RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material

2008-08-26 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks Aaron. I will look trough your presentations. Landon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Racicot Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:41 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material

2008-08-26 Thread Aaron Racicot
Landon, I keep a few presentations (some focusing on OSGeo, but all open source related) archived at: http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/presentations/ feel free to grab whatever you might find useful. Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lando

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread Landon Blake
Puneet wrote: "a conference becomes too big to continue being useful." Do you mean "too big" as in number of people attending, "too big" as in number of topics presented, or "too big" in some other sense? Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread P Kishor
On 8/27/08, Dave Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/08/26 3:08 PM, James Fee wrote: > > > I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less about > > FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what will > > probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the wor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Patton
On 2008/08/26 3:08 PM, James Fee wrote: I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less about FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what will probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the world. Hearing things like that, and the reactions about it being

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material

2008-08-26 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user > group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They > even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) > > I was hopi

[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Proposed Meeting To Discuss California Chapter of OSGeo

2008-08-26 Thread Landon Blake
I sent this to the California Mailing List, but I thought I would post it here in addition. We don't get a lot of traffic on the California list, and there may be subscribers to the Discuss list that would be interested in attending. Thanks, Landon From

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread James Fee
I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less about FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what will probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the world. I'm sure there are people in Europe and South America that feel the same way (about not caring about g

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material

2008-08-26 Thread Landon Blake
I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) I was hoping some other OSGeo members have done similar presentations. If anyone has mater

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread Landon Blake
Sounds like I'm not the only one who isn't going to be vacationing in foreign countries anytime soon. :] It sounds like we might have some support for a bi-annual OSGeo conference in the United States if it wouldn't distract from FOSS4G. Now all we need is a city which is a cheap travel destinatio

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread Julia Harrell
> For some of us who work in state (US) government, approval for out of > country travel can be essentially impossible. Even if the location is > only about 60 miles out of the country... I will definitely second this for NC State Gov staff. Even if travel funding is a) available and b) you ca

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] osor.eu - GIS Software Community

2008-08-26 Thread Bruce, Bob (CON)
This site looks very interesting, it would be nice to see links to FOSS4G2008 in the Events area. And a link to OSGeo in the Basic FLOSS links section of FAQ. But my main question is: are transcripts of the presentations at the OSOR GIS Community Workshop available? I'd like to read a few of them.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread Fawcett, David
For some of us who work in state (US) government, approval for out of country travel can be essentially impossible. Even if the location is only about 60 miles out of the country... I would like to see annual gatherings that I could actually attend, assuming that they didn't draw too many people

[OSGeo-Discuss] osor.eu - GIS Software Community

2008-08-26 Thread Theodoros G. Karounos
The GIS (Geographic Information System) Software Community aims at supporting the development and referencing the open source geospatial software on the OSOR. The OSOR GIS Community's goal is to promote exchange of software and experience, and to encourage the use and collaborative development of c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-26 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 23-Aug-08, at 5:21 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Yes, these two types of registrations are clear to me. I'm asking if registeriing #osgeo- prefixed channel automatically makes it into OSGeo group, a registered group. I'm not sure when it comes to the term "registration" in a technical sense -

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Manage translation in OSGeo project

2008-08-26 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Dave Patton wrote: On 2008/08/25 2:29 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: What about researching Launchpad to manage translations of OSGeo projects and documents? https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject Launchpad apparently uses the "GNU GetText file formats", which is also what is used b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapter, network and structuration

2008-08-26 Thread P Kishor
On 8/26/08, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave wrote: "If people are saying they can't attend [insert name of > > OSGeo event here], then it would be useful to state why they can't > attend. There is a difference between "travel/accommodation cost is 'too > high'" > and "my workplace