RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-13 Thread Fee, James
I've tried to push folks blogging to step out behind their handles and put their names out there. I think an OSGeo Planet that were to mimic the Planet Gnome would be a super idea. I've not pushed the issue as I've tried to be as open as possible with Planet Geospatial, but if I were to create a

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-13 Thread Fee, James
Most modern blogging platforms support RSS feeds for categories/tags out of the box. Wordpress and Wordpress.com do it by appending /feed/ to the end of the category url. For example if you wanted to subscribe to only OSGeo posts from my blog, you'd just subscribe to:

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo

2008-02-14 Thread Fee, James
Good to hear :-) I've also supposed there is not much to maintain. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot I have not touched the daily operation of the python script since I installed the new version about a year ago. I only add and delete feeds as needed. Surprisingly very little overhead. -- James Fee

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-14 Thread Fee, James
Lester Caine wrote: It 'somewhat annoys me' when I receive an M$ document from a council and am expected to edit and return it. They get back a PDF because I know that the format will be as I laid it out. You must not mean a M$ Office Open XML document since it is of course and open

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Fee, James
Benjamin Henrion wrote: Exclude proprietary file formats from public nuisance, yes. Public nuisance? Surely the public at large gets to choose what they view as a nuisance rather than you? -- James Fee, GISP Associate TEC Inc. voice: 480.736.3976 data: 480.736.3677 internet: [EMAIL

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Fee, James
Landon Blake wrote I would remind Mr. Fee, very humbly (of course), that he is on the OSGeo mailing list, so in some respects he's chosen a fight in which he is very outnumbered. I don't know how productive it is to aggressively defend something like the .doc format on a mailing list for