-of-year then I doubt it will get done
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

[Jo Cook]

I disagree completely about the basecamp archive. The whole purpose of what
I'm doing at the moment is to archive it in a useful format, with
discussion threads linking to files rather than a bunch of wiki pages. I
appreciate that preserving things on the wiki is a good idea, and that's
what we have been doing, but it might be worth holding off from dismissing
the basecamp archive as useless until the archiving has been done. You will
of course get the logos and other files separately (see Barry's original
post, which no one has answered yet).

I also don't think that the lessons learnt page for 2013 is the right place
to add personal opinions from the board about the archive- if you want to
forbid the use of any communication tool for OSGeo conferences, apart from
the mailing lists and wiki, then this should be specified in the RFP.

Jo


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Jeff McKenna
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.comwrote:

 As for the  Basecamp archive, it's likely useless as-is, but what should
 be done is to extract out the individual parts (docs, raw logos) then
 upload them individually to SVN, and then move the discussions into
 OSGeo wiki pages.  Of course this is much easier to do from the
 beginning of the event planning.  We can add this to the 2013 lessons
 learned page for sure.

 Thanks for taking this time to share your files.  They are super
 important for future FOSS4G local committees.

 -jeff



 On 2013-12-04 10:39 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
  The material for FOSS4G 2013 for possible archiving amounts to:
 
   1. Static web site, including mapgallery HTML but not including
  mapgallery images: 74Mb
 
   2. MapGallery imagery: 350Mb
 
   3. Basecamp archive: ???Mb - contains discussions, documents etc
 
   4. Google Docs: ???Mb
 
  I'm responsible for 1 and 2. Is that too much? I could take out the
  map gallery but it is quite nice. Someone else will perhaps be in
  touch about 3 and 4.
 
  Could someone on the exec kickstart the process whereby I can put
  these things, if OSGeo still want them, onto storage somewhere.
 
  I don't know if OSGeo would rather put them on a filesystem or have
  everything in SVN, in which case a new SVN repo for 1 and 2 would
  probably be the thing, then I'd push everything to it.
 
  If we don't get this done by end-of-year then I doubt it will get done
  afterwards.
 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

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I guess the question is- what's going to get the interest of/be relevant to
third year undergrads? While licensing is important, it's not, if you're a
student. What you're interested in, is being able to do your work, figure
out what's going to help you get a job etc.

So I'd focus on the daft limitations of Acme Proprietary GIS- the license
that means you can't use it at home, or anywhere if you come from
particular countries, and the skills that are required in the workplace
these days.

Jo


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson 
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 A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give
 him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least
 introduce his third year geography  environmental science
 undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the
 students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to
 worry about the cost.

 So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50
 minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a
 brain dump:

  Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial.
 Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc.

  Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC,
 general goodness of interoperability

  Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and
 rejoinders to those.

  Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry.

  Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a
 failure of openness?

  Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case
 studies

  Open source in the UK:  Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies

 - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd
 probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an
 hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an
 earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...).

 Any thoughts?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

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The newest version of Portable GIS doesn't require quite so many admin
privileges, but I've also slimmed it down dramatically so it fits on a
smaller USB stick, so it contains a lot less software (no gvsig, no mysql
etc). It is used extensively for training courses in the UK, without too
many problems, and the new version should be better again as I have a
windows 8 VM to test on at last.

I'd like to bring Portable GIS in line with OSGeo4W and OSGeo Live- I've
spoken to both Alex and Cameron about this in the past- but I have some
work to do before that's possible- namely around documenting exactly which
files I change, and also the build process. It's all in a local mercurial
repository at the moment, but I'd really like to get it online. To be
honest, my big concern is that I don't always have time to focus on things
outside of my core work (maybe that will change post FOSS4G) and I can't
guarantee being able to pitch in at release time, or even respond to issues
in a timely manner. That's the main reason why I've kept it as a little pet
project- so I'm not letting anyone else down!

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this discussion!

I think it makes sense to come up with an over-arching
project/committee/whatever that covers both OSGeo4W and OSGeo-Live, and
maybe PortableGIS at some point, rather than separate projects. It's always
better to share work rather than replicate it. Does anyone have any
objections to that idea? Personally, I'd then sketch out the workflows for
each, and figure out what make-up of committee would be required to oversee
that and go through incubation.

Jo


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.comwrote:

 On 09/24/2013 12:50 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
  On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 
  Hi Daniel,
 
  I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks
  incubation process.
 
  Best,
  Angelos
 
  My own impression is that if we want to reach out to non-geek GIS
  users the ideal way would be a system like portable GIS with the great
  documentation of the live dvd, ie run and test the programs without
  needing to be admin or having to install different programs.

 I've researched this problem, talked with Jo (Current author of
 PortableGIS http://www.archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html)

 There is almost no way to make this work without Admin priveleges on a
 windows machine. Some individual apps can be made to work by extensively
 modifying how they look for libs but many require things like a jvm to
 run on top of, or a mix of system an local libs (e.g. Visual C++ is
 required for many OSGeo4W apps and requires an install, that's actually
 about the only part that has to be installed vs just in the OSGeo4w
 folder).

 This is actually why I settled on helping create OSGeo Live bootable
 products and virtual machines. Of course this isn't perfect either as
 figuring out how to boot a disk or usb seems beyond some users, and the
 virtual machine still hits needing admin to install virtualization
 software.

 I also agree there's no reason many of the documentation efforts can't
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGEO4W future

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Just a quick email to say that I wholeheartedly agree with all the ideas
here, and I want to be involved. I'm not sure how much I can help with
right now as, post FOSS4G, I really want some time away from committees and
organising :-)

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Ian Edwards to the Board

[Jo Cook]

Hi CRO and Discuss,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for the OSGeo board. Ian is a newly
elected Charter Member, is the current Chair of the UK local chapter [0],
and is a crucial member of the local organising committee for FOSS4G 2013
[1]. He also has lots of extremely useful Drupal skills that he is using on
the WebCom committee [2] and is involved with the OSGeo Live Project [3].

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
[1] http://2013.foss4g.org/
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/webcommittee/index.html
[3] http://live.osgeo.org/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Discussion about When for FOSS4G Code sprint in September

[Jo Cook]

Hi Frank,

The date of the code sprint is fixed, I'm afraid, but there's nothing to
stop you meeting up with other developers throughout the week and doing
some coding. There will be plenty of spaces where you can get together and
plug in some laptops!

Jo (on behalf of the LOC)


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Frank Gasdorf fg...@users.sourceforge.net
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 Sorry for cross-posting ..

 I'd like to start the discussion about the when the event takes place.
 Right now the wiki page (
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint) says Sunday, 22nd but
 I'm not sure whether is a good idea to have it at the end of a fantastic
 week:
 - I guess some will leave earlier (like myself on Saturday)
 - GeoHack (http://2013.foss4g.org/geohack/) on 17th and 18th

 I never had the chance in the past to join a code sprint, maybe there are
 some unwritten rules (post sprint having a drink or something like that).

 What do you think about moving the OSGeo code print to Friday to have the
 chance after the sprint getting one ore more beers? Other pro would be the
 chance to talk to each other on the next conference day after a cool down
 in the night

 Thoughts? Opinions?

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for OSGeo Charter Membership

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Dear All,

I'd like to nominate Ian Edwards for OSGeo charter membership. Ian is the
current Chair of the UK local chapter, and is a crucial member of the local
organising committee for FOSS4G 2013. He also has lots of extremely useful
Drupal skills that he's hoping to use on the WebCom committee (not that he
needs to be a Charter Member for that of course) and is involved with the
OSGeo Live Project.

Many thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!

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Stop press! We're running out of on-site hotel rooms for FOSS4G.
Accommodation in halls is still available, but if you want a hotel room
booked through the conference you need to do this by Friday July 12th.
After that time, you may need to book your own room.

Go to the website link at http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/ to book.

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!

[Jo Cook]

Hi Daniel,

There's a link from the accommodation page on the website to hotels in
Nottingham if you want to book your own- here it is:
http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay

For what it's worth, once you include transport from the centre of
Nottingham, and parking, then the hotel cost is not so bad- but there are
also student rooms (halls) on site at around 50 per night, all is linked
from http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/. We're only running out of the
Orchard Hotel accommodation- not the student halls. Most of the
entertainment is on site, so we'd thoroughly recommend staying on campus if
you can.

Hope that helps

Jo


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Morissette
dmorisse...@mapgears.comwrote:

 Hi Jo, and FOSS4G LOC,

 The 140GBP/night rooms aren't exactly cheap. Do you (or other locals) have
 recommendations for some good and cheaper hotels within walking or bus
 distance of the conference venue, and also of the social life (pubs,
 restaurants, etc.)?

 I think it is important for a FOSS4G to recommend a few hotels of varying
 price range that are within walking distance of each other, so that
 attendees can pick what fits best their needs and budget, and still be
 located close to each other (not spread over the whole city) for the social
 part of the event at the end of each day (a key part of FOSS4G).

 I am sure this information would be appreciated by many participants.

 Thanks in advance

 Daniel


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 Stop press! We're running out of on-site hotel rooms for FOSS4G.
 Accommodation in halls is still available, but if you want a hotel room
 booked through the conference you need to do this by Friday July 12th.
 After that time, you may need to book your own room.

 Go to the website link at 
 http://2013.foss4g.org/**accommodation/http://2013.foss4g.org/accommodation/to
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!

[Jo Cook]

Let's add those addresses to the website then

Jo
On 5 Jul 2013 16:30, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk
wrote:




 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.comwrote:

  Hi Daniel,

  There's a link from the accommodation page on the website to hotels in
 Nottingham if you want to book your own- here it is:
 http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay


  That site is very sucky. All the links in the text (boutique+spa,
 hostels, canalboats, farm stays) just bounce me back to that page.

  It might be easier for us to give a link to a search on laterooms or some
 other hotel booking site, or at least provide direct links to hotel,
 hostel, and B+B solutions from that site, ie:


 Hotels:

 http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/searchresults?sr=1cat=nottshotelrloc=onlocaddr=1loc=Nottinghamlocprox=0areaproxbands=0.5|2|5areaproxdist=0.5

 B+Bs:

 http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/searchresults?sr=1cat=nottsbbpoly=321

 Hostels:
 http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay/hostels-and-camping

 On LateRooms.com, a search for Nottingham University only returns the
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Early Bird Extended!

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Hi Everyone,

Just to let you know that we've extended the Early Bird deadline for
booking FOSS4G until 14th June to take into account the additional workshop
voting and to allow us to get a full timetable up for you to view. Details
on the site: http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/. Details to come soon on
the additional workshop voting, and on the full timetable. There's a lot of
juggling of papers going on, believe me!

Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in September,

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Last day for Academic Track Submissions for FOSS4G 2013

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Hi All,

Just a reminder that today (22nd) is the last day for submissions for the
FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track. Get your paper in while you can!

http://2013.foss4g.org/academic-track/call-for-papers/

Thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Your weekly dose of FOSS4G 2013 News

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Dear All,

For those that haven't already spotted this on twitter (cue big fanfare...)
registration for FOSS4G 2013 is now open! Early Bird Closes on 31st May,
and there's a limited number of the on-site hotel rooms, so get in quick!
See http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/ for all you need to know about the
process. There are links to information about UK visas, and travel at
http://2013.foss4g.org/map/information/ and
http://2013.foss4g.org/map/travel/ but if you need any help then just give
one of the committee a shout.

The call for presentations and workshops is also open- at
http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/, closing 31st March, and
our free hackathon on the 16th and 17th September is also up on eventbrite
http://hackathonfoss4g2013-es2005.eventbrite.com/?rank=1

We're just in the process of booking some really cool entertainment and
after-dinner speakers, so come on, what are you waiting for?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Your weekly dose of FOSS4G 2013 News

[Jo Cook]

Hi Jeff,

We thoroughly agree with you and are trying to reach out to the SoTM
community/organisers to get some good involvement there. We'll keep the
lists posted with news when we have some.

Jo


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jo et al,

 I'm curious what (if any) current thinking there is on some joint
 activities with the State of the Map conference attendees. Its a bit sad
 that these events are so far apart temporally yet close spatially, but I
 think there will be a pretty significant overlap and it makes sense (to me
 at least) to try and do some activities together. I've personally been
 preparing a set of workshops that includes a set of modules on using OSM
 data with FOSS4G tools and I think this kind of thing is really powerful
 and something we should be explicitly promoting some how.

 Jeff Johnson
 OpenGeo

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 Dear All,

 For those that haven't already spotted this on twitter (cue big
 fanfare...) registration for FOSS4G 2013 is now open! Early Bird Closes on
 31st May, and there's a limited number of the on-site hotel rooms, so get
 in quick! See http://2013.foss4g.org/registration/ for all you need to
 know about the process. There are links to information about UK visas, and
 travel at http://2013.foss4g.org/map/information/ and
 http://2013.foss4g.org/map/travel/ but if you need any help then just
 give one of the committee a shout.

 The call for presentations and workshops is also open- at
 http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/, closing 31st March,
 and our free hackathon on the 16th and 17th September is also up on
 eventbrite http://hackathonfoss4g2013-es2005.eventbrite.com/?rank=1

 We're just in the process of booking some really cool entertainment and
 after-dinner speakers, so come on, what are you waiting for?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping advice

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping advice

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Hi Maxi,

I'm not sure which comment you're referring to with this- but I don't think
either myself or Randal are being impolite in our responses. Certainly, all
I meant was that for a beginner, using GRASS would require a steep learning
curve. I use GRASS when I need advanced functionality, but I think the
learning curve may put new users off, that's all.

Jo


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Massimiliano Cannata 
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote:

 Pls, let me say that I don't like the approach: don't sue this software!

 Many software can do the job, suggesting your preferred approach without
 reference to what not to use (in your questionabile opinion) may result
 more polite and in line with open source collaboration.

 Regards,
 Maxi
 Il giorno 04/gen/2013 14:57, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com ha
 scritto:

 +1 for using QGIS without GRASS- it should do everything you need.

 Just one thing- you need Mapserver (or Geoserver as an alternative) and
 something like OpenLayers to form the online mapping component. Mapserver
 does the work of serving up your geospatial data, then the actual user
 interface (the map, with the options to switch layers on and off) is done
 using openlayers.

 Since you're in the UK, can I point you at the OSGeo UK local chapter?
 http://www.osgeo.org/uk we have our own mailing list, which is where you
 might have more luck getting information about UK-specific datasets- you
 will also find a few companies on there who provide training in the various
 components that you're looking to use. (Disclaimer, the company that I work
 for- Astun Technology) is one of those.

 Hope that's useful, again, feel free to shout if you need more
 help/advice. Also, it's great that you're looking at open source options- I
 wish more people starting out would do the same!

 Jo


 On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Randal Hale 
 rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote:

  Good Morning/Afternoon

 If it were me - I would do everything in QGIS. It will be much easier to
 work with and you won't have any of the oddness of GRASS - I like GRASS -
 but it's not the easiest thing in the world to work with. QGIS also
 translates data over to mapinfo very well. You should be able to do
 everything in QGIS without programming.

 There is a plugin to QGIS for Mapserver - so once the project is set up
 You could publish it there. I would try to keep it as simple and as well
 documented as possible.

 Hope that helps some - yell if you need help

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Latest FOSS4G planning meeting

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Dear All,

Just to let you know that we had another of our FOSS4G 2013 planning
meetings this afternoon- and the minutes are here
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Planning_Meeting_December_21st if
anyone is interested.

The highlights are:
We have some confirmed sponsors, but we won't be announcing them until
after the New Year. Our contract is very nearly finalised, and waiting for
some final prices before we send it to the board. We're also getting close
to having a submission system for both academic track and standard papers,
and we'll be announcing that in the new year too.

We'll keep you posted- as always get in touch if you have any questions or
concerns.

Happy Festivities

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 update

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Hi All,

Just a quick update to let you know that all is well with FOSS4G 2013
organisation. We're having planning meetings every 2 weeks at the moment,
and all the minutes can be found on the wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013

The big news at the moment is that we have a sparkly new website just
waiting to be unveiled- we're just mopping up broken links and styling
problems with it at the moment but would hope to have that ready in a
couple of weeks. Expect loads of other exciting news round about the same
time!

All the best

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-UK] Open Nottingham Awards, University of Southampton Open Source Geospatial Lab, OSGeo Live 6.0 Launch - OSGIS 2012

[Jo Cook]

I'd like to personally thank Suchith and the team at Nottingham for a
really great conference. It was a good mix of academic and non-academic,
the workshops and talks were great, the venue was lovely, and a good time
was had by all. The weather was also lovely, proving that it can be nice in
the UK in September :-)

Jo

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Suchith Anand 
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

  Dear All,

 Thanks to efforts of many colleagues at the University of Nottingham and
 the OSGeo UK Local Chapter we had another successful OSGIS conference this
 year. In addition to all our presenters, workshop organisers, sponsors and
 delegates, I would like to specifically thank Donna Astill, Lesley Gray,
 Jeremy Morley, Mike Jackson, Amir Pourabdollah, Corinne Cassidy,  Steve
 Moore and IT support team for Workshops, Sally Hanson  and Webcasting team,
 Catering staff,  Halls of Residence staff at UoN who all put lot of efforts
 to help make OSGIS 2012 a great success.

 The recorded webcasts of the conference will be  made available for  the
 benefit of the wider community soon at
 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx


 *Winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best  Presentation awards 2012*


 “Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions” - Ken Arroyo
 Ohori , Hugo Ledoux, Martijn Meijers (TU Delft, Netherlands)

 “Building a OS MasterMap tile service on an Open Source geostack” - Matt
 Walker (Astun Technology, UK)

 “Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements” - Andrea
 Aime, Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions, Italy)

 Well done to all winners.



 *OSGeo Live 6.0 Officially launched at OSGIS 2012*

 We also officially launched  Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software
 collection at OSGIS 2012. Details at  http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307

 Over 120 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging,
 documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building
 the packaged software. We are very thankful for the  efforts of thousands
 of volunteers who worked for the latest release of OSGeo Live 6.0

 There is whole range of excellent software (DesktopGIS,  Databases,
 Webservices etc) available free for the benefit of everyone.

 Full list of software available at
 http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html



 *University of Southampton to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab*

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 University of Southampton's aim for the establishment of Open Source
 Geospatial Lab  to build up research in this strategic area at the
 University of Southampton.  Onbehalf of OSGeo and ICA, we strongly welcome
 this initiative. We look forward to work with colleagues in Southampton for
 building research collaborations for the future.

 I am also in discussions with other key research universities for the
 establishment of Open Geospatial Labs and will announce more details in due
 course. Our aim is to  establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years.
 These new research labs are strategic to  help us accelerate research
 developments in this area for the future. If your university wishes to
 establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be
 pleased to discuss details.

 We look forward for your continued support for building up Open Source,
 Open Standards, Open Data research globally and seeing you at FOSS4G 2013
 at Nottingham for building further research collaborations.

 Best wishes,

 Suchith

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 mailing list

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

Just to let you know that there's a mailing list for FOSS4G 2013- subscribe
here: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2013. We also
have some brief information on the wiki here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013

We have had to get up and running slightly quicker than anticipated, but we
will have the beginnings of a website available shortly. We'll keep you
posted!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 (no not a typo)

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Dear All,

With respect to the sad news that FOSS4G 2012 has been cancelled, I'd like
to take this opportunity to reiterate that FOSS4G is not dead, and that
there will be a global FOSS4G in 2013, in Nottingham UK. As a result of the
news of the cancellation of the Beijing event we're going to move things
forward more quickly than we had anticipated- we have a planning meeting
tomorrow (Thursday) in which we will discuss this- and we'll keep the
community posted.

Jo (Deputy Chair of the FOSS4G 2013 LOC)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

[Jo Cook]

Hi Cameron,

Sorry I couldn't make the meeting- I'm happy with the change of name, so +1
from Jo on OSGeo Advocate as a name for this new role

Jo

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Cameron Shorter
cameron.shor...@gmail.comwrote:

  Minutes of this meeting are here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2012-06-04#Minutes

 Consensus was that the role should be created as outlined [1], with a
 change of title from OSGeo Ambassador to OSGeo Advocate, as
 Ambassador implies that the OSGeo board has assigned the role to someone
 after a selection process (which is not the case for this volunteer role).

 Voting will remain open for the next 48 hours if people who couldn't make
 the meeting wish to vote.

 +1 Cameron Shorter to accept the OSGeo Advocate role.

 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador

 On 30/05/2012 6:59 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

 I've set up a meeting next week to discuss then finalise the setting of an
 OSGeo Ambassador role. Hope to see many of you at the meeting, or if you
 can't make it, please share your thoughts (and vote?) on email before hand.

 Location: irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
 Time:

 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012month=6day=4hour=20min=30sec=0p1=264p2=240p3=215p4=179p5=224

  Location Local time

   Wellington http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=264 (New
 Zealand) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 8:30:00 AM

   Sydney http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=240 (Australia
 - New South Wales) Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 6:30:00 AM

   Rome http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=215 (Italy) Monday,
 4 June 2012 at 10:30:00 PM

   New York http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179 (U.S.A.
 - New York) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 4:30:00 PM

   San Francisco http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224 
 (U.S.A.
 - California) Monday, 4 June 2012 at 1:30:00 PM


 The current proposal is here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador

 This topic has been discussed by many of you on discuss, marketing and
 board email lists. Here is a summary of comments, along with my suggestions:

 1. There has emerged to be two roles which people have been categorising
 under the title of OSGeo Ambassador
 a. Someone knowledgeable in OSGeo, who can speak at conferences and the
 like. This is what we are focusing on for this definition of the role.
 b. Someone who can negotiate MOU and similar on behalf of the OSGeo board.
 This is proposed to be treated separately, with the OSGeo Board delegated
 to someone they see fit to do the job, on a case-by-case basis.

 2.  There has been concern (from FrankW?) about defining a role which is
 exclusive and prevents people from just stepping up an volunteering. This
 is addressed by letting anyone who believes they have OSGeo experience and
 thinks them self worthy can step forward and volunteer.

 3. There has been concern (from Arnulf?) that our categorisation is too
 complicated. (We are proposing Board Members, Charter Members, Voted
 Positions, Community Members). I believe that we do need some way to define
 OSGeo experience, because that is one of the key criteria that conference
 organisors look for when selecting speakers and key notes. We can
 potentially de-emphasise the categorisation by moving it into the
 Description field rather than making a heading out of it.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

[Jo Cook]

Hi Dan,

Any that you have spare would indeed be useful. If we could just check on
postage costs to ship them to the UK first, that would be great. My address
is in my email footer.

Thanks

Jo

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Suchith Anand 
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

  Hi Dan,

 If you could kindly  send the unused LiveDVDs for OSGeo UK Chapter that
 will be greatly appreciated. We need them for promoting at various events
 in the UK. You can post to Jo Cook or myself . We will pay for the postage
 costs.

 Best wishes,

 Suchith

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  Would someone be able/willing to give such a talk at the MapWindow/Open
 Source GIS conference in Velp, The Netherlands next month? See
 http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012/

  We have a box of live DVD's to give out. Actually we have about 800 Live
 DVD's but will probably only give out 100 or so at the conference. So if
 someone wants some already burned DVD's let me know.

  - Dan

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Membership Nomination: Suchith Anand

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Dear All,

I would like to nominate Suchith Anand as an OSGeo Charter Member. His
tireless enthusiasm in promoting OSGeo in the UK has been immensely
beneficial to the UK chapter. His work to promote open source geospatial
software use in education (see http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/) is of great
importance and benefit to OSGeo globally. Furthermore, his work securing an
MOU between OSGeo and the Centre for Geospatial Sciences at the University
of Nottingham, and more recently with the International Cartographic
Association should be recognised. Suchith is exactly the sort of
pro-active, enthusiastic person that we need in OSGeo!

Thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo design

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Hi All,

Responding to Arnulf's tweet about the new site design (
http://twitter.com/#!/sevenspatial/status/128711440596078592), I think it's
a really good start. I do like the fresher new look, however I found some
of the fonts a little hard to read on google chrome. When you've clicked on
a theme and you see the theme headings as a second level set of
headings (below about us, participate etc) these are pretty small!
Unless we're planning to add more themes, could they be spread out a bit
more and made larger?

There's also an awful lot of whitespace if you have a large monitor and go
to full screen- could the background fill the whole page a la twitter?

These are just minor points really, and I'm quite excited by the new design!

Cheers

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK meeting tomorrow (20th September) at AGI Geocom

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Dear All,

This is a reminder that there will be an informal meeting of the OSGeo UK
chapter at lunch time tomorrow (1pm BST, 20th September) at the East
Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. All are welcome.

Thanks

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK meeting tomorrow (20th September) at AGI Geocom

[Jo Cook]

Sure, no problem!

Jo

On 19 September 2011 11:07, Saber Razmjooei razmjoo...@faunalia.co.ukwrote:

 Unfortunately I (and some of other IRC regulars, I guess) will not be able
 to make it. Would it be possible to send around minutes from your meeting?
 Or a couple of lines on what has been discussed to keep us updated.

 Cheers
 Saber

  Dear All,
 
  This is a reminder that there will be an informal meeting of the OSGeo UK
  chapter at lunch time tomorrow (1pm BST, 20th September) at the East
  Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. All are welcome.
 
  Thanks
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Candidate's statement: Jo Cook

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

Firstly, it's an honour to be even nominated, so many thanks to Antony and
Saber for that!

I recently heard someone say that in terms of the overall information
technology sphere, geospatial is such a small niche part that it's like a
pimple on IT's bottom. However, we've all heard the fact about the amount of
corporate data with a geospatial component! If you take those two statements
together, along with the slightly uncertain financial market at the moment,
there's a lot of room for growth for geospatial technology, particularly
open source. I think OSGeo should be facilitating that growth, as an enabler
for coders and end-users alike.

I think OSGeo does need to grow as an organisation- both in terms of sheer
numbers, but also in terms of profile. I would like to get to the point
where I don't have to start every discussion about OSGeo with a quick
translation of what the name stands for, and what it's all about. I think
opportunities at governmental level are being missed, or left to local
chapters, whereas high-level involvement by OSGeo globally could be
incredibly useful and persuasive. I want people (as individuals, companies,
or even governments) to come to OSGeo to find out about good, sustainable,
well-managed software, reputable training courses, meet-ups and mailing
lists. OSGeo doesn't have to provide all of these things itself, but (at the
risk of repeating myself) can act as an enabler- providing the
infrastructure and the brand, drawing people in, to the benefit of
everyone involved. We do still (unfortunately) need to prove that open
source geospatial software is sustainable and viable- our proprietary
friends have not stopped the FUD, and OSGeo is best placed to provide the
reassurance that end-users need.

The challenge is, how to do all of this with not a lot of cash! I don't
propose any radical changes to how things work- I'd like to see whether
there would be some benefit for spreading the pot of money for sponsoring
events around a little more to raise the profile of the organisation outside
of the US. I'd like to see more infrastructure in place to help local
chapters (this is ongoing, so not a criticism), and I'd like to look at
whether more can be done to promote company involvement in OSGeo- be that in
terms of sponsorship or some other way. I guess these are both the goals I
have for the organisation, and the kind of things I'd like to look at if I
was elected. I'm not a coder, I'm a facilitator, and I want to make OSGeo a
success by contributing in any way I can.

Thanks for reading,

Jo

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo:UK AGM agenda

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

The 3rd AGM for the OSGeo:UK local chapter will be happening this afternoon
(Wednesday 22nd June) at 5pm BST after OSGIS 2011 at the Centre for
Geospatial Sciences in Nottingham, UK. The informal agenda is as follows:

1) Report on the 2010-2011 year from local chapter representative
2) Strategic focus for 2011-2012
3) Reports or comments/questions from the general membership
4) Any other business

Hope to see as many people there- and we'll report on the outcomes via the
usual mailing lists as soon as possible after the event.

Regards

Jo

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Summer work placement working with web-based maps

[Jo Cook]

Dear All,

We (Astun Technology) are looking for a recent graduate in GIS or possibly a
GIS student looking for some experience through the summer.  They would work
on a specific project generally around testing of our iShareGIS product,
which is built on the openlayers/mapserver/postgresql stack.  There would be
a lot of support from our staff here and the student should learn a lot!
Hours are flexible (though minimum 3 days equivalent /week would be
prefered).  This is not a paid role as such but we would consider funding
the travel to the office from a local base (Surrey, UK).

If you can advertise this for us, or you know someone who might be
interested, then get them to send a c.v. along with a few words on what they
are looking for (summer placement / full time / part time / what they are
looking to acheive at a placement / what they are looking to do after their
studies etc. etc.)

Our web site tells you what we're about.

http://www.isharemaps.com/


Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.

Thanks

Jo
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Development of INSPIRE data application profile support in GEOFOSS

[Jo Cook]

Hi Jeroen,

I won't be at FOSS4G but I'm trying to gauge the interest for this in the UK
at the moment, though it's at early days. I think, having spoken to both
some developers/FOSS suppliers and to some governmental people in the UK
that there's definitely interest in a solution. I think it makes a lot of
sense to jointly develop something under the banner of OSGeo rather than
have lots of little initiatives all trying to reinvent the wheel.

So count me in as very interested!

Jo

Jeroen Ticheler - GeoCat wrote:
 
 Dear all,
 
 I have submitted a BOF for FOSS4G2009 where I would like to invite  
 those of you present in Sydney and with interest in the topic  
 Development of INSPIRE data application profile support in GEOFOSS.
 
 Details are here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather#INSPIRE_Data_Profile_Support_in_FOSS4G
 
 Other things may be coming up, but I hope this provides a good  
 starting point for some discussion and possible collaboration.
 
 Please add your points to the list and feel free to modify/improve  
 those I already listed.
 
 Ciao,
 Jeroen
 
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