[OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

Hello Everyone, Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss & conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's discussion list. I'm hoping to enable inclusive discussion about an idea. Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), LocationTech Summit is co-hosted with Location Intellige

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

Alex, Thanks so much for taking the time to consider this idea & provide your thoughts. Yeah, I agree with you about the common interest & this was the basis of reaching out. I do think developing areas at Eclipse such as the IoT working group focusing on sensors, actuators, and gateways s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

calendar. It lines up with EclipseCon, which co-hosting helps reduce organizing burden. For what it's worth, the overall conference would not be called EclipseCon to appeal to all constituents. Thoughts? Thanks again, Andrew On 04/04/14 17:02, Andrew Ross wrote: Hello Everyone, Please

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

the FOSS4G and OSGeo branding prominent. Keep in mind as well (anyone else here too that might want to provide a competing bid!), that we have earmarked ~$20K from the Minneapolis event to help bootstrap a 2015 NA FOSS4G. David On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Ross <mailto:andre

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

verview.mail.yahoo.com?.src=iOS> ---- *From: * Andrew Ross ; *To: * ; *Cc: * OSGeo Discussions ; conference_...@lists.osgeo.org ; Location IWG ; *Subject: * Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference *Sent: * Mon, Apr 7, 2014 6:45:31 PM David, Thank you. Our team is always glad to suppo

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: [location-iwg] 2015 North American conference

undless ddubov...@boundlessgeo.com <mailto:ddubov...@boundlessgeo.com> 917-460-7204 @boundlessgeo On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Ross <mailto:andrew.r...@eclipse.org>> wrote: David, Thank you. Our team is always glad to support the ecosystem. Personally, I'm jaz

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

am in the coming weeks. This committee will help us plan an outstanding event. We will be forming a program committee who will review and select presentation proposals. More on that soon. As always, feedback & suggestions are welcome. Cheers! Andrew On 04/04/14 17:02, Andrew Ross

[OSGeo-Discuss] Save the dates for FOSS4G NA 2015

Hello Everyone, (cross posted to OSGeo-discuss & LocationTech-iwg) We have a brief announcement regarding FOSS4G NA 2015 . It will be held on March 9-12, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, California.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any spatial databases for high performance geo-computing

Hi Shuai, Everyone It's worth a look at a few projects @ LocationTech too. There's a nice community growing around these. GeoTrellis , Apache v2 License, Intro Article

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear Bruce, Not sure if this is interesting or not. In my previous role, my team & I worked on adding ArcGIS support for Ingres, which is also open source and similar to Postgres/PostGIS. I learned quite a bit during the process. I appreciated that Esri offers a very useful layer to plugin &

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the program chair for FOSS4G NA 2015

Hi Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please forward as appropriate) Just a quick announcement related to FOSS4G North America 2015 for those that may have missed the announcement elsewhere. The event takes place in San Francisco from *March 9th to 12th*. I am pl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] Announcing the program chair for FOSS4G NA 2015

t; If anyone has any input on what they'd like to see in FOSS4G NA >2015's >> program or how you think it should be structured, please don't >hesitate to >> contact me; the more opinions I hear from the community, the better I >can >> guide the program committe

[OSGeo-Discuss] Logo Contest for FOSS4G NA 2015

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please forward as appropriate) We have recently started a logo contest for FOSS4G North America 2015, which runs next March 9th to 12th in San Francisco. The logo contest is open & visible to all. We have already received c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] Logo Contest for FOSS4G NA 2015

Hey Everyone, I'm happy to report that we've selected a winning logo for FOSS4G North America 2015 <http://42aross.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/logo-selected-for-foss4g-north-america-2015/>. We hope you like it as much as we do. More soon, Andrew On 29/07/14 11:53, Andrew R

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

Dear Johan, Thank you for reaching out & the great idea. For what it's worth, I really like seeing cross-organization collaboration like this. For some reason the message didn't seem to x-post to the LocationTech discussion list (at least that I can see). Hopefully this email might reach all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

Dear Jeff, Everyone, I'll drop in to help as well. I may be a little late as I promised my children a video chat. I apologize as I'd like to be there and help. For what it's worth, regarding the tag line agenda item, OSGeo is far from the only open source community. Unaffiliated projects in Git

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

ks already with these other foundations. We can talk about this shortly. -jeff On 2014-09-13 7:51 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear Jeff, Everyone, I'll drop in to help as well. I may be a little late as I promised my children a video chat. I apologize as I'd like to be there and help.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

ons. I fully agree with views expressed by Jeff. I look forward growing collaborations with OSGeo and other international organizations in a systematic and orderly manner. Best Venka We can talk about this shortly. -jeff On 2014-09-13 7:51 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear Jeff, Everyone, I&#

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

Dear All, Discussions started informally back in 2011. By 2012, there were more formal discussions ongoing including a face to face meeting with Michael Gerlek who was appointed by the OSGeo board to represent OSGeo. I wanted to say publicly that Michael's work was extremely professional and I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

ys try to represent the entire OSGeo community well, if you feel that I have made mistakes please share this here with everyone. I am here to represent you. The last few days have been very hard on me. -jeff OSGeo President On 2014-09-16 11:01 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear All, Discussion

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

Dear Bart, Jürgen, All Here's a few thoughts that are probably a good place to start. We started to get into them at Saturday's board meeting. Feedback here is very welcome. 1) The FOSS4G North America 2015 site mentions the event is a collaborative event by OSG

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

Bob, For what it's worth, and it's the same at OSGeo of course, LocationTech & the Eclipse Foundation want projects to want to join. It's always optional. It is unlikely for the foreseeable future that OSGeo would invest in the specialized staff, infrastructure, and such to do the kind of ri

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing the 2014 LocationTech Tour

Dear Everyone, For those that might be interested in speaking about their project, initiative, or just attending to meet others with common interest, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2014 Tour . It is a federated series of global events fea

[OSGeo-Discuss] CfP for FOSS4G NA 2015

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists) FYI, the Call for Papers is now open for FOSS4G North America 2015. This conference takes place March 9 to 12 in Burlingame, California. https://2015.foss4g-na.org/ It is co-hosted with EclipseCon North America which offers at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Today is the early deadline for FOSS4G NA 2015

Dear Everyone, (cross-posted to LocationTech & OSGeo discussion lists, please do forward to any interested people) Today is the early deadline for FOSS4G NA 2015. Please see more details here: http://42aross.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/today-is-the-early-deadline-for-foss4g-na-eclipsecon-2015/

[OSGeo-Discuss] Today is the CfP deadline for FOSS4G NA 2015

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists) A friendly reminder that today is the deadline for the FOSS4G North America Call for Papers. Go to this link to submit a talk or workshop proposal . FOSS4G NA 2015 runs Mach 9th to 12th in Burl

[OSGeo-Discuss] 4 more days to pitch for FOSS4G NA 2015

Hi Everyone, FYI: https://2015.foss4g-na.org/news/cfp-extension-until-nov-28th Enjoy your day! Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] TOMORROW: Early bird FOSS4G NA deadline

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please forward to any who are interested) A friendly reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday December 31, 2014, is the last day to register for FOSS4G NA 2015 at the early bird rate. The

[OSGeo-Discuss] Quick set of updates for FOSS4G NA in March

Dear Everyone, FYI, this post has a bunch of quick & hopefully interesting updates for you about FOSS4G North America 2015, running March 9th to 12th. http://42aross.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/foss4g-north-america-is-going-to-be-awesome/ It's going to be great! We encourage you to join us in Ca

[OSGeo-Discuss] Just 1 month to go before FOSS4G NA 2015!

Hi Everyone, (x-post to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to any who are interested, thank you!) There is just one month to go before FOSS4G North America 2015 in San Francisco. It runs March 9th to 12th. If you have not already, please don't forg

[OSGeo-Discuss] Still time to register for FOSS4G-NA (but not for long!)

Dear Everyone, There's still time to register for #foss4gna in California, but hurry! Price goes up after tomorrow. https://2015.foss4g-na.org/registration It is going to be a fantastic conference. The program & workshops are outstanding. The BoFs look super interesting. The social events &

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Still time to register for FOSS4G-NA (but not for long!)

this. And to the many speakers who are giving us their time & sharing their expertise, thank you. Looking forward to seeing you next week in sunny & warm California! Andrew On 26/02/15 16:41, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear Everyone, There's still time to register for #foss4gna in Calif

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America selection process

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to all interested parties) As a fairly new conference, FOSS4G North America has lacked a formal selection process in terms of how to select which city/venue, who was organizing, and more. Until now... A team of c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSS4G North America selection process

upport will be strong. The process details how updates can be made after that. Deep thanks to the many people who participated in this. Thank you! Andrew On 22/04/15 20:37, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to all inter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America selection process

gh in. If you feel so inclined, please communicate your feelings by voting on the above list as follows: +1, you support it 0, you abstain -1, you cannot support it Just in case you cannot support it, please be kind to share why & hopefully we can address. Kind regards, Andrew On 22/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America selection process

serve as the representative for OSGeo. If you are interested in serving this role, please reach out to me on or off list. The time commitment is approximately 5 to 20 hours per year. Thank you to Jim Hughes for agreeing to represent LocationTech. Kind regards, Andrew On 04/05/15 09:28, Andrew

[OSGeo-Discuss] Update re: FOSS4G NA 2016

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists. Please forward to any who are interested. Thanks!) We would like to inform you that the core committee for FOSS4G North America has formed and begun work for the 2016 conference. As per the new governance for FOSS4G NA, the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Where do YOU want to go for FOSS4G NA 2016

Dear Everyone, You may recall we recently designed and implemented a new governance model for FOSS4G NA . Thank you once again to the large team of people who participated in that. Over the past weeks, we b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where do YOU want to go for FOSS4G NA 2016

tstanding. Short of that, someone like me who is not familiar with both cities will either end up having to do a good amount of research, or resort to flipping a coin. My 0.02$ Daniel On 2015-07-13 3:18 PM, Andrew Ross wrote: Dear Everyone, You may recall we recently designed and implemented

[OSGeo-Discuss] FedGeoDay 2015

Dear Everyone, (x-posted to LocationTech & OSGeo discussion lists, please fwd to any who might be interested) On Thursday October 15th, FedGeoDay will be returning to Washington D.C.. This one day conference runs from 9am to 5pm and features an incredible line-

[OSGeo-Discuss] Hello

Hi Everyone, I am new to the list and I'd just like to take a moment to say hello to everyone. I work on the Engineering team at Ingres corporation from a home office in Ottawa, Canada. I'll try and jump into the discussions where I can participate. I'm sure I'll inevitably be lurking a lot o

[OSGeo-Discuss] Osbootcamp6/geocamp2008: Success

e and knowledge. For more information about Open Source Bootcamp, please visit: www.osbootcamp.org Andrew Ross ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

Hi Everyone, A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to try and start projects to work on Geocoding and Routing. We're still gathering information and checking to learn who's interested. If you are interested, please check out the following wiki's and add your name

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: November 5, 2008 7:59 PM To: OSGEO Discussion list Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? Hi Everyone, A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to try and start p

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

n opt-in to the conversation. Andrew _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: November 10, 2008 2:17 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? Thank you everyone for the great res

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

, Andrew http://ingres.com http://osbootcamp.org _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: November 11, 2008 1:41 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? Hi Everyone, Tha

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Call for speakers

Hi Everyone, It is my pleasure to announce a call for speakers for Geocamp2009. This is the 2nd annual Geocamp. This year, we've decided to expand and invite developers and users from other communities such as Eclipse, Drupal, Perl, Python, Ruby, and more. We hope that this stimulates cross p

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for GSoC panelists

Hi Everyone, FOSSLC (http://fosslc.org) and the University of Toronto are holding a Google Summer of Code information session on March 31st. We're planning to do a panel discussion of mentors and interns from various communities to discuss their experiences and impart knowledge to students. It

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Call for speakers

we're offering a 33% discount until March 31st. Thank you, Andrew _ From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: January 19, 2009 8:28 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Ca

[OSGeo-Discuss] Summercamp/Geocamp registration - win a PS3

Hi Everyone, Please pardon the semi-off topic email. We're giving away a Playstation 3 to the 30th person who registers from the timestamp on my blog post: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/node/380 Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] OT: Toronto event: value of open source software - Thursday, April 23 @ 7pm - University of Toronto

Hi Everyone, Please pardon the off-topic email. If you can make it, we're doing a panel discussion on Thursday covering the value of open source software. It takes place from 7pm until 9pm at 1101 Sandford Fleming building at the University of Toronto. Panelists are from Redhat, IBM, Eclipse,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election: Andrew Ross

Hi Everyone, I have been travelling and this was the first opportunity to send this note. I am deeply honoured to be considered for an OSGeo board position. The other nominees are people I greatly respect and if I am worthy enough to be elected, I look forward to working with. My offering is a g

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009: Looking for a few volunteers to help record FOSS4G

Hi Everyone, For those in Sydney for FOSS4G. I'm looking for a handful of volunteers willing to sit and record FOSS4G talks. For those willing to lend their Linux (recent Fedora or Ubuntu = ideal) machine and time, I'll treat them to dinner. I've hauled my microphones and vga capture devices from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G: Beach Volleyball at Manly, Sydney, tomorrow

Hi Cameron, Thanks for the invitation. Chuck and I are giving serious thought to joining you. I'll confirm once we've sorted our other activities for tomorrow. Andrew 2009/10/16 Cameron Shorter > For those of you in Sydney this weekend. > > I plan to head down to Manly Beach with my two sons

[OSGeo-Discuss] Videos from FOSS4G2009 posted

Hi Everyone, First, let me thank Chuck Thibert, Scott Mitchell, and Alex Djioev. Their dedication as volunteers to record the talks at FOSS4G2009 has made this possible. Thank you so much guys, you were an absolute pleasure to work with and it was nice to have people you could have absolute faith

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI

Hi All, Adding to this discussion, there are a spectrum of open source licenses measured in terms of what they allow to derivative works. At one end of the spectrum, the GPL stipulates that if you base your software on a component that is licensed with the GPL license *and* distribute it, that der

[OSGeo-Discuss] Participate in a study on accessible mapping

Hi Everyone, There's a research study at the University of Toronto looking at the accessibility of maps. If you might be interested in participating, or for more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/bnp1Iz Thanks, -- Andrew ___ Discuss mailing lis

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G videos (re: Database talks, etc.)

Sorry for the resend. As per Cameron's email noting that the database talks were high on the list of talks people wanted to see pre-conference... interestingly, database talks account for 3 of the top 5 most watched videos from FOSS4G. Simon, your talk is in that list. Paul's PostGIS talk was the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination - Andrew Ross

thout it things become very hard and may not last. Thank you in advance for those considering voting for me. Andrew On 4 August 2011 23:02, Dave McIlhagga wrote: > I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board. > > Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo

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 t

[OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

ht help you make a living from it. Andrew On 07/26/2012 06:48 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Andrew Ross, I think it would be very valuable for you to expand the forum of your discussion about OSGeo/LocationTech, licences, and all things come under that banner. In particular, I think it shou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

On 07/27/2012 12:55 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: "3.You can also re-license the finished product under a commercial license of your choice" this seems to be the biggest difference with LGPL. But there's also another big difference, and EPL program is incompatible with all other OS licenses http://www.e

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

On 07/27/2012 05:43 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:21 -0400 Mark Lucas wrote: I would like to second the nomination for Daniel. After having had the pleasure of working with him on the current board, I frankly can't imagine how we would function without him. He is always a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

licensing, but I believe there should be a very strong case for doing so. It is, to a certain extent, changing the rules after the game has started. Landon On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: BSD, MIT, Apache wouldn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

On 27 July 2012 18:43, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Ross > 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

On 07/27/2012 10:27 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel wrote: This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and I'm also sur

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo and LocationTech

On 09/08/2012 04:38 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Andrew, I'm moving this conversation over to OSGeo Discuss list so that it has the opportunity for wider discussion. Thank you Cameron. And hello everyone. Extracting from a conversation on the board email list ... On 09/09/12 00:25, Andrew

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo and LocationTech

-mpg On Sep 10, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: On 09/08/2012 04:38 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Andrew, I'm moving this conversation over to OSGeo Discuss list so that it has the opportunity for wider discussion. Thank you Cameron. And hello everyone. Extracting from a conversatio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project not found in list

Jeff, For what it's worth, people participate in a wide variety of communities and have for sometime. The world is diverse with plenty of room for all. We're seeing some good cross community support and initiatives, which is great. It might make sense to encourage it and celebrate it to nurture