[OSGeo-Discuss] GeospatialWebServices2008 : Live webcast update
Hello All, Just a reminder to welcome you to watch today's talks of Geospatial Web Services workshop. We are doing live webcast of the Geospatial Web Services workshop talks and podcasts for the benefit of the wider GIS community. The links will become live from the workshop TAB of the website as they are taking place. The workshop url is http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/geowebservices/ You will require either Windows Media Player or Real Player to watch the events. Podcasts will be available upon completion of each event. Yesterday's talks are archived for watching. Currently the Firefox browser is not supported. We greatly appreciate your feedback on what we can do better for future events. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/anand.shtml This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Director's Insurance (Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions)
On 2008/06/16 8:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to ask the board to revisit this issue and provide
clear guidance on just what support official position holders can
expect from OSGeo.
Bruce,
Is this question with regard to local chapters, conference
organizers, or OSGeo officers in general? If Tyler comes up with a
"Directors and Officers" insurance quote, would you be interested in
reviewing it to see if it does what you think is needed?
I'm quite concerned that comprehensive D&O insurance that covers us
globally is likely to be very expensive, and that "standard" D&O
insurance is not likely to give you the sort of fail-safe coverage
that you seem to want.
At least in part, the points raised by Cameron and Bruce
relate to the roles, responsibilities, and potential
liabilities of people working on the organization of
the FOSS4G 2009 conference, however, the basic issue(s)
probably apply more broadly.
Rather than "Directors and Officers" insurance, we may
be looking for "Errors and Omissions" insurance (or both).
Perhaps it would be useful to determine a name that could
be used for the class of 'people who perform some actions
or services on behalf of OSGeo', and who are not employees
of OSGeo?
My thought is that such people ("OSGeo volunteer"?) could
be specifically covered by any insurance policy (based on
participation in that class of people, not by being named
individually), and that for specific time periods, specific
people could be named by OSGeo to belong to that category.
For example, if OSGeo had an insurance policy that covered
"OSGeo volunteers", then perhaps OSGeo naming the FOSS4G
local organizing committee members as "OSGeo volunteers",
for the period from bid acceptance through to the end
of any FOSS4G-related contracts, would provide a suitable
amount of coverage for the committee members?
The BC Strata Property Act deals in part with people
who serve on Strata Councils, and those people are
volunteers, but routinely deal with financial matters.
The act mentions the required standard of care:
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/S/98043_04.htm#section31
and also insurance:
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/S/98043_09.htm#section151
Here's a couple of examples of insurance that covers volunteers:
https://forums.scc.ca/forums/scc/dispatch.cgi/HELPDESK/docProfile/100023/d19990825181803
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/25533.html
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Dave Patton
CIS Canadian Information Systems
Victoria, B.C.
Degree Confluence Project:
Canadian Coordinator
Technical Coordinator
http://www.confluence.org/
OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference:
Workshop Committee Chair
Conference Committee member
http://www.foss4g2007.org/
Personal website:
Maps, GPS, etc.
http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement
http://wiki.geojson.org/Users On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Guillaume Sueur wrote: Hi Chris, Would you have a list of the 20 applications ? thanks ! Guillaume Christopher Schmidt a écrit : The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With support in more than 20 different applications, GeoJSON is already quickly becoming a de facto standard for transferring geographic data in a JSON format. The finalization of the spec represents the final step in formalizing the GeoJSON format for encoding this data. More information on GeoJSON can be found at http://geojson.org/ , or from the GeoJSON mailing list at http://lists.geojson.org/listinfo.cgi/geojson-geojson.org . Regards, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Allan Doyle Director of Technology MIT Museum +1.617.452.2111 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement
Hi Chris, Would you have a list of the 20 applications ? thanks ! Guillaume Christopher Schmidt a écrit : The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With support in more than 20 different applications, GeoJSON is already quickly becoming a de facto standard for transferring geographic data in a JSON format. The finalization of the spec represents the final step in formalizing the GeoJSON format for encoding this data. More information on GeoJSON can be found at http://geojson.org/ , or from the GeoJSON mailing list at http://lists.geojson.org/listinfo.cgi/geojson-geojson.org . Regards, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoKettle released!
The GeoSOA research group (http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca) of the Centre for Research in Geomatics at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada is proud to announce the release of a first version of GeoKettle as an open source contribution. GeoKettle is a "spatially-enabled" version of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle, http://kettle.pentaho.org). Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) is a powerful, metadata-driven ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool dedicated to the aggregation of different data sources in datawarehouses. It is part of the open source BI (Business Intelligence) software suite designed by Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com). This special distribution of Kettle includes extensions which enable the use of geospatial (GIS) data. Like Kettle, GeoKettle is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). GeoKettle v2.5.2-20080531 is still in alpha version but demonstrates the potential of this ETL tool dedicated to spatial datawarehouses and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP). For further details and to download GeoKettle, please visit the GeoKettle project page: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/en/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=17. Th. -- Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D. Professeur au Département des sciences géomatiques (http://www.scg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique (http://www.crg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE (http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca) Chercheur collaborateur de la chaire de recherche industrielle en base de données géospatiales décisionnelles (http://mdspatialdb.chair.scg.ulaval.ca) Responsable du projet de formation sur les normes internationales en géomatique (http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca) Administrateur du projet open source GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net) Département des sciences géomatiques Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique Pavillon Louis-Jacques Casault 1055, avenue du Séminaire Local 1343 Université Laval Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 Canada Tél.: (418) 656-7116 - Fax: (418) 656-7411 Courriel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca *AVERTISSEMENT* Avis relatif à la confidentialité Notice of confidentiality Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoJSON 1.0 Release Announcement
The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification. Representing more than a year's worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With support in more than 20 different applications, GeoJSON is already quickly becoming a de facto standard for transferring geographic data in a JSON format. The finalization of the spec represents the final step in formalizing the GeoJSON format for encoding this data. More information on GeoJSON can be found at http://geojson.org/ , or from the GeoJSON mailing list at http://lists.geojson.org/listinfo.cgi/geojson-geojson.org . Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising
Allan Doyle wrote: Regarding the income side of the budget, I recommend looking at IRS form 8734 [1], which will have to be filled out at the end of the 5th year of being a 501(c)(3) organization. OSGeo will have to pass the "public support test" of getting at least 33% of its support from "public sources". That 33%, if I recall correctly must be made up of donations of $5000 or less. That means $35,000 in chunks smaller than 5K for the budget shown. I think this is why Creative Commons had that huge donation push a couple of years ago, when they realized they were about to bump into that. It can be far harder to get a lot of little donations than a few big ones. If OSGeo fails the test, it can cause some major tax and reporting headaches. Better to think about it now and build it into the fundraising. Allan, Conveniently the Silver sponsorship level for projects, and associate sponsorship levels come in at $3000 and have proven reasonably popular. So, for instance, the seven Silver GDAL sponsors bring in $21000 USD towards that public support test. The other thing is that we have been advised that registration at the conference can be considered a contribution and that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars in small contributions ($500-$1000). So as long as that is legitimate we should have no problem meeting the public support test. Of course, we will need to document it properly. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising
Regarding the income side of the budget, I recommend looking at IRS form 8734 [1], which will have to be filled out at the end of the 5th year of being a 501(c)(3) organization. OSGeo will have to pass the "public support test" of getting at least 33% of its support from "public sources". That 33%, if I recall correctly must be made up of donations of $5000 or less. That means $35,000 in chunks smaller than 5K for the budget shown. I think this is why Creative Commons had that huge donation push a couple of years ago, when they realized they were about to bump into that. It can be far harder to get a lot of little donations than a few big ones. If OSGeo fails the test, it can cause some major tax and reporting headaches. Better to think about it now and build it into the fundraising. Allan [1] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8734.pdf and http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8734.pdf On Jun 16, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Landon Blake wrote: Another thing I've been curious about is how any funds raised will be spent or dispersed. I know we need to pay Tyler's salary. What other things do we need to pay for? Do we help fund the FOSS4G conference? Do we fund work/infrastructure for specific projects? I'd like to learn more about this. I think a web page geared towards potential contributors with a concise explanation of how duns are spent would be an aid to fundraising efforts, if we will ever have any. Landon, The 2008 budget might help you see what we plan to spend money on. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2008 Hopefully the 2007 annual report will be finished soon, and it will include a financial report on spending during 2007. Best regards, -- --- +-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Allan Doyle Director of Technology MIT Museum +1.617.452.2111 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey BTW, one of the things at Refractions that made tasking more visible for "go do this" roles, like the sysadmin, was entering absolutely every request and job into Trac before fulfilling it. Does anyone thing a OSGeo trac would help or hinder? It might get a little stuffed up with irrelevancies, but it would at least raise the visibility of "things that need to be done". I assume SAC is already running one of their own? Paul, The OSGeo Trac instance is intended to be available for a variety of OSGeo organizational purposes. It is used by the incubation, marketting, and system administration committees at the least, though with various degrees of rigor. http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo I have found it somewhat helpful having most SAC issues handled through Trac. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Fundraising
Landon Blake wrote: Another thing I've been curious about is how any funds raised will be spent or dispersed. I know we need to pay Tyler's salary. What other things do we need to pay for? Do we help fund the FOSS4G conference? Do we fund work/infrastructure for specific projects? I'd like to learn more about this. I think a web page geared towards potential contributors with a concise explanation of how duns are spent would be an aid to fundraising efforts, if we will ever have any. Landon, The 2008 budget might help you see what we plan to spend money on. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2008 Hopefully the 2007 annual report will be finished soon, and it will include a financial report on spending during 2007. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Director's Insurance (Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask the board to revisit this issue and provide clear guidance on just what support official position holders can expect from OSGeo. Bruce, Is this question with regard to local chapters, conference organizers, or OSGeo officers in general? If Tyler comes up with a "Directors and Officers" insurance quote, would you be interested in reviewing it to see if it does what you think is needed? I'm quite concerned that comprehensive D&O insurance that covers us globally is likely to be very expensive, and that "standard" D&O insurance is not likely to give you the sort of fail-safe coverage that you seem to want. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Service Provider Directory statistics (June 2008)
Hi, here some statistics on the OSGeo Service Provider Directory (http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile) where folks can register on a voluntary base: 1 Hungary 1 Norway 2 Belgium 2 Finland 2 Ireland 2 Poland 2 Sweden 3 Netherlands 3 Switzerland 4 Denmark 4 Spain 5 Italy 6 England 6 France 14 Germany 57 Europe 1 Israel 1 India 2 Thailand 2 Japan 1 South Africa 4 Australia 4 New Zealand 3 Brazil 9 Canada 30 USA (15 June 2008) Great! Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
