Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material
Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 02:12:10 Landon Blake, vous avez écrit : Thanks Aaron. I will look trough your presentations. Landon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Racicot Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:41 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material Landon, I keep a few presentations (some focusing on OSGeo, but all open source related) archived at: http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/presentations/ feel free to grab whatever you might find useful. Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landon Blake Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:01 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) I was hoping some other OSGeo members have done similar presentations. If anyone has material on the basics of the OSGeo (the organizations history, its goals, its structure) they would let me use in my own presentation I would really appreciate it. The presentation will be on October 23, 2008 in Jackson, California, if any nearby OSGeo members are interested in attending. (I'd welcome help with the presentation.) I'm hoping I can use the presentation to generate some more interest in OSGeo among local GIS users. I might also try to use it to kick-start a California or Central California OSGeo Chapter. The best part of this whole deal is the user group used to be dedicated to ESRI software. ESRI stopped sponsoring the local user groups so now they can have a wider variety of speakers. I've often wondered who in ESRI's marketing department made the decision to kill support for the local user groups... Landon 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. Maybe you can check the OSGeo libray (hide somewhere) : http://www.osgeo.org/library. Y. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Local Conference in USA
Hi, Maybe it is time to change the subject of this thread ;) Regards, Y. Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 00:59:55 Landon Blake, vous avez écrit : Puneet wrote: a conference becomes too big to continue being useful. Do you mean too big as in number of people attending, too big as in number of topics presented, or too big in some other sense? Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Kishor Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:56 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration On 8/27/08, Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/08/26 3:08 PM, James Fee wrote: I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less about FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what will probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the world. Hearing things like that, and the reactions about it being 'impossible' for USA state and local government employees, etc., make me wonder if there is any value in having the organizing committees of 'foreign' OSGeo events doing any marketing directly to such people. I wonder what is the cost of marketing directly to me? I wonder what is marketing directly to me? I don't remember seeing an what seemed like a paid ad for any MUM/FOSS4G conference in a paper magazine or also on a web site? Just curious. By the way, I am not a State/Local/Fed employee, yet, I too have little interest in these overseas, high-cost conferences, at least as long as I have no funding support for them. I do suspect that at some point, at least for me personally, a conference becomes too big to continue being useful. The glass half empty view would be that such marketing is 'a waste of time and money', because such people either aren't personally interested, or their workplace has policies that won't allow them to attend. The glass half full view is that by directly marketing to such people (who might want to self-identify, to make sure they are on the relevant 'marketing lists') they get the opportunity to have discussions with their supervisor(s), and that if, over time, enough people raise the issue enough times, along with examples of how other jurisdictions get value from sending their staff to 'foreign events', maybe things will change. -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material
2008/8/27 Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been invited to give a presentation on OSGeo at the local GIS user group and my company has agreed to cover my time out of the office. (They even offered to sponsor the refreshments for the meeting.) I was hoping some other OSGeo members have done similar presentations. If anyone has material on the basics of the OSGeo (the organizations history, its goals, its structure) they would let me use in my own presentation I would really appreciate it. The presentation will be on October 23, 2008 in Jackson, California, if any nearby OSGeo members are interested in attending. (I'd welcome help with the presentation.) I'm hoping I can use the presentation to generate some more interest in OSGeo among local GIS users. I might also try to use it to kick-start a California or Central California OSGeo Chapter. The best part of this whole deal is the user group used to be dedicated to ESRI software. ESRI stopped sponsoring the local user groups so now they can have a wider variety of speakers. I've often wondered who in ESRI's marketing department made the decision to kill support for the local user groups… Landon 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 Landon, I presented OSGeo in a geodesy students meeting here in Valencia (in English) that could be a good start point for your presentation. It's a little bit out of date about sponsors and incubation status of some projects. You have the ODP file at https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/20080505-Valencia-IGSM/osgeo.odp After your meeting it would be nice to have your slides somewhere available Regards -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://www.geomaticblog.net http://oblongomirihi.wordpress.com http://www.prodevelop.es ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo Slide Show/Presentation Material
Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 09:54:03 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas, vous avez écrit : After your meeting it would be nice to have your slides somewhere available Maybe we need to use the OSGeo Library more often, this is surely the best place for this, isn't it? Y. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration
Your points were excellently made Puneet, and I agree with them. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Kishor Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:28 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration On 8/27/08, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puneet wrote: a conference becomes too big to continue being useful. Do you mean too big as in number of people attending, too big as in number of topics presented, or too big in some other sense? To an extent, the above three senses are synonymous... Too many people attending is a good indicator of the health of the community, but makes interaction difficult. The number and quality of interactions doesn't increase as the size of the gathering increases -- in fact, one tends to mix/stay with the people one knows if the gathering becomes too big, the large size almost acting as a deterrent for accidental or even purposeful making of new connections. Nevertheless, it is hard to complain about this sense without sounding petty. Too many topics being presented is a major problem because one is torn between the sessions as they are juggled and scheduled in a fixed number days leading to many interesting sessions being held concurrently. I have often thought that the best conference would be one in which I could attend all the sessions without missing any, if I so wanted to... which really means no concurrent sessions at all. When sessions are arranged in distinct tracks, this problem alleviates to some degree, but the tracks have to be sufficiently disparate and different -- for example, OSCON has separate Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP tracks... since I am a Perl guy, I can happily chose to miss the other tracks. However, if there is a parallel JavaScript or Apache track as well, then I am screwed, because as a web developer JS/Apache are central to my development needs. Making such distinct tracks becomes difficult in a FOSS4G/MUM type conference... I am interested in mostly everything, so missing out on good sessions is not good. To some extent, too many topics being presented is a function of too many people presenting is a function of too many people attending. To attract too many people, the conference has to have too many presentations, has to program too big and exotic social gatherings, has to rent too big a conference space, has to advertise too much to reach too many people in the first place, has to raise the price of registration too high to recoup the money... all this is inter-related. The next organizer seeks to outdo the previous one, and the cycle continues even stronger. I guess somewhere in this is the cost of marketing the conference directly that started some of this conversation in the first place. From the first MUM1 (still my favorite gathering of all... we were all new to each other, and meeting for the first time, we were putting faces to names... it was like a family separated at birth meeting for the first time... sniff... I am getting sentimental) which was small and unassuming and cost about $100 or so in registration, and I believe about $45 or so for rooms at the local Days Inn (I believe there were also some dorm rooms available) to the next month's conference in Cape Town that has a registration fee $500, it has been a high jump. Focused on consciously keeping the conference cheap, small, and friendly seems contrarian to the notion of success in a Darwinian evolutionary sense, but whatever will be will be. Conferences will grow, and some of its audience will get turned off and turn to other venues and avenues... and so, it shall come to pass. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Kishor Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:56 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Local Chapter, network and structuration On 8/27/08, Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/08/26 3:08 PM, James Fee wrote: I overheard someone say at GeoWeb 2008 that they could care less about FOSS4G outside of North America and they have no interest in what will probably be the next couple FOSS4Gs around the world. Hearing things like that, and the reactions about it being 'impossible' for USA state and local government employees, etc., make me wonder if there is any value in having the organizing committees of 'foreign' OSGeo events doing any marketing directly to such people. I wonder what is the cost of marketing directly to me? I wonder what is marketing directly to me? I don't remember seeing an what seemed like a paid ad for any MUM/FOSS4G conference in a paper magazine or also on a web site? Just curious. By the way, I am not a State/Local/Fed employee, yet, I too have little interest in these overseas, high-cost conferences, at least as long as I have no funding support
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osor.eu - GIS Software Community
Theodoros G. Karounos wrote: The GIS (Geographic Information System) Software Community aims at supporting the development and referencing the open source geospatial software on the OSOR. The OSOR GIS Community's goal is to promote exchange of software and experience, and to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. The OSOR GIS community evolves: this web page is updated regularly. The OSOR GIS Community workshop (pdfAgenda) - held in Brussels on 27 June 2008 - initiated the building of the community, and discussed how the OSOR could help the Public Administrations in the re-use and efficient development of GIS software. The exchange of experience during the workshop proved very helpful to the attendees, and it was decided to dedicate a section on the OSOR for further exchanges. Following the workshop, the Open Data Spatial Publishing project was initiated on the OSOR, aiming at discussing the need for a license for the publication of spatial data that guarantees the legal compatibility of data shared and integrated in an SDI. A mailing list will soon be set up. Further collaboration is foreseen and currently under discussion with other existing GIS networks. ... http://osor.eu/communities Theodoros, AFAIK, OSOR is somehow related to Cascadoss activities. Does OSOR collaborate with Cascadoss partners in any way? I'm also interested to learn about how OSOR relates to OSGeo Foundation activities. Does OSOR aim to duplicate OSGeo Foundation activities on the european soil? It seems there is potential of synergism between these two entities. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat
Hai.., Excuse me that, I couldnt reply promptly as I was in a tour for a few days. 2008/8/23 RAVI KUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, good work at GRASS routes. India is just waiting for this kind of projects where GIS can help the billions. Please send me a personal mail with details, possibly with some scxreen shots. Yah, I will send it to you shortly. Problem is that I don't have a computer for myself, and away from my workplace. So every files relating to the project were written on optical media, and I need to search the screenshots on that. For OSGeo India we have done work for Rajahmundry MP constituency. Ah.., can you gimme the link? On behalf of OSGeo India we have a 3 day event at Pune and will be great to site your example. Thanks in advance, Shall I send my thesis presentation slides to you (It is my MSc project)? Keep it up Ravi Kumar Joint Secretory OSGeo India chapter --- On *Sat, 8/23/08, നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: From: നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന് [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Resource viewer for grama panchayat To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1:11 AM Hai, Let me introduce my work to the list:- http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/resources/ Hope, I can hear valuable suggestions. It is hosted on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch server. It was my main project during my M.Sc. course in last semester, and I decided to do this because I wanted to do something useful for the panchayat - my first employer :) (Panchayats are the rural local authorities in India, just like Municipalities - the urban thing.) My course is just finished. I developed this thing, on a Debian GNU/Linux Etch system using GRASS GIS, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Quantum GIS, UMN MapServer, ka-Map etc. Coded in MapScript and php. All are Free/Open Source things. I want to expand this to the entire district with some added query modules, such as shortest route to a place, maximum coverage for some areas, flood risk analysis etc, to make it a complete plan-development support system. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·*Jaisen.*..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ ) ¸.·)´ (.·´ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ 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 -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·*Jaisen.*..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´ ( `·.¸ `·.¸ ) ¸.·)´ (.·´ ( `v´ ) `v´ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
