[OSGeo-Discuss] Building OSGeo Malaysia Chapter

2012-05-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Franz-Josef, Thanks for the info. As you are organising AGSE2012 http://applied-geoinformatics.org/ in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, it is good opportunity to start building plans for establishing OSGeo Malaysia chapter. That will help build activities in Malaysia to the next level.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2012) - Abstract deadline on 10 May 2012

2012-05-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Please note that abstract submission deadline for OSGIS 2012 is on 10th May 2012 (Thursday). FOURTH OPEN SOURCE GIS CONFERENCE - OSGIS 2012 4th - 5th Sep 2012 Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham OSGIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Folks, the OSGeo board of directors has been working hard on finding ways forward in those areas where we do not perform well. These are especially on the business side of things. Our annual revenue has come down considerably in the last years and we seem to lack high level contacts to global

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 02/05/2012 19:04, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) ha scritto: We see new opportunities by starting joint activities with the Eclipse foundation - which is in the process of spawning activities explicitly focused on geospatial. They have lots of high level contacts but lack a noteworthy community.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 5/2/2012 1:32 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 02/05/2012 19:04, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) ha scritto: We see new opportunities by starting joint activities with the Eclipse foundation - which is in the process of spawning activities explicitly focused on geospatial. They have lots of high level

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Ross
Thank you for starting this discussion Arnulf. I suspect there are going to be some people here that are extremely familiar with Eclipse, and others not at all. For this reason I felt it would be a good idea to share a little information. Eclipse is an ecosystem of organizations and open source