[OSGeo-Discuss] An example of code sprint

2007-03-01 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, As the FOSS4G 2007 is going to host a code sprint, here is an examaple of one that took place at PyCon 2007: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Sprinting AFAIK, code sprinting is a new idea for FOSS4G fairs so may be it's interesting to see how it was organized at PyCon. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Where 2.0: Lightning talks anyone?

2007-03-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
Mike Adair and Pat Cappelaere, both Mapbuilder developers will be at Where 2.0 and have offered to do a Mapbuilder presentation. Robert Bray wrote: Josh, I'll be at Where and can do a Lighting MapGuide demo / talk. I'll forward a short abstract to you tomorrow sometime. Bob Josh Livni wrot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, The MOOSE project has been working with essentially the same philosophy, with regards to normalizing the code into distinct Chunks, which make the mixing and matching very easy. Integrating services into it are very easy for example. I think our coding style is very much aligned with oth

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for volunteers - Newsletter production team

2007-03-01 Thread Landon Blake
Tyler, I have added my reviewer information and listed myself as the "temporary" editor for the programming tutorials to the wiki page for the OSGeo newsletter: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Newsletter#Reviewers Most of my experience is with higher-level languages, so I'll step aside as editor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

2007-03-01 Thread Schuyler Erle
* On 1-Mar-2007 at 2:11AM PST, Cameron Shorter said: > > Where possible, common libraries should be extracted from projects, > allowing developers to focus on other problems. > However, emotionally it is hard to merge two or more projects. If two > projects merge together, roughly half of each

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Conference announcement: MODSIM 07

2007-03-01 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Begin forwarded message: From: Ari Jolma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 28, 2007 11:40:08 PM PST (CA) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] Conference announcement: MODSIM 07 MODSIM07 – CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR ABSTRACTS THEME: ‘Land, Water & Env

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

2007-03-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
Bob, I'd like to mirror Paul and Christopher's comments. There are a lot of browser based mapping clients available, many of them Open Source. From a user's point of view, this is confusing rather than useful. "Should I get features A,B,C,D or A,C,E,G?" Where possible, common libraries should