Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?
Il 25/03/2017 12:56, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto: > They do, but at the same time, we wouldn't be where we are now > in terms of civilisation development. yin/yang Not quite sure about that: Mateusz, do you have a reference to support this? All the best, and thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all=IT=qgis,arcgis ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?
Il 12/05/2016 23:57, Bruce Bannerman ha scritto: > Has anyone done a recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing > capability? > > It would be interesting to see where we stand now with FOSS4G software > functionality. > > It appears that this is what ESRI is using to compare the functionality > of their various license levels: > > https://esriaustralia.com.au/u/lib/cms/arcgis1021-desktop-functionality-matrix.pdf > > Is there something comparable (that also refers to additional capability > that is offered via OS? Hi Bruce, previous attempts proved difficult, as a proper comparison involves a lot of work. The ESRI document seems a good starting point. Unsure we would be allowed to reuse it. Would you be willing to help filling up the table for some free GIS? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FDO Oracle driver
Il 08/03/2016 09:08, Johan Van de Wauw ha scritto: > All providers can be found in svn. > > Check kingoracle: > https://svn.osgeo.org/fdo/trunk/Providers/ Thanks Johan. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FDO Oracle driver
Il 08/03/2016 08:37, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: > Hi all, > anyone knows the state of this? It seems an OSgeo project: > https://fdo.osgeo.org/fdooracle/index.html > but the site seems down. > Is the code available somewhere? It's responding now. However, I cannot find the source code: anyone has a link? All the best, and thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List
Il 12/02/2016 12:01, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: > Il 12/02/2016 10:27, Markus Neteler ha scritto: >>> There is information about how to create a mailinglist on the wiki, can I >>> just follow this? >> >> Yes, that link I posted in Paolo's ticket, here again: >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists solved, thanks to all, kudos to Jorge! all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List
Il 12/02/2016 10:27, Markus Neteler ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Oliver May <oliver@geomajas.org> wrote: >> I have the same problem, (you did actually get a reply, right?). > > I had replied with a question to Paolo :) Sorry I overlooked that - now replied. >> I created a trac ticket bu no reply yet, >> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1617#ticket. >> >> Is there any way I can help the SAC with this, or just do it myself? > > Yeah, this is better discussed on the SAC mailing list. > >> There is information about how to create a mailinglist on the wiki, can I >> just follow this? > > Yes, that link I posted in Paolo's ticket, here again: > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists > > /me travelling > Markus > > PS: A comment for this list: I continue to propose to pay an > interested SAC member (not me) for some hours to get rid of a series > of open SAC tickets. The volunteering approach doesn't always scale as > we want. +1 from me. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List
Il 04/02/2016 11:18, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: > Il 04/02/2016 11:13, Fenoy Gerald ha scritto: >> Dear Paolo, >> you should use the OSGeo’s Trac system [1] and fill a ticket there with your >> detailed request for mailing list creation. > > Done now, thanks. Ticket opened, but got no reply. https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1614#ticket Any way to speed this up? All the best, and thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List
Il 04/02/2016 11:13, Fenoy Gerald ha scritto: > Dear Paolo, > you should use the OSGeo’s Trac system [1] and fill a ticket there with your > detailed request for mailing list creation. Done now, thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Mailing List
Hi all, whom should we ask to create a new mailing list? I tried mail...@lists.osgeo.org, sac-ow...@lists.osgeo.org, and s...@lists.osgeo.org but got no reply. All the best, and thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live metrics going public in next 9.5 release
Il 31/01/2016 04:38, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: > Most OSGeo-Live projects have very compelling metrics, demonstrating an > established and active development community. However, there are a few > projects where OpenHub metrics are dated, incorrectly suggesting a lack > of project activity. As such, I encourage all projects to review their > OpenHub metrics before the next OSGeo-Live release, and update where > appropriate. > > Start by looking here: http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html > > If you have any questions, please ping me, or one of the other people in > the OSGeo-Live team. Thanks Cameron, unfortunately, due to svn-git migration, our commit stats for the first year of life of the project are lost. We did some research on how to fix this, but couldn't succeed. Same is true, unfortunately, also for github: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/graphs/contributors If anyone has ideas on how to fix this, it would be welcomed. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo guidelines for code hosting ?
Il 18/10/2015 12:34, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto: > I see the benefits that Andrea mentioned, and I believe that even if the > official OSGeoLive copy moves back to OSGeo infrastructure, we will > probably keep a copy on GitHub for project visibility and for accepting > pull requests... Lets keep in mind that Linux kernel project is doing > exactly the same: they host the kernel code under kernel.org and have a > copy on GitHub as a backup. This makes sense to me. Looks simmple and effective, not disrupting workflow for exixting projects. > It is true that GitHub is not Free Software, so IMO we should not be > depending on it. I see the ethical issues that arise from using a non > Free provider +1 Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.
Il 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett ha scritto: > I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free > for open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps > a lot in getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But > ... in two years, they may start shipping sponsors links at the end > of the Readme files, and in a moments notice you have to watch 20 > seconds ads before cloning. At this point, you will want to bail > out, only to find out that in fact you can not, because you can not > delete the project anymore, or the issue tracker database can not be > exported ... > > > Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy of > the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ... I think the concerns about GH are real. I feel uneasy putting strategic pieces of infrastructure in the hands of a company is risky over the long term. It is true that we have a copy of the whole code base and history, but the scenarios suggested are possible and worrisome. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Asahi Kosuke
Il 30/08/2015 10:36, Nobusuke Iwasaki ha scritto: Dear list, I'm also would like to nominate Kosuke ASAHI as Charter member. +1 -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Sebastiaan Couwenberg
Il 28/08/2015 13:53, Just van den Broecke ha scritto: +1 Bas' contributions to the Debian GIS project are of great worth to the OSGeo community +1 -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Jürgen E. Fischer
Il 28/08/2015 16:13, Vincent Picavet (ml) ha scritto: Hello, On 26/08/2015 11:18, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: Forwarding Jürgen E. Fischer nomination by Anne Ghisla. +1 too, I would'nt have guessed Jef wasn't already a Charter Member ! +1 -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Great momentum for our Openness in Geoeducation mission
Il 24/01/2015 11:54, Suchith Anand ha scritto: OSGeo colleagues, It is a great pleasure to inform you all that we now have over 2000 students registered for the free MOOC course on Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS which is excellent momentum for our Openness in GeoEducation mission. Details at http://www.osgeo.org/node/1494 I am fully confident that with the dedication and efforts of you all in the future through our various instruments (OSGeo Live, MOOCs, various university programs, and more importantly a excellent network of great minds) , this will create educational opportunities for hundreds of thousands of students globally. We look forward to working with you all for making geospatial education, software and opportunities accessible to all. Thanks to all of your efforts which make this possible. Great news Suchith. Please during the course underline the importance of not only using QGIS, but also contributing back, in one of the many possible ways of doing so. Also, I would feel appropriate, given such a large audience, contributing back from the course organizers. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members
Il 17/09/2014 22:42, P Kishor ha scritto: 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. +1 I share Puneet feelings. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee
Il 02/07/2014 12:20, Andrea Aime ha scritto: Dirk++ ! +1 to Dirk and Even. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Vienna Code Sprint 2014 - media reach out
Il 01/04/2014 21:15, Jeff McKenna ha scritto: And thanks to Stephan and all of the local organizers for a wonderful code sprint! It was great to have so many OSGeo project teams working under the same roof, I really hope this type of sprint happens again. Thanks also from the QGIS team - an excellent organization, setting up a very productive and enjoyable working environment. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ML statistics
Il 19/02/2014 14:50, Jeff McKenna ha scritto: Hi Martin, Yes I try to maintain that Stats page, but I do lag behind. Markus has a wonderful cron job that emails me stats every month. Here they are for February 1st: Thanks. Wouldn't be interesting to put the stats in a public place? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 24/09/2013 02:08, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto: I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks incubation process. Hi all. Incubation is not an issue. The problem, IMHO, is to find a good and productive governance model. Ideas? All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJBM48ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6h1wCfe52QTao6SbOl8NHI7Z49psD6 4cMAnR/5kqK/rqReWSbqErGuEbmcFt2h =/NX2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2013 10:41, Daniel Morissette ha scritto: Personally I'd treat OSGeo4W as a software project, with a PSC, committers, etc. We should do the same with OSGeo-Live actually, take it out of the Marketing committee and treat it as a sofware project which is what it si really is. Then projects (OSGeo4W and OSGeo-Live) can apply for incubation when they are resdy, etc. Hi Daniel, I see two possibilities here: * osgeo4w is an official foundation project, and as such it does not need to apply for incubation (it would be circular reasoning); in this case the PSC should be appointed by the foundation, or * it is an independent project, thus following the usual procedure; in this case, better not to use the osgeo4w name and logo, and let the devs self organize. Thoughts? All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJAWYEACgkQ/NedwLUzIr5mowCfR7mK5Pc4ilRIiDFcNeVhoXg6 P1AAnjXOOrS223GxtOajjoxdARUD0h1M =qzGS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2013 10:35, Tamas Szekeres ha scritto: I'd suggest Mateusz an Jeff should also be invited (if they have time). Any other who is involved in packaging Windows stuff, please feel free to check in as well. I personally would welcome any interested and active party involved. Please note that PSC is a subset of it, however. To me it makes not much sense to have all devs in the PSC. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJAWgQACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6JggCfYyFc10gWxhfxqLAYzsyInkt7 lA0An2yyGdmGOLU9dVePwtKUwkTepeRg =cJGN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO4W future
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23/09/2013 20:46, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: From what I can gather from the outside, it seems osgeo4w's primary requirement is a 1+ dedicated developer(s) who will drive the core functions of the project. Namely, setting a release schedule, chasing developers for contributions, triaging bug lists, etc. This can be done with or without a PSC or official OSGeo endorsement. I slightly disagree with this: what we mainly need IMHO is a clear direction, and therefore a mechanism to take decisions (e.g. the approach from Tamas is quite interesting, and different from the current one; Mateusz has suggested an alternative route; etc.). When there is a reliable roadmap, I think resources (time~money) can be found from our Windows user base. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJAmBgACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6pfACghf3NAyZ9w65RK0Z4PiABGSXq rvIAoKFcVKa4ffcsyhk1f63oNPzRAfxT =lMIR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 2013-09-22 00:35, Tamas Szekeres wrote: And so on (anyone is welcomed to add further experiences or ideas) Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board, could this be a special OSGeo committee? Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO4W future
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. OSGEO4W is a crucial piece of our infrastructure, and is one of the main services we are giving for the spread of GFOSS. I think it does not get the attention it deserves. The active developer team is very small, many packages are obsolete, and their update is far from regular. I'm not blaming everybody, I sincerely thank those who contribute; I just try to be objective. I think we should move forward quickly. I suggest to make a Steering Committee for OSGEO4W, so to have a clear roadmap, and give Windows (urgh!) users a predictable environment. I think some of our million users would be happy to support this effort, if they would know they contribute actively to something they need. My previous efforts to raise this question and to improve the situation have met with no success. I think time is now ripe to act. I'm available to help. All the best, and thanks. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlI8kA0ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6nYACfVOGRkOEVUCQH0dCO8ku9a5l6 7cUAnRR7nGRLcHZ1BnOlY9YHgy5orWeG =tOOt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 2013-09-21 03:01, Alex Mandel wrote: We can't give out Windows Virtual Machine(VM) images with Visual Studio I think standalone binaries are really the only way to go for the average Win user. Thanks for your thoughts. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO4W future
Done, thanks. Glad to see things are moving. I think before tackling the tech issues, we have a problem with governance here: once we have a PSC, we can go on deciding the way to go. Before that, we risk having discussions, duplications, and few packages. Glad to see we have a good response now. Thanks Frank. All the best. On 2013-09-21 04:20, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Paolo, As you know I am in support of establishing a PSC for the OSGeo4W project, and would be pleased to participate. I would encourage you to email osgeo4w-dev and lets get this under way. (unable to sleep at 3am in Notthingham) Best regards, Frank On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it [6] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. OSGEO4W is a crucial piece of our infrastructure, and is one of the main services we are giving for the spread of GFOSS. I think it does not get the attention it deserves. The active developer team is very small, many packages are obsolete, and their update is far from regular. Im not blaming everybody, I sincerely thank those who contribute; I just try to be objective. I think we should move forward quickly. I suggest to make a Steering Committee for OSGEO4W, so to have a clear roadmap, and give Windows (urgh!) users a predictable environment. I think some of our million users would be happy to support this effort, if they would know they contribute actively to something they need. My previous efforts to raise this question and to improve the situation have met with no success. I think time is now ripe to act. Im available to help. All the best, and thanks. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu [1] Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc [2] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ [3] iEYEARECAAYFAlI8kA0ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6nYACfVOGRkOEVUCQH0dCO8ku9a5l6 7cUAnRR7nGRLcHZ1BnOlY9YHgy5orWeG =tOOt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org [4] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [5] -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com [7] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam [8] and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer Links: -- [1] http://www.faunalia.eu [2] http://www.faunalia.eu/pc [3] http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ [4] mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org [5] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss [6] mailto:cavall...@faunalia.it [7] mailto:warmer...@pobox.com [8] http://pobox.com/~warmerdam -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] time for inspire committee at osgeo?
Good idea, we are interested and ready to help if necessary. Thanks. Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi, I'm working on some presentation about OSGeo relationship to INSPIRE directive (some preliminary czech version of presentation, which should be presented at this years INSPIRE conference [1]) And it came to my mind, that OSGeo does not have any body, related to INSPIRE [2] While I agree, INSPIRE is mainly EU-only topic, I think, implementing INSPIRE has big market potential and software, which does not indicate support for INSPIRE is banned from to be used in public organizations in EU. I believe, also rest of the world can profit from changes, necessary to be implemented in EU. Therefore I would consider INSPIRE committee in OSGeo as important body, which would coordinate efforts of OSGeo projects towards INSPIRE, so that we could declare: OSGeo projects are INSPIRE ready or we are working on it. Any opinions to this? I'm personally usually against forming yet another committee, but in this case, I do not see the topic to be covered and it really is important issue here. Jachym [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013-paper [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- http://faunalia.it/pc Sorry for being short___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Case Study
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 15/05/2013 02:37, Landon Blake ha scritto: I'm looking for a case study on the application of open source geospatial software that I can include in Volume 12 of the Journal. Please let me know if you'd be willing to share your organizations experience using open source geospatial software and we can talk more off list. Hi Landon, have you seen http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html ? All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGTIeQACgkQ/NedwLUzIr7fhgCcCoEJUcUXRVsR/54QrySXbWHG /5wAnjpVIPAIzLSNGaDgH5LzJIioBv2G =RqUY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire conference 2013
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14/03/2013 18:41, Jachym Cepicky ha scritto: 4) Same applies for workshop, which will be longer, each project has chance to prepare custom presentation, ideally presented by someone from the community, but not necessarily. Workshop will be more technically oriented. Hi all. Sorry I couldn't make it. I have very little time to spare, but if I can be useful, especially from the QGIS side, I'm ready. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFCHkQACgkQ/NedwLUzIr4qfgCeI4wsRl3xCWuS6EXriQthXWuu 9aIAn0XAqSMbLN19clv3dg+iLaTvSA1L =qBGI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire conference 2013
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 08/03/2013 21:30, Jachym Cepicky ha scritto: I would support this. Anybody else, who will be anyway there? +1 - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE61OAACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6I/gCfdIgubPctYQ/L9yWbLZTkRI7W 5vQAoIXon6pdwCczpWaeAMNo8tUO7HB1 =yo2n -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 08/03/2013 16:16, Steven Feldman ha scritto: I've been following the conversation that was prompted by Paolo's comment about FOSS4G pricing We are trying to balance the need to have an economically viable conference that covers costs and returns funds to OSGeo (which is what we were asked to do) with making the event as affordable and accessible as possible. We consulted with the OSGeo Board on how to balance these objectives before finalising our prices. Hi all. We have shown that admitting for free a limited number of top developers from OSGeo core projects, that could not otherwise attend, will not be a cost to the conference, but an opportunity. The attitude shown confirms the widespread feeling of a modest attention to developers, and of the primary aim of FOSS4G as a moneymaking machine. To me, developers are really the blood and nerves of free software, and should be cared of. This closure to a reasonable proposal does not shed a bight light on OSGeo, too. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE635YACgkQ/NedwLUzIr68oACgqpb/1RUSnGBjQy03BuMMhNsD sxgAnjNoUb3ejZCHA3EjpQ8FEVWOft5N =4lyF -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events: [was RE: FW: [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 07/03/2013 12:03, Barry Rowlingson ha scritto: Given the recent strategic message, I don't think its in the local FOSS4G committee's role to provide bursaries beyond the well-established student discount - certainly not for 2013 Nottingham anyway. If OSGEO want to do that, then they can consider it as a skim off the conference profits. I'm sure the local committee will be glad to point people to OSGEO bursaries from the conference web page. We just need to hear from OSGEO purse-holders to see if they are willing. I think we already have someone providing education-related bursaries, so there's a precedent. Hi Barry, I think we are mixing two issues here: * 0 fees for developers - as I pointed out, this is not a cost for the conference, but rather an advantage (participants are more likely to come if the know most top developers are present); my suggestion is that this should become a requirement from OSGeo * bursaries to cover travelling and lodging; this is outside my original proposal, and should be treated differently. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE4dPwACgkQ/NedwLUzIr4FrwCgmb0PM/HIDR8osmZnI+/dZi0u sycAn3NZBz/G6tS2bDrsW6H9ZQeV+Epm =me4v -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events: [was RE: FW: [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 05/03/2013 00:51, Frank Warmerdam ha scritto: Possibly a scheme were each formal OSGeo project could nominate two or three contributors to attend at the student rate? sounds good. thanks. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE3UysACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6jTwCfQMmS+gSxXNud/Uu70AIOEOoB YJwAniQdCD0Cbe43yB9cU7ykqjM+svsw =EZOB -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 04/03/2013 09:06, Barry Rowlingson ha scritto: The problem with making FOSS4G cheaper (I think free would be too much) why? I do not see an issue here. If I wear my businessman het, I'd be happy to pay also for developers participation (it's meeting real developers that makes the conference so interesting and unique, compared with proprietary stuff). I know for sure many top developers are not coming, and that makes FOSS4G less interesting that it could be. for developers would be deciding who was a developer. easy: regular committers of OSGeo projects. All the best, and thanks for your thoughts. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE0VzsACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6YPgCffLTFdZgsFSRc9398OMN/fwgJ IqoAnRFlAjFGiFTRk8bblq7JRIzMihwC =aG3G -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo as organization at Ohloh?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 01/03/2013 03:36, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: Mateusz, A few months back I did some ground work into sourcing stats for the OSGeo-Live project. This information still needs to be cleaned up (get a full list of projects, make sure we are sourcing correct data, etc), but it probably would be a good starting point for you. http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html Hi Cameron, thanks for that. A few notes: * http://www.ohloh.net/p/qgis should be removed; the good one is http://www.ohloh.net/p/3663 * http://www.ohloh.net/p/grass_gis is missing. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEwV3cACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6XXwCeKcaIYmSisrSFiGtbvpAuStHl M4oAn2IH6aoiSC0s9I6/qHnOTwcAsT3N =XJxS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS community sprint in Genova, Feb 2nd to Feb 9th, 2013
Il 24/01/2013 21:09, Nikos Alexandris ha scritto: From my very user point of view, given the current participation plan, I 'll have the opportunity to: - meet freeriders Markus Neteler, Massimiliano Canata, Paolo Cavalini honoured by that - unfortunately I'll not be at the CS, arriving only on the 6th. hope to see you all then. enjoy your coding! -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mapping advice
Il giorno 04/gen/2013 14:57, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com mailto:joc...@astuntechnology.com ha scritto: Just one thing- you need Mapserver (or Geoserver as an alternative) and something like OpenLayers to form the online mapping component. Mapserver does the work of non necessarily: you can use QGIS-server as well (already integrated into QGIS). All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certified software policy within international aid agencies
Il 23/11/2012 14:52, maning sambale ha scritto: While manning our OSGeo booth in a geo conference today. An employee of an international aid agency approached me and said while they very much like to try many of our software, they can't easily install them because they have strict IT policy that requires that a software should be certified by their organization. Hi Maning, could you please ask them what exactly is their certification programme, and how to access it? It will probably be just boring nonsense, but it might be interesting to understand the process anyway. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013
Il 18/10/2012 17:17, Barry Rowlingson ha scritto: might distract the developers! And nobody wants to pay to come to the conference if they are going to be sitting in the GeoCamp drinking beer and working on a project most of the time. Agreed, I do not think devs should pay to participate to a FOSS event. Business puts the money, devs the code. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto: GPL is dying, of natural causes. http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards, is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon? -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did anyone else see this article on OSGeo?
Il 09/07/2012 23:19, Landon Blake ha scritto: It was in GPS World: http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/gss-weekly/open-source-gis-12997?utm_source=GSSutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Geospatial-Weekly_05_17_2012utm_content=open-source-gis-12997 pity for the usual FUD about lack of support. thanks for letting us know. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Did anyone else see this article on OSGeo?
Il 10/07/2012 18:47, Anne Ghisla ha scritto: This readings urges me to continue spreading the word about FOSS[GIS] and help users to become more conscious and informed wrt software choice. Agreed, spreading the right word is a major task for all free software organisations. I wrote the author, asking to rectify his article; I hope this helps too. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 16/06/2012 22:58, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto: I totally agree with Stefano and Maria. We should try to join forces and learn from each other. Especially smaller groups like the Greek Chapter can benefit a lot in experience and promotion through such procedures and grow faster. Hi all. In Italy we have a long history of successful meetings; we (the GFOSS community at large) started with GRASS meetings, and in the last 4 years we (the GFOSS.it association) have also added (at 6 months interval) a GFOSS Days meeting. The two have different aims, the first more academic, the second more targeted towards Public Administration and business, even though many key people attend both. My suggestion for a Mediterranean (or whatever) meeting: focus clearly on a target, do not try to catch everybody: business meeting should be organized differently form, say developer ones. If you think we can be of help,just ask. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/e2zYACgkQ/NedwLUzIr4F6QCfXkqmhu9TRSQ0Lp1XYwZsTNdR R/YAn3+Yq85RFeccHdk1wjJCzooqkjeJ =sHb1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Libraries to support OSGEO metadata standards
Il 13/06/2012 14:50, Markus Neteler ha scritto: While I have no direct suggestion, here a link list which I started some time ago: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Metadata_software Thanks Markus for this. Perhaps it would be appropriate adding http://pycsw.org/ ? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Libraries to support OSGEO metadata standards
Il 13/06/2012 15:45, Markus Neteler ha scritto: It is a wiki - please edit it. done (BTW: there is no single signon on osgeo?) -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Future perspectives for OSGeo
Il 02/05/2012 19:04, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) ha scritto: We see new opportunities by starting joint activities with the Eclipse foundation - which is in the process of spawning activities explicitly focused on geospatial. They have lots of high level contacts but lack a noteworthy community. This is where we in turn did exceptionally well, we are perceived as *the* global voice for open source geospatial. Hi Arnulf. Thanks for your thoughts and work. As everybody knows, the free GIS community is unfortunately split, more or less deeply, in two tribes (C/C++ and Java). I must admit I do not know the Eclipse community very well, so my words could be inappropriate, but given the presumably strong tie between Eclipse and Java, I am slightly worried that the move you propose would make OSGeo perceived as more Java-inclined. Being the global voice, as you pointed out, is OSGeo strength, and should not be missed. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted at Google Summer of Code!
Il 16/03/2012 22:09, Anne Ghisla ha scritto: What to do now? - OSGeo projects: confirm your participation by replying to this email QGIS confirms its participation. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSM2NetworkDataset Version 1.1 available
Il 07/11/2011 11:36, Ann Hitchcock ha scritto: Dear List, The Geoprocessing Community announces a new release of OSM2NetworkDataset! Version 1.1 now supports ArcGIS 10.0, as well as ArcGIS 9.3.1. New features include restrictions for tracktype, smoothness, surface, and maxwidth. What licence does this have? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSM2NetworkDataset Version 1.1 available
Il 07/11/2011 11:40, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: The Geoprocessing Community announces a new release of OSM2NetworkDataset! Version 1.1 now supports ArcGIS 10.0, as well as ArcGIS 9.3.1. New features include restrictions for tracktype, smoothness, surface, and maxwidth. What licence does this have? oh, I see: Apache2. Certainly the requirement of using proprietary software questions about its appropriateness in this list. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: AW: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSM2NetworkDataset Version 1.1 available
Il 07/11/2011 12:05, Ann Hitchcock ha scritto: Hi Paolo, Sorry, just wanted to inform not step on any toes! sorry if I was rude - that's not what I meant all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?
Il 11/10/2011 07:07, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: 1) What GFOSS or OSGeo projects have looked a bounty system and are either implementing it or hope to implement it. If you are offering up suggestions for pay for this great new feature, that might apply as well. I'd love to know how you are implementing it. We (QGIS) are doing this. Administration of the thing is proving difficult, but we keep on. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] help with catalog of OGC services
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 07:12:47 +0200, Jeroen Ticheler jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net wrote: Hi John, You can configure GeoNetwork to automatically create the metadata for you for each layer in your services (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, SOS are all supported). See also http://pycsw.org/ (BTW: I could not find a comparison of the scopes and characteristics of the two - does anybody know?). All the best. -- http://faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] error in patch
Please send your request to grass-user ML. Al the best. Il giorno ven, 30/09/2011 alle 09.08 +0200, marco.donn...@tiscali.it ha scritto: hallo I have some vector maps (hydrographic basin with some attributes like name, mean elevation etc...). -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] advise on WYSIWYG sld editor
Il 04/08/2011 06:34, maning sambale ha scritto: Are there other WYSIWYG options for creating SLD out there? I personally prefer QGIS as the main app for composing the layers and then export the style either the project file (.qgs) or the saved layer style (.qml) We (Faunalia) will work on this (SLD in QGIS) in the near future - stay tuned! All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Any projects dealing with spatial joins?
Il 30/06/2011 00:30, Bruce, Bob (CON) ha scritto: Steve, I’m pretty sure that the QGIS project could use your talents as a C++ developer. They have been talking about table joins for awhile now. Table joins are implemented in QGIS now, in an efficient way. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Fw: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification
Il 14/06/2011 07:07, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au ha scritto: How about making contact with an existing professional organisation that specialises in providing training to the GIS community? Like URISA? Urban and Regional Information Systems Association www.urisa.org or an organisation that specialises in GIS certification? Like the GIS certification institute? www.gisci.org Agreed: please do not reinvent the wheel. IMHO better follow LPI steps: http://www.lpi.org/ A successful initiative AFAIK. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)
Il 12/06/2011 16:56, Jody Garnett ha scritto: Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to keep OSGeo going. This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to partly finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting these resources to OSGeo would be a clever think to do. There is scope for competition between OSGeo and individual project, which is no good. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification
Il 12/06/2011 02:56, Mark Lucas ha scritto: I was actually thinking of the reverse - incubation graduation would be contingent on getting on the OSGeo-Live disk. Agree it should be gradual, should start out as a goal. I think now incubating and graduated project is not very obvious to users, and it should be made more evident. BTW: why we have projects that are under incubation since so long? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)
Il 12/06/2011 15:31, Jody Garnett ha scritto: What I cannot figure out is where the profit is; or how to pay for people's involvement. A crucial point, I guess. Pricing the tests would probably be within market norms; and I would expect a much cheaper retry cost (possibly just covering marking time) if we manage to make the marking process brutal enough to be useful to potential employers. The best example I know of it this: http://www.lpi.org/ I'd avoid reinventing the wheel, and would follow a well trodden path. One thing we have a chance to do well here is stress the soft open source skills that a potential employee must have in order to be sucessful. Agreed. Finally you have the annoyance for companies that are already established in this space of having the possibility of competing with new groups that have picked up their certifications and appear better on paper. I cannot honestly have much sympathy here, competition is as competition does Agreed. What we want, at osgeo level, it to have fair competition, and to favour those who invest back in OS development rather than parasites (we have already many of them around, we do not need to help them). All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification
Il 09/06/2011 21:38, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts were? If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises are currently offering, -1. We want OSGeo to support our work, not to compete with it. This would have a number of negative consequences, IMHO. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification
Il 10/06/2011 09:18, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Stepping back, I wonder if maybe the high response on this survey question more reflects an innate need that some feel is not being currently met. That is, how wide really is the grasp of current trainers to meet the global demand? IMHO, the requests of a certification were meant: - for users, who would like to have their certificate stamped with the OSGeo certified logo - for teachers, who think they can sell better a certified course, and have less competition from newcomers. In both cases, I agree with Cameron: not sure people is ready to pay more for this - probably it's just a nice to have feature. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
Il 06/06/2011 11:28, Duarte Carreira ha scritto: I like the page for PostGIS Raster coordinating the roadmap and funding/dev.time [1]. Regarding a tool/site, I haven’t seen one that would personally inspire me to donate, or help me convince my company to donate. They feel disconnected from the project itself, and honestly they give this image of impersonal, bank-ish approach. Also, the money raised seems to indicate poor success rates. I feel that for a project, in my particular case, the easiest way to have a positive funding decision in the company I work for would be: 1) Receive a letter from OSGeo/Project campaign to raise funds, stating a few facts of life in FOSS development, and pointing out the benefits of the model to all users/community, ending with an emphasis on community efforts where everyone has its role (users/companies and developers/project stewards/osgeo). To make things even easier to “stakeholders” present a few “common” donation values… (you know, like a checkbox list ;) 2) Allow for optionally directing donated funds to available roadmap features or existing bugs (not sure how this would work out in several scenarios, like when minimum funding is never reached…) 3) Have a project page where we can see how funding is working, progress is made, who is donating, etc. (similar to [1]), but this is a plus, and not really a requirement. But it would be nice to be informed of any progress done to the selected features/bugs when/if it happened OK, sounds reasonable. One problem is: how do we collect the addresses? We do not want to spam around. Also, please consider that in the past we have sent letters to all companies listed in the support page, and we received very few responses (none of them positive). So, it's a difficult path after all. For now, the only very successful approach has been for more mature institutions to hire directly one developer or a company (this is how much of the work on QGIS is funded anyway). Our bug squashing initiative[0] has met a reasonable success, and IMHO we should build on that. Suggestions welcome. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc [0]http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Bugs ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
Il 06/06/2011 12:24, Duarte Carreira ha scritto: I did not know of your past efforts mailing letters. Maybe there are lessons there that would allow us to improve the process and be more successful. Or it is really a dead-end. I don't know for sure. But if 1 letter gave way to a single 500€ donation it would be 45% of all funding in the bug squashing initiative page (I'm excluding Faunalia's own donation). So maybe even with a small percentage of success it could be very effective. In that case it has been a dead end. Please note: it was addressed at the companies listed in the support page, not at the institutions using QGIS. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Working together on fundraising?
Il 05/06/2011 07:06, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: Here are the four traditional opportunities where fundraising focus takes place - but I'm sure you can think of more creative ones too! * Foundation Sponsorship * Project sponsorship * FOSS4G conference sponsorship * General donations Other ideas out there: * Set up a certification or training program * Add a paid membership level * Run more events through OSGeo * Sell more merchandise *... what are your thoughts? See attached graph of survey results showing the top 6 selections the 160+ respondents provided. Interested in any of these? Have more ideas of your own? Let's start an informal group to work on the ideas. Even if you only have the occasional idea or tip, please don't hesitate. The previous committee helped assemble the basic Foundation and Project sponsorship ideas that we've had for the past 4 years, we can build on this and put some new strategic direction in place if there is interest. It's hard for anyone to consider fundraising on their own without support behind them for the initiative, so if you need to talk privately or have ideas you would like to discuss off-list, just let me know and I'll be glad to work with you on it. If there are a couple more people interested, then I could set up a skype voice meeting to kick around some more ideas - I just need to know who's interested. It certainly can be a lot of fun too - especially the brainstorming side, so don't let the financial aspect scare you off ;-) We @QGIS have a rather different experience. We have a donation program which helped us to raise small but useful money (without that it would be much more difficult to have our regular developer meetings), and helps building up a sense of community. Larger sponsorships and funding are IMHO easier to accommodate, what we need is a way of making it easier and more productive to have microdonation, both aspecific (I like your project, I'm sending a few dollars to express my gratitude) and specific (I think it is important to fix bug #xxx, please add this money to the pile, to help motivating a developer to fix it). All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
Il 03/06/2011 13:40, Markus Neteler ha scritto: A relevant group are the institutional sponsors (companies, agencies and so on). To better address the small donations I once started http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations which is based on ideas from Paolo Cavallini. Recently it has been picked up again. Several OSGeo projects have their own donation page (see above WIki page) but for sure more could be done. Yes; it would be great to have a joint effort (we all have limited time to deal with these issues); a few years ago I asked OSGeo, but the foundation did not seem interested in this (and taking 25% from donations did not make it an attractive option, honestly). I would be interested in exploting any option. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] polls
Hi all. Would it be possible to have polling facilities on OSGeo drupal? Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers
Il giorno mer, 30/03/2011 alle 10.17 +1300, Peter ha scritto: 3. For some odd reason you cant paste coords into the UI. Odd because who remembers and types 9 digit numbers. Could you please add a ticket for this? Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries
Il giorno mar, 01/03/2011 alle 23.25 +0100, Paolo Corti ha scritto: Your only option here could be to use GRASS, but as far as I know you need to import your shapefile to the GRASS database, use a GRASS command (v.reclass [0]) and export back to shapefile the result, so it is not very direct. Not very direct, but it's only one more command (v.in.ogr), with the additional bonus that importing into GRASS you can clean up invalid topologies, close empty gaps, remove unwanted overlaps, etc. All the best. -- http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data
Il giorno mer, 05/01/2011 alle 14.14 +1100, Noli Sicad ha scritto: Just to add what Alex mentioned already, here a link for GRASS Image classification (how to). http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Image_classification Also, have a look to Orfeo ToolBox (OTB), who also has a QGIS plugin, unfortunately not (yet?) on main QGIS (requires external installation, may not be easy). http://orfeo-toolbox.org http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Quantum_GIS_plugins I would vote for its inclusion on trunk, however. All the best. -- http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: 2010 Charter Member Selection
Il 12/11/2010 13:17, Paul Ramsey ha scritto: OSGeo members, The 2010 process is complete, and the new charter members are, in alphabetical order: Compliments to all, especially the now large female presence! All the best. -- http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] trac stats not working
Hi all.
Trac stats
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticketstats
are throwing an error:
===
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/api.py,
line 376, in send_error
'text/html')
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/chrome.py,
line 733, in render_template
message = req.session.pop('chrome.%s.%d' % (type_, i))
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/api.py,
line 195, in __getattr__
value = self.callbacks[name](self)
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py,
line 265, in _get_session
return Session(self.env, req)
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/session.py,
line 162, in __init__
self.get_session(req.authname, authenticated=True)
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/session.py,
line 178, in get_session
super(Session, self).get_session(sid, authenticated)
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/session.py,
line 59, in get_session
(sid, int(authenticated)))
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/db/util.py,
line 64, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql_escape_percent(sql), args)
File
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/db/util.py,
line 64, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql_escape_percent(sql), args)
InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end
of transaction block
===
Should I open a ticket?
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Commercial support
Il 03/09/2010 11:49, Sebastian E. Ovide ha scritto: Are you guys aware of companies that provide commercial support for OSGeo ? Hi all. To me, this means our marketing could be improved, raising the visibility of the commercial support page. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] server down?
Hi all. AFAIK, the server who hosts the osgeo4w packages is down, and is replaced by a backup, who does not allow upload by packagers: does anybody confirm this? Has anybody an idea of when this will be fixed? All the best, and thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] server down?
Il 22/07/2010 16:33, Howard Butler ha scritto: The support of OSGeo's system infrastructure is a volunteer affair. If it is not up, or not up to your standards, it is because you haven't volunteered to help fix it :) We can do better with your help. Mine was not a critique to the efforts of volunteers (never!), but to the strategic decision to leave the infrastructure management to volunteers. I think we need professional support in this area, to have better performances and higher availability. I repeat: no critique whatsoever to volunteers, just a suggestion for a strategic change. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] server down?
Il 22/07/2010 17:22, Frank Warmerdam ha scritto: I think we are functioning reasonably well within the financial, volunteer and many critical services situation we face. ok, thanks a lot for the explanation. All the best, and looking forward to see osgeo4w back! :) -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN FAO and FOSS / OSGEO Projects
Il 21/07/2010 00:35, Joseph Reeves ha scritto: Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects? Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data: http://www.africover.org/ Well, not really, it seems: === Your request is of a public resource, approval for this resource shall be considered. Please use the user panel at: http://www.africover.org/system/user/ to monitor the status of your request and to download the data sets if approved. Your request will be processed within 14 days. Should you not receive a response to this request in due time, please contact the administrator through the control panel for assistance. Please note that your request will be rejected if you belong to a private/commercial organization or if you are an individual user. As stated in the Africover website within the Data Dissemination section, Africover is not allowed to release data to individuals or private and commercial organizations. === Quite strange, for data classified as Public domain, isn't it? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OS GIS for Grazing Planning
Il 22/06/2010 18:58, Frank Aragona ha scritto: Is anybody aware of the use of open source GIS tools for grazing planning? I'm very interested in the prospects of taking a pre-existing platform and further developing it. Or, in the absence of such a platform (which is likely), I'd like to develop and work with partners in the development of this platform. Thoughts? desktop, web, or both? What are your requirements? all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal GEO mailing list proposal
Il 20/06/2010 13:27, strk ha scritto: How many of you would be interested in having a mailing list setup for coordinating GEO-related development within Drupal ? Great idea. We have also worked on the various geomodules for drupal, and found the situation really confusing. All the best. -- http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal Organic Groups and Local Chapters
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:30 -0700, Tyler Mitchell tmitchell.os...@shaw.ca wrote: Just considering a few options for helping bring out local chapters together in a meaningful way and one option is to use Organic Groups in our Drupal framework. Has anyone on this list had meaningful interaction with I think any OSGeo tool should integrate rather than dublicate analogous tools set up by local chapters. This should be relatively easy when, as in the case of GFOSS.it, LC infrastructure is also based on Drupal. All th -- http://faunalia.it/pce best. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating
Il 07/06/2010 17:05, Yves Jacolin ha scritto: Boob, You mean something like this : http://www.ohloh.net/p?q=osgeo ? BTW, I wouldn't agree with many of the ratings. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open source alternative to tracking analyst
brian heap ha scritto: Try Geozui 4d, written by Dr. Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire. He tracks whale movements in 4d as retrieved from acoustic transponder tags placed on the whale's back. the link is below. http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/GeoZui4D/ It does not seem open source and free software, though. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] density maps
-Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel Sent: 07 January 2010 10:46 To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] density maps miblon wrote: Hi there folks, I am currently investigating the open source options for generating density maps. Youa can also do that easily with QGIS and/or GRASS. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ 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 at FOSS4G 2010?
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:59:32 +1100, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Andrea, That looks like an excellent basis to start from. Were the results of the desktop comparison written up somewhere? While a feature comparison is valuable, the end user is also interested is other metrics which are harder to collect. Hi Cameron. Unfortunately we could not collect hard data about this, and frankly I think this would be very difficult to do - a desktop is much more subjective than a server. What is difficult for me can be easy for you, etc. Anyway, I think such a comparison is really necessary. Ideas welcome. All the best. -- http://faunalia.it/pc ___ 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?
sampe...@gmail.com ha scritto: A feature comparison is a good start and many masters projects have already done that as well as xcompare them to closed source desktop apps. Hi. I only have seen a few, rather incomplete, comparisons: do you have links for more? Thanks. All the best. ___ 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?
Cameron Shorter ha scritto: A couple of links to reviews of desktop clients at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Review_of_Open_Source_Desktop_Clients In particular Stefan's summary of clients is the best I've seen so far. http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ is quite comprehensive. The steps I see toward kicking off a Desktop comparison at FOSS4G are: 1. One person to step forward and offer to drive the comparison through to completion. (This can be a couple of people, but it usually starts with one). Effectively act as a project coordinator, setting up wiki pages, contacting potential parties, ensuring scope is capped. Paul Ramsey, Andrea Aime and Jeff McKenna seemed to be the driving people behind the WMS shootout. If you are reading this and think you might be able to fill this role, then please speak up. ... 5. Just before foss4g: Pens down, collate results, present. I think I can do something for QGIS, if I'm not left alone ;) All the best. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Fwd: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI]
Arnulf Christl ha scritto: I suggest to not use the term viral effect but rather call it a vaccine. or inherited, possibly more appropriate: you cannot get infected by free software, but if you derive from it, i.e. you share a common ancestor, you also get some of its properties (i.e. licencing). All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-user] Licensing
IFAIK, yes: if you distribute the executables, you have to distribute also the source, for all GPL programs. All the best. On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:04:36 -0800 (PST), Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or Ossim or any other Open GIS as well Example: I love Qgis and I have added some code to Qgis as a C++ programmer, thus giving the necessary customization for my specific client. I compile it and distribute the Executable, as part of my package deal. Does this violate any license of Qgis. -- http://faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: AW: [Qgis-user] Licensing
Forwarding on behalf of Marco. All the best. Original Message Subject: AW: [Qgis-user] Licensing Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:35:30 +0100 From: Hugentobler Marco marco.hugentob...@karto.baug.ethz.ch To: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com Hi I'm not so sure. Because if the company only uses your code inhouse, the GNU project says: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic Afaik there is only a problem if the company tries to sell commercial licenses of your code. But I'm not a lawyer, so feel free to correct me. Regards, Marco -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Paolo Cavallini Gesendet: Sa 07.11.2009 13:10 An: Ravi Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; qgis Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] Licensing IFAIK, yes: if you distribute the executables, you have to distribute also the source, for all GPL programs. All the best. On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:04:36 -0800 (PST), Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or Ossim or any other Open GIS as well Example: I love Qgis and I have added some code to Qgis as a C++ programmer, thus giving the necessary customization for my specific client. I compile it and distribute the Executable, as part of my package deal. Does this violate any license of Qgis. ___ Qgis-user mailing list qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- http://faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vaq/7776133/55322/7269457/view_disc/ I would appreciate if somebody from OSGeo could jump in the discussion - it may get rather pointless, but leaving such FUD around without a reply will not be good IMHO. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: It's a rainy day here and why not read some more of his blog I thought, until I encountered: http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengeo-team-is-faster-and-better-than.html I thought these supposedly large companies had a better recruitment methods, avoiding people that makes r*e*diculous statement ;) All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-user] GDAL Tools icons
Robert Szczepanek ha scritto: A few are still missing: - proximity - near black - warp - grid - clip All the best. This task is for next week :) Can you help me finding self-explaining names for those icons and use them later in naming convention: object action object-action (probably most will follow this type as they are related to raster images) It does not have to be in 100% name of GDAL function. Just description of what the function does. To reuse it in another context. ... hard to explain, but I hope you get what I mean. I try to explain in plain English, see if it helps: - proximity: create a map of distance to specific raster values - near black: convert nearly black or white pixels to exactly black (or white) - warp: reproject a map to a different coordinate system - grid: interpolate a raster from values at sample points - clip: cut out a portion of a larger raster and save it as a new file. See also http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-user] GDAL Tools icons
Robert Szczepanek ha scritto: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/gis-icons-0.1/#request At the same time I have started drawing icons for your plugin. I will update them there. Hi Robert. We added your icons - thanks! A few are still missing: - proximity - near black - warp - grid - clip All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo server admin
Hi all. Concerning ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/392 I think the discussion should be brought to the attention of the list. For my experience, I do not think server administration is well suited for volunteer work. To me, server administration is a service, more or less like accounting or printing brochures. Moreover, I do not think precious developer time (the main limiting resource for open source software IMHO) is profitably spent administering servers (but thanks to all who are doing it!). In short, I'm suggesting to hire a part time server admin, who should be in charge of software upgrades (e.g. the trac) etc. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo server admin
Chris Puttick ha scritto: And in defence of all those who are not developers, being a sys admin is rather harder than sure, sorry if someone felt offended: I did not speak of hardness, just as a kind of work: you can be a dev and contribute when you have good ideas/time/inspiration etc., if you are an accountant or an admin you have to be there in time, that's it. http://www.sysadminday.com/ :) All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Next 5 years for OSGeo
Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: Being able to use the old style Arcview DBF file raster image catalogs in an open GIS desktop package is another pain point for a lot of our users. We still use those a lot because we have Have you tried GDAL virtual rasters? They can be produced easily, and can be read by QGIS smoothly. All the best. Please note: an early beta plugin for QGIS is available, preparing and loading virtual rasters for you. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Dimitris Kotzinos ha scritto: Dear all, I think that organizations like OSGeo have the difficult task to combine two - not always compatible - lines of action: One thing I would like to see is more infrastructure for projects: I think this would make life easier for several projects, and it would give a more solid impression. Eg a common infrastructure for user maps (a surprising number of projects still do not have anu user map, and those who have it do not share db or tools) would seem a good first candidate. Upgrading trac, adding useful plugins to it, etc would be good. Also putting other things in common would be good, eg sharing cartographic symbols and icons across projects would make life easier for users and for developers. I wouold also like to see closer contacts with and among local chapters. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Next 5 years for OSGeo
Julia Harrell ha scritto: numbers of them being willing to migrate to open GIS desktop packages. Some of the open GIS server packages can produce some really beautifully rendered map images now, but the desktop packages don't seem to be quite there yet. Easy map product templates (for unsophisticated end users) for placing all the map marginalia/decorations (labeling, symbols, legends, titles, charts, etc) and being able to produce a professional looking map quickly is still missing. All that off the map crap (as someone - I can't recall who - once called it) really does matter to a lot of our users, who often have to be able to compose and print (or render to PDF) some really slick looking, high resolution maps for public hearings and other meetings and presentations. Hi Julia. Have you tried QGIS recently? The quality of cartographic output has improved considerably, and I do not find is particularly limited. It would be very useful if you (or your users) could let us know specific missing features (perhaps opening a wish o the trac) so next version will be ok for your use. Please note however that the missing features may cost very little to implement, so that if you can avoid paying a few licences of prprietary sw, the thing may make economic sense even in the first year (not to spaek about longer term returns). Being able to use the old style Arcview DBF file raster image catalogs in an open GIS desktop package is another pain point for a lot of our users. We still use those a lot because we have Have you tried GDAL virtual rasters? They can be produced easily, and can be read by QGIS smoothly. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Versioning of spatial data - Query
Abhay ha scritto: Hello All, I wish to know, is there any system other than ESRI ArcSDE that supports versioning of GeoSpatial Data. Try PostGIS Manager plugin for QGIS. An early release, but it should be ok. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
