Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-22 Thread Steven Feldman
Jody We can get that into a concise text Steven > On 22 Sep 2017, at 18:16, Jody Garnett wrote: > > I am going to grab a couple quotes from the other email thread: > Maria: Our projects are much more than pieces of code. Behind our software > there are communities >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-22 Thread Jody Garnett
I am going to grab a couple quotes from the other email thread: - Maria: *Our projects are much more than pieces of code. Behind our software there are communities* - Ben passing on: "Jon Kuperman‏ @jkup Stop treating open source like a product you purchased and start treating it like

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-22 Thread DelazJ
Hi, I read this long and passionate thread and, that might have been proposed earlier, in which case, apologies...but In case it's not possible to directly state in the website, "Migrate from XXX proprietary software", what about filling the "Migrate to Open Source GIS" page with users/customers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Kickoff meeting (IRC) for the Code-in

2017-09-22 Thread Guido Stein
I should be able to attend, see you there. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:20 PM SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA < sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote: > I won't be able to join at that time but I will like to be informed about > the meeting. Thanks, > > Sergio Acosta y Lara > Departamento de Geomática >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Kickoff meeting (IRC) for the Code-in

2017-09-22 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
I won't be able to join at that time but I will like to be informed about the meeting. Thanks, Sergio Acosta y Lara Departamento de Geomática Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330 http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Code In (GCI) 2017 just announced! And we want to participate

2017-09-22 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
Hi Madi. As we are working with Secondary students in some FOSS4G projects I thought that there might be some opportunity to join in this initiative. I have a colleague in my office that had already joined GSoC twice and we were sharing ideas about how to be part of Google Code-In. We would

[OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-22 Thread Jody Garnett
In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral material which I have had a chance to place in github: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo Please have a look, the marketing committee is reviewing this material for sign-off. Highlights - styleguide-osgeo.pdf