[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Nottingham Awards, University of Southampton Open Source Geospatial Lab, OSGeo Live 6.0 Launch - OSGIS 2012
Dear All, Thanks to efforts of many colleagues at the University of Nottingham and the OSGeo UK Local Chapter we had another successful OSGIS conference this year. In addition to all our presenters, workshop organisers, sponsors and delegates, I would like to specifically thank Donna Astill, Lesley Gray, Jeremy Morley, Mike Jackson, Amir Pourabdollah, Corinne Cassidy, Steve Moore and IT support team for Workshops, Sally Hanson and Webcasting team, Catering staff, Halls of Residence staff at UoN who all put lot of efforts to help make OSGIS 2012 a great success. The recorded webcasts of the conference will be made available for the benefit of the wider community soon at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx Winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best Presentation awards 2012 “Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions” - Ken Arroyo Ohori , Hugo Ledoux, Martijn Meijers (TU Delft, Netherlands) “Building a OS MasterMap tile service on an Open Source geostack” - Matt Walker (Astun Technology, UK) “Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements” - Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions, Italy) Well done to all winners. OSGeo Live 6.0 Officially launched at OSGIS 2012 We also officially launched Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection at OSGIS 2012. Details at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307 Over 120 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. We are very thankful for the efforts of thousands of volunteers who worked for the latest release of OSGeo Live 6.0 There is whole range of excellent software (DesktopGIS, Databases, Webservices etc) available free for the benefit of everyone. Full list of software available at http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html University of Southampton to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab Prof. David Martin who was the keynote speaker at OSGIS 2012 announced University of Southampton's aim for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Lab to build up research in this strategic area at the University of Southampton. Onbehalf of OSGeo and ICA, we strongly welcome this initiative. We look forward to work with colleagues in Southampton for building research collaborations for the future. I am also in discussions with other key research universities for the establishment of Open Geospatial Labs and will announce more details in due course. Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. These new research labs are strategic to help us accelerate research developments in this area for the future. If your university wishes to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be pleased to discuss details. We look forward for your continued support for building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research globally and seeing you at FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham for building further research collaborations. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. 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] [OSGeo-UK] Open Nottingham Awards, University of Southampton Open Source Geospatial Lab, OSGeo Live 6.0 Launch - OSGIS 2012
I'd like to personally thank Suchith and the team at Nottingham for a really great conference. It was a good mix of academic and non-academic, the workshops and talks were great, the venue was lovely, and a good time was had by all. The weather was also lovely, proving that it can be nice in the UK in September :-) Jo On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, Thanks to efforts of many colleagues at the University of Nottingham and the OSGeo UK Local Chapter we had another successful OSGIS conference this year. In addition to all our presenters, workshop organisers, sponsors and delegates, I would like to specifically thank Donna Astill, Lesley Gray, Jeremy Morley, Mike Jackson, Amir Pourabdollah, Corinne Cassidy, Steve Moore and IT support team for Workshops, Sally Hanson and Webcasting team, Catering staff, Halls of Residence staff at UoN who all put lot of efforts to help make OSGIS 2012 a great success. The recorded webcasts of the conference will be made available for the benefit of the wider community soon at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx *Winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best Presentation awards 2012* “Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions” - Ken Arroyo Ohori , Hugo Ledoux, Martijn Meijers (TU Delft, Netherlands) “Building a OS MasterMap tile service on an Open Source geostack” - Matt Walker (Astun Technology, UK) “Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements” - Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions, Italy) Well done to all winners. *OSGeo Live 6.0 Officially launched at OSGIS 2012* We also officially launched Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection at OSGIS 2012. Details at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307 Over 120 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. We are very thankful for the efforts of thousands of volunteers who worked for the latest release of OSGeo Live 6.0 There is whole range of excellent software (DesktopGIS, Databases, Webservices etc) available free for the benefit of everyone. Full list of software available at http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html *University of Southampton to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab* Prof. David Martin who was the keynote speaker at OSGIS 2012 announced University of Southampton's aim for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Lab to build up research in this strategic area at the University of Southampton. Onbehalf of OSGeo and ICA, we strongly welcome this initiative. We look forward to work with colleagues in Southampton for building research collaborations for the future. I am also in discussions with other key research universities for the establishment of Open Geospatial Labs and will announce more details in due course. Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. These new research labs are strategic to help us accelerate research developments in this area for the future. If your university wishes to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be pleased to discuss details. We look forward for your continued support for building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research globally and seeing you at FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham for building further research collaborations. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. 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. ___ UK mailing list u...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk -- ***Jo Cook*
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Research - Reg
I mean what are all the thematic maps needed to integrate in GIS software to obtain groundwater potential zones.. Regards, Shri. On 9/7/12, Mohammed Rashad mohammedrasha...@gmail.com wrote: depends on your data. there is no datum for ground water Different data have a different datum some of them are WGS84[1] NAD83 for theory part you can scan on [2] and [3] [1]http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/WGS84 [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum_(geodesy) [3]http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/datum/datum_f.html On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:36 PM, shri vinoth vinoths...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Markus,. Can you please tell me what are the 'Datum' needed for locating new prospective areas of groundwater wells using GRASS GIS.. Regards, Shri. On 9/4/12, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:59 AM, shri vinoth vinoths...@gmail.com wrote: Hi evryone, This is Shri. I'm new to this field. I mean GIS. I've taken up a project on GIS in which my work is to delineate a watershed and locating new prospective areas of groundwater wells. I need help. So, please let me know which GIS software would be better for this project and what are all the datum needed. Thank you. Welcome here! Please take a look at GRASS GIS: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Hydrological_Sciences It offers many sophisticated tools including groundwater flow. Best regards Markus -- Er. Shrimani. C. M.Tech. (SWCE) TNAU 09952828347 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Regards, Rashad -- Er. Shrimani. C. M.Tech. (SWCE) TNAU 09952828347 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?
Hi there, Originaly, I was thinking, there is no need for such material. But thinking about the process, we have been through for about two times (writing a proposal, calculating budget, ...) and what we had to do for and during FOSS4G-CEE, i would say, it would be nice to have. We have tried to pick up all possible lessons learned from various FOSS4G events,.but it was a hard job. So, I'm all for to start something, possibly in the wiki form. It schould probably cover organization of big FOSS4G down to small scale events (e.g. code sprints). There should be someone coordinating this acticity and if no one more experienced would like to do that, I think, i could pick this tasķ. Jachym -- Jáchym Čepický homepage: http://les-ejk.cz e-mail: jachym.cepi...@gmail.com Dne 6.9.2012 0:34 Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com napsal(a): In analysing the downfall of FOSS4G 2012 [1] one of the key lessons that became apparent to me is that we are not very efficient at passing on Lessons Learned from one conference to the next. Could we do a better job of knowledge transfer by building an OSGeo Conference Body of Knowledge? Something like a FOSS4G Cookbook [2]? If so, what should be the scope of the cookbook? Should it only be for the international FOSS4G event? Should it cover regional conferences too? Should it also cover FOSS4G steams in other conferences? Who thinks this idea is important enough that you would like to help write sections of the Cookbook, or help with editing? What format should we use to write the Cookbook? Maybe a wiki? I'm interested to help push this idea forward if we as a community think that there will be value in such a collaboratively edited document. If you have an interest, please respond on the OSGeo conference_dev email list (rather than OSGeo Discuss) [1] http://cameronshorter.**blogspot.com.au/2012/08/** analysing-downfall-of-foss4g-**2012.htmlhttp://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/analysing-downfall-of-foss4g-2012.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**FOSS4G_Cookbookhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Cookbook [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/conference_**devhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com __**_ Conference_dev mailing list conference_...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/conference_**devhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?
Cameron, as you know I am supportive of having a cookbook which as others have said is a guide not a rulebook. In doing FOSS4G Denver, despite the lessons learned wikis and plenty of good advice from various members of the community, there were quite a few occasions where we (the LOC) missed something or misunderstood something, and we felt we were reinventing a lot of things. I think more of a checklist would be very helpful - things that should be done when you're starting up the effort, what should be done a year out, six months out, etc (and again there will be variations of course, including the event size - the main global event is generally planned further in advance than smaller regional events, etc). So count me in for contributing. Cheers, Peter. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.comwrote: Jeff, I think Stephen summarises the intent of the cookbook well as a guide rather than a mandate. I see it also as a way to expand what you have been doing individually (collecting collective knowledge) into a self help which is not limited by the time constraints of one person. Initially when there was only 1 foss4g event per year it was possible for one person to be the core driver, but we now have scores of events per year. Bob, I'd anticipate there being subheading in the Cookbook for using the LiveDVD at FOSS4G events. On 7/09/2012 1:00 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: All, Related to this, I've been wondering about how to go about setting up a business specific LiveDVD. Is there a possible synergy to be had with a recipe derived DVD (collection?) ??. Bobb -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.**orgdiscuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org[mailto: discuss- boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:43 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook? Hello, I think the 'cookbook' is a great idea! It is about capturing our collective knowledge and experience, it not about limiting creativity or change. Just like in software when you have an individual contributor that has passion, vision and drive can create wonderful things, you also have to help the other contributors that are not so visionary to do a good job. The 'cookbook' gives us a recipe for success, it is the basic stuff that you need to know to get the job done successfully. To continue with the analogy a visionary chef looks at the recipe and changes it to suit his creative talents. So it all depends on whether we require people to only follow the recipe or we use it as a guideline for people that are volunteering to help but may not have had past experience to get things done correctly. The cookbook is a great idea in my opinion. -Steve W On 9/6/2012 10:14 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello Cameron, Making sure that a transfer of knowledge happens from one FOSS4G local committee to the next is something that I've championed for a very long time now - it is a thankless invisible task that not many are aware is happening (archiving documents, pinging committee members over and over to openly archive documents and logos and files, making sure such critical parts of FOSS4G are kept - ribbon in logo, t-shirts for attendees, hands-on workshops - to the point that local committees kind of become annoyed with me). My vision of FOSS4G (credit here to original FOSS4G Heroes such as Venka and Markus of course) has always been very simple: to spread the Open Source Geospatial passion all around the world. It has not been about money or politics. The result has been FOSS4G local committees are free to take this passion and mold it into their own vision. Events such as FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008 are proof of this. I worry that such a 'cookbook' will hinder this open passion and vision for a local committee. The first drafts of such a cookbook came many years ago from Paul Ramsey, from his 2007 experiences. Since then I've heard rumblings from Arnulf, Cameron and others. I guess it is time for such guidelines. For sure we need a conference Content Management System internal to OSGeo that is required for all FOSS4G local committees to use (not external systems such as Basecamp); this is critical. -jeff On 12-09-05 7:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: In analysing the downfall of FOSS4G 2012 [1] one of the key lessons that became apparent to me is that we are not very efficient at passing on Lessons Learned from one conference to the next. Could we do a better job of knowledge transfer by building an OSGeo Conference Body of Knowledge? Something like a FOSS4G Cookbook
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?
Peter, I think you are right on target with what I would like to see. A voluminous guide with samples of this and that from every conference would get very hard to navigate. A checklist and easy things like that (having the template budget started in Victoria was great for us) would be a wonderful tool to have. To be honest a lot of the talk about archiving conversations and drafts of every document or design that goes through the LOC makes me very hesitant. I certainly agree to tracking those things, but as a volunteer, that is certainly not at the top of my priorities and if I can't find another volunteer who can help with that (which is not exactly the kind of task that others usually stand up to take on) then it is likely not to get done at all since that kind of thing tends to fall on the lap of the person who is overstretching anyway. If we can focus the things that we try to pull together centrally to the things that really are more broadly useful to others we might be able to have better follow through. David On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Peter Batty pe...@ebatty.com wrote: Cameron, as you know I am supportive of having a cookbook which as others have said is a guide not a rulebook. In doing FOSS4G Denver, despite the lessons learned wikis and plenty of good advice from various members of the community, there were quite a few occasions where we (the LOC) missed something or misunderstood something, and we felt we were reinventing a lot of things. I think more of a checklist would be very helpful - things that should be done when you're starting up the effort, what should be done a year out, six months out, etc (and again there will be variations of course, including the event size - the main global event is generally planned further in advance than smaller regional events, etc). So count me in for contributing. Cheers, Peter. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff, I think Stephen summarises the intent of the cookbook well as a guide rather than a mandate. I see it also as a way to expand what you have been doing individually (collecting collective knowledge) into a self help which is not limited by the time constraints of one person. Initially when there was only 1 foss4g event per year it was possible for one person to be the core driver, but we now have scores of events per year. Bob, I'd anticipate there being subheading in the Cookbook for using the LiveDVD at FOSS4G events. On 7/09/2012 1:00 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: All, Related to this, I've been wondering about how to go about setting up a business specific LiveDVD. Is there a possible synergy to be had with a recipe derived DVD (collection?) ??. Bobb -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.**orgdiscuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org[mailto: discuss- boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:43 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook? Hello, I think the 'cookbook' is a great idea! It is about capturing our collective knowledge and experience, it not about limiting creativity or change. Just like in software when you have an individual contributor that has passion, vision and drive can create wonderful things, you also have to help the other contributors that are not so visionary to do a good job. The 'cookbook' gives us a recipe for success, it is the basic stuff that you need to know to get the job done successfully. To continue with the analogy a visionary chef looks at the recipe and changes it to suit his creative talents. So it all depends on whether we require people to only follow the recipe or we use it as a guideline for people that are volunteering to help but may not have had past experience to get things done correctly. The cookbook is a great idea in my opinion. -Steve W On 9/6/2012 10:14 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello Cameron, Making sure that a transfer of knowledge happens from one FOSS4G local committee to the next is something that I've championed for a very long time now - it is a thankless invisible task that not many are aware is happening (archiving documents, pinging committee members over and over to openly archive documents and logos and files, making sure such critical parts of FOSS4G are kept - ribbon in logo, t-shirts for attendees, hands-on workshops - to the point that local committees kind of become annoyed with me). My vision of FOSS4G (credit here to original FOSS4G Heroes such as Venka and Markus of course) has always been very simple: to spread the Open Source Geospatial passion all around the world. It has not been about money or politics. The result has been FOSS4G local committees are
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham update
Hi all, The local organising group of FOSS4G 2013 met in Nottingham yesterday for our first face-to-face meeting. This was after a successful and enjoyable OSGIS UK conference. One of my jobs is now to keep a semi-regular update to the OSGeo mailing lists. You'll probably get all this info if you follow our various twitter streams, blogs, and RSS feeds, so this is for the mailing list fans. We spent the day going through assorted requirements including: venue liaison; making sure we get enough internet; firming up timetables; making sure we get enough internet; setting milestones; making sure we get enough internet; discussing high-level themes; making sure we get... you get the picture. We will have enough internet, and a great conference. Edited minutes and more details will appear on the OSgeo wiki shortly: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013 Lots of exciting developments which I can't talk about yet - but maybe in a few weeks! On behalf of the Local Organising Committee, Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
