Re: Change in mailing list configuration
I second Jeroen's thoughts and suggestion. Daniel On 2024-01-12 08:05, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Hi Sandro and others, My suggestion would be to re-instate the old configuration and first propose and discuss a possible update. Such discussion and eventual update should be announced first before it is applied. The Discuss mailing list, as other lists, has always worked well for me too. The header [OSGeo-Discuss] is used by many of us to filter email and keep things manageable. That can't just be modified on an important list as Discuss without broader consent IMHO. My 2 cents. Cheers, Jeroen On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:14:49 +0100 *Sandro Santilli * wrote --- On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:35:30AM +0100, Christian Willmes wrote: > As far as I understood it, the mailing list will continue to work as is in > the future? And discourse is only a mirror or an additional interface for > those who prefer to communicate via this app? This change has nothing to do with Discourse but with the ability of people to see the email address of the people who post and to verify that they are reall who they claim to be. The discussion happened in this ticket: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3011 <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3011> --strk; -- Daniel Morissette Mapgears Inc T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Projects] Heads up about an LDAP issue we are having
Hi Regina, I don't know if you found the solution yet, but since we have faced this issue as well with some of our systems at Mapgears and other members of this list may face it as well I thought I would share the solution that we found, which is essentially to install a new certificate chain file on the server to help the problematic SSL clients to find the right certificates. Here are the steps to fix a Linux/Apache server: 1- Download the intermediate certificate: cd /etc/letsencrypt/ wget https://crt.sh/?d=3334561879 -O ca.crt 2- Edit the Apache SSL config to add the following line : SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/ca.crt I hope that will help others facing the same issue. (And I apologize for the noise for those who do not care about web server configs) Daniel On 2021-09-30 20:07, Regina Obe wrote: > An intermediary certificate for LetsEncrypt expired today. > > https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/ > > This has caused validation issues with older systems that are not verifying > the new way. One of these is sadly our beloved trac.osgeo.org > > So if you try to log into trac.osgeo.org you will get a server error. > > I'm still in the middle of troubleshooting and trying to fix. > > Thanks for your patience, > Regina > > ___ > Projects mailing list > proje...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/projects > -- Daniel Morissette Mapgears Inc T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Changes (and proposed changes) regarding the Code of Conduct
good faith. Once the new board is settled, I am going to propose to change the current CoC for another like the Contributor Covenant[2]. As it is a CoC shared by many communities, this has the advantage of receiving the upgrades and experience from other communities. As you can see, it fixes some of the bugs from our CoC, like the assuming good intent and good faith[3] part that made the current CoC useless on most cases. I will propose to add some foreword to adapt to specifities for our community, but in my opinion, the latest version of the Contributor Covenant is easy to read, simple, and cover most of what we need. My hope is that this new CoC can be adapted to all OSGeo Projects and Events that don't already have a CoC, so we have full OSGeo universe covered by default. I hope this actions will prove useful in the medium term and we don't have to see more members leaving the community. We should remember to be empathic and kind. We are all seeking the same goals and we should encourage cooperation, not hinder each other. I know that developer communities are very used to these bad behaviours, but I'm confident we can grow better. Have a nice day! María. [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2018-August/011640.html [2] https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ [3] https://thebias.com/2017/09/26/how-good-intent-undermines-diversity-and-inclusion/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette Mapgears Inc T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website
On 2017-08-23 5:32 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: On Aug 23, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com <mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ideally I would like to see projects that are certified by OGC place the correct logos on these pages. I guess that’s where I’m going with this, GeoMoose has not gone through the process of certifing it’s OGC standards. They have a very specific process to do this too, and based on that I’m saying that GeoMoose for one, would not be 100% compliant, as an example. Some pieces could be though. So we just say we can use those standards and have support for some of them vs having (100%) OGC compliance. To reuse OGC terminology, this is what OGC calls "implementing" vs "compliant, conformant or certified": http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/faq/process#6 -- Daniel Morissette Mapgears Inc T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal
FWIW, as a "non-interested party" which is interested in the candidates visions, I would support the addition of a week of campaining before the votes. And I like Nikos' suggestion of starting it with every candidate answering the question "What should the community expect from my board membership?" Daniel On 2016-09-16 3:45 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: On 16 September 2016 at 08:29, María Arias de Reyna <delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I think campaining a week is a good idea. But as an interested party, maybe it is better to let others decide :) On the contrary, as an interested party I was expecting candidates opinion :-) -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board Nomination for Michael Smith
I second Mike's nomination. Mike has done a great job taking over the Treasurer duties as well as representing OSGeo at various events, and we are very fortunate that he is willing to stand for re-election and continue to serve. Daniel On 2016-09-08 2:41 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Forwarding Michael Smith nomination to the board of directors by Stephan Meißl. Best, Jorge CRO 2016 -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephan Meißl <step...@meissl.name> Date: 7 September 2016 at 10:52 Subject: Nomination of Michael Smith as board member To: OSGeo CRO <c...@osgeo.org> Cc: Michael Smith <michael.smith.e...@gmail.com> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I'd like to nominate Michael Smith from the US as board member. Mike works as Physical Scientist with the Remote Sensing GIS Center of Expertise at the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been a long time power user, supporter, and contributor of MapServer, GDAL/OGR, and other OSGeo projects. He is a member of the MapServer as well as the PDAL PSC. He is a FOSS4G regular and hasn't missed a single one since the 2003 MapServer Users Meeting as far as I know. Mike is the present OSGeo treasurer and has already served on the board for the last couple of years. I believe he is really doing a great job representing OSGeo and he is a perfect candidate to continue serving on the board. See his user page for more information: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michael_Smith cu Stephan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXz9VLAAoJEKNQXeNWi+qtY4YQANsoRMrkSCTvLRqF552+Y7CN FEiTMXfwXH57tegpt3LmmAUmdaQFxcUgzEQi8o4NNrzQxGiywuzV64Wl3WRc6aJA q48BskxVbFzClz3+kEJf76fmlBfH/NHYi/lLVAqXFde3U/2FmxfkKK1kQbf0gHy/ fPMNkbSzh1eSwLAqFclQZlL9BKZ78yBKAA3hyoZAo4RZP5mgEmpkGqcs+fgA3ReQ yrChNmK/nDRE7cSub8HQPgs3CZNJhiWOsS1FPYpbqDn3AK/pP7L5118z/oC5kSF4 r1a1UXTDGQ1gvZ3ho4LNzR0DJSLa0bVymPkbFqupvkxzV2G0Tcsla2Eo9s/fJyLQ P3p1RNWlSBxwnGbF75OtMAL/Az93CIp2YERPerobG/20cZPVf49MUJgCvFW/j/tH HhrGXXF9VjTxplkcKQ6vRYdB9legVN4Sy5dKkyXtkni12xT+GNRGB5J/zIbLfQxC aLSweQ7rYwIA0uPopVJ9bgFkoHbyrB/ThXbuZb9BNxC2qYgeVwreKuyeGZYWSymE kYyJ7t7d0ST0egehAJkI7uDEa9u4iOqi+jZsEzpKu5xoI+pCz8WA0F8LSsnop7UY ZMnG+217303N/Yrx0/2bfKNHF2rF9vweQhSl5RpLcbTOMqEjlQTFSovY5JWZ7qJX 5wSLtAONJBW4Ktp15AGP =wkhV -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help on patent infringement claim
Good morning Andrea, Not off-topic at all if you ask me. I didn't look up the patents that you referred to, but FYI there is a Wiki page where we document prior art and other facts related to webmapping patent claims: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Web_Mapping_Patents Hopefully you find some info in there that can help you, and I'd invite you to update the page with whatever relevant info that you find relating to those other patents. Regards Daniel On 2016-04-08 9:09 AM, andrea antonello wrote: Dear all, this might be slightly off-topic (I think not). In a couple of companies a few years ago we developed a fleet tracking software all based on open source software. The mobile android part is basically a customization of geopaparazzi, the server side base on the usual open webmapping stuff (bare with me on this oversemplification). The project had some internal issues and we never really came to an official release, even if the website went online to be used for commercial purposes. A few weeks ago we were contacted by one of those "innovating" companies that do nothing else than buying patents and search project from which they can gather money. Needless to say that our project has been targeted. HydroloGIS, our company, is part of the Open Invention Network, so we first asked them for support. It is obvious that a small company as ours gets scared quickly from a letter claiming patent infringement and possible litigations. We are now trying to document the (very superficial) claims we got (like having a map - Openstreetmap - visualized on a device), as OIN suggested us to. One more thing we have been asked, is to gather as many articles, scientific or not, that deal with what the patent claims and that might be dated before the patent's date (patent has been filed in 09/2000 and granted in 11/2007). I know it is a long shot, but maybe some of you have already had to do with this and might be able to help, send some references. For reference the patents are: US 6754580 B1 EP 1218697 B1 Basically it is a system to track vehicles made up of a client (mobile device) and a server application. If you have papers, articles, anything related to that at hand, please let me know. Thanks for any help, Cheers, Andrea ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go
On 2016-03-08 8:37 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote: Looking at the participant list, that Paris code-sprint entailed at least 10 transatlantic flights and probably at least that many short-haul (pan-Europe) flights too (which have higher emissions profiles per passenger mile). I don't doubt a lot of useful work was done, but was the quantity and quality of the work so much superior to the normal-work-from-home/office option that it was worth the considerable extra pollution that the sprint generated? This is obviously not something that can be easily quantified (although I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should be considered when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you can easily end up with a Tragedy of the Commons situation. A quick search doesn't find any sort of ethical/green/social-responsibility policy on OSGeo's pages... Um... very good point. On that note, I wonder if we should consider canceling the international FOSS4G which has an even worse impact since we're talking of hundreds of useless flights only to get people to watch a couple of conferences and share their latest project news. Conferences and meetings could be streamed and delivered using hangouts after all. Why did we not think of that before? -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o
On 2015-12-16 10:00 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: On 2015/12/16 18:37, Pat Tressel wrote: MailChimp is a very popular product. If you have a provable accusation against them -- that they were acting **independently of the account administrator** to alter lists, then that would be significant. As Rob has stated, MailChimp did not do something by itself. The list was aggregated from previous lists and events in which people participated. I have also received a similar unsolicited mail. I would like to know who has authorized the aggregation and usage of email address from "previous lists and events in which people participated". I think every event has a privacy policy and e-mail address provided are only to be used for communicating about the specific event and not for aggregating for future use. For the record, the use of such mailing services for FOSS4G promotion is not new. Even FOSS4G 2015 (Seoul) used MailChimp in a very similar way, I still have some of their mails in my archives, and I'm sure other past events did as well but I didn't bother digging any further. How can you realistically expect to do outreach to new people if you only announce your event on osgeo-discuss? This anti-anything-locationtech-does drama is becoming boring, please let's get over it. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship
OSGeo vs LocationTech debate aside, I would like to point out that there are lots of people who make the choice of non-reciprocal licenses over reciprocal ones, and it is not by "fear" or because they misunderstand the way FOSS licenses work, it for other reasons that I don't ask pro-freedom people to agree with. I for one have been making a living around FOSS for 20 years, and have contributed thousands of lines of codes myself and through people that I hired to work on various open source projects, and have my own reasons why I think that non-reciprocal is better. It is not because of fear or misunderstanding, it is for my own reasons and I do not force anyone to agree with me. The only thing that matters is that in the end some open source projects were better thanks to our contributions. It would be great if we could all be more respectful of the position of other community members and avoid suggesting that they are wrong in their choices just because they view things from a different angle. Thank you all, and let's hope we can see more positive discussions around here Daniel P.S. I also don't think that OSGeo, LocationTech or any other org can claim ownership of the "value of a community" of individuals, but I won't step into this debate since that is just a waste of time and energy. On 2015-11-13 10:50 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: Comments inline: For me this is a major outrage, but I understand that OSGeo is focused on open software, not on free software. (Remember: free includes open, open doesn't include free). As mentioned in my other email I am pragmatic, focused on what my customers want, or what the community I am working with is comfortable with. I find that GPL is loosing its teeth with all the server/cloud software in the mix, but have not found a rush of projects switching to AGPL ... yet. So I would understand collaborations between LocationTech and OSGeo, where open is the key and not freedom. And we have found a big difference between both organizations: we are more open and more free. I should point out that OSGeo has a "any OSI approved license" policy and is decidedly not pro GPL. For that you want another foundation. Maybe they still believe that they cannot do bussiness over GPL derived licenses. And as wrong as they are, if their main focus is on bussiness, it is understandable they are afraid of freedom. I think the "business" or "commercial friendly" terms are a problem here, the point of these licenses is not restricted to making money. Much of the software we do at Boundless is released under a GPL license - and I consider Boundless as a successful company. By the same token some software we work with (GeoTools, GeoGig) is released under a more permissive license - simply because we want to reach a larger audience. (So look to the intensions of those releasing the software - you are working with people and organizations after all). I want to be very clear here - as a member of the incubation committee: OSGeo is to be inclusive of all projects, I would hate to give the impression we were favouring GPL software. Not in the lest because GeoTools is LGPL for the very sensible reason that it was the most "business friendly" license at the time. So yeah, please dial it back a notch. You will find that Apache (another excellent foundation does not support GPL), I could go on but it is a tired refrain... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Women in Open Source award
FYI, I just came across this new Women in Open Source award by RedHat: http://redhat.com/womeninopensource The nomination period ends November 30, 2015. Winners will be announced at the Red Hat Summit in June 2016, held in San Francisco, where they will be recognized and invited to speak, as well as receive a $2,500 stipend. Winners are chosen by public vote. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?
Okay, this whole thread did not make sense to me until I digged further in the Google search link that was in the first email. I think the page in question is this one: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/autodesk It is safe to say that it should be removed today since Autodesk are no longer sponsors. It is probably not linked from anywhere on the osgeo.org website anyway. Daniel On 2015-10-14 10:37 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:28:36AM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote: Again I am trying to read your tone in your e-mail. I believe you are now not questioning the accuracy of the list of sponsors on http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html but I believe you are now questioning that we/OSGeo can accept funds from private companies (am I correct in reading your message?). No, you're misreading it. I'm very happy with OSGeo accepting funds from private companies. Even proprietary software vendors. But I'm not happy with OSGeo website containing advertisement of proprietary software solutions. Btw, at the time in which I wrote the mail, the sponsors page was *empty*. Now it is not empty anymore, and I don't see AutoDesk among the list of sponsors. Is the page correct now ? I'm not sure this works, but the MD5 sum of the page I'm looking at now is 786126e032bf302cd0900a8b58e228fc sponsors.html --strk; ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?
On 2015-10-14 11:34 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Thanks Daniel. Also, you likely saw in your inbox this morning that Mike/Treasurer was asking questions about how to manage the sponsors; please if you have time can you answer him about that? I think he's trying to understand who is a current sponsor and who is not, and looking for those records. I hope we can inform the new OSGeo Board of this tomorrow. For the record, I have replied to this email off-list to Mike/Jeff with all the details and I believe they will discuss this with the new board to update/correct the sponsorship situation. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Preparation of ideas pages for GSoC 2015 (deadline: 18th February!)
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 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu mailto:margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Preparation of ideas pages for GSoC 2015 (deadline: 18th February!)
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 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu mailto:margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short codes for locations
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? 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 https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/open-location-code Enjoy! Doug ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, Wwww.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo
? does it somehow overlap with incubation or not? What are the distinctive features? Personally I wonder why some of the most eminent person of osgeo (like you) decided to work into location teach? Don't misunderstood me, I'm not judging nor criticizing, I'd just like to understand opportunities or aspect or services not found in osgeo and that experts and leaders found there. Sorry in advance for my eventual ignorance, but I think this would help people better understand the discussion and the future of osgeo. Maxi Il 14-set-2014 17:05 Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com mailto:dmorisse...@mapgears.com ha scritto: FWIW I'm happy to hear that there was such a face to face discussion. I believe that open communication on the issues will be the best way to address the fears and find ways to move forward in the best interest of the overall worldwide community of people, businesses, institutions, etc who have a common interest in seeing free and open source geospatial software strive. Keep in mind that we all come to this model of software development for different reasons (business, academic, philosophical, hobby, etc.), but in the end we're all working towards a similar objective, so there is no fear to be had, just different means of reaching a common objective, and since the result of everybody's actions is better free/open source software, everybody will benefit in the end. Not sure if I was able to relay my thoughts properly... maybe I need a bit more sleep. Cheers all Daniel On 14-09-14 10:25 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Guys, as long as I understand it: some members of the community are scared of LocationTech taking over whatever (FOSS4G conference, OSGeo projects and community). This can be based on real action, taken on either site, unofficial statement, misunderstandings or personal dislikes. Yesterday, we had short (about 2hours) face 2 face discussion with Andrew here in PDX (me, Vasile, Jeff and Gerald) and I personally believe, that it is not in interest of LocationTech to crush OSGeo or FOSS4G conference. It was clearly stated, that LocationTech would like to contribute to FOSS4G and make it to better conference, regarding (again) some remarks of some members of the community (including myself), that the way, FOSS4G is organised, does not necessary meet some of the community aspects, we would like to stress. I would like to note, that the discussion was very open on both sides, still calm and productive. To contribute of course means to work and LocationTech is anything but volunteer driven organisation. It has been stated, that FOSS4G-NA next year will be organised primarily by LocationTech, but OSGeo willl be represented clearly and (so to say) loudly. This could be one of the firsts steps towards closer cooperation between LocationTech and OSGeo. Everybody is aware, that on some points, LocationTech is not that good, as OSGeo currently is. OSGeo is certainly failing in other things. Looking for ways, how to strengthen common strengths and weaken our weaknesses should have non-zero-sum effect. We, as OSGeo shall later evaluate, whether the price for helping us LocationTech with conferences (regardless if on regional or global level), was too hight or quite ok. In case of disagreement, we shall try to find solution for the next time. In the worst case, we find out, that cooperation is not possible and everybody can go it's way than. I hope, you get my point(s) and that I did not misinterpreted anything, what was said. Thank you Jachym -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 _ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/__mailman/listinfo/discuss http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo
FWIW I'm happy to hear that there was such a face to face discussion. I believe that open communication on the issues will be the best way to address the fears and find ways to move forward in the best interest of the overall worldwide community of people, businesses, institutions, etc who have a common interest in seeing free and open source geospatial software strive. Keep in mind that we all come to this model of software development for different reasons (business, academic, philosophical, hobby, etc.), but in the end we're all working towards a similar objective, so there is no fear to be had, just different means of reaching a common objective, and since the result of everybody's actions is better free/open source software, everybody will benefit in the end. Not sure if I was able to relay my thoughts properly... maybe I need a bit more sleep. Cheers all Daniel On 14-09-14 10:25 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Guys, as long as I understand it: some members of the community are scared of LocationTech taking over whatever (FOSS4G conference, OSGeo projects and community). This can be based on real action, taken on either site, unofficial statement, misunderstandings or personal dislikes. Yesterday, we had short (about 2hours) face 2 face discussion with Andrew here in PDX (me, Vasile, Jeff and Gerald) and I personally believe, that it is not in interest of LocationTech to crush OSGeo or FOSS4G conference. It was clearly stated, that LocationTech would like to contribute to FOSS4G and make it to better conference, regarding (again) some remarks of some members of the community (including myself), that the way, FOSS4G is organised, does not necessary meet some of the community aspects, we would like to stress. I would like to note, that the discussion was very open on both sides, still calm and productive. To contribute of course means to work and LocationTech is anything but volunteer driven organisation. It has been stated, that FOSS4G-NA next year will be organised primarily by LocationTech, but OSGeo willl be represented clearly and (so to say) loudly. This could be one of the firsts steps towards closer cooperation between LocationTech and OSGeo. Everybody is aware, that on some points, LocationTech is not that good, as OSGeo currently is. OSGeo is certainly failing in other things. Looking for ways, how to strengthen common strengths and weaken our weaknesses should have non-zero-sum effect. We, as OSGeo shall later evaluate, whether the price for helping us LocationTech with conferences (regardless if on regional or global level), was too hight or quite ok. In case of disagreement, we shall try to find solution for the next time. In the worst case, we find out, that cooperation is not possible and everybody can go it's way than. I hope, you get my point(s) and that I did not misinterpreted anything, what was said. Thank you Jachym -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter
Hi Steven, I see no problem with putting a How to be a good OSGeo Citizen in the wiki, that could be a great way to evolve the document by drawing from ideas of multiple people on this topic. The reason for the I'm not sure in my previous email was mostly that I feel that getting consensus in the community about making this a formal statement of OSGeo could be complicated because there may be differing views when we get on that kind of topics (encouraging return from users vs letting the code be fully free of any expectations). So my point was simply that I do agree with you on trying to encourage users to return something for the long term viability of the software they use, and short of getting consensus in the community to publish the perfect statement which could be tough, if more articles like yours are spread around then the message may be even stronger than a formal statement from OSGeo and require less efforts. Daniel On 14-07-15 3:50 AM, Steven Feldman wrote: Daniel If we get to a version that the community broadly supports can it go on the OSGeo wiki? I thought anyone could (just about) could post on the wiki and others can amend or even delete. Does the appearance of something on the wiki mean that it is official OSGeo policy? If so what is the process for making such policy, a board vote? I hope that my post gets enough feedback to indicate whether there is community interest in the idea __ Steven On 14 Jul 2014, at 22:59, board-requ...@lists.osgeo.org mailto:board-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: *From:*Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.com mailto:dmorisse...@mapgears.com *Subject:**Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Users Charter* *Date:*14 July 2014 20:50:31 BST *To:*discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org *Cc:*OSGeo-Board bo...@lists.osgeo.org mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org I like your article too. Not sure if/how we could make this an official OSGeo statement, but I'm definitely a big +1 on seeing more blog articles like this! Daniel -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter
I like your article too. Not sure if/how we could make this an official OSGeo statement, but I'm definitely a big +1 on seeing more blog articles like this! Daniel On 14-07-14 9:50 AM, Even Rouault wrote: Steven, I'm very supportive of your thoughts and think it could be adopted as an official OSGeo statement. Well done. If I can make a suggestion, perhaps the Donate picture should show banknotes rather than coins ;-) Even A couple of months back I asked whether their was any contribution guidance that we offered to organisations using OSGeo software. Apart from Jody’s reply there wasn’t any response. I think we are missing an opportunity to encourage and help user organisations to contribute time and/or funding to OSGeo and it’s projects, so I have written this blog post http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/ which sets out some thoughts on Good practice for organisations using OSGeo software”. Hopefully it will prompt some discussion. I have posted on my blog as I didn’t feel that I should post something as speculative as this on the wiki without community endorsement, whenever people want we can move a version to the wiki. Feel free to comment on this mail thread or on the blog. Steven Feldman On 5 May 2014, at 04:57, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: You may like to at what Arnulf has been doing towards certification. Endorsing is a trickery game indeed. For GeoServer we simply list organizations, noting what kind of work each is known for ( but not offering an endorsement). http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jody I would like to have a document or web link to point at as the start of a conversation with an organisation. It can’t be mandatory but we might want to consider community endorsement of organisations which adopt the charter or 'social contract' I’ll start a wiki page with a few thoughts and open it up for others to contribute their views __ Steven On 2 May 2014, at 12:14, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are leaning towards the social contract associated with being part of a community. For organisations that do not wish to participate, that is fine. Participation is one way of minimising the risks associated with the use of open source software, as long as they are making that decision with a decent understanding that is fine. The way I figure it they will get burned a few times before taking interesting in participation :) But yeah if you are talking to managers speak in terms of risk and change control, not community/participation - know your audience. I think I had a rant about the social contact last year, it produced one more tester of GeoServer - making the process of issuing release candidates suspect. -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)
Hi Jorge, I Google'd for online voting services and had a look at the first hit: https://www.simplyvoting.com/ For our 181 members, it would cost 200$UDS for a single election or 334USD for a yearly plan (up to 10 elections per year). The benefits are that it seems very simple, includes reporting, and secure in that it solves the problem of keeping the individual votes secret. I'm sure there must be others, so we could shop a bit, but for that price, I don't think that's worth spending time tweaking a survey software to fit our needs or even trying to host our own. My 0.02$ Daniel On 14-05-16 6:29 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: 2014-05-07 14:20 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com: Also note that I've already planned to discuss elections at the next Board meeting next week (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-05-15)...this likely woke up the Seven-borg :) -jeff Hi all, Yesterday we had the board meeting (logs[1], minutes this evening) and I volunteered for the CRO role this year, with the kind help of Jeff McKenna, Cameron Shorter and likely our secretary Jachym Cepicky. I would try to go on the automated votes process[2] as with 181 charter members, manual e-mail voting seems so time consuming. With the limited resources (mostly time) I'm afraid developing our own voting system is not so convenient and I would prefer to use a service or install something that is already working. I know the guys after Opina[3], a JEE survey software that could be used as a voting system, or just use their on-demand service that is free and seems to work fine[4]. We could import the charter members list (as CSV) and send a personalized link, so members can vote on the system on the allowed dates. What do you think? Any other ideas or experiences on how to gather almost 200 people votes fulfilling our requirements? Best [1] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2014-05-15.log [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Electronic_Voting [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/opina/ [4] http://opinahq.com/ -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Php map framework
Another one that comes to mind is GeoMoose: http://www.geomoose.org/ My opinion is that the last thing the world needs is another PHP framework for name_your_feature_here... it seems that there are already some for everything one can imagine, they may just be a bit hard to find sometimes. Daniel On 14-05-16 3:58 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi, Looking at http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html there are 2 PHP applications in there: Mapbender and Cartaro. On 05/16/2014 10:28 AM, Uggla Henrik wrote: I've just started to write a php framework to make it easier to setup web maps/applications (using Openlayers, Leaflet, or whatever) on a server. Does anyone know if there is something similar already out there? /HU ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)
On 14-05-16 9:16 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Opina would allow secret voting (with personalized links for every member from an invitation mail automatically sent by the system). The only problem is our way of voting with I have 5 votes that can use all with the same candidate, but that can be skipped easily. Oh, very good point about the 5 votes. I don't know if other systems such as SympliVoting would support that either. That will have to be investigated I guess, or the process changed. If Opina does the trick and allows secure voting then I'm all for it. Yes, that was my impression also. SurveyMonkey is 25$/month or so and a well known solution, very similar to Opina. What I saw of SurveyMonkey required some post-processing and did expose the individual votes, so unless there are some new features I'm not aware of I would prefer to pay a few more dollars for a system that is geared for secure voting. Once again, if Opina does it then great. -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback
Hardware is important, but let's not forget that system administrator time is at least as important to keep an infrastructure running smoothly. Can we find ways to avoid relying solely on volunteer time to support the infrastructure? What about including funded sysadmin time in our new plan? Not that the SAC (System Administration Committee) team is not doing a good job (quite the contrary, kudos to you all), but I think that relying solely on volunteer time for some things is not fair to the SAC team and is a high risk for OSGeo (risk of exhausting the volunteers). Contributors to open source projects can in general find clients to fund their time, but contributions to SAC are not something that anyone's client are going to pay for, so I think it something that OSGeo should help support directly. That being said, I'll be first to admit that mixing money and people in a non-profit organization is always complicated. So, short of outsourcing everything, how can we handle funded sysadmin time in a fair way vs volunteer contributions? Are there good examples to follow in other non-profit orgs? (These are open questions to everyone, I don't have the answers) Daniel On 14-04-18 7:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: Calling all Project Steering Committees, SAC is looking at the future of OSGeo hosted services. Please chime in with your wants and needs for the next 3-5 years. We want to maximize services while being efficient about effort (pooling sys admin time amongst projects). http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014 More details below. Thanks, Alex OSGeo Sys Admin Committee Chair Original Message Subject: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:25:41 -0700 From: Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com Reply-To: t...@wildintellect.com, System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo s...@lists.osgeo.org To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo s...@lists.osgeo.org In light of our recent hardware woes, the ending of osgeo1, and the age of current machines (3-4yrs) I think it's time to start planning what to do next. We do have budget, and the board is interested in ideas and additional funding is not out of the question. From my perspective, I think we need: 1. To survey PSC of all projects to assess what services we should offer. Do we need buildbots, sphinx builds, mail service, issue tracking, various CMS/wiki, mirrors, bandwidth for downloads? Now that everyone is love with Github (any word on what the next hot host will be), are there things we should retire? 2. Look at other hosting options besides physical machines in one place. Renting space like QGIS or OSM, racking machines elsewhere, getting OSGeo-ICA labs to mirror. If we do mirror look at GeoCDN and MirrorBrain for geo-ip redirection balancing. 3. Look at new hardware that better meets the needs. RAID is nice but not always the right answer to needs as we discovered recently. We also didn't buy specific to Ganeti/Cloud style setups where hotcopy failover works best with multiple identical machines, and lots of smaller disks with single disks per VM keeps i/o from competing (RAID is handled in mirror mode via DRBD over the network between nodes). Anyone want to tackle making a short survey for Projects to describe their needs and wishes? All ideas welcome, we'll pool it all into proposal and a wiki page before deciding on anything. Thanks, Alex ___ Sac mailing list s...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014
Congratulations to all students, have a great summer of code! And thanks a lot to Anne, Hamish and Dustan for managing the program on behalf of OSGeo. Daniel On 14-04-21 3:13 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote: Hello all, and sorry for cross posting, let us warmly welcome the 23 accepted students and their mentors for this round of GSoC! We received over 60 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects - choosing wich ones to accept has been a difficult task, and we apologise for not being able to take all the outstanding ones. We accepted the following students (in software's alphabetical order): * Cartaro: Naveen Panwar * GDAL/OGR: Varun Saraf and Mikhail Gusev * GeoNode: Vikas Mishra * GRASS GIS: Vaclav Petras, Matej Krejci and Anna Petrasova * gvSIG: Manuel Madrid and Oscar Martinez * istSOS: Priska Pietra * MapServer: Jessica Lapointe * Neo4j: William Lyon * Opticks: Roberta Ravanelli * OpenStreetMap: Lukasz Gurdek * OSSIM: Martina Di Rita * Orfeo Toolbox (OTB): Martina Porfiri * PostGIS: Mohit Kumar * pgRouting: Manikanta Kondeti and Mukul Priya * pyWPS: Anna Homolka * Software packaging: Jerome Villeneuve Larouche * QGIS: Nishith Maheshwari * uDig/GeoTools: Silvia Franceschi This list includes OSGeo projects (official and incubating) and like-minded projects - let GSoC be a gathering of tribes, an occasion to improve communication among all geospatial open source initiatives. See the full list of OSGeo accepted proposals here: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osgeo We wish all students and mentors a great summer! Anne, Hamish and Dustan OSGeo GSoC Admins ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Heartbleed vulnerability in OSGeo4W
Users of OSGeo4W, FYI the version of OpenSSL that was packaged in OSGeo4W was vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug (http://heartbleed.com/). It has been upgraded, and the following ticket documents a few alternatives to upgrade your system: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/414 AFAIK this is mostly important if your OSGeo4W installation has HTTPS access open to the internet. -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [OSGeo-Conf] 2015 North American conference
is doable. We're glad to help figure out a fair and amicable solution. * Ensuring each group are well served is a priority of course. We think this combined event might attract people who might not otherwise come to any of them. But we'll have to try and see. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea? Interested? Kind regards, Andrew ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board -- Daniel Morissette T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [Geomoose-users] (State of Minnesota) Governor's Commendation
Congratulations to the whole GeoMoose team! I always find it interesting to read about the origins of a project or piece of software, and this one was no exception. May I suggest that you add a copy or ref to the history on your website if it's not already present? Or even link to it from the See also section at the end of http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History ? I guess this is also an invitation to other projects to help populate the Open Source GIS History page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History Cheers Daniel On 13-11-19 5:24 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: All (reposting, entirely on purpose), If you ever wondered about the what, where and why GeoMoose came into being, you can now read about it. Go to the link below and click on the “Complete nomination” link. This is a very good write up about the origins and its current perceived effectiveness by users. Oh, and GeoMoose won an Award too!! Bobb *From:*geomoose-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Dan Little *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:00 PM *To:* GeoMOOSE Users List *Subject:* [Geomoose-users] Governor's Commendation This may have been posted to the list already, but GeoMOOSE has been awarded a Governor's Commendation by the Governor of Minnesota. If you don't think this is a big deal, please check out the link and subsequent application (18 pages!). Just to get the application written required a lot of dedication. Read about it here: http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/awards/gov_commendations/13commaward.html I wish to send a heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked on this proposal. Those of you who have taken the time to write down your thoughts on GeoMOOSE, its development, its past, and its future, really took me by surprise. Writing software and working on these projects can be very fulfilling on their technical merits alone. Writing the software and getting presented with cases where it has mattered and helped pushes it far past fulfilling; it makes it feel rewarding. Seeing 18 pages come together from some of the very over worked, unappreciated, and usually under paid professionals I've grown to know in this community is nothing short of humbling. Thank you everyone. Very much. Let's keep up the good work. :-) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list
On 13-10-31 3:19 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi, I am also in favor of making this a generic list. Generic works for me as well. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo upcoming events list needs love
Dear OSGeo Community (CC: news_i...@osgeo.org), The OSGeo upcoming events list badly needs love, it is essentially empty: http://www.osgeo.org/events It would be great if we collectively could adopt a more proactive approach to keeping this list up to date. For now, here are a few events I could think of, could news_i...@osgeo.org please add them to the list: - FOSS4G 2014, Portland, Sept 8-13, 2014, http://2014.foss4g.org/ - Vienna Code Sprint, March 24-28 2014, http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/ - LocationTech Tour, Nov. 4 to 14, 2013, http://tour.locationtech.org/ - FOSS4G-Europe, summer 2014??, http://foss4g-e.org/ - FOSSGIS 2014, March 19-21, 2014, http://www.fossgis.de/ Other event organizers and community members, please forward your OSGeo-related events info to news_i...@osgeo.org Thanks to all -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list
Are we sure...? The only things certain in life are death and taxes. ;-) More seriously, there is probably enough *nix specific stuff to be discussed to make it worthwhile, but it could as well be simply called packaging and open to all platform packagers, however we may find that *nix packagers will get bored of windows issues and vice-versa. All this to say that either name works for me. Daniel On 13-10-28 12:49 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: Are we sure there's enough Linux specific packaging dicsussions to not make it a more generic list that covers issues that apply to osgeo4w, *BSD, OS X, mobile platforms (not mention Cygwin, Macports, homebrew, etc...)? Ubuntu and Debian already have lists specific to them. Or is this the RPM world trying to collaborate? Thanks, Alex On 10/22/2013 06:02 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi Daniel, +1 on the linux-packaging name. Best, Angelos On 10/21/2013 08:19 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Hi Angelos, I like the idea. If the goal is to focus on Linux packaging, then perhaps the list should be named linux-packaging, to leave room for other lists for other platforms if/when needed (e.g. windows-packaging). FYI, once you are ready you should create a SAC ticket to have the list created, using the System Admin component at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ Daniel On 13-10-18 11:40 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi all, There have been some IRC discussions between Fedora-GIS and openSUSE Geo maintainers to join forces (as possible) regarding the packaging of geospatial applications. We feel that such packaging projects (DebianGIS, UbuntuGIS, ELGIS, Fedora-GIS, App:Geo, Arch AUR etc) could at least share patches, workarounds, ideas, maybe even some code (especially when being on a common RPM or DEB format). Then we thought: What if there was a common mailing list that all GNU/Linux packagers could join and discuss? And who would be better to host such a list than OSGeo? So this is the proposal: Lets create an OSGeo packaging mailing list and lets work together. At first we can announce new packages being created for every distro out there. Then perhaps we can share some tickets etc. We *know* that every distro has its own ways of doing things and we are not proposing merging, but collaborating as much as possible... Thoughts? Cheers, Angelos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list
Hi Angelos, I like the idea. If the goal is to focus on Linux packaging, then perhaps the list should be named linux-packaging, to leave room for other lists for other platforms if/when needed (e.g. windows-packaging). FYI, once you are ready you should create a SAC ticket to have the list created, using the System Admin component at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ Daniel On 13-10-18 11:40 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi all, There have been some IRC discussions between Fedora-GIS and openSUSE Geo maintainers to join forces (as possible) regarding the packaging of geospatial applications. We feel that such packaging projects (DebianGIS, UbuntuGIS, ELGIS, Fedora-GIS, App:Geo, Arch AUR etc) could at least share patches, workarounds, ideas, maybe even some code (especially when being on a common RPM or DEB format). Then we thought: What if there was a common mailing list that all GNU/Linux packagers could join and discuss? And who would be better to host such a list than OSGeo? So this is the proposal: Lets create an OSGeo packaging mailing list and lets work together. At first we can announce new packages being created for every distro out there. Then perhaps we can share some tickets etc. We *know* that every distro has its own ways of doing things and we are not proposing merging, but collaborating as much as possible... Thoughts? Cheers, Angelos -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining a GIO position (or attmepting to . . .)
Maybe take it from a different angle? - Open Source software facilitates interoperability or - Open Source software breaks vendor lock-in Vendor lock-in is a tactic used to protect a vendor's licensing revenue stream by ensuring that customers cannot easily switch to another suite of software, and interoperability through open standards and truly open APIs is the best cure I can think of against that. Open Source software excels at interoperability because the vendor lock-in gene is generally absent from the DNA of its developers. Daniel P.S. I see that Arnie Shore beat me by sending something along the same lines a few seconds ago, but I thought I'd hit send anyway On 13-10-16 10:50 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I could get some feedback on the following statement, I’m looking for the other side of the argument (I know it’s hard to put yourself there :c). “Open Source software enforces standards” Now this might be better worded, and it seems straight forward enough here. I’m trying to define a GIO position such that it doesn’t reference anything commercial, but will still cover those commercial packages at the same time. I’m basically thinking about going the route of data standards both for archiving as well as distribution. So, what would you anticipate the other side of the argument (Our Human Resources section in this case) to reply to the above statement, as if they wanted to include some specific commercial application in the assigned duties, for example. In the end I’m trying to get out of a long winded statement about why an open approach is better than a commercial one and the standards piece seem to be the best topic to base the discussion on. In my experience (maybe because I don't discuss this with people who know much about the subject so they have very basic opinions), they usually come with: * Standars aren't the better format to work with * Propietary standards can be more efficient because they are optimized for the propietary software * We already have the information on the propietary format and don't want to migrate And, of course: * Our propietary solution also works with standards (this is very tricky to fight against) Good luck! María. Thanks Bobb ___ 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 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest
I agree that it would be great if OSGeo would participate. The best would be to have a champion, ideally based in UK, to coordinate OSGeo's involvement and be the liaison between the organizers and the rest of the OSGeo community. Any volunteer? Daniel On 13-09-26 9:17 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote: Folks, I very much support this activity and believe that it would be quite beneficial to participate. Ordnance Survey is a powerful multiplier in the UK geospatial business due to its position as the main data provider to the public. There is a license program in place called PSMA (Public Sector Mapping Agreement) entitling all public sector broad access to OS data. Not Bene - this is a lot more than what is published through the Open Data program licensed under the Open Government License. I think it is important to understand what data is available and also what can be done with the service offering of Ordnance Survey. The plugfest will additionally allow you to interoperate with other software you typically encounter in the area. Cheers, Arnulf PS: I am not working for or paid by Ordnance Survey or OGC and nobody made me say ony of this, it is just my own little gut feeling. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Peter Cotroneo peter.cotro...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk wrote: Hi, I'm leading a joint Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Ordnance Survyey interoperability plugfest to test OGC standards in the UK geospatial community. So far, there has been a lot of interest from commercial vendors in the UK, and I would very much like that the open source community be represented at the plugfest as well. The plugfest will be held at Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton, UK. There will be two sprints, one on the 17th of October and the other on the 9th of December. There will also be a results presentation on the 10th of December. The following link gives more information about the plugfest, including a call for participation document. http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1892 The deadline to participate is the 2nd of October. I hope that OSGeo can join us! Cheers, Peter Peter Cotroneo CGeog (GIS) FRGS Senior Manager - Geospatial Web Services Products Innovation Ordnance Survey Adanac Drive Southampton SO16 OAS www.ordnancesurvey.co.ukhttps://webmail.ordsvy.gov.uk/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx | peter.cotro...@ordnancesurvey.co.ukmailto:peter.cotro...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this email. This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Adanac Drive Southampton SO16 0AS Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 13-09-23 11:08 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi Daniel, I see two possibilities here: * osgeo4w is an official foundation project, and as such it does not need to apply for incubation (it would be circular reasoning); in this case the PSC should be appointed by the foundation, or * it is an independent project, thus following the usual procedure; in this case, better not to use the osgeo4w name and logo, and let the devs self organize. Thoughts? Hi Paolo, Even the founding projects of OSGeo (MapServer, GRASS, MapGuide, etc.) did go through incubation, so I think OSGeo4W should go through the same path. Since it is already handled by people who know the OSGeo way it will simply be faster and mostly a matter of running it agains the checklist. If its incubation can be completed in a few weeks then that's just better. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future
On 13-09-22 3:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board, could this be a special OSGeo committee? Thanks. Personally I'd treat OSGeo4W as a software project, with a PSC, committers, etc. We should do the same with OSGeo-Live actually, take it out of the Marketing committee and treat it as a sofware project which is what it si really is. Then projects (OSGeo4W and OSGeo-Live) can apply for incubation when they are resdy, etc. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Software Freedom Day - Today Saturday September 21, 2013
Hi Everyone, I just found out that Today Saturday September 21, 2013 is Software Freedom Day around the world. More info at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Nice timing with our closing day at FOSS4G. BTW, their events map even uses OSM, OpenLayers, and Mapnik. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepts 22 students for Google Summer of Code 2013
Yup, Thanks a lot to Anne, Hamish and Dustan for managing the program for us and going through the whole list of proposals over the last couple of weeks, making sense of all of them and discussing/asking the right questions to establish the viability of each project proposal. People may not realize it but this is a huge task and really not that easy. And thanks to all mentors for their support of the projects, and finally I wish a warm welcome and an exciting and rewarding summer of code to all students! Daniel On 13-05-28 1:29 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: Thanks to Anne for The great work. Compliments to all accepted students. Thanks to OSGeo for hosting friend projects. Happy and productive summer to all the projects. Maxi Il giorno 27/mag/2013 21:05, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com mailto:a.ghi...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hello all, let us warmly welcome the 22 accepted students for this round of GSoC! We received over 30 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects, and we accepted proposals from (in alphabetical order): GEOS, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, istSOS, MapServer, Opticks, OSGeo4W, OpenStreetMap, OSSIM, software packaging, pgRouting, QGIS and uDig/GeoTools. The list includes OSGeo projects (official and incubating) and like-minded projects such as OSM, pgRouting, uDig and istSOS - let GSoC be a gathering of tribes, an occasion to improve communication among all geospatial open source initiatives. See the full list of OSGeo students here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo We wish all students and mentors a great summer! Anne, Hamish and Dustan OSGeo GSoC Admins ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto: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 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A Little Help With the 2012 Annual Report: gvSIG and MapServer
On 13-05-13 7:38 PM, Landon Blake wrote: ... I need to know if the MapServer team has plans to finalize there report on the wiki. It is currently marked as preliminary. Hi Landon, I just updated the MapServer report. It is good to go now. Thanks again for your work on the Journal. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Treasurer update: 2013 budget, accounting and 501c3 status
On 13-05-08 10:40 AM, Landon Blake wrote: Thanks for the hard work on our books Daniel! Landon And thanks to you Landon for your hard work on the Journal, another important piece of the OSGeo puzzle! :-) -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Treasurer update: 2013 budget, accounting and 501c3 status
OSGeo Members, This email is to give you a few quick updates on OSGeo's finance front: 1- 2013 budget The 2013 budget has been adopted at the 2013-04-11 board meeting. It is available in the wiki at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2013 2- Outsourcing of book keeping and accounting Since the early days of OSGeo, all book keeping and accounting was done by our Executive Director, and then in 2011 I took over those tasks as treasurer. However accounting is better done by a real accountant and having a volunteer treasurer handling those tasks is not sustainable in the long run, especially when the treasurer is likely to change from year to year. For this reason we are looking into options to outsource the book keeping and accounting tasks to an accountant knowledgeable about nonprofits to help keep our books straight, produce regular financial statements, and mostly insure continuity between treasurers from year to year. We may have found a skilled and affordable resource to handle this for us. One of the first tasks for this resource would be to review and cleanup the books from past years as needed and then produce formal financial statements for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 that we can then share with our members. More info about this in the not too distant future I hope. 3- Non-profit status with the IRS (a.k.a. 501c3 status) Our nonprofit status in the US is not resolved yet. We had an exchange with the IRS agent responsible for our case a few weeks ago and provided some missing information. I expect that we will hear back from them soon with a decision on our status. More info about our recent exchanges with the IRS is available at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012 That's it for now Daniel (OSGeo Treasurer) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?
I am also of the opinion that single-vendor standards such as KML and this GeoServices REST API are turning OGC into a rubber-stamping organization and this is not what the geospatial community needs. Don't get me wrong, it is good to see these openly published, but the publication should be by their owners (Google and ESRI in those case) and not be rubber-stamped by OGC. What the geospatial community needs is an organization that provides direction around a consistent set of standards that guarantee interoperability between interchangeable software components. The suite of WxS services built over the last 10-15 years is somewhat on the way of achieving this, even if some pieces still do not interoperate as smoothly as we wish. Is OGC trying to tell the world that it no longer believes in WxS? OGC and its members need to decide whether they want the OGC logo to be perceived as the guarantee of interoperability, or just as a rubber-stamping organization with a large portfolio of inconsistent standards. Whether your source is open or closed is out of the question here, so I am not sure that a statement from OSGeo matters unless it is to point at this obvious slippery slope in which OGC is falling (a movement which started with KML a few years ago). Daniel On 13-05-06 3:41 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: All, Having read this thread I support what has been said by Adrian, Bruce and others. If anything, acceptance of a set of standards that basically replicates what W*S standards already do will confuse customers. Maybe that is exactly what esri hopes to achieve, it definitely doesn't help our (the geospatial community) business. And as Bruce states, it will have serious impact on the OGC credibility. As OSGeo I can imagine that we then decide to start our own standardization process and build a standards brand around OSGeo products. Not a nice perspective, let's hope OGC won't go down that route. Jeroen On 6 mei 2013, at 01:08, bruce.bannerman.osgeo bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com wrote: Cameron, My personal opinion is that if this proposal was accepted, it would be a bad move for OGC. Remember that OGC is a community and its Technical Committee membership are the people who vote on the acceptance of Standards. The TC comprises many different organisations. I do understand that OGC are trying to be inclusive in their processes and to try and cater for alternative approaches to a problem, much the same as OSGeo does in supporting multiple projects that essentially handle similar use cases (e.g. GeoServer, MapServer and Degree). I have also personally witnessed ESRI's commitment to helping to further the development of Open Spatial Standards through their work on OGC Working Groups and at OGC Technical Committee meetings. ESRI also have made a valid point in their response to the 'NO' vote for the GeoServices REST API that the OGC has already allowed alternate approaches with the acceptance of netCDF as a data format and KML as a combined data/presentation format. With the GeoServices REST API, I think that the approach proposed: - is very divisive for the OGC community. - essentially appears to propose an alternate way for working with spatial services that does not utilise or build on the W*S suite of services that have been developed through robust community processes for in excess of a decade. - does not provide REST bindings to the W*S suite of standards that have been widely implemented in a range of software. - will result in confusion within the user community that are trying to utilise 'OGC' services. If this approach were to be adopted, I believe that OGC will go too far down the alternate solution approach and will risk losing its public acceptance as one of the key leaders of open spatial standards. I'm interested in hearing other OSGeo members opinions as to how this proposal would affect their projects. Would you consider implementing the GeoServices REST API within your projects? If you did, would you maintain support for both it and traditional W*S services? Bruce ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anymore Contributions for the OSGeo Journal Volume 12?
On 13-04-11 8:27 AM, José Pedro Santos wrote: Hi Landon, I already send a email asking about your interest in the report from the Portuguese Chapter but since I didn't get any reply I think OSGEO is not interest. José, Please go ahead and submit a report for the Portuguese chapter. No need to wait for a confirmation since it is obvious that we/OSGEO/the community want to hear about the activities of all chapters and software projects. The reason why Landon did not respond is probably because this is not even a question, we want them all. Reminder to all chapters and software projects: please take a few minutes to submit your 2012 report. As an OSGeo project or chapter, your are expected to provide that report every year (the chair should lead that effort). Well, I'm not sure if that's written in plain text anywhere, but it is clearly expected that being the chair of an OSGeo body implies that you should report to the foundation and its community on a regular basis. Please see the list of reports here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2012 and the template and guidelines for preparing a report: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2012#Report_Templates Thanks to all -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Developer Slots at FOSS4G events: [was RE: FW: [Board] OSGeo Board Priorities]
that scares away many top developers. IMHO (sorry to insist, I raised this point earlier) the meeting should be free for developers (committers to OSGeo projects), and more expensive for businessman. The net cash flow should be from business to GFOSS promotion, not drawing from our precious developers. All the best. ___ Board mailing list bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://bo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board -- -- End of Forwarded Message ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Presentations on OSGeo?
Hi Frank, Great idea. I am happy to contribute (as member of the board) if you need me. Daniel On 13-02-16 2:33 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: Folks, Is anyone proposing to do a presentation about OSGeo? I'd like to do one talking fairly broadly about the organization and then focusing in on recent organizational developments. But I don't really want to do it on my own. Ideally I'd like one or two other folks heavily involved in OSGeo to co-present. Anyone already submitting to this effect? Care to partner? PS. Of course I'm only thinking about this now because I thought I was down to my last 30 minutes before the deadline, but I see they have extended it by roughly a week, so there is a bit of time to work out a plan. Best regards, -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award Nomination procedure (was Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan)
While I am all for openness in general, I share Howard's concerns in this specific case and think we should continue with private nominations. Daniel On 12-09-18 11:15 AM, Howard Butler wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote: I agree that this is the first year that nominations have been publicly discussed and it is a departure from previous years. I followed Jeff's lead when I nominated Chris. But hey, we're an open community, I think it's even in the name somewhere. And spreading a little recognition around to hard working members of our community surely doesn't hurt. I disagree. The history of the award has been a cloistered deliberation of private nominations. The award is not a political exercise, or at least it hasn't been to this point, and public nominations tip things toward the lobbying direction. Every open source contributor wouldn't mind an award in the field of excellence, and every contributor deserves a pat on the back or two. Open nominations opens up a more than few cans of worms: - I won't say some stuff about a person in a public nomination that I would in a private one. First off, I don't want to embarrass them, as some people are embarrassed by public fawning. - Not every activity and action needs to be billboarded. If you look at the list of past winners, a common trait they all share is they all have kept their heads down and done a lot for the community as whole without regard to recognition. - I might not want everyone to know who I'm nominating. - Are we voting on the award? Lobbying the committee? What does a public nomination achieve other than to provide a (biased) public attaboy? There are plenty of opportunities for those that do not have to be conflated with a nomination process. The award is selected by an exclusive group of individuals, and this act makes it an exclusive award. The Oscar or Peabody or Pulitzer of open source GIS is much more interesting than the People's Choice. Let's keep it that way. Howard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Countdown to OSGeoLive 6.0 - final call for testing
Hamish, Is there a way that one can report success in testing the OSGeoLive? Do you have a checklist somewhere? For instance, we tested the MapServer stuff successfully with the last beta a few days ago but found no way to report that anywhere. Daniel On 12-08-13 7:31 PM, Hamish wrote: Hi everyone, as we're winding down from a particularly busy beta series for our next big release, I realize that we never really put out a general call for testing (partly I suppose because Angelos Tzotsos has been doing such a good job of it!). But now we need more eyeballs. So consider this to be that call for testing: Please help test! The hour is late, we have just a few days to go before it goes to the printers and any bugs in your favourite software get set in plastic. In particular, burning to bootable DVDs, installing to bootable USB drives (see the included instructions on the disc or online), and installing to VMs, is only lightly tested so far. here's Cameron's post about our schedule for the next few days: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2012-August/006060.html please report and view known bugs here; please be sure to set the trac component as LiveDVD: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10 ISO downloads for testing are available now from Angelos Alex: On 08/12/2012, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi all, The final beta of OSGeoLive 6.0 is out for testing: http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/osgeo-live-mini-6.0beta10.iso Status of the project can be found here: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10 We only have one major issue open, regarding Ushahidi at this point. [n.b. mysql db auth problem, which we think is now fixed] Alex Mandel wrote: North American copy available as usual: http://live.osgeo.org/dev/build the nightly (hourly) development doc build can be previewed here: http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/ and a way big thanks to all, it's been perhaps our toughest dev cycle yet, having to restart with a new live-ISO boot method in the last couple of weeks dealing with all the fallout from that, but we seem to have something quite special and better in our hands now. cheers, Hamish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CORRECTION -- Re: Board Elections 2012
Coincidently I just sent another email a few minutes ago asking about this. I see that Yves Jacolin just added Cameron to the wiki page. Thank you Yves! Daniel On 12-08-03 8:25 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Cameron Shorter's name was inadvertently omitted from the nomination page. Arnulf and I are both(!) traveling today and can't quickly update the wiki - if some kind soul would do that for us, we would appreciate it. If you have already voted and wish to change your selections, feel free to do so. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! .mpg Arnulf, CRO's On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Arnulf Christl arn...@osgeo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Charter Members, we are approaching the end of the 2012 elections [0]. The Board nomination period has ended and all nominees listed on [1] have confirmed that they are happy to stand for election. Please take your time to read through the nomination, the acceptance and thoughts from each candidate and then proceed to vote for 5 different candidates by adding them one per line to an email to be sent to c...@osgeo.org. Voting closes at 23:59 (your timezone) 12-August-2012! Please caefully follow the instructions given on the Wiki [2] in order to be able to submit a valid email and MAKE SURE TO SEND IT TO c...@osgeo.org ONLY. Otherwise your vote may become public or just disappear somewhere. You will receive a confirmation of your successful vote. If you do not receive a confirmation within 24h of submitting your mail please contact c...@osgeo.org Thank your for taking on this responsibility, Your CROs (Arnulf Christl Michael Gerlek) [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2012 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012#Vote_for_new_Board_Members_-_2012-08-03_-_2012-08-12 - -- President, OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAbtaAACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b38RwCeOFOp4mQGCXVQEAkd7pyvnRZE g5wAnjWfXfi9aImTjdIL4UZ3YKwIxVh4 =UCHq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CORRECTION -- Re: Board Elections 2012
This is very different from changing rules. Cameron's nomination was sent and received in time on the public list and following the rules, but a mistake was made by the CRO and quickly spotted and corrected in the wiki page within an hour of the vote being launched. My 0.02$ is that it's not changing rules, it's fixing a human mistake. Daniel On 12-08-03 8:42 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: On 2012/08/03 21:25, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Cameron Shorter's name was inadvertently omitted from the nomination page. Such omissions cannot be reported now after the election process have started. On one had the board says that election rules cannot be changed after the election process has started and on the other hand request acceptance of some inadvertent omissions. I strongly feel that we go ahead with the election with the candidates listed in the present nominee list. I will be happy if Cameron Shorter's nomination is brought up in the next board election. Venka Arnulf and I are both(!) traveling today and can't quickly update the wiki - if some kind soul would do that for us, we would appreciate it. If you have already voted and wish to change your selections, feel free to do so. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! .mpg Arnulf, CRO's On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Arnulf Christlarn...@osgeo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Charter Members, we are approaching the end of the 2012 elections [0]. The Board nomination period has ended and all nominees listed on [1] have confirmed that they are happy to stand for election. Please take your time to read through the nomination, the acceptance and thoughts from each candidate and then proceed to vote for 5 different candidates by adding them one per line to an email to be sent to c...@osgeo.org. Voting closes at 23:59 (your timezone) 12-August-2012! Please caefully follow the instructions given on the Wiki [2] in order to be able to submit a valid email and MAKE SURE TO SEND IT TO c...@osgeo.org ONLY. Otherwise your vote may become public or just disappear somewhere. You will receive a confirmation of your successful vote. If you do not receive a confirmation within 24h of submitting your mail please contact c...@osgeo.org Thank your for taking on this responsibility, Your CROs (Arnulf Christl Michael Gerlek) [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2012 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012#Vote_for_new_Board_Members_-_2012-08-03_-_2012-08-12 - -- President, OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAbtaAACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b38RwCeOFOp4mQGCXVQEAkd7pyvnRZE g5wAnjWfXfi9aImTjdIL4UZ3YKwIxVh4 =UCHq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette
Thank you very much Arnulf for such a nice nomination. It would be hard for me to not accept after reading it. :) I'd be happy to serve on the board for another term, presumably to continue the job started as treasurer in the last year (or to help transition it to someone else if there is a taker), and also and most importantly to continue to help bridge the gap between the local chapters communities and OSGeo Global. The growing number of local chapters and local events shows how important they are to help spread the OSGeo vision to local and non-English speaking communities. I am very happy to see a few nominees from outside North America already... please keep them coming as I think this is a great sign and can only help make OSGeo even more international. Some continents/regions are not represented yet in the list of nominees. It would be awesome of we had at least one candidate from each continent/region. Daniel On 12-07-25 1:18 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members, I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors. I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project. It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks for it. Thank you, Arnulf -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting
On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that we don't wake up late for the next elections again... I am with Arnulf on this: let's stick with what we have and revisit in time before the next election. The current election schedule was proposed on June 14 [1] and discussed/edited for about a week until it was finally approved on June 21 [2], so there was time for members to comment if they wanted to (and some did if you look in the archives). I don't care one way or the other personally for the voting, but I do know that it's not possile to make everyone happy and I'm sure that for every charter member requesting a change we can find one that would find it inappropriate to change the rules in the middle of an election. [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009714.html [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009745.html -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Michael Smith
I second Michael's nomination, and was quite surprised when I found out that he was not a charter member yet. Mike and the team he works with have been long time users and active supporters of MapServer, GDAL/OGR and several other OSGeo projects since long before the creation of OSGeo. Actually, we're so used to seeing him around and actively involved that we just assumed that he was already a charter member when he is not. (That's probably the case of a few other individuals) Daniel On 12-06-28 8:48 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello everyone, I have 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, PDAL[1]. Mike is also very active in the MapServer[2] community, as one of its most vocal power users, and in 2011 he was named to the MapServer Project Steering Committee[3]. I also had the pleasure of giving a MapServer workshop with Mike at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver; many attendees said that it was a wonderful workshop, and I attribute that to Mike's thorough knowledge of MapServer and its recent changes. Mike is often one of the first to sign up for Code Sprints, and register for FOSS4G events, which to me says everything about his passion for this community. He may not prefer to be giving fancy presentations and taking the glory, but scratch the surface of many OSGeo communities and you'll find Mike supporting it in every way he can. I feel that Mike Smith would be an excellent representative of OSGeo. -jeff [1] http://www.pointcloud.org/ [2] http://www.mapserver.org/ [3] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Thomas Bonfort
I'd like to second Thomas' nomination. Thomas is another one of those individuals that we're so used to seeing around OSGeo projects, conferences and code sprints that we just assumed that he was already charter members. As Steve wrote, he is a very constructive team player, so much that many of the performance gains made in recent FOSS4G benchmarking exercises in both MapServer and Mapnik can be tracked down to the great coopetition[1] spirit that Thomas (for MapServer) and Dane Springmeyer (for Mapnik) put into the benchmarking game, effectively exchanging hints and tricks to help boost the performance of each other's (competing) software. That's open source at its best. Daniel [1] Coopetition = Cooperative competition On 12-06-28 1:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi, I would like to nominate Thomas Bonfort for OSGeo Charter Member. Thomas has been a long time active supporter of the Open Source GIS movement. He developed mod_geocache which has since been merged with mapserver as mapcache, he is an active developer of mapserver and recently taken on the responsibility for the latest mapserver release in the works. Thomas has presented in various FOSS4G conferences and is constructive and a great team player. I think Thomas would make an excellent OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards, -Stephen Woodbridge ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What is the point in formalising OSGeo Local Chapters?
Please also note that you do not need a legal entity to qualify as a local chapter, so being an OSGeo local chapter can be very lightweight contrary to what was suggested in the thread. Several OSGeo local chapters are only virtual groups with a small steering committee, mailing list, website and in some cases ad-hoc face to face meetings. Daniel On 12-01-26 2:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: The magic of cross posting… This conversation started as a discussion on a different topic - is there any interest in having a conference, unconference or code sprint in the Aust-NZ region :-) As for the benefits of a local chapter; it may in fact being limited to running a regional conference (with the NA group as an example of a local chapter being formed for this purpose). The prospect of reporting in the Annual meeting or OSGeo newsletter is another benefit of a local chapter - however I tend to promote direct involvement in OSGeo projects and committees as an alternative. -- Jody Garnett On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 7:30 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: OSGeo Discuss, In Australia/New Zealand we have been discussing whether we should legally formalise the Aust-NZ OSGeo chapter, and come to the conclusion that we gain little, and loose a lot by becoming legal. Email discussion here: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/aust-nz/2012-January/thread.html Highlights: On 3/01/2012 1:12 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: Where did we get to on this Aust-NZ local chapter stuff? As I recall we still need to register as a non profit; have a meeting with minuets, and set up a back account. On 5/01/2012 11:06 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: The benefit would be an OSGeo local chapter; right now we have not formed as I understand it and are still listed as under construction on the OSGeo wiki. On 6/01/2012 6:51 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Right, so osgeo aust-nz would change from unofficial to official in the eyes of osgeo. I see very little benefit from that. I don't think we will attract any more osgeo converts from such a title. (If we need an official title, we can always call upon the greater OSGeo organisation). However, I do see a large drain on volunteer time. As soon as we require money to run, we need to worry about chasing people or organisations for membership fees, which is an unpleasant task which sucks up lots of valuable volunteer times. On 6/01/2012 7:58 AM, mapbutcher wrote: In this modern age of 'meetups' do such chapters have a place? What does a chapter actually provide? The organic development of groups across the country in the past year has evidenced a growing interest and adoption of open source. It has not required a chapter to support this growth. There are adequate means of communication to support cross pollination between these groups IMO. We even managed to organize a [international foss4g] conference without a chapter if my memory serves me correctly On 6/01/2012 8:49 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: I see greater benefit from a ‘virtual’ community, particularly considering the broad geographic region the we cover. We don’t necessarily need an ‘entity’ as the ‘go to’ body for the Local Chapter. The mailing list and Wiki could perhaps suffice. As I see it we have a reasonably robust community as it is (if rather quiet at present). -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto: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 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Distracting discussions of discussing [was:] What is North America?
On 11-11-24 04:50 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: But to answer your question.. the aim is to run a conference, first round in the USA. Other than working alongside other chapters (and obviously inviting them to partner on the event) there is no proposed formal connection between them - except of course being under the OSGeo banner together :) I am of the opinion that the NA Chapter should have a closer relationship to the other local chapters in this territory, but I do not have the time to explain and argue those points. I write this as an active member of the Quebec local Chapter that falls in this territory and personally I'm disappointed that the local chapters were never ping'd for their opinion or interest in being involved other than some notes sent through this list. I thought of a NA chapter as well before and discussed the idea with several people in the last years but it was a different concept: I am of the opinion that a NA chapter would be stronger with support from all the local chapters in the territory. Oh, did I just say that I didn't have time for this? Sorry, I shut up... -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter nominees -- please speak up!
On 11-11-21 01:14 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: You could post to the official nomination wiki page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011) or to this discuss list (which always is good to generate some discussion on these sorts of issues), or perhaps both. I have set the wiki page above read-only at the end of the nomination period last week since it is the official list of nominees and I wanted to make sure it remained unchanged. For this reason I would encourage nominees to send their little speech on this list. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Last Call for Charter Member Nominations
OSGeo Community, This is a friendly reminder that there is only one day left to the nomination period for the 2011 OSGeo Charter Member Election, it closes at the end of the day (today) Thursday Nov 17. More details on the nomination process at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Charter_Member_Election Thanks Daniel Morissette (OSGeo CRO, 2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations
On 11-11-10 12:01 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Note to all those who submitted charter member nominations in the last two days: you are not being ignored, please keep the nominations coming, I will process them all (and register them in the official list in the wiki) by the end of the week. Hi everyone, I have processed all nominations that I received so far. If I counted correctly we have 25. If you have submitted a nomination since the beginning of the nomination period and don't see it in the list at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011 then please let me know as that would mean that I did not receive it. Please keep them coming, the nomination period is open for another week, until Nov 17. Thanks Daniel Morissette (OSGeo CRO, 2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations
Note to all those who submitted charter member nominations in the last two days: you are not being ignored, please keep the nominations coming, I will process them all (and register them in the official list in the wiki) by the end of the week. Thanks Daniel Morissette (OSGeo CRO, 2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Charter member election
OSGeo Community, This is a reminder that the nomination period is open for the 2011 charter member election. All the details at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Charter_Member_Election A few notes and points worth mention: 1- Please forward this announcement to all local chapter lists, and consider nominating active members of your local chapter / community. As Arnulf wrote earlier today: we need nominations from all around the globe because OSGeo aims at being the *global* voice for Open Source Geospatial and therefore must also have global representation in it's charter membership. 2- Please mail your nominations to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the discuss list. Adding nominations to the wiki directly or sending only to the discuss list is not sufficient and risks your nomination being missed or lost. 3- Please don't wait and send your nominations right away! Daniel (OSGeo CRO, 2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2011 Charter Membership Elections
OSGeo Community, It is time to once again nominate new OSGeo charter members. We need you to pick out the folks you think would bring energy and interest to the OSGeo mission and bring their names forward! Only OSGeo members can vote for OSGeo directors, and only OSGeo members can *be* OSGeo directors, so membership is a necessary gateway to more official involvement in the organization. The process for Member selection is outlined here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Charter_Member_Election This year we are adding 20 new charter members and the deadline for nominations is November 17, 2010. Please confirm with the nominated person first and send your nominations to cro at osgeo.org, outlining the name and contact e-mail of your nominee(s) and and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member. Please also feel free to cc: the nomination to the OSGeo discussion list - discuss at lists.osgeo.org - so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. The new Member election will be held in the succeeding week and close on November 27. The results will be announced two days after that. Thanks, Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer, 2011 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Travel Hints
We collected and started sharing a bit of info that could be useful for people traveling to Denver for FOSS4G: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Travel_Hints At the moment the most interesting info is about cell phone roaming options and affordable prepaid SIM cards in the US (now I know I got your attention!). Please go ahead and share any hints you may have on other travel related questions. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote
Venka, Your votes were received and you got responses from myself (confirmation) and a follow up email from Tyler asking for your full contact info to update his database. (Could the messages have been caught in your spam folder?) Sending this reply to the discuss list in the hope that you receive it. Daniel On 11-08-12 10:23 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: All the new and wonderful ways to vote are fine. I prefer the old way and have already sent my votes by e-mail to c...@osgeo.org. I sent my votes twice and am still to receive any acknowledgments for my vote. New ways of voting need to be decided much in advance to avoid people like me (who are on the road) to wonder if their votes by e-mail to c...@osgeo.org will be counted or not. Venka On 2011/08/11 23:20, Daniel Morissette wrote: On 11-08-11 10:10 AM, Yves Jacolin wrote: Hello, Le jeudi 11 août 2011 16:06:14, Daniel Morissette a écrit : [..] IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort out the situation ASAP. Check your spam folder before ;) This email was on my spam folder. Good point. Look for email subject Please vote for OSGeo Board Election 2011 and coming from c...@osgeo.org. And if in doubt after submitting the form about the information that you submitted, no worries, you can click the personal link again at a later time (before the voting closes) to see/review your choices and contact information. P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will take on the CRO job during my absence. bonne vacance ! Merci! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote
OSGeo Charter Members, The voting period for the OSGeo 2011 Board Election [1] is now open, and voting will close at 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 21, 2011. To help make this process as easy as possible, we are using a very simple online form to collect your votes. The site also allows us to enforce the vote limit, and at the same time to update the contact information that we have for our charter members. Note that you still have the opportunity to vote via email the old fashioned way if you prefer, please see instructions below. All charter members should have received a personal email with voting instructions a few hours ago, including your personal link to submit your votes online. (Email subject Please vote for OSGeo Board Election 2011 and coming from c...@osgeo.org) IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort out the situation ASAP. Here is some additional information about the vote (also included in the personal email): The 2011 nominee list is available online at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Important Notes: * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote * Choose from Board Member Nominations 2011 list [2] * You have two options for voting: completing the survey form or emailing your votes (to c...@osgeo.org with a list of names up to 5 lines long - one vote per board slot) * You can cast up to 5 votes, for 5 different people. Multiple, emailed, votes for one person will be counted as one vote. * Voting closes at 23:59 (your timezone) 21-August-2011 * Results will be posted at Board Election 2011 Results [3] * Contact c...@osgeo.org with questions [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2011_Results Thank you for your participation! P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will take on the CRO job during my absence. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote
On 11-08-11 10:10 AM, Yves Jacolin wrote: Hello, Le jeudi 11 août 2011 16:06:14, Daniel Morissette a écrit : [..] IMPORTANT: If you did not receive the personal email with voting instructions then please contact us at c...@osgeo.org so that we can sort out the situation ASAP. Check your spam folder before ;) This email was on my spam folder. Good point. Look for email subject Please vote for OSGeo Board Election 2011 and coming from c...@osgeo.org. And if in doubt after submitting the form about the information that you submitted, no worries, you can click the personal link again at a later time (before the voting closes) to see/review your choices and contact information. P.S. I will be on vacation starting tomorrow, and Tyler Mitchell will take on the CRO job during my absence. bonne vacance ! Merci! -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Nominations closed, voting to start on Thursday
OSGeo Members, The nomination period for the OSGeo Board Election 2011 has ended a few hours ago, and we have an impressive list of 12 candidates: * Peter Batty * Charlie Schweik * Eduardo Kanegae * Jo Cook * Jeff McKenna * * Michael Gerlek * Thierry Badard * Mark Lucas * Andrew Ross * Regina Obe * David Bitner * Gérald Fenoy Voting will start only on Thursday August 11. Another email will be sent with voting instructions at that time. In the next couple of days you are invited to make your mind by reviewing the nomination texts at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 and keeping an eye on the statements from each candidate on this list. The candidates are encouraged to add their own speech / statement to the wiki page after their nomination text (as some have done already). Please also feel free to launch a debate on this list if there are questions that you'd like to see answered by the candidates. Best Regards Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination for Michael Gerlek to OSGeo Board 2011
Thank you Aaron. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:18 PM, Aaron Racicot wrote: I would like to take this opportunity to nominate Michael Gerlek for the OSGeo Board. Michael (known to many as MPG) has been an active member of the OSGeo community from the very first planning meetings in 2006. He has been a Charter member of OSGeo since 2006 and has actively participated in many functions of OSGeo including leading the Visibility committee. Michael also co-founded CUGOS, the regional OSGeo chapter in the Pacific Northwest. He is actively involved in many open source GIS projects, and now dedicates himself to full time consulting work in the open source GIS space through his company Flaxen Geo Consulting. He has a long history in participating with the OGC and could bring unique experience in that arena to the board. Most importantly his participation in the OSGeo board would bring great industry insight, leadership experience, and a true dedication to furthering the OSGeo mission. I strongly encourage the OSGeo community to consider Michael as a valuable addition to the board and the OSGeo family. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mpg Thanks for your consideration. Aaron ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nominating Thierry Badard
Thank you Tyler. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:31 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: I nominate Thierry Badard to serve on the OSGeo Board of Directors. His involvement in OSGeo to date shows an encouraging commitment to advancing OSGeo's mission on many fronts. While primarily focused on the academic side through Laval University, he is also active with the OSGeo Francophone chapter and with several software projects (most notable GeoKettle). The combination of his global outlook, educational experience and, lately, with business exposure through his work with Spatialytics gives him a powerful perspective on bringing many groups of people together. I've met Thierry several times and had encouraging discussions about how to grow the organisation and continue supporting people and projects that are connecting through OSGeo. He also worked for IGN France, so has some inside understanding of a national mapping agency, which I believe, is an increasingly important part of OSGeo's user base. More from his Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thierrybadard Dr. Thierry Badard is professor in geoinformatics at the Department of geomatics sciences of Laval University in Quebec City (Canada). He heads the GeoSOA research group and is a full time researcher of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG). Former member of the steering committee of the CRG, he is also a regular researcher of the GEOIDE Network of Centres of Excellence in geomatics. He has more than 15 years of experience and he has been involved and has led national and international RD projects of importance. His research interest deals with geospatial (Web) Services Oriented Architectures (SOA), location-based and context-aware web services and apps, geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) and geo-analytical tools and the design of intelligent mobile applications for better decision support. He acts as a chair, editor and reviewer for numerous international journals and scientific conferences and has already an important record of scientific contributions. Dr. Th ierry Badard is also actively involved in the geospatial free and open source community. He is developer, administrator and project coordinator of the GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org), GeoMondrian (http://www.geo-mondrian.org), SOLAPLayers (http://www.solaplayers.org) and GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net), open source projects. He is an OSGeo charter member and acts as a member of the OSGeo conference committee and a reviewer for the OSGeo Journal. Till last year, he was in charge of the free software commission in the OSGeo Francophone local chapter. He is a founding co-chairs the OSGeo Quebec local chapter and a founding co-chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) commission on open source geospatial technologies (http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca). He has also recently co-founded Spatialytics, a new company specialised in open source GeoBI where he acts as CTO. For further details, please visit http://www.spatialytics.com and http:// geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nominating Mark Lucas
Thank you Tyler. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 05:43 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: I nominate Mark Lucas for the OSGeo Board of Directors. With over 25 years experience in the geospatial and remote sensing fields, he has lots to offer, especially his enthusiasm for OSGeo and helping teams work together. He works as Principal Scientist for http://www.radiantblue.com/ where OSSIM and open source geospatial are an increasingly important component. Mark is no stranger to both OSGeo and the Board, having helped found OSGeo at the first meeting and serving a term as a Director early in the life of the organisation. He oversees the OSSIM project and actively helps integrate open source within government. His perspective on gov't systems and open source adoption is the clearest pictures we can get. He has been crucial in writing reports and recommendations that have led to further adoption of open source within the U.S. defense and intelligence sector. His involvement in the geospatial business sphere provides good insight into where the industry is heading and how OSGeo can help encourage further uptake of our projects. I've spent enjoyable hours brainstorming with and working alongside Mark and think he is an excellent fit to help for another term on the Board. He also works with the Open Source Software Institute and more. I'm sure his skills at coordinating the launch of Titan rockets will help propel OSGeo f orward too! His profile on linkedin.com includes many telling recommendations, including Gary's encouraging comment about his previous term: Mark showed a capacity for collaboration and creating an environment for it with the founding of OSGeo that was crucial to getting the foundation running. He was one of the most active people involved, and without his positive energy we would not have accomplished as much as a team in creating that groundbreaking organization. His nomination from 2006 holds true today: http://www.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2006-March/000205.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination - Andrew Ross
Thank you Dave. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-04 11:02 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote: I would like to nominate Andrew Ross for a position on the OSGeo Board. Andrew brings a balanced mix of valuable technical and business skills which make him a great choice to become an OSGeo board member. His experience spans private, public, and academic organizations. He has been involved with OSGeo for five years, and has been a charter member of OSGeo for the past 3 years. In this time he has demonstrated considerable commitment to OSGeo, its projects, and organizations in the OSGeo ecosystem. This list represents some of Andrew's experience and qualifications and experience relevant to his nomination: - Founder of FOSSLC (http://fosslc.org) - a non-profit organization dedicated to education and business development with open source technologies - Director of Ecosystems at the Eclipse Foundation - Ingres' Director of Engineering ( Geospatial Technology) - The development team at Ingres under his leadership contributed to OSGeo projects including GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, and others. - He arranged considerable financial support for OSGeo from Ingres, both direct (cash code contributions) and indirect (contracting people to make contributions to OSGeo projects). - Project founder, committer/architect for the open source video recording streaming suite called Freeseer - Organized multiple OSGeo related events including Geocamp 2008, Summercamp 2009, and a number of bootcamps. - Organized teams to record videos for past OSGeo events including FOSS4G2009, Rendez-Vous OSGeo Quebec, and more. - Mentor for dozens of programming interns as part of the Google Summer of Code, Talent First Network, UCOSP, and other student programs. - Teaching Programming using open source technologies at Carleton University since 2006 - 7 years experience as an architect and software developer at Nortel creating carrier grade products and services based on open source code - Very active member of the Ottawa OSGeo Chapter In addition to his considerable personal experience, Andrew's work with the Eclipse Foundation, FOSSLC, and other organizations provides access to an enormous amount of experience, specialized skills, and a wealth of contacts. His addition to the board would create even more opportunities for technology sharing/development and valuable business development. Thanks, Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination
Thank you Rafael. Nomination text updated at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011. Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 08:46 AM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote: I woul like to nominate Eduardo Patto Kanegae for the board for he is a power F4G user and advocate in Brazil since 2001. He had contributed with brazilian users with forum replies, weblog articles, MapServer/GIS trainings ( author of 'Introdução ao MapServer' MS4W package at http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html), translations and documentations such as ShapeLib Tools User Guide as well. Hi is currently preparing his new site/blog at www.webmapit.com http://www.webmapit.com. He would be a plus in the board, representing South American inspirations e expectations regarding F4G. Rafael Medeiros Sperb, Dr. *Laboratório de Computação Aplicada* Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar Universidade do Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI Rua Uruguai, 458, bloco 20, sala 215 Itajaí, SC - Brasil CEP 88302-202 (47) 3341-7960 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination -- Regina Obe
Thank you David. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 10:29 AM, David William Bitner wrote: I nominate Regina Obe for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Regina is a member of the PostGIS steering Committee and has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2009. Regina has a particular strength that is very rare in the Open Source world and that is her dedication to making open source software and programming accessible to the often non-technical savvy GIS user. Regina (along with her husband Leo) have maintained the BostonGIS blog and the Postgres Online Journal for many years providing quick and understandable tutorials, guides, and cheat sheets for various projects with a particular focus on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, much of this has culminated in the recent publication of /Postgis in Action./ While Regina has a very strong technical background, I believe that Regina could help drive a focus on the usability and accessibility of OSGeo projects. Cheers, David -- David William Bitner ___ 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] Re: Board Nomination: David Bitner
Thank you Perry. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 02:30 PM, Perry Nacionales wrote: David has been an active part of the Open Source Geospatial community for many years since helping to plan the 2005 MapServer Users meeting and helping to start the Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group (Now Twin Cities, MN OSGeo local chapter). David has been an active user and has helped to support the MapServer, PostGIS, OpenLayers, and GeoExt projects. David brings additional Board experience through serving on the Board of Directors of the Sahana Software Foundation which supports software (much of which leverages OSGeo software) used in emergency management and response. -Perry Nacionales pnaci...@gmail.com mailto:pnaci...@gmail.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination - Gérald Fenoy
Thank you Jeff. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) On 11-08-05 04:50 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: I am pleased to nominate Gérald Fenoy for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Many of you will recognize Gérald in his ZOO-Project t-shirts at past FOSS4G events. He is a passionate person, and he gives his heart and soul to every project that he works on. Gérald was the initial contributor to the ZOO-Project (http://www.zoo-project.org) Open Source project, a popular WPS platform. Living in southern France, he is also active in several other local Open Source projects including PostGIS (he is the maintainer of the PostGIS.fr website http://www.postgis.fr/). Gérald is also a long-time MapServer user, and leverages MapServer (http://www.mapserver.org) in each and every project that he delivers. Throughout the years he has submitted several patches directly to the MapServer source code. A frequent traveler, Gérald is also very active in OSGeo communities all around the world, including OSGeo-Senegal (Africa), OSGeo-Japan, OSGeo-Vietnam, and OSGeo-China. Gérald frequently funds many OSGeo developers to add enhancements to their software for his projects (which often include committed enhancements to the GDAL and MapServer projects). He is a very active businessman for his company GeoLabs (http://geolabs.fr/) and he is very willing to help Open Source projects grow. Most importantly, Gérald is very accessible, and lives in IRC chat as the djay username. He is always quick to respond (and you can always know that his cigarette is hanging from his lips as he thinks of a response to your challenging question). Another important point is that he is very professional, always listening to feedback no matter if it is positive or negative, and then making appropriate changes. I feel that Gérald will be a great addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. He brings a wealth of experience from the private sector that is always useful on any Board of Directors. In my recent talks with him he is very honored that I am nominating him for this position. It is my honor to do this for him. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay -- Jeff McKenna ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: 2 days left for board election nominations
OSGeo Members, Thank you all for the impressive line up of candidates for the OSGeo Board Election 2011 so far. It is great to see the interest and the tough choices that will have to be made. This is a reminder that you still have 2 days left to submit nominations, until 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 7th . Please submit your nominations consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. More details on the election process at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election A note to all nominees: start thinking of a little speech... on Monday you will be invited to write up a few lines (on this list and to be appended to your nomination text) to let other members know how you plan to contribute to the board and to OSGeo, and why charter members should vote for you. Have a great weekend Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination
Hi Rafael, Thank you for this nomination. Could you please also provide a paragraph describing why you think Eduardo would make a good Board member? I also notice that your nomination did not make it to the OSGeo Discuss list because it was sent from a different address from the one you used to subscribe to the list. I am CC'ing the list on this reply now. Daniel On 11-08-03 04:10 PM, Rafael Medeiros Sperb wrote: I woul like to nominate Eduardo Patto Kanegae for the board. Rafael Medeiros Sperb, Dr. *Laboratório de Computação Aplicada* Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar Universidade do Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI Rua Uruguai, 458, bloco 20, sala 215 Itajaí, SC - Brasil CEP 88302-202 (47) 3341-7960 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Nomination for OSGeo Board of Directors: Jo Cook
Thank you Antony. Jo's nomination has been added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 On 11-08-04 11:16 AM, Antony Scott wrote: I would like to nominate Jo Cook to the OSGeo Board of Directors. Jo has been the OSGeo representative in the UK for a number of years, both formally and in practical terms as our public face, organiser, and advocate. She has ensured that OSGeo has steadily increased in strength over the past three years, with a growing mailing list, and visibility at major conferences and events, including leading well-attended workshops at the OS GIS UK conferences and elsewhere. Jo has also ensured an effective online presence for OSGeo through the OSGeo UK pages of the website, including the recent addition of a number of case studies to the site in a standardised OSGeo format, and through her blog and Twitter feed. On a personal level, speaking as someone who first started working in GIS three years ago, Jo has given me significant support and encouragement in the open source field. I am sure that Jo would be able to bring great strengths and energy to the board. Antony Scott *Senior Associate (GIS) Sustain Ltd* Direct line : +44 (0)1934 864 844 Switchboard : +44 (0)1934 863 650 Mobile : +44 (0)7866 455515 E-mail address : antony.sc...@sustain.co.uk mailto:antony.sc...@sustain.co.uk Website : http://www.sustain.co.uk http://www.sustain.co.uk/ Sustain is a leading carbon reduction company. Our clients have saved *4,131,800* lifetime tCO_2 e through working with us (June 2011) Sustain Ltd. Registered in England No. 3384793 Barley Wood Stables, Long Lane, Wrington, Bristol BS40 5SA, UK This e-mail and any attachments are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this document then you must immediately inform the sender and delete this e-mail and any attachments from your system. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the content of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Jo Cook nomination for OSGeo BD
Thank you Saber. Added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 You didn't CC the OSGeo discuss list, so I CC'd it on this reply. Daniel On 11-08-04 11:07 AM, Saber Razmjooei wrote: I would like to nominate Jo Cook for the OSGeo Board of Directors. She is very committed to Free and Open Source Software. Her contribution to OSGeo:UK chapter has been immense. She, with help of others has managed to raise awareness about open source GIS in UK, where no one was willing to talk about it! Regards Saber ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for OSGeo Board of Directors: Jeff McKenna
Thank you Mike. Nomination added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel On 11-08-04 03:17 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote: I would like to nominate Jeff McKeena to the OSGeo Board of Directors. Jeff has been an OSGeo Board member, a founding member of OSGeo, OSGeo Conference Committee chair, MapServer PSC member, FOSS4g Workshop Committee member and founding co-chair of the OSGeo Ottawa chapter. Jeff is very active in the MapServer, GDAL, FOSS4G, and OSGeo communities. He is responsible for running the ever popular WMS Benchmarking effort. Jeff is a tireless advocate for open source, open collaboration and is a big (ha!) welcoming presences in the OSGeo community for many first-timers. Jeff is responsible for the very popular MS4W Mapserver distribution, which is a mainstay for windows users of MapServer. Jeff is a graduate of the prestigious COGS (http://www.cogs.ns.ca/) and is the president of Gateway Geomatics. He has worked extensively with many international OSGeo chapters over the years. And he is a damn nice guy. Mike --- Michael Smith Remote Sensing/GIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers ___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination for Peter Batty
Thank you Tyler. Peter's nomination has been added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 Daniel On 11-08-03 12:11 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: I nominate Peter Batty for a position on the OSGeo Board. I've worked closely with Peter in a variety of situations - his focus and experience would serve OSGeo well as a director. As Chair of the FOSS4G 2011 event he has shown a willingness to stick his neck out for FOSS4G and OSGeo - taking on the challenge of balancing the demands of the community at large and running a large event. He is well connected but has his feet on the ground, with many ideas for how to get things done, e.g. raising sponsorship, next steps for growth, etc. I've appreciated the insights he's shared at open source speaking tracks that I've been part of, he presents OSGeo very well. He's no stranger to the boardroom table and I hope we can put that experience to work for OSGeo. More from Peter's bio page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pmbatty or his blog: http://geothought.blogspot.com/ I have worked in the geospatial industry for 25 years. I am currently a co-founder and VP of geospatial technology at Ubisense, where I am leading the development of a product called Ubisense myWorld, which is focused on simple to use mapping for utilities and telcos, and makes use of several open source geospatial products including PostGIS, MapFish and OpenLayers. Previously I have been CTO of two of the top three (closed source) geospatial software companies (and two of the world's top 200 software companies) Intergraph, and Smallworld (now part of GE). I am chair of the FOSS4G 2011 conference in Denver. I have contributed to several industry open data standards including the Open Geospatial Consortium in its formative years, and IEC TC57 Working Group 14 (for exchange of electric utility data). I am an active participant in and advocate for OpenStreetMap. I was a member of the Board of GITA (the Geospatial Information and Technology Association) for 5 years, from 2004 through 2008, and am again in 2011. I have been a member of the GeoWorld magazine Editorial Advisory Board since 1996, have published many articles and spoken at many conferences around the world, and write a blog called geothought. I'm an active advocate for open source geospatial software. I speak regularly about open source at conferences. I have helped organize local events for FRUGOS, the Front Range Users of Geospatial Open Source, in Colorado. I was an organizer of the WhereCamp5280 event in Denver in 2009 and 2010.___ 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
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo Board Election Nominations
On 11-08-03 02:02 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: Is a full list of who's served before and when available? Very good question. I had to dig a little bit, but eventually found that http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors links to election results for some years, and the URLs for the rest of the years can easily be guessed: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2010_Results http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2009_Results http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2008_Results http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2007_Results http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Interim_Board_of_Directors_2006 I will update the http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors page now with the links to all previous years. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination for Charlie Schweik
Thank you Ned. Charlie's nomination has been added to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2011 On 11-08-03 03:17 PM, Ned Horning wrote: I nominate Charlie Schweik for a position on the OSGeo Board. Charlie Schweik is chair of the OSGEO education committee and an effective advocate for the use of open source geospatial software in academia. He is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment shared between the Department of Natural Resources Conservation and the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government, and an affiliated researcher with the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on environmental management and policy, public-sector information technology, and the intersection of those domains. His recent peer-reviewed publications focus on free and open source software and the social frameworks and institutions that drive their development and use. With his colleague Robert English, he has just completed a 5-year National Science Foundation funded study on open source collaboration resulting in a book manuscript entitled “Successful Internet Collaboration: A Study of Open Source Software Commons” (forthcoming, June 2012, MIT Press). One chapter in this book analyzes OSGeo as a case study (thanks to interviews with OSGeo members a few years ago). Charlie has regularly taught an Introduction to Spatial Technologies course to undergraduate students using OSGeo-related technologies. He also just completed teaching a course to high school teachers using QGIS. It was through Charlie's hard work and persistence that OSGeo first created a web-based educational content inventory system. He is now trying to work with other OSGeo affiliated academics (especially Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham) to build a network of OSGeo-affiliated academic institutions and move OSGeo education toward a new derivative work system. He is particularly interested in focusing some of this effort on how local governments might move toward or become interested in open source geospatial technologies and believes it is critical for OSGeo to promote affiliated projects more in the government space. Charlie's formal training and experience as a computer programmer with academic interests in studying the open source movement and promoting the use of open source geospatial tools makes him well qualified to be a board member of OSGEO. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo Board Election Nominations
OSGeo Members, This is a reminder that you have 5 days left (until 23:59 on August 7) to submit nominations for the 2011 OSGeo Board of Director Election. There are 5 seats up for election this year. Please get in touch with your candidates and submit their nomination as soon as possible, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. More information about the whole process is available here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election Thanks Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011
OSGeo Members, The OSGeo Board Election for 2011 has begun. The first stage is the nomination of candidates for the board. Board membership is for a two year term, and half the Board is refreshed each year. This year there are five seats up for election. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election Anyone can submit a Board nomination, however only Charter Members are eligible to serve on the Board. The complete list of charter members is available at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members A new charter member intake process will be run later this year. Please submit your nominations by 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 7th 2011, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. The nomination period will close at midnight Thursday 12th August 2010, and will be followed by a one-week voting period. Yours, Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: OSGeo Board Election 2011
OSGeo Members, I made a copy/paste error in this announcement and the last paragraph (copied from last year's announcement) referring to August 12, 2010 as the nomination close is incorrect. The nomination period indeed ends on August 7, 2011 at 23:59 ... Sorry about this Daniel On 11-07-29 09:38 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: OSGeo Members, The OSGeo Board Election for 2011 has begun. The first stage is the nomination of candidates for the board. Board membership is for a two year term, and half the Board is refreshed each year. This year there are five seats up for election. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election Anyone can submit a Board nomination, however only Charter Members are eligible to serve on the Board. The complete list of charter members is available at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members A new charter member intake process will be run later this year. Please submit your nominations by 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 7th 2011, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. The nomination period will close at midnight Thursday 12th August 2010, and will be followed by a one-week voting period. Yours, Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: OSGeo Board Election 2011
A polished version of the announcement is available at http://www.osgeo.org/news/2011/board-election-2011 (in case you want to link to it or forward it.) On 11-07-29 09:47 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: OSGeo Members, I made a copy/paste error in this announcement and the last paragraph (copied from last year's announcement) referring to August 12, 2010 as the nomination close is incorrect. The nomination period indeed ends on August 7, 2011 at 23:59 ... Sorry about this Daniel On 11-07-29 09:38 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: OSGeo Members, The OSGeo Board Election for 2011 has begun. The first stage is the nomination of candidates for the board. Board membership is for a two year term, and half the Board is refreshed each year. This year there are five seats up for election. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Board_Election Anyone can submit a Board nomination, however only Charter Members are eligible to serve on the Board. The complete list of charter members is available at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members A new charter member intake process will be run later this year. Please submit your nominations by 23:59 (your time zone) on Sunday August 7th 2011, consisting of name and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to c...@osgeo.org, and CC the OSGeo Discuss list so the community can be nudged along and have a sense of what is going on. Please ensure that your nominee is actually willing to serve, prior to nominating them. The nomination period will close at midnight Thursday 12th August 2010, and will be followed by a one-week voting period. Yours, Daniel Morissette OSGeo Chief Returning Officer (2011) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] MapServer 6.0.1, 5.6.7 and 4.10.7 releases with security fixes
The MapServer team announces the release of MapServer versions 6.0.1, 5.6.7 and 4.10.7. No new functionality has been added. 6.0.1 is a maintence release that fixes a few issues including recently discovered security vulnerabilities. The list of fixes since 6.0.0 is included at the end of this message. Versions 5.6.7 and 4.10.7 include fixes for the security vulnerabilities described below plus a few bug fixes that may have occurred since the last official release. See the respective HISTORY.TXT files for additional information. IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES: - MapServer developers have discovered flaws in the OGC filter support in MapServer. That code is used in support of WFS, WMS-SLD and SOS specifications. All versions may be susceptible to SQL injection under certain circumstances. The extent of the vulnerability depends on the MapServer version, relational database and mapfile configuration being used. All users are ** strongly encouraged ** to upgrade to these latest releases. The 5.6.7 and 4.10.7 releases also address one significant potentially exploitable buffer overflow (6.0 branch is not vulneralble). These fixes do not affect the functionality of MapServer and no changes will be necessary for configurations/applications using the same base branch (e.g. 5.6). Even though we release 6.0.1, 5.6.7 and 4.10.7 today, these security fixes have also been backported to all stable branches (going back to 4.10) in MapServer's Subversion (SVN) source code repository, so if you work from source and would like to patch your local MapServer source tree, the changeset (i.e. patch file) for each stable release can be obtained through the following Trac ticket: - http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3903 Special thanks to Even Rouault for his work identifying the issues and the subsequent patching and testing he did. Source and binary downloads: The source code is available at: http://mapserver.org/download.html The binary distributions listed in the download page should be updated with binaries for the new 6.0.1 release (and in some cases 5.6.7) in the next few hours, if not already done. We have also submitted security patches to the Ubuntu and Debian supported distributions that are in the process of being reviewed. The MapServer Team Version 6.0.1 (2011-07-12): --- IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES: - Fixes to prevent SQL injections through OGC filter encoding (in WMS, WFS and SOS), as well as a potential SQL injection in WMS time support. Your system may be vulnerable if it has MapServer with OGC protocols enabled, with layers connecting to an SQL RDBMS backend, either natively or via OGR (#3903) - Applied patch for ticket (symbol writing issues) (#3589) - Fix performance issue with Oracle and scrollable cursors (#3905) - Fix attribute binding for layer styles (#3941) - Added missing fclose() when writing query files (#3943) - Fix double-free in msAddImageSymbol() when filename is a http resource (#3939) - Fix rendering of lines with outlinewidth set if not on first style (#3935) - Added writing of cluster object when saving map. Also improved handling of cluster parsing errors (#3934) - Fix for the cluster processing if the shape bounds doesn't overlap with the given extent (#3913) - OGC Filter: fix segfault when a ows_varname_type or wfs_varname_type is defined but not a gml_varname_type (#3902) - Fix regression of MapServer 6.0.0 when specifying a time range in WMS time requests on a Postgis layer (#3909) - Fixed order of metadata lookup for WMS GML GetFeatureInfo. 'ows' should come last, not first (#3636). - Fixed mssql2008 to return correct geometries with chart layer type (#3894) - Write SYMBOLSET/END tags when saving a symbol file (#3885) - Make java threadtests work again (#3887) - Fix segfault on malformed PropertyIsLike filters (#3888) - Fixed the query handling problem with the Oracle spatial driver (#3878) - Fixed potential crash with AVERAGE resampling and crazy reprojection (#3886) - Fix for the warnings in mapunion.c (#3880) - Fixed the build problem in mapunion.c (#3877) - Union layer: Fixed the crash when styling source layers using attributes (#3870) - Improve rangeset item checking so that Bands=1,2,3 is supported with WCS 1.0 (#3919). - Fix GetMapserverUnitUsingProj() for proj=latlong (#3883) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Montreal Code Sprint Update
This week's Montreal Code Sprint has been a great success, with lots of accomplishments on several fronts. More information is available in the following blog article: http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/2011/03/news-from-montreal-osgeo-code-sprint.html Pictures of the event are also available on flickr using the montrealsprint2011 tag: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=montrealsprint2011m=tags Thanks again to all participants for joining and to our sponsors for their support! http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011#2011_Sponsors Daniel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open-source project site construction
On 11-03-03 11:54 AM, Robert Hollingsworth wrote: It has occurred to me that it would be useful to create an Open-Source Project Starter Kit, a file structure consisting of the means to create and maintain a project, with none of the actual content. It's skeleton website definition would simply point at the unpopulated management components. [...] Any ideas out there on the feasibility of something like this, how to construct, etc.? I know a starter kit such as this would be most attractive to the GITA audience I'll be speaking to if it as close as possible to being a one-button operation. Hi Robert, I think it would be challenging to come up with an Open-Source Project Starter Kit that really works. I mean, launching and running an open source project is not only about making the source available under the right project infrastructure and tools, it is also in large part a different way to build and manage software and its community of users and developers, and this knowledge does not come in a box. The book Producing Open Source Software could be a good starting point: http://producingoss.com/ My personal advice to anyone willing to launch and run a successful open source project would be to join and contribute to existing successful open source project for a little while, then try to immerse yourself in the way they do things, and apply those tricks to your project. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Montreal Code Sprint seeking more sponsors due to record participation
The Montreal Code Sprint of March 15-18, 2011 has reached a record of 29 registered participants from 9 open source projects as of yesterday. This is awesome news for OSGeo and its projects that will get a significant boost of code and contributions during that week! The downside of this is that our initial budget was for ~20 participants, and with close to 50% more sprinters we need to adjust the budget accordingly and are turning to you to help us find more sponsors to balance the new budget. ** CALL FOR NEW SPONSORS - An investment in the technology that you use! ** We are looking for another round of sponsors ($750 each) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch, snacks and dinner costs for the sprinters, and any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo or used for a future code sprint. If your organization is using one of the software projects listed below, then please consider this call for sponsorship as an investment in the technology that you use and contact me at dmorissette at mapgears.com to confirm your sponsorship. In addition to visibility in our public announcements you will get recognition for your contribution from the developers and from the OSGeo community. Please also keep in mind that all the participants are volunteering several days of their time in addition to paying for their own travel and hotel expenses. More information about this event is available here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011 The Open Source projects currently represented are: * MapServer * GDAL/OGR * PostGIS * libLAS * ZOO Project * TinyOWS * GeoPrisma * OpenLayers * GeoExt Thank you once again to our current sponsors (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011#2011_Sponsors) 750$ Sponsors: - LizardTech - http://www.lizardtech.com/ - Azavea - http://www.azavea.com/ - qPublic - http://qpublic.net/ - Farallon Geographics - http://fargeo.com/ - Airborne Interactive - http://airborne.aero/ - Boreal - Information Strategies (Borealis) - http://www.boreal-is.com/ - Mapgears - http://www.mapgears.com/ Hockey Night Sponsor: - Gateway Geomatics - http://gatewaygeomatics.com/ Host (Room and Internet): - Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) - http://cmm.qc.ca/ Please do not hesitate to redistribute this announcement in your respective channels. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Patent litigation for store location mapping
It seems that a new wave of web mapping patent lawsuits was started a few months ago, this time around the concept of store location mapping... more about this here: http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/patent-infringement-alleged-in-new-law-suit-for-store-location-mapping/163840 While the claims described in the patent don't seem to match current/modern techniques used for store location mapping, there are apparently ~300 companies who have to defend themselves against it, so any information you might have, or examples of prior art could be useful to them. A little while ago, we had started a Wiki page to compile information about another Web Mapping Patent, and I just reorganized it to handle this new one, a.k.a the 474 patent: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Web_Mapping_Patents If anyone has useful information to help fight potential lawsuits against this patent, or examples of prior art, then please send it along, or add it directly to the wiki page above. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Montreal OSGeo Code Sprint: March 15-18, 2011
Hi OSGeo Devs, This is a reminder that the Montreal Code Sprint will be taking place on March 15-18, 2011. We've already got a good number of participants and there is still room for more. If you plan on participating then please, please, please add your name to the list in the wiki to help us with the planning: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011 You'll also find in the wiki all information about the venue and the hotel, including our group rate. I'd encourage you to book your hotel room ASAP to reduce the chances of having to stay in a different hotel from the rest of the group. You are also invited to join the tosprint list to receive the latest updates: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint SPONSORS: Finally, we're also seeking sponsors (750$ each) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. If you are interested in supporting this event then please contact me off-list. Thank you to our first round of sponsors: - LizardTech - http://www.lizardtech.com/ - Azavea - http://www.azavea.com/ - qPublic - http://qpublic.net/ - Farallon Geographics - http://fargeo.com/ Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Montreal OSGeo Code Sprint: March 15-18, 2011
Hi OSGeo Developers, I forgot to mention that we want this sprint to include members of all OSGeo Tribes and not just the C tribe so feel free to forward this announcement to the developers list of your respective OSGeo projects. Daniel On 11-02-10 10:23 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Hi OSGeo Devs, This is a reminder that the Montreal Code Sprint will be taking place on March 15-18, 2011. We've already got a good number of participants and there is still room for more. If you plan on participating then please, please, please add your name to the list in the wiki to help us with the planning: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011 You'll also find in the wiki all information about the venue and the hotel, including our group rate. I'd encourage you to book your hotel room ASAP to reduce the chances of having to stay in a different hotel from the rest of the group. You are also invited to join the tosprint list to receive the latest updates: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint SPONSORS: Finally, we're also seeking sponsors (750$ each) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. If you are interested in supporting this event then please contact me off-list. Thank you to our first round of sponsors: - LizardTech - http://www.lizardtech.com/ - Azavea - http://www.azavea.com/ - qPublic - http://qpublic.net/ - Farallon Geographics - http://fargeo.com/ Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Montreal Code Sprint 2011
OSGeo Project Devs and Contributors, FYI we have started planning for OSGeo's Montreal Code Sprint that should take place at the beginning of 2011. If you are interested in participating, then please have a look at the wiki and join our discussion list: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011 http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Incubator] Defining the Marketing requirements for OSGeo Incubation
. I'm a little nervous that no one has questioned my marketing proposal. Either everyone thinks it is a great idea, or people have not had a chance to read through the proposed advanced incubation criteria and then raise concerns. I'd appreciate some review of the proposed Marketing requirements and comment on whether I'm on track or not: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Director Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Incubator mailing list incuba...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: OSGeo Board Election 2010 Results
On 10-09-03 05:15 PM, Tim Schaub wrote: I've also just come across the wiki page about the F2F meeting (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Barcelona_2010). I regret that I didn't know about this earlier, as I would have made different arrangements. As it is, I am leaving early Sunday and had made plans for Saturday. I put my name down and can try to make it for a good part of the meeting (or all). FYI, I just added myself to the F2F Meeting page. I was aware of it and had already planned on being there but had not yet noticed the attendees list. See you all in a few days Daniel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2010
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Perhaps I missed it, but with the exception of Paolo, I don't see any statements from the nominees themselves? We've done that in past years, and I think it has been helpful to some of us. The statements from the others who provided one are *after* the nomination text in the same Wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2010 -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Frank Warmerdam for OSGeo Board Election 2010
Hi, I would like to nominate Frank Warmerdam for re-election in the 2010 OSGeo Board Election. Frank doesn't need to be introduced, he has been recognized as a leader in the Open Source Geospatial field for several years before the OSGeo Foundation was created, and has been one of the key people who made the launch and operation of the Foundation possible in its early days. Frank has served on the OSGeo board since the creation of the Foundation and plays a key role in many (all?) of its committees. It makes no doubt that he is committed to OSGeo's mission and that he can continue to make significant contributions as an OSGeo board member. -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
