Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo design
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:19:19PM +, Jo Cook wrote: > Responding to Arnulf's tweet about the new site design ( > http://twitter.com/#!/sevenspatial/status/128711440596078592), I think it's The design is ok, but the content is confusing. Catchphrases like "Deliver Flexibility" that say nothing and then links arbitrarily collected below those catchphrases make sure that you have to hunt through every link on the page before you find the one you want. And how do those categories relate to the "About Us", "Participate", etc. links on the top right. "Sign up to our mailing lists or check out the Getting Started page.." on top and then you have to search in the page for the link to the "mailing lists" (which is there) and the link to "Getting Started" which is not. And no news on the main page. The old web page is much easiert to navigate. Take the old page layout, fix a few things here or there and use the design elements from the new web page. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:31:43AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > a) Difficulty in meet people since we were all spread > > out and there was not much info about common meeting > > points > > Not really sure what you mean about this. I mean, we > were all in the conference center; the OSGeo Booth > was a reasonably easy to find meeting space, etc. On > each evening, I successfully gathered a crowd of 20+ > for dinner, thanks to having a number of ways to pre-assign > spots to meet up, and so on. One very nice idea I saw at a different conference was this: People with local knowledge reserved seats in nearby restaurants. Not huge amounts, but just 10 or 15 for each restaurant. They then put the info up on a board at the conference. Just restaurant type, name, and address. And space for people to write in their name. This way people who don't have any other plans can self-allocate to one of the seats. Optionally you can also have subjects or themes for each restaurant. The whole thing is easy to set up for the organisers and uses the knowledge of the local attendees. > > c) No ice-breaker > > I think that with 800 attendees, it gets really hard to host > an ice breaker event practically. Even in Lausanne, the icebreaker > event was pretty hard to actually meet people; imagining it > with 2-3 times as many people seems impossible. Maybe have several different ice-breaker events then. :-) > > e) Lunch at least on the first day was a sea of people and > >great difficulty in getting to the food. Choose to grab > >a sandwich nearby coffee shop > > I think a lot of this comes down to unfortunate assumptions > about the size of the conference. The Organizing committee > can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that much > of the conference was designed around the idea of 500 attendees; > food, wireless, etc. were initially targeted for that. With the > conference ending up at almost 900, some of the things that are > limited by physical resources ended up being a bit ... tighter > than expected :) Aeh. No, this is due to the caterer beeing clueless. There is absolutely no problem doing catering for 800 people in a short amount of time in the space we had there. I have seen it done before. You just have to set up the food in a different way. For instance by having more than two lines. Or by having a different and well-announced place to go to for just salad. So that some people go get salad and only go for the other food later. > > h) AGM should be planned well in advance. The idea of canceling > >Local Chapter Reports and Committee reports was not a good one > > These two statements are unrelated. > > Local Chapter and committee reports are no longer practical to do > in a situation where we have all attendees participating. Unless > you limit them to 1 minute per (most people want something more like 5), > it's 2 hours just to do local chapters, another hour for committes, > and another 2 hours for projects. > > I discussed with some people the idea of having an "What's what in > OSGeo" 'track' -- during breaks, lunches, or possibly alongside > presentations -- that would let local chapters and projects > present. This would give groups a longer time to talk about what they > were doing, and would give people who are interested in what local > chapters are doing a 'default' place to go during these times. > > Neither of these solutions is ideal, but short of turning the > AGM into an all day event, i don't think it's practical to include > local chapter reports in the AGM. Thats true, on the other hand there was a lot of "What is OsGeo" introductory stuff in the AGM that most attendees probably already knew. There is some room for improvement. :-) But I think you are right: This doesn't all have to be in the AGM. How about this: In every coffee break one or two local chapters present themselves. Can be done in the poster area. A few people are interested in several countries, but many people probably only want to know what their own country is doing. This gives them a little bit of information and a few contacts to build upon. Maybe same thing for projects. Could also be combined with the restaurant idea from above. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server
Thanks, I actually looked at the degree demo server and found at least the layers I tested to be empty. :-( And because of the size restriction I can't use it in my case anyway. And thanks for the other suggestions on this list. None so far solve my problem. I do not have a WMS client with a user interface where people could go through the layers list to chose one. (And then maybe wonder, why this particular layer doesn't work in this case or so.) I only have a config file which needs a WMS URL, layer and SRS at a minimum. Something that ideally will never change. I don't want to hardcode a layer that might not exist anymore tomorrow. Of course I can set this up easily myself, but would prefer to do it somewhere where it benefits other people and the community as a whole can support it. Jochen On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:11:07AM +0200, Judit Mays wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:11:07 +0200 > From: Judit Mays > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server > > Hi Jochen, > > The deegree demo server [1] hosts a WMS as well. It always runs with the > latest stable version of deegree. > > The Base-URL for the deegree WMS [2], an example for the GetCapabilities > [3] and, last but not least, an example for serving OSM slippy maps via > WMS [4] as direct data source are also available. > > [1]http://demo.deegree.org > [2]http://demo.deegree.org/deegree-wms/services? > [3]http://demo.deegree.org/deegree-wms/services?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.1&service=WMS > [4]http://demo.deegree.org/deegree-wms/wms.jsp > -> "Special features of deegree WMS" > > Greetings, > Judit > > > Jochen Topf schrieb: > > I am just working on a piece of Open Source software that can access WMS > > servers. I'd like to have some kind of demo server that could be configured > > in the software by default so that people have a working configuration > > directly after install which makes it easier for them to get going. The > > server doesn't have to do much, just deliver a simple world map or so. > > > > I looked around a bit for suitable demo servers, but didn't find any. It > > should be something with a reasonable chance that it will be around for a > > while. > > > > I could imagine that other people have the same problem. How about having > > such a WMS server on a OSGeo host somewhere? I don't expect a huge amount > > of load on such a server, its just for demo and not for actual use, really. > > > > What do you think about this? I don't have access to any OSGeo hosts, but > > would be willing to help with the setup. > > > > Jochen > > -- > l a t / l o n GmbH > Aennchenstrasse 19 53177 Bonn, Germany > phone ++49 +228 18496-0fax ++49 +228 18496-29 > http://www.lat-lon.de http://www.deegree.org > Follow deegree on Twitter: http://twitter.com/deegree_org > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Demo WMS server
I am just working on a piece of Open Source software that can access WMS servers. I'd like to have some kind of demo server that could be configured in the software by default so that people have a working configuration directly after install which makes it easier for them to get going. The server doesn't have to do much, just deliver a simple world map or so. I looked around a bit for suitable demo servers, but didn't find any. It should be something with a reasonable chance that it will be around for a while. I could imagine that other people have the same problem. How about having such a WMS server on a OSGeo host somewhere? I don't expect a huge amount of load on such a server, its just for demo and not for actual use, really. What do you think about this? I don't have access to any OSGeo hosts, but would be willing to help with the setup. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Dumping empty PostGIS table into Shp
Hi! I am dumping a bunch of PostGIS tables into Shape files. If a table is empty, an empty shape file should be generated (otherwise there are problems down the line because of the missing file). I can't get pgsql2shp or ogr2ogr to dump empty tables, though. Any ideas? Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
