Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Director's Insurance (Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions)

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask the board to revisit this issue and provide clear guidance on just what support official position holders can expect from OSGeo. Bruce, Is this question with regard to local chapters, conference organizers, or OSGeo officers in general? If Tyler

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Landon Blake wrote: Another thing I've been curious about is how any funds raised will be spent or dispersed. I know we need to pay Tyler's salary. What other things do we need to pay for? Do we help fund the FOSS4G conference? Do we fund work/infrastructure for specific projects? I'd like to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey BTW, one of the things at Refractions that made tasking more visible for go do this roles, like the sysadmin, was entering absolutely every request and job into Trac before fulfilling it. Does anyone thing a OSGeo trac would help or hinder?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising

2008-06-16 Thread Allan Doyle
Regarding the income side of the budget, I recommend looking at IRS form 8734 [1], which will have to be filled out at the end of the 5th year of being a 501(c)(3) organization. OSGeo will have to pass the public support test of getting at least 33% of its support from public sources. That

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Allan Doyle wrote: Regarding the income side of the budget, I recommend looking at IRS form 8734 [1], which will have to be filled out at the end of the 5th year of being a 501(c)(3) organization. OSGeo will have to pass the public support test of getting at least 33% of its support from

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoKettle released!

2008-06-16 Thread Thierry Badard
The GeoSOA research group (http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca) of the Centre for Research in Geomatics at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada is proud to announce the release of a first version of GeoKettle as an open source contribution. GeoKettle is a spatially-enabled version of Pentaho Data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement

2008-06-16 Thread Guillaume Sueur
Hi Chris, Would you have a list of the 20 applications ? thanks ! Guillaume Christopher Schmidt a écrit : The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement

2008-06-16 Thread Allan Doyle
http://wiki.geojson.org/Users On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Guillaume Sueur wrote: Hi Chris, Would you have a list of the 20 applications ? thanks ! Guillaume Christopher Schmidt a écrit : The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Director's Insurance (Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions)

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Patton
On 2008/06/16 8:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask the board to revisit this issue and provide clear guidance on just what support official position holders can expect from OSGeo. Bruce, Is this question with regard to local chapters, conference