Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoForAll at FOSS4G 2017 - abstracts deadline March 21

2017-03-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Helena for this. This is excellent ideas. For CitySmart latest updates, I hope Patrick and others can contribute ideas. I was at the Heritage for Planet Earth conference in Florence last week where the students and SMEs presented thier latest work on this. Really impressive

[OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC : Students application period has started!

2017-03-21 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Dear All, Yesterday students application period has started. We seek motivated proactive students! @Students: Start browsing the ideas page at [1] and carefully read the recommendation for students, particularly the application instructions at [2]. Quoting verbatim from Google Admins:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Maxi also made an excelling presentation on related topic at FOSS4G-Asia 2017. The presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/cannata/massimiliano-cannata-keynote-foss4gasia-2017 Best Venka On 2017/03/20 22:08, Jeff McKenna wrote: Actually Maxi and I did a recent thorough research

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-21 Thread Cameron Shorter
+1 Greatly insightful slide deck from Maxi about Open principles in general and OSGeo in particular. Thanks for sharing. Cameron On 22/3/17 4:02 am, Jody Garnett wrote: That is a *great* talk, and shows a lot of areas where we can improve. There has been a consistent call for "incubation"

[OSGeo-Discuss] Registration for STDM Code Sprint 2017 opened

2017-03-21 Thread Arnulf Christl
Dear All, the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a concept to model a continuum of people-to-land relationships in informal environments. Legacy cadastre and land registry software from the developed world has proven to lack flexibility and literally does not meet the bill, financially. The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-21 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 09:56:49PM +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 20 March 2017 at 21:02, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > I've added a line for OSGeo-Live > > FYI, I only walked through the ones in the "OSGeo Projects" frame at > osgeo.org. I think foss4g website (or

[OSGeo-Discuss] Recording of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) webinar on capacity development

2017-03-21 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleague, The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. At the GODAN Summit in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-21 Thread Jody Garnett
That is a *great* talk, and shows a lot of areas where we can improve. There has been a consistent call for "incubation" to continue to hold projects accountable to OSGeo standards. I have resisted these calls as I view incubation as an outreach activity - part of our mission to promote