[OSGeo-Discuss] Poland Chapter activity
Dear All, After the lecture of latest OSGeo Journal I would like the community to hear what has been going on in Poland in the last year, so let me write a short unofficial Poland Chapter Report. 2010 is the second year of Poland Chapter activity. We have localized QGIS, GRASS, gvSIG and lately gvSIG mobile GUI and we try to keep translations on very high level for every release of the software. This is work done by up to 3 people per project and entirely on volunteer basis. With the chapter's presence at several conferences, plus the creation and maintaining of a related Polish online forum we have encouraged many people to use FOSS4G for their daily work. The 2nd OSGeo-PL Conference Open Software for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science [1] was a great success and attracted about 160 participants. For the conference, we have prepared free GRASS and QGIS workshops and we were surprised by the number of attendees, which encouraged us to make two GRASS and one QGIS workshops in total, 2 hours each. Large interest of the Polish community in GRASS GIS was filled recently with yet another GRASS workshop [2] which gave us the possibility to meet and discuss about GRASS needs. As soon as the last student left, the workshop turned itself into unofficial GRASS hackfest. We are willing to hold an official one next year. Also Quantum GIS is gaining great, perhaps the bigest popularity which can be seen on Polish forum [3] and presence at several conferences [4]. From 3 years, the idea of FOSS4G is present on annual geodetic conference in Wisła [5]. It was also present at GIS post-diploma studies all over the country, but starting form this year not only as lectures but workshop as well. The first QGIS workshop was made at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences using Arramagong Virtual Machine on click2try (and it went surprisingly well as for the first serious cloud computing experience of mine!). Now we are invited by the oldest GIS post-diploma studies held by Wroclaw Technical University [6] for a block of FOSS4G lectures and workshops which will take almost 8% of the total studies hours. I think it is a lot when having in mind how big the field of GIS is. We are now busy preparing presentations and workshops for GIS Day [7] and looking forward to 4th Quantum GIS Hackfest, which will start in a week (!) in Wrocław [8]. I would like to thank my OSGeo-PL friends Robert Szczepanek, Borys Jurgiel, Piotr Pachół, Paweł Netzel and Maciek Sieczka for their effort in making world a better FOSS4G place. Best, Milena [1] http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/en/ [2] http://www.wgug.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=36:scientific-workshop-2010-qspatial-analysis-with-grassqcatid=2:warsztatyItemid=5 [3] http://forum.quantum-gis.pl/ [4] http://mapywsieci.pl/ [5] http://www.wodgik.katowice.pl/konferencja/2010/ [6] http://gis.pwr.wroc.pl/start.php [7] http://www.gisday.uw.edu.pl/start.php [8] http://www.qgis.org/wiki/4._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Wroclaw_2010 -- Milena Nowotarska http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska http://quantum-gis.pl/ || http://grass-gis.pl/ http://www.qgis.org/wiki/4._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Wroclaw_2010 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward!
Those of you who've been nominated, feel free to announce yourselves with a few immodestly chosen lines about why we should vote for you! There are a lot of seemingly good candidates, but not enough votes to go around... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi Michael, I don't like beating my own drum... I'll let my actions stand on their merits. We are indeed fortunate to have such a wealth of talent in our community, as can be seen by the nominees. Bruce On 5/11/10 3:46 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.com wrote: Those of you who've been nominated, feel free to announce yourselves with a few immodestly chosen lines about why we should vote for you! There are a lot of seemingly good candidates, but not enough votes to go around... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear All, running for the election for OSGeo Charter membership is a societal cause. As the present charter members will be helped in making a choice with details of aspiring charter members, please consider for once not to be very modest. Please put forward your case and help us make a good choice in the interest of OSGeo. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Fri, 5/11/10, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: From: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Friday, 5 November, 2010, 2:57 AM Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Hi Michael, I don’t like beating my own drum... I’ll let my actions stand on their merits. We are indeed fortunate to have such a wealth of talent in our community, as can be seen by the nominees. Bruce On 5/11/10 3:46 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.com wrote: Those of you who've been nominated, feel free to announce yourselves with a few immodestly chosen lines about why we should vote for you! There are a lot of seemingly good candidates, but not enough votes to go around... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member candidates, pls step forward! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: Hi Michael, I don’t like beating my own drum... Michael makes a very important point. I haven't heard your drum. That is not anyone's fault, but we can easily remedy it. I would like to hear your drum, so please don't be shy. Better yet, tell everyone what you *will* do, and not just what you have done (looking forward, not just at the past). It will help everyone make a more informed decision. (maybe the US election noise is still loud in my ears, eh!) Please note, the you above is not for just Bruce, but for all the potential members. Help me vote for you. I’ll let my actions stand on their merits. We are indeed fortunate to have such a wealth of talent in our community, as can be seen by the nominees. Bruce On 5/11/10 3:46 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@lizardtech.com wrote: Those of you who've been nominated, feel free to announce yourselves with a few immodestly chosen lines about why we should vote for you! There are a lot of seemingly good candidates, but not enough votes to go around... -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science === ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteer to help with Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal.
We are getting started with the publication process for Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal, which we hope to publish before the year's end. We would love to have additional volunteers to lighten the load on the existing Journal editing and publication team. If you have been looking for a way to get involved with OSGeo, this is a good opportunity. Please let me know if you would be willing to help with any of the following tasks on Volume 8: - Document to LaTex conversion and publishing. - Document to XHTML conversion, CSS styling, and EPUB publishing. - Editorial Review - News Gathering You can shoot an e-mail to sunburned.surve...@gmail.com or lbl...@ksninc.com if you are interested in giving us a hand. Thanks! Landon and the OSGeo Journal Editing and Publishing Team Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteer to help with Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal.
Landon, I'm wondering about a short regular article on education news. This might be a way for me to survey what people have done and try and summarize? What do you think? Charlie On 11/4/2010 8:21 PM, Landon Blake wrote: We are getting started with the publication process for Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal, which we hope to publish before the year's end. We would love to have additional volunteers to lighten the load on the existing Journal editing and publication team. If you have been looking for a way to get involved with OSGeo, this is a good opportunity. Please let me know if you would be willing to help with any of the following tasks on Volume 8: -Document to LaTex conversion and publishing. -Document to XHTML conversion, CSS styling, and EPUB publishing. -Editorial Review -News Gathering You can shoot an e-mail to sunburned.surve...@gmail.com mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com or lbl...@ksninc.com mailto:lbl...@ksninc.com if you are interested in giving us a hand. Thanks! Landon and the OSGeo Journal Editing and Publishing Team *Warning: *Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss attachment: cschweik.vcf___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
