Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Nice to see that the OSGeo Journal has taken a
nice an concrete shape.

Some of the suggestions that I would like to make

a) Last page of the "Journal" with the editors names
etc. mentions "Newsletter Online", maybe better to
change this to "Online Journal" since it is not a
mere Newsletter anymore.

b) I agree with having a peer review process for
FOSS4G related research articles in the Journal.

c) Since more than one issue per year are expected
maybe we could consider the numbering as Vol. 1, No.1
(2007)

d) Making the Journal available under suitable Creative
Commons License.

e) Consider using Open Journal System
(http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs) framework it the
future. OJS offers several advantages in
publishing and managing online journals and
is being used very widely (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-journals)

Thanks to all editors for the hard work in
putting out the Journal.

Kind regards

Venka

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:


On 16-May-07, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:


 Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan


The more people I talk to about this idea, the more positive comments I 
hear.  I'd still really like to see us try it out, especially if you are 
keen to manage it.


Tyler

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Map Asia 2007?

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Is anyone already involved with an open source presence at Map Asia  
this year?  I see there is already some mention of open source  
workshops and was curious who might be leading this.


Any ideas?
Tyler


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Landon Blake]

This sounds good to me Dan. I'd also be willing to help out with this effort at 
the Journal, at least a little. :] So you can put me down on your list.

Landon

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Hey Landon and others, thanks for the good discussion points. I guess
this topic should probably move to the newsletter discussion list, but
I wanted to mention here that I totally agree that this shouldn't be
just an academic issue. Rather it could be a great way for lots of
kinds of FOSS4G research and development work that needs a publication
outlet - from anyone regardless of affiliation. I told Tyler a few
weeks ago that I'd put together a draft summary of the idea including
scope, approach, etc. So I'll take a shot at this and notify the
newsletter list when its up on the wiki somewhere. Thanks all. - Dan

On 5/16/07, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> This is a very interesting idea. I am curious about how would we decide the
> qualifications of the article reviewers, or on those submitting,
> "scientific" articles to the OSGeo Journal.
>
> I'm loathe to impose the restrictions of university education on
> participation in the OSGeo Journal at any level. I believe there a lot of
> individuals involved in geospatial technology at an every day, hands on, and
> "dirty" level. I believe the availability of open source code in the
> geospatial arena is part of what makes this possible. I think a lot of
> people become involved in open source GIS as only a minor part of what they
> do. I don't want to isolate those types of individuals.
>
> As an example, I have no university degree, but I consider myself an active
> participant in open source geospatial technology. This is despite the fact
> that it plays only a minor role in my day job.
>
> I think of our goals with the journal is to appeal to a broad audience. My
> only concern with this idea is that the OSGeo Journal would become a
> publication that was exclusive to those from Academia. There is a lot of
> great work being done in the trenches.
>
> As long as we are flexible about who we allow to contribute and review
> articles I would support this idea.
>
> Landon (A.K.A. The Sunburned Surveyor)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:13 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available
>
> This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
> a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.
>
> I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
> science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
> project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
> coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
> others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
> FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
> volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
> in this idea?) - Dan
>
> On 5/16/07, Paulo Marcondes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> > > > language?
> > >
> > > Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
> > > like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> > > translate some/all of the Journal?
> >
> > I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese translation.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Daniel Ames]

Hey Landon and others, thanks for the good discussion points. I guess
this topic should probably move to the newsletter discussion list, but
I wanted to mention here that I totally agree that this shouldn't be
just an academic issue. Rather it could be a great way for lots of
kinds of FOSS4G research and development work that needs a publication
outlet - from anyone regardless of affiliation. I told Tyler a few
weeks ago that I'd put together a draft summary of the idea including
scope, approach, etc. So I'll take a shot at this and notify the
newsletter list when its up on the wiki somewhere. Thanks all. - Dan

On 5/16/07, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Dan,

This is a very interesting idea. I am curious about how would we decide the
qualifications of the article reviewers, or on those submitting,
"scientific" articles to the OSGeo Journal.

I'm loathe to impose the restrictions of university education on
participation in the OSGeo Journal at any level. I believe there a lot of
individuals involved in geospatial technology at an every day, hands on, and
"dirty" level. I believe the availability of open source code in the
geospatial arena is part of what makes this possible. I think a lot of
people become involved in open source GIS as only a minor part of what they
do. I don't want to isolate those types of individuals.

As an example, I have no university degree, but I consider myself an active
participant in open source geospatial technology. This is despite the fact
that it plays only a minor role in my day job.

I think of our goals with the journal is to appeal to a broad audience. My
only concern with this idea is that the OSGeo Journal would become a
publication that was exclusive to those from Academia. There is a lot of
great work being done in the trenches.

As long as we are flexible about who we allow to contribute and review
articles I would support this idea.

Landon (A.K.A. The Sunburned Surveyor)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan

On 5/16/07, Paulo Marcondes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> > > language?
> >
> > Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
> > like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> > translate some/all of the Journal?
>
> I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese translation.
> --
> Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX
> -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc
> Debian GNU/Linux = http://rj.debianbrasil.org = http://www.debian.org
> http://www.kombato.org - Seja seu próprio guarda-costas
>


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 16-May-07, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:


 Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan


The more people I talk to about this idea, the more positive comments  
I hear.  I'd still really like to see us try it out, especially if  
you are keen to manage it.


Tyler

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

[Paulo Marcondes]

2007/5/16, Rafael Medeiros Sperb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Paulo,

Your name is in the provisory OSGeo-Br committee... we will keep in touch.


Você ou alguém da comissão organizadora irá atualizar o wiki, para
refletir o desenvolvimento recente da OSGeo-Br?? Eu gostaria de saber
o que aconteceu lá em BSB!

maldito curso ! =]
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Paulo Marcondes]

Hi Dans

As the proposed size of the peer-reviewed section is small, I  guess
it shall not be impossible  to gather enough articles around similar
topics to fit in a new issue.


And let's not forget Computers in Geosciences - although I am not sure
if everything will fit in there.

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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Landon Blake]

Dan,

This is a very interesting idea. I am curious about how would we decide the 
qualifications of the article reviewers, or on those submitting, "scientific" 
articles to the OSGeo Journal.

I'm loathe to impose the restrictions of university education on participation 
in the OSGeo Journal at any level. I believe there a lot of individuals 
involved in geospatial technology at an every day, hands on, and "dirty" level. 
I believe the availability of open source code in the geospatial arena is part 
of what makes this possible. I think a lot of people become involved in open 
source GIS as only a minor part of what they do. I don't want to isolate those 
types of individuals.

As an example, I have no university degree, but I consider myself an active 
participant in open source geospatial technology. This is despite the fact that 
it plays only a minor role in my day job.

I think of our goals with the journal is to appeal to a broad audience. My only 
concern with this idea is that the OSGeo Journal would become a publication 
that was exclusive to those from Academia. There is a lot of great work being 
done in the trenches. 

As long as we are flexible about who we allow to contribute and review articles 
I would support this idea.

Landon (A.K.A. The Sunburned Surveyor)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ames
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:13 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan

On 5/16/07, Paulo Marcondes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> > > language?
> >
> > Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
> > like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> > translate some/all of the Journal?
>
> I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese translation.
> --
> Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX
> -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc
> Debian GNU/Linux = http://rj.debianbrasil.org = http://www.debian.org
> http://www.kombato.org - Seja seu próprio guarda-costas
>


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Paulo Marcondes]

2007/5/16, Dan Putler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi Dan,




would be the discipline scope of the articles? Could your paper on a
study of the impact of irrigation run-off in the Snake River water
shed be next to mine on my new model for retail site location that
addresses demand from local residential and workforce population,
along with demand from mobile customers (allowing us to have a
hydrology and a marketing paper side-by-side)?


Hi Dans

As the proposed size of the peer-reviewed section is small, I  guess
it shall not be impossible  to gather enough articles around similar
topics to fit in a new issue.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Markus Neteler]

On 5/16/07, Daniel Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan


Something like
 Source Code for Biology and Medicine
 http://www.scfbm.org/
comes to mind which is an Open Access Journal.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Dan Putler]

Hi Dan,

It is an interesting idea. Although, I think some thought would need  
to be put into the scope of the articles that would be a fit for this  
outlet. Would the focus be on scientific analysis that happened to be  
carried out using FOSS4G products, or would it be about software  
tools specifically developed to carryout scientific analyses? What  
would be the discipline scope of the articles? Could your paper on a  
study of the impact of irrigation run-off in the Snake River water  
shed be next to mine on my new model for retail site location that  
addresses demand from local residential and workforce population,  
along with demand from mobile customers (allowing us to have a  
hydrology and a marketing paper side-by-side)?


In any event, I'm very interested in the idea, and would be willing  
to be part of a committee on  the topic, which seems like the logical  
next step if there is any interest.


Dan

On 16-May-07, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:


This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan

On 5/16/07, Paulo Marcondes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:
>
> > Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> > language?
>
> Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights  
question, I'd

> like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> translate some/all of the Journal?

I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese  
translation.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Paulo Marcondes]

2007/5/16, Daniel Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the


Almost the same size as the current journal.

That should spark all sorts of requests, like having a searchable
website and retrieval of submitted articles. Plus editorial
guidelines, LaTeX, ODF, etc templates...

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RES: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

[Rafael Medeiros Sperb]

Paulo,

Your name is in the provisory OSGeo-Br committee... we will keep in touch.



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Enviada em: quarta-feira, 16 de maio de 2007 14:29
Para: OSGeo Discussions
Assunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 16-May-07, at 9:57 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It is my pleasure to inform that the THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER
> > USER'S MEETING was a success.

> It was a great event and very encouraging to see!

It's a shame I couldn't attend.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Daniel Ames]

This may be a good time to mention a thread that Tyler and I discussed
a month ago with respect to the OSGeo Journal.

I suggested that we explore the option of having 2-4 peer reviewed
science type journal articles in future editions in addition to the
project updates and other types of articles, and I volunteered to help
coordinate the peer-review process. I'd be interested to know what
others think of this.  Would anyone else find it useful to have a
FOSS4G oriented  peer-reviewed journal article outlet? Anyone else to
volunteer for a peer review process? (Tyler are you still interested
in this idea?) - Dan

On 5/16/07, Paulo Marcondes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:
>
> > Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> > language?
>
> Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
> like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> translate some/all of the Journal?

I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese translation.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

[Paulo Marcondes]

I just receieved this from another geo-list and thought it might be of
general interest here.
===

Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on DATA MINING 2007 (ICDM??07)
http://spatial.nvc.cs.vt.edu/sstdm07

Call for Papers
--
October 28, 2007
Omaha, NE, USA

Widespread use of sensor networks and location aware devices has resulted in
large amounts of spatial and spatio-temporal datasets in a variety of
domains. The number and size of these datasets continues to increase
rapidly, making their manual processing impossible. It is therefore,
imperative that efficient and effective techniques are developed to
extract useful information from these datasets. Traditional data mining
techniques are ineffective in the spatial domain since they don't
incorporate the special features of the spatial domain, e.g. spatial
autocorrelation. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers,
developers and practitioners in the field of spatial and spatio-temporal
data mining together in order to identify current research foci, vital areas
of need, and critical points of synergy. Selected
papers will appear in the GeoInformatica journal as a special issue.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
o Theoretical foundations of spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
o Novel techniques for spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
o Role of uncertainty in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
o Visualization techniques for spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
results
o Languages and primitives for data mining
o Web mining techniques for spatial and spatio-temporal data
o Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining at multiple resolutions
o Scalable techniques for spatial data mining
o Applications and case studies in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
o Data mining techniques for dynamic spatial and spatio-temporal data
o Role of spatial analysis in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
o Data structures and indexing methods for spatio-temporal data mining
o Data mining from unstructured spatial and spatio-temporal data

PAPER SUBMISSION

This is an open call-for-papers. Only original, high-quality papers, in-line
with the ICDM??07 standard guidelines, will be considered for this workshop.
Prospective authors should submit electronically their contributions at the
following website: http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/icdm07/scripts/ws_submit.php

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: June 22, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2007
Camera-ready version: August 17, 2007
Workshop date: October 28, 2007

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

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University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chang-Tien Lu
Virginia Tech, Falls Church, VA, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shashi Shekhar
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Paulo Marcondes]

2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:

> Is there any information about permission for publish in another
> language?

Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
translate some/all of the Journal?


I think I can work together with Helton in the Portuguese translation.
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> Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd
> like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to
> translate some/all of the Journal?
> 
> Tyler
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Thanks for the enthusiasm.  We manage all the files using a  
subversion repository, so all source code is definitely available.   
I'm not sure how we could best manage translations using svn.  Any  
suggestions from svn power users out there?  Should we make a branch  
for each language?  I'm new at this...


Tyler

On 16-May-07, at 2:21 AM, Jacolin Yves wrote:


Hi,

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:15:05 Markus Neteler, wrote :

[..]
I wonder if this is permissive for translations. We need to select a
licence (and urgently add it to the site, better also in the PDF)
which supports translations.

How can we translate this document? As Markus Neteler noted it, is it
possible? Can we have access to the file?

I don't know if I/we will do it, but some french people are ready  
to work on

some page.

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

[Paulo Marcondes]

2007/5/16, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On 16-May-07, at 9:57 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to inform that the THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER
> USER'S MEETING was a success.



It was a great event and very encouraging to see!


It's a shame I couldn't attend.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 15-May-07, at 1:06 PM, Helton Uchoa wrote:

Is there any information about permission for publish in another  
language?


Good question.  Before I tackle the republishing rights question, I'd  
like to know if there are any others out there who are hoping to  
translate some/all of the Journal?


Tyler


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 16-May-07, at 9:57 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote:

Dear all,

It is my pleasure to inform that the THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER  
USER'S MEETING was a success.


I have also just posted my own summary at:
http://www.osgeo.org/tyler/brasil

It was a great event and very encouraging to see!

Tyler

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[OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

[Rafael Medeiros Sperb]

Dear all,

It is my pleasure to inform that the THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING 
was a success. The meeting was held in Brasilia, at the Presidential 
Auditorium, as response to the invitation of the Federal Government which has 
been investing its efforts on Open Standards and Opensource. Among the most 
recent initiatives I should mention the E-PING Commission, which has been 
establishing official standards. It means that once a standard is officially 
adopted by the government, it becomes a criterion for software development or 
acquisition. A sub-commission for geoinformation is already working towards 
OGC... ;-)

More than 300 people have attended the event. 23 cases were presented by 
government officials, as well as universities and private companies. 
Surprisingly, the quality of the applications presented has exceeded our 
expectation, especially in comparison with the first and second meetings. 6 
workshops were available (Principles of Cartography for Developers, MapServer 
Basics, MapServer Advanced, PostGIS Basics, Geoserver Basics and OCG) thanks to 
the support of several people that have committed their selves to them.

To the growing MapServer community and in face of the success, I would like to 
thank Mr. Tyler Mitchell who enlightened the meeting with his speech and 
contribution. I would also like to thank Persegona's brothers (Marcelo and 
André) and Thammy and Roberta for their commitment to organization and well 
being of all participants. Finally, recognize the efforts of Dr. Albuquerque, 
Sérgio and Silmara to materialize the meeting at the Presidential Palace.

RELEVANT ASPECTS OF THE MEETING:

- Unofficial organization of the OSGeo Brazilian Chapter;

- We shall transform the BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING in to OSGeo 
Brazilian Chapter Meeting. For that we will try to bring members from the other 
communities (e.g Grass, Geoserver, geonetwork, etc.) to OSGeo-Br;

- OSGeo Brazilian Chapter will submit a proposal to bring FOSS4G 2008 to Brazil 
in order to initialize this new "phase" 

Cheers,

Rafael Medeiros Sperb
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Is there any information about permission for publish in another language?

[]s

Uchoa




Isn't it published under Creative Commons?

I had a quick look but found no reference about the licence...
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

[Markus Neteler]

On 5/16/07, Raj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Whether commercial or open source, this technology is difficult to
learn. I think the problem is that academia doesn't know what these
new tools are good for. Someone mentioned the Tomlin book. It's great
if you need to do spatial analysis for landscape ecology or urban
planning. If you're interested in collaborative geo-information
sharing, the new open source tools are great for this, but there is
no curriculum or textbook to reference. Until the next Tomlin comes
along and puts the conceptual foundation in place, I believe the
situation Arnulf describes will persist.
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Here are some starting points:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Library#GFOSS_Books

More will appear later this year :)

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[Jacolin Yves]

Hi,

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:15:05 Markus Neteler, wrote :
> [..]
> I wonder if this is permissive for translations. We need to select a
> licence (and urgently add it to the site, better also in the PDF)
> which supports translations.
How can we translate this document? As Markus Neteler noted it, is it 
possible? Can we have access to the file?

I don't know if I/we will do it, but some french people are ready to work on 
some page.

Thanks

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Markus Neteler]

Congrats to all contributors!

On 5/15/07, Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks Tyler - this is fantastic! I'm learning a lot already, reading
through it.

It would be good to clarify the copyright on the journal. Right now,
on page 70, it says "all articles are copyrighted by the respective
authors", and that's probably as it should be. But it's unclear how
anyone could reproduce copies of the journal.

For instance, is it ok to post a copy on another web site? Is it ok
to print 5 copies for a small office? Could the UN print and mail
copies to a number of field offices? Can copies be distributed on a
CD? etc. etc.

I think this could be solved with a CC-Attribution-NoDerivs or maybe
the non-commercial version of that license that covers the entire
journal issue. (I can't look up the "real" CC license version, their
site seems to be suffering some malady right now).


This should be the link:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

I wonder if this is permissive for translations. We need to select a
licence (and urgently add it to the site, better also in the PDF)
which supports translations.

Here is the shopping list of license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Markus


Then people could print entire copies but would have to get
permission from the authors to make copies of individual articles.

Allan

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi,
In GeoNetwork opensource ( http://geonetwork-opensource.org ) we've  
been using ISO19115 for a long time now. We are now finalizing a  
release of the software that has among other things, support for the  
following standards:

Metadata:   ISO19115 validated against ISO19139 implementation standard.
FGDC
Dublin Core
Catalog:OGC CAT 1.0 & Z39.50
OGC CSW 2.0.1 based on the ISO profile

GeoNetwork opensource is an incubator project of OSGEO and can be  
found at http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork


We find it useful and have been using it to document large numbers of  
spatial datasets. For example at http://www.fao.org/geonetwork (where  
I work), http://vam.wfp.org/vamsie , http://geonetwork.unocha.org/ 
mapsondemand and http://csi.cgiar.org/geonetwork to name a few. All  
these organizations share their metadata collections among catalogs.


Ciao,
Jeroen

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On 16 May 2007, at 7:40 AM, Raj Singh wrote:

In the geospatial standards community (I work for OGC), ISO 19115  
is sort of a bible. The problem with this, and most ISO documents,  
is that it's too abstract to design software around. You generally  
need to go to another level of specificity to do real coding. For  
example, the OGC catalog work  conforms to ISO 19115 and gets much closer to  
something implementable.

---
Raj


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I noticed the existance of ISO 19115

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail? 
CSNUMBER=26020&ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=70


Particularly "the cataloguing of datasets"

Has anyone read this? Is it useful?


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