RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G papers and workshop materials for ELOGeo

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Tyler. That is excellent.

Suchith

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When the dust starts to settle from FOSS4G preparation, among other things, my 
hope is to take content (speakers, workshops) from past FOSS4G events and 
upload them.  That should be a very interesting exercise :)

Tyler

On 2011-08-11, at 8:11 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have made separate categories for uploading FOSS4G papers and tutorials in 
> E-learning for Open Geospatial community (ELOGeo) repository. If you have 
> contributed a paper or workshop in any previous FOSS4G conference, could i 
> request you to add that to the ELOGeo repository 
> athttp://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/url/79   under the 
> corresponding FOSS4G conference year heading (we have created separate 
> section for this in the repository) . This will make sure that the conference 
> papers and workshops materials from all FOSS4G conferences are archived and 
> available for the future.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Michael Gerlek to OSGeo Board 2011

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I've now posted my candidate statement here:

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011#Michael_Gerlek

Thanks again for your consideration.

-mpg



> -Original Message-
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 10:03 AM
> To: 'OSGeo Discussions'
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Michael Gerlek to OSGeo Board
> 2011
> 
> I'm on vacation right now, so this will have to be short -- I'll write 
> something
> more up when I get home in a few days, but for now let me just make some
> bullet points:
> 
> * Thank you to Aaron for the nomination.  It's a privilege to be nominated,
> and doubly so to be in company of so many other nominees.
> 
> * In addition to the stuff Aaron lists below, I'm working with Howard Butler
> the PDAL (nee libLAS) project for lidar and point cloud support.  It's not a
> formal OSGeo project today, but as it matures it will hopefully become one
> someday.
> 
> * I also worked at LizardTech for a decade, where I championed LizardTech's
> open source initiatives, including bringing open source libraries into their
> projects, financially sponsoring OSGeo annually, and rewriting the licenses
> for their closed-source libraries to be freely distributable within the open
> source world.
> 
> * I know of nothing seriously "broken" within OSGeo today that I want to
> charge right in and start fixing.  Tyler and the board members have done well
> over the past five years.  However, there are two areas I’d like to focus 
> on...
> 
> * First, as Aaron notes below, I'm one of the folks who runs our local 
> chapter.
> We've got a great group that meets monthly, and we've been able to put on
> some great activities -- such as arranging to give talks and panels at local
> conferences, and putting on our own day-long workshop/conference/sprint
> at a local university that was attended by many, many people.  I'd like to see
> the board be proactive in getting more local chapters organized and running,
> as this sort of grass roots work at the individual level is often the best 
> way to
> introduce people to open source and open data.  I've got some ideas on how
> we could help jump-start things.
> 
> * Second, I had the good fortune to serve as editor for the "Open Sources"
> column in GeoConnexions magazine.  We produced two dozen columns over
> two years, all contributed by members of the OSGeo community, covering
> everything from libraries and apps to open data and open curricula.  I have
> also just started a smaller, similar column for the Lidar News magazine.
> OSGeo should work with the media in our industry to identify more
> opportunities like this.  Publishers always want quality content, it's 
> something
> we can provide for little direct financial cost, and it is a good way to get 
> our
> message out and seed development of other marketing-like content.
> 
> Thanks for considering me for the board!
> 
> -mpg
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Racicot
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:22 PM
> To: discuss
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Michael Gerlek to OSGeo Board
> 2011
> 
> I would like to take this opportunity to nominate Michael Gerlek for the
> OSGeo Board.  Michael (known to many as MPG) has been an active member
> of the OSGeo community from the very first planning meetings in 2006.
> He has been a Charter member of OSGeo since 2006 and has actively
> participated in many functions of OSGeo including leading the Visibility
> committee.  Michael also co-founded CUGOS, the regional OSGeo chapter in
> the Pacific Northwest.  He is actively involved in many open source GIS
> projects, and now dedicates himself to full time consulting work in the open
> source GIS space through his company Flaxen Geo Consulting.  He has a long
> history in participating with the OGC and could bring unique experience in
> that arena to the board.  Most importantly his participation in the OSGeo
> board would bring great industry insight, leadership experience, and a true
> dedication to furthering the OSGeo mission.  I strongly encourage the OSGeo
> community to consider Michael as a valuable addition to the board and the
> OSGeo family.
> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mpg
> 
> Thanks for your consideration.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> --
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> Z-Pulley Inc.
> aar...@z-pulley.com
> 360-221-2441
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote

[Yves Jacolin]

Hello,

Le jeudi 11 août 2011 16:06:14, Daniel Morissette a écrit :
>[..]
> IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting
> instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort
> out the situation ASAP.
Check your spam folder before ;) This email was on my spam folder.

> P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will
> take on the CRO job during my absence.
bonne vacance !

Y.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G papers and workshop materials for ELOGeo

[Tyler Mitchell]

When the dust starts to settle from FOSS4G preparation, among other things, my 
hope is to take content (speakers, workshops) from past FOSS4G events and 
upload them.  That should be a very interesting exercise :)

Tyler

On 2011-08-11, at 8:11 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> We have made separate categories for uploading FOSS4G papers and tutorials in 
> E-learning for Open Geospatial community (ELOGeo) repository. If you have 
> contributed a paper or workshop in any previous FOSS4G conference, could i 
> request you to add that to the ELOGeo repository 
> athttp://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/url/79   under the 
> corresponding FOSS4G conference year heading (we have created separate 
> section for this in the repository) . This will make sure that the conference 
> papers and workshops materials from all FOSS4G conferences are archived and 
> available for the future.
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
> Suchith
>  
>  
>  
> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G papers and workshop materials for ELOGeo

[Suchith Anand]

Hi all,

We have made separate categories for uploading FOSS4G papers and tutorials in 
E-learning for Open Geospatial community (ELOGeo) repository. If you have 
contributed a paper or workshop in any previous FOSS4G conference, could i 
request you to add that to the ELOGeo repository at 
http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/url/79   under the corresponding 
FOSS4G conference year heading (we have created separate section for this in 
the repository) . This will make sure that the conference papers and workshops 
materials from all FOSS4G conferences are archived and available for the future.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote

[Daniel Morissette]

On 11-08-11 10:10 AM, Yves Jacolin wrote:

Hello,

Le jeudi 11 août 2011 16:06:14, Daniel Morissette a écrit :

[..]
IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting
instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort
out the situation ASAP.


Check your spam folder before ;) This email was on my spam folder.



Good point. Look for email subject "Please vote for OSGeo Board Election 
2011" and coming from c...@osgeo.org.


And if in doubt after submitting the form about the information that you 
submitted, no worries, you can click the personal link again at a later 
time (before the voting closes) to see/review your choices and contact 
information.




P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will
take on the CRO job during my absence.


bonne vacance !



Merci!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote

[Daniel Morissette]

OSGeo Charter Members,

The voting period for the OSGeo 2011 Board Election [1] is now open, and 
voting will close at 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 21, 2011. 
To help make this process as easy as possible, we are using a very 
simple online form to collect your votes.  The site also allows us to 
enforce the vote limit, and at the same time to update the contact 
information that we have for our charter members. Note that you still 
have the opportunity to vote via email the old fashioned way if you 
prefer, please see instructions below.


All charter members should have received a personal email with voting 
instructions a few hours ago, including your personal link to submit 
your votes online. (Email subject "Please vote for OSGeo Board Election 
2011" and coming from c...@osgeo.org)


IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting 
instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort 
out the situation ASAP.


Here is some additional information about the vote (also included in the 
personal email):


The 2011 nominee list is available online at:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011

Important Notes:

* Only Charter Members are eligible to vote
* Choose from Board Member Nominations 2011 list [2]
* You have two options for voting: completing the survey form or 
emailing your votes (to c...@osgeo.org with a list of names up to 5 lines 
long - one vote per board slot)
* You can cast up to 5 votes, for 5 different people. Multiple, emailed, 
votes for one person will be counted as one vote.

* Voting closes at 23:59 (your timezone) 21-August-2011
* Results will be posted at Board Election 2011 Results [3]
* Contact c...@osgeo.org with questions

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2011_Results

Thank you for your participation!

P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will 
take on the CRO job during my absence.


Daniel Morissette
OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011)

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Board Nomination -- Regina Obe Decline

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Regina,
I would have very much appreciated to have you on the board of
directors. So I am sorry to hear that you stepped back from nomination
but at the same time respect your decision. It would be great if
everybody were so considerate about timing and commitment up front.

- From an egoistic perspective I actually like your decision because it
means that you can spend more time on improving the PostGIS experience.

:-)

Having said this I want to cite you by saying that: "We have a bright
and very energetic group of nominees, and I’m looking forward to seeing
[...]" five of them join the board.


Thanks & best regards,
Arnulf.

On 10.08.2011 23:24, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>  
> 
> David,
> 
> Thank you very much for this nomination.  It is a great honor to be so
> well respected by you. It is also with much regret that I decline your
> offer.
> 
>  
> 
> I really had intended on accepting this, but after thinking about the
> extra responsibility this position would require,
> 
> I realized I would be spreading myself too thin,feeling a bit out of my
> element, and regret later not being able to serve OSGeo as well as I
> wanted to.  I would also be possibly depriving others with more energy
> and will from making their impact.
> 
>  
> 
> We have a bright and very energetic group of nominees, and I’m looking
> forward to seeing many of them, including David
> 
> serve on our board.
> 
>  
> 
> Yours in spirit,
> 
> Regina
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
>> I nominate Regina Obe for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Regina is a member
> 
>> of the PostGIS steering Committee and has been an OSGeo Charter Member since
> 
>> 2009. Regina has a particular strength that is very rare in the Open Source
> 
>> world and that is her dedication to making open source software and
> 
>> programming accessible to the often non-technical savvy GIS user. Regina
> 
>> (along with her husband Leo) have maintained the BostonGIS blog and the
> 
>> Postgres Online Journal for many years providing quick and understandable
> 
>> tutorials, guides, and cheat sheets for various projects with a particular
> 
>> focus on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, much of this has culminated in the recent
> 
>> publication of *Postgis in Action.* While Regina has a very strong technical
> 
>> background, I believe that Regina could help drive a focus on the usability
> 
>> and accessibility of OSGeo projects.
> 
>  
> 
>> Cheers,
> 
>  
> 
>> David
> 
>> -- 
> 
>> 
> 
>> David William Bitner
> 
>  
> 
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] designing databases, organizing data formats to work with open source and proprietary GIS

[Duarte Carreira]

Hi there.

Im my view, there are 2 levels of integration: with and without ArcSDE.

If you have ArcSDE then you should follow Simon’s tips. It’s a tougher 
challenge to try getting all ArcGIS functionality and at the same time sharing 
the database with other tiers of software.
If you don’t then it’s simpler but it’s very likely that you will have to 
settle with some limitations in ArcGIS, mainly read-only access to the 
database, and not having the geodb design’s perks, like subtypes, domains, 
topology, etc. Since 10 you can already load data from a variety of spatial 
rdbms including pgsql. But not editing. I’m not sure what will change in 10.1.

For the Open Source side of things, going the way of pgsql is all you need! All 
tribes show their love for pgsql so it’s very powerfull in all aspects, desktop 
and server, C and Java, etc. Also you will be well served in other arenas 
besides GIS.

Just my 2 cents.
Duarte

De: karsten vennemann [mailto:kars...@terragis.net]
Enviada: quarta-feira, 10 de Agosto de 2011 18:43
Para: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Assunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] designing databases, organizing data formats to work 
with open source and proprietary GIS

Hi all,

in the near future I will have the opportunity to help design databases, decide 
on data formats (files data) for an international organization that wishes to 
be able to use both proprietary and open source based systems, mostly in web 
mapping solution but also possibly on the desktop. The task will be to design 
and organize the data stores in a way that both types of systems - open source 
(e.g. MapServer, OpenLayers) and proprietary systems (ESRI Arc Server) can use 
them well, and along the way to try to avoid too much data duplication (having 
to store data in multiple formats just to make them accessible) .

This sounds to like a exiting & useful, fun task, but given the limitations of 
both systems (regarding input data that might not work out of the box- namely 
file Geodatabases in open source solutions, and PostGIS data in ESRI products) 
might be not totally trivial ;)

I was wondering if anybody has done work on this, has implemented systems 
facing the same issues or knows of projects or reports that have been dealing 
with similar issues. Also I anybody has comments about what data storage 
solution you would recommend and comments about the pro and cons of certain 
storage designs please send it to the list.
Looking forward to hear what other have come up with.
Thanks a lot

Cheers
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
Principal

Terra GIS LTD
USA
www.terragis.net
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