Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
Markus Neteler wrote: A project can decide what makes the most sense for them. Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer traceable..). Just check out how long it's taking on openstreetmap ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board of Directors nomination: Anne Ghisla
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:56:27 +0200 Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We would like to nominate Anne Ghisla (from Italy) to the Board of Directors. Hello all, thanks Margherita and Stefano for the nomination, and Italian chapter for support! I am honored for it, and also understand that this role deserves dedication and commitment. My goal as Board member would be to understand how OSGeo is seen and developed outside its home countries, which challenges is facing, and what can be done to strengthen connections around the world. From my experience with FOSS user groups and women lists I am part of, I have understood that speaking about the positive aspects is not enough. Often, some issues that seem small to me were actually perceived as limiting to the audience. By further discussion, I managed to find more decisive answers for the specific context and be a more successful ambassador. I plan to bring this experience to the Board, so that OSGeo message gets disseminated more effectively. I am Italian, with Belgian origins, but I intend to join the Board with a broader international perspective. I also look forward for more nominations from currently under-represented but locally active corners of the world. I'm open to suggestions and comments, especially from long-time OSGeo members, to improve my understanding of worldwide issues. Putting together many points of view, I'll have a more accurate picture of the current status of OSGeo, and will be able to make more informed decisions. Kind regards, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla Anne is very active within the OSGeo community. Among others, We would like to mention some of her activities: - OSGeo Google Summer of Code administrator in 2011 and 2012; - Member of Italian chapter GFOSS.it since September 2007, follower of Francophone chapter too; - Member of QGIS Release Team, Documentation Team and Ecology Toolbox Interest Group; - GRASS GIS core developer; - Co-founder of OSGeo Women Chapter. Some of the above items highlight that Anne has a strong commitment to the empowering of OSGeo, not only from a strict technnical point of view. We know her personally and can say she's a very reliable and helpful person. We really see her as an optimal candidate for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Currently she speaks several languages, such as Italian, French, Englishand a bit of German. She has worked in South Africa for a while and participated to several OSGeo meetups across Europe. Hence she has a quite international background, that allows her to mediate among different points of view of people coming from around the globe. Her skills and experience could contribute to make OSGeo organisation more international and diverse, in sync with the community. Kindest regards, Margherita Di Leo Stefano Costa on behalf of the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/ * Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so. * Get high-res or vector versions of the winners. * Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software, the techniques, and the impact of their work. * Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand site (eg lulu.com). * Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to sponsor it). * Release the PDF under an open license. Of course. * Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo] I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger (we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G 2013. Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen some great-looking maps on posters at conferences. ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high. Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves. Shoot. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
Barry, Hi also think it is a really good idea. However, one simple question comes to my mind: How to deal with the data property and rights, ragrding both printing or spreading on the Web ? May be such an initiative should accept maps using OpenData or OSM only ? Best, Nick 2012/7/28 Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com Barry: This is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time. ESRI does a yearly coffee-table book for Arc-generated maps, the various satellite companies make calendars every year with their best hi-res shots... We should play the game too. Count me in, I'll volunteer to help. .mpg On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/ * Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so. * Get high-res or vector versions of the winners. * Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software, the techniques, and the impact of their work. * Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand site (eg lulu.com). * Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to sponsor it). * Release the PDF under an open license. Of course. * Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo] I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger (we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G 2013. Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen some great-looking maps on posters at conferences. ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high. Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves. Shoot. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
Great idea, I was just thinking that we need to add something exciting and new that promotes OSGeo. The OSGeo live disk certainly does that, but this would place more emphasis on data/art/style. I know there is a large segment within OSGeo that would like to focus more on education and academia - documenting how some of these examples are put together could possibly focus on that. Mark On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote: Barry: This is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time. ESRI does a yearly coffee-table book for Arc-generated maps, the various satellite companies make calendars every year with their best hi-res shots... We should play the game too. Count me in, I'll volunteer to help. .mpg On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/ * Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so. * Get high-res or vector versions of the winners. * Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software, the techniques, and the impact of their work. * Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand site (eg lulu.com). * Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to sponsor it). * Release the PDF under an open license. Of course. * Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo] I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger (we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G 2013. Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen some great-looking maps on posters at conferences. ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high. Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves. Shoot. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: .. Great idea, but a physical book in today's day and age? Perhaps... That said, what about http://www.radicalcartography.net http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14 -- Puneet Kishor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
cool idea! i love to bring this book to my regular fossgeo promotion rounds. On Jul 28, 2012 8:46 PM, nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Great ideas ! I think if the input format is generic enough (LateX, or Sphinx may be..), we would be able to provide such a maps collection (images+txt) as both Print, HTML, EPub or what ever (may be at different prices too). It'd be a great tool to promote both open source geospatial software and open geospatial data according to me, and yes, as Barry suggested, why not try to make profit out of this, for OSGeo. My 0.02 € Best, Nick 2012/7/28 Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: .. Great idea, but a physical book in today's day and age? Perhaps... That said, what about http://www.radicalcartography.net http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14 -- Puneet Kishor ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Meeting Tomorrow - July 23rd
Incubation meeting 19 is scheduled for tomorrow, you can catch up on the agenda here (or perhaps add to it?): - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IncCom_Meeting19 Meeting time: Australia 11pm India 6:30pm Europe 3pm America 9am (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012month=07day=23hour=13min=0sec=0p1=47p2=87p3=179p4=44%5D) We are checking in with projects that we have not heard from in a while; and are looking to rustle up additional volunteers. The meeting takes place on the public #osgeo channel and is open to all (voting is limited to committee members). We currently have the following projects in incubation: - GeoMoose (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status) - GeoServer (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/OSGEO+incubation+questionnaire) - gvSig (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Status) - MetaCRS (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS_Incubation_Status) - Opticks - rasdaman (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Rasdaman_Incubation_Status) - Zoo-Project If you are a member of these projects please drop in and participate. -- Jody Garnett ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013 Conference
*May 22-24, 2013 FOSS4G North America 2013 Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/ Minneapolis, MN - USA Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced that the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference http://foss4g-na.org/ (FOSS4G-NA) will take place May 22-24 at the Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/in Minneapolis, MN. FOSS4G brings together public and private-sector stakeholders, innovators and developers who are at the forefront of free and open source software for geospatial applications. FOSS4G-NA 2013 will offer a broad program to discuss and build tools to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems and business needs. Notably, 2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the first MapServer Users Meeting in Minnesota, the immediate predecessor of the FOSS4G Conference Series. FOSS4G-NA 2013 follows on the success of the 2012 conference held in Washington, DC. This regional event complements the larger FOSS4Ghttp://www.foss4g.org/International Conference, the leading global conference organized by OSGeo focusing on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. The 2013 FOSS4G International Conference http://2013.foss4g.org/ ihttp://2013.foss4g.org/s currently scheduled for September 17-21 in Nottingham, UK. Sponsorship Exhibition and Sponsorship information will be made available shortly. If you're interested in exhibiting or sponsoring please email sponsors [at] foss4g-na [dot] org for more information. Related Links - http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America - http://foss4g.org/ FOSS4G International Conference - http://osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation * ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.07.2012 05:44, Andrew Ross wrote: On 27 July 2012 18:43, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org mailto:nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org mailto:andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote: ... A project can decide what makes the most sense for them. Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer traceable..). Markus Markus, Agreed. This is one of many reasons why this discussion is so important, even if we'd rather be drinking beer. ;-) If you think you might ever consider re-licensing your project, then it's not a bad idea to consider contribution agreements. They can make the process to re-license, should you ever decide to, a lot less pain effort. I hope that it isn't lost in the discussion that it really isn't about a given license winning or dying even if that's interesting to data junkies like us. It's about the project's goals, and hopefully reducing friction towards achieving them. Andrew This is why OSGeo offers projects to transfer copyright of all their software to OSGeo as an organization. In that case it is easy to keep licensing up to date. From that point onwards it simply requires sticking to the coding rules and adding the appropriate header to any new code. Done. Some OSGeo projects chose to do that, some not. But in OSGeo there is no obligation to do this and it is up to the current copyright holders and contributors what they prefer. Cheers, Arnulf. - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAUFFsACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b1iMgCdFBsD7CUdArt1ODdW48yGN7tX 19IAnR8QpdU46S4iUS5v5Teoq7CVQn29 =YIDY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas
Very good idea. It would be also interesting if map creation instructions on the book could be demonstrated using OSGeoLive and the tools provided in it. This way the Live DVD could be distributed with the book (and vise versa). Thoughts? Angelos On 07/28/2012 03:07 PM, Mark Lucas wrote: Great idea, I was just thinking that we need to add something exciting and new that promotes OSGeo. The OSGeo live disk certainly does that, but this would place more emphasis on data/art/style. I know there is a large segment within OSGeo that would like to focus more on education and academia - documenting how some of these examples are put together could possibly focus on that. Mark On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote: Barry: This is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time. ESRI does a yearly coffee-table book for Arc-generated maps, the various satellite companies make calendars every year with their best hi-res shots... We should play the game too. Count me in, I'll volunteer to help. .mpg On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/ * Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so. * Get high-res or vector versions of the winners. * Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software, the techniques, and the impact of their work. * Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand site (eg lulu.com). * Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to sponsor it). * Release the PDF under an open license. Of course. * Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo] I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger (we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G 2013. Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen some great-looking maps on posters at conferences. ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high. Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves. Shoot. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Cameron Shorter
I am pleased to nominate Cameron Shorter to be a member of the OSGeo Board. Followers of this list will no doubt already be familiar with Cameron: active in this foundation since the very beginning, he chaired the 2009 FOSS4G conference, has served on various OSGeo committees, and has worked on the OSGeo-Live project, among many other contributions. He would surely make a great addition to the board team for the next two years. -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
