Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Specifically ways to encourage new developers to take part in existing projects - you are correct that it is a form of out reach. You will also notice that the code sprints have been a very successful undertaking, indeed one of the best ways we know of to encourage collaboration. I am sure

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-13 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jody Garnett wrote: If I can put in 2 cents for something that seems to have been missed: supporting open source development. I know developers are mostly self motivating; but just like target areas devoted to use it would be good to see some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-13 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Cropper wrote: Tyler, On 13/05/11 05:30, Tyler Mitchell wrote: Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the academic idea, with Government in second. Then Open Standards and Open Data. It would be interesting to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geotiff viewer for Mac OS X

2011-05-13 Thread Agustin Diez Castillo
Besides QGIS and uDig, gvSIG and openJump wil do trick as well. On May 12, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Andrea Francia (JRC) wrote: Dear All, do you have any suggestion about programs to visualize geotiff on Mac OS X? Thank you -- Andrea Francia (JRC) Tel: +39-0332-789794

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geotiff viewer for Mac OS X

2011-05-13 Thread Giovanni Manghi
So now I'm using OpenEV in a virtualized Windows :( as pointed by many you have plenty of gis desktop programs other than udig that run natively on mac. Cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] MapServer 6.0.0 Release

2011-05-13 Thread Jeff McKenna
The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the long awaited release of MapServer 6.0.0. The 6.0 release introduces important changes in key components of the MapServer core, as well as a large number of new features and enhancements. The complete list of changes and enhancements is too long to

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Geotiff viewer for Mac OS X

2011-05-13 Thread gene
For a summary of the GIS that run on my Mac Free GRASS GIS http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/grass QGIS http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis GvSIG and GvSIG OADE

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Jaspersoft DC Meetup - Open Source BI

2011-05-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell
FYI Begin forwarded message: From: kbr...@jaspersoft.com kbr...@jaspersoft.com Date: May 13, 2011 11:39:18 AM PDT To: Military Open Source Software mil-...@googlegroups.com Subject: [mil-oss] Jaspersoft Meetup - Open Source BI Reply-To: mil-...@googlegroups.com Don’t miss this event

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Good Thinking Arnulf: As indicated this is the basic challenge of open source; how to keep patches coming in, reviewed and applied to the codebase. I can see a lot of coding going on inside different organisations but the solutions never find their way back into the core software because of a