Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello andrea.antone...@gmail.com wrote: Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the workshops were chosen. I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of double or even triple workshops. Given the few

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread andrea antonello
Hi Barry, The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee - I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list and personally to you two if that's necessary. thanks, an open answer is perfectly fine for me. I am not arguing, I am just interested in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Baumann
Hi all, On 05/10/2013 09:06 AM, andrea antonello wrote: Hi Barry, The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee - I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list and personally to you two if that's necessary. thanks, an open answer is perfectly

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Peter Baumann p.baum...@jacobs-university.de wrote: +1 here. I believe this should not be a Postgres event (substitute Postgres by your favorite), but allow to gather folks from as many domains as possible. This would mean to give space to as many projects as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Markus Neteler
On 5/10/13, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello andrea.antone...@gmail.com wrote: Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the workshops were chosen. I see important projects missing, whereas several

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
I concur with Markus. I was also surprised to see none of our GeoNetwork related workshops represented although they were always well received at previous conferences. It would have been nice if we'd had feedback on the reasoning behind that. Considering about half the national INSPIRE

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Batty
Hi all, As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on the organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time but I do know there was a high number of workshops that were submitted, so unfortunately half the submitters are going to be disappointed and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread Paul Ramsey
+10, the workshops selection is always contentious, and there are always people disappointed, since the number of slots is so limited. It's a difficult part of the organizing process to make and stand by those decisions. I'm glad Barry is working on his optimization algorithm, so we can finally

[OSGeo-Discuss] Evolving FOSS4G [was: FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update ]

2013-05-10 Thread Adrian Custer
Hey all, Congratulations and good wishes to the organizers of FOSS4G 2013, and many thanks for all the hard work. I'm sure the attendees (unfortunately, probably not me) will benefit greatly. This critique is not actually directed towards you; it is towards all of us and probably really for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The OSGeo response to the proposed GeoServices REST API document [was: Would you be concerned ...]

2013-05-10 Thread Adrian Custer
On 5/10/13 12:25 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Adrian Custer wrote: On 5/9/13 2:33 PM, Tim Bowden wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 13:20 -0300, Adrian Custer wrote: Hey Cameron, all, ... * The letter is only rejection of the proposal without offering an alternative way forwards. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The OSGeo response to the proposed GeoServices REST API document [was: Would you be concerned ...]

2013-05-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 10 May 2013 18:40, Adrian Custer acus...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/10/13 12:25 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Adrian Custer wrote: On 5/9/13 2:33 PM, Tim Bowden wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 13:20 -0300, Adrian Custer wrote: Hey Cameron, all, ... * The letter is only rejection of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The OSGeo response to the proposed GeoServices REST API document [was: Would you be concerned ...]

2013-05-10 Thread pcreso
While KML ESRI Restful are two cases of OGC potentially ratifying a non-OGC developed standard, and the situations worth comparing, I think there are two important differences. At least as I understand the situation. 1. KML was already open, widely used supported by multiple

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

2013-05-10 Thread pcreso
As an attendee (rather than presenter) of FOSS4G workshops, I note that several I consider of value are not there, while some that are not of interest to me (yes - a PERSONAL opinion :-) are. I'm not saying the organisers have made a mistake, it may well be I'm just way out in left field. But

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Workshop selections

2013-05-10 Thread Steven Feldman
@ Jeroen and other workshop proposers who were not selectedThe workshop team have already apologised for a comms slip up which meant that we published the workshop selections without sending out the acceptance/rejection mails first. As the conference chair let me add my apology to theirs, we had