Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions

2010-02-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
There are LOTS of hosting companies out there, ranging from Amazon and Google cloud services (as well as various other smaller vendors), folks who sell virtual slices of machines, generic hosting on a shared machine, dedicated servers, rack space for your own hardware, and various

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions

2010-02-08 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy kumaran.narayanasw...@kcubeconsulting.com wrote: Hello, We are in the process of looking out for a best hosting provider to host the FOSS4G Web applications. Can anyone suggest us the best and affordable hosting solutions to deploy

[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Schweik
OSGeo colleagues, I was recently contacted by Ann Deakin, a Geosciences faculty at the State University of New York - Fredonia campus. She is also on the board of directors of the NYS GIS Association and the chair of their education committee. She was asking me about the possibility of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions

2010-02-08 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Richard Greenwood wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy kumaran.narayanasw...@kcubeconsulting.com wrote: Hello, We are in the process of looking out for a best hosting provider to host the FOSS4G Web applications. Can anyone suggest us the best and affordable hosting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions

2010-02-08 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Richard Greenwood wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy kumaran.narayanasw...@kcubeconsulting.com wrote: Hello, We are in the process of looking out for a best hosting provider to host the FOSS4G Web applications. Can anyone suggest us

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread karsten vennemann
Hi Charlie, I would be interested in this. Here is a rundown of the what I have been doing over the last year and a half: In 2008 I thought that training and support for OpenSource GIS was lacking in many ways - especially in resources dedicated to users (and not only developers). At the same

[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kotzinos
Dear Charlie, the idea sounds intriguing but we should bear in mind the different requirements of the three actors you mentioned in your e-mail, so it would be difficult to find the one size that fits all. Moreover we need to know a bit more an the needs we will try to cover and finally we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Schweik
Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear Charlie, the idea sounds intriguing but we should bear in mind the different requirements of the three actors you mentioned in your e-mail, so it would be difficult to find the one size that fits all. Good point, Dimitris. As someone who teaches but also studies

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - Results

2010-02-08 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks for the archive link Alex. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:08 PM To: OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Ames
Webinars are a great idea but need someone to host the webinar software... any thoughts on how to do that? We could potentially help out here at ISU with the desktop sharing side of things, but the problem is the audio... - Dan On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Charlie Schweik

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Schweik
Hi Dan, Daniel Ames wrote: Webinars are a great idea but need someone to host the webinar software... any thoughts on how to do that? We could potentially help out here at ISU with the desktop sharing side of things, but the problem is the audio... - Dan Good question, Dan! Webinar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Charlie, Something to look at is Openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ I haven't installed it, but have used their demo site. It seems fairly nice. I wanted to allow for screen sharing, and it does that well. Voice volume was a bit of a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Putler
It is always good not to paste the URL twice, so a second shot at Openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:09 -0800, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Charlie, Something to look at is Openmeetings:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Ames
How about a combination of something like open meetings for desktop sharing with Google Voice Chat or Yahoo Chat for the voice? Yes, do keep me in the loop Charlie. I'd be happy to give a webinar and if this goes well we could evlove it into a course for seminar credit here at ISU. - Dan On Mon,

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

2010-02-08 Thread Kumaran Narayanaswamy
Hello Charlie, In India We are conducting free road shows collaborating with universities to create awareness on OSGeo products. We have conducted one such Seminar Opensource GIS Tools and Solutions - An Awareness seminar jointly by NRCFOSS,kCube and Institue of Remote Sensing, Anna University.