RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any suggestion of GIS magazine?

2007-02-20 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Done! -- see http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoConnexion_Column -- so far we have ChrisH and Dan. Jeff, what sort of word count did you have in mind? It would probably make sense to have the first column be about what open source means, who OSGeo is, quick bullet list of what projects we have,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any suggestion of GIS magazine?

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 19-Feb-07, at 11:49 AM, Jeff Thurston wrote: I'll make the Open Source community a challenge. If it can produce and deliver a column every month (or every other month), I'll include it in the magazine. Good challenge Jeff, thanks. Would you be willing re-print material from our own ar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any suggestion of GIS magazine?

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Ames
Great challenge, Jeff. The univerisity open source'ers like myself should be very interested in helping produce a column such as this. Maybe VisCom could start by creating a wiki page with a table indicating each month, proposed topic, proposed author, and article deadline date. The topic and au

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Landon Blake
O.K. Paul. I'll need to think about that for a couple of days. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:15 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code Landon Bl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Ramsey
Landon Blake wrote: Can you give me an idea of how much work would be involved? Not that much work, but somewhat continuous attention. You need to be available when you are needed. Main chunks of work are: - At the start, get together the initial submission to be an organization. - Get toge

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any suggestion of GIS magazine?

2007-02-20 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
> I'll make the Open Source community a challenge. If it can produce > and deliver a column every month (or every other month), I'll include > it in the magazine. Sounds like a good deal to me... But, to clarify, I'd like to see the column as being written by different people every (other?) mont

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Tim Welch
Portland State University has been an "umbrella" sponsoring organization every year. In 2005 8 projects were sponsored, in 2006 only 3 (out of 20 student submissions, most of them being quite strong). This was largely in part to the increase in mentoring organizations, apparently there were ~

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Landon Blake
H. I would have to chew on that for a little bit. Can you give me an idea of how much work would be involved? I want to give a tentative yes, but I'm a little scared of over committing myself. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Ramsey
Yes, but would be be willing to help out with *all* the administrative tasks :) that is, to be the official Administrator. P Landon Blake wrote: I'd be willing to help out with some of the administrative tasks if the OSGeo decided to take this on. The Sunburned Surveyor -Original Message

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Landon Blake
I'd be willing to help out with some of the administrative tasks if the OSGeo decided to take this on. The Sunburned Surveyor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:06 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subje

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Ramsey
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Howard Butler is already doing some legwork to identify projects, and students around GDAL but it hadn't occured to me to utilize OSGeo as the mentoring organization. If the different projects come up with a number of projects a students is it likely to be disadvantagous

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Cameron Shorter
How about getting a graduate to get the OSGeo stack packaged up. I'd be prepared to mentor that. Frank Warmerdam wrote: Paul Ramsey wrote: Just to re-iterate, OSGeo would be an obvious and easy candidate to be a "mentoring organization" which could serve as an umbrella for SoC submissions on a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Paul Ramsey wrote: Just to re-iterate, OSGeo would be an obvious and easy candidate to be a "mentoring organization" which could serve as an umbrella for SoC submissions on all sorts of open source spatial projects. I would volunteer to be the administrator (I did it last year when Refractions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Ramsey
Just to re-iterate, OSGeo would be an obvious and easy candidate to be a "mentoring organization" which could serve as an umbrella for SoC submissions on all sorts of open source spatial projects. I would volunteer to be the administrator (I did it last year when Refractions was a mentoring org

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoTec event participation

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, Are you planning to attend the GeoTec Event (Calgary, Alberta, Canada May 14-17)? http://www.geotecevent.com/ Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Science of Design Symposium 2007 - Humboldt State University

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Forwarding you some info about this event... http://www.humboldt.edu/~sod/symposium/ I'd love to know who might be attending. Tyler Science of Design Symposium, March 2007: Teaching and learning creativity and design with a multidisciplinary perspective Guy-Alain Amoussou, Steve St

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [GeoNetwork-users] FAO GeoNetwork in German GIS Business magazine

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Khan
Well done. sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This Jan/Feb’s 2007 issue of the German GIS Business magazine had Spatial Data Infrastructure projects as its theme. This included an article on the FAO GeoNetwork one on the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and one on

[OSGeo-Discuss] FAO GeoNetwork in German GIS Business magazine

2007-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi all,This Jan/Feb’s 2007 issue of the German GIS Business magazine had Spatial Data Infrastructure projects as its theme. This included an article on the FAO GeoNetwork one on the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and one on INSPIRE. I hope I’ll be able to get a pdf version of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any suggestion of GIS magazine?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Dear Jeff, This is an excellent challenge! Thanks for the offer and I will for sure put an effort in for a column in the near future! Greetings from Rome, Jeroen ___ Jeroen Ticheler FAO-UN Tel: +39 06 57056041 http://www.fao.org/geonetwork 42.07420°N 12.34343°E On Feb 19,