Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

2016-05-17 Thread Tom Roche
I would also urge OSGeo to try to get third-party input (e.g., GIS Geography[5], folks from some of the GIS curriculum bodies) into the evaluation/maintenance process to inhibit (to paraphrase) unduly preferring the taste of our own koolaid. FWIW, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> [1]:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Roche
rcGIS triumph? > Where does QGIS have an edge? IMHO we/OSGeo/FOSS4G should be using these sorts of documents as a guide toward managing/investing development and marketing efforts; YMMV. HTH, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> [1]: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-May/016

[OSGeo-Discuss] fw: Recruiting Associate Editors for the Journal of Open Research Software

2016-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:03:19 + From: "Neil Chue Hong (SSI)" Subject: [Discuss] Recruiting Associate Editors for the Journal of Open Research Software > The Journal of Open Research Software is an international, open-access, > peer-reviewed journal that

[OSGeo-Discuss] fw: job: GIS for environmental justice at US EPA

2016-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
Location=RTP, just south of Durham, NC. Search closes T 16 Feb 2016. Much more at following link. https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/428985700 (rearranged, excerpted) > DUTIES: > Facilitate and collaborate educational programs; serves on scientific task > forces, committees, and

[OSGeo-Discuss] OpenGIS Day events

2015-11-17 Thread Tom Roche
I'm guessing this has been previously discussed, but JIC, here's yet another item for the todo list: We should try to present open-GIS alternatives @ GIS Day[1] events. Esp academic ones like this[2]. apologies if this has been previously discussed-to-death, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Roche
, IIUC, the latter is the most active). FWIW, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com [1]: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/ [2]: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-June/014403.html [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system [4]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis [5]: http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] spatial-science good-practice exemplars?

2015-05-31 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Fri, 29 May 2015 18:37:09 -0400[0] Nature Physics commentary [Hey and Payne 2015[1]] claiming that ''[one] of the first scientists to recognize the need for reproducibility in computational science was the geophysicist Jon Claerbout. As early as 1990, he set a goal

[OSGeo-Discuss] spatial-science good-practice exemplars?

2015-05-29 Thread Tom Roche
and useful. TIA, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com [1]: http://go.nature.com/FMw34h [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Exploration_Project [3]: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n5/pdf/nphys3313.pdf (unfortunately it does not seem to have a DOI) [4]: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] redirecting GeoforAll website development

2015-05-23 Thread Tom Roche
? Then the community could start contributing and commenting at those locations (possibly augmented by project-specific maillists[2]). HTH, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com [1]: For a more comprehensive list than given above, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[OSGeo-Discuss] GEO4All_3, was: Please vote and select Geo for All logo

2015-04-25 Thread Tom Roche
. (The more important question here should probably be, why would anyone care that one humanoid seems to be privileged over the others ?-) Perhaps make the green humanoid brown, and leave the globe green. FWIW, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com ___ Discuss mailing