[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Board] Open Source and Open Standards White Paper

2011-04-14 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
Folks, please be so kind and give this paper a moment of your attention: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Source_and_Open_Standards There is still a lot of confusion in people as to what an Open Standard is and what Open Source is. Even within the educated community of OSGeo there are very

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Speakers: now or never...

2011-04-14 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Reminder... get your abstracts in! On 2011-04-13, at 6:58 AM, Peter Batty wrote: 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!

[OSGeo-Discuss] project donations

2011-04-14 Thread Tim Schaub
Hello- I see a proposal for having OSGeo accept microdonations on behalf of projects. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations I also see that MapGuide has a Donate button that brings users to a PayPal page for OSGeo. Is there an updated resource on how project can get set up to accept

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project donations

2011-04-14 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Tim, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Tim Schaub tsch...@opengeo.org wrote: Hello- I see a proposal for having OSGeo accept microdonations on behalf of projects. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations I also see that MapGuide has a Donate button that brings users to a PayPal page

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: [Board] Open Source and Open Standards White Paper

2011-04-14 Thread Cameron Shorter
Arnulf, Sorry for the delayed review, and rather messy use of email in applying my review comments: I assume that the target audience for this white paper is: * People who don't understand the difference between Standards and Open Standards * People who don't understand the difference

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: [Board] Open Source and Open Standards White Paper

2011-04-14 Thread Noli Sicad
Is Geonode fits into for Open Data category? If it is, why not mention it in the document. http://geonode.org/ GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data. The project aims to surpass existing spatial data infrastructure