Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Hi All, I agree with you i think we need a local chapter policy, to redistribute knowledge and organizational experience through the LC, helping ourselves to organize hack meetings and local conferences. I think we also need to focus on an educational strategy to promote FOSS inside university departments. A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not because they think the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but simply because they learned a proprietary application during their study and continue using them without considering other sw. (cracking sw is too easy and in my experience I see teachers even apply cracks or password cracked apps to their students) So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in this direction, giving the right weight to an educational strategy. Regards, Massimo. Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha scritto: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, Howard Butler wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board. It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in the next 3-5 years are the following three items: - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't. - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we start to use it our central fundraising piece. - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter development and consolidation of the conference. I was going to write a post in response to this, but after reading Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his opinions and position mirror mine 100%. Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend
the relative if statment to check the module presence. after this littlle hack i have remastersys semi-working on sidux too. the live-dvd produced has a working gis software (also 3d with ossimplanet) but unluky the script fails to configure the network (resolvconf problems) and it has missed the install to hd tools. (i'm subsribed to the remastersys forum and i'm tring to get support about this problem) in short word : using debian or ubuntu i'm not able to have a really platform independent 3d environment but i have an installable live-dvd while on sidux i have all working in live-mode except to the resolvconf-dhcp problem (i'll meet a server-mantainers in the next days to face out this problem) again the live is not yet installable on HD (i'm tring to solve this on the remastersys forum). 5. Add what ever new packages, linux software, windows installers, etc to the LiveDVD. This is the technical grunt work. Note that the packaging projects like DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS are quite robust, and have been very helpful in getting new people started with packaging, and many of these people are also on the LiveDVD email list. i've discuss about the osgeo live-dvd project on our local-chapter list, we'll be avaiable to produce a local dataset and localized documents. my idea is to use as example data a common dataset based on global data + a localized dataset based on local-free data if avaiable. however we need a common tutorial/how-to workshop files to follow as guide-line for the local chapters. just a littel consideration maybe is is obviouse, i'm tring the variouse .iso produced and is my idea that the live.iso works really more fast if it is booted in a virtualbox machine i do some test on the live.iso, i find that running it in a VirtualBox Machine, it is really fast rather than a boot from cd. thanks to read this long-confuse mail and for any feedback. Massimo. Welcome aboard. I suggest that any volunteers join the live-demo email list, and respond to this email suggesting how you might want to help. Cameron Shorter, FOSS4G chair. Ravi wrote: Hi, volunteer: Happy to note a good discussion. I can help in seeing the draft of workshops/Labs that deal with Vector-GIS and GIS that focuses on Geoscience. Can help in advising where necessary, to tune the material such that those multitudes not attending the event can equally use the material with ease. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Fri, 31/7/09, Alex Borrell borrella...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alex Borrell borrella...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@lisasoft.com Date: Friday, 31 July, 2009, 8:12 PM On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Massimo Di Stefano massimodisa...@yahoo.it wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a live dvd project based on GIS software, i'm avaiable for any help on the dvd creation. let me know. ciao, Massimo. Il giorno 31/lug/09, alle ore 11:11, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: Hi Ravi, Yes, you are so right, we do need to collect as much of the material from the FOSS4G conference as we can. One way we hope to facilitate this has been to give every attendee a LiveDVD which can be populated with all the material from the workshops. This means that if workshop presenters can get their data onto the DVD, then they know all attendees will receive it. So we have budget for the LiveDVD. We have an old version of the LiveDVD (based on FOSS4G 2008). What we need to continue through to completion is to have someone who will coordinate the compiling of the DVD. This is primarily a project management role, keeping track of what is on the DVD and what should be on it, contacting workshop authors, and project leads and helping them get their projects onto the DVD etc. Sound like you? It would be an incredibly valuable contribution to FOSS4G and the greater OSGeo community at large. Jody Garnett wrote: These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from FOSS4G2008 etc... Jody On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication of material on the website eagerly such that they can follow labs, workshops and presentations of choice. So the present organisers may please request those especially conducting labs/workshops to keep in mind the multitudes who browse them through the internet can have equal benefit. This can be achieved my keeping on the internet for download 1. All the binaries that are required for the exercise 2. All the data that are required for the exercise 3. All the printed material provided for the exercise 4. All the other material provided to the attendees, CD or DVD etc I agree that most of it is done each time
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend
Hi All, I'm working on a live dvd project based on GIS software, i'm avaiable for any help on the dvd creation. let me know. ciao, Massimo. Il giorno 31/lug/09, alle ore 11:11, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: Hi Ravi, Yes, you are so right, we do need to collect as much of the material from the FOSS4G conference as we can. One way we hope to facilitate this has been to give every attendee a LiveDVD which can be populated with all the material from the workshops. This means that if workshop presenters can get their data onto the DVD, then they know all attendees will receive it. So we have budget for the LiveDVD. We have an old version of the LiveDVD (based on FOSS4G 2008). What we need to continue through to completion is to have someone who will coordinate the compiling of the DVD. This is primarily a project management role, keeping track of what is on the DVD and what should be on it, contacting workshop authors, and project leads and helping them get their projects onto the DVD etc. Sound like you? It would be an incredibly valuable contribution to FOSS4G and the greater OSGeo community at large. Jody Garnett wrote: These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from FOSS4G2008 etc... Jody On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication of material on the website eagerly such that they can follow labs, workshops and presentations of choice. So the present organisers may please request those especially conducting labs/workshops to keep in mind the multitudes who browse them through the internet can have equal benefit. This can be achieved my keeping on the internet for download 1. All the binaries that are required for the exercise 2. All the data that are required for the exercise 3. All the printed material provided for the exercise 4. All the other material provided to the attendees, CD or DVD etc I agree that most of it is done each time, except for a few instances Example:'Download data from the CD provided', is given in the lab pdf.. but the data is not given for download... Example:'Run the pg_setenv.bat file first,' (FOSS4G2007).. even on date a nice archive is available from the FOSS4G2007 website, data, text etc.. but, the pg_setenv.bat, not there. This may be trivial for experts, but for those learning through the internet and depending on 'Discuss Lists', it will be a roadblock. Cheers Ravi Kumar See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Gfoss] rilasciato spatialite-gis ALPHA
Hi All, Apologize Corossposting, some swit news from italy ;-) Inizio messaggio inoltrato: Da: Alessandro Furieri a.furi...@lqt.it Data: 06 luglio 2009 15:29:25 GMT+02:00 A: gf...@faunalia.it Oggetto: [Gfoss] rilasciato spatialite-gis ALPHA Sempre legato agli annunci precedenti: ora รจ anche disponibile un GIS elementare, leggero e veramente molto semplice basato su SpatiaLite e RasterLite saluti, Sandro --- Hi list, today I released 'spatialite-gis', a really simple and elementary GIS tool built directly on the top of SpatiaLite. http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite [or] http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1 -- 'spatialite-gis' is very alike to 'spatialite-gui'; both are intended to cooperate in a smooth way. - spatialite-gui allows you to access the DB in a classic SQL-based fashion - spatialite-gis supports a more 'visual' and interactive approach 'spatialite-gis' fully supports RasterLite's Raster Data Sources: you can get two useful sample-DB at: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1/world.7z http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1/truemarble-4km.7z And a complete tutorial is available as well: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1/spatialite-gis-basic.pdf http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1/spatialite-gis-advanced.pdf IMPORTANT NOTICE: this is an ALPHA state release, so it's quite unstable for sure; please, let me know any bug, oddity and so on ... Enjoy, Sandro ___ Iscriviti all'associazione GFOSS.it: http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/iscrizione gf...@faunalia.it http://lists.faunalia.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gfoss Questa e' una lista di discussione pubblica aperta a tutti. I messaggi di questa lista non rispecchiano necessariamente le posizioni dell'Associazione GFOSS.it. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XTF reader neede - triton format for sonar
Hi Giovanni, i never used it directly but, have you tried MBSystem ? It can read some Swath files like multy/single beam, side scan sonar in xtf format : http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/ Supported Data format : http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/htmlbeta/mbsystem_formats.html Massimo On Aug 1, 2008, at 5:50 PM, G. Allegri wrote: Hi list, I'm facing the need to process some sonar files in XTF (eXtensible Triton Format), but I can't find anything as OS to do it. Does anyone have experience with such a format? Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
