[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms FOSDEM 2021 (online)

message - From: Johan Van de Wauw Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 9:42 AM Subject: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms FOSDEM 2021 (online) To: FOSDEM visitors We now invite proposals for developer rooms. FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Call for participation

The call for devrooms at FOSDEM (the largest open source conference in Europe) is ending this Friday. It would be nice if someone proposes a geospatial devroom for this year. If you are interested, feel free to contact me (I have run the devroom for several years). Having a stand at FOSDEM is

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo.xyz

Hi all, A while ago I registered the domain-name osgeo.xyz, to make sure it was not squatted by somebody outside the community. If anyone has an interesting use of this, please let me know! Kind regards, Johan ___ Discuss mailing list

[OSGeo-Discuss] call for participation for FOSDEM

Hi all, FOSDEM[1] is the largest European conference on Free and Open Source software, organised next year on 2&3 februari in Brussels, Belgium. For the past years, I've organised a geospatial devroom [2] there together with a team of other people. In the past OSM and OSGeo have also had a booth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] SARbian: The free and open SAR software suite

Hello Sergio, You should really get in touch with the OSGeo live team ( live-d...@lists.osgeo.org ), who build a live image containing a number of geospatial tools. Kind Regards, Johan On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:11 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA < sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote: > SARbian: The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Two week to go before deadline CfP Geospatial DevRoom FOSDEM 2018 Brussels

be assigned according to the timing of > the session. > > The DEADLINE for submissions: Thursday 1st December 2017 > > Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017 at the > latest. > For questions, please get in touch with the organizers at gisky.be! > Ch

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help organise a geospatial devroom at FOSDEM?

Hi all, Fosdem is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 7000+ participants. I have organised a geospatial devroom the last years, and I'm looking for people who would like to support doing another one next year (eg promote the event / help with spreading the call

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Gildas Jr Boko

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote: > On 06/09/17 15:03, Jeff McKenna wrote: >> >> Forwarding Gildas Jr Boko nomination by Maëlle Vercauteren. The 2017 >> member nominations list has been updated [1]. > > > I second this nomination. A big +1, I

[OSGeo-Discuss] Schedule for geospatial@FOSDEM announced

of the many pubs in that neighbourhood. If you are interested in joining - please let me know so we can reserve your seat. Hope to see many of you in Brussels! The organizers Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Anne Ghisla Martin Hammitzsch [1] http://www.grimbergencafe.be [2] http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board nomination for Dirk Frigne

Hi all, I also want to support the nomination of Dirk Frigne. I think Dirk has been one of the most active board members (eg foundation of the European chapter) and has been pushing OSGeo to grow even outside our comfort zone, eg by organising an OSGeo session at the Geospatial World Forum. Kind

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > > The other point of this email is to follow up with Gert-Jan > proposal[2] to put a week between the nominations period and the > actual voting to let candidates to express their intentions for their > term. > Strong +1

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo booth at state of the map

Hi all, Next week (23 - 25 september) there will be the yearly open streetmap conference (state of the map) in Brussels. OSGeo (technically speaking OSGeo.be) will have a booth there. If you are planning to join the conference and would like to staff our booth, please let us know, by mailing me

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Be September 22, 2016 in Brussels

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Maelle Vercauteren wrote: > After the very succesful FOSS4G Belgium event in 2015, OSGeo.be will > organise an new edition of the FOSS4G Belgium Conference on Thursday > September 22, 2016 in Brussels, at the Environment and Energy Agency of >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Gaël Kruwialis as a OSGeo charter

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Picavet (ml) < vincent...@oslandia.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 14/07/2016 11:35, Dirk Frigne wrote: > > I second the nomination of Gael Kruwialis (in cc) as a charter member > > for OSGeo. > > And one more support from my side ! > Regards, > And one

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Jonathan wrote: > Hi Till, > On the issue of conferences, I'd like to chip in. I've never organised one, > but my other half has so I know how much work they are, so plenty of respect > for the effort you've both put into them. > > I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mantra request (OsgeoID)

Maybe the mantra should be posted to this list with a link to this discussion. I'm quite sure that blocks most spam and removes a barrier to reporting a bug/contributing. Now people have to register for the mailinglist, confirm. Ask for a pw. Wait for it. Register. Confirm ... Op 19-mei-2016

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from a Benevolent Dictator

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote: > > What I personally haven't really understood, yet, is what the rasdaman > community is really afraid of. If the community works as well as described, > why would the creation of a PSC-like structure create

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Peter Baumann wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > while OSGeo and rasdaman share the strive for quality we come from different > approaches: OSGeo believes in the power of committees and strong regulation > whereas rasdaman has a culture of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-EU toward a new OSGeo scenario?

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:53 AM, wrote: > So I agree with Marc on most of his points but like to put the focus more on > the business side of view: Please keep in mind, that in order to get at leat > a tiny bit of influence in Brussels and EU-related organisations requires

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

Hello everyone, First of all, I'm a bit disappointed that this issue is only raised now, when the final vote for graduating is taking place. For the future I think it should be clearer for projects what rules have to be obliged much earlier. Just this week, in another conversation I mentioned

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Install Proj and GEOS on Raspbian

Nico, I'm forwarding to the Debian GIS list where you have the largest chance of getting help. Did you run apt-get update before installing? What is the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list I am not sure the debian gis packages are available on raspbian. Kind Regards, Johan On Wed, Apr 20,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help on patent infringement claim

Andrea, I have seen ask patents being used to find prior-art to patent claims. See eg: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/119/timeline-display-for-vehicle-fleet-management-patent-application-prior-art-r Kind Regards, Johan On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:17 AM, andrea antonello

[OSGeo-Discuss] geospatial @ apache foundation

Hi all, I recently bumped across this article about a geospatial track which may be organised at apachecon. Maybe some people from OSGeo can reach out to them and see if we can organise this together? And look for future collaboration? http://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/ Kind

[OSGeo-Discuss] Schedule Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM (Brussels - 31/1)

I have the honour to present to present to you the schedule for the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM , which will happen on Sunday 31/01/2016. https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ We have a nice lineup with some well known GIS tools, moving over to new developments happening at OSGeo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Report of a succesful FOSS4G.be

wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016. The FOSS4G.be team, Marc Ducobu – Dirk Frigne – Gael Kruwialis - Moritz Lennert - Oliver May - Tommy Oozeer - Johan Van de Wauw - Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4G [3

[OSGeo-Discuss] Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016

...@gisky.be! Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Astrid Emde Anne Ghisla Martin Hammitzsch Andy Petrella Dirk Frigne Olivier Courtin Thomas Gratier ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM

I believe it should be rather straighforward to convert our vmdk to a vhd and add a vhd of OSGeo live to the VM-depot of MS Azure: https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index Then anyone interested can start up a VM using that base image. This can be done using trial accounts. Kind Regards, Johan

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2016?!

Hi all, Just like last year [1], I would like to organise a geospatial devroom at FOSDEM[2].The call for devrooms is now open [3], and I'm going to submit another proposal. Last year, we had a large team promoting the devroom which lead to a very interesting schedule. If you would like to be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2016?!

Grmbl, pressed send too fast: the draft proposal is here: [4] https://titanpad.com/VCAR6DZfHG On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just like last year [1], I would like to organise a geospatial devroom > at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote: > With respect for all the board candidates and their busy agenda, I think for > the election campaign (manifestos + discussion) this is as good as it gets. > > > > For 2016, we might try to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg wrote: > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by Lewis > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Maelle Vercauteren

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote: Forwarding Maelle Vercauteren nomination by Vincent Picavet. I would like to nominate Maëlle Vercauteren for OSGeo Charter Member. Maëlle is a dynamic supporter of OpenSource Geospatial technologies and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination for Moritz Lennert

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote: Dear CRO, I would like to nominate Moritz Lennert for the OSGeo Charter members election: Moritz Lennert (email: mlenn...@club.worldonline.be) is PSC Member and developer for GRASS GIS since a long time. He

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Elections 2015 starting today

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Vasile Craciunescu vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote: Dear Cameron, Thank you for the reminder. The invitation to add an entry to the OSGeo Advocates wiki page is part of the e-mail each nominee is receiving from CRO after nomination. I'm thinking in adding this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes 13 students for Google Summer of Code 2015

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Clément Igonet clem...@igonet.fr wrote: How to be considered as a student fo GSoc? Could I suggest my free and open source project for GSoC? You are too late now, a call was launched in february:

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Belgium update

Hi all, As was previously announced on this list[1], we had a first meeting of OSGeo Belgium last week on Wednesday. A full report of the meeting can be found on the OSGeo wiki[2]. Our goals are in line with the goals of OSGeo: * Community-building and networking * Organisation of events *

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] videos from the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: We were all pleasantly suprised by the number and the quality of the proposals. All speakers have now confirmed, so I'm really happy I can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com wrote: Thanks for your reaction Gert-Jan, Some people are indeed cross-border Open Source Geo, but many arn't. To address these people, such a local chapter can be interesting to learn them about the OSGeo solutions. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com wrote: 1. Do you agree with the fact that we investigate how we can join forces with the open knowledge foundation Belgium to start up the Belgium chapter of OSGeo We should definitely work together. I believe we should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to add a point on Map‏

Hello Arfan, You better ask mapguide specific questions at the mapguide mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/mapguide-users Regards, Johan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] schedule for the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM announced

Talks will be recorded. Note that we can still use volunteers in the video team,so anyone interested in helping out may contact me. On Dec 20, 2014 3:53 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: We were all

[OSGeo-Discuss] schedule for the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM announced

in Brussels! The devroom organisers Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Astrid Emde Anne Ghisla Julien Fastré Martin Hammitzsch Andy Petrella Dirk Frigne Gael Musquet ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: CfP Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM; Deadline is TOMORROW!

** Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be! Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Astrid Emde Anne Ghisla Julien Fastré Martin Hammitzsch Andy Petrella Dirk Frigne Gael Musquet [1] http://www.fosdem.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

Petr, All will do, But since you ask for a recommendation: I recommend Debian. Their GIS team has grown a lot recently and debian has packaged many GIS packages [1], and has been providing security updates to them quickly in the past (see eg [2]). Definitely the upcoming jessie release will

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

Oops forgot to send to the list On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Petr, If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you likely will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live project:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM

at *fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be*! *Johan Van de Wauw* *Margherita Di Leo* *Astrid Emde* *Anne Ghisla* *Julien Fastré* *Martin Hammitzsch* *Andy Petrella * *Dirk Frigne* *Gael Musquet* [1] http://www.fosdem.org ___ Discuss mailing

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidates: what are your plans?

Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to OSGeo (at least the organisational part), but I'm a bit surprised by the board elections. I'm seeing two phases: a nomination phase and a voting phase. I double checked and last year it was the same. In my opinion we are missing the most important step: a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Martin Hammitzsch martin.hammitz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Johan, I am bit lost in understanding the format of devrooms. First I was thinking of a space where developers meet for pitching their ideas and forming groups to get their hands dirty in 1-3 days of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

still mean that speakers are an essential part of the geospatial devroom. Johan, next question: Speakers are invited or do they apply / submit an abstract? Martin On 7 August 2014 11:11, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Martin

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

Hello everyone, FOSDEM[1] is a free open source event bringing together about 5000 developers together in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet to. The next edition will take place the weekend 31/1 - 1/2/2015. Last edition (in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

Cameron, Good idea. You might want to weave in concepts of an OSGeo Code Sprint, and/or OSGeoLive event? I've been thinking about doing a codesprint friday before the conference (should we have devroom).With presentations in 15 parallel sessions [1] in other rooms I think we will not attract

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Final OSGeo-Live 7.9 testing sprint - call to action

Massimiliano, Have a look at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project More specifically make sure you answer these questions: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Johan On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote: Hi Cameron,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: postgis 2.0.4 debian asBinary() function error

Try ST_AsBinary PostGIS has begun a transition from the existing naming convention to an SQL-MM-centric convention. As a result, most of the functions that you know and love have been renamed using the standard spatial type (ST) prefix. Previous functions are still available, though are not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pyramides on vector data

Topojson does this, and the wiki contains some pointers to other projects which do (partly) the same, including mapshaper and arcgis E00 format https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki Johan On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jáchym Čepický jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: The second, data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About Interactive Map patent application by Apple Inc.

http://patents.stackexchange.com/ may be a good place to start a topic. These guys have managed to block some patents. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Simon (SPDBA) Greener si...@spatialdbadvisor.com wrote: While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh refers, most

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks incubation process. Best, Angelos I'd like to add that I think both projects could be working together very closely. For me the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

As someone who is both an ESRI services user /developer and an open source GIS developer I thought It was interesting enough to write a blog post about it: http://blog.gisky.be/2013/05/should-geoservices-rest-api-become-ogc.html#more bottomline: So you would expect that I'd support the