[OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS! Conference, Moscow, Russia, Nov 21-22
Hi all, We're excited to announce that we're running Open GIS'2015 this November 21-22 (Sunday, Saturday) in Moscow, Russia (45 days left) First Open GIS conference happened in 2012 and brought together diverse crowd of 250 people from 150 organizations. We had about 50 presentations and 12 workshops. This year we expect at least the same numbers or more. We hope this will be a very positive, diverse and active event. This conference is grassroots and organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities (think FOSSGIS, but completely informal). Attendance and workshops are free. Though this is a national event, English-speaking presenters are very welcome. We already have few presentations and workshops from people from abroad (for example from Victor Olaya). We can guarantee lots of attention and challenging questions. If you're with a company this might be a major 'undeveloped market' for your products. Please let me know if you'd like to come. You will most probably will require a visa, but there is plenty of time to get one. Your participation is critical for building stronger ties between technically apt, but isolated user&developer community here and outside open source geospatial world. We're also looking for sponsors, primarily to cover travel for international visitors and may be students. Hope to see you in Moscow. Maxim Dubinin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] opensource GIS case studies
Hi all, We're preparing a roundtable discussion on the topic of Opensource GIS to take place on rather big GIS event in Russia in about a week and I looking for some information that can attract more users and developers to geospatial opensource. The audience will be rather diverse, governmental officials, business, researchers. My goal is to make a stronger point on the benefits of opensource GIS software by including some numbers or case studies clearly illustrating such benefits. I have plenty of info on what software is there and how it can be used, but not much on the monetary side. I will be helpful for any hints, links etc that can provide examples of the actual use of osgis software especially by businesses and governments, comparisons, benefits or may be problems. I studied OSGeo case studies wiki already and was wondering if there are some classics I've missed. I'd be also grateful for any suggestion from the people who may be already coordinated or participated in such discussion. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Maxim http://gis-lab.info skype: maximdubinin jabber: s...@gis-lab.info ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Hi Local OSGeo chapters are great, but how about existing non-OSGeo groups? Does OSGeo have a strategy to build communication with them? Maxim Вы писали 30 сентября 2009 г., 11:03:35: >> where the cost of software licenses is far to high for the >> budgets thay have. Naturally, some of the users use cracks, but it won't be >> that easy enymore, especially in the domain of web services. OSGeo could >> support education in FOSS4G in those countries - with active marketing, >> sending information letters to the bodies responsible for mapping and >> environment. FW> I am a big believer in folks "pulling up their own socks" in this regard. FW> I am dubious about OSGeo trying to seed into countries without local FW> advocates, but there are things we can do to help support locals who FW> want promotional and training materials, and some introduction into FW> international circles. FW> Hopefully we can also provide an aura of deserved respectability FW> for our projects that will make it easier for decision makers to take FW> them seriously. >> OSGeo could also participate in dvelopment projects - like >> those small grants of GSDI, providing FOSS solutions, not mentioning >> European FP7 projects addressing Africa. For know the quite steep learning >> curve to get into FOSS4G is very often keeping the potential users away. FW> There are things we can do, but to a large extent the benefits will go FW> to those users who realize some investment in learning is worthwhile. >> Is OSGeo targeting those users now? If you look onto the map of registered >> members: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member, well, not >> everyone added himself to the map, but enyway, Africa, Asia and South >> America look quite empty (-; FW> There are things we are doing now, including holding FOSS4G in South FW> Africa last year, and making an effort to involve geographically diverse FW> folks in the charter membership and board. We have also been supportive FW> (though perhaps we could be more so) of local chapters where they are FW> established by local advocates. FW> But, clearly we still have had only modest success getting folks in FW> the developing world actively involved in the global OSGeo activities. FW> Best regards, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GIS-Lab (Russia)
Hi all, Arnulf, thanks for explanations, this is the answer I was looking for. I think I never formally introduced our group so here it is. I hope this will be an interesting read for some of you. I want to emphasise that a lot of efforts and time spent is required to bring such community to life and take its niche. But I hope our experience, though very country-specific can be helpful. We've build virtual non-commercial GIS/RS community that became first place to look for GIS/RS field related information in Russia and around, mainly of technical nature, but more and more on general topics either. We're not officially registered and at the moment consider such status as a rather an impediment than benefit overall. We operate under a main principle that community should not advocate any particular brand or type of software, though some of its members are passionate about one or another (myself included). We are online since 2002 and since then created about 400 articles, various education materials, documentation, data, training etc. Regarding OS software we focused our efforts on 3 things: 1) Translation, we've translated manuals for gvSIG, GRASS, MapServer, PostGIS (QGIS is underway), 2) i18n, we've localized gvSIG, GRASS, QGIS, Geoserver, 3) Data - very critical issue, we've focused on creating really free datasets like a localized database on populated places, translation of GNS and alike 4) Tools support - we contribute to several tools that we actively use: QGIS (including programming), other OS tools - bugreporting 5) Articles-articles-articles, overwhelmingly using OS software lately. Overall our goal is to provide a framework for collaboration and discussion, focusing on independecy and solid results. We have around 2000 (1+ posts) registered users at our forum, similar number of subscribers of our maillist and around 3000 hits every day. Of course the core group is smaller ;) Finally and that is why I enquired about non-OSGeo groups. We are willing to collaborate with OSGeo in all ways possible and will continue our work in this field regardless of what organizational form it will take again stressing vendor-type free concept. Wow, that was a long email and it was fun trying to summarize everything we've done in few words :) Maxim ACO> On Wed, September 30, 2009 18:49, Maxim Dubinin wrote: >> Hi >> >> >> Local OSGeo chapters are great, but how about existing non-OSGeo groups? >> Does OSGeo have a strategy to >> build communication with them? >> >> Maxim ACO> Maxim, ACO> yes, OSGeo's intent it to embrace and support existing organizations with ACO> the same vision instead of being exclusive. There is a Wiki page with some ACO> links and always happy to be updated: ACO> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Like_Minded_Regional_Organizations ACO> Please also feel free to introduce OSGeo to organizations that have not ACO> yet stumbled across us. ACO> In Germany the existing Free Software Geospatial organization FOSSGIS e.V. ACO> (then named "GRASS user's group") meanwhile has become the official OSGeo ACO> Local Chapter and we are working on the same goals and appear jointly at ACO> conferences, trade fairs, organize hack sprints, etc. It is a lively ACO> community and growing strong. It did take some time to work out the ACO> details as is always the case with integrating existing organizations but ACO> now all seem to be quite happy with it. ACO> Best regards, ACO> Arnulf. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010? Sometime ago, we were also interested in why are there so many desktop open GIS packages. So what we did was the following, we created a model project with several groups of different type layers and recreated it with 10+ packages, opensource, proprietory, even some web-based ones. It is was quite interesting exercise, where a dozen of people participated and it was pretty clear in the end where opensource GIS are in comparison with proprietory and in between themselves. Of course this only covers simple project building and does not compare analysis etc. Moreover, the initial goal of this dataset was not comparison, but easy start with any common desktop GIS package + assistance to devs and education purposes, some ability to conclude which one was better was sort of a side-effect. You can check the results here, (originally in Russian): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-lab.info%2Fqa%2Fgeosample.html&sl=ru&tl=en Maxim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010? Simon, I was merely suggesting an approach. As I said, we didn't have a goal to inform other what Desktop GIS is the best, we just wanted to present a model dataset for many different packages, so that a person can try and choose by himself. However, there are some notes for each package at the bottom of the page. Personally, I have a favorite, of course, but I don't think this is appropriate to describe it here. That said, I think this will be relatively easy to construct a matrix based on our experience with missing bits for this particular task. We're currently going through updating software and this project and will discuss this among participants. Maxim Вы писали 20 декабря 2009 г., 16:52:06: Maxim, I looked at the webpage but could not find an outcome -- which system worked the best? Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020. P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437. mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au Maxim Dubinin wrote: Sometime ago, we were also interested in why are there so many desktop open GIS packages. So what we did was the following, we created a model project with several groups of different type layers and recreated it with 10+ packages, opensource, proprietory, even some web-based ones. It is was quite interesting exercise, where a dozen of people participated and it was pretty clear in the end where opensource GIS are in comparison with proprietory and in between themselves. Of course this only covers simple project building and does not compare analysis etc. Moreover, the initial goal of this dataset was not comparison, but easy start with any common desktop GIS package + assistance to devs and education purposes, some ability to conclude which one was better was sort of a side-effect. You can check the results here, (originally in Russian): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-lab.info%2Fqa%2Fgeosample.html&sl=ru&tl=en Maxim ___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@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] Open Source GIS in Russia
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia Hi all, let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week. Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects (http://gisconf.ru). This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts from http://gis-lab.info and hopefully OpenStreetMap community. I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me. I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo. Thanks for your interest, glad to know news ran ahead of us :) Maxim http://m-d.me Вы писали 25 июля 2012 г., 20:52:57: Folks, is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/ If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on. Cheers, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ 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] Open Source GIS in Russia
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia Hi all, let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week. Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects. This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts from http://gis-lab.info and hopefully OpenStreetMap community. I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me. I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo. Thanks for your interest, glad to know the news spread before any formal announcement :) Maxim http://m-d.me Вы писали 25 июля 2012 г., 20:52:57: Folks, is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/ If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on. Cheers, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ 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] Open Source GIS in Russia
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia Raf, sure, we'd love to hear about opensource GIS from everyone around. It is very important to show what others are doing with it to get it going in Russia more actively. Maxim ,#,m ,a,Z,c,Q,],Z 26 ,Z,p,],q 2012 ,T., 11:03:00: Hi Maxim, Nice to see FOSS4G activity in the neighbourhood. (-: BTW- conference website: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://gisconf.ru/en/&usg=ALkJrhhGfb3uieLm0x6GQOVwxJYDkCAHmA Is a national event or there will be a room for international participation? Wishing you a great event: Raf DR. Rafal Wawer The Department of Soil Science Erosion Control and Land Protection The Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research institute ul. Czartoryskich 8 24-100 Pu))awy Poland Member of the OSGeo Foundation: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Wawer_Rafal mobile: +48601516434 web: www.erozja.iung.pulawy.pl From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maxim Dubinin Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:29 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia Hi all, let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week. Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects. This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts from http://gis-lab.info and hopefully OpenStreetMap community. I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me. I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo. Thanks for your interest, glad to know the news spread before any formal announcement :) Maxim http://m-d.me ,#,m ,a,Z,c,Q,],Z 25 ,Z,p,],q 2012 ,T., 20:52:57: Folks, is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/ If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on. Cheers, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ 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] Open GIS! Conference, Moscow, Russia, Nov 17-18
Hi all, As promised, formal announcement and invitation. We've excited to invite everyone to the upcoming conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities. Nov 17-18, Moscow, Russia (84 days left!) More information here: http://gisconf.ru/en/ We've already representatives from more than 80 different organizations (150+ people total) registered (mostly Russian) which is quite inspiring. We hope this will be a very positive, diverse event beneficial for everyone. Please register if you'd like to come, this will help us a lot with programming. Do not hesitate to contact us at i...@gisconf.ru if you have any questions. Maxim Dubinin http://gis-lab.info PS: apologies for some duplication. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
