[OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS! Conference, Moscow, Russia, Nov 21-22
Hi all, We're excited to announce that we're running Open GIS'2015 this November 21-22 (Sunday, Saturday) in Moscow, Russia (45 days left) First Open GIS conference happened in 2012 and brought together diverse crowd of 250 people from 150 organizations. We had about 50 presentations and 12 workshops. This year we expect at least the same numbers or more. We hope this will be a very positive, diverse and active event. This conference is grassroots and organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities (think FOSSGIS, but completely informal). Attendance and workshops are free. Though this is a national event, English-speaking presenters are very welcome. We already have few presentations and workshops from people from abroad (for example from Victor Olaya). We can guarantee lots of attention and challenging questions. If you're with a company this might be a major 'undeveloped market' for your products. Please let me know if you'd like to come. You will most probably will require a visa, but there is plenty of time to get one. Your participation is critical for building stronger ties between technically apt, but isolated user community here and outside open source geospatial world. We're also looking for sponsors, primarily to cover travel for international visitors and may be students. Hope to see you in Moscow. Maxim Dubinin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Open GIS! Conference, Moscow, Russia, Nov 17-18
Hi all, As promised, formal announcement and invitation. We've excited to invite everyone to the upcoming conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities. Nov 17-18, Moscow, Russia (84 days left!) More information here: http://gisconf.ru/en/ We've already representatives from more than 80 different organizations (150+ people total) registered (mostly Russian) which is quite inspiring. We hope this will be a very positive, diverse event beneficial for everyone. Please register if you'd like to come, this will help us a lot with programming. Do not hesitate to contact us at i...@gisconf.ru if you have any questions. Maxim Dubinin http://gis-lab.info PS: apologies for some duplication. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia Hi all, let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week. Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects. This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts fromhttp://gis-lab.infoand hopefully OpenStreetMap community. I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me. I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo. Thanks for your interest, glad to know the news spread before any formal announcement :) Maxim http://m-d.me 25 2012 ., 20:52:57: Folks, is anybody monitoring / aware of this event:http://gisconf.ru/en/ If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on. Cheers, Arnulf -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us ___ 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: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?
Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010? Simon, I was merely suggesting an approach. As I said, we didn't have a goal to inform other what Desktop GIS is the best, we just wanted to present a model dataset for many different packages, so that a person can try and choose by himself. However, there are some notes for each package at the bottom of the page. Personally, I have a favorite, of course, but I don't think this is appropriate to describe it here. That said, I think this will be relatively easy to construct a matrix based on our experience with missing bits for this particular task. We're currently going through updating software and this project and will discuss this among participants. Maxim 20 2009 ., 16:52:06: Maxim, I looked at the webpage but could not find an outcome -- which system worked the best? Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020. P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437. mailto: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au Maxim Dubinin wrote: Sometime ago, we were also interested in why are there so many desktop open GIS packages. So what we did was the following, we created a model project with several groups of different type layers and recreated it with 10+ packages, opensource, proprietory, even some web-based ones. It is was quite interesting exercise, where a dozen of people participated and it was pretty clear in the end where opensource GIS are in comparison with proprietory and in between themselves. Of course this only covers simple project building and does not compare analysis etc. Moreover, the initial goal of this dataset was not comparison, but easy start with any common desktop GIS package + assistance to devs and education purposes, some ability to conclude which one was better was sort of a side-effect. You can check the results here, (originally in Russian): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=yprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8layout=1eotf=1u=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-lab.info%2Fqa%2Fgeosample.htmlsl=rutl=en Maxim ___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] opensource GIS case studies
Hi all, We're preparing a roundtable discussion on the topic of Opensource GIS to take place on rather big GIS event in Russia in about a week and I looking for some information that can attract more users and developers to geospatial opensource. The audience will be rather diverse, governmental officials, business, researchers. My goal is to make a stronger point on the benefits of opensource GIS software by including some numbers or case studies clearly illustrating such benefits. I have plenty of info on what software is there and how it can be used, but not much on the monetary side. I will be helpful for any hints, links etc that can provide examples of the actual use of osgis software especially by businesses and governments, comparisons, benefits or may be problems. I studied OSGeo case studies wiki already and was wondering if there are some classics I've missed. I'd be also grateful for any suggestion from the people who may be already coordinated or participated in such discussion. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Maxim http://gis-lab.info skype: maximdubinin jabber: s...@gis-lab.info ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
