Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What happened to planet.osgeo.org?

2013-11-24 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 2013-11-24 18:48 Andrea Aime ha scritto:

Hi,
is it just me, or the blog aggregator at planet.osgeo.org [1] has been
down for a few days now?
http://planet.osgeo.org/ [2]

Wondering what's happening? I haven't seen announcements of it being
taken down, or
moved.


It's been worked on, see 
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2013-November/004750.html


Ciao
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Would you be concerned if the GeoServices REST API became an OGC standard?

2013-05-04 Thread Stefano Costa
Il 04/05/2013 18:43, Adrian Custer ha scritto:
 
 Which brings us to OSGeo and what useful contribution it could make to
 the debate. Simply rehashing the issues above is not going to be useful
 to anyone. If new ideas arise, or a large, common position emerges on
 the issue, I'd be glad to inject them into the OGC discussion.
 
 I suspect there is at least a week before voting resumes, although the
 rules going forwards are not yet clear.

Adrian,
your overview is very helpful. From where I stand, there are three
reasons to push for a no to the proposed standard, all touched in your
or Cameron's message:

1. disrespect for an existing, widespread, appreciated standard: GeoJSON
2. no open source reference implementation
3. vote was already suspended multiple times, showing a lack of
   agreement about this standard

Points 1 and 2 are part of the OSGeo mission IMHO.

Thank you
steko

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Conservancy Launches Fundraising Campaign for Non-Profit Accounting Software

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Costa
Hello,
saw this and I think it may be of interest for OSGeo. If we can, we
should help them.

Full details here http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/may/01/npo-accounting/

Software Freedom Conservancy announced today a fundraising campaign for
an Open Source and Free Software non-profit accounting system. The
campaign seeks to raise US$75,000 to fund a full-time developer for one
year to first reevaluate existing Free Software solutions for their
viability as a non-profit accounting system, and then improve and
augment the best available system to create a new solution that will
help non-profits around the world manage their finances better.

Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that helps
promote, improve, develop and defend Free, Libre and Open Source
software projects

Ciao
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo as organization at Ohloh?

2013-03-02 Thread Stefano Costa
Il 01/03/2013 21:01, Markus Neteler ha scritto:
 On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote:
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 Il 01/03/2013 03:36, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:
 Mateusz,
 A few months back I did some ground work into sourcing stats for the 
 OSGeo-Live project.
 This information still needs to be cleaned up (get a full list of projects, 
 make sure
 we are sourcing correct data, etc), but it probably would be a good 
 starting point
 for you.

 http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html

 Hi Cameron,
 thanks for that. A few notes:
 * http://www.ohloh.net/p/qgis should be removed; the good one is
 http://www.ohloh.net/p/3663
 * http://www.ohloh.net/p/grass_gis is missing.
 
 The GRASS GIS URL I have fixed in trunk, r10051.
 The QGIS dupe removed in trunk, r10052.

https://www.ohloh.net/p/spatialite is not in good shape. Sadly, Fossil
is not on the list of available version control systems at Ohloh.

steko

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw Receives OGC Compliance Certification and Reference Implementation Status

2013-01-14 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 14/01/2013 22:57, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto:
 14 January 2013
 
 The pycsw development team is happy to announce that pycsw 1.4.0 is
 now certified OGC Compliant for OGC CSW 2.0.2 [1], and passes all
 103 CITE tests.
 
 As well, pycsw is now an official OGC Reference Implementation. A 
 demonstration instance of the reference implementation is available
 at http://demo.pycsw.org.

Congratulations Angelos and all the pycsw developers!

steko

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal: Request for Volume 12

2012-11-13 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 10/11/2012 00:25, Landon Blake ha scritto:

I don't think I ever made the request for peer review articles for
Volume 12 of the OSGeo Journal on this list. You can find the
request here:


Hi Landon,
a quick question. I read that


The article topic should be related to research on the development
and use of geospatial software.


but no mention of open source software is made. Does this mean that e.g. 
I could submit a paper about the research involved with the development 
of a proprietary program or library? If not, it may be better to state 
it clearly.


And yes I agree with Anne about the deadline.

Thanks
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting Standards

2012-11-13 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 07/09/2012 02:49, Michael P. Gerlek ha scritto:

[added standards mailing list back to the distribution list]

Quoting all of item 4, to put Stefano's quote in context:

Standards specifications are made accessible to all for implementation
and deployment. Affirming standards organizations have defined
procedures to develop specifications that can be implemented under
fair terms. Given market diversity, fair terms may vary from 
royalty-free
to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND).

I'm pretty pragmatic about this stuff, so I see this as a perfectly reasonable 
position for an organization to take.


Two months have passed since this last comment by Michael. I was 
wondering if any decision has been taken about this?


It may be also useful to look at this MoU

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_and_Open_Standards

where no mention of FRAND is found (quite the opposite I would say).

Ciao
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan

2012-09-18 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
 He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.

Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you
personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional
contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a
public thumbs up session for candidates rather than leave it to the
committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates
(there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails
have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the
discussion list).

If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I
apologise in advance.

Cheers,
steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting Standards

2012-09-06 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 06/09/2012 17:26, Seven (aka Arnulf) ha scritto:
 Folks, one item on the OGC Architecture Board meeting agenda today
 was to look at this web site: http://open-stand.org/principles/
 
 - From my perspective the principles listed here are very much
 aligned with our goals and nicely worded. So my suggestion is to
 support this initiative as an organization [1]. Let's have a dialog
 here and if we come to the conclusion that we want to officially
 endorse this submit a motion to the board for their next meeting.

I'm a bit worried by the vague wording of those principles.

More in detail, point 4 is crucial, stating that:

fair terms may vary from royalty-free to fair, reasonable, and
non-discriminatory terms (FRAND).

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#RAND for some
background of why this is problematic for free and open source
software (our mission, I believe).

Ciao
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-24 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto:
 
 But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy
 member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude
 not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the
 chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter will
 react to this.

Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method as
used by the Debian project?

Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too.

Ciao,
steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member nomination - Angelos Tzotsos

2012-06-24 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 23/06/2012 04:57, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:
I'd like to nominate Angelos Tzotsos as an OSGeo Charter member, as I 
believe he exemplifies many of the key qualities we look for in OSGeo 
Advocates.


I would like to join Cameron in this nomination.
I met Angelos in Athens a few weeks ago and we had a long conversation, 
that gave me an opportunity to learn more about the B-side of his 
outstanding contribution to OSGeo (the A-side being software 
development, translations and OSGeo Live): the Greek OSGeo community. As 
I made already clear a few days ago, I believe it is very important to 
facilitate the growth of new, strong communities where they are still 
missing. In a way, nominating Angelos is for me a way to support the 
activity that he and his fellow Greek OSGeo members are already carrying 
on, showing that OSGeo cares globally about local initiatives as much as 
the local communities care about global developments (again, software).
Finally, Angelos was among the first ones to show an interest in Total 
Open Station, the software I develop with others. Far from being led by 
personal excitement, I see this interest towards the world of surveying 
as a first step towards one of the most promising developments OSGeo may 
and should achieve, namely being able to provide a complete software 
(and hardware?) stack for surveying.


Thank you all for reading this e-mail. Ciao
steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] regional conferences

2012-06-16 Thread Stefano Costa
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Il 16/06/2012 18:34, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
 Such a Mediterannean regional event could may be gather italin,
 greek, spanish and french local chapters, and may be others.

Actually, as most closed seas do, the Mediterranean has countries all
around it, not only on the Northern side :-)

I was raising this very idea only a few days ago on the mailing list
of GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGeo chapter (specifically referring to
Greece, because that's where I am now). There was some consensus among
members.

The point IMHO is not to gather again the same people who would meet
anyway at any international event (FOSS4G Barcelona was only in 2010,
by the way). We should try and support the creation of new chapters
where they are still missing (of course this is true globally, not
just for the Mediterranean).

my 2¢ - ciao,
steko
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Xlink 1.1 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-04-24 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 24/04/2012 12:22, Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:


Please note Carl Reed’s blog on OGC’s policy and timeline to move to
Xlink 1.1:


Quoting from Reed's blog:


Concurrently, we need aggressive OUTREACH, OUTREACH, OUTREACH to
inform and educate the implementation and user community. For
example, we need to:

Coordinate with TC 211


Coordinate with OASIS

Coordinate with the GeoSciML community

Coordinate with INSPIRE

Inform all technology developers that they need to check their offerings
and determine what (if any) changes they need to make. Not just OGC 
Members but the whole community!


Coordinate with the Open Source community also

... I cannot but ask myself: WTF?? First OGC takes a disruptive 
decision, IIUC this is changing the existing standards without issuing a 
new version of them (or, if this is not the case, Mr. Reed needs to 
rephrase heavily its writing), and then they realise OUTREACH, OUTREACH, 
OUTREACH is needed? Why the need to hurry everyone?


Is this even how a serious standards organisation works?

Ciao,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Xlink 1.1 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-04-24 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 24/04/2012 12:42, Stefano Costa ha scritto:


... I cannot but ask myself: WTF?? First OGC takes a disruptive
decision, IIUC this is changing the existing standards without issuing a
new version of them (or, if this is not the case, Mr. Reed needs to
rephrase heavily its writing), and then they realise OUTREACH, OUTREACH,
OUTREACH is needed? Why the need to hurry everyone?

Is this even how a serious standards organisation works?


And most importantly, with apologies for the harsh tone of my previous 
e-mail:


- what is the rationale for this change?

Thanks
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-04-21 Thread Stefano Costa

Il 21/04/2012 12:28, Jody Garnett ha scritto:


I would hope that our charter members (who have been through a public
nomination process in part for their involvement) are already acting in
the capacity of Ambassador for OSGeo.


I totally agree on this point. The fact that charter members only 
official role is to nominate new charter members and the Board is IMHO a 
weakness. Their role as OSGeo champions (and Ambassadors if there's 
consensus on that) should be emphasised. Quick ideas:


- personal pages on osgeo.org (osgeo.org/members/johndoe)
- @osgeo.org e-mail address (even an alias is fine) to be used as their 
primary address

- interviews on the main blog
- a track record of their public activity wrt OSGeo promotion, software 
development, management, documentation and what else


In this way the charter members could gain a higher visibility in the 
wider geospatial community and be recognised as official representatives.


Ciao
steko

BTW is there any process in place to remove charter members if they 
become inactive, move to another planet or are deemed unfit for the 
purpose by the community?

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Total Open Station 0.3 released!

2011-12-02 Thread Stefano Costa
Total Open Station 0.3 was released today!

What is Total Open Station?
Total Open Station (TOPS for friends) is a free software program for
downloading and processing data from total station devices.

If you don't know what a total station is, please read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_station to get an idea.

The task of managing survey data is usually done by proprietary, dedicated and
Windows™-only software, but TOPS is different by nature, because:

  * it is free software released under the GNU GPLv3 license;
  * it works on any operating system, including some mobile platforms
(OpenMoko);
  * it is designed to support as many devices and formats as
possible, all within the same program, opposed to having one
program per device.

Total Open Station is available as a Python source install for GNU/Linux and
other UNIX systems (possibly including Mac OSX, feedback welcome), and
as a binary installer for Microsoft Windows. Downloads and install
instructions at http://tops.iosa.it/installing.html

TOPS 0.3 is our first official release, and already has support for
different input formats (there are lots of them out there). More formats
will be supported in next releases, and user feedback is essential.

Total Open Station is developed within the IOSA Project, and is written
in Python. The website and documentation is at http://tops.iosa.it/ if
you want to find out how to contribute or read more detailed
documentation.

Ciao,
Stefano



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[OSGeo-Discuss] EU PSI Directive Survey - an OSGeo EU collaboration?

2010-11-07 Thread Stefano Costa
Dear all,
I would like to ask for collaboration in filling this online survey
http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=psidirective2010
by the European Commission about Public Sector Information (which
includes geodata). Rather than filling the survey as individuals, it
could be more meaningful to compile a compound survey based on input
from all European OSGeo members and chapters. This would give more
weight IMHO.

I have copied all the questions on this wiki page: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EU_PSI_Directive_Survey and it should be
quite easy to insert answers below each one.

The deadline is 30th November, please let me know if you want to help
with this task and whether it is OK or not to send the questionnaire as
OSGeo rather than as individuals.

All the best
steko

PS I'm not subscribed to this ML, please CC me

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Stefano Costa
http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology

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