[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India
Hi All, Since inception nearly an year ago, which started through mails from Prof Venkatesh Raghavan (OSAKA Univ) churning up activity, OSGeo-India been doing it's bit and tried to come to terms with prevailing Indian conditions. There are many helping hands but, to translate OSGeo's aims into activity means, proliferation of FOSS GIS software. Tried to give some news and views below. Please interact. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User_talk:Ravivundavalli I have been nominated for OSGeo Board by professor Venkatesh Raghavan, and I will strive my best to promote OSGeo aims. Cheers V.Ravi Kumar P.S: Ravivundavalli is my User Id while V.Ravi Kumar is my formal name. - Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results
Hi All, My Congratulations to all the newly elected board members. Hope the OSGeo board will promote more vigorously development, and implementation of FOSS GIS in the world and the developing world in Particular. The ground realities of the complex needs of developing world may be given a thought. The catch 22 situation in countries like India needs a solution, by giving incentives to students and education institutes of Geo informatics alike. Cheers Ravi Kumar Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Grass to Indian languages
Hi Markus, the Free Software Foundation, which has representation in OSGeo India chapter is doing work in this regard. Files for Marathi and Hindi are there, but messages aren't much translated therein. Hopefully this will be covered. Cheers Ravi Kumar Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ravi, to take efforts to the concrete - do you see a chance to work on the translation of GRASS user messages to Indian languages? This is something which I/we cannot cover due to language barrier. http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php Files for Marathi and Hindi are there, but messages aren't much translated therein. A perfect task for a user since no development skills are needed! Maybe you could find people to work on this? Best Markus On 8/8/07, RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi All, My Congratulations to all the newly elected board members. Hope the OSGeo board will promote more vigorously development, and implementation of FOSS GIS in the world and the developing world in Particular. The ground realities of the complex needs of developing world may be given a thought. The catch 22 situation in countries like India needs a solution, by giving incentives to students and education institutes of Geo informatics alike. Cheers Ravi Kumar Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://osgeo.org/grass - Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS project for Pune city
Hi All, this is a commendable effort, and hopefully many other Indian cities will benefit from such work. I hope the documents of modus-operandi of this work can be released for free downloads on websites like GRASS GIS. Ravi Kumar --- rajendra jagdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Science and Technology Park has launched open source product for Urban GIS called GISDA (GIS for Dynamic administration) and now it is available for all Urban Local bodies in India. Please visit www.pcmcgisda.org.in and pl give your comments/suggestions. Rajendra Dr.Rajendra Jagdale Director General Science and Technology Park (promoted by DST, Govt. of India University of Pune Pune 411007 Telefax: +91-20-25699206/25693449 On 08/08/07, RAVI KUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Markus, the Free Software Foundation, which has representation in OSGeo India chapter is doing work in this regard. Files for Marathi and Hindi are there, but messages aren't much translated therein. Hopefully this will be covered. Cheers Ravi Kumar *Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: Hi Ravi, to take efforts to the concrete - do you see a chance to work on the translation of GRASS user messages to Indian languages? This is something which I/we cannot cover due to language barrier. http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php Files for Marathi and Hindi are there, but messages aren't much translated therein. A perfect task for a user since no development skills are needed! Maybe you could find people to work on this? Best Markus On 8/8/07, RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi All, My Congratulations to all the newly elected board members. Hope the OSGeo board will promote more vigorously development, and implementation of FOSS GIS in the world and the developing world in Particular. The ground realities of the complex needs of developing world may be given a thought. The catch 22 situation in countries like India needs a solution, by giving incentives to students and education institutes of Geo informatics alike. Cheers Ravi Kumar Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://osgeo.org/grass -- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48256/*http://travel.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFhN2hucjlpBF9TAzk3NDA3NTg5BHBvcwM1BHNlYwNncm91cHMEc2xrA2VtYWlsLW5jbQ--on Yahoo! Travel. ___ OSGeo_discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/mailman/listinfo/osgeo_discuss -- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India
Hi, If not for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, the GRASS mirror site in India, would not have been hosted Rightly said. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, is a shining example of usage and spread of FOSS GIS in India. Infact this publication (2004 FOSS GIS Seminar, Bakgkok) was very inspiring. Geographic Resources Decision Support System for land use, land cover dynamics analysis Dr. Ramachandra T.V. Uttam Kumar, CES, Indian Institute of Science http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/ The IISc also added GRDSS a GIS to the FOSS GIS arsenal. Hope this will not remain as one of those rare examples, and other educational institutes will follow and benefit from FOSS GIS. Ravi Kumar --- Sudhira H S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to clarify on one aspect relating to GIS in educational institutes. If not for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, the GRASS mirror site in India http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/grass/index.php would not have been hosted. Besides I personally know couple of my friends here who are using QGIS and GRASS. Indeed for the last couple of training programmes on GIS and Remote Sensing delivered here, we used QGIS (with GRASS plug-in) for the lab sessions and we did away with MapInfo as well! Regards, Sudhira GIS in educational institutes: Markus Neteler visited and did some work with Anna University Chennai, in early nineties, and they still show GRASS GIS in their syllabus. But unfortunately there are no takers. There are more than a hundred (an approximation) institutes and universities in India that offer courses in Geomatics, Remotesensing, including the IITs( top educational institutes of the land). All of them teach proprietary GIS (ARC and ERDAS) and image processing software. The reason, they are driven by the industry's needs, and it is a fact that jobs are there for those well versed in proprietary software. -- Research Scholar, Ph.D., Department of Management Studies and Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, Karnataka State, INDIA ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo_discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India
http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and other FOSS GIS software. True to a large extent, but there are some nice exceptions. NIC Chennai, pioneers in using open source for webserving maps. They are also actively evangelising FOSS GIS through participation in OSGeo India chapter. There is another effort in India GRAM++ http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm; This is a wonderful effort by IIT Mumbai, with active support from Department of Science and Technology. It will set a welcome trend in India if it is released as Open-Source, and also will assure a continuity for the software unlike those developed earlier (by Isro etc). As an example, ITC Holland has assured ILWIS it's GIS a continued life by joining the Opensource domain.This is one of the most welcoming developments for the Opensource community. Even 'IDRISI', a product from educational institute (http://www.clarklabs.org/), hopefully will follow suite. The GISDA of Pune-Chindwaramunicipal corporation is a much awaited development, and releasing documentation of the effort will encourage more such efforts. If the data generated for GRASS, Qgis and PostGIS, is released, It will immensely benifit, the FOSS GIS community in India. GIS tools vs GIS label: GIS is more of a principles, of technology and it should not be labeled with any proprietory product. GIS datasets derived from any software Open Source or even proprietory can be used across platforms, and are indipendant to a large extent.Emphasis is to be on GIS tools and principles, and not on GIS brand labels. Ravi Kumar H.S.Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/07, Arup Dasgupta wrote: No body wants to touch OSS because it is perceived to be a nerd thing/ not useful/ not maintainable/etc. Can there be possibility of following for perceiving such things: a) Lack of confidence/competency b) Getting few events sponsored from vendors c) co mission http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and other FOSS GIS software. There is another effort in India GRAM++ http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/gram++/Grampp_GIS.htm and there may be more such efforts (including NIC's), but problem is they are neither co-ordinating among themselves, nor their products are FREE and / or Opensource. We just want to use FOSS software at the most, but don't release our own developed software as FOSS. So we unable make use of benefits of FOSS. efforts. You can ask Dadhwal what happened to ISROGIS, ISROVISION, SIPS and GeoSpace. If ISRO, NIC, IITB and other such organisations join hands and try to use and refine existing FOSS software, then things can change dramatically, India can save billions of rupees, but at at the cost of loss to software vendors ;-) -- H.S.Rai === ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity
Hi all, all that has happened is, for the benefit of developing world, where GIS hitherto has limited itself to the glass facades of multinational companies, and is only meant for those who can afford. The Pune exercise is one of the pioneer effort in this direction http://pcmcgisda.org.in/node/gisda The OSGeo-India is promoting GIS projects under consideration for other cities, Example: Rajahmundry city, A.P. Cheers Ravi Kumar Gavin Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An excellent book that tells the FOSS story and explores its value propositions and business models is 'The Success of Open Source' by Steven Weber, who writes from the perspective of an 'outsider', a political scientist. Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Kishor Sent: 29 August 2007 05:40 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity Very well written Howard. In tribute to your writing, I will promptly snitch some ideas from your writing below. I have been tackling this issue of selling open geospatial, particularly to agencies for whom generally financial cost is a non-issue. I try to tell them that in most classes open source is the best-of-class technologies no matter what yardstick you measure it against. The defining characteristic, of course, is the mob-intelligence quotient. But how do you measure the quality of knowledge produced collaboratively? There is no gross salary number that can be divided by the staff hours. There is no cash-flow, free money, ROE of the contributors... there is return on investment that can be measured, but usually only after the investment. SLOCs (source line of code) is one measure, but in the world which strives to write as few lines of code to accomplish a task, usually a measure of better software, fewer SLOC would actually be a better indicator of the quality. If someone can condense the qualities of open source to a sound-bite, that would be great, but I have been unable to do so. I find that there is a story behind open source, and that story takes time telling, particularly to those who are not familiar with it. For that, one needs to cultivate relationships so folks can become willing to give their time to listen to the story. I have been shaping my story along the lines of technology, law, and culture. Open source, unlike other forms of knowledge-production, has innovated along all of these three axes... novel forms of technologies created through novel forms of technologies, innovative legal regimes that are continuously evolving participatively, and a culture, an ethos, that fundamentally believes that sharing is better than not sharing. On 8/29/07, Howard Butler wrote: Open source software works because people acting in their own self interest have the auxiliary benefit of helping everyone in the project. Report your pet bug, file a patch, add a new feature -- all of these things immediately help you, but ultimately help the project. This activity also imparts tangential benefits that are very hard to quantify but can be clearly important like personal visibility, credibility, and status. For an open source software project to be viable as a development entity, it must be able to bestow these benefits to its individual contributors. Everyone's reasons may be different, but people must be able to receive a return on their sweat equity that they put in or volunteer effort will not continue to flow into a project. I think that recognition and facilitation of this symbiosis is a blind spot for OSGeo. We should be striving to ensure that it can take place because we are a volunteer organization whose members have common goals. Wait a second? Isn't OSGeo an Autodesk thing with lots of money? How is it a volunteer organization? Most of OSGeo's measurable successes to date have been volunteer efforts, not primarily financially-backed ones. The OSGeo Journal effort, Google Summer of Code administration, the Geodata committee's efforts, and even much of our system administration to keep the lights on for developer tools like Subversion/Trac have been volunteer enterprises (please help flesh out this list, these are only those I am most aware of, I know there have been many others). However, I think financial resources, both in the capacity to generate sponsorship money and the ability to spend it wisely, are what provides the opportunity to set OSGeo apart and provide the volunteerism leverage. When Autodesk came in and helped bootstrap OSGeo, it was fairly clear that our financial existence would not be an indefinite expenditure -- we would have to exist on our own. Additionally, to meet 503c3 requirements, we cannot have a situation where we have a majority benefactor as we do now. We're almost two years down the road into bootstrapping, and our majority benefactor situation has budged very little. As far as I know, our only significant incoming
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G and conservation
The Biodiversity project of India is going to use Opensource GIS for implementing GIS, using their tabulated data. OSGeo India has plans to help the same. Ravi Kumar Sean Gillies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ned Horning wrote: Frank Warmerdam wrote: I'd like to see OSGeo support socially relavent organizations in use of open source software This is along the lines of what I'm working on so I figure this is a good time to chime in to get feedback. I'm involved in a discussion between the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) and the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) to enhance an international Conservation GIS training program sponsored by SCGIS. The SCGIS has a scholarship program that brings international conservation practitioners to the States to receive ESRI training, ESRI software, attend the ESRI conference, and sometimes get free hardware. It is a great program but it's costly and only meets a fraction of the demand. In principle having an SCB/SCGIS partnership is a good idea but it shouldn't be ESRI-centric. I talked about OSGeo and this seemed to raise some interest (curiosity?) but I sense skepticism. The (inaccurate) perception that ESRI will donate software to any conservation group, largely negating advantages of FOSS4G, doesn't help. The SCB has over 10,000 members and I think this could be a great opportunity for OSGeo to increase global exposure and possibly use it to solicit grant money to support training and software development around the world. SCGIS has a small international network of user groups that can be used to expand this program and I'm trying to figure out if OSGeo could help build a similar or partnered network for open source offerings. The OSGeo education committee members are creating course materials that will be leveraged for this conservation-focused training. I addition to that we need to develop a network of trainers. How much interest is there among the OSGeo community/user groups to support and provide conservation-focused geospatial training? I'd like to hear from anyone but I'm particularly interested in hearing from people with connections outside of North America. Distance learning methods would help overcome the problem of distributing this training globally but there is a strong interest in sponsoring in-person workshops in addition to on-line offerings. Our group at the AMNH is working on addressing both of these needs. Any feedback is appreciated. All the best, Ned Ned, I accidentally attended the SCGIS summer camp in 2005. I was visiting Mike Hamilton, Director of the James Reserve and SCGIS activist, who often hosts this thing. He's very interested in open source, and I think he'd be happy to add open source to the camp syllabus if the attendees wanted it. If you're not already in contact with Mike, you should give him a call. His ESRI partners, of course, had zero interest in open source, but this might have changed a bit over the past 2 years. Cheers, Sean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Steps To Creating A Simple Vector Based GIS (Using FOSS...Of Course)
Well, all the Open Source GIS, like GRASS, Qgis, OpqnJUMP etc have their code for download. GRASS has a programmers guide (or of sorts).. will it not be of help. Ravi Kumar Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was a good tutorial or article about creating a simple vector-based GIS using FOSS? I dont want something too software specific. Im really looking for something that covers the basic principles. Im starting a new vector-based GIS for a volunteer group and I was hoping to find some vendor-neutral material in this area. Ive been using the Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling Book by ESRI when I decided it would be nice to have a tutorial for people who decide to design their first GIS outside of ESRIs world. I made an outline for such a document or tutorial which you can find here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df5nfmf8_30rvgj7j I thought that I would try to review other material on the subject, if there was any, before I write the article. I appreciate any references or suggestions. Landon (A.K.A. The Sunburned Surveyor) P.S. Im going to shoot this off to the Geowanking list as well. Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OpenStreet Maps
Good idea. Open HIS enthusiasts can make a difference like this. Ravi Kumar H.S.Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lot many efforts are being undertaken by various agencies, individuals to generate FLOSS software and to create data related to places. But I found very little such data, belonging to Asian countries, available on openstreetmap.org Why we are not using this great facility, being offered by this site. Even Yahoo images (and I found these images much better than Google's, at least for Ludhiana city of Punjab, India) may be used to create map, even if we don't have GPS. Let us upload GPS data, and other data created by us to this server to make community map. -- H.S.Rai === ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Street maps for India
Note: forwarded message attached. - Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. ---BeginMessage--- Good idea. Open GIS enthusiasts can make a difference like this. Ravi Kumar H.S.Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lot many efforts are being undertaken by various agencies, individuals to generate FLOSS software and to create data related to places. But I found very little such data, belonging to Asian countries, available on openstreetmap.org Why we are not using this great facility, being offered by this site. Even Yahoo images (and I found these images much better than Google's, at least for Ludhiana city of Punjab, India) may be used to create map, even if we don't have GPS. Let us upload GPS data, and other data created by us to this server to make community map. -- H.S.Rai - Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.---End Message--- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] arcGIS and Grass compatibility
Hi are the users willing or wanting to do that move? do they have experience (or even training) in GRASS for the 'Indian scene', moving to FOSS GIS is the only way GIS can help at all levels. http://www.covenant-tech.com/thesis.pdf pl follow the link above Cheers Ravi Kumar Jacolin Yves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Friday 14 September 2007 02:08:35 Paulo Marcondes, vous avez écrit : 2007/9/13, k4mik4ze : Hello, I would like to know everything about migration proyects from arcGIS to Grass, can i create a web interface so users in a department can access all GIS data? Can i migrate arcGIS data to grass? Thanks First, you have to know : why would you want to do such a move? are the users willing or wanting to do that move? do they have experience (or even training) in GRASS do they have with linux/unix? do you have experience with linux/unix? Reading all those migration strategies from windows to linux might help too. As for the second question: yes you can _access_ your GIS data over the web, see, e.g. MapServer. With some PyWPS magic is possible to even process some data with GRASS over the web. For the third, with a little help from GDAL/OGR, it may be possible to migrate your data, but that I'll leave to more seasoned people here. Hi, You can find some useful tips on this page [1]. At the bottom of it, there are some informations about ArcGIS/Grass migration. Hope this help, Y. [1] http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_migration_hints -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] UN's program..: ESRI and cities mapping
Hi all, It is unfortunate that United Nations nearly advocates Proprietory GIS. Time we react to this. The developing world is already throwing billions into un-sustainable Proprietory GIS for various GIS jobs. Fope the FOSS4G will discuss this and send a memorandum to UN.. ww2.unhttp://habitat.org/guonet/gis.asp Cheers Ravi Kumar - Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GIS for Rajahmundry City, Andhra Pradesh India
Hi All, the India chapter is actively persuing a GIS project for the City of Rajahmundry. We would like to have interaction with others who have taken up such projects for small cities. We have the following plans. 1. Satellite data for a. Land use and Land management b. Urban parcel mapping c. Urban drainage and mitigation of pollution 2. Generation of Vector data a. Vector data for all the satellite themes and attribution b. Queries for effective urban planning in Planning trafic policing Fire stations (presention) Slum identification and poverty alleviation Any suggestions to help a small developing world city through Open Source GIS.. Cheers Ravi Kumar Tamas Szekeres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/30, Paul Spencer : What do others think about this? Should OSGeo be in the business of helping new OSGeo projects get off the ground? Absolutely. That could allow the identities to focus on establishing the core funcionality much easier without having to bother with creating the infrastructure behind that. Furthermore I have the following additions/considerations according to the responsibilities of the OSGeo from this aspect: 1. OSGeo might establish the possibility to accept new project plans in a well formaized manner. 2. OSGeo should form a committe (or extend the roles of the incubation committe or the role of the charter members) to decide whether a project plan will possibly have a fair amount of interest regarding to the functionality and technology it has. I personally would prefer if a wider range of the community would be involved. 3. OSGeo should provide the necessary infrastucture for the project initiatives so that they could proceed in approaching a stable project state (an estimated plan with the milestones should also be gathered) 4. OGGeo would use some measures around whether the project is making a good progress and the community around that is somewhat increasing. 5. The neglected projects are to be declared as obsolete by the OSGeo (by using a voting process). 6. The project initiatives having a stable release could apply for starting the incubation process for getting the OSGeo officially supported state. More comments: - OSGeo should continue to officially support only the incubated projects having a fairly considerable community around each and possibly continue to be supported in the future as well. - As the number of the projects is increasing OSGeo should start providing a better categorization between the projects and their functionalities/technologies for guiding the new users to make the selection easier an find the differences between them in connection with the desired specifications they have. - Project duplicates should be avoided, new incremental functionalities should be stirred towards the existing projects as much as possible. Best regards, Tamas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2007 Annual Report - your involvement
Hi Tyler, OSGeo-India is a hub of activity. I have earlier reported about our endeavour upto July-2007. Since then so much is done. I will offer an article on behalf of OSGeo India soon for journal-4. Cheers Ravi Kumar Jacolin Yves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wednesday 09 January 2008 08:42:49 Paolo Cavallini, vous avez écrit : Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) ha scritto: Hi everyone, To sum up the activity of our first full year, the board has asked me to help coordinate production of an annual report. The report is aimed at capturing information from the whole spectrum of OSGeo committees, local chapters and projects -- which has grown into a really long list. Hi Tyler. We as it chapter are surely interested in helping with the report. All the best. pc Hi Tyler, I have planned to write a report for the OSGeo Journal Vol 4. Where is it the best place for a report : annual report only, journal only, both of them ? I could write a 2007 overview of the Francophone Local Chapter for the Annual Report and another one (2008 focus) for the journal. Best regard, Y. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library
Hi all, among the OS GIS we are trying Map Layouts especially for Geoscience 1. using OpenJUMP where in tools are present for rotating Geological structural symbols. We have even printed to judge the accuracy of scale. 2. Shape file to SVG is a convenient option to color the final output in Inkscape. putting all the options together on a WIKI will be splendid. Cheers Ravi Kumar Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to group some of discussion into various components that I think are being discussed all at once: 8.1 Style Layout Configuration Standards 8.2 Graphical Style Layout Editor 8.3 Graphical Map Composition Editor 8.4 Rendering Engine 8.5 Libraries I'm personally less interested in the GUI side than I am about standards and the rendering engine that understands those standards. Does this fit the initial vision you are presenting Markus? Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?
Hi, this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS. ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS. Auto Complete Polygon: In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you have 'Cut polygon', do try and find the difference. Polygonising from lines: Open JUMP has one of the most userfriendly approaches. Create lines and polygonise in OpenJUMP and the software automatically creates a folder for Dangles (un-wanted line pieces) The query is more for Vector GIS, I suppose. GRASS GIS: It has so many features for Image analysis and Raster GIS, the commercial GIS need a barge pole to even touch it. The vector Part of GRASS is robust too. Ravi Kumar Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva wrote: ... One thing GIS OS software could have are better editing tools. I do miss them alot, and the one is ArcGIS are unbeatable (i dont know any O.S. software that have 'autocomplete polygon', tons of snapping options, etc - btw, if you do, let me know). FOSS is great, but it lacks (IMHO) better editing options. We are working on that: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Screenshots: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/gui.php - wxPython (new GUI) You can try out the prototype in GRASS 6.3.0 (released yesterday): http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html Get MacOSX, Linux and now even native MS-Windows binaries with *installer* at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php#g63x Enjoy Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?
Hi Cameron, the table of comparison is informative. Most of the ARC-GIS users (my personal view) are Vector GIS users. They are concerned of 1. Registration of Paper maps into GIS 2. Attribution 3. Analysis depending on their need. CAD 4. Outputs of the above are also to be plotted in elegant maps with proper symbology and standard colors. As an OSGeo enthusiast I recommend a cocktail of OS GIS software mix. OpenJUMP and Qgis for steps Qgis 1 to 3 Qgis and GRASS for advanced analysis GRASS for statistical analysis with R OpenJUMP and Inkscape for step 4. As a geologist I get oriented structures properly symbolised and rotated (possible in OpenJUMP) Am making some notes and soon wish to offer for downloading through GRASS and OpenJUMP websites. Ravi Kumar Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ravi, What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents. What is it about ArcView and ArcGIS that people really like, listed feature by feature in a table. Then identify whether Open Source covers it and how. Very important is to address usability. How quickly can an Arc* user migrate to Open Source? My skill set is lacking here as I don't have much experience in either ESRI or the Open Source desktop tools. It seems like you have experience with both which puts you in a unique position. Is this something you, or one of your students would like to investigate further? Maybe build a table similar to this one: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi, this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS. ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS. Auto Complete Polygon: In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you have 'Cut polygon', do try and find the difference. Polygonising from lines: Open JUMP has one of the most userfriendly approaches. Create lines and polygonise in OpenJUMP and the software automatically creates a folder for Dangles (un-wanted line pieces) The query is more for Vector GIS, I suppose. GRASS GIS: It has so many features for Image analysis and Raster GIS, the commercial GIS need a barge pole to even touch it. The vector Part of GRASS is robust too. Ravi Kumar */Markus Neteler /* wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva wrote: ... One thing GIS OS software could have are better editing tools. I do miss them alot, and the one is ArcGIS are unbeatable (i dont know any O.S. software that have 'autocomplete polygon', tons of snapping options, etc - btw, if you do, let me know). FOSS is great, but it lacks (IMHO) better editing options. We are working on that: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Screenshots: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/gui.php - wxPython (new GUI) You can try out the prototype in GRASS 6.3.0 (released yesterday): http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html Get MacOSX, Linux and now even native MS-Windows binaries with *installer* at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php#g63x Enjoy Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Auto complete in Open Jump. OS GIS vs ESRI
Hi all, here is some encouraging information from OJ Cheers Ravi Kumar Note: forwarded message attached. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.---BeginMessage--- Send jump-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of jump-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? (Stefan Steiniger) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:32:01 -0600 From: Stefan Steiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [jump-users] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? To: JUMP Users Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed btw. OpenJUMPs Nightly Build has also an Auto-Complete Polygon tool, now. From a personal stand point I think OpenJUMPs editing capabilities for Vector data are very good and straight forward. What we don't - in comparison to ESRI ArcGIS is something like the tracing function. Stefan RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi Cameron, the table of comparison is informative. Most of the ARC-GIS users (my personal view) are Vector GIS users. They are concerned of 1. Registration of Paper maps into GIS 2. Attribution 3. Analysis depending on their need. CAD 4. Outputs of the above are also to be plotted in elegant maps with proper symbology and standard colors. As an OSGeo enthusiast I recommend a cocktail of OS GIS software mix. OpenJUMP and Qgis for steps Qgis 1 to 3 Qgis and GRASS for advanced analysis GRASS for statistical analysis with R OpenJUMP and Inkscape for step 4. As a geologist I get oriented structures properly symbolised and rotated (possible in OpenJUMP) Am making some notes and soon wish to offer for downloading through GRASS and OpenJUMP websites. Ravi Kumar */Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Ravi, What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents. What is it about ArcView and ArcGIS that people really like, listed feature by feature in a table. Then identify whether Open Source covers it and how. Very important is to address usability. How quickly can an Arc* user migrate to Open Source? My skill set is lacking here as I don't have much experience in either ESRI or the Open Source desktop tools. It seems like you have experience with both which puts you in a unique position. Is this something you, or one of your students would like to investigate further? Maybe build a table similar to this one: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi, this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS. ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS. Auto Complete Polygon: In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you have 'Cut polygon', do try and find the difference. Polygonising from lines: Open JUMP has one of the most userfriendly approaches. Create lines and polygonise in OpenJUMP and the software automatically creates a folder for Dangles (un-wanted line pieces) The query is more for Vector GIS, I suppose. GRASS GIS: It has so many features for Image analysis and Raster GIS, the commercial GIS need a barge pole to even touch it. The vector Part of GRASS is robust too. Ravi Kumar */Markus Neteler /* wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva wrote: ... One thing GIS OS software could have are better editing tools. I do miss them alot, and the one is ArcGIS are unbeatable (i dont know any O.S. software that have 'autocomplete polygon', tons of snapping options, etc - btw, if you do, let me know). FOSS is great, but it lacks (IMHO) better editing options. We are working on that: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Screenshots: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/gui.php
[OSGeo-Discuss] Jump into OSGeo
Hi, have been following the very positive correspondence for OpenJUMP joining OSGeo. Here in India GRASS and OpenJUMP are the most used among Open Source GIS, in various universities. This endeavor is a result of the roadshows conducted by OSGeo India chapter in various universities. The entire community waits eagerly to see OpenJUMP join OSGeo. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation
Hi All, some new blood is added to the OSGeo charter members, and now we are poised to get new board members too. If one can remember, there was a discussion on the geographical representation of the board members after the last election. It is pertinent to have a global representation of OSGeo board members. I hope the election to Board members will yield results that will represent a global interest of OSGeo. In spite of the fact that internet is nearly erasing the political boundaries, still in countries like India, Geospatial technologies are yet to make a mark in semi-urban and rural societies. OSGeo Coding verses OSGeo software usage(ratio): Unlike the developed world where the ratio is evenly matched or slightly tilted towards users, in India it is very highly tilted towards OSGeo software usage. So the priorities are different in promoting OSGeo. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board nomination
Hi All, Its a pleasure to nominate this dedicated environmentalist on OSGeo board who is also probably one of the first to use GRASS GIS in India. Name : S. NARENDRA PRASAD, Ph.D Secretory , OSGeo India chapter Designation : Senior Principal Scientist Head Address : Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Deccan Regional station, 12-13-588/B, Nagarjuna Nagar Colony Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500017 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date of Birth : 14.08.1951 Nationality : Indian His involvement in use and institution wide adoption of Open source geospatial tools began in 1991. He was responsible to introduce GRASS on Sun workstation for the GIS cell of wild life Institute of India, Dehra Dun, India. Infact, using Grass, Environmental Impacts of major River valley project was analyzed by a group of researchers between 1992-94 and several other research projects of wild life institute of India. Subsequently, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore, an interface was developed in Grass to read the raster files of the Indian Remote Sensing satellite data .This experience has resulted in an ongoing work at IISc wherein one of the GRASS mirror site is up and functioning. The most recent and extensive involvement began with the use of ILWIS, Open Jump and GRASS. In an extensively collaborated project namely 'Rajahmundry City (A.P), GIS', on showcasing potential applications of using Osseo tools was successfully completed. The stakeholders of this project included law makers, administrators spanning a wide range of disciplines. The use of open source web GIS tools for wetland conservation has been initiated by him, and is the first and perhaps the only Environmental Information System of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. A number of capacity building, awareness and other educational and outreach activities were conducted with the colleagues of the Osseo India chapter for a number of users His future plans include a much wider introduction of the osgeotools in a large geographical area focusing on environmental applications. Cheers V.Ravi Kumar Charter Member OSGeo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Globalisation
Hi All, been noting the mail exchange on Global representation of OSGeo Board. I totally agree with friends who have expressed that location is not of great concern. But may I present some situations where in, being present in the area of interest is quite crucial. To promote freely available geodata: OSGeo India , has completed a Project in a second tier town and, we are placing this as free data on the web. To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry We are encouraging people to take up indic translation of the front-end of the software and customisation, such that; Ex: The sanitary department can just use a customised OpenGIS (Say GRASS) to take his decissions than learn the entire gamut of GIS. To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support. OSGeo India has trained the students of Geoinformatics in actually making the GIS data sets. Now the institute is going to teach Open GIS, for its students. I doubt if it is possible to plan all this, without being near abouts at the least. For a local chapter to be on the OSGeo board: This can defnitely add to their self esteem, if not any thing else. Some of the highlited lines are actually picked from OSGeo Goals. Cheers Ravi Kumar P.S: OSGeo GoalsThe following more detailed goals support the overall mission: To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure, funding, legal. To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data. To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - eg. PR, training, outreach. To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects. To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build and preserve the foundation brand. To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - eg. binary stack builds, cross package documentation. To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support. To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on different language (eg. Java/C/Python) and operating system (eg. Win32, Unix, MacOS) platforms. To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide community through internationalization of software and community outreach. To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (eg. EOGEO). To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Globalisation
Hi Markus, the Free Software Foundation, helps us in this regard. They have done a good amount but not enough to bench-mark it. I will again do some cajoling, and we will try to even if possible fund it, but now for the Rajahmundry data set, it is the next step. Cheers Ravi Kumar Markus Neteler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ravi, On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:38 PM, RAVI KUMAR wrote: ... We are encouraging people to take up indic translation of the front-end of the software and customisation, such that; Ex: The sanitary department can just use a customised OpenGIS (Say GRASS) to take his decissions than learn the entire gamut of GIS. please let me know about progress here: GRASS translation to indic languages! Any efforts ongoing? Thanks Markus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Jump User survey : OSGeo India
Hi All, at OSGeo the Indian chapter Open Jump is the most used and evangelised software along with GRASS GIS. 1. It is used as a GIS that can be spread to the beginner and expert alike. 2. We have a mock exercise 'Locating a site for a Nuclear power plant', using a set of layers, which endears GIS to the user. 3. Project with OpenJUMP: For the parliamentary constituency of Rajahmundry we have used GRASS, OpenJUMP and ILWIS extensively. This is going to be presented at FOSS4G 2008. 4. OpenJUMP + PostGIS For Geologists we teach 'Mineral Prognostication', with Mock Exercise data which has become very popular. 5. OpenJUMP + Inkscape For Geologists to make cartographic outputs acceptable in standard formats. Thanks to the 'Vertex symbols plugin' and Printer plugin.. OpenJUMP is THE GIS for Geological maps. Mock Exercises: Soon would like to add the mock exercises freely down loadable. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Fri, 7/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: jump-users Digest, Vol 54, Issue 2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 12:31 AM Send jump-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of jump-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. June OpenJUMP User Survey To Close Friday (Sunburned Surveyor) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:55:07 -0700 From: Sunburned Surveyor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [jump-users] June OpenJUMP User Survey To Close Friday To: OpenJump develop and use [EMAIL PROTECTED],JUMP Users Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've had 14 responses to our June OpenJUMP user survey so far. I think the number of responses have slowed down. I'm going to close the survey on Friday morning. I'll try to get the results posted Friday afternoon. If you want to participate in the survey please do so before Friday morning. Thanks, The Sunburned Surveyor -- ___ jump-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users End of jump-users Digest, Vol 54, Issue 2 * ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation
Hi All One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a sort of global council. +1 for this Gobal representation in OSGeo and the above initiative are welcome. Ravi Kumar --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10:22 PM On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote: On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with the usual free software values, rather than a geographic representation. Of course having elected people from all over the world should be a sign that FOSS4G is spreading and OSGeo is getting more and more broader. Since there are only a few open positions for board elections each year, it will take some time to see any long term movement in representation either way. In addition to to merits and commitment I would also add vision to the list of positive attributes for board members. One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a sort of global council. This doesn't have to be a new or separate mailing list, but could be. Just having a group to go to for sharing thoughts, ideas and vision would be really valuable. Sound good? Tyler Yes. I didn't want to let this pass uncommented. But yet again I was too elaborate and thus moved it to my emerging http://arnulf.us/Blog Arnulf, I'd love to syndicate your blog on the Planet OSGeo, however I'm having troubles with getting clean and usable RSS/Atom entries :-( Perhaps you wouldn't mind to fix it? Certainly, my request is valid only if you would like to get syndicated :-) Ciao -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ 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] OSGeo India 3 day workshop
Hi All, OSGeo India chapter is holding a 3 day workshop at Pune, India. Pl visit this site for details. http://www.iiit.ac.in/~rajan/OSGeo_pune/ Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat
Hi, good work at GRASS routes. India is just waiting for this kind of projects where GIS can help the billions. Please send me a personal mail with details, possibly with some scxreen shots. For OSGeo India we have done work for Rajahmundry MP constituency. On behalf of OSGeo India we have a 3 day event at Pune and will be great to site your example. Keep it up Ravi Kumar Joint Secretory OSGeo India chapter --- On Sat, 8/23/08, നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1:11 AM Hai, Let me introduce my work to the list:- http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/resources/ Hope, I can hear valuable suggestions. It is hosted on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch server. It was my main project during my M.Sc. course in last semester, and I decided to do this because I wanted to do something useful for the panchayat - my first employer :) (Panchayats are the rural local authorities in India, just like Municipalities - the urban thing.) My course is just finished. I developed this thing, on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch system using GRASS GIS, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Quantum GIS, UMN MapServer, ka-Map etc. Coded in MapScript and php. All are Free/Open Source things. I want to expand this to the entire district with some added query modules, such as shortest route to a place, maximum coverage for some areas, flood risk analysis etc, to make it a complete plan-development support system. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·*Jaisen.*..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ ) ¸.·)´ (.·´ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ 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] Resource viewer for grama panchayat
Hi, one more thing.. Your name is shown as '' in email which may prompt users to SPAM it. Pl correct this. Ravi --- On Sat, 8/23/08, നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1:11 AM Hai, Let me introduce my work to the list:- http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/resources/ Hope, I can hear valuable suggestions. It is hosted on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch server. It was my main project during my M.Sc. course in last semester, and I decided to do this because I wanted to do something useful for the panchayat - my first employer :) (Panchayats are the rural local authorities in India, just like Municipalities - the urban thing.) My course is just finished. I developed this thing, on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch system using GRASS GIS, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Quantum GIS, UMN MapServer, ka-Map etc. Coded in MapScript and php. All are Free/Open Source things. I want to expand this to the entire district with some added query modules, such as shortest route to a place, maximum coverage for some areas, flood risk analysis etc, to make it a complete plan-development support system. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·*Jaisen.*..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ ) ¸.·)´ (.·´ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ 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] ESRI and OSGeo
Hi, a view from the developing world like India, is that 1. we encourage GIS first. GIS can give the much needed transparency by showing the truth. 2. GIS can be done in various ways, using both Open Software as well as Prop-Com software like ESRI. 3. Translation into other languages is easier and cost effective using Open GIS. 4. Security is much better using OS GNU-Linux. 3. It is a choice to be made by the user, which software for what.. It is only natural for Prop-Com software to fall in line with the emerging trends. A booth at Sydney if not become a sponsor itself, is an iota of wisdom in the right direction. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Miguel Montesinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Miguel Montesinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 3:08 AM De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Patton Enviado el: sáb 18/10/2008 18:22 Para: OSGeo Discussions Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident On 2008/10/17 12:15 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: Hi All, I resend this mail to OSGeo discuss because I think is a serious incident that cannot be obviated and shows how things are getting at least in Spanish market. As Alvaro says, why they have this behavior with his colleagues? Maybe they fear FOSS companies? Anyway, all of you are invited to the gvSIG conf, even to discuss, it's free in both senses ;) ESRI was a sponsor at FOSS4G 2007, and had a Lab. Who knows, maybe they will be involved somehow in FOSS4G 2009(for sure they won't be excluded just because they are viewed as competition for FOSS). Viewed as competition for FOSS - Well, they say (I asked about it at ESRI's booth during both FOSS4G 2007 2008) that they have made some contributions to open-source, as the openness of shapefile format or offering WMS servers. :-D Perhaps they can have a booth in the exhibition (and maybe gvSIG wants to have a booth right next to the ESRI booth ;-) For sure FOSS4G ESRI's attendees are much more polite (and clever) than their Spanish collegues. Maybe it would be wiser to make a request for a booth in the world annual ESRI's conference (I don't know nor want to, the exact name). Would they admit a FOSS4G booth (it doesn't matter which project could be) as we make at FOSS4G? It would be funny to see an OSGeo booth showing the integration capabilities of OSGeo projects against ESRI closed products, or even a comparison. -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ ___ 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] OSGeo The China event
Hi All, the OSGeo China event going to be held going to be held may please be explained on the following points as this will certainly add to info for others. 1. What are the Open GIS lectures proposed 2. The ARC??? software mentioned, is this an exercise to bridge between Prop-Com (proprietary commercial software) and Open GIS. If 'Yes', then it is very interesting, and details may please be provided. Wish the event the best, and hope it will add to the capacity building of OSGeo. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?
I await eagerly Ravi Kumar --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Andrew Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? To: 'OSGeo Discussions' discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:11 AM Hi Everyone, Thank you for the great posts and discussion! I'm thinking given the interest, it may be time to create a separate mailing list for each of the OpenGeocoder and OpenRouter initiatives. If no one disagrees, we'll do this and I'll share the lists here so people can 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 response to this post. I'd like to poll everyone's thoughts regarding the appropriate next steps. It seems to me we have good support for this initiative. It isn't as clear to me yet what the best way forward is. My instincts are leaning towards spending time to capture requirements, identify key use cases, and crucial standards. The thinking is that with this information captured, we're in a better position to review the implementations available to identify which candidates are best positioned to satisfy those needs. I would like to echo Andrew Turner's comments that we're focusing on API's that can be used offline rather than a web service. (though it's good to see great web service projects out there!) Input, thoughts, feedback are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Andrew 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 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 in the section you are interested in. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenRouter There are experts out there that are far more knowledgeable about Geocoding and Routing than I am. To these good people: please feel empowered to make modifications, provide feedback in whatever way you feel most comfortable. Thanks, Andrew___ 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] ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
Hi, This is a nice development by ICA. pl give location of this information (website). Would like INCA (the Indian counterpart of ICA) informed about this. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Suchith Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Suchith Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:29 PM Hi All, The International Cartographic Association's Executive Committee http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/ica/ has approved the establishment of Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at its meeting last week in Chile. The Open Source Geospatial Technologies Working Group aims to promote multi-national holistic research in open source geospatial technologies in order to make accessible the latest developments in open source tools to the wider cartographic community. The WG attempts to enhance the usage of open source geospatial tools among the cartographic community worldwide, especially for education. Finally, the working group will promote the usage of professional and technical standards (ISO TC 211, OGC) for the development of open source geospatial software. Working group membership is open to all interested parties and we aim for representation by as many countries. Promotional strategies of the working group include regular e-mails to members, meetings, conferences, workshops, promotion of geospatial standards and publications. Terms of Reference - Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies 1. To promote the widespread use of open source geospatial software 2. To provide support for the use of open source geospatial software in education through relevant publications 3. To organise conferences, workshops and training sessions for open source geospatial technologies 4. To organise special lectures and demonstrations on open source geospatial technologies 5. To make open source geospatial software more accessible to end users 6. To serve as a network for ICA members interested in open source geospatial technologies by the use of mailing lists, wiki etc 7. Through collaboration with other ICA commissions and working groups promote coordination with different open source geospatial organisations (eg. Open Source Geospatial Foundation) and developer communities. 8. Develop and keep updated the working group's website to disseminate the working group activities. 9. Produce annual reports of the working group activities. ICA have adopted a policy of approving WGs on a one year approval period and within this period it is essential to prove sufficient activity and the First Open Source GIS UK Conference to be jointly organised with OSGeo UK Chapter and Open Knowledge Foundation on 22nd June 2009 at CGS, University of Nottingham will be one of the key events planned as part of the WG activities. We are inviting expressions of interest from interested people to become members of the Working Group and to help steer its activities. If interested to join the WG please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Working Group's website and mailing lists will be activated in January 2009. Please contact me for any information needed. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Top ten myths for open source in geo?
One that nags progress of OS GIS in developing world: While evangelising for OSGeo India, young students of Geoinformatics often ask me, What are the job prospects pursuing Open GIS ? . If you can, prepare a list of companies that offer jobs, and seek expertise in Open GIS. I wish the Catch22 situation in the developing world can be overcome soon. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Mobile mapping with GPS
Hi, need an online (live) input from GPS into GIS. Wish to map state of roads in a town, 1. pedaling all along with a laptop connected to a GPS. 2. Take notes at bad stretches of roads by keying attribute information. 3. Want the GIS data ready after the field work for upload into a server. Have tried some that, could use only for Off-Line data input into GIS, that is a. Go around with the GPS, collect data and scribble notes b. Connect GPS to GIS and download data, and add attribute information scribbled earlier. ThanQ in anticipation Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Case history using Hyperspectral data
Hi, pl help in locating 'Case history using Hyperspectral data', mainly for Geosciences. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: GeoTunis 2009
Hi,nice event to spread FOSSGIS in north Africa. Ravi Kumar--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Geotunis 2009 i...@geotunis.org wrote:From: Geotunis 2009 i...@geotunis.orgSubject: GeoTunis 2009To: ravivundava...@yahoo.comDate: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 10:45 PM Invitation The Tunisian association of the digital geographic information has honor to invite you for participation in the manifestation of the international congress geotunis in its fourth session on December 16/20/2009 in Tunisia. “Survey of the hydraulic resources and of desertification by using the geographic information systems, remote detection and numeric designing “ Serval of experts, specialists, researchers, companies and instition concerned with geographic information systems and remote detection will participate in the manifestations congress. For more information you can visit our web site For the major scientific themes of the congress To participate in the geo tehnology exhibition you can visit the following link In you participation support for scientific cooperation and enrich the experimental researches in the application of information systems on hydraulic resources and desertification. We invite you and see you soon. تتشرف الجمعية التونسية للاعلام الجغرافي الرقمي بدعوتكم للمشاركة في فعاليات المؤتمر الدولي جيو تونس 2009 في دورته الرابعة: "دراسة الموارد المائية و التصحر باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافيةو الاستشعارعن بعد و النمذجة الرقمية " ايام 16-20 ديسمبر 2009 بتونس العاصمة سيشارك في فعاليات المؤتمر مئات الخبراء و المختصين و الباحثين و الشركات و المؤسسات المعنية بنظم المعلومات الجغرافية و الاستشعار عن بعد و العلوم ذات العلاقة و لمزيد الاطلاع يمكنكم زيارة موقعنا على العنوان التالي: للتسجيل يمكنكم الدخول على الرابط التالي للاطلاع على المحاور العلمية الكبرى للمؤتمر يمكنكم الدخول على هذا الرابط للمشاركة في المعرض الجيوتكنولوجي يمكنكم زيارة الرابط التالي في مشاركتكم دعما لاواصر التعاون العلمي و اثراء للتجارب البحثية في ميدان تطبيقات نظم المعلومات الجغرافية و الاستشعار عن بعد والعلوم ذات العلاقة. نجدد لكم الدعوة و الى لقاء قريب L’Association Tunisienne de l’Information Géographique Numérique a l’honneur de vous inviter à la participation aux événements du symposium international GeoTunis 2009 à la quatrième session «Apport des Technologies Géomatiques dans l’étude des ressources en eau et le suivi du phénomène de la désertification» Du 16 au 20 décembre 2009 à Tunis. Tous les spécialistes, les chercheurs, les sociétés et les institutions qui en relation avec le système de l’information géographique et la télédétection et tous les sciences en relation vont participeret : Pour plus de détails, vous pouvez visiter le site sur: www.geotunis.org Pour les grands thèmes scientifiques du symposium, vous pouvez accéder à ce lien. Pour participer à l'exposition géo technologique, vous pouvez visiter ce lien Dans votre participation, il y a un soutien et enrichissement à la recherche scientifique dans le domaine des applications des systèmes d’information sur les ressources hydraulique et la désertification. رئيس الجمعية Président de l’Association Mohamed Ayari محمد العياري Se désinscrire ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Custom GIS App
Hi, What I have seen OSGeo to offer is the capability to zoom into an area and. 1. Pl visit OSGeo website to understand how we function, and the plethora of software supported by OSGeo. choose between the different area infrastructures like railways, roads etc but I'm not quite sure how to pass parameters like a suburb name, street name to an OSGeo application. 2. This is achieved by many a Open GIS Ex: GRASS, OpenJUMP etc.. 3. If you are using Microsoft Operating System (XP, Vista), I suggest for a quick learning curve, try OpenJUMP which you can download from Openjump.org. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Mon, 4/5/09, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Custom GIS App To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Monday, 4 May, 2009, 3:37 AM I am not sure you are sending this email to the correct list; OSGeo is a foundation dedicated to open source geospatial software. Are you using a specific piece of software? Jody On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Simphiwe Twala sim_p...@hotmail.com wrote: Our company currently makes use of the city's GIS Application but then we have been tasked with business on areas outside the city's GIS boundaries which means an area targeted for development needs to have new street names and roads and other infrastructure developments I have currently installed OSGeo but I'm not sure how the relevant data is stored in a database in relation to the street name, suburb and finally the actual property that the application is based on. What I have seen OSGeo to offer is the capability to zoom into an area and choose between the different area infrastructures like railways, roads etc but I'm not quite sure how to pass parameters like a suburb name, street name to an OSGeo application. kind regards Simphiwe Twala What can you do with the new Windows Live? Find out ___ 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 Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Which GPS
Hi, wish to introduce 'Mobile Mapping for administration', with open GIS in India. OpenGIS software: I find only BeeGIS and GVSIG, compatible with direct (online) data logging as well as off-line (when not surveying)possible. Will be happy to have pointers on other Open GIS software. Which GPS: wish to experiment with GPS before suggesting to the users on a combination of GPS (data logger) which can be used for collecting data and loading the same in the evening after work, on any computer. Accuracy: What are the merits I have to look for such that best possible accuracy (near equator or Latitude less than 20 Deg North). Cost: This is the most important factor, as the budget is modest. Scenario: 1. Logger Pedals, GPS in pocket set to log location every 5 seconds. 2. Note time and notes on a scribble pad in local language. (the data logger only carries the GPS, even may not be aware of its function) 3. Back at the base the GPS and notes are deposited with a system operator who will log the data through bluetooth, and offer it to local administration on tasks like, Garbage removal, school attendance or even traffic snarls. This will help in the second step of a project where base GIS data is readied, and awaits societal use. Cheers Ravi Kumar Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Email problem Attention: Mailing list admins
I use a mailing address ravivundava...@yahoo.com which is not able to receive mails, and I have given up after mailing Yahoo for help for weeks. I can do every thing except receiving mails, which I find is also essential for unsubscribing from mailing lists. Thanks to Tyler Mitchell, that I am receiving mails on my new yahoo id ravivundavall...@yahoo.com for GRASS, Qgis, OSGeo Discuss, etc But the following lists may be annoyed from getting bounce notices, but as I explained above, I am helpless. They are PostGIS, ICA (International cartographers association) Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
Some Views: Business initiatives and knack to push up OSGeo's reserves are for sure needed among qualities.. But a Global vision for billions (not money but people) at the margins of the developing world, makes it sustainable. GIS Usage vs GIS Development (software), is different in different parts of the world.. While coding for GIS development makes OSGeo tick with lots of enthusiasm, in the Developed world (US Europe Japan and Australia) much of the rest of the world (or 70% approximately) who are financially weak do not use FOSS4G tools, except for a few exceptions.. One of the main reasons is.. people just get the GIS software and dont spend for it (piracy) But it is only possible to translate GIS front ends to Local Languages (Freely) using FOSS4G tools. With this, all those who support FOSS4G tools wear the caps of social reformers.. So those, would Be Directors of OSGeo.. please add more Global perspective. Ravi Kumar From: Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo On 2011-08-09, at 12:56 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board should be We probably each have our own list of the most important things to consider, so I share mine as well. :) My votes will be less influenced by global coverage or software experience - the membership and project teams certainly covers those off very well in day-to-day work on the ground. Instead, speaking pragmatically, I am more focused on the skills, experience and interest needed to help run a growing international organisation. What those skills are may be open to debate, but for me: building partnerships, raising funds, extending our reach, supporting members/chapters, working with business, etc. Diversity and technical skills certainly help, but they are no guarantee for success when challenges come. Thankfully our excellent list of candidates is ripe with these skills and I'm glad, because I believe there are unique business challenges before the board over the next couple years. My two cents... Best wishes, Tyler___ 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] Board Election Results for 2011
Congrats new members of the board, and those continuing. Good to see a Lady on the board, who is also from a field science using Foss4G tools. May you spread the good word of Foss4G tools for the entire world, away from the small pools where it is presently concentrated. Cheers Ravi Kumar From: Tyler Mitchell tmitch...@osgeo.org To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:40 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results for 2011 From: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2011_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: • Peter Batty • Jo Cook • Michael Gerlek • Mark Lucas • Jeff McKenna Thanks to everyone for running, all candidates received good support ( 20 votes each). The voting participation was 89% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!! Your complete resulting Board is: • Peter Batty • Arnulf Christl • Jo Cook • Michael Gerlek • Mark Lucas • Jeff McKenna • Daniel Morissette • Tim Schaub • Frank Warmerdam___ 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] Re: Looking for GIS Projects
Sandhya, 'Tender sites Paid' and 'Projects'.. by any chance do you wish to know any projects that you can contribute to (submit a tender ?) Ravi Kumar From: Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:10 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Looking for GIS Projects Sandhya, For a fairly comprehensive list of established Open Source Geospatial applications, I suggest starting at: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html On 13/09/11 00:09, Jayesh Chaudhary wrote: HI Sandhya, What kind of projects in particular you are looking for? On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Sandhya [via OSGeo.org] [hidden email] wrote: Hi All, I am a new user. My company has asked me to look for some GIS projects. I tried surffing but found the tender sites paid. Would request you to helop me. Sandhya If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Looking-for-GIS-Projects-tp6770991p6770991.html To start a new topic under OSGeo Discuss, email [hidden email] To unsubscribe from OSGeo Discuss, click here. View this message in context: Re: Looking for GIS Projects Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Director 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 ___ 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] Translation to Indian languages Feed back please
Indian scene: European: English to Spanish etc are meant for using GIS itself by the learned user. Indictranslation: Most Indians who use GIS use it in English. The Indic translation is for making the semi-english-literate to actually use FOSS4G tools for villages, for local administration etc. So the english word is just changed to indian language, such that user can read english in his own script. FOSS4G tools are all front-end translatable, with ease or with a pinch of salt. All those who have tried/succeeded in Indic translation may pl give their experience. To Grade software-usability easy translation is one of the parameters. Translating properties files. Online: this needs a good internet connection (and also a feeling that you may mess it up) Offline: You do it at leisure, using openoffice/googletransliterate etc Translation with coding: I wonder, how many FOSS4G tools still have stayed here..?? Where after translation the code needs re-compilation, or work that a programmer only can do. Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Translation to Indian languages Feed back please
Hi Alex, The emphasis is on making the semi-english-literate (speak but not read) to actually use FOSS4G tools such that it can be used for village administration. In India there may not be many users if we actually Transliterate (English to English but Indic script) OSGeo Live DVD etc. Ravi From: Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Translation to Indian languages Feed back please On 11/07/2011 06:19 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: Indian scene: European: English to Spanish etc are meant for using GIS itself by the learned user. Indictranslation: Most Indians who use GIS use it in English. The Indic translation is for making the semi-english-literate to actually use FOSS4G tools for villages, for local administration etc. So the english word is just changed to indian language, such that user can read english in his own script. FOSS4G tools are all front-end translatable, with ease or with a pinch of salt. All those who have tried/succeeded in Indic translation may pl give their experience. To Grade software-usability easy translation is one of the parameters. Translating properties files. Online: this needs a good internet connection (and also a feeling that you may mess it up) Offline: You do it at leisure, using openoffice/googletransliterate etc Translation with coding: I wonder, how many FOSS4G tools still have stayed here..?? Where after translation the code needs re-compilation, or work that a programmer only can do. Ravi Kumar Many of the projects I'm familiar with have translation files. Basically a text file with the english term, and you fill in the native language term in the pair separated by some marker. This file is then sent to the developers who put it into the code base so it will be included in the next build. I'm not aware of any tools that allow translation files to be dropped in on the fly, though I could see it being possible on Python based applications that are not compiled before shipping. In some cases there are some fancier tools that make this process even simpler. Take a look at Qt linguist, it's what QGIS uses to edit translation files. They also have a person in charge of accepting translations who reviews all the files that come in an applies them to the main code. Usually the biggest hold up I've seen is finding enough volunteers to actually complete language translations. We don't have any translations of Indic languages for OSGeo-Live nor have we received any interest. Thanks, Alex ___ 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] OSGeo -- USA
Hi, recently I have with interest , read that, in the USA there is new focus on GIS alternatves 'FOSS4G tools' with serious budget cuts. Lost the mail with links which I wanted to forward to a Prof of GIS in the US.!! Googled in vain too. Pl, anyone.. send links Ravi___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lists in order of support
The foundation is more concerned with promoting and improving the projects; and not so much on judging them :-) I address this to common listers, who choose from the available menu at OSGeo site.. Many may not be code developers but, general users.. From: Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com To: Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com; OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lists in order of support You are welcome to create your own comparison list; or add to some of the others already available. The foundation is more concerned with promoting and improving the projects; and not so much on judging them :-) The incubation process does cover couple basics (open source license, some kind of open development model, can the code be distributed etc...). -- Jody Garnett On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ravi wrote: We have a good collection of Open GIS Software, thanks to OSGeo. Do we have a comparison, of efficiency of their Lists and Discussion forums. I find GRASS, at the top of quick and clear replies, followed by PostGIS , Qgis. Do we have a mention any where about 'Which Open GIS is where, Say, on a scale of 1 to 10', when it comes to efficiency and time taken for replies. This might help in some introspection. Ravi ___ 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] Re: [Board] Resignation from Board
Hi Board, pl do discuss this in the OSGeo Discuss list. I feel sorry to loose Jeff (from the board) who has showcased OSGeo in non-english speaking China, Vietnam and many more. Is there any connection with FOSS4G 2012. Remember his talk at Cape Town, and the thunderous applause received. Ravi From: Tim Sutton t...@linfiniti.com To: maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it Cc: osgeo-board List bo...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Board] Resignation from Board Dear all I have also been watching this thread from the sidelines and feeling like things are being mishandled. If Jeff was leaving because of e.g. family obligations or something far removed from the activities of the board there would be no issue here. However it seems quite clear that he is leaving due to finding the internal machinations of the board untenable. My perception is that the board happily accepted his resignation rather than trying to understand why one of it's leading lights is leaving - and what can be done to remedy the situation so that he will stay on. I am sure others share this feeling. While it may be the case that the board is acting within its guidelines, it is important that from a public relations point of view that you try to address this issue in a better way. Take the time to do some PR to explain what is going on rather than simply quoting bylaws. At the very least some publicity (mailing lists, web site etc.) thanking Jeff for his time with the board and showing your appreciation for all the work he has put into OSGEO would be a nice send off for Jeff. Best regards Tim On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:56 AM, maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote: Dar All I agree with Venka and Jeroen and I'm also very sad because Jeff has done a lot for our community. Bset. Maria Def. Quota Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: On 2012/02/07 20:21, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Jeff's decision to resign from the board and the conference committee was his own decision, and I think his two emails covered what needed to be said. This is sad, of course, but Jeff has his reasons and beyond that we should respect his privacy. Jeff has made most of his recent views public http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-January/009364.html http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-February/009394.html http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2012-February/001633.html I think the Board owes an explanation to the community (on osgeo-discuss) about the reasons/circumstances that led to acceptance of Jeff's resignation. This will be no disrespect to his privacy. This should be done before Board Members start expressing thier private views about how the vacant Board member seat can be filled. On 2012/02/07 18:23, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: My questions to you are now if will you come up with a statement related to this and if you will make an announcement on OSGeo Discuss before more discussion and gossip starts to take place. I fully agree with Jeroen on the that. Venka ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 presentations
Hi, Please give links to FOSS4G 2011 presentations like earlier FOSS4G hope we have them on the web Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 presentations
FOSS4G since its debut at Lusanne has grown strength to strength. One of the key features being , availability of abstracts, full papers and presentations and workshop material on line for scores of FOSS GIS users around the world. Quite a good development originated / came from USA (GRASS topping the list).. But Alas. more than -6- months have passed since FOSS4G11 Denver, all those who could not attend await.. eagerly At least for the next FOSS4G2012 see that the final abstracts, presentations automatically are put on the internet. Ravi Kumar From: nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com; OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2011 presentations Hello Ravi, Strangely this is not available on the OSGeo website, but some of the FOSS4G 2011 presentation videos (not all unfortunatelly) are available here: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/category/event/foss4g2011 According to this post: http://2011.foss4g.org/content/foss4g-follow there should be some of the presentations available on the foss4g 2011 website or on SlideShare too, but i don't really know where all the PDFs are, sorry. Hope it helps Best Nick 2012/3/26 Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Hi, Please give links to FOSS4G 2011 presentations like earlier FOSS4G hope we have them on the webRavi Kumar ___ 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] Charter Member Nomination period ended
Great Call From: Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com To: Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination period ended On Jul 7, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote: My proposal to the board is to accept all 22 members instead of running an election which would simply exclude two potential charter members on a more or less arbitrary basis. Good call. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.org ___ 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] New charter members WELCOME
Hi New charter members, welcome on-board. The Board elections will soon follow. See the distribution of the Charter members by their country /Lat Long.. What strikes is, the non representation of vast areas/population of the world. Let us aim at spreading the good word to every nook and corner of the world. FOSS4G tools bring transparency to administration, and it is needed most where transparency is ow-fully lacking / poor. As an evangelist, I feel, we need more evangelists for FOSS4G tools. All the wonderful coders (programmers) who carry OSGeo from strength to strength, need more people to spread the good word.. When I saw OSGeo Vietnam, gaining strength, I saw light .. When I do not see FOSS4G2012 I dont.. Let us have those running for the Board of OSGeo react.. Please Ravi Kumar From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New charter members! I love how international the new charter members are! Welcome friends! :) -jeff On 12-07-09 1:19 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: 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 OSGeo Charter Members for 2012: Barend Kobben Netherlands Angelos Tzotsos Greece Anita Graser Austria Victor Olaya Spain Pedro-Juan Ferrer Spain Andrea Aimee Italy Jean-Roc Morreale France Serena Coetzee South Africa Michael Smith USA Karel Charvat Czech Republic Jan Jezek Czech Republic Vasile Craciunescu Romania Thomas Bonfort France Mauricio Miranda Argentina Peter Löwe Germany Massimiliano Cannata Italy P.K.Sinha India Brian Hamlin USA Ragi Yaser Burhum Peru Dimitris Kotzinos Greece César Medina Chile Doug Newcomb USA Congratulations to all! ___ 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] FOSS4G India
Markus, Jeff and all Soon we will post the circular here. Indian visa is needed and hope to give you time for that. Ravi Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android From: K S Rajan ra...@iiit.ac.in; To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2012 Cancel Request (OSGeo China) Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 4:58:23 PM Jeff, All, The first National FOSS4G-India is being planned for Oct 25-26, with half-day/full-day tut/workshop on 27th Oct. It will be hosted at IIIT-H in Hyderabad. We are working out the details and shall post it to the list soon. - Rajan On 10-07-2012 18:54, Jeff McKenna wrote: Ravi/Venka, There are also initial plans for a FOSS4G India event correct? -jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- K S Rajan, Ph.D. Head, Lab for Spatial Informatics, Associate Professor, International Institute of Information Technology Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India Tel: (+91-40)6653 1276 Fax: (+91-40)6653 1413 E-mail: ra...@iiit.ac.in GeoLocation: 17.4454 N, 78.3503 E ___ 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] Sol Katz award
+1 The Sol Katz award is given each year, and has little to do with the person being there or not, or even what event it is at. We didn't create this award so it can be given in some years and not in other years. Ravi Kumar From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [Board] Thoughts on FOSS4G Hello Peter and the Board, I feel I must comment on this, so my comments are line below: On 12-07-12 11:35 AM, Peter Batty wrote: Hi all, I am aiming to attend the board meeting today but have various other commitments that I'm trying to juggle. In case I don't make it, and just to get the ball rolling, here are a few thoughts on follow ups from the FOSS4G cancellation. I think we should put out some sort of communication from the board about this - we can decide the exact forums, at least something to OSGeo lists and on the OSGeo web site, probably get it to some media outlets too. Unless someone else wants to volunteer, I'd be happy to draft something based on discussion at today's meeting and any input anyone else sends, and send that round for review. I agree, in fact I did send the LOC a public response right away. It is important to not be negative at all, and thank them for all of their effort in this. I am also working with Venka (who is also a professor at CUMTB university in Beijing, his influence is strong there as well) and Dr. Song, both LOC members, to make sure we continue the FOSS4G passion there. A few points I would probably include something along the following lines: We are disappointed but not surprised that FOSS4G Beijing has been cancelled. We have known for some time, as has anyone who follows the OSGeo conference or board public mailing lists, that the local committee was facing various challenges. But we wanted to give them the maximum chance to try to pull together an event. FOSS4G has been successful being a truly global conference, taking a major event around the world with most of the work done by local volunteers. We've had great success with this approach, with great events in Sydney, Cape Town, etc. But this approach has its risks too, and we'll review our strategy in the light of what happened this year to see what we can do to mitigate those risks. (I can see various ways of approaching this section, definitely open to suggestions). The same negative thoughts circled before such amazingly successful events such as Sydney and Cape Town. Yes there are risks, but we must take risks to spread the FOSS4G passion to other areas of the globe. But FOSS4G remains strong. The 2011 event in Denver was the largest yet, with 900 people from 42 countries and great reviews. And plans for 2013 in Nottingham are already very advanced, we have a very strong team organizing that and are looking forward to a great event there. Indeed the FOSS4G brand has never been so strong. It is really all around the world. FOSS4G has also evolved into multiple regional events in addition to the global one. We have had multiple successful FOSS4G events already this year with NA and CEE, and Japan to come (include some info on number of attendees etc). The FOSS4G-Japan event was a great success this year, it happened last month. FOSS4G-India plans are in the works as well. Really great times for the FOSS4G brand. A few thoughts that are probably outside this external communication: I think we should review our future strategy for FOSS4G in terms of location rotation, global versus local, how it is organized, etc. But I don't think there's a huge rush on this. We have a solid plan for the 2013 event, we need to get something worked out by first part of next year before we start the selection process for 2014 (if we decide that we need any changes - we may decide not). I think we should focus first on short term communication and other immediate issues. I could not disagree with you more here. The process has been setup by the Conference Committee and that process is working great. The only changes I see needing is possibly dedicating resources to assist in the FOSS4G continuity each year (such as my last year's FOSS4G advisor role, funded or not). Second, there have been questions on what to do about the Sol Katz award, and suggestions of presenting it at some other event. I'd like to suggest that we consider NOT doing this as it risks diluting the award to me. It's a great tradition to recognize leaders in our community. However I think an important part of that is being recognized at a major meeting of the community. If we present it at some other event where there isn't a large attendance from the global open source community we risk losing that. And we put pressure on the winner to make a trip potentially to the other side of the world for an event that they may not have gone to otherwise. So I'd
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting
Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by the charter member) in the Board election. Advantages: The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her more than once.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting
I voted for a motion (2009) that limits a charter members vote to a Board nominee only once (not more that 1 even if voted more than once). I was in the board on that day (IRC) when a motion was proposed. Remember that some were reluctant to change the existing pattern where in a charter member can vote as many times as the number of Board member slots. Then I felt that OK I will go with the tide and voted for the motion. But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter will react to this. Ravi Kumar From: Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting On 07/24/2012 02:47 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: Can you please point me to what it says on the web. Venka, I am referring to the Elections page [1] which is a verbatim copy of last year's, so does not really help at all. Let's do some web archaeology (*): The elections process page gives more insight, actually it was a change edited by Frank explicitly disallowing weighed voting, see here: [2] The change was a regular agenda item on the 2010-01-07 [3] Board meeting and has been approved by the board. Everything open and correct. It was brought in as an amendment of wording by Paul Ramsey [4], Jeff McKenna and Tyler and supported by Christopher Schmidt. The corresponding explanation can be found on the IRC log, search for 08:03:33 at: [5]. Since the Charter members are voting, I thing a consensus could be sought among the voters rather than the board. You can add an item to the next board agenda including an explanation why you suggest a change back. We have discussed direct Charter Member votes before and it is still simply not practical, we will not get anywhere. As CRO I am having the closest experience with Charter Member responsiveness you can imagine. It is hard enough to get the board attend regular meetings and cast votes, anything more than that wont work. Best regards, Arnulf (*) This is one great thing about the Web and how we run OSGeo - it is really, really transparent. You might have to dig a bit, but it is all there. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012#Nominate_new_Board_Members_-_2012-07-23_-_2012-08-01 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Proposed_Board_Election_Procedureaction=historysubmitdiff=44123oldid=44122 [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2010-01-07 [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-10-08 [5] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2009-10-08.log -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination: Jeff McKenna
Good to see that Jeff wants to be in the front and in the Board. +1 From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination: Jeff McKenna Hi Cameron, I don't mind a public response. I feel the OSGeo Conference Committee is very important. I would enjoy taking an active role in it again. I feel it should be revived as soon as possible. I don't exactly know the correct process to name a chair - I am interested in being the chair, but we need to make sure we follow correct process. I'll ping the conference list to discuss all of that. Regarding the OSGeo-Advocate page (I will speak freely, I hope that is ok): one point that always hits my brain as I click on that page, is, how do you decide the ordering of countries on that page? Is there logic used? Otherwise, my brain wants an alphabetical listing (or a note above that explains the ordering); it seems to me to be very unorganized. I hope you don't take offense to that comment (I just don't want to start editing the wiki and stepping on toes, which, I have a habit of doing too often). Indeed it is impressive seeing all the great names on that page, such talented people! Talk soon, -jeff On 12-07-24 5:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Jeff, Sent personally, but you are welcome to email your response publicly. Thanks for clarifying your position. I'm interested to hear where you stand on the OSGeo Conference Committee, which I understand is lacking a chair, and is currently very quiet. Is this something you are interested in taking a more active role in again? (You certainly have the prior experience) And as a bit of an unfair plug, I'm hoping that you could update your OSGeo-Advocate page, in the template format described here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Process_for_becoming_an_OSGeo_Advocate ___ 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
+1 Great possibilities for Public-participatory data. From: Simon Cropper simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas On 30/07/12 11:43, Andrew Turner wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr wrote: Dear all, I would like to second Arnulf's suggestions for the committee and the white paper. Slight amendment : let's name it Open Geospatial Data Committee. I'd be happy to participate. +1 on an Open Geospatial Data Committee. Count me in as well. Andrew Best, Dimitris Really good idea, and great to see so many interested. I offer to act as data licensing advisor / clearinghouse and add what we learn from the process to the OSGeo Wiki. Step one of my planned Public Geospatial Data Committee revival. Step two will be an OSGeo White Paper defining Open Data, VGI, Crowdsourced and so on geospatial data. If there is interest... Cheers, Arnulf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss +1 I believe in open data and would be very interested being involved in clarifying the definitions and to contribute to any discussions centered around licensing. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.com GIS Packages http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/gis bash / Python http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/scripting ___ 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] Board Election 2012 Results
Congrats Board. May The Almighty give you the strength and wisdom to spread the good word of OSGeo and its principles through out the world, and the developing world in particular. Ravi Kumar From: Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arn...@osgeo.org To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:03 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election 2012 Results Dear OSGeo Members, the election 2012 has been completed and we are happy to announce the new board of directors [1]. Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: * Anne Ghisla * Jeff McKenna * Daniel Morissette * Cameron Shorter * Frank Warmerdam Thanks to everyone for running, all candidates received good support ( 40 votes each). The voting participation was 68% and there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted. Your complete resulting Board is: * Peter Batty * Michael Gerlek * Anne Ghisla * Mark Lucas * Jeff McKenna * Daniel Morissette * Cameron Shorter * Frank Warmerdam Congratulations and please welcome the new and and re-elected OSGeo directors! With the election results published the new board of directors becomes effective as of now. We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organizations with a great memberships and lots of energy. We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Best regards, Michael and Arnulf [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2012_Results -- OSGeo Chief Returning Officers Arnulf Christl and Michael Gerlek http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012 ___ 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] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan
I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award. I agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping across Asia and much of the world. I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he encouraged us resulting in the FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005. He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in action', and connects to young researchers readily. The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS initiative the world over. His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique. In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world. V.Ravi Kumar Friend /Fellow Geologist (Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India) * * Development of SISGeM-An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling An Online System for 3D Geologic Modeling -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, Venkatesh Raghavan**, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of Geosciences ... Ravi Kumar From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: solkatzaw...@osgeo.org solkatzaw...@osgeo.org Cc: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol Katz Award. I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things FOSS4G. It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the world. Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his broad experience with the OSGeo Board members. A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research. His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with international character support and translations for projects such as MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS. Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works closely with various international event committees each year for such events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India. In 2010 Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to Open Source Geospatial Technologies”. As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide. Many people have been touched by his passion. He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy, who is a master at connecting geospatial communities. Many of us all around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice. I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan -Jeff McKenna OSGeo Board member/friend ___ 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] OSGeo Board Meeting Summary
Frank's work setting the OSGeo Cloud in motion, will be remembered fondly. Welcome to Jeff as president and hope for a very bright future all around the world. Ravi Kumar From: Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Meeting Summary On 2012/12/15 3:35, maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote: Many thanks to Frank! Jeff, C O N G R A T S Many thanks to Frank for the unparalleled services to OSGeo in his role as President. Congratulations and best wishes to Jeff in his new role as President. Best Venka Thanks also for the MoU! Cheers. Maria Def. Quota Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com: I owe thanks to Frank for his efforts. He stepped into the President role after Arnulf, without any complaints (and was still probably settling into a new job and home). We all need to thank Frank for doing that at such a time. I plan to continue pushing for Open Source geospatial all across the world. I may not be a core developer, but I've learned that my passion can be useful in many ways. I am proud to represent the community of OSGeo. -jeff On 12-12-13 5:24 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: 2) I stepped down as President. I've found I don't have as much initiative for the role of president as I'd like, and it was my intention anyways to bring new blood into the role of President in the not too distant future. So I decided to expedite things and Jeff McKenna has very kindly agreed to take on the role of President with the support of the board. I'm not going away, and will continue on the board and answering i...@osgeo.org mailto:i...@osgeo.org questions with Jeff also assisting now. Jeff has great enthusiasm for OSGeo and is very active around the world promoting the open source geospatial community and supporting it through efforts including MapServer documentation, MS4W and the Zoo Project. I also count him as a valued friend of many years. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ 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] Geoheritage
Hope we can have OSM include photos of Geoheritage sites. Any suggestions about a Free and Open Source website (digital globe) that can do. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#National_Workshop_and_Brainstorming_Session_on_Geoheritaze.2C_.27Need_for_Activism.27_30.2C31_May_2013 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] An India OS GIS occassion
This year INCA is focusing on what FOSS GIS does best. Theme Integrated Decentralized Planning and Governance Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRIs), Agro–Climatic Regions and Activity planning Social Infrastructure Amenity Planning Urban Planning, PURA and Decentralized Planning Census data, Meteorological data; Cartography and Thematic Mapping Cartographic and Geospatial inputs for Flagship and Welfare Programs Environmental Planning Management Disaster Management Advances in tools and technologies in Cartography Education, Training Capacity Building for PRIs, Citizens and Outreach Abstract Submission July 15, 2013 http://www.inca33jodhpur.org/ OSGeo India is planning a booth there too. So let us all join in presenting scientific papers / case studies, to show that FOSS GIS is priceless. We all have been doing sterling work from Tiger reserves of Assam, to Rural Development (inst) in Rajasthan, Ecological research in Western Ghats and (CES IIS), Tamilnadu (FERAL), and the list big. Now let us pitch for this annual event where all Indian GIS and CAD experts congregate. हम होंगे कामयाब (We Shall Overcome tune) Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Call for feedback and ideas on OGC process, docs, and so forth!
Is there a website or wiki where developments are summarised and status of OCG --- FOSS GIS updated. From: Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com To: osgeo discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 10:50 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Call for feedback and ideas on OGC process, docs, and so forth! Forwarding message from Carl Reed (OGC) to the Discuss list. Readers: please join this discussion on the OSGeo Standards list (subscribe at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards) ..jeff Original Message Subject: [OSGeo-Standards] Call for feedback and ideas on OGC process, docs, and so forth! Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:26:26 -0600 From: Carl Reed cr...@opengeospatial.org Organization: OGC To: standa...@lists.osgeo.org Dear OSGeo - Over the last several months, the OSGeo community provided significant input into the OGC. This input included issues, concerns, and strengths of the OGC processes and covered a range of topics ranging from better public engagement, transparency, documentation, knowledge management and more. We would like to continue the dialogue to improve the OGC with the goal of enhancing the value of OGC contributions to the community and to our Members. As part of this process, there are going to be a series of net meetings. The Ideas for OGC (Ideas4OGC) effort aims to collect feedback, ideas, critiques, and comments to help us develop and improve the OGC. After 3 successful members meetings this week we will now run 3 open public meetings on 11^th July to hear the thoughts and ideas from both members and non-members. If you would like to participate please register here https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/130711ideas.php *_Most importantly, if know people who should participate please forward this email to them!_* Registration details can be found here http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/WebHome along with our public wiki. We are looking forward to your contribution! Regards Carl Reed, PhD CTO and Executive Director Standards Program Open Geospatial Consortium www.opengeospatial.org The OGC: Making Location Count! ___ 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] Live DVD and OGC standards
Please give info/link regarding 1. The software that are bundled in the OSGeo Live DVD do they all have OGC complaince. This is a query we come across and wish to prepare for the same. LiveDVD bundles many FOSS GIS software which are not actually OSGeo mentored projects. 2. Is a Shape file OGC compliant (some times also known as ESRI Shape file) Is there a list of File Formats and OGC compliance ? Ravi___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Nomination
It is a pleasure to nominate Harish Kumar Solanki for the OSGeo Charter. Solanki is a lead trainer / propagator of FOSS GIS India. http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies/hyderabad-india.html Harish Kumar Solanki, Assistant Professor National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India Jaipur, Rajasthan, India- Pin-302006 Geo_Coordinates (Office): 26.92162 N, 75.78921 E Email- hksola...@nird.gov.in, harry.om2...@gmail.com, Tele-Fax-0141-2209905, Mo.- 09214446732, 09414291732 Website- http://www.nird.org.in, http://watershed.rajasthan.gov.in/ LinkedIn: www.linkedIn.com/in/hksolanki ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Harish Solanki as Charter member
Harish Solanki is one of the upcoming OSGeo evangelists. He has conducted several courses of Qgis at his institute dedicated to Rural Development. He has made the course material and the training was first of its kind in his organisation. GIS for the rural administration is what is most important in India. Voting for Harish Solanki can bring a dedicated FOSS GIS exponent into OSGeo's fold. Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Charter member Mailing List
+ 1 From: Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arn...@osgeo.org To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org bo...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Chief Returning Officer c...@osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: [Board] Charter member Mailing List -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Board, FYI sorry to bother you again. To manage the increasing number of Charter Members we intend to set up a moderated mailing list. It will be used exclusively for contact information management of the Charter Members. This will make it much easier to notify Charter Members of upcoming elections and run the elections themselves. It will be a moderated list so that we can prevent mails with private information from becoming public. It will automatically be part of the OSGeo backup (whereas up to now it is only archived in a few mailboxes and maybe some spreadsheets). We can then simply ask Charter Members to hit reply to confirm that their contact information is still valid. Some may even want to maintain their own mail information (and relieve CRO and secretary from the really gruesome job of snooping up dead accounts...). Thanks, Arnulf - -- Arnulf Christl OSGeo Charter Member http://www.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHvmYQACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b3NTgCePPC0xNRDDGSjri4EWRsNEYvx BFwAn2TpjnTS1ICSLIna7bA+pQswP2DJ =EQXI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Accept all 35 Charter Member Nomination for 2013 electiona.
37 or 30 is what is going to decide .. election or NO election. It is a close call. Would be happy to see all 37 on board. Those at the helm may pl give it a thought. Ravi From: Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:15 PM Subject: [Board] Accept all 35 Charter Member Nomination for 2013 electiona. Arnulf, Many thanks for managing the Charter Member 2013 elections. I motion to accept all 37 nominees into Charter Membership and override the decision taken in the last board meeting. On 2013/07/24 17:58, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, this is a minor correction, we actually have 37 potential new members! +1 for electing all 37 new Charter Members. As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a nice compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the existing membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits as per our bylaws. +1 to revise the above arbitrary decision. Voting would have made sense if we have more than 48 nominations for new Charter Members. I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into Charter membership. ++1 Best Venka I can see no reason that would justify excluding anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still well in scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election is crucial to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice and start the elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this is a very short notice to change something so important. I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along the lines of: I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter Membership and override the decision taken in the last board meeting. Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members asap. In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1) immediately in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and continue with the elections. Best regards, Arnulf ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHvlz0ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2LaQCcCRNNXFDvU+iz4wW8yyWSaI3h Mw8An3IP/30k5jdIYZA3WifmoqT069x6 =JqF+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause.. It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with. It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated FOSS4G events Ravi From: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org To: GRASS-announce list grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: GRASS user list grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS developers list grass-...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS! Press release 29 July 2013 Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID – the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled GIS Version 1 Reference Manual was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available online. In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual international development team made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: * A new modern graphical user interface complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a quick and simple way, * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, * Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community repository, * Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for LiDAR processing) and Large File Support ( 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems), * A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating Systems, * Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years, making over fifty-thousand
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members!
Welcome to new charter members. OSGeo will sure benefit from each one of you and your work there on. Though officially you only decide (Vote) the board, you can steer the path OSGeo will take through active discussion. Please join the OSGeo advocates and list all you have done and wish to do through User Talk. Perception about where OSGeo should put it's force changes from region to region. It is no secret that The OSGeo is dominated by the mind set of the developed world, in itself there is nothing wrong. So please discuss what you think are your region's needs. Jaya Ho OSGeo (Victory to OSGeo) Ravi From: Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members! Welcome to all new Charter Members!! On 2013/08/02 9:20, Michael Gerlek wrote: (aside: I'm not sure if Arnulf was counting the charter members' nationalities or countries of residence; if one was to count both, we'd probably be well into the 40s.) I think, Arnulf's count was on nationalities. For example, my good friend, Daniel Kastl is shown to be from Germany but lives and breaths in Japan. Best Venka -mpg -Original Message- From: Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arn...@osgeo.org Organization: Open Source Geospatial Foundation Date: Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:53 PM To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear OSGeo, as per Board motion [1] we have now accepted all 37 nominees into Charter Membership [2]. Hooray! Please welcome our new Charter Members. Thank you for the great nominations and thanks to all for making OSGeo a sustainable Foundation. We now have people from 38 nationalities! Even the largest group now represents no more than a quarter of all Charter Members (the United States with 23%). This is really good global representation. FOSS4G is approaching [3] fast and in case you still did not book or decide to come, it is hight time. Even for procrastination experts. Best regards, Your Chief Returning Officers Arnulf Christl Michael Gerlek [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2013-July/011003.html [2] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members - -- OSGeo - Your Open Source Compass http://www.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlH69Q4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b04bwCcD8ydj3TXgAaDAcsRqad6XrzN h30An3OcEf+nI5BsrzBPG80TUfDzM3Fl =Lbka -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Qgis on Android
Hi, am using DELL Streak-7 Android 3.2 kernel 2.6.36.3 with Qgis MSATER. Am unable to see entire screen menu, and not able to fit the menu on screen. How to change screen size / resolution Thnx in advance Ravi___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS
Dear all, As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. Cheers Ravi___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS
Desk top and Web-mapping.. both. Those without internet can use the desktop.. From: mkpandey.irs mkpandey@gmail.com To: Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WAP SMS in GIS Can you tell me if you are using desktop or web application??? Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging for registering complaints, using say Ward number -- (ward is an administrative unit) indicating the polygon of interest Street name -- to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward and so on.. If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help. Cheers Ravi___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Arnulf for Sol Katz Award 2013
Congrats Arnulf for winning the award. Keep up the OSGeo flag flying high. Ravi From: Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:09 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Arnulf for Sol Katz Award 2013 Hi All, I would like to congratulate Arnulf on the Sol Katz 2013 award in recognition of his contributions to FOSS4G and the OSGeo Foundation. Looking forward to his many more contributions in the years to come. Cheers, Arnulf. Best Venka ___ 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] OSGeo India at INCA033 Congress
Hi, OSGeo India had a booth at a well attended INCA-33 National Congress, 19 to 21 Sept 2013. INCA Congress is an annual event where CAD and GIS users from Govt and Private meet. There also is a large crowd of researchers using CAD and GIS. Pl see details and photos at the link below. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli We are highly thankful to OSGeo Live team, for the wonderful DVDs they so promptly release and are a great hit with researchers, Cheers Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Indian Govt and FOSS
It is good to note that Qgis,GRASS,gvSIG and PostGIS figure out in this Gov of India document. Egovernance and GIS with FOSS is the right step. https://egovstandards.gov.in/system/files/PublicReviewDocument/Framework_on_OSS_Ver0.8.pdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software
How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a great extent true only in countries like USA where software can be copy righted. In many countries software does not come under Copyright. Example: India.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India activity
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India Cheers Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)
Dear all, Researchers / students may choose to attend a completely funded OSGeo India, FOSS GIS -3- week winter school at IIIT Hyderabad, India. We would like to request you to please send in Applications/Nominations (Indian Nationals) of potential participants who can benefit from attending this winter school using the online Registration form at http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/registration.php Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee. The last date for Applications are 29th Dec 2013(sunday) For more details, including course content, please see http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/ Cheers Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Inauguration of two OSGeo labs in Sri Lanka
Hi OSGeo India wishes all the best to this Sri Lankan effort. Hope this can lead to OSGeo-ICA labs in other countries of south Asia. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:52 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Original Message Subject: [SriLanka] Inauguration of two OSGeo labs in Sri Lanka Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:44:40 +0600 From: nimalika fernando nimali...@gmail.com To: srila...@lists.osgeo.org Dear All, I am happy to announce that two OSGeo labs will be inaugurated in Sri Lanka in the next month. Actual dates and time will be announced here shortly. One OSGeo lab will be established at the University of Moratuwa and another will be established at the Sri Lanka Institute of information Technology. They will become a part of worldwide network of OSGeo labs.The aim of these labs is promoting the use of free and open source GIS tools among students and the Sri Lankan community. They will be used for teaching and research activities related to open source GIS. OSGeo labs are being established around the world based on ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative. In 2011, OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is Geo For All. This initiative aims at providing expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centers across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. Over 40 Open Source Geospatial Labs have already been established in universities around the world. (http://www.geoforall.org/about/) Cheers Nimalika ___ 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] OSGeo India event
Kudos to OSGeo Live. You have made things easy for all those who propagate OSGeo products. We used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems). Cheers.. Keep it up OSGeo-Live Guys. Ravi. On Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:06 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ravi, Sounds like you had an excellent event. Was OSGeo-Live used in any form? We like to keep track of where OSGeo-Live is used, as it motivates people to contribute, and is used to justify getting sponsorship $$. We track use here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History On 30/01/14 21:50, Ravi Kumar wrote: Hi, OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop in the south Indian 2nd tier city of Rajahmundry. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014 Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: FOSS4G Sri Lanka -2014 (Colombo) Call for Presentations
Hi, 1. Great to know FOSS4G happenning almost next door in Shri Lanka. Congrats and all the best from OSGeo India. 2. Next time please (if possible) give more notice. -3- months would be ideal. සභ ගමන්! cheers Ravi Kumar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:13 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Original Message Subject: [SriLanka] FOSS4G Sri Lanka -2014 -Colombo- Call for Presentations Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 11:44:22 -0800 From: nimalika fernando nimali...@gmail.com To: srila...@lists.osgeo.org Dear All, The first Sri Lankan FOSS4G event, FOSS4G Sri Lanka 2014 is going to happen very soon in Colombo. It will be a place where open source GIS users and enthusiasts of FOSS GIS tools can meet together and share ideas in a friendly atmosphere. It is organized by OSGeo Community of Sri Lanka with support of OSGeo Foundation. Date : Sunday 23rd February 2014, Time : 9.00 a.m- 4.00 p.m., Venue : SLIIT Malabe This event will be an ideal platform to present any work which you have done on open source GIS tools. Your work can be presented either as a *verbal presentation* or *a poster*. You are invited hereby to submit presentation ideas to the event. # Please find the FOSS4G Sri Lanka 2014 - Call for presentations flyer ( a PDF file) here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_l81kQpid7GdVdXd2FjNjNrRzg/edit?usp=sharing This contains all information related to submissions. # Please find FOSS4G Sri Lanka 2014 - Invitation to Participate flyer ( a PDF file) here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_l81kQpid7GU3RHZkkyMEsyVVE/edit?usp=sharing This contains a link for registration. Cheers Nimalika ___ 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] [OSGeo-Announce] Happy 8th Birthday, OSGeo!
A billion happy returns, OSGeo. Ravi Kumar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:37 AM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Many congratulations to everyone. Why not let us celebrate OSGeo birthday (Feb 4th) from next year as Geo for All Day to celebrate and help spread the message. Thanks Jeff and Anne for reminding everyone. Suchith -Original Message- From: announce-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:announce-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Anne Ghisla Sent: 05 February 2014 15:54 To: OSGeo Announce Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Happy 8th Birthday, OSGeo! Let's not forget that 8 years ago (February 4th, 2006) OSGeo held its first ever meeting in Chicago, U.S.A[1]. Since then so many passionate people have dedicated time and effort into building the Open Source Geospatial community, all around the world. Let's take this moment to thank everyone right from that day 8 years ago, to now, and keep growing our lively community. Thank you all! - Jeff McKenna OSGeo President [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html.html ___ Announce mailing list annou...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/announce 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___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Live 7.9 Geoserver 404 error
The Live DVD 7.9 Geoserver issues a 404 error .. Pl help make it work. Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members
Hi, a refreshing way to select charter members, in deed. Hope charter members spend some time to, 'read and vote'. May be a wake-up-call. Ravi Kumar On Monday, June 30, 2014 5:31 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/30/2014 12:07 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote: 2. Charter members then vote (in/out) nominated charter members. This will be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a fixed number of members for a larger selection pool. (eg vote in 20 people from a list of 30). For this year, I propose we have a Yes/No vote. Ie, if we have a list of 30 candidates, we will ask all charter members to vote Yes or No against each candidate. Each candidate with greater than 50% of YES votes will be included as new charter members. Well, I doubt some charter member would vote with No for candidates. And what if you don't know a candidate well enough or not at all? So I'm not sure this is really a good idea. I believe the result will just be that all candidates will be accepted ... as in previous years. Daniel Perhaps we should ask for a minimum of Yes votes on each candidate before acceptance. A fixed percentage of the Charter Members maybe? Angelos -- 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___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)
+1 rashad suites the osgeo charter. Its been a pleasure knowing Rashad. div id=quot;_origMsg_quot; div br clear=quot;nonequot; div div style=quot;font-size:0.9em;quot; hr size=quot;1quot; b span style=quot;font-weight:bold;quot;From:/span /b Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; br clear=quot;nonequot; b span style=quot;font-weight:bold;quot;To:/span /b Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya...@gmail.com; Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com; br clear=quot;nonequot; b span style=quot;font-weight:bold;quot;Cc:/span /b OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org; c...@osgeo.org; Rashad M rasha...@gmail.com; br clear=quot;nonequot; b span style=quot;font-weight:bold;quot;Subject:/span /b Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Mohammed Rashad br clear=quot;nonequot; b span style=quot;font-weight:bold;quot;Sent:/span /b Tue, Jul 22, 2014 2:14:56 PM br clear=quot;nonequot; /div br clear=quot;nonequot; table cellspacing=quot;0quot; cellpadding=quot;0quot; border=quot;0quot;tbodytrtd colspan=quot;1quot; rowspan=quot;1quot; valign=quot;topquot; div class=quot;moz-cite-prefixquot;On 2014/07/22 21:29, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:br clear=quot;nonequot; /div blockquote type=quot;citequot; pre+1/pre /blockquote +1 br clear=quot;nonequot; Venkabr clear=quot;nonequot; blockquote type=quot;citequot; pre On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Margherita Di Leo a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-abbreviatedquot;dileomargher...@gmail.com/a wrote: /pre blockquote type=quot;citequot; preDear CRO and OSGeo people, I wish to nominate Mohammed Rashad [1,2] for OSGeo Charter membership. Rashad is from Kerala, India. He is currently at the end of his internship at CNES [3], Toulouse and completing his master degree at IIIT Hyderabad [4]. He started working on GRASS GIS for his engineering project, a web application deployed using Cartoweb PHP framework and GRASS GIS. When he started his master at IIIT Hyderabad, he began working on a collaborative mapping platform called VRGeo [5] (Village Resource Geo data repository), LSIViewer and WebGRASS. He participated in GSoC 2012 and 2013 for OSSIM projects under OSGeo. Currently he is working in OTB and OSSIM python bindings. Moreover, he packages GRASS GIS and OSSIM for Ubuntu PPA [6]. He#39;s always helpful with users through the various ML and GIS Stack Exchange[7]. With my best regards, Margherita Di Leo OSGeo Charter Member [8] [1] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Rashadquot;http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Rashad/a [2] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://rashadkm.wordpress.com/quot;http://rashadkm.wordpress.com//a [3] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-abbreviatedquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://www.cnes.fr/quot;www.cnes.fr//a [4] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/quot;http://lsi.iiit.ac.in//a [5] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://vrgeo.in/quot;http://vrgeo.in//a [6] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;https://github.com/rashadkm/quot;https://github.com/rashadkm//a [7] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/10212/rashadquot;http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/10212/rashad/a [8] a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madiquot;http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi/a -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-abbreviatedquot;margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu/a Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-abbreviatedquot;Discuss@lists.osgeo.org/a a rel=quot;nofollowquot; shape=quot;rectquot; class=quot;moz-txt-link-freetextquot; target=quot;_blankquot; href=quot;http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discussquot;http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss/a /pre /blockquote pre /pre br
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter members
Hi OSGeo Charter, I have worked with Santosh Gaikwad and Momammad Rashad, using Open Source GIS. Santosh Gaikwad, is a natural evangelist-cum-teacher-cum-developer. He has a knack of using a cocktail of various software for GIS, both open and closed source to entice those nearly 'sold/addicted', to the closed source GIS. Rashad, is a very good code developer of Open Source GIS. http://in.linkedin.com/in/rashadkm LSI-IIIT/lsiviewer has many unique graphics like popping out histograms of administrative entities etc, to endear Open Source GIS to the administrator. IIIT-H Developed Technology VRGeo Launched on July 20 | IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT-H Developed Technology VRGeo Launched on July 20 | IIIT Hyderabad July 26, 2012 Click here to download PDF View on iiit.ac.in Preview by Yahoo LSI-IIIT/lsiviewer lsiviewer - Libre Spatial Information Viewer View on github.com Preview by Yahoo Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando
+1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise. She is a right choise for OSGeo charter On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: +1 from me for Nimalika Fernando's contributions for OSGeo education efforts by helping establish ICA-OSGeo Labs in Sri Lanka and helping spread education opportunities for more students. Suchith -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: 31 July 2014 22:09 To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando Forwarding Nimalika Fernando nomination by Anne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Ghisla Date: 2014-07-31 9:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Nimalika Fernando To: c...@osgeo.org, nimalika fernando Hi Jorge, It is my pleasure to nominate Nimalika Fernando [0], from Sri Lanka, for Charter membership. Nimalika is attached to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) [1] and initiated the Institute's ICA-OSGeo Lab, named OSGeoSLIIT [2,3], that strongly focuses on free and open source software. In March 2014 she was instrumental in organising the first FOSS4G event in Sri Lanka [4],which was a success, with 60 participants including students from several Sri Lankan universities [5]. Yann Chemin introduced me to Nimalika when I visited Sri Lanka early this year, and I have soon been impressed by her enthusiasm and proactivity in spreading open source GIS, especially in education. I believe that her contribution in teaching is crucial to the future of OSGeo, as it connects the international experts in the field with young generation in Sri Lanka, where open source GIS can make a very positive impact. Best regards, Anne [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nimalika [1] SLIIT academic staff page http://www.sliit.lk/academic-staff/ [2] OSGeoSLIIT http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ [3] OSGeoSLIIT inauguration in February 2014 http://www.osgeo.org/node/1430 [4] FOSS4G Sri Lanka http://foss4gsrilanka.lk [5] FOSS4G Sri Lanka summary: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/srilanka/2014-February/23.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 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___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!
Dear all Charter members, this method of electing Charter members looks good to experiment with. Yes No and Abstain.. I have seen quite a few mails supporting candidates. As a Charter member I go by the recommendations, as it is impossible to really know each 'charter member to be elected'. But.. 'No and Abstain', if these are going to be used then some explanation is also due, before the election process begins. Because personally I believe, many of us will vote 'YES' (hopefully) to every 'charter member to be elected'. So it is likely they may find a place on the charter inspite of an 'Abstain or even a NO' by some who know them. I hope many of the charter members view this as a genuine predicament.. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:19 AM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another non-profit software org there is a hostile take-over trying to happen...so our bylaws on elections are very important. But if Venka and other Charter members want changes in the bylaws it should be made possible, and considered strongly by the Board. -jeff On 2014-08-01 7:40 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Venka, Further to Jorge's email, the reason we need to vote in charter members (rather than accepting everyone who applies) is to meet OSGeo bylaws which state that we need to vote in new charter members every year. The reason for the bylaws is to avoid hostile take-over. Admittedly very unlikely, but still possible. So we have changed our voting processes to try and be as inclusive as possible, basically aiming to ensure that everyone who is interested, and actively contributing toward OSGeo should be voted in for charter membership. On 2/08/2014 2:30 am, Jorge Sanz wrote: 2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp: What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be automatically elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules. Can you clarify please. Venka Hi Venka, thanks for raising the question. On previous years the Board allocated a number of seats and if there were more nominations than seats then elections were conducted, so some people could not get the membership if they were at the end of the ranking. Other years no election was needed because there were less nominations than seats, so everyone was automatically accepted. As was discussed in June[1], a new procedure was designed[2]. On this new procedure, there is no limit of seats for new charter members, the nominations are carried as every year but instead of having a number of seats, we will have a different criteria for accepting new members. Another difference is that instead of voting by e-mail, with 180 members, we will use an electronic voting system. For every nominee, current Charter Members will have to decide say Yes, No or Abstain for their acceptance. This way we assure that supported nominees are accepted. The criteria will be: - The nominee needs to have more Yes than No - The nominee needs to have more than 5% of Yes of voting members. And then we arrive to one VERY important point in my opinion. For me, the +1 and seconds on discuss mean a LOT, because maybe a I don't know the nominee, but I know many of the nominators and seconders, and I trust their criteria so they add points for me to vote a *Yes* instead of an *Abstain*. There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be accepted. Sorry for the long mail, I hope it makes sense!! Cheers [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-June/thread.html [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process ___ 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] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.
Dear all, I second Chaitanya's nomination. Chaitanya is a cool FOSS GIS programmer and promoter. He is quite a popular trainer at FOSS4G India 2012. He helped in developing web-gis for Rajahmundry GIS project, with indic translation. OSGeo will be enriched with Chaitanya on it's charter. Cheers Ravi Kumar On Friday, August 1, 2014 9:07 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp wrote: On 2014/08/02 0:09, K S Rajan wrote: Dear Community, I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of years, he has been actively sharing his technical knowledge at various FOSS4G training programmes conducted in India, has been a GSoC mentor and developing solutions. Chaitanya's profile can be seen at [1] I second the nomination of Chaitanya Kumar. He is a committed FOSS4G developer and a great trainer. Venka regards, Rajan [1] http://in.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyakumarch ___ 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] [Election 2014] Board Nomination for Jeff McKenna
It is a pleasure to +1 jeff's nomination for the OSGeo Board. Ravi Kumar On Monday, August 18, 2014 3:31 PM, Ivan Mincik ivan.min...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, +1 also from me. I really would like to be a member of organization leaded by people like Jeff. - -- Ivan Minčík ivan.min...@gmail.com GPG: 0x79529A1E http://imincik.github.io/0x79529A1E.key ivan.min...@gista.sk GPG: 0xD714B02C http://imincik.github.io/0xD714B02C.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT8c4dAAoJEPfdLsR5UpoevwsH/3MkdjuHv2TuYG6uWoENEQnH YmOxIEbJcjCc5naJiKnKM6jYyRsBalle0kzRN/ovOEFMV858w4nqCf/U6w7+FNE+ Wq8oGvvSvQB0iBu2O4pqZ/xePTV6rM9PdarYrnCtV+XLPZCZY9TKnoHumNFi4ZR6 6TCYK8AT6FdLwRWHNIECmZcYrq6i6/XJNvHz3wyVTGJX4feGLTS2yep0GSJ7VgBH Fm0Ay+4Ue8r69kJCRtekmujoFMX4JlXfsF6K5pTrd0P6I+PVhVs+uO52qWPnR69L 4XHDNB61TVn+uC/89UOdeaufZLiW/pKPOygkxBNGsrp6upzQa1jhcTspmTB5l9U= =1AkQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Fw: Openlayers (API) attribute pop-out
Dear all, unable to pop-out attribute information from Openlayers API to our choice box design. issues a, not so attractive pop-out. I wish to make it more presentable like a balloon etc. like with Google API. You may pl see our website on societal gis for a city in India. mana-rajahmundry.org . Pl give your general feed back on the website. ThanQ in advance Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members
This ' LocationTech and OSGeo collaboration ', appears to be some thing that the OSGeo Charter should involve and motivate opinion etc. Those at the helm may pl post a summary of the, 'storey so far'. On Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:23 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Just noting, discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo .. or LocationTech. It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly) developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good. If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position. Jachym 2014-09-17 22:42 GMT+02:00 P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com: My guess is, just as I do, most Charter Members find this entire thread very alien. For us who don't go to FOSS4G, OSGeo means something completely different (here is where I disagree with an earlier email--I think it was Jo Cook--that folks know OSGeo products but not OSGeo). To suddenly hear of all this chatter about FOSS4G being used as a football between OSGeo and LocationTech (an org I heard about for the first time also in this thread) is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers chatting in your living room. Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice thing to do. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local chapters, it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local chapters chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am sure they must have a view __ Steven On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, conference-europe-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: From: Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo Date: 17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST To: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Puneet, I agree with you, this is an hot decision that cannot be taken by a small group of people without at least have heard about what the OSGeo community think about. In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really feel the desire to help and foster geospatial open source software from those guys. BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event. For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and share it with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we need a deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter members, Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility to vote on this. So, my proposal is: 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of collaboration, commitments and guarantees 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for people to look into this proposal 3) Call for a vote from charter members 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local Chapters 5) Publish publicly the results 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a letter of motivation from the Board BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (http://foss4g-e.org/) states clearly at the home page: OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of discussion. It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've lost some best practice currently in place. Maxi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor Manager, Science and Data Policy Creative Commons ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Ravi Kumar___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Pl summarise LocationTech and OSGeo proposed collaboration
It will be clear to most charter members if some one helps summarise LocationTech and OSGeo proposed collaboration Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India Mysuru event
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#The_OSGeo_India_promoting_societal_GIS_for_the_city_of_Mysuru 3,4 Dec 2014. Welcome to join. Pl email Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Unable to Upload JPG on Wiki
Pl solve the problem of uploading Jpg/png on wiki. Has the method changed from the one on Wiki ? http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Upload Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Quiz to Make Open GIS and Open Data popular
Dear all, we are conducting a quiz to make students aware of the Open GIS and Open Data of the City of Rajahmundry. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli also pl see mana-rajahmundry.org and the Quiz under 'Quiz FAQ' menu. The three round quiz will have a final by end of January. Cheers Ravi Kumar ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for rejoining all OSGeo mailing lists
Dear OSGeo lists supervisorl, due to some problems with Yahoo emails to my earlier account ravivundavall...@yahoo.com bounced and received a warning from OSGeo lists supervisor. I wish to change them all to this account.. manarajahmundry2...@gmail.com Cheers Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-India 2015
http://www.slideshare.net/ravivundavalli/foss4-g2015india Ravi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
