[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms FOSDEM 2021 (online)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

Someone willing to help organise a geospatial devroom at FOSDEM in the next
edition (online)?

I'm quite late at forwarding this mail here (deadline is tonight), but if
you let me know on monday or tuesday, we can still consider the application.

Kind regards,
Johan

-- Forwarded message -
From: Johan Van de Wauw 
Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 9:42 AM
Subject: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms FOSDEM 2021 (online)
To: FOSDEM visitors 



We now invite proposals for developer rooms.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet,
share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly
developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all
over the world.

The tweny-first edition will take place Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th
February 2021, online.

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together
on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to
a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the
form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project
or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

For obvious reasons we will unfortunately not be able to run a live
conference this year, but we still want to give communities a place to
meet online.

We are working on a an online platform (streaming + chat) allowing
devroom organizers to run the conference with prerecorded talks with
live qa and live presentations with streaming and archiving. The
recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM
content (CC-BY)

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devro...@fosdem.org.

Key dates:

31 October - deadline for developer room proposals

10 November - accepted developer rooms announced

15 November (or earlier) - developer rooms issue Calls for
Participation

31 December (or earlier) - developer rooms publish complete schedules


Note that the demand for devrooms may exceed the supply (even for an
online event). By applying for a devroom you are making a commitment to
fill the schedule.

Devroom coordinators must enter a complete schedule into our conference
system by 31st December. It is particularly important to be available
and to respond promptly to emails about the schedule for about a week
either side of this date.

As we also run this event online for the first time, we would like to
get your input on what duration would be good for a devroom: one whole
day, or rather two afternoon sessions?

Please indicate whether you would prefer Saturday, Sunday or both days.
Please let us know what according to you would be an interesting
timespan for your devroom: eg one long slot on Saturday or rather two
shorter slots on Sunday.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Call for participation

[Johan Van de Wauw]

The call for devrooms at FOSDEM (the largest open source conference in
Europe) is ending this Friday. It would be nice if someone proposes a
geospatial devroom for this year. If you are interested, feel free to
contact me (I have run the devroom for several years).

Having a stand at FOSDEM is another way OSGeo could meet a lot of other
projects and exchange ideas. The deadline for a stand is November 1.

Kind regards,
Johan

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gerry Demaret 
Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:52 AM
Subject: [FOSDEM] Call for participation
To: FOSDEM 


We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms,
stands and lightning talks.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet,
share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-
oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the
world.

The twentieth edition will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd
February 2020 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks
live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all
FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally, you believe there is a
legitimate reason why your presentation should not be streamed or
recorded, you must seek our agreement via e-mail to prog...@fosdem.org
before submitting it.


Main Tracks
---

Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security,
operating system development, community building, and many other topics.
Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long (including audience
questions) and should cater to a varied technical audience. The
conference covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and
arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers if needed.

Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using
Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. If you already created an account
in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than
re-registering. You can reset your password here:
https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password

Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with those
received by 11 October. The final deadline is 8 November.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at prog...@fosdem.org.

Key dates:

 - 11 October: deadline for first batch of main track proposals
 - 8 November: final deadline for main track proposals
 - 1 November onwards: main track talks announced (in batches)


Developer Rooms
---

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together
on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to
a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the
form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project
or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devro...@fosdem.org.

Key dates:

 - 20 September: deadline for developer room proposals
 - 30 September: accepted developer rooms announced
 - 15 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for
   Participation
 - 15 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules


Stands
--

FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to
display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share
information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so
on, and personally interact with the visitors.

What we offer

 - one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer
   rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. Joint submissions
   that share a table between related projects will be favoured in the
   selection process.
 - two chairs per table
 - one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional
   sockets, please bring them yourself)
 - fast uplink shared wireless Internet access

To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stand which
contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at sta...@fosdem.org.

Key dates

 - 1 November: deadline for stand proposals
 - 11 November: accepted stands announced


Lightning talks
---

Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — talks on a wide variety of
topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source
or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that
do not fit in any of the developer rooms.

Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf:
https://fosdem.org/submit. Please select "lightning Talks" in the
"track" field. If you already created an account in the system for a
previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningta...@fosdem.org.

Key dates

 - 22 November: deadline for lightning talk proposals
 - 

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo.xyz

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

A while ago I registered the domain-name osgeo.xyz, to make sure it was not
squatted by somebody outside the community.

If anyone has an interesting use of this, please let me know!

Kind regards,
Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] call for participation for FOSDEM

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

FOSDEM[1] is the largest European conference on Free and Open Source
software, organised next year on 2&3 februari in Brussels, Belgium.

For the past years, I've organised a geospatial devroom [2] there together
with a team of other people. In the past OSM and OSGeo have also had a
booth at the event.

I believe it is one of the most interesting events one can attend in Europe
- both on a technical level and to learn from other communities (eg there
usually also is a community track [3]). It also gives the opportunity to
people outside the geospatial world to learn about our solutions.

I have decided that I will not be taking the lead for organising a track
this year (I will be involved in organising the conference itself), but I
hope some other people will pick this up. Note that the work one needs to
do is spread and promote a call for presentations and make a selection of
the speakers. FOSDEM itself is taking care of the venue, so one does not
need to be from Belgium to organise, though of course you should be present
during the event.

The call for devrooms [4] is closing this Thursday. If people are
interested in organising (or helping organising) the devroom - I can send
you the proposal of last year. Also note that every year the number of
requests for devrooms is much larger than the supply - writing a proposal
does not guarantee a space.

Kind Regards,
Johan

[1] https://fosdem.org/
[2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/
[3] https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/community_devroom/
[4] https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-08-10-call-for-participation/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] SARbian: The free and open SAR software suite

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello Sergio,

You should really get in touch with the OSGeo live team (
live-d...@lists.osgeo.org ), who build a live image containing a number of
geospatial tools.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:11 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
sergio.acostayl...@mtop.gub.uy> wrote:

> SARbian: The free and open SAR software suite
> https://eo-college.org/sarbian/
> ​
> Sergio Acosta y Lara
> Departamento de Geomática
> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
> URUGUAY
> (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
> http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Two week to go before deadline CfP Geospatial DevRoom FOSDEM 2018 Brussels

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

A reminder that the deadline for submitting is **tonight**.

We already have a number of great proposals with presenters (often
from core contributors) on projects such as GRASS, GDAL, geopandas,
open streetmap, mapnik, boost.geometry and mysql. You will definitely
be in good company !

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Marc VLOEMANS <marcvloema...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear community,
>
>
> A quick heads up, to submit your talk/workshop/other for this unique event.
>
>
> FOSDEM is a free non-commercial event bringing together 8000+ open source
> software developers and communities in Brussels, Belgium. Participation is
> free of charge (donations welcome). The next edition will take place on 3-4
> February 2018. For the 4th time there is a Geospatial devroom on Sunday
> *4/2/2018*!
>
> Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work. Nowadays
> location and maps have become part of many projects/applications.
>
> We welcome submissions about:
> * Web & desktop GIS applications;
> * Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata & metadata;
> * Interoperable geospatial web services & specifications;
> * Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;
> * Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;
> * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) &
> dedicated databases;
> * Big geodata, distributed & scalable GIS applications;
> * Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.
>
> HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK
>
> Like to run a discussion, present your work, any other ideas? Submit your
> proposal at:  https://fosdem.org/submit
> Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have an
> account from previous years, you should be using the same.
> Please specify in the notes if you prefer a short timeslot (lightning talks
> ~10 min) or a long timeslot (20 min presentation + discussion). Note that
> time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of
> the session.
>
> The DEADLINE for submissions: Thursday 1st December 2017
>
> Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017 at the
> latest.
> For questions, please get in touch with the organizers at gisky.be!
> Check out the videos and presentations of our previous editions.
>
> Organizers: Johan Van de Wauw, Margherita Di Leo, Anne Ghisla, Martin
> Hammitzsch, Marc Vloemans
>
> [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/
>
> [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Marc Vloemans
>
> Mobile +31(0)651 844262
> LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/marcvloemans
> http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Help organise a geospatial devroom at FOSDEM?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

Fosdem is the largest free and open source developers meeting in
Europe, with 7000+ participants.

I have organised a geospatial devroom the last years, and I'm looking
for people who would like to support doing another one next year (eg
promote the event / help with spreading the call for papers / help
with video during the event /... )

FOSDEM will take place 3&4 February 2018 in Brussels. Proposals for a
devroom can be filed until _tomorrow_, so if you would like to join
answer as soon as possible.

It would be nice if the organising team can be a mixture of people
from the different geo-communities so we can reach out to as many
people as possible.

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter Member Nomination: Gildas Jr Boko

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Moritz Lennert
 wrote:
> On 06/09/17 15:03, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>
>> Forwarding Gildas Jr Boko nomination by Maëlle Vercauteren. The 2017
>> member nominations list has been updated [1].
>
>
> I second this nomination.

A big +1, I actually met Gildas when he was presenting at
be-OpenGIS-fr in 2014 - where he was already promoting Open Geo!

Kind Regards,
Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Schedule for geospatial@FOSDEM announced

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

On the 5th of february, there will be another geospatial devroom at
Europe's largest open source conference: FOSDEM in Brussels, bringing
together more than 5000 developers of all types of open source
projects.

I'd like to invite all of you to Brussels, check our schedule here:
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/

FOSDEM is free of charge and registration is not required.

On Saterday evening (19h30), the evening before the geospatial
devroom, some of us will have dinner together at Grimbergen Café[1],
in the center of Brussels [2]. Afterwards we can visit one of the many
pubs in that neighbourhood. If you are interested in joining - please
let me know so we can reserve your seat.

Hope to see many of you in Brussels!

The organizers
Johan Van de Wauw
Margherita Di Leo
Anne Ghisla
Martin Hammitzsch

[1] http://www.grimbergencafe.be
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/50.85120/4.34960

PS: careful readers may notice there is a small gap in the program at
15h00: two presentations were cancelled. If you would still like to
present something, get in touch!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Board nomination for Dirk Frigne

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

I also want to support the nomination of Dirk Frigne. I think Dirk has been
one of the most active board members (eg foundation of the European
chapter) and has been pushing OSGeo to grow even outside our comfort zone,
eg by organising an OSGeo session at the Geospatial World Forum.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

> Forwarding nominations of Moritz Lennert and Gert-Jan van der Weijden for
> Dirk Frigne.
>
> Best
> Jorge Sanz
> CRO 2016
>
> **
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne (dirk.fri...@geosparc.com) from
> Belgium as a board member.
>
> Dirk has entered the Board recently and has since worked hard on
> advancing OSGeo interests and on pushing an agenda of
> professionalizing OSGeo as an organisation. He was one of the
> co-founders of OSGeo.be in Belgium and has been one of the leaders of
> the OSGeo-EU initiative which led to the creation of this new chapter
> and which hopefully will allow breaking the stronghold of proprietary
> software in EU institutions and allow the integration of more foss4g in
> European initiatives and programmes, by federating European actors
> into networks.
>
> He has a strong business perspective and thus ensures a voice for all
> the small SME's active in foss4g.
>
> I feel that he has only just begun and that at his current rate of
> pouring energy into OSGeo he will bring a lot to the community if he
> is allowed to continue in the board.
>
> Moritz
>
> --
> Jorge Sanz
>
> Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity.
>
> -- Mensaje reenviado --
> De: "Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl" 
> Fecha: 12 sept. 2016 18:54
> Asunto: Board nomination for Dirk Frigne
> Para: 
> Cc:
>
> > I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne for the Board of Directors of the
> OSGeo.org foundation.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dirk has already been in the Board since January this year, as a
> "substitute" after Jeff McKenna stepped down from the Board. Because of
> this "split-term" he is to be re-elected this year already.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dirk is not just formally -being one of OSGeo's vice-presidents-
> visible, but also in discussions and actions both in the Board (as one can
> tell by the Board mailing list) as well as outside the Board.
> >
> >
> >
> > As a founder and CEO of Geosparc (well know of GeoMajas), Dirk knows
> inside out what's going in doing business in an open source ecosystem.
> >
> > Besides that, his efforts for putting open source for geospatial on the
> European agenda forces respect.
> >
> > And on a local scale, Dirk is as members of the Board of Directors very
> much involved in the Belgian local chapter.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think Dirk has proven in his first 8 month as a Board member that he
> is of great value of putting topics on the agenda that are very meaningful
> for a greater outreach of OSGeo.org as an organisation, and of Open Source
> for Geospatial in general.
> >
> > Although I do not always agree on Dirk's opinions, I think this ability
> to raise the right questions, combined with his broad background and
> perspective continues to make Dirk a very valuable Board member.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Gert-Jan van der Weijden
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign proposal

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:

>
> The other point of this email is to follow up with Gert-Jan
> proposal[2] to put a week between the nominations period and the
> actual voting to let candidates to express their intentions for their
> term.
>

Strong +1 here.
Actually I proposed the same two years ago [1].
"So here is my proposal:

For next year:
- Make something like a "campaining period" a part of the election.
Give candidates an official time to explain their plans and have room
for discussion afterwards.

"


Kind Regards,
Johan
[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-August/013495.html
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo booth at state of the map

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

Next week (23 - 25 september) there will be the yearly open streetmap
conference (state of the map) in Brussels. OSGeo (technically speaking
OSGeo.be) will have a booth there.

If you are planning to join the conference and would like to staff our
booth, please let us know, by mailing me or updating our wiki page: [1]

We could also still use some marketing material (stickers/flyers/...).
Anyone around who can send or bring those?

Kind Regards,
Johan

See you at maptember: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/Booth_SOTM2016

[1]: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/Booth_SOTM2016
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Be September 22, 2016 in Brussels

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Maelle Vercauteren 
wrote:

> After the very succesful FOSS4G Belgium event in 2015, OSGeo.be will
> organise an new edition of the FOSS4G Belgium Conference on Thursday
> September 22, 2016 in Brussels, at the Environment and Energy Agency of
> Brussels.
> The following day, Friday September 23, starts the "State of the map" (
> http://2016.stateofthemap.org) until September 25, 2016 in Brussels too.
>
>
A reminder for anyone wishing to present at FOSS4G.be : our call for
contributions ends this week. So send your proposals to
presentati...@foss4g.be
Full details here: http://2016.foss4g.be/papers.php

Hope to see many of you in Brussels!
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Gaël Kruwialis as a OSGeo charter

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Picavet (ml) <
vincent...@oslandia.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 14/07/2016 11:35, Dirk Frigne wrote:
> > I second the nomination of Gael Kruwialis (in cc) as a charter member
> > for OSGeo.
>
> And one more support from my side !
> Regards,
>

And one more. Gael has been on of the main driving forces behind foss4g.be
last year.

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Jonathan  wrote:
> Hi Till,
> On the issue of conferences, I'd like to chip in. I've never organised one,
> but my other half has so I know how much work they are, so plenty of respect
> for the effort you've both put into them.
>
> I suppose I'd ask two questions of any given element of a conference - Is it
> necessary, and how much should it cost? Conference centres are very
> expensive, this much is clear, but does FOSS4G really need a single space
> that can handle all of its delegates at once for the plenaries? How much
> does that add to the cost? Would universities be cheaper as hosts? They
> certainly have the facilities, including wi-fi, canteens, and (potentially)
> cheap accommodation; I note that the FOSDEM conference ( > 5000 delegates
> for all of whom it is free) is hosted yearly at a university in Brussels.

Hello Jonathan,

I want to comment as I have been involved in several editions of
FOSDEM and other conferences.
You certainly can not copy the model of FOSDEM easily to FOSS4G or any
other conference.

FOSDEM has a much broader focus and as a result more potential
sponsors. As the largest Open Source conference in Europe it gets a
lot of sponsorship (the winner takes it all applies here). To give you
an idea, speakers in the 3 main tracks can apply for travel costs.
Nevertheless there are still a lot of costs made (network, security,
cleaning (the toilets of ULB seem to be cleaned only during FOSDEM),
video, ...). Anyway, finding a different location to host it even with
the same budget is nearly impossible. One of the reasons it could grow
so large is because it was organised every year at the same place,
which also leads to confidence between the university and the
organisation.

Some of the other reasons that FOSDEM can be organised for free may
nevertheless apply to FOSS4G:
1) It is held in a weekend. This makes universities as a location
possible. This also means that you may still find volunteers to eg
help with catering. During a working week this is much harder.
Additionaly, there are only two days, so less places to fill with
people.
2) There is a large crew of volunteers at FOSDEM. Not just the people
who actually organise the event, but volunteers are people helping out
with setting up, staffing booths, cloackroom, ... for a number of
hours during the event.
3) Food. Food is not supplied by the organisation. There is a (large)
number of foodtrucks. Sandwiches and pastry are sold at the cafetaria
(outsourced to a student union - which knows what to expect from
previous years).

Anyway, OpenStreetMap is hosting state of the map this year in
Brussels. They were not able to get the premises of the ULB (which
FOSDEM uses) but they could reach an agreement with another university
(VUB, which is not the same one). They have a system with two ticket
prices: 75 euro (early bird rate) for "community members" and a
regular ticket of 180 euro (early bird, ending today - grab one if you
intend to go!). Perhaps this is something to conside? A "regular
ticket" perhaps including vouchers for lunch etc and a 'starving
hacker' ticket. So people who come to FOSS4G professionaly choose the
regular ticket and sponsor the community members?

I should note that 75 euro still is a threshold even for some of the
Belgian contributors of OpenStreetMap to join, something to consider
in a world where hourly rates often exceed that.

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mantra request (OsgeoID)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Maybe the mantra should be posted to this list with a link to this
discussion. I'm quite sure that blocks most spam and removes a barrier to
reporting a bug/contributing.

Now people have to register for the mailinglist, confirm. Ask for a pw.
Wait for it. Register. Confirm ...
Op 19-mei-2016 18:04 schreef "Yves Jacolin" :

> On Thursday, May 19, 2016 15:56:08 Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> > On 19 May 2016 at 15:30, Yves Jacolin  wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > What is a mantra? Sorry for so this naive question :)
> >
> > http://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ldap_create_user.py
> >
> > See the note starting with "Due to..."
> >
> > Best regards,
> Many thanks to all :)
>
> Y.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from a Benevolent Dictator

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Moritz Lennert
 wrote:

>
> What I personally haven't really understood, yet, is what the rasdaman
> community is really afraid of. If the community works as well as described,
> why would the creation of a PSC-like structure create such problems ?
>
> Moritz

This is indeed the only issue. Nobody questions the quality of
rasdaman. Personally I would love to see the project under the OSGeo
umbrella. I expect an explosion of high spectrum raster data in the
coming years, so also an explosion in software usage. Rasdaman has
been setting the standards, also at ISO and OGC, so it is logical to
look to them first. The decision OSGeo project or not is black/white,
but this really does not mean that OSGeo does not like Rasdaman or its
contributors. We just don't like one part of their governance.

To the point:

I really don't see what Rasdaman can loose by having a PSC which takes
decisions by majority. And you know what? In fact Peter will still
have a final say if it is not in the procedure. Because he employs the
majority of the PSC.
We have a similar situation in geomajas, FDO and mapguide. If Autodesk
decides that mapguide should be reimplemented in java or Dirk Frigne
decides that geomajas should be implemented in .net, it will happen.
Even if the PSC disagrees. Because they fund the project. Whether they
should still remain OSGeo projects if that happens is another thing.

I think we can have the same thing for Rasdaman. Rasdaman gmbh keeps
the trademark, so in the *highly unlikely* situation that Peter wants
to go another direction than the PSC, he can. And at that point we can
discuss whether it should still remain an OSGeo project. In the mean
time, why not (if they accept the majority PSC rule)?

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Peter Baumann
 wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> while OSGeo and rasdaman share the strive for quality we come from different
> approaches: OSGeo believes in the power of committees and strong regulation
> whereas rasdaman has a culture of unbureaucratic, technocracy based
> collaboration. In other words: good ideas are always welcome - we live this
> daily, based on humanistic ideals, not on law enforcement.

I disagree with this conclusion. Both allowunbureaucratic and
technocracy based collaboration, as proven in many projects such as
QGis, OSGeo live, ...

It is only when a large part of the PSC has a different opinion then
the benevolent dictator that a difference between both arise.
If such occasions arise the project definitely has a problem, and I
don't think having one person deciding the way forward as the default
option is a good one.

I should add that the benevolent dictator style is not always
succesful, also in important projects. See eg glibc [1]. I do think it
can be succesful if the "BDFL" shows leadership and I think it is a
good model to avoid some bikeshedding. But in every sucessful BFDL
open source project you see that there is in fact a larger group of
people involved (similar to a PSC), and I don't know any examples
where the BDFL chose a direction which was opposite of this groups
opinion and where this worked out well.

Kind Regards,
Johan
[1] eg 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library#Debian_switches_to_EGLIBC_and_back
"In March 2012, the steering committee voted to disband itself and
remove Drepper in favor of a community-driven development process"
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-EU toward a new OSGeo scenario?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:53 AM,   wrote:
> So I agree with Marc on most of his points but like to put the focus more on
> the business side of view: Please keep in mind, that in order to get at leat
> a tiny bit of influence in Brussels and EU-related organisations requires a
> European Organisation. No matter that this is related to a global,
> US-resident organisation.
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello everyone,

First of all, I'm a bit disappointed that this issue is only raised
now, when the final vote for graduating is taking place. For the
future I think it should be clearer for projects what rules have to be
obliged much earlier.

Just this week, in another conversation I mentioned that you need
rules for when things go bad, and not when things are going well
(which luckily is the case for Rasdaman). So I think we should focus
on what resolution we want when things "go bad".

It may be my knowledge of English, but I'm not sure how I should
understand: "Should such consent exceptionally not be reached then
Peter Baumann has a casting vote".

If it means that if the PSC reaches 50% - 50% or a lot of abstintent
voting, Peter can take the decision, then I think it is a logical rule
and I see no issues with it.

If it means that if a majority of the PSC votes for the proposal that
it can still be overruled by Peter Baumann (or the chair of the PSC),
then I'm against it. I do believe that would be an unlikely scenario
but at such a time I don't think we can still call it an OSGeo project
at that point.

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Install Proj and GEOS on Raspbian

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Nico,

I'm forwarding to the Debian GIS list where you have the largest
chance of getting help.

Did you run apt-get update before installing? What is the contents of
your /etc/apt/sources.list

I am not sure the debian gis packages are available on raspbian.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Alex M  wrote:
> Poking around the Debian world there is no package called proj (maybe
> there was at some point).
>
> proj-bin proj-data, libproj0 and libproj-dev should be it.
>
> Are you missing some functionality?
>
> I think you're just running into selecting packages that go by other
> names. Try doing some apt-cache search or using autocomplete to find
> matching packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 04/20/2016 02:23 PM, Nico Aliotta wrote:
>> i'm tryng to install Proj and GEos on Raspbian on my raspberry pi3
>>
>>
>> pi@raspberrypi:~ $
>> *sudo apt-get install proj proj-bin proj-data libproj-dev*
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Package proj is not available, but is referred to by another package.
>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>> is only available from another source
>>
>> E: Package 'proj' has no installation candidate
>>
>> same for
>>
>>
>> *sudo apt-get install libgeos-c1v5 libgeos-dev*
>> is there any way to install them?
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help on patent infringement claim

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Andrea,

I have seen ask patents being used to find prior-art to patent claims.
See eg:
http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/119/timeline-display-for-vehicle-fleet-management-patent-application-prior-art-r

Kind Regards,
Johan


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:17 AM, andrea antonello
 wrote:
> Thanks to everybody that gave contributions to this.
>
> I will post some updates.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrea
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:30 PM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA
>  wrote:
>>
>> A really worrisome topic...
>>
>>
>> Sergio Acosta y Lara
>> Departamento de Geomática
>> Dirección Nacional de Topografía
>> Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
>> URUGUAY
>> 
>> De: Discuss  en nombre de Jody Garnett
>> 
>> Enviado: viernes, 08 de abril de 2016 12:56
>> Para: andrea antonello
>> Cc: ML osgeo discuss
>> Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help on patent infringement claim
>>
>> That is terrible Andrea, and not at all off topic - it is one of the
>> reasons we have OSGeo as as software foundation.  I also really respect the
>> open innovation network and their approach.
>>
>> While I have built a couple systems as you describe they were after to
>> 2000 date.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 8 April 2016 at 06:09, 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] geospatial @ apache foundation

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

I recently bumped across this article about a geospatial track which
may be organised at apachecon.

Maybe some people from OSGeo can reach out to them and see if we can
organise this together? And look for future collaboration?

http://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/

Kind Regards,
Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Schedule Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM (Brussels - 31/1)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

I have the honour to present to present to you the schedule for the
geospatial devroom at FOSDEM , which will happen on Sunday 31/01/2016.

https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/

We have a nice lineup with some well known GIS tools, moving over to
new developments happening at OSGeo and Open Streetmap. 3D
visualisation is the topic of different presentations around noon. And
should you prefer backend work, the afternoon has a lineup of no less
than 4 different geospatial databases.

To close the day we expect a nice keynote - stay tuned for more info!

For all of you who don't know FOSDEM: FOSDEM is a free and
non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in
Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software
developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The
participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The
next edition will take place the last weekend ofJanuary 30 - 31 2016.
This year for the second time there will be a Geospatial devroom on
Sunday 31/1/2016.

Hope to see all of you in Brussels!

Kind Regards,
Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Report of a succesful FOSS4G.be

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

On Thursday, November 29, 2015 at the Environment and Energy Agency of
Brussels, the Belgian chapter of the OSGeo Foundation [1] organised
the first FOSS4G Belgium [2]. More than 300 people participated in
this day of conferences, demonstrations, debates and meetings about
OSGeo topics !

The event brought together the community of users, developers, policy
makers and just curious FOSS geomatics.

You can find on our website the talks [3] as well as photos [4] and a
short video [5 ] of the event.

Many thanks to the sponsors, volunteers and participants for their commitment.

We wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016.

The FOSS4G.be team,
Marc Ducobu – Dirk Frigne – Gael Kruwialis - Moritz Lennert - Oliver
May - Tommy Oozeer - Johan Van de Wauw - Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4G

[3] http://foss4g.be/presentations/foss4g/

[4] https://www.flickr.com/photos/levvie/albums/72157661420302750

[5 ] https://vimeo.com/144855459
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Please forward!

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. The next edition will take place the last weekend ofJanuary
30 - 31 2016. This year for the second time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon Sunday 31/1/2016, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

Geospatial technology is becoming rapidly mainstream. The idea
underpinning the geospatial devroom is bringing together developers
with different backgrounds to disclosethe opportunities offered by
cutting-edge open source geospatial technologies. Due to the success
of last years devroom, a Belgium local chapter of OSGeo, OSGeo.be was
founded, and is now taking part of the organisation of the devroom as
driving community.

The Geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art
of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software
and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial
databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for
collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata.
We welcome submissions about:

* Web and desktop GIS applications
* Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications
* Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites
* Open hardware for geospatial applications
* Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries
* Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)
and dedicated databases
* Collaborative editing/versioning of geodata
* Big geodata, scalable GIS applications
* Volunteered Geograpic information - Crowdsourced data

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK

Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?
Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit
your proposal using the Pentabarf event planning tool at:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as  'Track'. Please,
specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a
short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or along timeslot (20
minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are
indicative and will be assigned according to the needs of the session.

The DEADLINE for submissions is Tuesday **1st December 2015**.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by Friday
11/12/2015 at the latest.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch
with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be!

Johan Van de Wauw
Margherita Di Leo
Astrid Emde
Anne Ghisla
Martin Hammitzsch
Andy Petrella
Dirk Frigne
Olivier Courtin
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM

[Johan Van de Wauw]

I believe it should be rather straighforward to convert our vmdk to a
vhd and add a vhd of OSGeo live to the VM-depot of MS Azure:
https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

Then anyone interested can start up a VM using that base image. This
can be done using trial accounts.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Suchith Anand
 wrote:
> Thanks Cameron, Angelos, Giuseppe , Peter and everyone who contributed to
> these discussions. I am ccing this to discuss list so that the wider
> community and users who want a cloud service can let their  views known and
> how they would use and benefit from an OSGeo-Live cloud service.
>
> That way, we will get better idea if  there is need/demand and a sustaining
> community who will step up to keep the project maintained with each
> OSGeo-Live release.
>
> All - please look though the ideas/inputs below that Cameron summarised for
> OSGeo-Live sustainable cloud service based discussions we had so far in
> education and live lists. If you are able to contribute to this , please let
> us all know. Thanks.
>
> Suchith
>
>
> 
> From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of
> Angelos Tzotsos [gcpp.kal...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:01 PM
> To: live-demo; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that
> runs the OSGeo-Live VM
>
> I realize that my previous e-mail was not received by the list so I
> summarize:
>
> 1. OSGeo-Live is already cloud-ready on Synnefo stack
> http://www.synnefo.org/
> So basically we could deploy synnefo + geneti on OSGeo infrastructure and
> have a Free Software solution.
> Alternatively we could deploy an OpenStack instance.
> https://www.openstack.org/software/
> We should ask SAC if the above options are feasible.
>
> 2. In case we want to deploy OSGeo-Live on AWS, it seems straightforward:
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/VMImportPrerequisites.html
> https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
>
> Any other options in mind?
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
>
> On 10/18/2015 01:32 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Bringing a few different email threads back to one, and answering Suchith's
> "next steps" question:
>
> On 16/10/2015 12:43 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
>
> Cameron - from your experiences with OSGeo live community, what do you think
> is the best way now forward ? Can you please summarise all discussions so
> far and reply to the public lists.Thanks.
>
> Suchith
>
> If we are to be successful at setting up an OSGeo-Live sustainable cloud
> service, I suggest we consider:
>
> 1. Would a cloud service be used? By who?
> I'd suggest that people who want a cloud service speak up, say how you would
> use an OSGeo-Live cloud service. We are looking here to determine if there
> is a sustaining community who will step up to keep the project maintained
> with each OSGeo-Live release.
>
> 2. What are the steps technically required to set up the cloud service?
> Hopefully someone will step up to do the research on what is required, and
> will set up a Proof-of-Concept.
>
> 3. What will hosting a cloud service cost? Would it be a pay-as-you-use
> model? Would we be asking the OSGeo Foundation to sponsor? Would we be
> asking workshop providers to pay for the service?
> I suspect that we could ask the OSGeo Foundation for base funding to prove a
> Proof of Concept (by paying for a cloud service for 1 year or so), but ask
> workshop providers and other users to pay for the service in moving forward.
> This is something that can be decided once costs are understood.
>
> 4. But the bottom line is that the best chance of success will occur if
> someone stands up and champions its development.  Do we have someone
> interested to do the hard work of making it happen? (Speak up if
> interested). It certainly would be a valuable contribution to the OSGeo
> community.
>
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
>
> On 14/10/2015 7:59 pm, Peter Baumann wrote:
>
>>  1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the
>> OSGeo-Live VM
>
> not necessarily a cloud, as the whole OSGeo Live is not prepared.
> But definitely hosting it on a VM (for easy cloning + move) is an asset -
> any
> demo just needs to show a URL then.
>
>
>>
>>  2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible
>
> find a caretaker with a machine.
> Jacobs University can do that, for example, in tight collaboration with
> Angelos
> on technical level.
>
> -Peter
>
>
>
> On 15/10/2015 2:53 am, Giuseppe Amatulli wrote:
>
> Hi,
> under the http://www.spatial-ecology.net/ initiative we  use the the
> OSGeo-Llive for courses and intensive training in Geo Computation.
>
> In this line we have been used also Amazon Web Service to teach remote
> connection and scripting routines in the cloud. For this I was customize a
> Ubuntu Instance very similar to the  OSGeo-Llive.
>
> Nonetheless, would be 

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2016?!

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

Just like last year [1], I would like to organise a geospatial devroom
at FOSDEM[2].The call for devrooms is now open [3], and I'm going to
submit another proposal.

Last year, we had a large team promoting the devroom which lead to a
very interesting schedule. If you would like to be part of the team,
please add yourself to the draft proposal [4] or drop me a mail.

Note that the deadline for proposals is already this friday, so don't pospone!

Kind Regards,
Johan

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/
[2] http://www.fosdem.org
[3] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2015-September/002180.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2016?!

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Grmbl, pressed send too fast:
the draft proposal is here:
[4] https://titanpad.com/VCAR6DZfHG

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Johan Van de Wauw
<johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just like last year [1], I would like to organise a geospatial devroom
> at FOSDEM[2].The call for devrooms is now open [3], and I'm going to
> submit another proposal.
>
> Last year, we had a large team promoting the devroom which lead to a
> very interesting schedule. If you would like to be part of the team,
> please add yourself to the draft proposal [4] or drop me a mail.
>
> Note that the deadline for proposals is already this friday, so don't pospone!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
>
> [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/
> [2] http://www.fosdem.org
> [3] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2015-September/002180.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
OSGeo.nl  wrote:

> With respect for all the board candidates and their busy agenda, I think for
> the election campaign (manifestos + discussion) this is as good as it gets.
>
>
>
> For 2016, we might try to weave the election campaign into the FOSS4G : have
> candidates 2 weeks before FOSS4G, let the candidates state a manifesto, and
> have a election debate in the main hall in Bonn (which is the former German
> parliament chamber!)

I agree we need more time for a manifesto and discussion on that.
Actually, I proposed such a "campaigning period" also last year [1].

Kind Regards,
Johan
[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-August/013495.html
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
 wrote:

> Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was
> attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by Lewis
> Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer discretion
> advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD
> attack:
>
> http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
>

I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are false.
" if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed"
not true

"Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which
you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded
your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software
Foundation for free distribution."

Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You
don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is
the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL.

I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack
on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software
Foundation Europe to help write a response?

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2015] Nomination for Maelle Vercauteren

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote:
 Forwarding Maelle Vercauteren nomination by Vincent Picavet.


 I would like to nominate Maëlle Vercauteren for OSGeo Charter Member.

 Maëlle is a dynamic supporter of OpenSource Geospatial technologies and
 OpenData. She teaches Opensource GIS at the University of Bruxelles,
 with a special course dedicated to developing countries professionals.
 She put a lot of efforts into the organization of the first
 Be-OpenGIS-fr event, and now contributes to the organization of FOSS4G
 Belgium.


+1 I also strongly support this nomination.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: nomination for Moritz Lennert

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Vasile Craciunescu
vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote:


 Dear CRO,

 I would like to nominate Moritz Lennert for the OSGeo Charter members
 election:

 Moritz Lennert (email: mlenn...@club.worldonline.be) is PSC Member and
 developer for GRASS GIS since a long time. He is also an
 OSGeo advocate : http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Moritz_Lennert

 Moritz is one of the founding members of the local chapter OSGeo.be and
 he is part of the organisation team for the first FOSS4G conference in
 Belgium.

I second this nomination and I also would like to add that Moritz was
one of the organisers of the excellent beOpenGISfr conference[1] last
year as well.

Kind Regards,
Johan

[1] http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Elections 2015 starting today

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Vasile Craciunescu
vas...@geo-spatial.org wrote:
 Dear Cameron,

 Thank you for the reminder. The invitation to add an entry to the OSGeo
 Advocates wiki page is part of the e-mail each nominee is receiving from CRO
 after nomination. I'm thinking in adding this kind of invitation to
 add/update the OSGeo Advocate profile in the invitation to vote e-mail,
 after the end of nomination period.


Just a remark. I know different people who have done a lot for OSGeo
and the larger FOSS4G world, but who are not eager  to put their name
under
OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have
volunteered to talk on behalf of the OSGeo foundation. Advocates
should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining. .

For our charter members I believe we should draw from a larger group
than people considering themselves to speak well and authorative.

Kind Regards,
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo welcomes 13 students for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Clément Igonet clem...@igonet.fr wrote:
 How to be considered as a student fo GSoc?

 Could I suggest my free and open source project for GSoC?

You are too late now, a call was launched in february:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-February/013934.html

This being said, adding your project to OSGeo live
(http://live.osgeo.org) or incubating in OSGeo may give more
visibility to your project which will definitely help in being
selected if there would be a new edition.

Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Belgium update

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

As was previously announced on this list[1], we had a first meeting of
OSGeo Belgium last week on Wednesday.

A full report of the meeting can be found on the OSGeo wiki[2].
Our goals are in line with the goals of OSGeo:
* Community-building and networking
* Organisation of events
* Lobbying
* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
* Possibly: OSGeo focal point for EU-related activities

Our first concrete goal is to try organising a one day event FOSS4G
Belgium in October/November, where we could officialy launch an OSGeo
Belgium chapter.

In the meantime it would be useful to have an OSGeo Belgium
mailinglist so everyone interested can join our discussions!

Kind Regards,
Johan

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-March/014093.html
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] videos from the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Johan Van de Wauw
 johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote:

 We were all pleasantly suprised by the number and the quality of the
 proposals. All speakers have now confirmed, so I'm really happy I can
 share the schedule with all of you:

 https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/




 This is indeed a great lineup. Any chance it will be recorded?


Hi all,

For all of you interested: most presentations were recorded (some of
the first are missing due to some technical issues).

You can find them here:
http://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-geospatial/

Kind Regards,

Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com wrote:
 Thanks for your reaction Gert-Jan,

 Some people are indeed cross-border Open Source Geo, but many arn't.
 To address these people, such a local chapter can be interesting to
 learn them about the OSGeo solutions.

I agree with Dirk (and said so before [1]) that we definitely need a
local conference if we want to reach out to end-users. Small firms,
local and regional governmentsare not very likely to join a conference
in a different country. And many of them have attended the previous
two events we had in Ghent and Brussels. In both cases attendance
exceeded the expectations, and inscriptions for the conference in
Brussels had to be closed.

This does not exclude cooperating with the dutch/french language chapters.

Kind Regards,
Johan

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-September/013538.html
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo in Belgium

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com wrote:
 1. Do you agree with the fact that we investigate how we can join forces
 with the open knowledge foundation Belgium to start up the Belgium
 chapter of OSGeo
We should definitely work together. I believe we should first set our
goals with OSGeo Belgium and then choose whether it makes sense to be
under their umbrella.

Kind Regards,

Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to add a point on Map‏

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello Arfan,

You better ask mapguide specific questions at the mapguide mailing list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/mapguide-users


Regards,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] schedule for the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM announced

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Talks will be recorded.

Note that we can still use volunteers in the video team,so anyone
interested in helping out may contact me.
On Dec 20, 2014 3:53 PM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Johan Van de Wauw 
 johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote:

 We were all pleasantly suprised by the number and the quality of the
 proposals. All speakers have now confirmed, so I'm really happy I can
 share the schedule with all of you:

 https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/




 This is indeed a great lineup. Any chance it will be recorded?


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 Manager, Science and Data Policy
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[OSGeo-Discuss] schedule for the geospatial devroom @FOSDEM announced

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

FOSDEM is a free open source event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet at. The next
edition will take place the weekend 31/1 - 1/2/2015. This year for
the first time there will be a geospatial devroom on Sunday 1/2/2015!

We were all pleasantly suprised by the number and the quality of the
proposals. All speakers have now confirmed, so I'm really happy I can
share the schedule with all of you:

https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/

Hope to see many of you in Brussels!

The devroom organisers
Johan Van de Wauw
Margherita Di Leo
Astrid Emde
Anne Ghisla
Julien Fastré
Martin Hammitzsch
Andy Petrella
Dirk Frigne
Gael Musquet
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: CfP Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM; Deadline is TOMORROW!

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hi all,

A quick reminder that the Call for papers for the geospatial devroom
@FOSDEM has it's deadline tomorrow.

For those still hasitating to come: Already a lot of interesting talks
have been submitted, from geospatial algorithms to well known tools
(postgresql, grass), from building GPS hardware to shiny new
javascript libraries and more!

If you are short on time now, feel free to submit only a title now,
you can still update the abstract later on, but then we can already
start creating a balanced schedule.

Regards,

Johan


-- Forwarded message --
From: Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Subject: Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM
To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org


Please forward!

FOSDEM[1] is a free open source event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet at. The next
edition will take place the weekend 31/1 - 1/2/2015. This year for
the first time there will be a geospatial devroom on Sunday 1/2/2015!

Geospatial technology becomes more and more part of mainstream IT. The
idea is to bring together people with different backgrounds to better
explain and understand the opportunities Geospatial can offer. This
devroom will host topics explaining the state of the art of geospatial
technology, and how it can be used amongst other projects.

The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related
data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and
tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial
services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and
visualizing puposes. Typical topics that will be covered are:

Web and desktop GIS applications
Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications
Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites
Open hardware for geospatial applications
Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries
Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)
Dedicated databases

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR TALK PROPOSAL

Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?
Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit
your proposal at the Pentabarf event planning tool at:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15

When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the
'Geospatial devroom' as  'Track'. Please specify in the notes if you
prefer for your presentation a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10
minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion).

The DEADLINE for submissions is **1st December 2014**

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch
with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be!

Johan Van de Wauw
Margherita Di Leo
Astrid Emde
Anne Ghisla
Julien Fastré
Martin Hammitzsch
Andy Petrella
Dirk Frigne
Gael Musquet

[1] http://www.fosdem.org
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Petr,

All will do,
But since you ask for a recommendation: I recommend Debian. Their GIS
team has grown a lot recently and debian has packaged many GIS
packages [1], and has been providing security updates to them quickly
in the past (see eg [2]). Definitely the upcoming jessie release
will contain a large number of GIS packages out of the box.

Johan

[1]http://blends.debian.net/gis/tasks/
[2] 
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/mapserver/mapserver_6.0.1-3.2+deb7u2_changelog

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Cameron Shorter
cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 Petr,
 If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you likely
 will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live project:
 https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/

 These install scripts are tested and verified every 6 months on Lubuntu, but
 most (all?) should work on any Ubuntu flavour.

 You can customise main.sh to install just the packages you are interested
 in.




 On 18/11/2014 12:06 am, Dan Little wrote:

 I've used the lot of them and some more times than not, it has come down to
 client requirements for which distro needs to be used.

 I will ring a voice in favour of CentOS.  Maybe it's really in favour of
 RHEL which is where I've spent quite a bit of time.  And really, I think I'm
 in favour of using RPM.  I've found myself much happier using RPM to build
 deployable packages for clients, including localized RPM-install databases,
 than I have been using .DEB deploys.  It could be that I don't have the zen
 of Deb down yet, a complete fault of my own, but RPM has been easier, it
 seems, for that type of work.

 That said, when I'm whipping up a light-weight sever or running things on a
 laptop, I'll gravitate towards one of the Debian/Ubuntu variants such as
 Mint, Bohdi, or raw-Debian for server stuff.



 On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Mark Iliffe markili...@gmail.com wrote:

 Echoing Jo's note on Ubuntu LTS. Personally experience of Centos was just
 too painful.

 Best,

 Mark

 On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote:

 We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the
 question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things,
 one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD.

 Jo

 On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva georger.si...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.

 Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.

 On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk petrx...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial
 applications on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, 
 MapProxy,
 PostGIS and so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know
 others opinion.
 I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your
 favorite one?
 The shortlist is as follow:
 OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian

 Thanks for your tips.
 Petr

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Oops forgot to send to the list
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Cameron Shorter
cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote:
 Petr,
 If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you
likely
 will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live project:
 https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/

 These install scripts are tested and verified every 6 months on Lubuntu,
but
 most (all?) should work on any Ubuntu flavour.

 You can customise main.sh to install just the packages you are interested
 in.

I would not recommend this approach for a server. You better stick to
the packages provided in the archives. Packages on osgeo live don't
get security updates, some installation scripts put data where it does
not belong, others add unsecure options to configuration files, there
is no upgrade path, ...

If packages are not present in the distribution but are present on
osgeo live you can consider using the install script for that specific
package. Limit the exposure.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM

[Johan Van de Wauw]

*Please forward!*

*FOSDEM*[1] is a free open source event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet at. The next edition
will take place the weekend 31/1 - 1/2/2015. This year for the first time
there will be a *geospatial devroom* on Sunday 1/2/2015!

Geospatial technology becomes more and more part of mainstream IT. The idea
is to bring together people with different backgrounds to better explain
and understand the opportunities Geospatial can offer. This devroom will
host topics explaining the state of the art of geospatial technology, and
how it can be used amongst other projects.

The *geospatial devroom* is the place to talk about open, geo-related data
and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g.
for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial services, used for
collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing puposes.
Typical topics that will be covered are:


   - Web and desktop GIS applications
   - Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications
   - Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites
   - Open hardware for geospatial applications
   - Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries
   - Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations)
   - Dedicated databases


*HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR TALK PROPOSAL*

Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers?
Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit your
proposal at the Pentabarf event planning tool at:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15

When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the *'Geospatial
devroom' *as  'Track'. Please *specify* in the notes if you prefer for your
presentation a *short timeslot* (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a *long
timeslot* (20 minutes presentation + discussion).

The *DEADLINE* for submissions is ***1st December 2014***

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with
the organisers of the devroom at *fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be
fosdem-geospat...@gisky.be*!

*Johan Van de Wauw*
*Margherita Di Leo*
*Astrid Emde*
*Anne Ghisla*
*Julien Fastré*
*Martin Hammitzsch*
*Andy Petrella *
*Dirk Frigne*
*Gael Musquet*

[1] http://www.fosdem.org
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidates: what are your plans?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello everyone,

I'm relatively new to OSGeo (at least the organisational part), but
I'm a bit surprised by the board elections.
I'm seeing two phases: a nomination phase and a voting phase. I double
checked and last year it was the same. In my opinion we are missing
the most important step: a campaigning period. I'd like to know what
each candidate would like to do, how they see the future of OSGeo,...

Now - don't get me wrong- we have (up to now) 7 excellent candidates
for 5 positions, and probably many other charter members have done so
much for the community that they deserve to be on the board. But as
much as I would like to thank all of them, I would like to use
different criteria for selecting board members.What are your vision
and goals? Where should OSGeo head to? What about the financial
situation? I'd like to know each candidate's vision before voting.

Actually, all other volunteer run organisations where I've been
involved have such a phase. Usually it happens offline during
general assemblies, but at least for debian they are online [1]. The
actual examples from debian are for choosing the project leader and
are way too long, but I'd definitively like to read a paragraph or two
which vision each candidate has on OSGeo.

So here is my proposal:
For next year:
- Make something like a campaining period a part of the election.
Give candidates an official time to explain their plans and have room
for discussion afterwards. I actually think this would be a better
place for endorsements than the nomination phase. Endorsing a
candidate for his/her future plans based on his/her current
achievement is imho a stronger signal than some of the endorsements we
saw on the list before.


For this year:
- Even if there is no official period, I'd still love to see the
vision/answers to the above questions from the candidates.

Johan

[1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Martin Hammitzsch
martin.hammitz...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Johan,

 I am bit lost in understanding the format of devrooms. First I was
 thinking of a space where developers meet for pitching their ideas and
 forming groups to get their hands dirty in 1-3 days of collaborative
 ideas generation, of drafting concepts, and of programming. But then I
 read something about talks and checked the schedule of FOSDEM 2014 -
 it seems that a devroom is something similar to a session or track we
 know from other conferences and thus contains lots of talks instead of
 programming. However, at least the talks seem to be from programmers
 for programmers. Nevertheless, I am a bit confused.

 I very much like the idea of a geospatial devroom. But I would be
 happy to clarify first what format you and others have in mind - just
 talks, unconference, hackdays, ..., a mix of it? Please let me know
 what you have in mind.


Martin,

Thanks for your comments. I've been at FOSDEM so many years that I
just assumed everyone would understand.

Indeed, until now most devrooms were more or less like conference
talks, but as you say from developer to developer. I think we should
more or less keep to this type of schedule if we want to attract
people from other projects to the room. If we just don't have
something catchy on the schedule people from outside our projects may
be unlikely to join.
This being said I think we could definitely add one timeslot where
everyone in the room can present quickly his ideas. Or timeslots where
we can have a collaborative discussion eg Let's build openaerialmap.
 I think it would be useful to have at least timeslots with a title
and a description for the schedule to lure in other developers.

Everything above is just my opinion and I should add that I little or
no experience with going to any unconferences/... and I'm really open
to any other suggestions and ideas.

Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Martin,

There is always a call for papers (see the list for last year:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-10-02-accepted-devrooms/).
But it is up to the organizers to choose who presents what, so we can
definitely invite/encourage people to come.
Just keep in mind that FOSDEM will not provide funds for accomodating
them (we could look for sponsors for the devroom, but it will be with
low visibility).

If you have high profile people in mind you could try convincing
them to submit a talk for a main track (or even keynote - I'm thinking
about Humanitarian Open Streetmap). Then selection is done by FOSDEM
staff. They can make sure the talk will not be on the same day as the
devroom. An then it is up to us to convince them to pay us a humble
visit :-)

Johan

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Martin Hammitzsch
martin.hammitz...@gmail.com wrote:
 Okay, thanks a lot. So we may talk about a potential schedule for the
 geospatial devroom. I agree, we should keep the type of schedule since
 it is known. But, as suggested, we might mix it with what you have
 summed up very nicely (ideas sharing, collaborative sessions ...). So
 a day could be structured as follows:

 Arrive and coffee
 Welcome, housekeeping, about the day and its format
 Keynote(s) (invited speakers)
 Coffee break
 Lightning Talks (me and my projects, 2min each, to get introduced to each 
 other)
 Coffee break
 Talks, talks, talks (speakers 20-30min each)
 Lunch break
 Talks, talks, talks (speakers 20-30min each)
 Coffee break
 Pitching ideas / topics for breakout sessions / collaborative discussions
 Breakout sessions / collaborative discussions (in groups)
 Coffee break
 Results / summaries of break out sessions
 Wrap-up

 We may reduce or extend the parts following the unconference type. But
 it would still mean that speakers are an essential part of the
 geospatial devroom.

 Johan, next question: Speakers are invited or do they apply / submit
 an abstract?

 Martin




 On 7 August 2014 11:11, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Martin Hammitzsch
 martin.hammitz...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Johan,

 I am bit lost in understanding the format of devrooms. First I was
 thinking of a space where developers meet for pitching their ideas and
 forming groups to get their hands dirty in 1-3 days of collaborative
 ideas generation, of drafting concepts, and of programming. But then I
 read something about talks and checked the schedule of FOSDEM 2014 -
 it seems that a devroom is something similar to a session or track we
 know from other conferences and thus contains lots of talks instead of
 programming. However, at least the talks seem to be from programmers
 for programmers. Nevertheless, I am a bit confused.

 I very much like the idea of a geospatial devroom. But I would be
 happy to clarify first what format you and others have in mind - just
 talks, unconference, hackdays, ..., a mix of it? Please let me know
 what you have in mind.


 Martin,

 Thanks for your comments. I've been at FOSDEM so many years that I
 just assumed everyone would understand.

 Indeed, until now most devrooms were more or less like conference
 talks, but as you say from developer to developer. I think we should
 more or less keep to this type of schedule if we want to attract
 people from other projects to the room. If we just don't have
 something catchy on the schedule people from outside our projects may
 be unlikely to join.
 This being said I think we could definitely add one timeslot where
 everyone in the room can present quickly his ideas. Or timeslots where
 we can have a collaborative discussion eg Let's build openaerialmap.
  I think it would be useful to have at least timeslots with a title
 and a description for the schedule to lure in other developers.

 Everything above is just my opinion and I should add that I little or
 no experience with going to any unconferences/... and I'm really open
 to any other suggestions and ideas.

 Johan
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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello everyone,

FOSDEM[1] is a free open source event bringing together about 5000
developers together in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open
source software developers and communities a place to meet to. The
next edition will take place the weekend 31/1 - 1/2/2015.

Last edition (in february this year) both Osgeo and Openstreetmap had
a stand and there was a lot of interest in geospatial technologies.

That is why the idea was coined to organise a geospatial devroom the
next edition.

Since the call for participation for developer rooms and main tracks
is now open [2], I would like to start writing a proposal [3], so
hopefully we can have a geospatial devroom next year.

Rather than organising the devroom organised by one project FOSDEM
really prefers joint organisation Proposals involving collaboration
across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged. That's
why I'm sending this mail to Osgeo, OSM and locationtech.

If you would like organising the devroom (writing the proposal and
selecting the presentations) and will be present, please get in touch
or add your name to my current draft proposal [3].

Note that one can also propose main track presentations. For main
track speakers travel expenses and accommodation will be covered by
the organisation. This is not the case for the devroom.

Finally a reminder that we are only sending a proposal for a devroom
- We are not sure it will be accepted. Competition will be fierce.

Cheers,
Johan

[1] http://fosdem.org
[2] https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-07-01-call-for-participation/
[3] https://titanpad.com/GptTJKIKJB
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSDEM 2015: proposal for a geospatial devroom

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Cameron,

 Good idea. You might want to weave in concepts of an OSGeo Code Sprint,
 and/or OSGeoLive event?
I've been thinking about doing a codesprint friday before the
conference (should we have devroom).With presentations in 15 parallel
sessions [1] in other rooms I think we will not attract anyone for a
codesprint during the conference.

I should also add that the technical level of most participants of
FOSDEM is *very* high (eg open source companies as Red Hat and Mozilla
fly in hordes of engineers). I think you are more likely to find new
developers for projects than translators. Or for OsGeo live packagers
(lots of debian developers are present).

For everyone reading this: this should be a very good reason to
present *your project or idea* there :-)

Johan
[1]to get an idea, the schedule for last edition:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/roomtracks/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Final OSGeo-Live 7.9 testing sprint - call to action

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Massimiliano,

Have a look at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
More specifically make sure you answer these questions:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply

Johan

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Massimiliano Cannata
massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch wrote:
 Hi Cameron,
 would it possible to include istSOS
 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/istsos/) to live dvd ?

 In the case, could you indicate me the procedure?

 Thanks,
 maxi


 On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 We are calling for help for the final OSGeo-Live testing sprint, this
 weekend, 22-23 February 2014, and the following couple of days. We really
 want OSGeo seasoned developers to find any outstanding issues, rather than
 having them found in workshops or by new users in the released version.

 So please consider joining our testing-sprint to verify everything works.
 (The many testers in our last sprint made a big difference to quality of our
 50+ applications)

 Sign up at:
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_46#Participants
 Download ISO from: http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/7.9/
 Chat about your progress with us at: irc://irc.freenode.net#osgeolive
 Update your testing status at:
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXchl=en_GB#gid=13

 We aim to have each application tested by both someone familiar with it,
 and someone less familiar.

 Schedule

 21 Feb 2014: OSGeo-Live 7.9 RC3 available for download
 22 Feb 2014: UAT testing starts
 07 Mar 2014: OSGeo-Live 7.9 (final) sent to printers

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: postgis 2.0.4 debian asBinary() function error

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Try ST_AsBinary

PostGIS has begun a transition from the existing naming convention to
an SQL-MM-centric convention. As a result, most of the functions that
you know and love have been renamed using the standard spatial type
(ST) prefix. Previous functions are still available, though are not
listed in this document where updated functions are equivalent. The
non ST_ functions not listed in this documentation are deprecated and
will be removed in a future release so STOP USING THEM.

from

http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/reference.html

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Max Demars burton449...@gmail.com wrote:

 HI!

 I have installed postgis 2.0.4 on debian wheezy.

 Im trying to use mapnik but the asBinary function returnes error function
 does not exists

 the log is the following:

 ERROR:  function asbinary(geometry) does not exist
 LINE 1: SELECT AsBinary(geom_multipolygon) AS geom,label from (s...

 Postgis is installed correctly and the extension is created on the database.

 Any idea why this function not found and how to install it?

 Thanks

 Max Demars

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pyramides on vector data

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Topojson does this, and the wiki contains some pointers to other
projects which do (partly) the same, including mapshaper and arcgis
E00 format

https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki

Johan

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jáchym Čepický
jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:
 The second, data structure simplification and generatlisation at less
 detailed levels

 J

 On St, 2014-01-08 at 10:34 +, Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
 On 8 January 2014 10:21, Jáchym Čepický jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  could anybody give me advice, whether there is some project lying
  around, which would implement kind of pyramids on vector features?
 
  Something, that would recognize, then bigger polygons are build out of
  small polygons (countries from states, states from districts, ..)

 Jáchym,

 Do you mean pyramid as (sort of) semantic-driven hierarchy of objects
 or pyramid as data structure simplification and generalisation
 at less detailed levels?

 Best regards,

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About Interactive Map patent application by Apple Inc.

[Johan Van de Wauw]

http://patents.stackexchange.com/ may be a good place to start a
topic. These guys have managed to block some patents.


On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Simon (SPDBA) Greener
si...@spatialdbadvisor.com wrote:
 While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh 
 refers, most of what appears in the patent application are natural 
 improvements to existing map functionality that is common to any mapping 
 software. I can't see Google letting this through without a fight. I agree 
 with Venkatesh that an objection be lodged.
 Simon Greener

 On 21 Dec 2013 17:05, Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp 
 wrote:

 Dear All,

 I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the Interactive Map
 patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1]
 describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade.

 Best

 Venka

 [1]
 http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htmlr=2p=1f=Gl=50d=PG01S1=%28715%2F771.CCLS.+AND+20131219.PD.%29OS=ccl/715/771+and+pd/12/19/2013RS=%28CCL/715/771+AND+PD/20131219%29
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hi Daniel,

 I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks
 incubation process.

 Best,
 Angelos



I'd like to add that I think both projects could be working together
very closely. For me the major value in OSGeoLive are the project
overviews and quickstarts. I''ve pointed them out to many windows
users interested in open source GIS to get an overview of what is
possible with open source gis,and I'm actually basing a training on
them as well.
My own impression is that if we want to reach out to non-geek GIS
users the ideal way would be a system like portable GIS with the great
documentation of the live dvd, ie run and test the programs without
needing to be admin or having to install different programs.
My experience of building packages on windows is scanty, but if more
people support this idea I'm definitely willing to stand up and do
part of the work, if only because I'll need training material for
windows.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

As someone who is both an ESRI services user /developer and an open
source GIS developer I thought It was interesting enough to write a
blog post about it:

http://blog.gisky.be/2013/05/should-geoservices-rest-api-become-ogc.html#more

bottomline:

So you would expect that I'd support the Geoservices REST API as an
OGC standard? Well, no. Quite a large number of valid points have been
raised: the name is bad, the existing reference implementation is
commercial without available sources, ...

But I'd like to raise a different point: there are too many different
services involved: the proposed standard comes in _8 different parts_,
all covering services which in my opinion _unrelated_.

This is the opposite of the unix philosophy: have one tool for the
job. This is what in my opinion services should be about: have one
service for every job, so one standard for every service.

I don't understand why a good feature service should also provide
geocoding, maps or any other service. Yet these small tools will not
be able to comply to the standard because they can provide only one
service.
So my proposal would be: break up the proposal. Check where new
standards may be useful or where RESTFul implementations of existing
services (and we already have a long list) are more appropriate. The
services provided by ESRI prove that such an implementation really
boosts productivity.


Johan
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