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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC 2020 need new Lead Admin to take over

2020-01-20 Thread Daniel Kastl

Thank you to everyone of the admin team, who made GSoC run smoothly in the
past year.
I'm a little bit surprised that from one year to the other all 6 admins (as
listed on the OSGeo page) will not be able to participate anymore.
It would be definitely good for OSGeo as a mentoring organisation if there
could be a smooth transition over the years.

Or are you just looking for a "lead admin"?
Who of the previous admin team is planning to continue?

Kind regards,
Daniel

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:29 PM Helmut Kudrnovsky  wrote:

> >Due to personal reasons, we admins realized none of us has the time to
> >allocate to GSoC this year. So, OSGeo needs a new Lead Admin or there
> won't
> >be GSoC at OSGeo this year.
> >
> >What's needed to carry out the task?
> >The Lead Admin is:
> >- willing to not go offline during the summer
> >- familiar with GSoC environment (has read all the rules and is capable to
> >explain / enforce them)
> >- prompt to respond to emails
> >- capable of meeting deadlines
> >- proactive and self-starter
>
> good starting point for interested people:
>
> https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/gsoc/
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Daniel Kastl

I think "Switch2osm" is a very good example how to help migrating to
non-proprietary tools: https://switch2osm.org/
I quickly went through their site and as far as I could see, competitor
names only appear in case studies.
Maybe we could have "switch2foss" in a similar way.

It's a very good idea to help new users to find open alternatives to the
proprietary software they're using right now.
I agree with many here, that this doesn't require to provide links to them.

Best regards,
Daniel





On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <
gert-...@osgeo.nl> wrote:

> As a regular user of proprietary GIS software (ArcGIS, FME, Oracle Spatial
> etcetera) I can assure that it is very valuable to have some sort of
> guidance in the diversity of the FOSS landscape.
>
> I agree that "similar proprietary products" isn't the right label.
> However, instead of the proposed "migratte from" (which sound like a
> complete migration plan) I'd suggest the label "comparable proprietary
> software".
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gert-Jan
>
>
>
> María Arias de Reyna schreef op 21-09-2017 8:30:
>
> On 20 September 2017 at 02:41, Helmut Kudrnovsky  wrote:

>
> Dear OSGeo community
>
> I want to bring you a discussion on a github ticket about linking to
> "similar proprietary products" [1] to your attention.
>
> My comment there:
>
> "I support and concur with Venka that the item "Similar Proprietary
> Products" should be removed. There isn't only one proprietary GIS
> software
> out there, there are several others. IMHO such comparisons may be part
> of
> e.g. a reviewed scientific paper/elaboration, where our OSGeo projects
> - if
> they want to - may link to. I see no added value for OSGeo to serve
> such
> links. As already elsewhere mentioned by me, reciprocity is the key if
> such
> items are listed, but I can't see this happen. "
>
> I'm pretty much convinced that more effort to help our OSGeo projects
> improving on every level (e.g. documentation, reach out, testing, etc)
> is
> the key rather than linking to proprietary software. One of such
> opportunities may be the upcoming Google Code In (GCI) 2017 e.g. to
> produce
> nice screenshots for documentation, produce some fancy videos etc.
> based on
> tiny little tasks for students aged 13 to 17. A good invest in the
> young who
> will be our OSGeo's future.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
> OSGeo charter member
>
> [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100
> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my opinion, it makes sense to show relation between propietary and
>> free and open software. Just because we want to people to migrate to
>> free and open source software, so it is good if they can search for
>> the software they are currently using to know what software will they
>> use. It makes sense, it makes life easier on migrations.
>>
>> Said this, I prefer the "Migrate from" label much better. And sure, no
>> link to the product, just the name. Why would we need a link? If they
>> don't know what that software is, the information is useless to them.
>> If they already know what that software is, the information is
>> redundant. So having a name is fine, having a link is nonsense.
>>
>> Is "Migrate from" label aggresive? Not at all. We are OsGeo, we are
>> promoting FLOSS. Promoting FLOSS means we are encouraging people to
>> move from propietary to open. That is our philosophy, that is our
>> motto. If propietary software feels bad because we follow our goals...
>> well, then maybe they should stop promoting their own software too
>> because that makes me feel bad.
>>
>> Regards,
>> María.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

2015-12-17 Thread Daniel Kastl

Hi,

I wanted to share some thoughts, because I don't want that Maxi's
concerns are buried under lots +1's, that "we are just doing our best
for a successful FOSS4G". Maybe Maxi's initial email was a bit strong
and contained the  "LocationTech" keyword ;-)
I don't think anyone (and for sure not Maxi) wants FOSS4G or OSGeo not
to be successful, and nobody is against marketing.

However doing something with good intent doesn't mean, that it's right,
right?
If there is a privacy policy, we need to respect it and handle personal
data (like email addresses) accordingly. If there is no privacy policy,
we probably should have one, because there are at least a few countries
I know, where not being able to opt-out or receiving unwanted emails can
become a legal issue quickly (and cost money).

I remember a few months ago the discussion about Code of Conduct, where
some people thought, we don't need that, because we're well-educated and
friendly people, respecting each other, etc.. A code of conduct wasn't
something I cared about that time, because maybe it's not common in
countries where I live. But I learned, that it's an important document
for North American countries. And I think the privacy topic is a widely
discussed issue in European countries, and we have some lessons learned
about services/organizations trying to track us.
So that's maybe the reason, why some are not so happy to click an
encrypted link with tracking ID (and whatever else). While I think you
already get tracked, when you open the email and the transparent image
gets loaded.
Speaking as a Japanese citizen, it's even seen as bad practice here to
sent HTML emails, so almost every commercial email is text only with
beautiful ASCII art and is really hard to look at.

While reading this thread I had the following questions actually:
- Is the collected database of email addresses available on request for
every local chapter?
- If a local chapter passes it to some third party organization (in this
case LocationTech, but replace it with any other name), what happens
with these addresses later? Are they now merged with the "LocationTech
Tour" database or the whole Eclipse address pool, etc.?
- If I didn't open my email, because I'm not from North America, will I
be removed from the database and future announcements?

I think most email addresses collected from further events were for
registration purpose. There is no way to register without giving OSGeo
an email address.
And even if we won't harm anyone, we didn't ask those people, if they
would like to opt-in for a newsletter-like service.
So I find it somehow OK (gray-zone) to use the existing address
collection for marketing future global FOSS4G events (it's only once a
year), but you need to understand that FOSS4G NA is a regional event,
and that the emails probably haven't been filtered by region. If we
continue this practice, will then every local FOSS4G be able to spread
the word in the name of OSGeo using a collected address list of the past
10 years?

Personally I think, that as a community we can do much better marketing
than using MailChimp.
Maybe it's a good idea to add an opt-in form to FOSS4G registrations,
where people can sign up for event announcements, even with regional
preferences eventually?

Best regards,
Daniel

On 18/12/15 01:09, Steven Feldman wrote:
> +1,000,000 to what Paul has said
>
> I also passed the FOSS4G 2013 list (which included names for 2011 and
> previous FOSSS4Gs) to the 2014 team in the spirit of fraternal support
> to future FOSS4Gs, I believe that was the right thing to do even
> though we neglected to have specific opt in/out option. No doubt they
> passed the extended list to 2015 and they have in turn shared with
> 2016. This is good not bad.
>
> We need to separate the animus towards LT from the apparent horror at
> the use of a ‘commercial’ service like MailChimp. Those of us who earn
> our living from Open Source Geo need to promote Open Source Geo and
> that means outreach to people who may not be followers of our mailing
> lists, so we need other channels. e-mail marketing is an established
> way of reaching potential FOSS4G participants, it is not evil, it
> probably isn’t spam (even if you haven’t opted in) as long as you
> provide an immediate opt out from further mail (which MailChimp does
> really well).
>
> If LT are willing to allow us access to their large contact list,
> surely that is something we should say thank you for not complain
> about? We might want to ask ourselves why their list is so much larger
> than ours? We have a list of several thousand accumulated from
> previous FOSS4Gs, using MailChimp enables us to clean that list down
> to interested participants very efficiently by providing a simple opt out.
>
> There is no reason why we should not continue to maintain a growing
> list of people who have attended, sponsored or expressed interest in
> OSGeo/FOSS4G. The norm should be that you are opted in by default as a
> result of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Daniel Kastl

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> 
> People can and do participate in both OSGeo & LocationTech all the 
> time.  This is a good thing. It absolutely isn't a zero sum
> scenario. The mutually reinforce each other rather than detract
> from one another.
> 

I think there is a big difference in how the participation is organized:
With OSGeo you become a member like this: http://www.osgeo.org/Membershi
p
And with LT it works like this:
https://www.locationtech.org/content/become-member and details in
here: https://www.locationtech.org/charter

You could now argue, that participation is not membership. That's right.
But then look at who you participate for in case of LT :
https://www.locationtech.org/members

There is a big "Strategic" at the topic, so to me this means, that
they have a lot to say. And there is a guest sections, which it likely
the opposite.

I don't need to explain, who paid their dollars to become a strategic
member. For them the annual fee is nothing in their overall budget.

The funny thing is, that both (OSGeo and LT) have a "Nondiscrimination
Statement" on their website:

OSGeo: "The Foundation is open to all members of the geospatial
community. We do not discriminate based on age, gender, race,
nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or disability."

LT: "We are committed to making participation in the LocationTech
community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of
level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race,
ethnicity, age, religion or analogous grounds."

I think you forgot "economic discrimination"!

For me, whether I would be able to pay for a membership or not, it
makes it a very easy decision, where I want to contribute my volunteer
time for.

Sorry, if this slightly moved the thread into a different direction. I
just wanted to agree with Andrea, that LT doesn't have the same goals
in some way: it clearly focuses on the economic strong members of the
organization.

Best regards,
Daniel

PS: you will also recognize from the members, that LT is not a diverse
organization in terms nationalities. Well, you could argue, that IBM,
Oracle and Google are operating globally ;-)




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Ko Nagase

2015-08-25 Thread Daniel Kastl

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+1 I would like to second this nomination.

Best regards,
Daniel


On 25/08/15 14:41, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
 Forwarding Ko Nagase nomination by Venkatesh Raghavan.
 
 Best regards, Vasile
 
 
 
  Forwarded Message  Subject: Nomination for Ko
 Nagase Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:20:53 +0900 From: Venkatesh
 Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp To: OSGeo Chief Returning
 Officer c...@osgeo.org CC: Ko Nagase nag...@georepublic.co.jp
 
 Dear CRO,
 
 It is my pleasure and privilege to nominate Ko Nagase as Charter
 Member for the 2015 elections.
 
 Ko Nagase is not only very active in the OSGeo. JP community he
 also contributes to several FOSS4G projects such like QGIS
 (pgRouting plugin [1]), pgRouting, OSGeo-Live [2] and others [2].
 He possess all the requisite qualities to be a OSGeo Charter Member
 and will be a great  to our Foundation.
 
 He is currently a board member of OSGeo.JP and has kindly consented
 for the nomination.
 
 Best
 
 Venka
 
 [1]
 https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/author/Anita%20Graser,%20Ko%20Nagase/

 
[2] https://github.com/sanak
 
 
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Foss4g2015-asia] End of MERS in Korea

2015-08-04 Thread Daniel Kastl

The international FOSS4G will never be so close again (except it will
take place in Japan).

So now there is no reason anymore, not to attend ;-)

- Daniel


 Forwarded Message 
Subject: [Foss4g2015-asia] End of MERS in Korea
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:19:57 +0900
From: Sanghee Shin shs...@gaia3d.com
To: foss4g2015-a...@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Dear FOSS4G Asia Leaders,

I’m very glad to inform you that MERS in Korea was declared de-facto
end by Korean government at the end of last month. For more
information, please read this.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2015/07/28/030200AEN20150728001653315.html

We haven’t seen any new case of MERS for last 4 weeks and Korean
people live their normal life just like last summer. It’s really hot
and humid summer now.

I was told that some of Asian people hesitated to attend FOSS4G Seoul
because of MERS. However it’s now all over. Please spread this news to
colleagues nearby you and encourage people to register FOSS4G Seoul
event. You can register here:
http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/registration/

FOSS4G Seoul team hope we could see many Asian attendants at FOSS4G
Seoul this September, not only because FOSS4G Seoul is the first time
FOSS4G in Asia, but also FOSS4G Seoul will be great event.

FOSS4G Seoul will be held in conjunction with SmartGeoExpo[0], the
largest geospatial event, at the same day and place. We’ll also have
Asia Special session and FOSS4G UN Special session as well. There will
another numerous exciting programs too.

Look forward to seeing you in Seoul and appreciate all your efforts.

Thanks and regards,

Sanghee
[0]http://smartgeoexpo.kr/eng/main
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Preparation of ideas pages for GSoC 2015 (deadline: 18th February!)

2015-02-18 Thread Daniel Kastl

I was also wondering where the 2015 Wiki page is.

The pgRouting project maintains a single GSoC Ideas page, which gets
updated every year: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas

I have just updated it recently for 2015.

Best regards,
Daniel



On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Daniel Morissette 
dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote:

 And FYI, an ideas page for MapServer has been created at

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapServer_2015_SOC_Ideas

 Daniel


 On 2015-02-18 9:15 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

 Hi Margherita,

 Where are the OSGeo GSoC pages for 2015? In past years, they used to be
 in the wiki, and that's where projects used to go to link their ideas
 page, but I can't find any page for GSoC 2015 in the wiki. Has this
 information moved to somewhere else?

 See the set of Google Summer of Code 2014 * pages listed at
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

 What is the plan for this year to collect the ideas?

 Thanks

 Daniel

 On 2015-02-11 10:24 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:

 Dear All,

 *GSoC 2015* was officially announced earlier this year. The applications
 for mentoring organizations are now open and this year Hamish Bowman and
 myself will be applying for OSGeo's participation.
 The application deadline for mentoring organizations is the 20th of
 February, and right after that, Google will proceed examining the
 organizations. The showcase for evaluating the applications are the
 *GSoC ideas pages* [1], and for this reason, they need to be in perfect
 shape. This means that OSGeo teams are required to set up and shape
 their pages this week, coordinating their teams through their dev
 mailing lists. The pages will then linked to the main GSoC 2015 ideas
 page on the wiki.
 Please bear in mind that there is no guarantee whatsoever of the
 acceptance by Google based on the success of previous years, but they
 will judge the organizations only on the basis of ideas pages for 2015.
 Please forward this email to your project leaders and past GSoC mentors,
 and start listing ideas right away!
 Please cc soc list with your doubts and questions.

 [1] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/


 Best regards,

 Dr. Margherita DI LEO
 Scientific / technical project officer

 European Commission - DG JRC
 Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
 Via Fermi, 2749
 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261
 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short codes for locations

2014-10-29 Thread Daniel Kastl

I think the Github page here already lists plenty of alternatives and
explains well, why they were not used:
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/comparison.adoc

Daniel


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Gavin Fleming gavinjflem...@gmail.com
wrote:

  Or MapCode: http://www.mapcode.com/ . It's already embedded in TomTom
 systems; however, it is open. Only the master grid database is controlled
 centrally by a foundation.

 There's definitely a place for a non-coordinate-based place identifier,
 especially for the large proportion of the world's population without
 formal addresses. It'll be interesting to see what emerges. I've been
 thinking a mapcode plugin for QGIS would be a nice idea...

 On 29/10/2014 23:00, Barry Rowlingson wrote:



 On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Morissette 
 dmorisse...@mapgears.com wrote:

 This sounds very much like the Natural Area Coding (NAC) system:

 http://www.nacgeo.com/

 Interesting idea in theory, but in practice this has been around for
 over a decade and hasn't really taken off, quite likely because an
 alphanumerical code is not of much more use than pure geographic
 coordinates.

 Or maybe it's like the case of rasters in a database [1] and this
 concept just needs a strong champion to sell us the idea and convince
 the world that we need it?


   Or possibly because of non-open licensing terms?

 http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/licensing/

   I think I have seen some web services teaming up with What3Words which
 does a similar thing except translates coords to a word triple via a
 proprietary, secret, server-based algorithm. Its cutesy nature (I live at
 monkey sponge gearstick) seems to appeal to many since it makes memorable
 locations.

  Anyhooo...




 Daniel

 [1]
 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2006-October/013569.html

 On 14-10-29 3:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
  Hi Doug,
  An interesting and potentially useful concept.
  It sounds like you are proposing a spatial standard. Have you approached
  the Open Geospatial Consortium about getting the standard endorsed?
 
  With regards to any code which you wish to produce and open source, I
  suggest considering bringing it under the umbrella of the Open Source
  Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
  Details about OSGeo incubation here:
  http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
 
 
  On 30/10/2014 1:08 am, Doug Rinckes wrote:
  I'm an engineer at Google, and I have just open sourced a geo project
  we've been working on for a while.
 
  I used to work on our maps, detecting missing road networks and in my
  spare time mapping roads in Papua New Guinea, Central and West Africa
  from the satellite imagery. But without street names or addresses, a
  road network isn't all that useful. People can't use it for
  directions, because they can't express where they want directions to.
  After talking with colleagues from around the world, I discovered
  that's it actually very common for streets to be unnamed.
 
  We thought that we should provide short codes that could be used like
  addresses, to give the location of homes, businesses, anything. If we
  made them usable from smartphones, we can make addresses for anywhere
  available to anyone with a smartphone pretty much immediately.
 
  We had some specific requirements, including that these address codes
  should work offline, they shouldn't spell words or include easily
  confused characters. We wanted to be able to look at two codes and
  tell if they are near each other, and estimate the direction and even
  the distance. The codes should not be generated by a single provider,
  because what do you do when they disappear? Finally, it had to be open
  sourced.
 
  Open sourcing the project was important. We wanted to allow everyone
  to evaluate it so that we don't go implementing something that turns
  out to not be useful. If it does turn out to be useful, everyone
  (including other mapping providers) should be able to implement it and
  use the codes freely.
 
  I'm pre-announcing this to a couple of geo lists today, and I'll be
  sticking around for comments and questions. The following links
  provide more information:
 
  Github project: https://github.com/google/open-location-code
   Demonstration website: http://plus.codes http://plus.codes/
  Discussion list:
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-location-code
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

2014-06-29 Thread Daniel Kastl



 2. Charter members then vote (in/out) nominated charter members. This will
 be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a fixed number of
 members for a larger selection pool. (eg vote in 20 people from a list of
 30). For this year, I propose we have a Yes/No vote. Ie, if we have a
 list of 30 candidates, we will ask all charter members to vote Yes or No
 against each candidate. Each candidate with greater than 50% of YES votes
 will be included as new charter members.


Well, I doubt some charter member would vote with No for candidates.
And what if you don't know a candidate well enough or not at all?

So I'm not sure this is really a good idea. I believe the result will just
be that all candidates will be accepted ... as in previous years.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announce: pgRouting RC1 released

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Kastl

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com
 wrote:

 The pgRouting team would like to announce:

  pgRouting v2.0.0 Release Candidate 1

 is ready for review and testing.

 Documentation:
 http://docs.pgrouting.org/

 Download:
 https://github.com/pgRouting/**pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.0.0-**rc1https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc1

 Source:
 https://github.com/pgRouting/**pgrouting/tree/develophttps://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/tree/develop

 Bugs:
 https://github.com/pgRouting/**pgrouting/issues?labels=2.0**state=openhttps://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?labels=2.0state=open

 Pgrouting-users mailing list:
 Pgrouting-users@lists.osgeo.**org pgrouting-us...@lists.osgeo.org
 http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-**usershttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-users

 We are very excited about this release and all the new features that are
 being made available. We have cleaned out all the code related issues that
 have been reported to date against v2.0.

 We hope the community will join in and support all the effort to get the
 release this far with additional testing and feedback.


I just want to add that new Ubuntu packages have been also published in
this Launchpad repository:
https://launchpad.net/~georepublic/+archive/pgrouting-unstable

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events

2013-03-09 Thread Daniel Kastl

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.itwrote:

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 Il 08/03/2013 16:16, Steven Feldman ha scritto:

  I've been following the conversation that was prompted by Paolo's
  comment about FOSS4G pricing

  We are trying to balance the need to have an economically viable
  conference that covers costs and returns funds to OSGeo (which is
  what we were asked to do) with making the event as affordable and
  accessible as possible. We consulted with the OSGeo Board on how to
  balance these objectives before finalising our prices.

 Hi all.
 We have shown that admitting for free a limited number of top developers
 from OSGeo core projects, that could not otherwise attend, will not be a
 cost to the conference, but an opportunity. The attitude shown confirms
 the widespread feeling of a modest attention to developers, and of the
 primary aim of FOSS4G as a moneymaking machine.
 To me, developers are really the blood and nerves of free software, and
 should be cared of.


What for OSGeo are the developers are for OSM the mappers.
Last year I was involved in SotM Tokyo and I like the way OSM keeps the
costs low for their community:

   - Organized by volunteers (there is a core team that has the knowledge
   of several years SotM now)
   - Free (or cheap) venues
   - Lunch boxes (affordable and quick to hand out)

And they have basically two ticket types: regular and mapper (would be
developer for OSGeo).
Someone is community member, when they own a username (printed on the
badge).
If you want to get a receipt and a company name printed on your badge, you
need to pay the regular fee.

The community price only covers the variable costs per attendant (mainly
food and T-Shirt). It would be too risky for the organizer to cover all the
costs for free tickets, because it's hard to predict how many people will
signup with discounts or for free. But community tickets should not make
any profit. Regular tickets, which are significantly more expensive, and
sponsors have to cover the fix costs instead.

As it has been said several times already, for companies sending developers
to FOSS4G, the conference ticket itself is only a small share of
the total cost (travel, hotel, working time).
But for a developer, taking a holiday and travelling to UK to attend
FOSS4G, the conference already is quite expensive in my opinion.

As Cameron said, for 2013 it's already a bit late to talk about ticket
prices.

Daniel


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Kastl

I think there is not much more to add to what Jeff and Ravi have already
said.
I also second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
Thanks to Venka there is today strong FOSS4G community in Asia (and also in
South Osaka ;-)

Daniel

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.comwrote:

I second the nominating Venkatesh Raghavan for the 2012 SolKatz Award.
I agree with Jeff. Venka is the inspiration behind FOSS GIS sweeping
across Asia and much of the world.
I have known him from the very First FOSS GIS conference in Asia, and he
encouraged us resulting in the
FOSS workshop in the Geological Survey of India in 2005.

He continues to physically visit most of the places where 'FOSSGIS is in
action', and connects to young researchers
readily.

The projects he promotes are the very building blocks of our FOSS GIS
initiative the world over.
His contributions in FOSS GIS for Geologists, like 3-D models are unique.
In short Venka is the leading light for FOSS GIS in Asia and the world.

V.Ravi Kumar
Friend /Fellow Geologist
(Charter member of OSGeo, Ex Board Member, Joint Secy OSGeo India)

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*Modeling*http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.9970rep=rep1type=pdf
An Online System for *3D* Geologic *Modeling* -. Tatsuya Nemoto*, *
Venkatesh*
*Raghavan***, Shinji Masumoto*, Kiyoji Shiono*. * Department of
Geosciences *...*

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*Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

I have the honor of nominating Venkatesh Raghavan[1] for the 2012 Sol
Katz Award. I would classify Venka as the “builder” of all things
FOSS4G. It was Venka who created the term “FOSS4G” back in 2004, using
it as the name of an international event in Thailand, and since then he
has promoted Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics all around the
world.

Venka has also been directly involved in OSGeo since its inception, in
fact he was on the first OSGeo Board of Directors from 2006 to 2007. He
is still very active on the Board mailing list, and often shares his
broad experience with the OSGeo Board members.

A professor at Osaka City University in Japan, Venka constantly
encourages his students to leverage FOSS4G in all of their research.
His students and research teams have improved FOSS software with
international character support and translations for projects such as
MapServer, GRASS, and QuantumGIS.

Venka actively travels around the world promoting FOSS4G, and works
closely with various international event committees each year for such
events as GIS-IDEAS in Vietnam, FOSS4G-Japan, and FOSS4G-India. In 2010
Venka was awarded a Guest Professorship at the China University of
Mining and Technology in Beijing for his “Outstanding contribution to
Open Source Geospatial Technologies”.

As you can see his FOSS4G reach is world-wide. Many people have been
touched by his passion. He is a “boots on the ground” kind of a guy,
who is a master at connecting geospatial communities. Many of us all
around the world have grown our careers and skills through his advice.
I believe Venka would be an excellent recipient for the Sol Katz Award.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan

-Jeff McKenna
OSGeo Board member/friend

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] North America (Seattle) codesprint -- last chance to save it!

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel Kastl

Without being able to attend a code sprint in Seattle, I would like to ask,
if this isn't something OSGeo Foundation would be able to cover the risks
for. In my opinion this is one of the events OSGeo could support, because it
has a high impact on its projects.
Leaving such a risk on individuals is likely to make this kind of events
difficult to organize.

Daniel



On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote:

 The goal of hosting the 2012 North American code sprint here in Seattle is,
 unfortunately, almost dead.

 To date I have received almost $4K in sponsorship money -- thank you to
 Airborne Interactive, Anonymous/CUGOS, Development Seed, and LizardTech! --
 and almost $4K in the form of seven registrations from individuals.

 However, this doesn't get us to the $12K needed to reserve the facilities
 and minimize my risk of defaulting.

 If you are interested in attending and can pay the $525 fee (registration +
 lodging + meals) in advance, please contact me.

 I will try to drum up some more interest down in Denver next month, but the
 longer we wait the higher the chance the facility won't be available
 anymore.  After FOSS4G, if we haven't raised enough funds, I'll be
 refunding
 the sponsorship and registration monies.

 Details on the event can be found here:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2011.  Thanks!

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo has been accepted as an organisation for Google Summer of code!

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Kastl

2011/3/19 Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com

 Hello all,

 Wolf, Hamish and I have the great pleasure to announce that OSGeo has
 been accepted again as a mentoring organization to the Google Summer of
 Code program [0]!

 So, what's next?

 - OSGeo projects: let the admins know if you want to participate, by
 replying to this email :)


pgRouting will participate.
I updated the wiki page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenRouter_2011_SOC_Ideas

Thanks you!
Daniel



 - Would-be mentors: go to the SoC application, create a profile and
 apply to become a mentor [1]
 - Would-be students: talk with your preferred project(s) and start
 building up your proposals. Please have a look at the ideas page. [2]
 - All: feel free to discuss on soc mailing list on how to improve this
 year's SoC, and add them to the wiki [3]

 [0]
 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011
 and http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/osgeo
 [1]

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Administrative#How_to_register_as_a_mentor
 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Ideas
 [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Improvements

 All the best,

 Anne Ghisla, Wolf Bergenheim and Hamish Bowman
 OSGeo GSoC Administrators

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Advice on implementing VRP in FOSS4G

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Kastl

Hi David,

We have implemented something like this last year for pgRouting (extension
of PostGIS/PostgreSQL). It's very similar to what you describe.
Our goal was to have some genetic algorithm to solve the dial-a-ride problem
for bus-on-demand as described here
http://openvrp.com/blog/darp-algorithm-in-pgrouting/ or here
http://georepublic.de/en/projects/openvrp/

http://openvrp.com/blog/darp-algorithm-in-pgrouting/It was a funded
research project and we're currently implementing a real bus-on-demand
system using taxis and micro-buses.
There are plenty of similar problems related to VRP and a lot
of possibilities to add new functionality as you describe. If you're
interested you can join the pgRouting community (http://www.pgrouitng.org)
and we can discuss details there.

Best regards,
Daniel

2011/2/15 cremat0rio davidsantospinhe...@gmail.com

Hi everyone!

I’m new on this list, so all the best for all of you and for OSGeo!

I’m writing to get some advice. For my master degree project, I’ll try to
create some code to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) through
Evolutionary
Computation techniques (Genetic Algorithms and stuff like that). It would
be
very good to put this code to work on some GIS desktop Software and make it
simple to use, suitable for any layperson.

VRP is a problem where you have some vehicles that need to serve some
places, and you want to distribute them through that area reducing their
overall cost (is terms of fuel consumption, time spent, eco impact, etc.).
For example, distributing waste collection trucks to different areas of a
city, or mailmen’s through some city, or some companies’ trucks that need
to
serve mail packages to a country, etc… All this problems have in common
that
we want the vehicles (or humans) to be routed on the network to serve some
locations.
In terms of implementation we need a LINESTRING layer representing the road
network (of some city, for example) and a POINT (or POLYGON) layer
representing the places that need to be visited (served). Then given some
vehicle’s positions and capacities, and some charging/discharging places
the
code would calculate good routes that minimize the mentioned costs.

As I’ve said, it would be good for this package/software to be suitable for
use for any person, so a Desktop GIS implementation would be good.
The problem is that there seems to be two main computing language paradigms
in the FOOS4G Desktop GIS software’s, Java vs C++. Which one to choose?
Which DesktopGis software? Or should I implement something (some function)
in Postgres/Postgis? Or on the command line (on top of OGR)?
In the beginning I thought that a plugin for QuantumGis would be the best
option because the plugins are relatively independent of the core
developer’s work/supervision, and anyone can choose to install it or not.
But this way people that use Java based DesktopGIS (like gvSig) couldn’t
benefit from this work…
So, I’m asking for your kind advice.

Any help/advice will be much appreciated!

All the best,
David Pinheiro

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