[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: quot; GRASS not in demand, says PennStatequot;

2010-10-27 Thread Tim Michelsen
Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as GRASS? Two of the panelists answered. One said More generally, the ability to create custom software solutions - whether proprietary or open source or a combination of the two - is in high demand. which is a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: GRASS not in demand, says PennState

2010-10-27 Thread Cameron Shorter
I hire geospatial software developers, and one of the best resumes I've seen was from Volker Mische http://vmx.cx/ He hadn't finished University when he applied for a job with me, but he resume included not just a series of Open Source technologies that he had played with, but also lists of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: quot; GRASS not in demand, says PennStatequot;

2010-10-27 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/27/2010 05:50 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote: Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as GRASS? Two of the panelists answered. One said More generally, the ability to create custom software solutions - whether proprietary or open source or a combination of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination for Adam Iwaniak

2010-10-27 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Paul Ramsey (CRO), Hello everyone, I'd like to nominate Adam Iwaniak for Charter Member of OSGeo Adam Iwaniak is one of the initial members and leaders who established and run OSGeo Chapter in Poland. In my opinion, Adam has been very active promoting FOSS4G and OSGeo Foundation on the Polish

[OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs at?

2010-10-27 Thread Cameron Shorter
The OSGeo-Live project puts out releases every 6 months, and I'm currently in the process of picking release dates for 2011. I'm currently expecting to put out our next release in mid March 2011, and the foss4g 2011 release at the end of August 2011. However we do have a little wiggle room