[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: what about wms-sites.com
the site is great, Benjaminthanks! -- Pere Roca Ristol Biòleg i especialista GIS Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) Visita l'EDIT mapViewer! http://edit.csic.es/geo/mapviewer/edit.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
educational strategy: +1 for this, and I think much of it is needed in the developing world. OSGeo educating through local chapters to evangelise and bring all users of GIS to understand our phylosophy is a good thrust for the future too. Ravi Kumar --- On Mon, 28/9/09, Massimo Di Stefano massimodisa...@yahoo.it wrote: From: Massimo Di Stefano massimodisa...@yahoo.it Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Monday, 28 September, 2009, 11:14 PM Hi All, I agree with you i think we need a local chapter policy, to redistribute knowledge and organizational experience through the LC, helping ourselves to organize hack meetings and local conferences. I think we also need to focus on an educational strategy to promote FOSS inside university departments. A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not because they think the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but simply because they learned a proprietary application during their study and continue using them without considering other sw. (cracking sw is too easy and in my experience I see teachers even apply cracks or password cracked apps to their students) So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in this direction, giving the right weight to an educational strategy. Regards, Massimo. Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha scritto: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, Howard Butler wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board. It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in the next 3-5 years are the following three items: - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't. - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we start to use it our central fundraising piece. - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter development and consolidation of the conference. I was going to write a post in response to this, but after reading Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his opinions and position mirror mine 100%. Best Regards, --Christopher Schmidt Web Developer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss From cricket scores to your friends. Try the Yahoo! India Homepage! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Board Election Results
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2009_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Ravi Kumar Thanks to everyone for running, it was a very large field of really excellent candidates, it's a shame the board isn't bigger. The voting participation was middling at 73% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Your complete resulting Board is: * Ari Jolma * Arnulf Christl * Frank Warmerdam * Howard Butler * Markus Neteler * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Ravi Kumar http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Yours, Paul Ramsey CRO 2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Board Election Results
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Ramsey pram...@cleverelephant.ca wrote: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2009_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Ravi Kumar Thanks to everyone for running, it was a very large field of really excellent candidates, it's a shame the board isn't bigger. The voting participation was middling at 73% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Your complete resulting Board is: * Ari Jolma * Arnulf Christl * Frank Warmerdam * Howard Butler * Markus Neteler * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Ravi Kumar My congratulations to the Board. May you do good work. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Yours, Paul Ramsey CRO 2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science === Sent from Madison, WI, United States ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: 2009 Board Election Results
Congratulations to the new board members! I am honored to have served on the board over the last two years and hope to be able to support the foundation in many other ways in the coming years. Thanks for all the good things I took away from being a board member and for the cool collaboration with my fellow board members and the community so far. Cheers, Jeroen On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2009_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Ravi Kumar Thanks to everyone for running, it was a very large field of really excellent candidates, it's a shame the board isn't bigger. The voting participation was middling at 73% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Your complete resulting Board is: * Ari Jolma * Arnulf Christl * Frank Warmerdam * Howard Butler * Markus Neteler * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Ravi Kumar http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Yours, Paul Ramsey CRO 2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Board Election Results
Excellent and many congratulations to the board. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Paul Ramsey Sent: Tue 29/09/2009 15:53 To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-Board Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Board Election Results http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2009_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Markus Neteler (re-elected) * Ravi Kumar Thanks to everyone for running, it was a very large field of really excellent candidates, it's a shame the board isn't bigger. The voting participation was middling at 73% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Your complete resulting Board is: * Ari Jolma * Arnulf Christl * Frank Warmerdam * Howard Butler * Markus Neteler * Chris Schmidt * Geoff Zeiss * Jeff McKenna * Ravi Kumar http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Yours, Paul Ramsey CRO 2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote: I want to add that for me it is also a goal to limit OSGeo's growth wrt the number of paid staff and budget. We can make good use with 100k more for hardware, services and to have more reserves for the conferences. But I believe that we should not let the budget grow beyond ~half a million - not even in five years. If there is money to make then it should be made by businesses. They in turn are welcome to sponsor OSGeo. By supporting FOSS business development OSGeo automagically supports itself. Arnulf, I also am not keen on a big budget organization, though I wouldn't want to put any specific limit on it. Areas I *would* like to see grow budget wise is project sponsorship as a mechanism for user organizations to share in supporting project development. Of course, that will depend to a large part on the success of projects in soliciting funds and putting them to effective use. One thing I am leery about, but that has been suggested by some, is OSGeo trying to provide professional services as a way of raising money. I think this is best left to the FOSS business community. I feel this way for two reasons. (1) OSGeo does not really have the managerial strength to effectively deliver customer oriented projects. (2) I don't want to compete against our partners in the business community who are already providing so much of the important push for free geospatial software development and deployment. I would like to see growing sponsorship funds to help support educational, promotional and community oriented efforts by OSGeo. Quite a bit of this can be effectively done at the local level by local chapters. Local Chapters should grow by themselves, in most cases an small initial stub created from within OSGeo Global is enough to get going. And as Howard said - the life of OSGeo is within the local chapters. I think local chapters are important, but I'm not sure I'd go as far as you on this. I think global project, and osgeo special interest group mailing lists can also be where a good deal of the life of OSGeo is. My next 5 years list might look something like: - A broad set of quality software projects under the OSGeo banner that feel they are getting good value from OSGeo in terms of promotion, branding and systems support. Furthermore that the developer and user communities feel they have a fair (equal opportunity) environment to contribute and effect their projects. - Educational support resources sufficient to be deployed directly for post-secondary educational organizations wanting to roll out a GIS/geospatial program based on free software *and* a significant number of organizations who have done so and are publically involved in supporting further improvements to the materials. - Lots of local chapters pursuing a diversity of local initiatives with lots of inter chapter, chapter-project, and chapter-osgeo linkages. Hopefully local chapters will be hot-beds of innovative activities even when OSGeo is somewhat slow moving. - OSGeo facilitated delivery of vetted, integrated software stacks ready to use for user organizations, and considered enterprise ready. Think of OSGeo4W, Debian GIS and the recent FOSS4G LiveDVD as examples of forms this might take. - A continued strong FOSS4G, acknowledged as the primary global meeting of the tribes, though it might not be significantly larger than it is now. - Financial income coming from a wide diversity of sponsors, most of which are end-user organizations. Also some money coming in the form of grants in support of specific activities (such as work on educational products or standards participation). - The organization has sustained income sufficient to support an ED, project systems requirements, with enough money left over to pursue a variety of initiatives. I think sufficient funding would be in the $25 to $40 area. - OSGeo pursuing a variety of modest cost, non-permanent initiatives. Things like holding special meetings with travel support for desktop integration or standards development and implementation sprints. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles
David, Sorry for the delayed response. I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first name was Joe?) Most of the activity in our chapter is coming out of the UC Davis Campus. Alex Mandel is taking the lead there. We've also got someone from the Sacramento area that works at the California Geological Survey, if I am not mistaken. Brian Hamlin is also quite active, and I believe he hangs his hat in the Bay Area. I'm in the Central Valley. The size of our state is a challenge to organizing OSGeo activities. We've talked about organizing smaller regional chapters in the state, but I don't think we have the support for that yet. Personally, I would like us to think about how we can draw more OSGeo enthusiasts from California together via online means. Alex has focused a lot on getting an OSGeo presence at California conferences, which is great, but I'm personally interested in seeing what we can do as a group on the software front. Our chapter is home to Silicon Valley, after all. :] I've been meaning to bring this up, but haven't had the time to put together an intelligent e-mail. I will try to make time to do so this week. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of David Bianco Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:57 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles I'm looking to meet up with fellow Los Angeles based osgeo people.I put a call out in the California chapter email list but did not get a response.Perhaps you all are lurking here on the main list? I work in downtown LA.Let me know where you at! David Bianco http://groups.google.com/group/lax-osgis Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles
Been busy lately Landon? Hope all is well, keen on your input re: Journal. Landon Blake wrote: David, Sorry for the delayed response. I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first name was Joe?) Most of the activity in our chapter is coming out of the UC Davis Campus. Alex Mandel is taking the lead there. We’ve also got someone from the Sacramento area that works at the California Geological Survey, if I am not mistaken. Brian Hamlin is also quite active, and I believe he hangs his hat in the Bay Area. I’m in the Central Valley. The size of our state is a challenge to organizing OSGeo activities. We’ve talked about organizing smaller regional chapters in the state, but I don’t think we have the support for that yet. Personally, I would like us to think about how we can draw more OSGeo enthusiasts from California together via online means. Alex has focused a lot on getting an OSGeo presence at California conferences, which is great, but I’m personally interested in seeing what we can do as a group on the software front. Our chapter is home to Silicon Valley, after all. :] I’ve been meaning to bring this up, but haven’t had the time to put together an intelligent e-mail. I will try to make time to do so this week. **Landon** Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *David Bianco *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:57 PM *To:* OSGeo Discussions *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles I'm looking to meet up with fellow Los Angeles based osgeo people. I put a call out in the California chapter email list but did not get a response. Perhaps you all are lurking here on the main list? I work in downtown LA. Let me know where you at! David Bianco http://groups.google.com/group/lax-osgis *Warning: *Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] proposal of new mailing list - graphics
Hi, My request for new mailing list 'graphics' is related to ongoing process of visual integration of few projects within OSGeo. At the moment GRASS and QGIS are involved, but gvSIG is also interested in cooperation. Present stage of icons development is at: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/gis-icons-0.1/ I found also that Symbol Registry is under development. But there is still missing one common place for discussion about graphics (symbols, icons, etc.). best regards, Robert Szczepanek ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] proposal of new mailing list - graphics
Note also that a bit ago we started 'geosilk', see http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk http://blog.opengeo.org/2009/05/01/geosilk/ These extend the 'silk' icon set which is widely used on the web, borrowing geospatial icons from the uDig icons: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Imagery We're using them in the GeoServer admin console and in GeoExt, and are definitely excited for more people to make use of them and for collaboration. It'd be great to sync up somehow with the gis icons, though it looks like ours are a bit more space constrained. Chris Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Hi Robert, This is a beautiful initiative! It could also serve the online applications I would think. Ciao, Jeroen On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote: Hi, My request for new mailing list 'graphics' is related to ongoing process of visual integration of few projects within OSGeo. At the moment GRASS and QGIS are involved, but gvSIG is also interested in cooperation. Present stage of icons development is at: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/gis-icons-0.1/ I found also that Symbol Registry is under development. But there is still missing one common place for discussion about graphics (symbols, icons, etc.). best regards, Robert Szczepanek ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Chris Holmes OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
