RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-12 Thread Jason Birch
I guess I'm assuming that Mateusz talked to Christopher before posting this? Anyway, I'd certainly welcome this kind of service. If there is community buy-in and Christopher isn't interested in setting it up, I'd be happy to install it on osgeo2. I've worked with it a bit for an unrelated pr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 12-Feb-08, at 8:31 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to planet.osgeo.org and make it more an official OSGeo Community thing. I support the idea and have often daydreamed about having a more community-centric site in addition to our main

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-12 Thread Jason Birch
I like the idea Mateusz. I think I'd probably have to remove my blog from the list though, as I sometimes blog about proprietary software as well :) How does this work for the other planets; do they allow wishy-washy open source proponents like me? Jason Fr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Folks, Is there any plan or motion to setup an official OSGeo Planet? Chris developed and maintains it at http://planetosgeo.crschmidt.net/ and it gathers a number of OSGeo bloggers, so the idea works! Perhaps it's a good idea to setup (or move) Chris' work to planet.osgeo.org and make it more

Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, Does anyone know what's the best (cheapest) option to get to Bolsena by train or bus from directions like Germany (Berlin), Czech Republic (Prague) or - would be best - Poland (Warsaw)? Any tested traveling options? Perhaps there someone is going to travel by car from Germany or Czech Repub

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for free Country/State/City/districts maps

2008-02-12 Thread Eduardo Kanegae
Hi folks, I have a specific need for a customer: they have a flash application which let users to click an object and then open child levels. Example: when users click a country, he can see the states of this country and so on. This application handle the following levels: Country -> State -> Cit

[OSGeo-Discuss] Jobs list

2008-02-12 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
Hi all, we have 40 subscribers until now. I'm sure there's more people interested to signin and offer or find beautiful long/short/progamming/scholar/etc jobs. this is the page: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs ciao Lorenzo ___ Discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoWeb 2008 CFP & student competition ($$$!)

2008-02-12 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
The deadline for papers for GeoWeb 2008 is March 7th: http://www.geoweb.org/cfp-08.asp Having been involved with this conference for several years, I find it yields a nicely different set of offerings than the "usual" fare. This year, the focus is very much on GIS infrastructures -- both "informa

Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: > Could you please explain what you mean to a "poor" OS developer? My feeling is that the number of available developers is small, and cannot be easily raised by reasonable amounts of money (ok, with 12 MEUR that's different...). I think there's an "availability pit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Ciao Chris, I heard from aaime about this plan, I actually think it would be pretty nice to spend a few days all together, even though a whole week is probably a bit too much for me. Jeroen, are you sure you cannot hold a bit more? It is not that easy to spare a whole week but it might be nice! B

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread andrea antonello
Oh, oh... I completely forgot about it, not hearing anything again, sorry. Is there some sort of program? Some aims fixed? Cheers, Andrea On Feb 12, 2008 4:40 PM, Jeroen Ticheler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until > now

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Holmes
Oh shoot. We were discussing this internally for awhile (maybe too long...). I think TOPP can commit to funding at least 6 of our people to come. And potentially another 4-5 if things work out well and there's some other OpenLayers critical mass. And we're hoping to encourage some other Geo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread P Kishor
On 2/12/08, Paolo Cavallini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: > > > Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until > > now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless > > suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too ba

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Could you please explain what you mean to a "poor" OS developer? Simone. On Feb 12, 2008 4:44 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: > > > Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until > > now. This means that I'll cancel the event by

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Jeroen Ticheler ha scritto: > Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until > now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless > suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, > but that's life. One more confirmation that develper

[OSGeo-Discuss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

2008-02-12 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Dear all, Unfortunately only 6 people have signed up for the hacking event until now. This means that I'll cancel the event by Thursday, unless suddenly at least 12 others confirm their participation :-( Too bad, but that's life. Cheers, Jeroen Dear all, Further to my earlier email (below

[OSGeo-Discuss] problem viewing U.S. map w/ Quantum GIS

2008-02-12 Thread roger . taylor
I have opened a shape file of the U.S. showing U.S. Congressional Districts. Alaska does not appear correctly in the Map View window of Quantum GIS. I have previously opened this file using ArcGIS without this problem. Here is the link to the file I'm using: http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html#