Jo wrote:
> As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the
> slightest.
Having heard too many sad stories from across the software industry, and having
seen a couple first-hand, that totally makes my day. We’re doing something
right, folks.
Thanks.
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On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Although your points make sense, the reality is that the President is
> requested specifically for many things, in person, or on a Skype call,
> writing a support letter, shaking a hand, giving a talk, etc etc.
Those are all things we would all
While I don’t think I’m keen on having professionals foot the bill for OSGeo,
Dirk is definitely on the right track. His citation of the core principles is
timely, and I’ll go so far as to repeat it here:
OSGeo should act as a low-capital, volunteer-focused organization.
OSGeo should focus
Correct: “membership”, by design at the original founding meeting, was designed
not to confer ANY rights or distinguishing properties except for the ability to
vote for board members.
While the election process is pretty messy right now, I view that as a solvable
problem: I’m still at a loss to
ed in changing the tone and dynamic of the
organization, I’d be interested to hear from people as to what we think the
change direction should be and to what ultimate advantage.
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On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Michael P. Ge
I’ve not been following this issue closely, so I just went back through the old
mails and I’m still left with this rather basic question:
What is the problem that we are trying to solve? What started this movement?
What in our organization is “broken” that needs to be fixed?
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+1
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On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
> I disagree. The history of the award has been a cloistered deliberation of
> private nominations. The award is not a political exercise, or at least it
> hasn't been to this point, and public nominations tip things toward the
> lob
Cameron:
There's no reason a project can't play in both LT and OSGeo spheres, and indeed
proposed a motion to that effect some months ago now.
However, it proved very controversial among some members of our community and I
didn't feel it worth fighting at the time. Perhaps more pragmatic heads
[added standards mailing list back to the distribution list]
Quoting all of item 4, to put Stefano's quote in context:
"Standards specifications are made accessible to all for implementation
and deployment. Affirming standards organizations have defined
procedures to devel
Someone asked the Board (off-list) why we do not publish the results of our
elections in detail -- such as how many votes there were for each candidate,
including any candidates that weren't elected.
I'm not sure if our bylaws require secret ballots, but that has been our
process since the Foun
It's not been mentioned in the Upper Echelons that I hang about in, for what
that's worth.
If someone wanted to propose OSGeo get involved in this somehow, I'm sure we'd
be interested…
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On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> Is anyone at the upper echelons of OSGeo aw
Thank you, Yves and others, for quick response on this.
(This is a great community of people we have here...)
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On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:32 AM, "Yves Jacolin (free)" wrote:
> mpg,
>
> done!
>
> Y.
> Le 03/08/2012 14:25, Michael P.
Cameron Shorter's name was inadvertently omitted from the nomination page.
Arnulf and I are both(!) traveling today and can't quickly update the wiki - if
some kind soul would do that for us, we would appreciate it.
If you have already voted and wish to change your selections, feel free to do
> >Also, some companies would be willing to help underwrite production costs in
> >exchange for some small ads on the back pages, if we
> wanted to go that way.
>
> Nice idea, but initial production costs are zero with
> publish-on-demand - its just the time of the editor.
Ah, but you're not th
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
Also, some companies would be willing to help underwrite production costs in
exchange for some small ads on the back pages, if we wanted to go that way.
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On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source
> technology (
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.
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On Jul 28,
I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...
Puneet wrote:
> [...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by
> not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to
> encumber with
> these complications.
Do you literally mean no license at all? That mig
oing things
cheaper, bootstrapping faster,
fostering collaboration, and promoting extensibility.
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-Original Message-----
From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:54 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions (discuss@lists.osgeo.org)
Subject: DARPA-funded
+1!
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-Original Message-
From: Seven (aka Arnulf) [mailto:se...@arnulf.us]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:19 AM
To: c...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members,
I want to nominate Daniel Morissett
Sorry, I left out the most important bit:
DARPA is very supportive of open source -- as a means of doing things
cheaper, bootstrapping faster,
fostering collaboration, and promoting extensibility.
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-Original Message-
From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com
DARPA and George Mason University are running a very novel, incubator-like
opportunity for small teams of people interested in a chance to pursue radical
new ideas in the areas of geospatial and visual data analysis.
If you've got an idea for something truly different in the geo data world, and
+1
I like the old way better too, but Daniel it right: the comment period is past.
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> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:06 AM
> To: discuss@lists.os
The nomination period for 2012 OSGeo Board Members starts in two weeks.
As a long-time member of the OSGeo community and as a current Board member, I
can say that this organization that has helped build a fantastic and supportive
community over the past several years. However, there are always o
We received 22 nominations for the 2012 Charter Members. There were 20
membership positions available, but the board acted over the weekend to
increase that number to 22.
Therefore, on behalf of the OSGeo Board and the entire OSGeo community, I am
pleased to welcome the following people as OSGe
age-
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:23 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: CHARTER MEMBERS: please read
>
> In advance of OSGeo's 2012 election season, we are updated our database of
> charter members.
>
>
Jachym-
Can you provide us with a summary of the financial aspects of your event?
Things like did the attendees have to pay anything and if so how much, did you
have any sponsors, how much was spent on the venue, food, etc, etc. This is
good information to have, for others thinking about planni
This is just a gentle reminder that there is a mailing list for geospatial jobs
related to open source over at j...@lists.osgeo.org (archived at
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/jobs/).
If you are looking to hire someone to do some open source geo work, or if
you're looking to get hired to do s
In advance of OSGeo's 2012 election season, we are updated our database of
charter members.
We need at least an email address for each of the charter members, although we
will optionally be happy to accept the following data from you as well:
Last Name (surname)
First and middle
enkatesh Raghavan
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:58 AM
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; 'OSGeo-Board'; 'marketing'
> Subject: Re: [Board] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role
>
> Michael,
>
> On 2012/05/05 23:58, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Your
0/04/12 07:24, Cameron Shorter wrote:
On 20/04/2012 4:06 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Do we have any policies and cost structures for the Ambassador function yet?
I've seen a few people talking about creating an OSGeo Ambassador role. Arnulf
I think might have been the first to mention it,
to another planet or are deemed unfit for the purpose
by the community?
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On 20/04
Dimitris:
No apologies needed, it is an important discussion to have! But as you are
aware, there are no easy answers.
The Board of Directors has been discussing these issues a lot, both on lists
and in face-to-face meetings. The problem is that OSGeo has a very broad
charter and a very divers
See also this page on the OGC website:
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585
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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:15 PM
> To: 'Cameron Shorter'; 'OSGeo Discussions'
> Subje
ameron Shorter
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:24 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role
>
> On 20/04/2012 4:06 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Do we have any policies and cost structures for the Ambassador function yet?
>
We are setting up a contact list on the wiki, inventorying all the various
committees and local chapters.
Pls take a minute to review this wiki page and make any additions you see fit:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts
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Reminder: if you have comments on the Sierra Club, open-records,
is-data-software court case, please get them in to me this week.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:20 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussi
chapters or groups.
Op 21 jan. 2012 21:20 schreef "Michael P. Gerlek" het
volgende:
OSGeo folk:
I'm formally requesting that OSGeo endorse the amicus ("friend of the court")
brief being submitted by the Sierra Club to the California Supreme Court. This
case covers si
OSGeo folk:
I'm formally requesting that OSGeo endorse the amicus ("friend of the court")
brief being submitted by the Sierra Club to the California Supreme Court. This
case covers significant interest to our community, including the definition of
GIS data and the public's right to access open
I'm covering this for the Board, and in the next few days I will be putting out
a formal motion for OSGeo to endorse it.
-mpg
From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On
Behalf Of David William Bitner
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:50 AM
To: OSGeo Dis
** Please forward this email to any students or others who might be interested.
**
Through the generosity of our sponsors -- especially our gold-level sponsor
Mobile Geographics -- we have funding available for a qualified student (or
currently unemployed programmer) to come to Seattle for next
I've volunteered to take point on this issue and do the homework, as a first
step towards bringing to the Board for approval.
I've started a wiki page listing some reading material about the case:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OrangeCounty_Amicus
If anyone has any opinions about the issue (either
Nicolas:
This is a great idea. Could you please start by stubbing out a wiki page for
this, and then others can add onto it?
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of nicolas bozon
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 6:56 PM
To
I just went back through my mail, and as near as I can tell it looks like only
4 of 34 nominees have actually taken the time to post a note here saying who
they are and/or why they should be elected.
This confuses me. Am I missing something?
I recognize some people aren't into self-promotion,
There are many nominees this year! And since we have such an international
slate this year, I expect many of us are in the position I'm in: I don't
recognize the names of many of them, much less know of them at least by
reputation.
If you are a nominee, please consider posting a short statemen
The fourth annual North American codesprint is only 3 months away!
** Space is limited, so you need to register in advance. **
The sprint will be February 5-9, 2012, at IslandWood -- a small retreat center
in the Pacific Northwest. This sprint has always attracted a great mix of
peopl
Puneet wrote:
> However,
> please don't lump outreach there. Outreach is what we all do on a daily
basis
Good point, yes. I was trying for a short email, and maybe I made it too
short.
There are many different kinds of outreach, and many of us who are active in
OSGeo do "outreach" as part of ou
Arnulf and Frank have already spoken up, and I think they've captured the
sentiment of Sunday's board decision well.
To emphasize three points, if I may:
* Our foundation has been financially backed by a small set of donors and
the FOSS4G conference. We have lost ground on former source, and the
I've added a cab-share signup section.
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> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 2:52 PM
> To: OSGEO discuss
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Travel Hin
I'm trying to make a one-page advert/flyer/handout for the IslandWood
sprint, to be handed out in Denver next week...
I know the content that has to be included, but my design skillz are totally
not up to it and it looks like a fourth-grade science fair poster.
Anyone out there got the talents a
the risks
for. In my opinion this is one of the events OSGeo could support, because it
has a high impact on its projects.
Leaving such a risk on individuals is likely to make this kind of events
difficult to organize.
Daniel
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
T
The goal of hosting the 2012 North American code sprint here in Seattle is,
unfortunately, almost dead.
To date I have received almost $4K in sponsorship money -- thank you to
Airborne Interactive, Anonymous/CUGOS, Development Seed, and LizardTech! --
and almost $4K in the form of seven registrati
I've now posted my candidate statement here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011#Michael_Gerlek
Thanks again for your consideration.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011
I'm on vacation right now, so this will have to be short -- I'll write
something more up when I get home in a few days, but for now let me just make
some bullet points:
* Thank you to Aaron for the nomination. It's a privilege to be nominated, and
doubly so to be in company of so many other no
Well, you've covered most of the tradeoffs - proprietary/open, general
availability, etc. At the end of the day, it's hard to beat compressed
TIFFs. (lzw-compressed TIFFs are nice too - maybe a bit less supported than
jpeg-compressed, but no quality loss)
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From: discuss-boun...@lis
cere thank you's
and favorable mentions in blog posts about the sprint.
Checks should be made payable to CUGOS and sent to
Michael P. Gerlek
12167 Pleasant Place NE
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
USA
Please forward this to anyone you might think be interested.
We hope you can
This mail is to announce the start of planning / early call for
participation for the 4th annual OSGeo North American code sprint. Held in
previous years in Toronto, New York City, and Montreal, we are proposing to
hold the next event in Jan-Mar of 2012 on a small island near Seattle.
Unlike prev
+1 here too.
I like the idea of providing an avenue for us to pitch articles, etc. I
know that in principle anyone can submit a piece to most of the industry
pubs, but in practice the editors tend to favor those they have a
pre-existing relationship with.
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> -Original Message-
> Fr
xen.com; OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?
>
> On 3/28/2011 4:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Consider the following hypothetical problem:
> >
> > Assume we have a good elevation data set for a large region of
Consider the following hypothetical problem:
Assume we have a good elevation data set for a large region of the earth --
say, an entire mountain range. Now let's say we have a photograph taken
from the ground, the horizon of which shows the profile of a couple of the
mountains in that range. Can
A gentle, periodic reminder: OSGeo has a "jobs" mailing list!
You can post there if you...:
- want a new job
- trying to hire someone for a job -
- are searching for a contractor or consultant
- want to find work as a consultant or contractor
- have opportunities for graduate students
Happy birthday to all of you!
-mpg, who was happy to be able to attend on that Chicago day five years ago
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:38
[disclaimer: I'm the one who nominated Dan]
Having admired MapWindow from afar from some time, I had the opportunity to
spend a couple days with Dan and his team a few months ago and came away very
impressed. Dan is doing a great job in bringing C#/.NET into the OSGeo world
via the DotSpatial
Those of you who've been nominated, feel free to announce yourselves with a few
immodestly chosen lines about why we should vote for you!
There are a lot of seemingly good candidates, but not enough votes to go
around...
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patch to the X project which was included in their 1.2
release".
-mpg
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:25 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussion
Directions Magazine just published a Q&A about the state of geospatial jobs and
occupations with some folks from Penn State in which this question appeared:
> Are you seeing positions requiring knowledge of open source software such as
> GRASS?
Two of the panelists answered. One said
> More g
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but if we could just get enough people to all submit data for
their own local areas using arbitrary free-form textual tags and maybe provide
a voting mechanism for the best submissions, then we could...
Oh, wait -- never mind.
-mpg
-Original Message-
From: discuss-bo
> ...it would be easy to determine what the URL for...
Alas, it is not clear to me that, even within the US, there is a universally
recognized canonicalization of the place name hierarchy, much less the names
themselves.
For example, you refer to "california", as opposed to "state_of_california
s.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:23 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
>
> Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Perhaps I missed it, but with
Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any
statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and I
think it has been helpful to some of us.
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> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lis
I'm here from the CUGOS gang (Seattle and environs).
-mpg
> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Seven (aka Arnulf)
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 12:51 PM
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Dis
> > A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new policy that
> > all software at the national level must be non-commercial open source.
>
> One of these clauses makes sense, one of them does not. Why would you
> limit yourself to *non* commercial Open Source?
(I parsed the original
ehalf Of Cameron Shorter
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:45 PM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating
On 11/06/10 01:59, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
(Along those lines, I'd also ask precisely what "ready to start" incubation
means.
I'd suggest that a set of N icons/logos accompanied by the words "mature" /
"beta" / etc would be better than stars, as it directly indicates to the
customer what we're using as a metric.
Fixed, well-defined categories like this are good, because we do not want to
get into subjective arguments
ives and negatives.
> Positives:
> + Lots of users which draws in money and developers and we all make
> money and thrive
>
> Negatives:
> - We need to distill our messages down into marketing sound bytes and
> generalised rating systems and the like
>
> - We n
sers new to Open Source?
* How can we credit other stable Open Source projects, while still
acknowledging the extra kudos of passing graduation?
* How can we provide this message distinctly on marketing material so that it
doesn't waste valuable marketing real-estate?
On 08/06/10 02:30,
[foolishly stepping in where I should fear to tread...]
This has been asked for before, but historically some projects have not step up
to the plate for providing such materials - for a variety of reasons, some good
and some not so good.
OSGeo should simply put a link to the project's "marketing"
I'm thinking there might be a reasonable number of .NET folks lurking around
here, and that it might be nice to have a mailing list for .NET-specific open
source geo work -- what projects are being done, what issues people have, etc,
etc.
If interested, send email (to me or to list, at your pre
[ Some of you know I've been involved in this conference in the past, and
indeed am again this year. I like it because it is a very different sort of
conference: an unusual mix of industry, academia, government, and "other". If
you're interested in submitting or have any questions, feel free t
Ditto - it seemed sort of so obvious that I assumed Our Board would
just Do the Right Thing.
+2
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On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:30 AM, "Chris Puttick" wrote:
> Sorry Jo; Schuyler, personally I hadn't realised a response would be
> necessary. I'd assumed it would be a given that OSGeo would be
Just a gentle reminder that there is a j...@lists.osgeo.org mailing list.
It is a very low volume list, but if, in these troubled times, you are looking
for an open source geo job or looking to hire an open source geo guy/gal, then
this would be the place to go.
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I didn't get a response from anyone else.. I'll look for you.
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On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:54 AM, "Andrew Turner" wrote:
> Hey - I'll be there again!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael P. Gerlek
> wrote:
>> I'm going to
Okay, so the odds are pretty slim, but: if anyone's going to PDC (the Microsoft
developers conference) next month, I'd be happy to do a meetup there too.
(I'm interested in seeing what's new with MSFT's geo support -- Bing & Friends
-- as it's been a couple years since I've looked into what they
I'm going to be at the GeoInt conference in San Antonio in a couple weeks -- if
a few others of you are are, maybe we could meet for lunch or something?
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> Local OSGeo chapters are great, but how about existing non-OSGeo
> groups? Does OSGeo have a strategy to
> build communication with them?
You mean groups like local ESRI chapters, ASPRS chapters, GIS professionals,
etc?
I'd encourage the local chapters to find such non-OSGeo local groups and o
I agree, we don't want to compete directly with anyone nor do we want to take
an adversarial political stance.
However, I'd offer that while the level of awareness of open source GIS
offerings has much improved over the past couple years, it still has a ways to
go and OSGeo can be a force for g
Thinking aloud, a possible contrarian view:
A goal like "to produce a comprehensive suite of tools [that do X or Y]..."
doesn't likely fit with OSGeo's broad membership and interests. We are an
umbrella organization representing a number of projects, each with its own
unique goals and agendas.
(oh so gently...) push back to our
accounting and HR departments on the insurance requirement, using the above
typical response and the "prevailing evidence" I gathered from this thread
showing that most of you don't have insurance and yet, happily, the sun still
rises every morn
Fresh on the heels of word that Google has patented the idea of a search web
page [1] and the recent discussions of the value and meaning of patents here
and elsewhere, I offer a link to Rob Weir's great advice on how to read patents
[2].
[1] http://gawker.com/5350982/google-patents-worlds-simp
'll post a summary in a few days with no names attached.
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:03 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Insurance
In the past I've hired some people for contract or consultant work (both open
source projects and more general stuff) -- generally these people have been
independent, one-man shops found by word of mouth and reputation, as opposed to
hiring someone from an agency.
I'm getting pushback now from
n...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:19 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary
Algorithms
I've not given it much thought recently, to be honest. I'd ne
don
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:59 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Dis
P. Gerlek
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:36 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary
Algorithms
> Do you know why there hasn't been a broader adoption of JP2?
Not through lack of trying on my part :-)
I think the two biggest reasons
Yes, JP2 supports signed and unsigned types of up to ~24 bits. And lots of
channels (bands). And alpha masking. And arbitrary metadata blobs (geospatial
and otherwise).
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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]
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> Someone earlier in this thread spoke about some of these technologies
> being somewhat obsolete what with the new network and bandwidth speeds
> available for publishing.
I think the comment was that by hiding the data behind a server, you can reduce
the users' exposure to a myriad of file fo
> 10:1 compression rates without noticeable image quality reductions,
For some appropriate, workflow-specific definition of "noticeable".
Everything is a tradeoff. I always tell people to run their own tests with
their own datasets to determine what sort of quality they will achieve and what
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
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at can read and 'fully exploit' the data
> > in the proprietary standard?
> >
> > - that this future software will work seamlessly with my then
> current
> > spatial environment?
> >
> > - if all of the above risks prove to eventuate, can I be sure
e is on our side.) :]
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