[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan

2009-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
The following policy published on the web site of the Cabinet's CIO might be of interest http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp http://www.cio.gov.uk/documents/open_source/090224opensource.pdf Best Wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] meruvian program

2009-03-02 Thread Arnulf Christl
Hey Frans, I was out of office for several weeks and only now found your mail. This sounds very interesting, I can see that you have been very aactive in the past years! Congratulations. Best regards, Arnulf. Frans Thamura wrote: hi there i just create a slide, still mixed indonesia and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009: One week extension to Workshops and Tutorial abstract submissions

2009-03-02 Thread Jeff McKenna
Cameron Shorter wrote: Sydney, Australia. 2 March 2009. In response to requests from presenters, the deadline for the FOSS4G 2009 workshop and tutorial abstract submissions has been extended by one week, to Monday 9 March 2009. If you are considering submitting a workshop, please notify your

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan

2009-03-02 Thread Landon Blake
Suchith, It is great to see this type of support for open source software in government. I wish we saw this same type of support for open source software in government agencies within the United States. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code?

2009-03-02 Thread Wolf Bergenheim
Again this is GPL, not BSD, but GRASS GIS has TIN support: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.delaunay.html --Wolf On 02.03.2009 20:34, Traian Stanev wrote: Not sure about the BSD licensing part, but here are some cool TIN triangulators which are open source. This one

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geocamp2009 - Call for speakers

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Ross
Hi Everyone, We extended the call for speakers however - 32 of the roughly 40 speaking slots are now full. Thank you kindly to those that submitted talks. If you're interested in submitting a talk, I expect things will fill up in the next couple of days. Also, registration has opened - we're

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: March Issue of OSBR Available

2009-03-02 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Hi, Thought this might be of interest to many of you. I was asked to be guest editor for the geospatial edition of the Open Source Business Resource monthly journal. A big thank you to Paul Ramsey, Tyler Mitchell, Mark Lucas, Scott Bortman, Andrew Ross, Haris Kurtagic and Geoff Zeiss for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] meruvian program

2009-03-02 Thread Frans Thamura
yah i am expanding from Java area now to more GIS :) thx to Geoff that send several MapGUide training material and I am also try to revamp the Arnulf work, but the work is amazing hard, i am glad if my foundation (Meruvian) can work together with OSGEo to penetrate the OpenSource spirit in this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code?

2009-03-02 Thread Lucena, Ivan
Here goes another one from TerraLib: http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terralib/html/v320/html/group___math_const.html ---Original Message--- From: Wolf Bergenheim wolf+gr...@bergenheim.net Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Open source TIN code? Sent: Mar 02 '09 19:46 Again this is GPL,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan

2009-03-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
I'd love to see a FOSS4G presentation, or even a thread of presentations + panel, about Open Source Policy initiatives at the Government level, especially if it can be discussed in conjunction with specific geospatial examples. Could also be a good Birds of a Feather session. Who knows a good

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source TIN code?

2009-03-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 2-Mar-09, at 10:17 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in 3-space). It doesn't have to be really good, just good enough for some simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed). I know there are a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please translate the FOSS4G 2009 description

2009-03-02 Thread (Orkney)Toru Mori
Hi Our Japanese community will add Japanese translation this week on that wiki. Toru Mori @ OSGeo Japan Chapter Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wroteF Thank you Jorge and Yves. Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: 2009/3/1 Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr: Hi Cameron,