Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seconding Board Member Nominations

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: Hi, Can someone explain me what is this Seconded by and Support by feature listed next to the Board nominations [1]? Is this an element of any formal procedure or it's some kind of elevator pitch? [1]

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

Hi all, thanks for all the comments in the last 24 hours or so. Here's comments on them: How to deal with the data property and rights, ragrding both printing or spreading on the Web ? We'd have to get permission from the authors, but that shouldn't be a problem. I recently edited a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Simon Cropper simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com wrote: I think it important however that people *do not* use Inkscape, unless of course it is being put up as an fosGIS package. Using Inkscape has come about due to the inherent deficiencies in map production

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, julia harrell julia.harr...@gmail.com wrote: This would make it a superior product - even if some of the maps aren't quite as 'pretty' as those in the ESRI map book :) Why wouldn't they be as pretty? You're exhibiting the very prejudice I'd like to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

For all those interested in the atlas project, I've started up a github site: https://github.com/barryrowlingson/osgeoatlas The .tex file there isn't compilable as it stands because the included map.pdf files aren't included, they are kinda large and I didn't want to clog the repo up with them.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:20 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Alex. I will investigate more. It's an odd projection but it has interesting features. Maybe I will try to implement it in proj4... Peirce's 1879 paper is on jstor! http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369491 The tables

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013

Is anyone at the upper echelons of OSGeo aware of MPE2013? http://mpe2013.org The mission of the MPE project is to: * Encourage research in identifying and solving fundamental questions about planet earth * Encourage educators at all levels to communicate the issues related to planet earth *

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham update

Hi all, The local organising group of FOSS4G 2013 met in Nottingham yesterday for our first face-to-face meeting. This was after a successful and enjoyable OSGIS UK conference. One of my jobs is now to keep a semi-regular update to the OSGeo mailing lists. You'll probably get all this info if

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo and LocationTech

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew, I'd like to suggest extending your thought to suggest that projects can be members of OSGeo AND LocationTech rather than OSGeo OR LocationTech. Any reason why that wouldn't work? Any organisation that

[OSGeo-Discuss] African universities on google maps

This just disturbed me: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=694668 NAIROBI, Sept 14 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Students from more than 90 universities in 12 sub-Saharan African countries have come together for a two-week mapping exercise to put their university campuses and surrounding

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] African universities on google maps

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: From my understanding of Google Maps TOS http://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html it is forbidden to (2b) redistribute, sublicense, rent, publish, sell, assign, lease, market, transfer, or otherwise make the Products

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for Open-Source project inception dates for OSGeo projects

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Different strategy . . . ** ** If you know when a project became Open Source, please reply here with that project’s year of Open Sourcing. How about making a page on the OSGeo wiki

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham update

All the news that's fit to print from your FOSS4G 2013 committee.. The biggie is that the deal is now done with Transactions in GIS that a number of papers from the Academic Track submissions will be accepted into the journal for publishing. TGIS as it is known, is an international, peer-reviewed

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we intended to select presentations for the main track of the conference. Some discussion amongst the committee has been going on, and we think it necessary to informally poll the community to get a feel for what method is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au wrote: Agreed. Well said Cameron, with the aside that there may be an interesting talk from a previously little known person. I suggest leaving this to the discretion of the LOC and interested parties who subscribe to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: With my simple maths hat on: Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about, and provide a ranking. Total review time = 300 minutes = 6 hours. Best not to complicate the review

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Adrian Custer acus...@gmail.com wrote: Just picking the 'good' talks may lead the conference to once again have many talks about the same projects that have come to dominate and fewer talks from new talent. Therefore picking talks only on the individual

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seeking guidance for contributing to OSGeo.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Akshita Tyagi akshita.m...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I am willing to contribute to your organization as a developer. I have a prior experience in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). As a summer trainee under Defense Research and Development Organization,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: When do you want to run the code sprints? Our preference would be to provide facilities for the code sprints on Sunday 22nd but if there was a strong preference to go for the Monday we could try to secure space for that

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham update

The big news for FOSS4G 2013 is the announcement of the sponsorship packages: http://2013.foss4g.org/sponsorship-opportunities/ A press release has been written and is ready to go out to press contacts. Announcements of sponsors will surely follow. The logo has been refined, thanks to Naomi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G NA Web Site

Not sure if you've got an issue tracker for the web site at the moment, but the template for author pages looks broken - the sidebar content is appearing under the main content: http://foss4g-na.org/author/dbitner/ Nice bold graphics and hipster slab-serif font though :) I am currently

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

Another of the irregular updates of the conference team! We have our first sponsors - Ordnance Survey (yes, another 'OS') Google, Edina, MapGears, and Metaspatial have all got in with our early-bird 10% discount sponsor deal. The rest of you have until the end of the month, then it goes up to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Massimiliano Cannata massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote: Dear Dr. Beher, apologize me for this question, but it is not clear to me if at this stage you are asking to submit an abstract for evaluation or a full paper for evaluation. In last years, generally I

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Call for Presentations and Workshops now open.

Hi All, The submission system for presentations and workshops is now live, and links are available from here: http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/call-for-papers/ Note that all we need for these is a summary and a few small details - there's no requirement for a paper at all. Please recirculate

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

The latest update after nearly two hours of today's webex meeting, which featured Mark Iliffe sounding like he was in a call centre, a dog barking somewhere, and for the first time my microphone actually working. First order of business was pricing - there were some fine adjustments to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: On the other hand, I still have problems with annual FOSS4G, which has a cost that scares away many top developers. IMHO (sorry to insist, I raised this point earlier) the meeting should be free for developers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events: [was RE: FW: [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: So how many lower-rate slots would that require? We've got 17 official projects and 7 incubating projects according to the home page summary. With this year's rates (full 350 £, student 240 £) and only 2 developers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Robert Szczepanek rob...@szczepanek.pl wrote: Hi Barry and others, Is Open Source Geospatial Atlas idea still alive? I hope so. Just to remind this good idea ... There were opinions that a printed atlas wouldn't be a worthwhile project due to quality, cost,

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

Last week's committee conference call was a bit sparse, as it was close to Easter and various members were lucky enough to be away from the freezing weather in the UK. Since my last update we hit the T-6 month countdown. Things are rapidly moving on. We are already getting registrations for the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wanting to hear whether people in the OSGeo community have strong opinions regarding this proposed standard, and whether we as a collective OSGeo community should make statements to the OGC, and voting OGC

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

I hope none of you on this list have missed any of the big news about FOSS4G2013 - we're trying to ramp up the publicity and if its not getting through to OSGeo-discuss list followers then we're probably not getting through to enough people outside it! Catch it all by following @foss4g and RT the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello andrea.antone...@gmail.com wrote: Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the workshops were chosen. I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of double or even triple workshops. Given the few

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Peter Baumann p.baum...@jacobs-university.de wrote: +1 here. I believe this should not be a Postgres event (substitute Postgres by your favorite), but allow to gather folks from as many domains as possible. This would mean to give space to as many projects as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project not found in list

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote: A rising tide raises all boats. Apart from the boats that are tied up too tightly, in which case they get flooded over and sink. Application and relevance of this analogy to the discussion is left to the reader.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Book your FOSS4G hotel rooms quickly!

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote: Hi Daniel, There's a link from the accommodation page on the website to hotels in Nottingham if you want to book your own- here it is: http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/stay That site is very sucky. All the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mailmain password reminders

Mailman has a bunch of useful command-line scripts: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html I reckon a combination of list_lists looped over, calling 'config_list' with a file to set the password reminder parameter will do it. Be happy you aren't using majordomo for list management, you'd

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

The conference is now 20 days away. Less than three weeks. As Jeremy said at our last teleconference, this time next month it will be all over... So we are now getting things done and deadlines for various things are looming up (and unlike Douglas Adams we do not enjoy the whooshing sound of them

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update

About this time next week an old blue Land Rover will roll smokily into the car park at the EMCC in Nottingham. I will have arrived at FOSS4G. Steven instigated these update emails in order to keep the OSGeo community up-to-date with conference planning after the disconnect between the local

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for a one pager write up for Why Open Source is good.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:29 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a one pager write-up for a Booth display for why Open Source Software is a good bet

[OSGeo-Discuss] SSI Fellowship

The Software Sustainability Institute is a UK-based group funded by UK Research Council money and offers fellowships to academics to promote reproducible research and better software - one of their mottos is Better Research Through Better Software, and I was wearing that t-shirt for my talk at

[OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least introduce his third year geography environmental science undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the students get to use ACME Proprietary

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science Applications” webinar series on 18th October

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote: That said, my point is that the technology used for deliver OSGeo's message is not a mere detail. Of course, the best choice would be to use an open source software for that, honestly I'm not aware if there

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science Applications” webinar series on 18th October

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Arnulf Christl arnulf.chri...@metaspatial.net wrote: Having said that - do we really need a full fledged *conference* software to transmit a webinar? That feels a bit overblown. Even reveal.js has a server push version to direct slides to many people - and

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

The material for FOSS4G 2013 for possible archiving amounts to: 1. Static web site, including mapgallery HTML but not including mapgallery images: 74Mb 2. MapGallery imagery: 350Mb 3. Basecamp archive: ???Mb - contains discussions, documents etc 4. Google Docs: ???Mb I'm responsible for 1

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote: There's already a repository for 2013 at http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2013/ it has some files in it (mainly bid documents at present that I uploaded at the start of the process). I'm currently wgetting the basecamp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: The size in general is not an issue. You're right that sticking that much in svn is usually a pain, but not if it's one time deal. This is a good question for the System Admin Committee to ponder though. I think

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] MS Geospatial programs focused on FOSS4G

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear everyone, A couple of colleagues are asking me this. Are there any MS/scholarship GIS programs that focuses on the use of FOSS4G? Could you tell us what MS means here, since I first read it as Microsoft.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Same from me. If you find a valuable tool and wish to have an OSGeo instance of it, let Board/SAC know. I've not seen anything OpenSource that looks as good for team work as the glossy advertising promise of OpenAtrium:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: Thank you everyone for responding (María, Jo, Anne, Madi, Andrea, mpg, Cameron, and Regina). I agree that the OSGeo community is always welcoming, and thank you for confirming that there is no issue with the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short codes for locations

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote: This sounds very much like the Natural Area Coding (NAC) system: http://www.nacgeo.com/ Interesting idea in theory, but in practice this has been around for over a decade and hasn't really taken off, quite

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote: > The tone was "suprised" and "disappointed". > > Does advertising proprietary software solutions > on OSGeo website count as "championing" for its cause ? > I wouldn't expect that from my Open Source Compass. > > Or am I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Marco Negretti wrote: > I think that rename the conference is the worst thing that we can do: > ten years of history trashed! I now regret not putting "please refrain from hyperbole" in my original posting. It's clearly not "the worst

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 3:45 PM > To: Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> > Cc: osgeo-discuss <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G > > > > On 6 Oct 2015 18:28, "Paul Ramsey" <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wro

[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

Okay, this is probably sticking a match under a pile of dry wood but here goes... Can we rename The FOSS4G Conference to The OSGeo Conference? Cons: 1. FOSS4G is an established brand 2. FOSS4G sidesteps the "Free" vs "Open Source" argument by including both. Counters to those: 1. Really?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inputs invited for "The need for National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial"

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote: > Hi Suchith, > > > "1. How much (roughly) is the UK government (central/local government etc) > spending in buying properitery GIS licences for the last 10 years > (2005-2015)? Is there any plans for on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] selection of points between lines

I think you should probably formulate this as a question on gis.stackexchange.com - if you can provide some sample data, maps, and the technologies you might be able to work with (Python, PostGIS?) then this could be quite an interesting question there. But I think it's off-topic for the OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections status - day 1

I've just dug my voting invite out of the Gmail spam and voted. The discuss list has been hard to keep up with lately, so I hadn't been aware of the impending opening of the vote. The OSGeo calendar http://www.osgeo.org/event/ical is a bit sparse at the moment. Perhaps we need to track important

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

They've sponsored every FOSS4G Global since about 2010, except for 2015 (South Korea). And why not? They are an Open Source company: http://www.esri.com/software/open/open-source They use a *lot* of open source software, so its good that they give back. It does not earn them any power over the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What is Openwashing? Is there any examples in GIS Vendors?

Let's see what the main player has to say about open source: http://www.esriuk.com/software/open/open-source "As part of Esri’s technology and business strategy, we release and support open-source software. We have shared 350+ open-source projects on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] okay foss4g time to move off of Flickr

Here's an idea that may be in keeping with the OSGeo ethos: Textile Photos: https://www.textile.photos/ Its built on IPFS, a decentralised file system. https://ipfs.io/ Textile is currently in beta, and there might be a queue for accounts. But if OSGeo wants to get in on the whole "decentralised

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:53 AM Vicky Vergara wrote: > > Hello all > I made a gender neutral default image representing an OSGeo member. > Hope you like it. Not sure I do like it! The head is so large compared to the body, and the body so devoid of feature I don't immediately read it as an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage

. Other than that, >> I really like it. >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry >> > Rowlingson >> > Sent: 22 Ja

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2019 Workshop survey

I'm handling workshops for FOSS4G 2019 in Edinburgh this summer - we have more proposals than we can timetable so I want to get an idea of how these proposals appeal to the world wide OSGeo community. To that effect there's a little google poll here: https://forms.gle/rq5XXNMkcY7BwVrR8 just 15

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [External] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

I think if a group of individuals[1], or several groups, want to put forward proposals for the conference to be located in "Cyberspace"[2] then that should not be disallowed, and then its up to the conference committee to consider it fairly according to the criteria for selection. Barry [1] Not