Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Chris Whitney
Unfortunately, I will not be able to go to CalGIS. The requirements for a new chapter are available at http:// www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html: -- In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken: "OSGeo Chapter" should self-org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Cameron Shorter
Mmm, I hadn't through the complexity of my request for this deceptively simple problem. Agreed, standardized structured data is part of the ultimate solution. Do you enter every event and swamp the user with noise? I guess a user would want to subscribe to a number of domain or geography specif

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
I've contacted the administrative staff for the conference about requirements and costs for a booth. I'll report to the list when I have learned more. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Putler Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59 PM

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Landon, Sounds good. I registered for the conference since the price goes up $50 (from $125 to $175) tomorrow. Dan On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 10:32 -0700, Landon Blake wrote: > Dan, > > The website for the conference is here: > > http://www.calgis.org/ > > I'll get a hold of the management to s

[OSGeo-Discuss] Romanian local chapter

2007-10-15 Thread Vasile Craciunescu
Hello everybody, Just want to inform you that we are starting a new OSGeo local chapter, a Romanian one. The chapter will be built around the geo-spatial.org community (a Romanian geospatial resource website we maintain). More details were added on the wiki page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Ro

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
Dan, The website for the conference is here: http://www.calgis.org/ I'll get a hold of the management to see what the costs/requirements are for setting up a booth. Landon -Original Message- From: Dan Putler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:23 AM To: Landon

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
I have also been testing having a common/shared (via webdav) .ics file that we could use. Would that help? I was envisioning having one for tracking OSGeo meetings, but we could also use one for events in general. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list

[OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas For 2008 California Chapter Goals

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
I have put up some ideas for project goals the almost-a-chapter California Chapter of the OSGeo might pursue in 2008. I'm very flexible on which of these goals we might pursue, though I think it would be good to select only one or two from the list. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/California

[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

2007-10-15 Thread Landon Blake
I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post about starting a California Chapter. Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down H

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to assess rendering quality?

2007-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Gilles Bassière wrote: Hi list, I'm doing a comparative study of OpenSource cartographic servers (Mapserver, Geoserver and Mapnik). Beside raw performance and features, I'd like to assess the rendering quality, say how pretty produced maps are. Precisely, I'm interested in the quality of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Cameron Shorter wrote: Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar? Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar. It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't clash. I set up one in the first couple months of OSGeo being formed (and have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
2007/10/15, Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anyone set up (and maintaining) a Geospatial Events Calendar? > Ideally one that I can import into my Google Calendar. > It would be useful for picking future OSGeo conference dates that don't > clash. > > Hi, I maintain that calendar: http:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Aust-NZ] Geospatial Events Calendar?

2007-10-15 Thread Allan Doyle
There's another at http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index_Calendar.html I thought setting up a calendar would be a good idea at one point, too. Then I saw how many are out there already, and the enormity of the task sunk in. Not only are there a lot of calendars out there, but many events are alrea