[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO wiki discussion list
I don't know if I am typical of other members of osge-discuss, but I read messages on the distribution list regularly, yet seldom visit the osgeo wiki. It might be worthwhile to send a message to osgeo-discuss when important items, like board meeting minutes are added to the wiki. -joel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] US EPA Exchange Network Grant opportunities
May be of interest - much discussion of geospatial data exchange in the document. deadline is 5-Nov-2010. http://www.epa.gov/exchangenetwork/grants/FY_2011_Exchange_Network_Solicitat ion_Notice.pdf -joel Joel D. Schlagel U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting Article on Open Source @ NASA ..
http://gcn.com/articles/2010/05/06/kemp-nasa-open-source.aspx Not directly related to geospatial technology, but a number of memorable quotes: Developing with open source is important to the government, Kemp said, because it helps the government have an influence over emerging standards and to push commercial software providers into supporting features that benefit the government. ³We see a close correlation between the areas of new development where standards do not really exist and open-source development,² Kemp told the OGI audience.³Open-source development allows the federal government to adopt emerging standards, and to create a reference platform from standards work that's going on at NIST and various other standards bodies that are being coordinated by NIST.² -joel Joel D. Schlagel U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.
Publishing data would be consistent with Presidents open government initiative http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/ -joel On 1/15/10 1:11 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available to the public, http://, with ~170 layers that are not public. While there are some layers that won't be made available for security or licensing issues, there are many that the owners of simply don't want to make available. I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal that might sway some of the folks sitting on datasets internally to get them to publish the data to the masses and need points of reasoning to point them at. I already have some info related to general practices moving towards this type of data availability, and some of the recent threads on the OSGEO lists about data licensing would likely come into play as well. Thanks for any pointers on this. bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -joel Joel D. Schlagel U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] An interesting article about software licensing in the non-open source geospatial world
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10640248/1/tech-rights-give-companies-upper-h and.html -joel -- Joel D. Schlagel US Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/email: joel.d.schla...@us.army.mil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
