Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Sources column published

2007-05-09 Thread Dave McIlhagga
oops, the auto-reply to OSGeo Discuss caught me there! Sorry for the extra email. dave On 9-May-07, at 2:24 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote: Hi Jeff, This is really great news. Congratulations and kudos to you for getting this into Geoconnexion magazine. Would you be interested in a column

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-01 Thread Dave McIlhagga
On 1-Oct-07, at 5:32 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: OSGeo priorities should be to USERS first, developers second. Respectfully, I disagree -- 250,000,000 downloads of Google Earth is more than all the other geospatial software installations in the industry combined, and GDAL is at the heart

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] idea for an OSGeo project -- a new, open data format

2007-11-13 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Puneet: I believe you've just described the SDF format (open, based on SQL lite) that is currently in use by FDO / MapGuide. Some info from a post from Jason Birch a while back: To bring us back to the start of this post, the one item on this list that I think may get overlooked is

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Dave McIlhagga
someone might be interested in getting this historical info into the wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a good way for long term maintenance and updating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgeo Dave On 21-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Steven M. Ottens wrote: Hi all, In light of the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubator Sponsor idea.

2008-09-12 Thread Dave McIlhagga
This is an interesting idea. I think it would have to be a case where an existing OSGeo project (I think what you're calling the Super project) expects this smaller project to have an important future as a viable OSGeo project. The PSC of the sponsoring project (say Mapserver, Mapguide or

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

2009-03-02 Thread Dave McIlhagga
for their contributions to this effort. Some excellent papers that provide a great perspective on the OSGeo world. You can follow the links in the announcement to go to the website, or you can get the PDF directly here: http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/848/817 Dave Dave

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please feed the OSGeo Gallery

2009-08-05 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Hi Markus, It seems to be down right now? Dave McIlhagga http://www.mapsherpa.com http://www.dmsolutions.ca On 2-Aug-09, at 12:44 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: Hi, (reminder) if you have nice examples with screenshots and a short description of applications of OSGeo software, please post

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Andrew Ross

2009-09-21 Thread Dave McIlhagga
a number of Universities, open source companies, and open source foundations. Andrew would bring a valuable and balanced mix of technical, business, teaching, and organizational skills backed by energy and enthusiasm. Thanks, Dave McIlhagga www.mapsherpa.com www.dmsolutions.ca

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox GAT (Chris Puttick)

2010-03-27 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Nice post :D Sent from my iPhone On 2010-03-27, at 11:01 AM, Zak James zja...@dmsolutions.ca wrote: -- Zak James Applications and Software Development DM Solutions Group Inc. http://www.dmsolutions.ca http://research.dmsolutions.ca -Original Message- From: Chris Puttick Sent:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies

2011-07-11 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Congratulations Suchith, Would you be able to explain what types of activities the Commission would be expected to take on in this capacity? Dave Dave McIlhagga dmcilha...@dmsolutions.ca p: 613-565-5056 x15 www.dmsolutions.ca On 2011-07-09, at 10:50 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: Dear All I

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination - Andrew Ross

2011-08-04 Thread Dave McIlhagga
I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board. Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable technical and business skills which make him a great choice to become an OSGeo board member. His experience spans private, public, and academic organizations. He has been involved

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2011 Charter Member Election Results

2011-12-02 Thread Dave McIlhagga
I would suggest that on the contrary, being a Charter Member does come with responsibility -- it may be minimal but is critically important. All that is required is voting for new Charter Members and voting for the Board. Assuming, reasonable efforts have been made to be in touch with Charter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does rasdaman CE solve an open source geospatial problem?

2016-05-21 Thread Dave McIlhagga
I think OSGeo should stay out of the business of weighing in on how companies decide to commercialize technologies, so long as they respect the licensing terms. We and many companies use MapServer for instance at the heart of our proprietary stacks, which is simply another flavor of the open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

2016-05-07 Thread Dave McIlhagga
Hi Steven, Re. The Supply side - I'd suggest you include anyone who actively contributes effort to the development of OS software regardless of how they monetize the activity. For instance, if you don't include companies working on the software that then gets monetized via proprietary