Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread maning sambale
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread maning sambale
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread maning sambale
Just to add a few more regarding Geo jobs: 1. Geospatial is a niche in the general IT industry (much more FOSS variant). Therefore, you need to look for a specific kind of GIS company that fits your skill set. 2. Try research and non-profit institutions. They are generally more receptive to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread Matthew Pulis
Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm reading and learning :) With regards to your reply Tyler, is there any UK chapter to which I can subscribe please? If yes where chan I check for it? Thanks! On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: To add to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Puttick
http://www.osgeo.org/uk :) - Matthew Pulis mpu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm reading and learning :) With regards to your reply Tyler, is there any UK chapter to which I can subscribe please? If yes where chan I check for it? Thanks! On Thu, Oct 15,

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London

2009-10-15 Thread Jonathan Boylan
Matthew www.newgrove.com is a London based GIS company, we use and contribute to lot of OpenSource software and have won lots of central government and private sector contracts going head to head with the 'proprietary' GIS vendorssee http://www.osgeo.org/uk/case_studies for some UK based case

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs invitation

2009-10-15 Thread Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Hi, If your software is OpenSource and Geospatial related feel free to add it to the list on the OSGeo Labs page. This page aims to regroup all OS and Geo related software. Eventually, this list may become something more official, but for now it's just there to help people connect together

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs invitation

2009-10-15 Thread Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Cool! I was not aware of that. Could you please add a link on the OSGeo Labs page so we don't duplicate the efforts. I'm currently in a airport and may not have the chance to do it myself until after the weekend. Julien Jody Garnett wrote: There is already http://www.freegis.org/ providing a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Articles Needed For December Volume of the Journal

2009-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
We could use a couple articles for the December Volume of the OSGeo Journal in the following sections: Topical Studies Programming Tutorials Case Studies Integration Studies Developer Announcements Sponsor Perspectives Local Community Reports Peer Reviewed Articles Let me know if

[OSGeo-Discuss] CGP AAG 2010: Open Source Tools and Standards in GISc Research and Education

2009-10-15 Thread Eric Wolf
Sorry for getting this out so late! -- CFP begins -- Call for Papers AAG 2010 Organized Session: *Open Source Tools Standards in GISc Research and Education* Sponsored by the *Cyberinfrastructure*, *Spatial Analysis and Modeling*, and *Geographic Information Science and Systems* Specialty

[OSGeo-Discuss] Try GeoSpatial Open Source Desktop applications from a web browser

2009-10-15 Thread Cameron Shorter
Sydney, Australia. 16 October 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org The Arramagong/GISVM GeoSpatial Live DVD and Virtual Machine, which includes a stack of popular GeoSpatial Open Source Applications and is being handed out to delegates at the FOSS4G conference, can now be viewed from

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SDI-AsiaPacific] NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge

2009-10-15 Thread Bruce Bannerman
fyi -Original Message- From: sdi-asiapacific-boun...@lists.gsdi.org [mailto:sdi-asiapacific-boun...@lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of Kate Lance Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 11:03 PM To: SDI-Africa; SDI-Europe; SDI-AP; SDI-LAC; SDI-North America Subject: [SDI-AsiaPacific] NAVTEQ

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G tweeting

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hey everyone, If you use Twitter and want to follow along and tweet about the FOSS4G event in Sydney, make sure to include #foss4g2009 in your messages. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009: Looking for a few volunteers to help record FOSS4G

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Ross
Hi Everyone, For those in Sydney for FOSS4G. I'm looking for a handful of volunteers willing to sit and record FOSS4G talks. For those willing to lend their Linux (recent Fedora or Ubuntu = ideal) machine and time, I'll treat them to dinner. I've hauled my microphones and vga capture devices

[OSGeo-Discuss] Session Co-ordinators - still more volunteers needed please

2009-10-15 Thread Harley Prowse
Hi, Thanks to those who have recently signed up since my initial requests for help. However, we still need more volunteers to act as session chairpersons. We currently have 11 sessions with no chairperson. You obviously need to be registered for the conference to be able to act as a