Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Hmmm, Very thoughtful reply. :c) I wasn't trying to incite a riot or anything, it just seemed a bit vague on the press release page about what was appropriate (or not). bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? Or should there be another example added to the "Conception" section of the "press Release" page? That part on the bottom about costs for distrib

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Allan Doyle wrote: +1 on no "advertising" or "announcements" on this list. I agree that it may sound churlish to stop good organizations from sending good information to good people; I also agree that allowing it would diminish the usefulness of this list. If the web page of offerings is not en

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Mike Adair wrote: I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under the OSGeo umbrella. Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a commun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Mike Adair wrote: I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under the OSGeo umbrella. Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a commun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? I think that OSGeo press release are an official thing so we need to pass it through somewhere before publishing. Do you think we should not? Wa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Patton
Arnulf Christl wrote: [snip a bunch of really good stuff - thanks Arnulf] Does this mean that all businesses providing this kind of service should now spam this list with their latest announcements? http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo OSGeo-Announce: OSGeo Announcements and News OSGeo-Di

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? Or should there be another example added to the "Conception" section of the "press Release" page? That part on the bottom about costs for distribution is an interest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Doyle
Another good place to introduce OSGeo to NASA is the ESIP Federation, where I think a number of OSGeo folks are already active. Their next meeting is in July in New Hampshire. http://esipfed.org/events (ignore the date typo, the 2007 there should be 2008...) Allan On Jan 18, 2008,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Doyle
+1 on no "advertising" or "announcements" on this list. I agree that it may sound churlish to stop good organizations from sending good information to good people; I also agree that allowing it would diminish the usefulness of this list. If the web page of offerings is not enough, then mayb

[OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Adair
I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under the OSGeo umbrella. Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a community around the var

[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

2008-01-18 Thread Ned Horning
Greetings - I'll give the “standard process” for announcing possible OSGeo events suggested by Arnulf a try. If there is interest I'll create a Proposed Event Wiki page. NASA is holding their bi-annual Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Joint Science Workshop April 28-May 2 in College Park Maryland:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Jacolin Yves
Le Friday 18 January 2008 14:05:49 Arnulf Christl, vous avez écrit : > Yves Jacolin wrote: > > Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : > >>> I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what > >>> else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" lin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Yves Jacolin wrote: Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" links from the front page. Do we have a place where we put all our press releases? He

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Howard Butler wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: If you were to lead the development of this material and put it into the Open Source (with your name attached) this would give you extra credibility and marketing reach. Why? Why must OTG put their hard earned training

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 17-Jan-08, at 11:51 AM, Howard Butler wrote: I applaud OTG for developing a curriculum and providing training services to serve this market, and I think the osgeo-discuss is a perfect place for an announcement like this. I encouraged them to post here so oth