Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Charter Member Selection
• Alex Mandel • Andreas Hocevar • Anne Ghisla • Astrid Emde • Danilo Furtado • Gavin Fleming • Hirofumi Hayashi • Jo Cook • Maria Brovelli • Milena Nowotarska Congratulations - I am very happy that the global distribution of OSGeo + gender is now better represented also in the charter membership. A very sensible choice of a board indeed ! Congrats to all. Yvesm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Acid Maps demo
Le 2010-10-18 11:12, Fabio Renzo Panettieri a écrit : Hi, I just wanted to let you know that we have put an Acid Maps demo online. http://acidmaps.xoomcode.com/ Sorry about the 2 week delay, but we discovered that heatmaps were acting 'funny', so we had to change that interpolation algorithm. Hi, I'm trying to find the definition of Acid Maps or some sense as to why it was named that way and Google/Wikipedia don't help. Any pointers ? Or is it just the name of a web server ? TIA, Yvesm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Acid Maps demo
Le 2010-10-19 11:44, Sebastián Cruz a écrit : Hi Yvesm, On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:33 -0400, Yves Moisan wrote: Le 2010-10-18 11:12, Fabio Renzo Panettieri a écrit : Hi, I just wanted to let you know that we have put an Acid Maps demo online. http://acidmaps.xoomcode.com/ Sorry about the 2 week delay, but we discovered that heatmaps were acting 'funny', so we had to change that interpolation algorithm. Hi, I'm trying to find the definition of Acid Maps or some sense as to why it was named that way and Google/Wikipedia don't help. Any pointers ? Or is it just the name of a web server ? Acid Maps is just the name of the project we choose. As to why it's like that we have a few arguments, but you can let your imagination fly and find yours :-) The processes involved are called heatmaps, isolines and Voronoi, but they don't have to do anything directly with the project name. Thanx Sebastian. I thought this was some sort of map type since I see you created your own OL class (OpenLayers.Layer.Acid). I guess that type is only in your GitHub repo and not on OL trunk right ? From the looks of it your server is pure python as opposed to relying on an existing Python framework ? Is there a way to run the server in a WSGI container (like mod_wsgi) ? Cheers, Yvesm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Chipin like
Thanx Yves for your suggestions. That's what I was looking for. fundable.org is still down though Cheers, Yves Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 14:18:16, Yves Moisan a écrit : Hi All, I'm wondering if there is such a thing as Chipin (http://www.chipin.com/) for FOSS4G projects. Say I have a need for MapServer to cascade GetFeatureInfo requests and I know that would take 3-5 days to implement correctly, it would be nice if I could go to a project mailing list (e.g. MapServer's) and say here : we need 4000 bucks to implement feature X and we're putting in 500; please complete. I guess we could use Chipin directly but I don't know how much of a fee they ask for. Any FOSS chipin ? Yves, Something like this: http://www.fossfactory.org/ http://www.fundable.org/ (seems currently down) ? Y. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Chipin like
Hi All, I'm wondering if there is such a thing as Chipin (http://www.chipin.com/) for FOSS4G projects. Say I have a need for MapServer to cascade GetFeatureInfo requests and I know that would take 3-5 days to implement correctly, it would be nice if I could go to a project mailing list (e.g. MapServer's) and say here : we need 4000 bucks to implement feature X and we're putting in 500; please complete. I guess we could use Chipin directly but I don't know how much of a fee they ask for. Any FOSS chipin ? Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Staistical analysis support needed
My guess is that there are two ways that you might explore to do this. 1. Any time someone says 'statistics', my first thought is 'R'; I don't know any of the things you're talking about here, but if these are statistical methods of some sort, R seems like a valid place to start looking. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html rgdal will let you read OGR data sources (like PostGIS databases) into a spatial vector object, and interact with them from there. There's also PL/R to access R within PostgreSQL, in case no one else mentioned it. HTH, Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G band
Le 2010-08-23 09:32, Lorenzo Becchi a écrit : Hi all, we are looking for talented FOSS GIS experts that are talented in playing music too. A wiki page for those interested : http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Social_Activities#FOSS4G_band Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G
Hi Folks, I noticed there were no priviledged hotel for FOSS4G (which is a drag IMO) so I was wondering where attendees are intending to go so we try and book our hotel room or apartment (there seems to be quite a few of those for weekly rents) close to at least one signficant group of attendees. So where are you attendees staying ? Cheers, Yves P.S. Oddly enough the FOSS4G event is not listed on tthe venue site (Palau de Congresso) : http://www.firabcn.es/showsCongresses/begin.do ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which hotels do you go to for FOSS4G
Thanx Chaitanya for the reply. This looks more like a list of places. I didn't find *where* people go, which is what I'm really looking for. Thanx anyways, Yves There is a section with a list of places to stay at wikipage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Barcelona_Local_Chapter_-_helping_FOSS4G_2010#Hostales.2Fbed.26breakfast. I created a separate wikipage listing the place and the persons planning to stay there. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Hotels_and_Hostels Please add the place you plan to stay. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?
Le 2010-04-19 23:44, Christopher Schmidt a écrit : On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:00:45PM -0400, Ian Turton wrote: One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this just for the fun and fame? I know that a lot of us have fun developing but everyone I could think of (GeoTools, GeoServer, uDig) gets paid to have that fun. About 80% of my work on OpenLayers has been entirely unpaid and unsupported by anyone for the past couple years. The early days of OL were a MetaCarta project, and some portion of my work time is still done with support from my employer on open source software, but most of it is just me spending my own time. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I admire the resilience, energy and passion of FOSS developers, but there is no way (IMO of course) someone can work a 40-hour week and have 20-30 hours to spend on their computers hobbying AND 1) do all the sport they should be doing to keep themselves in shape + take care of their kids and families + go to a concert more than once every decade + do all what life really is about. Governments should spend some of their resources to pay people to maintain the commons. Otherwise depending on heroic efforts is not my definition of sustainability. Yves Regards, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?
Le 2010-04-19 19:51, Stefan Steiniger a écrit : I think we (OpenJUMP) have a couple of people that are working (i.e. sending emails and improving code) on the weekends (and evenings) for fun. This includes not only developers but also people that update documentation and test new functions. so - yes! Btw. if you have a 20 hours/week position and you do the rest (other 20h/w) what you want to do (at the University) - which includes research which helps to add functions to software - is that unpaid? .. I would say so. 20 hours at consulting rate vs 20 hours at employee rate makes a world of difference. I could live with 15-20 hours of consultant-rate paid work and I wouldn't mind volunteering for the rest of the week, really. Depends how much cash you really want. Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo maintained ArcSDE (EDN ?) instance
Hi All, I know the subject line doesn't exactly sound like an appropriate topic to discuss on the OSGeo list, but I'd like to make a suggestion to see if there is any traction to it or not. I -- and I'm sure quite a few FOSS4G users on this list -- sometimes have to deploy FOSS4G solutions on corporate/government organization setups that are geared with ArcSDE, for better or for worse. Lately, I've been fighting with MS4W to get it to connect to an ArcSDE server that we set up on our intranet (9.3.1 with postgresql, no postgis is the way it was installed). The intranet SDE was set up as a test server, because we can't access the customer's SDE. So why would I want a public facing OSGeo managed SDE instance if I can set my own ? First, looking at the error logs I'm not sure the installation went well. I'd like to debug being sure that the SDE server is functional. Plus, if I want an independent contractor to work on my problem, I can't offer a test instance because it's on our intranet. I realize most of the people that have customers using ArcSDE will test on the customer's ArcSDE service so there might not be a need for a test instance generally speaking. Am I the only one with that (temporary) need of testing a FOSS4G setup on an ArcSDE server ? Would it make sense to have test data (e.g. like in MS4W) set up on a shared test ArcSDE ? Cheers, Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo maintained ArcSDE (EDN ?) instance
I think that the costs to doing this would likely be prohibitive, right? I didn't know it was so costly. The minimum subscription option (EDN license) is $1500 per year but that comes with SDE (as ArcGIS Server I believe) : http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/edn/pricing.html. I wouldn't want OSGeo to support that and there's probably no hope of getting a freebie from ESRI. The software requires a license, and I expect ESRI wouldn't want to encourage use like this? (not to mention the idea of SAC being responsible for maintaining an ArcSDE instance seems costly for no tangible corresponding benefit to OSGeo.) Thanx for your comments. Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo friendly countries to live in
Cameron wrote: Canada looks preferable to the US. I wonder how much the Canadian GeoConnections program is responsible for Canada's strong OSGeo industry. The Canadian federal government is way ahead of most provinces on that front. One can see the commitments of organizations like the Centre for Topographic Information - Sherbrooke (federal agency) where some folks are actively collaborating on projects like OpenStreetMap as part of their duties. Open source in provinces is way behind, especially in my own province : Québec :-(. I don't know what it will take for government organizations to see the virtues of collaboration ... Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries
Whence licence exceptions e.g. in ExtJS (http://extjs.com/products/floss-exception.php) Assuming that you consider them valid. Red Hat Legal is firm that this exception clause isn't valid. -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471509#c2 Thanx for the precision Chris. ExtJS is a whole different ball of wax than the OP was talking about; it's best not to treat too much in that project's licensing as doctrine, since it's different from any other open sourced project I've ever dealt with, and unusual in a number of ways. Right. Thanx. Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries
But if he wants to keep his code under some closed-source license then he can not link to or embed any GPL licensed code or library. Whence licence exceptions e.g. in ExtJS (http://extjs.com/products/floss-exception.php) to allow using ExtJS (GPL) with an application/library that is distributed as an open source type of license. My understanding is that what this tells is if you are distributing a closed-source app, either GPL it (or buy a license, in the specific case of ExtJS) but if you're in the open source bandwagon, then you can use our GPL'ed piece and not have to relicense your already open source software to GPL. I think things are clearer for me now. Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nice Article about FOSS4G use in Maine
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/633927 The purpose of this project is to partner with any organization holding publicly-available digital aerial ortho-photos for Maine in order to allow these data to be made available to any user via WMS. Have they heard of OpenAerialMap ? I know Chris posted something about its governance a few weeks/months ago, but I still find it neat to see air photos and OSM data as in Fort Collins Co : http://www.openaerialmap.org/map/?lat=40.55lon=-105.07zoom=13 Cheers and thanx for the info, Yves Best regards, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo President and Board Election Results
PS : you can join us in the Francophone mailing list ;) http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/francophone J'y suis déjà. Je n'interviens pas pour le moment. Yves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo President and Board Election Results
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 15:34 +0200, Jacolin Yves a écrit : Hello, Here a french version (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Press_Release_Board_2008_fr) but need a proof-reader ;) I did a couple of edits (e.g. typo in Arnulf's name and a few commas). Please look at my comments in the Discussion tab for further possible edits. Yvesm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
