RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo
I've tried to push folks blogging to step out behind their handles and put their names out there. I think an OSGeo Planet that were to mimic the Planet Gnome would be a super idea. I've not pushed the issue as I've tried to be as open as possible with Planet Geospatial, but if I were to create a more specific planet, I would require real name and possibly even photos. I think that adds so much credibility to the community than all the handles that folks seem to use. Setting up a planet is very easy (Use Venus, not Planet) but feel free to consider me a resource as to what I've learned and struggled on over the years with Planet Geospatial. I spend almost no time managing it beyond cleaning out old feeds (probably not an issue with Planet OSGeo) and adding new feeds (hopefully there a lot of folks wanting to blog about OSGeo). James Fee TEC Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:03 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo Fawcett, David wrote: I personally like reading the OS bloggers mixed in with the proprietary bloggers along with the bloggers who write about using tools from both camps, all at planetgs.com. Yup, planetgs.com does a great job and James Fee is a pioneer in gathering geospatial people from both worlds in common place. However, my personal feeling is that there is a lot or too much of anonymity on the Planet Geospatial, but communities are not formed by anonymous individuals. When I look at the list of aggregated blogs, I hardly can identify who is hiding behind all those names. If you check the list of members of http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ http://planet.gnome.org/ you see *only* and *real* names of people. IMHO, this is a very important difference for how community is visible to the world. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ 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] Planet OSGeo
Most modern blogging platforms support RSS feeds for categories/tags out of the box. Wordpress and Wordpress.com do it by appending /feed/ to the end of the category url. For example if you wanted to subscribe to only OSGeo posts from my blog, you'd just subscribe to: feed://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/category/open-source/open-source-geospatial-foundation/feed There isn't really anything complicated about it. You could also just subscribe to all open source posts via: feed://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/category/open-source/feed/ It is just that simple. Some folks in PlanetGS provide only category feeds. I know Typepad can't do this and blogger couldn't before (not sure about that anymore). But most folks should be migrating to Wordpress anyway for their blogging so this really isn't too much of an issue. James Fee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Sent: Wed 2/13/2008 5:59 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo On 13-Feb-08, at 3:48 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Is it possible for me as a blogger to categorize my entries and for planet.osgeo to only take the OSGeo related entries I consider worthy? This feature should improve signal to noise ratio. I assume you could modify your outgoing feed to accept a filter? Then the subscribed URL would reflect it. ___ 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] Planet OSGeo
Good to hear :-) I've also supposed there is not much to maintain. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot I have not touched the daily operation of the python script since I installed the new version about a year ago. I only add and delete feeds as needed. Surprisingly very little overhead. -- James Fee TEC Inc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration
Lester Caine wrote: It 'somewhat annoys me' when I receive an M$ document from a council and am expected to edit and return it. They get back a PDF because I know that the format will be as I laid it out. You must not mean a M$ Office Open XML document since it is of course and open standard. *shrug* -- James Fee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration
Benjamin Henrion wrote: Exclude proprietary file formats from public nuisance, yes. Public nuisance? Surely the public at large gets to choose what they view as a nuisance rather than you? -- James Fee, GISP Associate TEC Inc. voice: 480.736.3976 data: 480.736.3677 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration
Landon Blake wrote I would remind Mr. Fee, very humbly (of course), that he is on the OSGeo mailing list, so in some respects he's chosen a fight in which he is very outnumbered. I don't know how productive it is to aggressively defend something like the .doc format on a mailing list for proponents of open source software. :] Let me assure you I'm am cursing Microsoft Office as we speak. My point isn't that .doc is a good format, but it is readily available to read in many software packages (some very free and open). Things like ESRI's File Geodatabase are probably formats that I would tend to agree are an impediment to sharing data, but I don't see how any of the MS formats are limiting people using them or creating them. -- James Fee, GISP Associate TEC Inc. voice: 480.736.3976 data: 480.736.3677 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
