[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Database

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
Simon, to clarify, your presentation was ranked before FOSS4G stared as the topic that people would really like to see. I'm not sure if the attendees were satisfied or disappointed with your delivery. Even if you don't make it to FOSS4G, I'm sure people would be very appreciative of your exper

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - LiveDVD

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
If you are interested to help out creating a presentation for the full stack of Live DVD packages at FOSS4G 2010, please join us on the livedemo email list, or contact me direct. I've submitted an abstract already, which is described here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Conference_Part

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - desktop review

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
I suggest that for this year's Desktop comparison, we focus on a feature comparison. This is quite achievable and will be very valuable for the general community. If there is sufficient energy and momentum we can tackle some other metrics as well. I've started a wiki to coordinate efforts he

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Web clients

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
German Carillo has been building a gis web client comparison which will make a good basis for a foss4g presentation here: http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can thank him, and invite him t

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - WMS Shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
The WMS Shoot out is already in full swing. Details about how to get involved are here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 Cameron Shorter wrote: Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm hoping that we will see abstracts for: * LiveDVD lightening overview * W

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Database

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
Are you interested in taking part in a FOSS4G Database comparison? Do you know someone who should be? At FOSS4G 2009, the community ranked an "Oracle Spatial vs Postgis" presentation 8th out of 183 presentations. Lets see a similar presentation put on which includes more databases. If you ar

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm hoping that we will see abstracts for: * LiveDVD lightening overview * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout * Desktop comparison * Browser Client comparison * Database comparison I predict that these presentations will be by far the most popular

[OSGeo-Discuss] Rendez-vous OSGeo-Quebec, June 15-16, 2010

2010-04-09 Thread Daniel Morissette
Hi everyone, Here is an announcement for a Quebec Local chapter event that may be of interest to members of the international OSGeo community (see our great line-up of speakers). Hoping to meet some of you in Chicoutimi in June! Daniel *** A Rendez-vous with Free and Open Source Geomatics

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-09 Thread Joseph Reeves
Great, thanks Cameron, Will you be making your presentation publicly available after the event? It seems that you're compiling a lot of good information that will be valuable to a large number of us. Cheers, Joseph On 5 April 2010 11:56, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Joseph, > These Oxford Archae

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Markus Neteler
n Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:36:43PM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: >> Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: >> >> Markus Neteler wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:36:43PM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > >> Markus Neteler wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter > >>> wrote: > Percy, > To start th

[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadline extension for FOSS4G 2011 Request for Hosting

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff McKenna
The OSGeo Conference Committee has extended the deadline by 2 weeks for submitting a letter of intent for hosting the 2011 FOSS4G event. See below for the updated deadlines, or at http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp Letters of Intent (Stage 1) due:2010-04-23 23:00 UTC [1] Stage 1 quest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: >> Markus Neteler wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter >>> wrote: Percy, To start the ball rolling, I've created a wiki p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > Markus Neteler wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter > > wrote: > >> Percy, > >> To start the ball rolling, I've created a wiki page for a desktop > >> comparison > >> here: > >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
Markus Neteler wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Percy, To start the ball rolling, I've created a wiki page for a desktop comparison here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_Desktop_Comparison Here a reasonable contribution, lead by Tom McConnell: "Matrix on O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Brian Russo
I say we call it free and non-free so we can have a 10 page thread debating software licenses. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Markus Neteler wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter >> wrote: >>> P

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source desktop shootout

2010-04-09 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Neteler wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Cameron Shorter > wrote: >> Percy, >> To start the ball rolling, I've created a wiki page for a desktop comparison >> here: >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_Desktop_Comparison > > Here a reason