I wanted to share the sad news that Geoff Zeiss passed away last week.
Geoff was involved in the founding of OSGeo in 2005-6 and was a former
board member. He contributed a huge amount to the geospatial industry and
was just a great person. He will be greatly missed.
Hi Jeff, and all, I think it might be good to prioritize times when there
aren't conference sessions going on ... lunchtimes and end of day after the
sessions end. I suspect that during the sessions there won't be many people
around at the booths, and I imagine many of the other booths will not be
at 8:16 AM, Daniel Morissette
dmorisse...@mapgears.comwrote:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**Election_2013#Board_Electionhttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2013#Board_Electionindicates
that Peter Batty, Michael Gerlek, Mark Lucas and Jáchym Čepický
are at the end of their term. It would be great
Hi all,
As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on
the organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time
but I do know there was a high number of workshops that were submitted, so
unfortunately half the submitters are going to be disappointed and
Cameron, as you know I am supportive of having a cookbook which as others
have said is a guide not a rulebook. In doing FOSS4G Denver, despite the
lessons learned wikis and plenty of good advice from various members of the
community, there were quite a few occasions where we (the LOC) missed
:
On 12-07-12 11:35 AM, Peter Batty wrote:
Hi all,
I am aiming to attend the board meeting today but have various other
commitments that I'm trying to juggle. In case I don't make it, and just
to get the ball rolling, here are a few thoughts on follow ups from the
FOSS4G cancellation
Hi all,
As Nicolas said, there are videos for most of the presentations at fosslc.
We also have slide materials from speakers who sent them in (roughly half I
would estimate). Unfortunately we still haven't got to posting those on the
web site, everyone involved has been busy and this slipped
Hi all,
A few updates on FOSS4G. Today is the final day to pre-register, so if
you've been wavering, hurry up and do it! We will have onsite registration
too, opening early Monday morning.
We've added a page to the web site on how to get to the conference and get
around in general:
Hi Maning,
Anyone is welcome to attend the OSGeo AGM, you don't need to register for
the conference. So hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Peter.
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:24 AM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote:
I cannot attend the foss4g but will be in Denver for OSM's State
Online registration for FOSS4G 2011, including workshop enrollment, will be
available until Wednesday, September 7th at 6PM Denver local time ( -6 GMT).
On-site registration will be available starting at 7:30AM local time on
Monday, September 12th. Workshop enrollment will be available on-site as
Hi Steve, have just been having another conversation on this.
We (FOSS4G) are planning to have handouts for the workshops but not regular
presentations. If you want to do something yourself that's fine but my
inclination would be to put something online.
We will be recording presentations
I would like to thank Tyler Mitchell for nominating me, and I am honored to
be standing with a great group of candidates, all of whom have a longer
history of involvement with OSGeo than I do, I think. I have put in a lot of
hours as FOSS4G chair over the past year though, so am trying to catch up
We are pleased to announce the publication of the FOSS4G 2011 program. You
can view the program details
herehttp://2011.foss4g.org/program/session-schedule.
Selection was very competitive - we had almost 300 submissions for around
150 sessions. So congratulations to those who made it, and
After a lot of hard work from our program committee over the past few weeks,
we completed the selection process today and sent out emails to everyone who
submitted an abstract to notify them whether they were accepted or rejected.
Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts, congratulations to
Hi all, we had intended to notify people of acceptance or rejection of paper
submissions for FOSS4G by last Friday, but things have been taking a little
longer than we anticipated. So please don't panic if you haven't heard
anything about your submission, nobody has! We are aiming to get
:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Peter Batty
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:56 PM
*To:* foss4g2011; OSGeo Discussions
*Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G program community voting now open!
Hi all,
In response to a question I
Hi all,
This has already been mentioned on the FOSS4G list, but I wanted to make
sure that everyone was aware that we'll be a doing a one day introduction
to geospatial open source event the day before the main conference starts,
in parallel with the pre-conference workshops. This will be aimed
and the regular
program, and those are included in the community voting.
Cheers,
Peter.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter Batty pe...@ebatty.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
The community voting system is now open for FOSS4G 2011, at
http://community-review.foss4g.org/ . Please try to take
Hi everyone,
One last reminder that the call for papers for FOSS4G closes this Friday,
April 15th. Thanks to all who have submitted already, if you haven't got
your abstract in yet I encourage you to do so!
http://2011.foss4g.org/presentations/
Cheers,
Peter.
Hello everyone,
This is just a friendly reminder that the call for papers for FOSS4G 2011 in
Denver closes on April 15, so you have a little over two weeks to get
abstracts in. The call for presentations is at
http://2011.foss4g.org/presentations/.
In case you haven't seen them yet, we already
Dave, there's a (non open source) augmented reality application for the
iPhone and Android that shows you what peaks you are looking at through your
phone camera.
http://peakar.salzburgresearch.at/
They say that all the data they use comes from OpenStreetMap (see the FAQ).
Not sure if this is
Hi all,
Registration for FOSS4G 2011 is now open, and we've posted some new details
about the overall program and social events: http://bit.ly/fDcc3k
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi all,
In case you haven't seen, the call for papers for FOSS4G Denver is now open,
for both the regular and academic tracks. The deadline for submissions is
April 15th for the regular track and April 1st for the academic track. For
more details see:
Hi all,
Unfortunately the way the abstract submission for workshops was set up there
is no automatic email confirmation. We are sorting this out for the next
round of abstract submissions, for papers. In the mean time, if you
submitted a workshop proposal you should receive a confirmation email
Hi all,
We received feedback from several people that this year's sponsor benefits
offered fewer conference passes than last year's. This was a mistake and we
have updated the brochure to bring this benefit in line with last year. You
can download the updated brochure from the same location:
, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Adrian Custer acus...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 09:31 -0700, Peter Batty wrote:
The organizing committee has been working away on various tasks for
next September’s FOSS4G conference in Denver. We now have sponsorship
details sorted out – you can
The organizing committee has been working away on various tasks for next
September’s FOSS4G conference in Denver. We now have sponsorship details
sorted out – you can download the brochure at http://bit.ly/gbWbey (PDF). We
are offering a 10% discount for any sponsors who commit by the end of
Hi all,
The sponsorship information will be ready very shortly (should be within a
week). The deadline for the early sponsorship discount will be end of
January 2011, not beginning, so that people can have the choice to take the
money out of 2010 or 2011 budgets. Thanks for your interest, and if
Hi everyone,
Please take a moment to review our contenders for the FOSS4G 2011 logo, and
vote for your favorites. More info at
http://geothought.blogspot.com/2010/12/help-us-choose-logo-for-foss4g-2011.html.
Thanks,
Peter.
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You can try geonames: go to http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ and
download NZ.zip.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter web...@pl.net wrote:
If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and
district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these,
The terms of service prohibit offline caching of Google Maps tiles. This is
one major advantage of OpenStreetMap, which does permit you to do this.
The terms are at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html
Relevant items are:
You must not ...
10.3 pre-fetch, cache, or store any Content,
Hi,
Yes Smallworld did a lot of innovation in the area of version management and
long transactions some 20 years ago, I was quite involved in all that. The
technical paper you mention is at archive.org, a great resource for finding
web pages that have disappeared!
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they have grown).
Thank you for your consideration, and please feel free to email me if you
have any questions.
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