Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

On Sep 30, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Paul Spencer wrote: What do others think about this? Should OSGeo be in the business of helping new OSGeo projects get off the ground? I don't think OSGeo should generally be in the business of getting new projects off the ground. I think a project should

[OSGeo-Discuss] libLAS - A C/C++/Python library for processing ASPRS LAS LiDAR data

of Natural Resources, and its primary developers are Howard Butler and Mateusz Loskot. Special features of libLAS include: - C, C++, and Python APIs -- embed libLAS in your own programs or use the Python bindings for a one-off processing script - Spatial Reference System support -- the LAS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Service Outage on 12/6/08 1700 UTC

I would inform you that there will be a scheduled OSGeo web server service outage on Dec 6 at 1700 UTC. It is expected to last 3 hours until 2000 UTC. The lights will probably flicker a bit during that time as we work through some svn/trac authentication issues. Howard

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed incubation as such? It's certainly much

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] trac non-functional

On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. Are there any plans to solve the horrible slowness and tendency to return errors of the trac? We are working a lot on the qgis trac, but it is a real pain, to the point that we are kind of thinking to write an interface to the trac

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO projects and Python 3.x

On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Dave Sampson wrote: Hey Folks, I am wondering what, if any, projects are preparing or planning for a move to support python 3.x. Due to it being a major release I understand it does not come with backwards compatibility, however there are some tools out

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:00 AM, Daniel Ames wrote: Do any of you have a preferred open source help authoring tool? We're looking for something to document our projects on web pages - something better than wiki - and also to download and install

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Bob Basques wrote: Wouldn't it seem prudent to classify the projects before trying to compare them? /me screams into a room that no one can hear. Stop it! This whole exercise is quite frankly, masturbatory, and does nothing to help the projects who would be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are Ari Jolma and Howard Butler standing for re-election to the OSGeo Board?

On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Ari Jolma wrote: Landon Blake wrote: I’m just curious, because I didn’t see there names listed on the nominations list. Landon, AFAIK, nobody have submitted nominations for me or Howard. On the wiki there are four nominations and I've seen two more

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proj4 texts in spatialreference.org missing +towgs84=0, 0, 0

On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:47 AM, Ari Jolma wrote: Folks, spatialreference.org (which is a great service) reports the proj4 text for for example 3067 without the towgs84 parameters when they are all zeros. IMHO they should be reported as proj4 nowadays requires them to work correctly. The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith

the honor to nominate Michael Smith for OSGeo Charter membership. Mike is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Remote Sensing GIS Center, and has been a longtime supporter of FOSS. Most recently he is working very hard with Howard Butler to develop an Open Source point cloud translation library

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

On 2012/07/24, at 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote: Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by the charter member) in the Board election. Advantages: The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her more than once. Disadvantages: It

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] las spec doubt

On Oct 31, 2013, at 2:38 AM, andrea antonello andrea.antone...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I hope this is not OT. I wanted to ask a short advice on a las file content problem. I wanted to get a short comment about how GPS Week Time is seen in the las format. Let's assume the las file

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl wrote: Good food for thought Howard, can’t say I disagree with anything you say here. The only thing we need to consider is that for some countries 50 or 70 USD can still be a lot of money Yes. Something equitable could be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What's wrong? (was Re: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote: I’ve not been following this issue closely, so I just went back through the old mails and I’m still left with this rather basic question: What is the problem that we are trying to solve? OSGeo's membership process is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:13 AM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: Membership dues for OSGeo could very well work, but they would change the nature of the organization. Yes, that may be true, however it is also true that OSGeo as an organization has significantly evolved significantly two or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

On Mar 3, 2015, at 12:13 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com wrote: Hi Cameron, It is difficult for OSGeo to stop a vendor from promoting their product, or promoting a specific lock in strategy. Of course. That was exactly my point. OSGeo can wag its finger at people and say

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the paris code sprint go

And mine http://howardbutler.com/pdal-paris-sprint-recap.html > On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > > Here's mine > > http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2016/03/paris-code-sprint-postgis-recap.html > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Jody Garnett