[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: UK OSGEO meetup
FYI - If you are in the UK and interested in open source geospatial applications, there is a meeting being planned. See below... Begin forwarded message: From: Joanne Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 18, 2008 3:16:27 PM PDT (CA) Subject: UK OSGEO meetup Hi, You have received this email because at some point you expressed interest (or someone expressed interest on your behalf!) in a UK local chapter of OSGEO. I am proud to finally announce the inaugural UK OSGEO meetup: on Thursday 1st May, from 4.30 to 7pm (or later if we can find a suitable hostelry) at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Stansted Airport. The agenda is still open to negotiation, so if you would like to come along and talk about something, or demo something, then you're more than welcome. The only fixed point is that we would like to come up with a roadmap for moving the UK chapter forward, and hopefully provide a forum in which like-minded people (eg you) can discuss FOSS GIS and the issues around it. Furthermore, Tyler Mitchell will be giving a short talk on OSGEO globally, and will also be available for personal discussions with people or companies interested in OSGEO. There is a wiki page about the event here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/ wiki/OSGeo_UK_Meetup_May_2008, please sign up if you're interested so we can get some idea of numbers, and please feel free to pass on this information to anyone else you know who might be interested. There are links on that page to maps and hotel options if you need them. I very much look forward to hopefully meeting some or all of you in May! All the very best Jo Cook - Joanne Cook Information Systems Coordinator Oxford Archaeology (North) 01524 541000 http://thehumanjourney.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible candidates?
Milo van der Linden wrote: Hello list, I was just wondering why the following list of initiatives are not present in OSGeo, is it for a reason? - OpenJUMP - uDig - Geoserver As far as I know uDig and GeoServer mentors are on the list; I belive OpenJUMP is as well. Chances are if it is not listed on the wiki somewhere it is because the respective communities are running their own pages... In order: - http://openjump.org/wiki/show/Google+Summer+Of+Code+Ideas+List - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Summer+of+Code - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Summer+of+Code+2008 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible candidates?
I can provide an answer for OpenJUMP. There are actually a couple reasons why I have not pushed for OpenJUMP to become an OSGeo project. [1] I don't know that we have the resources to become the type of project the OSGeo is looking for, at least not at this point. We don't have any large corporate or government sponsors. We are more like a bunch of guys working in their garages. This means our administration and governance are all very informal. We don't really have any rules or procedures. I have tried to inject more structure in the past, but it didn't seem to fit well with our community. I've totally backed off this stance. Our actual pace of development is fairly slow and very modular, so this lack of structure hasn't been a problem for us (yet). [2] I don't want to cause conflicts with GeoTools. In some sense we compete with GeoTools. The competition is not direct, because we follow an alternative methodology. GeoTools seems to favor standard compliance and comprehensive functionality, while OpenJUMP favors simplicity and practicality. It seemed when this was discussed previously that the hope was other FOSS Java GIS projects would eventually adopt GeoTools as a library. At the time I hoped that would also be the case. Now I realize that OpenJUMP and its family provide a healthy alternative to GeoTools. (Please don't misunderstand this as a knock on GeoTools. I didn't say OpenJUMP was better, just different.) Having said all this, I'm still not sure if we should cloud the OSGeo pool with an alternative set of FOSS Java GIS libraries. I guess I'm content to let things play out. If OpenJUMP survives as a simple and practical alternative to GeoTools for three or four years, then it might make more sense to bring it into the GeoTools fold. If not, GeoTools will reign supreme, as it should. In a sense this would be good for all of us, because it will focus development efforts on a single set of core Java libraries. However, I think there will be some issues in GeoTools that will need to be resolved before they can win enough programmers over. Until that happens, OpenJUMP and its offspring will be crawling along. Despite my reservations about suggesting to fellow OpenJUMP programmers that we make OpenJUMP a OSGeo project, I do try to be actively involved in OSGeo. It is an important organization. I think OpenJUMP programmers can do more good in this support capacity at this point in time. The Sunburned Surveyor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milo van der Linden Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:03 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible candidates? Hello list, I was just wondering why the following list of initiatives are not present in OSGeo, is it for a reason? - OpenJUMP - uDig - Geoserver Any comment appreciated, Kind regards, Milo van der Linden ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible candidates?
Ah here I was getting my mailing lists confused; was thinking this was the SoC list. As I understand it GeoServer has a foundation already, and uDig is waiting on GeoTools incubation to show the process has merit. Hello list, I was just wondering why the following list of initiatives are not present in OSGeo, is it for a reason? - OpenJUMP - uDig - Geoserver Any comment appreciated, Kind regards, Milo van der Linden ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo(-fr) at the Geoevenement 2008 tradeshow
Hi, I am pleased to announce that the OSGeo-fr will be present to the first french tradeshow at Paris, on the 8-10 april. Like last year, OSGeo-fr is organizing an Open Source Village of 10 companies, with conferences, workshops, demos, etc. Here is some conference topic: * Mapguide OS * Openlayers (roadmap) * RESTFull achicture * MapServer (RoadMap) * 3D in postgis * FDO * Free licence * and much more is comming :) If you would like to join us, please contact myself or the Francophone mailing list. There is still some possibility to find more booth spaces, but as this is the 20th birthday of the tradeshow, you have to contact us quickly :) If you want to do only some conferences, you are welcome (however, you should speak french ;) ). You can find more information in the geoevenement 2008 event wiki page [1], in english. Y. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoevenement2008_fr -- Yves Jacolin - http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Possible candidates?
Landon Blake ha scritto: I can provide an answer for OpenJUMP. There are actually a couple reasons why I have not pushed for OpenJUMP to become an OSGeo project. Hi Landon. Thanks for your insightful thoughts. Would you like to comment also on the OpenJUMP/Kosmo split? I would be interested. All the best, and thanks a lot. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc Noi ci troviamo male con NGI http://www.ngi.it/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Open Source Desktop GIS Software
Hi, For those who do not monitor the Slashgeo, a very detailed and interesting comparison of FOSS GIS for desktop has been compiled by Stefan Steiniger: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ References: http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/1529252 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/feature-comparison-table-for-open-source-gis Greetings -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Open Source Desktop GIS Software
On 3/19/08, Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For those who do not monitor the Slashgeo, a very detailed and interesting comparison of FOSS GIS for desktop has been compiled by Stefan Steiniger: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ Indeed, a commendable compilation. Sure to become a great reference tool. References: http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/1529252 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/feature-comparison-table-for-open-source-gis Greetings -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comparison of Open Source Desktop GIS Software
Very useful information. I'm gonna share this link with my classmates and colleagues. Thanks a lot. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Mateusz Loskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For those who do not monitor the Slashgeo, a very detailed and interesting comparison of FOSS GIS for desktop has been compiled by Stefan Steiniger: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ References: http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/1529252 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/feature-comparison-table-for-open-source-gis Greetings -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
