[OSGeo-Discuss] QGIS Supporters...
FYI from QGIS list... Begin forwarded message: From: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it Date: March 9, 2012 1:37:14 AM PST To: qgis-user qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-user] Support the meeting Reply-To: cavall...@faunalia.it Hi all. The next developer meeting (AKA HackFest) is approaching: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/7_QGIS_Developer_Meeting_in_Lyon_2012 These are particularly important moments in the life of the project, and every one marked a leap forward, with several strategic decisions, lots of new code and bugfix, etc. If you use and enjoy QGIS, please consider sponsoring this meeting, either with a sponsorship [0] or with donations [1]. Even small donations are important, and will be acknowledged in the donors web page. You can find the Donate button on the QGIS home page [2], or you can ask me for bank account details. Please help us spread the word. All the best, and Happy QGISsing! -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc [0] http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship/sponsors.html [1] http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship/donors.html [2] http://qgis.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user - Tyler Mitchell, Publisher Locate Press, i...@locatepress.com Open Source geo Books http://www.locatepress.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Conference coming April 10-12
Awesome - really excited to see it so far along and well though out already. I only regret that I can't make it do to other speaking commitment, but will be looking forward to promoting it for sure :) Tyler On 2012-01-23, at 12:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: On behalf of OSGeo North America, we’d like to invite you to attend the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference being held from April 10-12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. This event will serve as a regional follow-up to last September’s highly successful international FOSS4G 2011 conference in Denver, Colorado, focusing on the North American open source geospatial community. The conference will be organized around three tracks: - open source technology best practices and tips; - deployment case studies; and - emerging ideas and trends in open source. The call for abstracts is open now and can be submitted here: http://foss4g-na.org/abstract-submission/ . We have space for about 50 presentations and 20 Ignite sessions, so get your submissions in! In addition, Michael Byrne, CIO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be delivering a keynote address, with more speakers to be announced soon. Paul Ramsey (me!), Conference Chair of the 2007 FOSS4G conference, will be reprising his role, along with an experienced committee from the North America chapter of OSGeo to back him. We have an open call for sponsorship, which can include exhibition space; for more information please visit http://foss4g-na.org/sponsorship/. The event already has strong support from the community, with a growing set of sponsors that includes OpenGeo, Radiant Blue, AppGeo, and Spatialytics. For more information, please visit our site at http://foss4g-na.org/. Space is limited to 300 attendees only, so you should sign up today to ensure that you can be a part of this exciting event! http://foss4g-na.org/registration/ Related Links: http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America 2012 Conference - Washington, DC http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional/ OSGeo North America Chapter http://www.osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://2012.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing, China ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?
- Original message - I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; advertise the services and results (not the tools used). That too. I can imagine for some shops that small bug squashing jobs may not be worth their time financially, but naturally the ecosystem makes up for it :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Moving On
This weekend the OSGeo Board of Directors held their annual face-to-face meeting where they hash out direction, budgets and other items for the upcoming year. For me, the most important outcome from the meeting was that they decided to end my position as Executive Director. It has been an incredible experience working in this position with so many great people, communities, technology, and friends. All for which I'm very grateful and, honestly, very inspired. I am reviewing several options for how to continue to build on my experience running this social startup. Open source geo will continue to be on the top of my list while I develop new initiatives on these fronts. Formally I just wanted to wish everyone involved in OSGeo all the best and hope to keep in touch where our projects and interest will, undoubtedly, continue to overlap. Over the next two months I'll be handing off my key responsibilities to the board and others who might be available or interested. So don't expect me to disappear anytime soon. Sincerely, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Update
With less than a week remaining, we are still looking for about 35% of Charter Members to send in their votes. I am sending harassing reminders to all who have not registered a vote yet. Please check your junk mail folders for email from c...@osgeo.org if you haven't received your custom invitation already. If you have voted using the online system, thank you. I will send another confirmation email this week to those who did vote already, in case you were wondering if the system really recorded your votes. Otherwise, if you are not receiving harassing email from me, then you know you did it right already. You can also review your entry by going to your custom URL at any time to confirm (or change) your selection. Have a colleague in your office who is also a Charter Member? Be sure to ask if they've voted yet while you're hanging at the water cooler! Thank you to the 65% of respondents so far who sent in their votes. Hopefully we can get this closer to 100%. Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org See you in Denver @ FOSS4G 2011! http://2011.foss4g.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms? * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org). * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a success? * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before? * Etc... I'm sure others have good questions too, but thought I'd share the ones on my mind based on my experience working alongside the board. Any thoughts? Tyler___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo
Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North America, so they are very thought provoking for me. Tyler - Original message - hi Tyler, Despite some thoughts below might not be new in north hemisphere, there goes my Latin American user vision: #OSGeo is already inside the minds of power GIS users and GIS developers, we already know like things work and how/what to be done to work. Now maybe is the time to make OSGeo more visible and understood by users ##ok, it's a long process but it has to begin. eg.: general population already knows that oh Linux? yes, I got. It's free of charge right? and some commercial users, after 2008 economical crisis plus web2/social networking boom, already got that it's not just a matter of cost, but also because free/opensource tool will not make a big change of architecture, basic concepts/structures without talking to users ( eg.: MapServer mapfile programming structure is almost the same since it was born, but in some commercial tools things may change a lot in minor/major releases) ##these same end-users ( including independent workers, commercial users) must to see that F4G platform can help SERVICES market: helping to cut costs on software acquisition ( smaller total project/service costs) and making service providers FREE from this or that software supplier ( and to help services market is help on job opportunities too... a cool social role of foss and foundations) ##and maybe one way to help on that is to make more SOLUTION cases visible. First step is to prove that existing foss technology works and this is done. The step to enforce is to 'sell the fish' that integration with commercial solutions is possible and support on foss communities can even be better/faster than commercial support centers. ##certification and stamp matters: for corporate communities/users is important to ensure that this or that software/solution have an OSGeo certified stamp. There are a lot of users that do not need more than one or two softwares. And most of them is always looking for work with only one, if possible. So, if the second tool the user will look for also has the osgeo stamp, user may feel better with that. In this sense, a certification program (eg. Linux LPI) for professional geo users is a plus too. ##interoperation: another oportunity maybe could be to insert OSGeo stamp/talks on other kind of events - not only on GIS events but also on business events ( logistics, environmental, agriculture, forestry, mining, etc) with less tech language and more 'executive' presentations ##inside corporate world, acronym like GeoBI, GeoETL, GeoEAI or GeoCRM can take attention of sponsors ( managers, directors). And this will also help on base techs projects advertising. ##OSGeo partnering with academia projects ( RD) and private/publich companies will always be welcome too. #for the power user who follow planet OSGeo is not hard to get the 1st contact with a new released tool. But, for the newcomers, a simple setup can take a month or months. How to help on that? More docs ( 'for dummy' guides, quick ref cards, process oriented manuals and not only function guide/reference guide) and tutorials and this include local references. ##and for translation tasks, I believe it's not only to do the translation. But to adapt texts, images, data and senses can be a plus on users influence ##tools such as surveys (online, magazines, collected on events) could help to map local gap's and user desire/needs #communication: I think local committees/communities should always be in talk to international foundation goals and tasks and vice-versa. Parallel initiatives such as local groups must be inserted/combined on OSGeo projects/tasks - we should sum efforts and not divide. So, it's important to highlight the benefits on working together OSGeo to these parallel heads. Ten or fifteen years ago I saw a lot of projects and services to be killed because the lack of free options or free cases. Now, we have a lot of options to replace or interoperate with. We need more visibility, more users enabled to call the attention of other users. best Eduardo Patto Kanegae http://www.webmapit.com 2011/8/5 Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org: With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What challenges do you see for OSGeo in the short and long terms? * What kinds of goals do you have for the organisation? (It's not a presidential race, but curious on what you see as goals for the org). * What is needed for a board to be successful? ...For OSGeo to be a success? * Have you had to deal with similar challenges before? * Etc... I'm
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: feedback on OSS in Government Systems
Begin forwarded message:From: jmw j...@oss-institute.orgDate: March 10, 2011 11:14:51 AM ESTTo: o...@oss-institute.orgSubject: [Ossi] We'd like your feedback on OSS Adoption/Usage in Government SystemsReply-To: j...@oss-institute.org We'd like to get your feedback on government adoption of open source (Thursday, March 10, 2011) As part of the Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) program, we are helping to study where, how and why open source software is being used within government IT systems. A team led by representatives from the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Tech Research Institute are conducting voluntary interviews by email and telephone of federal, state and local government representatives who are willing to share their experiences and insights on open source adoption within public sector systems. Information provided will help to identify common challenges, solutions and resources available to public sector adopters. We are looking for input from representatives from all branches and levels of government and public sector, as well as those who provide service and support for open source solutions to government clients. If you are interested in participating, please contact our research team by email at: govoss-feedb...@oss-institute.org . Specifically we're looking for: END USERS: People in Government who use open source software DEVELOPERS: People in Government who develop open source software as part of their official duties ACQUISITION VETTING: People in Government who deal with acquisition decisions, information assurance (IA) vetting and/or support software OPEN SECURITY: Developers who have had success in getting government approval in the open security/open source solutions VENDORS: Vendors who provide support for Open Security/Open Source software in government spaces If you meet this criteria, or know someone who does, please contact us. Our team will select a number of interview candidates for approximately 20-30 minutes telephone interview. Others, we will accept your stories and insights via email. Conversations can be non-attribution, if preferred. Prior to our call, we will provide interviewees with a short list of questions to consider. We appreciate your consideration and hope that you can take a few moments to share with us and others lessons that you've learned from working with open source software within government IT. Thanks jmw -- John M. Weathersby, Jr. Executive Director Open Source Software Institute http://www.oss-institute.org H-burg: 601.427.0152 WDC: 202.682.7524 ___Ossi mailing listo...@oss-institute.orghttp://oss-institute.org/mailman/listinfo/ossi_oss-institute.org___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!
On 2011-02-03, at 3:50 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: Ok as Tyler is apparently very busy I'll post here some ideas (without of course any time to implement some) Hehe, yes running behind on a few things, but I know your ideas would be better than mine anyway ;-) * A metapixel[2] image. The idea is to gather as much OSGeo related images (from FOSS4G and more) and create a (really) big metapixel image from the OSGeo banner and release it using OpenLayers to navigate to it. That is to say: you see when you enter the OSGeo logo and lemma and when you zoom in you can see the community in many different photographs [2] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/ Very cool idea. I also wonder about seeing how many personal videos people might be able to post telling us something fun or interesting. Lots more ideas out there... let's hear them! :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] not spam :)
Oh darn, they put a silly subject line :) Believe it or not, this is not SPAM... much tastier! On 2011-02-03, at 9:35 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: My 2 minutes cake decorating. You can better, I challenge you!! :) Tyler To check the card, click here: http://www.theoworlds.com/birthday/index.php?CardID=146004 --- TheoWorlds.com - make your message fun! Flash games, e-cards, applications... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Anniversary Celebrations!
Is it anniversary or birthday? Ah, maybe both! I started putting some of the ideas for celebrating onto the wiki page - add your ideas, challenge others, have some fun! http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anniversary_Celebrations_2011___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards
FYI - In case anyone wants to nominate their favourite OSGeo project or contributor... Tyler Begin forwarded message: From: John Sullivan i...@fsf.org Date: February 2, 2011 11:01:01 AM PST To: info-...@fsf.org, info-pr...@fsf.org Subject: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards Reply-To: i...@fsf.org BOSTON, February 2, 2011--The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 13th annual Free Software Awards. Please send your nominations to award-nominati...@gnu.org, on or before Wednesday, 16 February 2011. ### Award for the Advancement of Free Software The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is presented annually by FSF president Richard Stallman to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. Last year, John Gilmore was recognized with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his contributions to network security. Gilmore joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Wietse Venema, Harald Welte, Ted Ts'o, Andrew Tridgell, Theo de Raadt, Alan Cox, Larry Lessig, Guido van Rossum, Brian Paul, Miguel de Icaza and Larry Wall. ### Award for Projects of Social Benefit Nominations are also open for the 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The Social Benefit award recognizes a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society through collaboration to accomplish an important social task. Last year, The Internet Archive received this award, in recognition of its work to foster a growing body of creative, educational and scientific works that can be shared and built upon by others, and to raise awareness of the harm inflicted by increasingly restrictive copyright regimes. Previous winners have included Creative Commons, Groklaw, the Sahana project, and Wikipedia. ### Eligibility In the case of both awards, previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. Only individuals are eligible for nomination for the Advancement of Free Software Award (not projects), and only projects can be nominated for the Social Benefit Award (not individuals). The award committee has not been finalized, but the last year's award committee was composed of: Suresh Ramasubramanian (Chair), Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner Vinge, Richard Stallman, and Fernanda G. Weiden. Please send your nominations to award-nominati...@gnu.org, on or before Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Please submit nominations in the following format: * In the email message subject line, either put the name of the person you are nominating for the Award for Advancement of Free Software, or put the name of the project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work done and why you think it is especially important to the advancement of software freedom or how it benefits society, respectively. * Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on. Information about the previous awards can be found at http://www.fsf.org/awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the LibrePlanet 2011 conference[1] on March 19th, 2011, in Boston. [1] http://libreplanet.org info-fsf mailing list info-...@fsf.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for aliveness . . .
You might also want to take a peek at how Nagios does it's monitoring - I'm sure there are a few good examples in there, if not a whole package you could tweak. I used it a long time back... http://nagios.org/ Tyler On 2011-01-24, at 8:17 AM, Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an I'm Alive function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too complicated when working across services as well, since the possible result types are so varied. I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service first, but this would likely go to other services as well. We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and rated as well. The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead. Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in taking a look at it. Thanks bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seeking Articles, Reports, and Volunteers for Volume 9 of the OSGeo Journal
On 2011-01-14, at 7:20 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I don’t think there is a problem covering other programs or libraries, as long as they are open source and related to geospatial data. Landon's definitely right on this - and Ann we'd love articles re: 52 North or and other friends that are open source. And a few other areas we'd be interested in seeing: * Open data articles might also be of interest * Proprietary solution mixed with open source, that would be a good case study * Project introductions - here's how our program works * In-depth technical articles welcome too - e.g. agorithms or functions you are developing We're working on our 9th volume - that's 9 volumes and going into our 5th year - hopefully we're starting to have an impact and providing a valuable forum. Keep those article proposals coming! Tyler___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] What events are on your radar for 2011?
On osgeo.org/events we keep a list of events that relate to OSGeo, open source geospatial ideas in general or events that OSGeo and friends will have a presence at. We've only got a few items posted into the calendar so far, if you have others you'd like to add, drop me an email. Likewise, with news about the broader community, projects, chapters, etc. you can always email your news postings to news_i...@osgeo.org Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! http://2011.foss4g.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Foss4g sponsorship question
On December 10, 2010 12:47:17 pm Jeroen Ticheler wrote: Hi FOSS4G organizers, I read there's a discount for early sponsors when committing before 1 january 2011. But there's no document telling us how and how expensive this is... Time is running out :-( http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Sponsor_Page Right Jeroen, that is part of the plan. We hope to get a prospectus document out ASAP (next few days) and I think there might be a short extension to allow sponsors to still take advantage of this offer. Glad to know you are anticipating sponsorship :) Stay Tuned! -- Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elevation and profile service
On December 7, 2010 04:26:08 am nicolas bozon wrote: Hello Cédric, One of the ZOO Project demo could fit to your second use case. The user can draw a polyline on a DEM layer and see the corresponding elevation profile in a jquery dialog. The calculation is done using GDAL as a WPS ZOO Service, which takes the drawn LineString and the DEM layer as input data, and outputs the profile. http://zoo-project.org/site/ZooWebSite/Demo/GdalProfile#ZOOelevationprofile demo Hope it helps Best, Nicolas BOZON Neat.. I tried to break it but wasn't successful. Nice work. http://spatialguru.com/files/crazy-profile.png :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal 6.x translations..
I'm looking at upgrading osgeo.org but it's Drupal 5.x site with lots of translated pages (using localization module), but in 6.x language handling is a core feature. Anyone know off hand if this is going to get messy quickly? :) Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
FYI - some of you might find this useful re: open source law... -- Forwarded Message -- http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr You may also want to encourage government folks to subscribe to the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSSLR, www.ifosslr.org). All of its articles are available under Creative Commons licenses. js --- John Scott ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Article metadata help
I've been told that our Journal system isn't spewing out the appropriate metadata for external harvesting systems to pick up for citations, etc. Anyone have experience with this sort of thing, in particular as it applies in Open Journal System? http://osgeo.org/ojs Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo @ GITA April - opportunities!
Hi all, Anyone planning to attend, or looking for an excuse to attend, the GITA [1] Geospatial Solutions Conference in 2011? OSGeo will have a booth and several SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (including conference discounts or free pass when speaking). If you are planning to be there or are interested in doing a talk re: OSGeo or related software, please sign up here [2] and let me know. Right now we are just trying to figure out how many speaking slots we need, so I'm trying to get an idea before soliciting abstracts more formally. Thanks! Tyler [1] http://gita.org/events/events.asp [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GITA_2011 Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Charter Member Selection
Excellent, thanks a lot Paul for running the process again this year! Results are now added to our official page: http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/members/voting_members.html Welcome aboard! Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! On November 12, 2010 04:20:05 am Paul Ramsey wrote: OSGeo members, The 2010 process is complete, and the new charter members are, in alphabetical order: • Alex Mandel • Andreas Hocevar • Anne Ghisla • Astrid Emde • Danilo Furtado • Gavin Fleming • Hirofumi Hayashi • Jo Cook • Maria Brovelli • Milena Nowotarska I apologize for not sending out more process reminders, but I was on the road in Japan and not really watching the clock. However, the voting period has now passed, and over 50% of the membership participated in the selection process. Thanks to all the nominees who took the time to write to the discuss list about their nomination. A significant number of voters expressed that the number of slots was not sufficient given the number of quality nominees, which is an issue I will refer to the Board for next year's process. Thanks for your votes, Paul Ramsey 2010 OSGeo Chief Returning Officer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Town Hall Meeting for OSGeo?
Haha - only one response, I'm guessing there isn't general interest (only 1/10 of 1%) or that local chapters are filling that need well enough... and that's great! If anyone does want to meet up, ask questions, share encouraging stories, just say hi, etc. I know I'll be available following our monthly board meetings and a couple others likely are too. This month's meeting has been postponed a couple times, but you can keep up with the next date from the wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board#Meetings Also if you ever want to chat you can join IRC easily anytime: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#osgeo Or feel free to add me as a Skype contact and send me a note whenever you want. (skype nick: spatialguru) Stay well, Tyler On October 14, 2010 11:12:16 am Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, We should all be recovered from the FOSS4G by now and since so many of us enjoyed meeting together I wondered if a virtual meeting might be of interest to others on the list. Would anyone be interested in having an online (IRC chat) meeting with me, the OSGeo Board, committee chairs, etc. at some point? It would be nothing too formal, just a basic Town Hall meeting style. [1] We'd pick a time and date, maybe a few key agenda points and just show up to answer questions or debate. I know it could be valuable for me at least to be able to get real-time feedback on ideas and topics people care about. Your thoughts? Tyler [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting Tyler, I like the idea. We could simply do it right after the Board meeting or have the same slot open in the three weeks between each Borat meeting. This would make planning easy. Best regards, Arnulf. Hehe, lets see whether anyone else but me can appreciate the spelling error... Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Towns listing
I'd suggest asking on the Australia-New Zealand mailing list if you haven't already. Getting access to local might be easy enough and others may have reformatted your local sources for you. http://lists.osgeo.org Tyler On 2010-11-10, at 5:38 PM, Peter wrote: If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these, but all are going to take lots of cleaning up. Cheers. P. Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx Local authoritys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand Towns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand Stats Meshblocks http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Volunteer to help with Volume 8 of the OSGeo Journal.
On November 4, 2010 11:46:26 pm Micha Silver wrote: On 11/05/2010 04:08 AM, Charlie Schweik wrote: Landon, I'm wondering about a short regular article on education news. This might be a way for me to survey what people have done and try and summarize? What do you think? Charlie Hello Charlie: An excellent idea. I'd personally like to see education issues as a permanent column in the Journal. Definitely! Just put together an article and submit it via http://osgeo.org/ojs - drop me or Landon a note, or subscribe to http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter to talk to the journal team. That goes for anyone else who wants to get their names in light too! Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Steps for starting a local chapter
Local chapters are integral part of OSGeo and the future ecosystem of FOSS4G software. It's always a joy to watch a chapter start from the keen interest of usually one or two people. I get a request or two per month about local chapters, so I put this page together to help describe the steps to getting started... hope it encourages you to start one if you aren't already part of one! http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Starting Enjoy, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tools and approaches for the cartography of archaeological excavation sites
On November 5, 2010 03:05:44 am Mathieu Baudier wrote: - do some of you have experience with sensors/methodologies which would provide centimeter order precision, be transportable and usable in remote areas and not too expensive? I've seen some pretty technical discussion of high precision open source hardware on the foss-gps list. You might ask there and found some experts in the area. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] contacting project officers
On November 5, 2010 10:50:41 pm Jody Garnett wrote: Could we set up a mailing list containing project officers to help committees make contact? Even if it is just to invite project representatives to an IRC meeting or other activity; a contact mailing list would perhaps help. I agree it would be a good idea. These would be the primary contacts for committee chairs and project steering committees for the software projects. Let's see what others say. I have a private alias that I set up to do such communications, but could push it into mailman quite easily too. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Annual Report Available - OSGeo Journal Volume 7
The OSGeo Journal team is glad to announce the availability of the 2009 Annual Report, including several reports about FOSS4G, various projects, local chapters and OSGeo sponsors: * FOSS4G: 2009 conference review by the Conference Chair * Software Project Reports: deegree, GeoTools, GRASS GIS, Mapbender, MapServer, OSSIM, Quantum GIS * Local Chapter Reports:Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, California, China, Finland, Francophone, German, Greek, Italian, Japan, Ottawa, Poland, Quebec, Romania, Spanish, Twin Cities, United Kingdom * Sponsors: Borealis, LizardTech Thank you to all contributors! Download directly: http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/181/142 (10MB PDF) For more information: http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/issue/view/30/showToc Feedback and corrections welcomed at: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter Tyler Mitchell Editor in chief, OSGeo Journal tmitch...@osgeo.org - +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Town Hall Meeting for OSGeo?
Hi everyone, We should all be recovered from the FOSS4G by now and since so many of us enjoyed meeting together I wondered if a virtual meeting might be of interest to others on the list. Would anyone be interested in having an online (IRC chat) meeting with me, the OSGeo Board, committee chairs, etc. at some point? It would be nothing too formal, just a basic Town Hall meeting style. [1] We'd pick a time and date, maybe a few key agenda points and just show up to answer questions or debate. I know it could be valuable for me at least to be able to get real-time feedback on ideas and topics people care about. Your thoughts? Tyler [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal-ers unite!
As you may already know www.osgeo.org and several other sites in OSGeo are using Drupal. So far there have only been a couple of us able to do much serious work on Drupal and we could use some more help or at least ideas from others who are good (hopefully better than me!) with administrating Drupal stuff. In particular we are migrating from 5.x to 6.x and also rolling a custom theme. If you are interested drop me a private note or join up to the Web Committee list and say hi: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/webcom Your work would be well appreciated :) Thank you! Tyler p.s. I know a few folks have expressed interest in the past but I just can't remember everyone who did it. Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2010 Early Bird discount closes on June 15
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New installer - Release GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.3
I think the site being down may be related to a service outage on one of our hosts, though perhaps all you want is the download and may find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork/ Tyler On 04/26/2010 06:32 AM, Yves Jacolin wrote: Jeroen, all, The website seems down for me or too long to get an answer from it. Is it a known problem? Thanks, Y. Le lundi 26 avril 2010 14:39:59, Jeroen Ticheler a écrit : Dear all, This morning I uploaded a new installer file replacing the one I uploaded on Saturday. The only change is that this installer should be running properly with Java 1.5 and higher. The first one had an incompatibility issue for Java 1.5 which has been resolved now. Kind regards, Jeroen Dear all, We're happy to announce a new release of GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.3. This is a minor release, but with some good improvements that may be of interest to you! Main things that have changed in this release: - INSPIRE support, including a specific search form (disabled by default, enable in the System preferences panel) - CSW ISO profile updates and test suite - GeoServer upgrade to v2.0.1 with the REST API and SLD Styler included - Search speed improvements (more to come in v2.6.0, due in August 2010!) - Added Portuguese language and improvements for others The rest can be read in the changes log file. Thanks to our dedicated developer team and supporting community! Enjoy! http://geonetwork-opensource.org/software/geonetwork_opensource/releases/ 2.4.3 Or directly to the files: https://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork/files/ Greetings, Jeroen (Chair PSC GeoNetwork) Jeroen Ticheler GeoCat bv Irisstraat 52 7531 CW Enschede Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 http://geocat.net Please consider the environment before printing this email. --- --- ___ GeoNetwork-users mailing list geonetwork-us...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geonetwork-users GeoNetwork OpenSource is maintained at http://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] A quick poll!
I've been talking to the folks at gisjobs.com, encouraging them to add open source technology to their salary survey. But first he wants to see if how many visitors to his site even use open source. You might be interested in completing his current poll: Do you ever use Open Source GIS products? http://www.gisjobs.com/ The more people realise their OSGeo related software skills are in demand, the better for everyone. Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A quick poll!
Wow, in a few short hours the yes/no results in the poll went from 38/38% to 85/5% - thanks for voting, that's very cool to see. On a similar note, because many of the OSGeo libraries are also used behind proprietary products, many proprietary users won't even know that they actually do use open source without knowing it. That's a big success story, in my opinion, and one I remind audiences about regularly. Software good enough to be relied on by the massive commercial interests of proprietary vendors... says something positive about our quality. Keep up the good work developers! :) Tyler On 15 April 2010 21:26, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org mailto:tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: I've been talking to the folks at gisjobs.com http://gisjobs.com, encouraging them to add open source technology to their salary survey. But first he wants to see if how many visitors to his site even use open source. You might be interested in completing his current poll: Do you ever use Open Source GIS products? http://www.gisjobs.com/ The more people realise their OSGeo related software skills are in demand, the better for everyone. Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Interview ideas?
Hi, one area we've talked a bit about historically has been trying to capture more interviews - either as written documents or verbal podcasts. I'm just putting out this note to invite you to suggest/brainstorm about good interview topics and people that would help get the open source geospatial message out in an influential way. You're welcome to suggest specific people/topics to me privately or we can talk generally on the topics or questions. I'm now starting to carry a video camera in tow when I attend meetings, with the hopes of capturing a few interviews to share. Hopefully in a months time I'll have some to put online. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Common map printing specifications project [Fwd: Students: Get Paid to work on this project]
Hi all, just forwarding this note to this more general OSGeo channel, since it applies to several projects and communities. Year after year, one of the largest complaints about open source mapping applications is the ability to output large, high quality, printable maps. It's often the issue that some proprietary users say prevents them from moving to an open source platform. Recognising that we can always do better, the Carto project is an effort to address this in a standard way, so that all open source applications may output configuration files according to a specification and have a common 'engine' application produce an output file. By using a standards-based approach, developers can work together on improving printing output overall instead of doing it in dozens of different ways. That said, attached is my attempt to try to find some students to work on the project through Google's Summer of Code :) I'm also forwarding it here for those others who are interested in trying to help move this initiative along. Either way, join our list and say hi.[1] Except for some interesting work with Mapnik and QGIS together (Dane Springmeyer's Quantumnik!) this is pretty much still theoretical. Tyler [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/carto ---BeginMessage--- Greetings everyone! The OSGeo Carto mailing list [1] was created to discuss developing a common approach to printable (vector-based) map output from open source mapping applications. With Google's Summer of Code program, we have a great opportunity for students to be funded to work on this project! Please forward this on to any students that you think might benefit. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Engine Note there is room for a range of programming abilities, here are just a few... * developing XML-based map definition and print standard specifications * writing a GUI-based app for doing map layout * converting project configuration files into a common format * enhancing Mapnik to handle layout and file output definitions * What else? You tell us! Students are welcome to propose new ideas! This year, we've tied this project directly to Mapnik (and indirectly to QGIS or GRASS) just so it is clearly not a new project, but an enhancement of an existing one. Since it is really focused on developing and implementing standards, I'm not opposed to using other projects in there for either the 'client' or the engine - so if you're a student interested in MapServer or gvSIG, for example, and would rather work on implementing it that way, then please just propose it. I only had to narrow our focus to keep it clear. Time is running out for student applications, so let's get the word out! Even if you're not a student but are interested in helping in some way, join the list and say hi. [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/carto ---End Message--- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Viewer for 3D Maps
Brent Fraser wrote: We've used VTP (vterrain.org) and modified the GUI of it's Enviro viewer to be a little more end-user friendly. VTP does a good job of providing an interactive 3d environment of DEM and texture (e.g satellite image), and optionally 3d structure models. On the downside, you have to author your datasets carefully (using VTBuilder) to get good performance, and you have to limit your map/model to an extent (it doesn't model a globe, only a projection). There's a ton of 3d modeling info on the VTP web site. You're bringing back some good old memories for me Brent! I used VTP a lot in my last job and it produced some wildly beautiful product and exciting fly over animation abilities (among other things). Ecologists especially liked the function allowing you to draw/digitise onto the terrain in 3D mode. We had Python scripts that did all our dataset prep for us, and if my memory serves me right, we even had ways of converting the digitised stuff back into a shapefile for use in our other apps. Ossim (www.ossim.org) has OssimPlanet which DOES model a globe but it can be an effort to set up (I've never tried it). Binaries are available for download for most platforms. Then you probably want to get a terrain model (just one big download) and put it in the right folder. Other than that it's pretty easy to get started with WMS or file datasources. Thanks for the memories :) Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Whitebox GAT (Chris Puttick)
P Kishor wrote: Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software makes the whole world blind. Of course we never trash talk other open source languages either, do we? Where would we be without all the good arguments for Python vs the 'others'... ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. Just to say, we have done pretty good on this list avoiding platform or language wars, but I am interested to learn what strengths/features/ease-of-use others find in their language of choice. Just to be better educated, not to flame anyone. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Whitebox GAT (Chris Puttick)
What I meant to say was... Chris P. has strategic reasons for his choices and was inviting others to share (offline) their strategic reasons for their choices. I wasn't trying to keep this thread running :) Tyler Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: P Kishor wrote: Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software makes the whole world blind. Of course we never trash talk other open source languages either, do we? Where would we be without all the good arguments for Python vs the 'others'... ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. Just to say, we have done pretty good on this list avoiding platform or language wars, but I am interested to learn what strengths/features/ease-of-use others find in their language of choice. Just to be better educated, not to flame anyone. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] implementation of WFS in MapGuide OS
Hi Paras, Good to meet you. I think you'll find more help directly on the MapGuide Open Source users mailing list: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/user.html Hope that helps, Tyler p.s. I'm curious how you came to the OSGeo Discussion thinking it was for MapGuide discussions - can you tell me? There must be a bad link somewhere that I can update so it is clearer. Thanks! Paras BHALLA wrote: Dear all, Recently, I started my internship in a company and being a newcomer in the world of Autodesk, I am still finding answers to my questions. It will be a great help if somebody from you could help me out in providing me an information on Implementation of Web Feature Service (WFS) in MapGuide OpenSource. It would be a great help if somebody has some experience or knows some possibilities to find out solution to the said theme. Looking forward to your valuable feedback. best regards, Paras ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] How OSGeo helps you?
Hi all, I'm working on responding to some questions relating to our 501c3 application with US govt and would really like your opinion, stories, examples to make sure I hit the nail on the head. I'd like to describe two aspects of what OSGeo does and how it helps the public. In particular relating to education and to charitable activities. I know how I'd answer, but what about you? 1. In what areas/topics/information do we teach to new users or educate the public in general? Basically, what is the 'content' of our education endeavours? 2. How does OSGeo provide a charitable benefit to the public? Don't link it directly back to education, but think about how our features, abilities and products get used to benefit the public. Take it beyond just having free access to software generally, and share in particular the charitable ways it helps the public (charitable as in helps people, the world, etc. not as in just being free). Yes, somewhat vague questions, but I really want them to know the details about these not just a cursory mention of our workshops and our no-cost software :) I only have a day or two to get my answers together, but a longer thread is also welcomed to help share your perspective. Take care, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: GeoWeb CFP Deadline Is This Friday, March 12th]
FYI - if you need an excuse to go to Vancouver, submit your abstracts for GeoWeb this week. Several OSGeo friends are usually there. Tyler --- July 26-30 · Vancouver, B.C. Canada · http://www.geowebconference.org GeoWeb 2010 Conference Submission Deadline Abstracts are Due this Friday (March 12th) Want to be in the Program? Time is Running Out! The deadline is fast approaching. Abstracts can be submitted online no later than 4pm PST Friday, March 12th. The emphasis for GeoWeb 2010 is Going Real Time. GeoWeb is about the technologies for information sharing and collaboration respecting events and activities in the real world. It is about designing our world and reacting to the changes in the world around us. It is about managing our way in the world using the best information about the current and probable future state(s) of the world. All submissions must include a title, theme, a detail abstract (200 words) and a short description (75 words). Presentation sessions will be 35 minutes in length. Workshops will be 3 hours in length and should focus on a key technology or standard. Presenters will be chosen based on a formal selection process led by the 2010 GeoWeb Planning Committee and will be notified of the status of their submission by March 25, 2010. Please note that all approved presenters will be provided with a 25% discount on the registration fee but are responsible for their own travel and expenses. To learn more about GeoWeb, the details for the Call for Submissions, please visit GeoWebConference.org. Questions can be directed to James Sakamoto. Be Connected, Spread the Word Watch previous keynote and invited speakers, make comments, or chime in on a discussion. Stay connected to the GeoWeb Community: ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Db connect
Hi Ravi, what kind of error are you getting? Tyler Ravi wrote: Hi, am using OSGeo4W bundle and the apache and php there in. Apache installed OK showing as aservice and in the browser http:\\localhost issues the OSGeo4w welcome screen and phpthere on with the following wish to connect to PGSQL 8.4 and postGIS there in with the following. But it doesnt work. Where am I going wrong ? $db_handle = pg_connect(”host = localhost port = 5432 dbname = postgis user = postgres password = GrassJump”); $query = “SELECT * FROM rjybound”; $result = pgexec($dbhandle, $query); Ravi Kumar Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions
Richard Greenwood wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy kumaran.narayanasw...@kcubeconsulting.com wrote: Hello, We are in the process of looking out for a best hosting provider to host the FOSS4G Web applications. Can anyone suggest us the best and affordable hosting solutions to deploy MapServer, GeoServer applications? I've been very happy with Micro Resources http://spatialserver.com/ Same here for several years now. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Hosting Solutions
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Richard Greenwood wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy kumaran.narayanasw...@kcubeconsulting.com wrote: Hello, We are in the process of looking out for a best hosting provider to host the FOSS4G Web applications. Can anyone suggest us the best and affordable hosting solutions to deploy MapServer, GeoServer applications? I've been very happy with Micro Resources http://spatialserver.com/ Same here for several years now. I should note, that's for my personal (non-OSGeo related) services :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: 4th African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons - IDLELO 4 (Australians have a +)]
FYI Hi people. The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) will be hosting its bi-annual conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons. Idlelo 4 (www.idlelo.net http://www.idlelo.net) is the biggest and most important FLOSS event in the continent. The Vice President of Ghana, who received a delegation from the Foundation http://www.fossfa.net/node/93 has given his backing to chair. Idlelo is billed to begin on the 13th and end on the 21st of May, in Accra, Ghana. It happens at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT. It is a multiple events conference. Here is a quick breakdown of stuff The hands-on trainings are billed to begin the weekend of May 13 to 15. We are working around: 1. CHISIMBA http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=newsaction=viewcategoryid=gen14Srv6Nme27_8917_1219322157 2. USHAHIDI http://www.ushahidi.com/ and FrontlineSMS 3. Migration 4. FLOSS4Edu 5. Desktop 6. FLOSS 4 Business 7. LPI Paper exams. On the 16th, we are planning a Community Conference which will follow the un-conference setting. On the 17th, we would like to do the Africa FOSS Agenda, which is the AGM of FOSSFA. On the 18th, the E-Government Track has now been upgraded to a one-day conference where we are inviting ministers from the African countries, as well as some outside of the continent. The preliminary program http://idlelo.net/content/conference-programme that we have shows the sessions that are in for now. There is still a whole lot of space for: 1. Partner events 2. Launches 3. Parallel events 4. Technical tracks Of course an exhibition is planned. Will kick off same days with the conference. So this is an invitation to all Foundation members. If you would want to see anything in the program, do a side thing, a plenary presentation or a training, please let us know. We will be glad to schedule you accordingly. On logisitics: 1. We want to say thanks to Linux Fund that is supporting fundraising for this 2. We are discussing with DELTA Airlines to partner as official carrier, especially for those coming from outside of Africa. 3. We are still looking forward to sponsors at different levels.. and would very much appreciate any leads you might give us. On a final note, the Australian High Commission in Accra will be willing to support Australians who may want to come to Idlelo. Please let us know asap. director-gene...@aiti-kace.com.gh secretar...@fossfa.net Cheers Nnenna Nwakanma FOSSFA Council Chair ch...@fossfa.net www.fossfa.net http://www.fossfa.net ___ foundations mailing list foundati...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/foundations ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract
We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstract for the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2010 conference, being held September 6-9, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. Held annually, FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial. http://2010.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2010 presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a presenter. Some topics of interest for this year are: * Case Studies: Relate the experiences of you and your organization using open source geospatial. Where do things work well? Poorly? What problems did you solve, and at what cost? What do you recommend for others? Why? * Benchmarks: Comparisons between pieces of geospatial software. How do features compare? Speed? Ease of use? What do you recommend for others? * Visualization: Tell about your tips and tricks for effective visualization. How do you present information in a compelling way? 3D? Cartographic tricks? Labelling and naming ideas? Graphs and hybrid map/data combinations? * Development: What are the new developments in your open source geospatial software product? How does it work, how do people use it, what are the technical issues you are running into? * Hacks and Mashing: Have you put together something novel or cool this year? What did you stick together, how did it work, show us your gizmo! * Collaboration: What techniques are you using to improve collaboration between organizations and between individuals. Public geodata, collaborative data collection, data sharing, open standards, de facto standards, and more! If you have an open source geospatial story to tell, we want to hear it! For more information, see the FOSS4G site: http://2010.foss4g.org/presentations.php The deadline for abstract submissions is April 1, 2010. Submit early, submit often! Academic Track The FOSS4G 2010 academic track aims to bringing together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out research and development in the geospatial and the free and open source fields and willing to share original and recent research developments and experiences. The academic track will act as an inventory of current research topics, but the major goal is to promote cooperative research between OSGeo developers and the academia. The academic track is the right forum to highlight the most important research challenges and trends in the domain, and let them became the basis for an informal OSGeo research agenda. It will foster interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. It will be organized in a way to promote networking between the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and to promote international collaboration. Submission guidelines All submissions to the academic track must be original unpublished work written in English. Papers should not exceed the 6000 words limit. Formatting guidelines will be available soon. Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by three members of the international scientific committee and refereed for their quality, originality and relevance. Submission deadline (full paper for the academic track) - May, 31th, 2010 upcoming milestones * 15 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens * 30 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes * 1 Feb 2010, Call for Abstracts opens * 16 Feb 2010, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials * 22 Feb 2010, Registration for workshop and tutorials opens * 1 Apr 2010, Abstract submission deadline * 1 May 2010, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks * 15 Jun 2010, Author/Early registration deadline * 15 Jul 2010 Full article submission deadline * Aug 2010, Completed program available * 6-7 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Workshops * 7-9 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials * 10 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Code Sprint ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Website News Editor(s) welcome
Hi all, have a few minutes a week to help post news/events on the OSGeo website? Frank and I usually take care of these items but could use a bit of help to keep things running smoothly. There is a (volunteer) opportunity for at least one person to help out in the role of OSGeo News Editor. The job is quite simple, posting news/events information that are sent in and usually consists of a few postings per week. Posting the information on the website is quite easy and uses a few simple forms. Most of the time all the info to be posted is sent in by other members and is simply copied over (e.g. you don't have to be a writer :-) ) If you're interested, drop a note to news_i...@osgeo.org and say hello. More information about the processes we use: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue Have a great week, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Gov't adopting open source ?
I'm just starting to dig into this question myself, but thought I'd ask if anyone else knows of a resource/document/site, etc. that shows which governments (nationally, regional or municipal) have committed to open source software? Seems the list grows each month in my head, but I'm sure there are many more than I know. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Opensource Geospatial Job Tracking Software
On 06/01/10 3:29 AM, Kumaran Narayanaswamy wrote: Hi, I am currently looking out for web based Open source Geospatial Job Tracking Software similar to Job Tracking for ArcGIS? http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/jobtracking/index.html Are there any open source projects out there that you know of that cover these features similar to ESRI product? Regards Kumaran This is a good question and I'm very interested in any answers you receive. This sort of workflow/project management software is much needed in the GIS industry sector and I've not seen any open source options out there that met my specific needs when I looked previously. One that might help at least on the conersion/transformation side is Talend studio with it's spatial component: http://www.spatialdataintegrator.com/ But that's likely only one piece of the puzzle. I believe that much of what is required for job tracking and workflow can be developed through some simple web interfaces, with open source apps sitting on the server side. I've taken several attempts on doing this but never devoted enough time/focus to get very far. If any else is interested in developing such tools, I'd be interested in discussing it further. I believe these are necessary to streamline workflow and gain back efficiency that has been lost during the industry's general move toward using point-click GUI environments for everything. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Annual Report Startup!
Happy New Year! On that note... let's kick off summarising last years' activities. This is the opportunity to brag about what your project, committee and local chapters have been up to and progress you've made. All of this is an important part of showing that our community and projects are active and engaging and for showing value to our sponsors, members and supporters. Submit the report here: * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2009 Or email me directly. If the wrong name is beside the report, please change it accordingly or let me know. Holler if there is anything confusing. * I'd like to wrap this up by the end of January, so if you need a hard deadline please aim for January 18th or tell me when to expect it. If anyone is interested in helping coordinate this report with me, let me know (e.g. to help with final layout and emailing/harassing potential authors). I encourage you to forward this invitation to your project teams and local contacts. Looking forward to hearing what you've been up to! Best wishes for 2010, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?
So if this is true, then that means that 80% of GIS users are asking the question, Why should I use desktop open source XXX instead of ESRI? I get more questions asking about the differences between FOSS projects than between FOSS and proprietary products. If people are already coming to FOSS4G, or to OSGeo in some other way, they likely already want to use open source but want help choosing a path. I do agree that many wonder how we stack up to proprietary but I hope we stick to what we know best. That is, unless proprietary folks join the shootout. :) Just a thought, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Will there be an OSGeo Desktop shootout atFOSS4G 2010?
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Daniel Ames wrote: I teach ArcGIS 9.3 every semester, so I'll happily provide that perspective (as well as the MapWindow desktop perspective). By the way Tyler gave an awesome OSGeo talk at AGU in San Francisco last week and handled the how does this stack up to ESRI question brilliantly. I believe the answer was, We see ESRI as a major success story for OSGeo since they've adopted GDAL and OGR. Couldn't have been addressed more perfectly. Folks, To be clear, I am unaware of any adoption of OGR by ESRI. They do make extensive use of GDAL for raster translation and raster data access. Minor note - usually when I give this answer I say GDAL/OGR as a blanket project name, but I can see how that can be confusing when spoken verbally :) While this is a good point to mention, and helps point out that things aren't as simple as us and them, since even them is often one of us in some respects, I'd like us to be able to give a deeper answer. Many workloads that are currently done with ArcGIS could also be done with FOSS tools (most web mapping, much desktop work, and some deep analysis). I'd like to get white papers, and presentations addressing some of these easily transferrable workloads. I'd also like this workflow assessment angle from the perspective of how I got this project done using FOSS tools - with a backdrop of what they'd have to do otherwise (e.g. using a proprietary package). Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Annual Report in Lulu.com
FYI - The 2008 Annual Report is now available for purchase as a hardcopy (55 pages) from lulu.com at the following location: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/osgeo-2008-annual-report/7414939 Downloads are always free from the OSGeo Journal website: http://journal.osgeo.org Cheers, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual Report in Lulu.com
A better url :) http://stores.lulu.com/osgeo original message- From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:24 -0800 - FYI - The 2008 Annual Report is now available for purchase as a hardcopy (55 pages) from lulu.com at the following location: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/osgeo-2008-annual-report/ 7414939 Downloads are always free from the OSGeo Journal website: http://journal.osgeo.org Cheers, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AGU in December (Volunteers)
Unfortunately, I just learned that there is no remaining booth space available at the AGU event now. original message- From: Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:47:37 -0800 - All, Tyler is speaking at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec 14-18(Booth is 15-18) in San Fransisco. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AGU_2009 I'm interested to know who is already planning to go to the AGU and could help at the booth occasionally? Several members of the California chapter have volunteered to run the booth, we're just looking to make sure we have some additional help before we commit the funds. We need to know before the marketing meeting tonight, 11pm PST if we have enough people to do the booth or not. Thanks, Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London
To add to Chris' comments... I suggest any job seeker offer to host an OSGeo-UK meetup... bring the employers to you instead :) Seriously though - there may be an opportunity here for those who have some momentum for a local OSGeo chapter nearby. Get on the mailing list, ask for ideas for a venue to meet and plan a meeting using the wiki or mailing list - a couple folks will often volunteer to do a talk or provide a discussion point. I believe that many local chapter OSGeo'ers are just waiting for a chance to chat over a beer or talk and plan in a local boardroom. The upside to helping plan it is you can give yourself a speaking slot to introduce what you've been doing/playing with/learning and a URL to your CV at the end will drive the point home :) Best wishes! Tyler original message- From: Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:18 + (GMT) - And of course OA Digital, but while in the UK is not London. London is under the influence of the if it don't cost, it ain't worth nothing although we're hopeful revent gov't policy announcements and news like that of the recent systems change at the London Stock Exchange might change that; if there's going to be anything, I'd sniff around the London mayor's office, Transport for London and some of the London councils. Chris - Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: Matthew, It doesn?t look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some brief comments. I don?t think it likely that you will find a job focused specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our current economy. I think you may have to settle for a job in GIS, with perhaps an opportunity to occasionally dabble in open source GIS software. I can think of only a handful of companies that work extensively with open source GIS software, especially on the desktop. Examples are Refractions Research, Vivid Solutions, and LISASoft. The first two are Canadian companies, the second is in Australia. A better option may be to take a ?regular? GIS job but to hone your programming skill set by volunteering with one of the OSGeo projects. (Let me know if you are really bored. I could put you to work on a couple of things right now.) :] Or you could possibly work part-time as a consultant trying to help organizations get started with open source GIS. At any rate, post a link to your resume on the OSGeo Jobs mailing list. That can?t hurt. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Pulis Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:12 AM To: discuss Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding an OSGEO-related job in London Hi, I am moving to London in late January 2010 and am trying to find a job / career in GIS preferably using Open Source GIS. I am finding it quite hard to find job openings in this field, especially in the GIS-T area; which area is my area of expertise. Anyone can recommend some job hunting websites which are more attributed to OSGEO please? (Sorry for double posting but the previous one had the wrong subject pasted) Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Pulis URL : http://www.matthewpulis.info | http://www.solutions-lab.net MSN : pulis_matth...@] hotmail.com ICQ : 145951110 Skype : solutions-lab.net Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mind Map - Open Source Spatial Projects
According to the Freemind FAQ, there is an applet that will allow the mindmap to be presented via a Web Page [1]. I have not tried this yet. Perhaps something hosted by OSGeo if the applet works OK? Hi, it definitely works and I've used it for years. When I was using S5 format web presentations I handled it two ways. One, would be to link a graphic in my presentation to a separate web page with the applet embedded. The other was to embed it directly in my presentation page (if a smaller window was warranted). I've got it online running here: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/20070925-Victoria/OSGeoCommunity.html Note, it crashed my Firefox (on OSX) but ran in SAfari okay. Note also the applet requires a web url and can't point to a local file - which can be a bit of a pain. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mind Map - Open Source Spatial Projects
Looks like it says it's 0.8.1 Freemind map version. I've looked a bit at other clients but they are usually involving a conversion step. e.g. you can do mm format into S5 presentation format and a few others. I'd like a more dynamic 'flowing' viewer for presentations - any hints and I'd like to hear them too. Tyler original message- From: Bob Basques bo...@gritechnologies.com To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:16:25 -0500 - Bruce, Yeah I got that to work, but was wondering if there were other client that could read it. I use a similar (pay for) application called Inspiration that allows for building of similar diagrams. I thought it might open the MM file, but no go. Nice file BTW. bobb Bruce Bannerman wrote: Bob, What's the best Client for this MM stuff? A little research on it reveals there are more than one version of the file format as well as more than one version of client, and not all clients read all formats . . . The format is Freemind mind mapping software. As per my original post: Details are at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Bruce.bannerman I've received a few emails advising me that some people's email clients have hidden the above URL. Two suggestions to get around this: - view the email source - go to the OSGeo Wiki and search for 'User:Bruce.bannerman'. You will find the details there. Bruce -- -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss __ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009
Sydney, Australia. 5 October 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server will be competing for the title of Fastest Web Map Server (WMS) at the FOSS4G 2009 conference at the end of October. The Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out compares Web Map Servers in a variety of real world use cases. This third installment of the FOSS4G shoot-out looks to be even more exciting with the introduction of a team from ESRI. ESRI supports interoperability with the OSGeo and open source community says Satish Sankaran, PhD., ESRI Product Manager for Interoperability, and, as such, are happy to participate in the OSGEO demonstration-'shootout' at FOSS4G. We are also participating in the OGC's Climate Change Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G, and with our colleagues from 52North who will be in the technical exhibits area. The performance shoot-out will see GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server compared in terms of how long they take to generate a map image, from a common set of spatial data. The data formats used will be shapefile, geotiff, ECW, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SDE on Oracle. Benchmarking scripts will be executed on a common platform running Red Hat Linux. GeoServer will be represented by Andrea Aime (OpenGeo) and Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions). With the rapid expansion of GeoServer's capabilities each year, these benchmarking exercises are an excellent forum for us to test it in new and challenging ways, said Chris Holmes, Managing Director of OpenGeo and founder of the GeoServer project. One of the most important 'rules of engagement' for each Web server team is that all parties must contribute any changes that they make to their software for this exercise, back to their community. As explained by Steve Lime, founder of Mapserver, Past benchmarking presentations have brought about many improvements in the servers, such as MapServer's improvements in large shapefile indexing, raster read optimization, and labeling placement. The MapServer Project Steering Committee is excited to help with this presentation again. MapServer will be represented by Daniel Morissette (Mapgears), Jeff McKenna (Gateway Geomatics), and Frank Warmerdam. For more information about the Web mapping performance shootout, see the wiki at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2009, or follow along discussions in the benchmarking mailing list at: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking. == About FOSS4G == FOSS4G is the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, which comes to Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009. FOSS4G offers presentations, workshops, demos, an install-fest, and a code sprint. It is presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals and includes the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies. Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more. == Upcoming milestones == 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint == Media Sponsors == Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/ Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/ Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/ GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/ Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/ SlashGeo: http://slashgeo.org For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/about_us/ or contact: Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft tel +61-2-8570-5050 c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m ___ Foss4g2009 mailing list foss4g2...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Fawcett, David david.fawc...@state.mn.us wrote: Mateusz, Thanks for posting this reference, I wasn't aware of it. It is a gold mine! Obviously, thanks to Chris for putting this course together and making it available to the world too. David. Wow, yes it's great isn't it? Even some topology examples to work from! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Agustin Diez Castillo agustin.d...@uv.es wrote: you're right we should teach techniques and no software packages but more than that we should educate free citizens. Truly, I can not understand why Universities teach closed knowledge when we should knowledge [openness is required to be knowledge]. We should teach how to fish instead of give away fishes because this is what our students demand. To sum up, Universities should be the perfect place for Free Speech and in GIS packages Free Speech is FOSS4G. Anyhow, High Schools are a good place to start. You beat me to it Agustin. I agree with your points and was going to warn that we not try to play at the same game as corporations that seek to embed their products into schools. Since, in the end it is what is taught that is important, not what tool they learn. Instead, I suggest we come at it from the angle of providing additional tools to enable educators (at any level) to teach the liberal arts/science aspects of a geographic education. I could be wrong, but it's my impression that in the past when this was done, I believe universities were actually *producing* FOSS as an outgrowth of the knowledge the students learned instead of merely ingesting some product. Any truth to that? I'm proposing the education group help match up existing FOSS teaching material with a recognised curriculum. e.g. the curriculum might say that a student needs to learn about geographic coordinate systems - so we match up a module that provides sample data and shows how to witness the effects of transformations, projections, etc. using Proj.4 commands, then visualising it in a desktop app, etc. that they may choose. In the end maybe I do agree a bit with Ian, in that I don't think it's profitable to be trying to usurp particular existing software roles in academia - which many professors will have personally chosen. How do you fight a choice after all? But we should come at it from a totally different angle more along Agustin's philosophy and providing choices for foundational teaching aligned with curriculum. I'm personally not interested in taking on an anti-proprietary angle in the debate and encourage us to look at the problem afresh, with hope of possibilities :) Okay, that may be mostly just rhetoric, but we can't forget that even the big proprietary guys are users and supports of some of OSGeo products and libraries - a real success story for us. Please note, for those who are unaware, we do have an Education discussion mailing list where we talk about these things regularly too: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss Best wishes, Tyler p.s. In many universities I think we have been witnessing a move toward 'training' for careers as opposed to foundational concepts for critical thinking. I suspect it has to do with competing with colleges and independent training programs for student dollar$. I don't think it's the actual professors, but higher up that the mentality seems to set in. Consider also that all proprietary software has their own professional training courses, material and training providers already - perhaps even at lower cost and higher effectiveness than taking a full university course over months and months. Odd to think about in my mind :) But it helps remind me that there is also a market for education outside of established academics as well... how much of a market remains to be seen. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
FOSS4G Meeting - Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting 2009
Just a reminder - our OSGeo annual meeting page is pretty blank. Anyone interested in giving a talk should sign up soon. Or else add any topic for further discussion. If we aren't running the guantlet of presentations this year, we will have lots of time for discussion - that'd be neat. Hope to see you there. Tyler Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi all, As usual we'll be holding our OSGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM) during the FOSS4G event, this time in Sydney on the October 21st following the main event. In previous years we've packed it pretty tight - getting as many smiling faces in front of the fans as possible. This year I'd like to take a slightly different approach to help maximize time a bit better. Since most software projects will have a good chance to present at FOSS4G I'd like to focus on local chapters, committees and sponsors to present. If we get too many then I will probably pull back a bit on one of those groups as well. That said, if you'd like to share a few slides (4-5 max) on your committee, chapter, or from an OSGeo sponsor - please add yourself to the wiki. The program will still be tight, so each person will likely only have 2-3 minutes... yes, it's the OSGeo Lightning AGM ;-) For those projects who are not presenting elsewhere in the conference, I will make a sign-up list for projects to meet at the OSGeo booth - then interested folks can come by at the selected time. There is also the Demo Theatre which will be available to show off stuff. You are also welcome to add any questions or discussion point suggestions to the wiki page. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2009#Discussion_Ideas Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Jacolin Yves yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Hello Cédric, I think more people think same as you relating this point of view :) : Le Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:28:20 Cédric Moullet, vous avez écrit : The OSGEO is very developer centric and probably need more input from management, end user, marketing etc... Thanks for the great discussion, I can relate to Yves and Cédric's comments. Cédric's comment is the primary feedback I get from end users, local chapters and developers alike. They ask for more information and material to share with others at events or meetings, etc. They don't tend to point out technical barriers to their projects success, they already know and love a project and just want to tell others about it. Of course we all have our software feature wishlists of functionality but I don't think most of us expect OSGeo to be the venue for developing them. Like Frank says, don't tell the projects what to do ;-) Not to say there aren't some powerful synergies to be gained at more technical levels through OSGeo and some projects are certainly getting used to depending on OSGeo services, but aside from requests to our systems admin group, I rarely hear end users, advocates or even developers say OSGeo needs to do anything further at a technical level (except maybe more benchmarking, live demo disks or binary package development). I'm sure there will be some more good discussion over the upcoming months as to focus and effort. I see the education side as an obvious common goal, and marketing as well, but I'm curious to hear more about some of the more 'developer centric' ideas people have in mind. I'm keen to hear further ideas along Cédric's line of thinking too. By the way, the Marketing Committee has a mailing list, all are welcome to join to share ideas and volunteer. It's been pretty quiet lately, so don't be shy and come and share your thoughts: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles
Been busy lately Landon? Hope all is well, keen on your input re: Journal. Landon Blake wrote: David, Sorry for the delayed response. I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first name was Joe?) Most of the activity in our chapter is coming out of the UC Davis Campus. Alex Mandel is taking the lead there. We’ve also got someone from the Sacramento area that works at the California Geological Survey, if I am not mistaken. Brian Hamlin is also quite active, and I believe he hangs his hat in the Bay Area. I’m in the Central Valley. The size of our state is a challenge to organizing OSGeo activities. We’ve talked about organizing smaller regional chapters in the state, but I don’t think we have the support for that yet. Personally, I would like us to think about how we can draw more OSGeo enthusiasts from California together via online means. Alex has focused a lot on getting an OSGeo presence at California conferences, which is great, but I’m personally interested in seeing what we can do as a group on the software front. Our chapter is home to Silicon Valley, after all. :] I’ve been meaning to bring this up, but haven’t had the time to put together an intelligent e-mail. I will try to make time to do so this week. **Landon** Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *David Bianco *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:57 PM *To:* OSGeo Discussions *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles I'm looking to meet up with fellow Los Angeles based osgeo people. I put a call out in the California chapter email list but did not get a response. Perhaps you all are lurking here on the main list? I work in downtown LA. Let me know where you at! David Bianco http://groups.google.com/group/lax-osgis *Warning: *Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: 2009 Board Election - Statements
FYI Nominees! I've heard from several voters that they are waiting for more statements from the 5 remaining candidates before voting. So, if you've got a draft statement sitting in your email app, I suggest you complete it sooner than later. Otherwise you seriously jeopardise your chances of receiving some of these critical votes. • Voting closes midnight (your timezone) 29-September-2009 (end of Monday) Tyler On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:57 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote: Dear Board Candidates, There are 14 of you, and only 5 board slots open this year, so it is going to be tough for members to vote. In the interests of providing the members with some more to go on than the nomination statements, it would be great if you could take time out in the next day or so and write a brief note to discuss@lists.osgeo.org stating your goals/ objectives/vision/hopes or some subset/superset thereof for OSGeo. If you could use a subject line: Board Election: Your Name in your note, that will help folks see your statement in the list traffic. As I see them, I'll put your statements into the nomination wiki page (or if you're feeling generous, you can do it for me). Thanks so much, Paul Ramsey OSGeo Chief Returning Officer 2009 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting 2009
Hi all, As usual we'll be holding our OSGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM) during the FOSS4G event, this time in Sydney on the October 21st following the main event. In previous years we've packed it pretty tight - getting as many smiling faces in front of the fans as possible. This year I'd like to take a slightly different approach to help maximize time a bit better. Since most software projects will have a good chance to present at FOSS4G I'd like to focus on local chapters, committees and sponsors to present. If we get too many then I will probably pull back a bit on one of those groups as well. That said, if you'd like to share a few slides (4-5 max) on your committee, chapter, or from an OSGeo sponsor - please add yourself to the wiki. The program will still be tight, so each person will likely only have 2-3 minutes... yes, it's the OSGeo Lightning AGM ;-) For those projects who are not presenting elsewhere in the conference, I will make a sign-up list for projects to meet at the OSGeo booth - then interested folks can come by at the selected time. There is also the Demo Theatre which will be available to show off stuff. You are also welcome to add any questions or discussion point suggestions to the wiki page. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2009#Discussion_Ideas Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Loading ArcSDE features
Hi Gido, Good to hear from you! You might get more help directly on the MapGuide users mailing list. This OSGeo discuss list is usually for more general discussions. See: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users Best wishes, Tyler On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:50 -0400, Langen, Gido wrote: I am using MapGuide 2010. I used MapGuide Studio 2010 to set up a connection to an ArcSDE layer. It worked to a degree. I could establish the connection, and see the tabular data. But I cannot display the spatial features; I get the following error message: The ArcSDE Provider does not support non-aggregate functions or expressions in the select aggregates command. After I created the layer from the source data, I could not see any features either; worse: NO feature, but the geographic extent was out of this world - the X/Y Coordinate values were in the billion range. Does anyone know what causes this issue or how to remedy it? Thanks so much, Gido ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Jeroen Ticheler for Board
I nominate Jeroen for re-election to the OSGeo board. He has served as a director for the past two years and has helped move OSGeo forward in an appreciated and valuable way. In particular, he has helped lead some of the marketing developments that were really needed and gave critical feedback on board issues as they arose. He has served as a very helpful sounding board for ideas and direction and has helped bring good representation of the European environment, having worked for UN FAO in Italy and, more recently, starting his own consulting company in the Netherlands. He is project lead for the GeoNetwork project and has helped build large scale applications of various parts of the OSGeo stack in large organisations. He is committed to OSGeo's mission and keen to continue participating in the future of OSGeo at the board level. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Geoff Zeiss
I nominate Geoff Zeiss for the OSGeo Board of Directors. Geoff doesn't need much of an introduction, being so active on the international conference speaking circuit. He has been a keen promoter of OSGeo from the beginning, in particular through spreading our message during his presentations but even more through helping building connections between OSGeo and others he knows. Geoff has more than 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include streamlining the infrastructure management workflow at utilities, telecommunications firms and local government, open source geospatial and Web 2.0 and its impact on infrastructure management, and converged BIM/CAD/GIS/3D solutions. Geoff's work experience gives him a strong understanding of management teams and technical aspects of software development by being a chief technology visionary for several companies. His birds-eye view of the larger IT and geospatial landscape is very well informed and respected. His support and encouragement of OSGeo has already been very helpful in several ways, including helping raise sponsorship. As a board member he would bring considerable experience, enthusiasm and a strategic perspective that could help in the years to come. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Elections 2009
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:49 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote: Anyone can submit a Board nomination, however only Charter Members are eligible to serve on the Board. The complete list of charter members is available by combining * (2009 additions) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2009 * (Prior years) http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members FYI - I've added all the new members in the main page now: http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [mapserver-users] Updated MapServer flyer
Not a bad idea Bob. I'd also like to take it a step further and have some basic web forms that help to create the flyers so that no software is required on the client - e.g. enter the info, press create and download a PDF. Anyone want to help put their CGI and PDF lib skills into this kind of thing? It could even be used for creating business cards, etc. On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:38 -0500, Bob Basques wrote: All, OK, probably a weird idea, but. . . . while looking for the brochure mentioned here (only found the old one so far . . .came into the thread in the middle) . . .a thought occurred to me. Why not make this project brochure creation thing a step in the incubation process. Use some sort of basic template and each project has it's own brochure. bobb Lars Lingner m...@lingner.eu wrote: Steve Lime schrieb: Hi Lars, thanks for working up an updated brochure, looking at the old one it could use it. Some comments... - I think I'd avoid the MapServer website screen shot in favor of another app. The website text features the security fix announcements which while a reality in a project aren't marketing friendly. I can offer a couple of sites as could others I bet. I like your example, nice and colorful. If someone could point me to MapServer powered sites, I'll update the screenshot in the flyer. - Perhaps the screen shots could be a bit taller, more of a square aspect ratio#63; Ok, I'll take a further look. - Under features it might make sense to highlight output options: all sorts of raster images, PDF, SWF, SVG and templated text - Might include input and the new output plugin architectures as features - The Leverages best-of-breed sentence could be reworked to say we leverage other OSGeo projects including GDAL, GEOS, PostGIS and Proj.4. I think we should really emphasize the reliance on other OSGeo projects. - In the last feature sentence I think MapBuilder can be removed. There are some frameworks specific to (or that at least favor) MapServer (e.g. p.mapper and GeoMoose) that could get some love here... Thanks for this info. I'm putting it in. I think the 5.6 features are performance centric (raster rendering improvements, single pass, etc...). The 6.0 release *should* have a more output-based focus with full support for the rendering plugin, new object structures including references, better SLD support, styles within labels and so on. XML mapfiles will be in 5.6. It's important to note that XML mapfiles allow users to define a configuration in XML but you must transform it to a .map file for use. I hope that might really have an impact on wysiwyg editors eventually. Sounds like an interesting roadmap, I'll spread the word... ;) Lars ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-us...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board. It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Insurance for contractors?
I've been on all three sides of this issue in Canada as well. 1 - Hiring requirements due to a funding source required insurance prior to letting a contract - so the one man shop we had previously hired had to get insurance to remain working with us (prior to OSGeo, I might add). 2 - I've been on the contractor side in a large firm where we _did_ have insurance, so it wasn't issue then, but I knew other companies who couldn't bid on similar work because of it. 3 - I also bid on a project before as an independent contractor only to find this restrictions as a showstopper (there was no guarantee of the work, so I wasn't going to spend the money). At the end of the day, it certainly *felt* like the issue being addressed was less about professional insurance and more about keeping independent contractors out of the bidding market. Sorry to hear you are hitting it. Tyler On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 14:00 -0700, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Well, this is interesting... I've already received a number of private responses from people who do not have insurance but wish to remain anonymous so their potential employers don't ask about it. Feel free to email me directly with your responses to the below questions, and I'll post a summary in a few days with no names attached. -mpg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:03 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Insurance for contractors? In the past I've hired some people for contract or consultant work (both open source projects and more general stuff) -- generally these people have been independent, one-man shops found by word of mouth and reputation, as opposed to hiring someone from an agency. I'm getting pushback now from the administrative side of my company saying that any contractor I hire needs to have proof of insurance. I understand the legal reasons for this, but I'm wondering how many of you out there actually have business/contractors insurance? Do companies you work for insist on it, or not? And how many of you are formally set up as LLCs or sole proprietorships or such? [while this is likely a US-centric issue from the hiring side, I'm interested in international responses too since I've hired some foreigners as well over the years] -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] The Easy steps to get your project on the FOSS4G Live DVD]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_28 To Geospatial Open Source Project Leaders: The Arramagong Live DVD http://arramagong.com, GISVM http://gisvm.com, and OSGeo Live-Demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc projects are collaborating to create a set of simple, automated install scripts for a wide variety of Free and Open Source GIS projects, and we're calling on each project to help us write a script for their software. Projects that can write their install script this week will be included on The Arramamgong Live DVD which will be given to all delegates at the FOSS4G http://2009.foss4g.org conference. The scripts should cover the installation and configuration of each project into a base Xubuntu http://www.xubuntu.org/ 9.04 system. Separate scripts can optionally cover data, demos and tutorials. As a bonus, these scripts are exactly what packagers require to bundle your project into Debian and Ubuntu, so you will be taking the first steps toward getting your project into a Linux distribution. The base version of the FOSS4G2009 GISVM/Arramagong Live DVD can be trialed in a VMWare virtual machine and downloaded from: http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/Arramagong_GISVM_FOSS4G2009_alpha1.7z Timeline Date DateMilestone 7 Sep 2009in 1 week LiveDVD Feature Freeze 11 Sep 2009 in 2 weeks LiveDVD Beta Release 18 Sep 2009 in 3 weeks LiveDVD Final Freeze 20 Sep 2009 in 3 weeks LiveDVD Final Release sent to printers Packaging Howto For projects already packaged for Ubuntu http://packages.ubuntu.com/ or DebianGIS http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis, an install script will likely be as simple as: install_mapserver.sh https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_mapserver.sh #!/bin/sh apt-get install cgi-mapserver Projects that haven't been packaged yet are slightly more complicated: install_udig.sh https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_udig.sh #!/bin/sh # # # Purpose: Installation of udig into Xubuntu # Author: Stefan Hansen shan...@lisasoft.com # # # Copyright (c) 2009 Open Geospatial Foundation # Copyright (c) 2009 LISAsoft # # Licensed under the GNU LGPL. # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, # or any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that # it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the implied # warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details, either # in the LICENSE.LGPL.txt file distributed with this software or at # web page http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl.html;. # # About: # = # This script will install udig into Xubuntu # Running: # === # sudo ./install_udig.sh TMP=/tmp/udig_downloads INSTALL_FOLDER=/usr/lib DATA_FOLDER=/usr/local/share UDIG_FOLDER=$INSTALL_FOLDER/udig BIN=/usr/bin USER_NAME=user USER_HOME=/home/$USER_NAME ## Setup things... ## # check required tools are installed if [ ! -x `which wget` ] ; then echo ERROR: wget is required, please install it and try again exit 1 fi # create tmp folders mkdir $TMP cd $TMP ## Install Application ## # get udig if [ -f udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz ] then echo udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz has already been downloaded. else wget http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/branches/udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz fi # unpack it and copy it to /usr/lib tar -xzf udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz -C $INSTALL_FOLDER ## Configure Application ## # Download modified startup script for udig if [ -f udig.sh ] then echo udig.sh has already been downloaded. else wget https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/udig-conf/udig.sh fi # copy it into the udig folder cp udig.sh $UDIG_FOLDER # create link to startup script ln -s $UDIG_FOLDER/udig.sh $BIN/udig # Download desktop icon if [ -f uDig.desktop ] then echo uDig.desktop has already been downloaded. else wget https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/udig-conf/uDig.desktop fi # copy it into the udig folder cp uDig.desktop $USER_HOME/Desktop chown $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME $USER_HOME/Desktop/uDig.desktop ## Sample Data ## # Download udig's sample data if [ -f data-v1_1.zip ] then echo data-v1_1.zip has already been downloaded. else wget http://udig.refractions.net/docs/data-v1_1.zip fi #unzip the file into /usr/local/share/udig-data mkdir $DATA_FOLDER/udig-data unzip data-v1_1.zip -d $DATA_FOLDER/udig-data ## Documentation ## # Download udig's documentation if [ -f
[OSGeo-Discuss] Server back online
Just an FYI for those who noticed a few missing services this past week. They should all be back up and running now. (Thanks John!) Thank you for your patience. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government
Thanks Mark, In what capacity can OSGeo get involved with Open Source for America? Tyler The Open Technology Development Roadmap that we wrote for Ms Sue Payton is highlighted as well as Open Source for America (RadiantBlue is one of the founders) Good talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0C9T7h01o ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Missing email..
Oops, I just realised that for the last several days many of my OSGeo emails have appeared to be sent on my end, but indeed have not been :( Just an FYI for the many of you who might receive a response twice and wonder why.. as I resend a batch. Also if you are looking for a reply to something and wondered why I was silent, now you know. Sorry for any confusion! Feel free to harass me directly again if I miss you the second time around. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [postgis-users] pg_routing 1.02
Just generally keep in mind though as well, that some open source is only intended to run on Windows and many projects do recognise the importance of that platform, particularly in the GIS arena. So while many may not like, many don't seem to really mind and look at it as one more diverse OS to support. Tyler René A. Enguehard wrote: Open source software is exactly that: open source. That means you can take the source and compile it for whichever OS you want, really. For Windows things get a bit... involved and you might have to use something like Cygwin, but it IS possible. You should probably get in contact with David Techer as he would know how exactly to do this regarding pgRouting. However, you should note that in general people in the open source community aren't actively trying to discourage using Windows, we just hate having to do anything with/for Windows and so it is rare to get Windows binaries. That doesn't mean it's not possible. Porting an open source application to a new OS take comparatively very little work to a proprietary application. But it's still a heck of a lot of trouble to go through for an OS (Windows) which we thoroughly dislike. :) Ravi wrote: Hi Listers, have been trying this on windows for a long time. I was discouraged 'pl post on the list meant for it' etc.. Now it is a stright 'discourage'. It again takes me back to a fundamental.. Is opensource and operating system centric. Say in India, this is a big road block. Propagation of GIS may be encouraged irrespective of OS used. Ravi Kumar --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Anton Patrushev an...@orkney.co.jp wrote: From: Anton Patrushev an...@orkney.co.jp Subject: Re: [postgis-users] pg_routing 1.02 To: PostGIS Users Discussion postgis-us...@postgis.refractions.net Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 5:05 PM Hi Ishwari, The links to download pg_routing 1.02 windows binaries in the http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/ do not work. Is there an alternate location where these files can be downloaded from? I'm afraid no. Windows binaries were maintained by David Techer only. Actually we don't recommend to install it on Windows. Anton. ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-us...@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcements, news and service providers
== Announcements, News == Just a reminder to everyone that may have newsworthy items to share, we have a process available that posts news items to our www.osgeo.org website, into a news RSS feed and gets sent to our announcement only email list (~1000 subscribers). For instructions on posting news items, please see: * http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html If in doubt about the applicability of your announcement, send it anyway and ask for an opinion. == OSGeo Service Provider Directory == This is also a reminder to Service Providers, those who provide service (commercial or otherwise) for open source geospatial applications, that we have a directory available for your organisation to be highlighted in. With over 140 entries so far, the directory covers 30 countries, over 20 languages and 23 different software projects. * Search the directory: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile * Add your own entry: http://www.osgeo.org/spd_help Sincerely, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webcasts of OSGIS 2009
We are pleased to make available the webcasts of presentations (Stream 1) of The First Open Source GIS UK Conference at Centre for Geospatial Science at http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/for the benefit of the wider GIS community. Great to hear Suchith! If anyone finds a way to play these on Linux, I'm sure a few of us would be interested. Tyler Suchith Anand wrote: Dear All, The key aims of OSGIS conference series is to: * act as a focus for open source GIS research * to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS * to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies * to understand current developments in open source GIS We also congratulate the winners of the Open Source GIS UK Conference Awards 2009. CGS Best Presentation winner for OSGIS 2009 is Mapping Future Climate : A Case Study for the Deployment of the Open Source Geo-stack in Scalable Web-based Applications Philip James, Simon Abele, David Alderson,Stephen Pascoe, Ag Stephens Newcastle University, and British Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Labs, UK CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 SEXTANTE - The free geoprocessing library Victor Olaya, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain CGS Best Presentation runner up prize for OSGIS 2009 An introduction to Mapwindow Dr Daniel Ames, Idaho State University, USA The Wiley BlackWell prizes for best full paper prizes are awarded to the following papers Development of Sensor Web Applications with Open Source Software Arne Broring,Eike Hinderk Jurrens, and Simon Jirka from 52 North and Christoph Stasch from the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster. The SDIlight OSGEO stack at ITC Barend Kobben, Rob Lemmens, Javier Morales, Rolf de By, Theodor Foerster International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),Enschede, The Netherlands. Visualising Alternative Futures using Open Source technologies William Cartwright , RMIT University, Australia Congratulations to all winners... Well Done... Once again we thank the GIS Community for the fantastic support provided to us on this initiative and we look forward to your active participation for OSGIS 2010. Please email me if you or your organisation are interested in being involved in OSGIS Conference Series. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Annual Report Published
I'm pleased to announce that the 2008 OSGeo Annual Report is now complete! It is filled with reports from across the OSGeo world: software projects, local chapters, sponsors and more produced by 49 different contributors and project teams. It comes as a print-ready PDF that can be downloaded from: http://www.osgeo.org/annual_report_2008 Thank you to all those who contributed and thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy it, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Editor in chief, OSGeo Journal http://osgeo.org/journal tmitch...@osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5th gvSIG Conference: We keep growing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvaro, I've added a link to the event on the OSGeo events catalogue: http://www.osgeo.org/events It will also appear on the front page of www.osgeo.org in a few more days. If you would like to change the text let me know and I will help you. Tyler Alvaro Anguix wrote: The 5th Edition of the gvSIG Conference [1], organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT), will be held from December 2nd until December 4th at the Feria Valencia Convention and Exhibition Center, and will once again host the eclipseDay. In these difficult times when collaboration is most important, we cope with the adversities together with the aim of coming out strengthened by them. We continue moving ahead together. This is part of the gvSIG project and through this approach we keep on growing. This is our slogan for the fifth edition of the gvSIG Conference: We keep growing. The call for papers for the Fifth Edition of the gvSIG conference is now open. As of today communication proposals can be sent to the email address: contacto-jornadas-gv...@gva.es; they will be evaluated by the scientific committee as to their inclusion in the conference program. There are two types of communication: paper or poster. Information regarding to regulations on communication presentations can be found in the report?s section [2]. Abstracts will be accepted until September 21st . Organizations interested in collaborating in the event can find information in the section: How to collaborate? [3] [1] http://jornadas.gvsig.org/home/view?set_language=en [2] http://jornadas.gvsig.org/reports [3] http://jornadas.gvsig.org/how-to-collaborate Este mensaje y sus archivos son confidenciales. No está permitida su reproducción o distribución sin la autorización expresa de IVER Tecnologías de la Información. Si usted no es el destinatario previsto, queda desautorizado cualquier uso, acceso o copia de este mensaje. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, por favor bórrelo e infórmenos por esta misma vía. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpSPAQACgkQaqHtbnpFV33wUACeJvlJYItGjgaqd65NYO2qw6PA KqgAnRmymCJdfXisnEVn1IkunY+Ott23 =wcH4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Ghisla wrote: Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better? I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it is already active when a user adds external links to a page). Go for it. If you find instructions, I can enable it. Tyler -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpPbnUACgkQaqHtbnpFV31W9QCeKU7HXtLxxBqUWXMRnUh3upOY hy8AoK/aGo3soMDkLUZSTcDbNloLiPYE =z2ng -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The first (in)formal meeting of Poland OSGeo Chapter
Hi Tomasz, do you happen to have an information on a web page or wiki I can point people to? Just having a wiki page on wiki.osgeo.org would be a good help. Tyler On 18-May-09, at 2:44 PM, Tomasz.Kubik wrote: Dear All, Just to let you know I would like to announce the first (in)formal meeting of Poland OSGeo Chapter. The meeting will take place on the 22nd June 2009, starting from 18:30 CET at Zakład Klimatologii i Ochrony Atmosfery, Instytut Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego, Uniwersytet Wrocławski ul. Kosiby 6/8, Wrocław The meeting will precede one-day conference: Wolne oprogramowanie dla wykonawstwa i administracji geodezyjnej (Open-source for geodetic execution and administration). Tomasz Kubik ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Live Disk grant nomination
FYI... comment on this nomination for helping support further development of an education-focused Live Disk for OSGeo: Our nomination: http://tinyurl.com/matc-osgeo More below... Begin forwarded message: From: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org Date: May 15, 2009 2:36:01 PM PDT (CA) To: live-d...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo-edu edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Live Disk grant nomination Hi all, I just submitted a nomination for a potential funding award to support further OSGeo Live Disk enhancements and I encourage you to voice your support for it by leaving a comment. More info below... I focused on items particularly related to the Education disk theme. The timelines were a bit tight for me so, unfortunately, I was not able to work as closely with others as I would normally like on describing it. However, the description of the project and future dreams for it fit our common goals. I had hoped to describe the history (and all the great folks who helped with the various projects) a bit clearer but ran into their word count limit, so please don't think I forgot those who have done the main work on these projects. The nomination process allows public comments on the nomination, so I encourage you to voice your support for it. The deadline for nominations has passed but I believe you will still be able to add comments. They should help to build the case for the importance of the project. Also, as part of the process I have pointed to the Live GIS Disc wiki page, so if you have other ideas to add, please do so there. I'll be sure to update the wiki page for more details on the education perspective. MATC award program in general: http://matc.mellon.org/ Our nomination: http://tinyurl.com/matc-osgeo Our wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc Note that Charlie (Education Committee Chair) has also nominated some of the curriculum focused work that he, his group at his university and the Education Committee have been working towards. I encourage you to comment on that as well: http://tinyurl.com/matc-education-proposal Hope you find it encouraging, to say the least. Best wishes, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director Open Source Geospatial Foundation tmitch...@osgeo.org P: +1-250-277-1621 M: +1-250-303-1831 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Library For ECW Conversion
The gdal_translate command line app should do it for you, as long as it supports the ECW reading. On 13-May-09, at 7:41 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I’m looking for an open source library that will allow me to convert ECW images into a more common format like JPG or TIFF. I’d love it if there were something in Java, but I’m not running across anything via search engine query so far. I could probably work with a library written in Python, and as a last resort, something written in C. I will be trying to write a program that will convert the image files in a batch. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New to the list A question
Welcome Andy, Between many of us, we are familiar with all the technologies you mention, so you've come to right place. Although the MapServer users mailing list may be able to help more specifically on MapServer questions. Just a few quick notes for you before someone with real experience addressing your problems writes. * You should be able to add support for ArcSDE datasets into GDAL/OGR for accessing the data in MapServer. But you may find you have to recompile GDAL/OGR from scratch or in some cases add in a module. I'm not 100% on the process here as I haven't done it exactly. * ECW support is handled in a similar way to the above. I suggest you search the GDAL/OGR (http://gdal.org) mailing list archives or the ECW page on the OGR data formats web page. It might be as simple as dropping in a .so file somewhere. * The best alternatives to ArcSDE is likely to be PostgreSQL database with the PostGIS spatial extension. * For ECW alternatives it's not a simple move as the two main compression technologies are proprietary - the main other being Lizardtech's MrSID format. You might find you can still use ECW or MrSID depending on your specific needs. Otherwise you could move to the open JPEG2000 format that still provides good compression, though from my own experience it seems to have a higher overhead for decompressing the data (it's likely improved since my last time using it). Hope that helps. Like I said, others here are experts on particular components so they will likely pop up with real solutions rather than my hot air ;-) Best wishes, Tyler On 6-May-09, at 7:15 AM, Andy Kannberg wrote: Hello people, I am new to the list, and I have subscribed for the following reason: I am a linux/unix consultant, currently deployed at a government. At this government they use a GIS system, based on Mapserver. Additional software is also used, like GDAL, GEOS, ECW, ArcSDE SDK, Xerces-c, Oracle Instant client, GD, Proj, Fcgi and Postgis. All is running on a RHEL4 system. The idea is to run this all on Ubuntu 8.04. I've found all packages to be available on Ubuntu, except for ArgSDE SDK (Now a part of ArcGIS Server) and ECW, which is from Erdas. ArcGIS server is propietary, and is only supported on RedHat or Suse. ECW is a SDK from Erdas (www.ermapper.com), and, apparantly they've changed their EULA and it says, it is now allowed to use the ECW SDK within Mapserver. (This is second hand info, so please don't shoot me if it is not correct.) So, my actual question is, is there an alternative to ArcGIS and ECW ? Would appreciate it if someone can shed a light on this, as GIS systems are new to me. cheers, Andy Kannberg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries
On 5-May-09, at 6:07 AM, Nenad Milasinovic wrote: I am interested is there any reliable open source, LGPL licensed GIS SDK or library suited for building commercial, platform independent GIS application on top of it. I am also interested for commercial solutions but only as SDK or library. I will appreciate any help. All OSGeo applications are open source licensed and can be built on top of on most operating systems. On http://osgeo.org there is a list of projects that are under the OSGeo umbrella, some are specifically libraries for processing or data conversion, whereas others are application frameworks or desktop/web applications you can customise. Do you have something specific you are looking to create? Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: Microdonations for OSGeo
On 12-Mar-09, at 11:27 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: I would like to bring up the idea of accepting microdonations as general donations to OSGeo: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations Given the success of OSM, Wikipedia and others in that area of fund-rising I don't see a reason why OSGeo does not accept small donations from community members and likeminded people to keep OSGeo running. I was looking more at this idea this week and I just realised that we do already accept these donations. We do have the PayPal donation button on the website front page (top right corner). Was there more you think we need to be doing? Anyone can donate through that already, are you suggesting a change to that? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Deadline for Annual Report
Resending as a reminder if you have not already submitted your report - they are due this week! Note that this is the only reporting requirement OSGeo has for its software projects and it is only once per year. Having an update on your project is critical - if not only to show off the great work to our community and supporters. Let me now if you have any trouble or questions. Please forward to others in your groups if I have somehow missed the the right people. Best wishes, Tyler On 18-Feb-09, at 10:31 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi, I'm hoping for a March 6th deadline for the Annual Report submissions. This email is a follow up from the earlier note (below) and also cc:'ing those listed as primary contact on the Annual Report wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008 We're ready to start receiving annual reports. I would like to have all the reports in the next 3 weeks, sooner if at all possible. Please let me know if this is impossible for you, otherwise the deadline is March 6th. I have posted a template to follow: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_Template You are welcome to add much more to your article than the template describes, but please follow the formatting notes in that wiki page. If you are not using the wiki to submit your report, please follow this style as best as possible in the rendered HTML. Ultimately, it will be imported into LaTeX and the more consistent the inputs are, the easier it will be to handle. I've named the page, for consistency, where your report will reside. Please do not alter it unless absolutely necessary. If you are not able to edit the wiki for whatever reason, you can email your report to me directly (wiki or text formatting preferred). I'm looking forward to learning much more about all the local chapter, project and committee work that happen last year and being able to share this with others are just as interested. Best wishes, Tyler On 5-Feb-09, at 12:17 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, The 2007 OSGeo Annual Report[1] was a great success and it's time to do it all again. I started up a wiki page listing the primary contacts for each project, committee, chapter and sponsor: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008 If you are involved with one and see that the wrong person is named, or someone is missed, could you please let me know. I will send out more information to each of the main contacts shortly. Also, if you are interested in helping to prepare/collect or format the entries for the compilation, let me know. You will get credit as a section Editor for that issue of the Journal :) I learned a lot compiling last years and it should go much smoother this time around. The annual report is the main reporting venue for OSGeo projects, committees and local chapters. It's the opportunity for newcomers, potential sponsors and users in general to see, in one location, where things have been moving. It is also valuable as a record of history for the organisation, so I hope we can make it another great one. You can see the 2007 report (and previous OSGeo Journal issues) here: [1] http://www.osgeo.org/ojs Best wishes, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director Open Source Geospatial Foundation tmitch...@osgeo.org P: +1-250-277-1621 M: +1-250-303-1831 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source TIN code?
On 2-Mar-09, at 10:17 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: The Community has need of BSD-licensed source code for TIN generation (in 3-space). It doesn't have to be really good, just good enough for some simple demo apps (for example, full-on Delauney support not needed). I know there are a bunch of TIN algs out there on the net in various places, but I don't have much experience with any of them. If anyone has any pointers, I'd appreciate it. Looks like Sextante GIS has some tools coming too: https://lists.forge.osor.eu/pipermail/sextante-devel/2009-February/ 26.html ... using Josef Bezdek's work. Perhaps if you're looking for code samples, his work is a good example to look at: http://bezdek2009dp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/myAlgorithmSextante/src/ es/unex/sextante/vectorTools/ http://sextantegis.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Deadline for Annual Report
Hi, I'm hoping for a March 6th deadline for the Annual Report submissions. This email is a follow up from the earlier note (below) and also cc:'ing those listed as primary contact on the Annual Report wiki page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008 We're ready to start receiving annual reports. I would like to have all the reports in the next 3 weeks, sooner if at all possible. Please let me know if this is impossible for you, otherwise the deadline is March 6th. I have posted a template to follow: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_Template You are welcome to add much more to your article than the template describes, but please follow the formatting notes in that wiki page. If you are not using the wiki to submit your report, please follow this style as best as possible in the rendered HTML. Ultimately, it will be imported into LaTeX and the more consistent the inputs are, the easier it will be to handle. I've named the page, for consistency, where your report will reside. Please do not alter it unless absolutely necessary. If you are not able to edit the wiki for whatever reason, you can email your report to me directly (wiki or text formatting preferred). I'm looking forward to learning much more about all the local chapter, project and committee work that happen last year and being able to share this with others are just as interested. Best wishes, Tyler On 5-Feb-09, at 12:17 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi everyone, The 2007 OSGeo Annual Report[1] was a great success and it's time to do it all again. I started up a wiki page listing the primary contacts for each project, committee, chapter and sponsor: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008 If you are involved with one and see that the wrong person is named, or someone is missed, could you please let me know. I will send out more information to each of the main contacts shortly. Also, if you are interested in helping to prepare/collect or format the entries for the compilation, let me know. You will get credit as a section Editor for that issue of the Journal :) I learned a lot compiling last years and it should go much smoother this time around. The annual report is the main reporting venue for OSGeo projects, committees and local chapters. It's the opportunity for newcomers, potential sponsors and users in general to see, in one location, where things have been moving. It is also valuable as a record of history for the organisation, so I hope we can make it another great one. You can see the 2007 report (and previous OSGeo Journal issues) here: [1] http://www.osgeo.org/ojs Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Annual Report for 2008
Hi everyone, The 2007 OSGeo Annual Report[1] was a great success and it's time to do it all again. I started up a wiki page listing the primary contacts for each project, committee, chapter and sponsor: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2008 If you are involved with one and see that the wrong person is named, or someone is missed, could you please let me know. I will send out more information to each of the main contacts shortly. Also, if you are interested in helping to prepare/collect or format the entries for the compilation, let me know. You will get credit as a section Editor for that issue of the Journal :) I learned a lot compiling last years and it should go much smoother this time around. The annual report is the main reporting venue for OSGeo projects, committees and local chapters. It's the opportunity for newcomers, potential sponsors and users in general to see, in one location, where things have been moving. It is also valuable as a record of history for the organisation, so I hope we can make it another great one. You can see the 2007 report (and previous OSGeo Journal issues) here: [1] http://www.osgeo.org/ojs Best wishes, Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Sponsorship and Exhibition bookings now open
Sydney, Australia. 28 January 2009. Sponsorship and Exhibition packages are now available to be purchased for the international FOSS4G conference, to be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre from 20-23 October 2009. http:// 2009.foss4g.org/sponsorship/ FOSS4G is the international gathering of tribes for open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is User Driven, highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems. The OGC's Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched will demonstrate standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. The CCIP will be a major draw-card for Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) sponsors looking for standards based spatial solutions. http:// external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome BOOK NOW to take advantage of extensive direct marketing campaigns that will extend your exposure well before and beyond the Conference itself. For further details, contact Kirsty O’Brien, Sponsorship and Exhibition Executive, kobr...@tourhosts.com.au or Tel: +61 2 9265 0776 The Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus is available at http:// 2009.foss4g.org/downloads/FOSS4G_Sponsorship_Exhibition_Document.pdf Upcoming milestones * 2 Feb 2009, *Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens* * 9 Mar 2009, *Call for Abstracts opens* * 13 Apr 2009, *Registration for conference and tutorials opens* * 31 Jul 2009, *Author/Early registration deadline* * 20-23 Oct 2009, *FOSS4G* * 24-25 Oct 2009, *Code Sprint* --- From: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_4 For information about this announcement, contact: Cameron Shorter Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft tel +61-8570-5050 c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2008 Proceeding?
Saka, There was going to be a set of papers combined as proceedings, I'll try to find out where that is at for you. Tyler On 24-Jan-09, at 2:44 AM, Saka Royban wrote: Hi all. I wanted to see if there is a way to have all papers of FOSS4G2008 together, without to check each paper manually from its website, sth like an online CD to download. thanks ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Symbology/styles exchange
On 29-Dec-08, at 1:05 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: So the question about a symbol set being considered would not really stand up, if you'd care to point people to them you'd just have to register to the site and add a pointer to them or upload the symbols directly there if the license allows it. Not sure where I can help but I think this exchange concept is a great idea! If anyone finds some tools that could help run such an exchange, and if there is sufficient interest, I might be able to help set up the tools for testing. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
Suchith, How can OSGeo members help with this initiative and how/where do you see overlap with any OSGeo current activities? Sounds like a very good development for keeping the ICA's eyes open about new technology. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your guidance and ideas. Tyler On 9-Dec-08, at 7:59 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: Hi All, The International Cartographic Association's Executive Committee http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/ica/ has approved the establishment of Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at its meeting last week in Chile. The Open Source Geospatial Technologies Working Group aims to promote multi-national holistic research in open source geospatial technologies in order to make accessible the latest developments in open source tools to the wider cartographic community. The WG attempts to enhance the usage of open source geospatial tools among the cartographic community worldwide, especially for education. Finally, the working group will promote the usage of professional and technical standards (ISO TC 211, OGC) for the development of open source geospatial software. Working group membership is open to all interested parties and we aim for representation by as many countries. Promotional strategies of the working group include regular e-mails to members, meetings, conferences, workshops, promotion of geospatial standards and publications. Terms of Reference - Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies 1. To promote the widespread use of open source geospatial software 2. To provide support for the use of open source geospatial software in education through relevant publications 3. To organise conferences, workshops and training sessions for open source geospatial technologies 4. To organise special lectures and demonstrations on open source geospatial technologies 5. To make open source geospatial software more accessible to end users 6. To serve as a network for ICA members interested in open source geospatial technologies by the use of mailing lists, wiki etc 7. Through collaboration with other ICA commissions and working groups promote coordination with different open source geospatial organisations (eg. Open Source Geospatial Foundation) and developer communities. 8. Develop and keep updated the working group's website to disseminate the working group activities. 9. Produce annual reports of the working group activities. ICA have adopted a policy of approving WGs on a one year approval period and within this period it is essential to prove sufficient activity and the First Open Source GIS UK Conference to be jointly organised with OSGeo UK Chapter and Open Knowledge Foundation on 22nd June 2009 at CGS, University of Nottingham will be one of the key events planned as part of the WG activities. We are inviting expressions of interest from interested people to become members of the Working Group and to help steer its activities. If interested to join the WG please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Working Group's website and mailing lists will be activated in January 2009. Please contact me for any information needed. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science Sir Clive Granger Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 846 8408 url: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Tyler Mitchell Executive Director Open Source Geospatial Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +1-250-277-1621 M: +1-250-303-1831 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115 metadata schemas
Hi Paul, I don't know where, but maybe it is included somewhere in the GeoNetwork opensource code? http://geonetwork.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geonetwork/trunk/ On 10-Dec-08, at 1:34 PM, Paul Austin wrote: Does anyone know where to get the XML schema (or DTD) for the ISO 19115 metatda? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
