Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: Agreed. Well said Cameron, with the aside that there may be an interesting talk from a previously little known person. I suggest leaving this to the discretion of the LOC and interested parties who subscribe to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the Discuss mailing list

2012-10-02 Thread Muhammad Noman
Hi, I have to make distance analysis in Grass software. Can anyone provide me help in this regard how to use these command.; if possible, can anyone contact me and give me a demo on how to execute the task. My main objective of using Grass GIS is to determine the minimum distance between

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 2/10/2012 5:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: With my statistician hat on, and not speaking as a member of the committee, it seems that we have two processes going on - what sounds like a good talk, and who sounds like a good speaker. Maybe we should run two review systems - one with*just*

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: With my simple maths hat on: Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about, and provide a ranking. Total review time = 300 minutes = 6 hours. Best not to complicate the review

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the Discuss mailing list

2012-10-02 Thread Micha Silver
On 10/02/2012 10:05 AM, Muhammad Noman wrote: Hi, I have to make distance analysis in Grass software. Can anyone provide me help in this regard how to use these command.; if possible, can anyone contact me and give me

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
On 10/02/2012 11:24 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: With my simple maths hat on: Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about, and provide a ranking. Total review time = 300 minutes =

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
One thing I really disliked in the past is that the size of abstracts really differed and abstracts were sometimes really large. Please limit people to a small and to-the-point abstract, at least for the voting process. Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS - http://osgis.nl On

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
Hi all, I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of adding some some big names to draw the expected attention to the conference. They may even use some abstract that wasn't voted that much, but the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Volker Mische volker.mis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of adding some some big names to draw the expected attention to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
On 10/02/2012 01:43 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Volker Mische volker.mis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of adding some some big

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Volker, On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Volker Mische volker.mis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Markus, does it means you against a public voting in general? Or against one which includes names? Or do you like the idea of a public voting which only contains the abstracts but nothing else? I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread thomas bonfort
I fully agree with Cameron on this one. Our development and discussions are sufficiently open that any anonymous person providing the community with valuable contributions can become the next big name, or at least big enough to be selected by the current selection process. regards, thomas On

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread Adrian Custer
On 10/2/12 3:05 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: (snip) it seems that we have two processes going on - what sounds like a good talk, and who sounds like a good speaker. (snip) Beyond that, there is the question of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Adrian Custer acus...@gmail.com wrote: Just picking the 'good' talks may lead the conference to once again have many talks about the same projects that have come to dominate and fewer talks from new talent. Therefore picking talks only on the individual

[OSGeo-Discuss] MIL-OSS Conference

2012-10-02 Thread mlucas17
For those who might be interested, I've attached info for the upcoming MIL-OSS working group conference 14-16 October 2012 Washington DC signup and info: http://mil-oss.org/wg4 http://groups.google.com/group/mil-oss http://mil-oss.org/ ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 2/10/2012 9:34 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: One thing I really disliked in the past is that the size of abstracts really differed and abstracts were sometimes really large. Please limit people to a small and to-the-point abstract, at least for the voting process. +1 It is important