Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India

Hi, "If not for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, the GRASS mirror site in India, would not have been hosted" Rightly said. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, is a shining exa

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in the future we might consider regionally based board seats. That is, you have representatives from: North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South/Cen

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 10-Aug-07, at 7:26 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I wanted to add my agreement with a couple of the statements made on this topic. First of all, I agree with Gary, I don't think the benefit of releasing the tallies outweighs the harmful side effects. I'm just catch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

Hi All, It seems I've generated an inadvertent influence by proposing this option. I didn't want to embarrass any of the nominees on the contrary seeing a little difference between x any y would show up more about the results than knowing that x have been elected and y have not. But indeed this be

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

Tyler wrote: " I have thought about this too and agree. We could even open this up to receive ideas from the membership at large, then boil it down to a reasonable set. I had hoped there would be more discussion/debate about the candidates before the voting started - there was barely any - but ha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

On 10-Aug-07, at 7:26 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I wanted to add my agreement with a couple of the statements made on this topic. First of all, I agree with Gary, I don't think the benefit of releasing the tallies outweighs the harmful side effects. I'm just catching up on this thread, I did

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hello

Welcome to the list Andrew. I look forward to hearing what you have to contribute to our discussions. Landon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 1:12 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject

[OSGeo-Discuss] Hello

Hi Everyone, I am new to the list and I'd just like to take a moment to say hello to everyone. I work on the Engineering team at Ingres corporation from a home office in Ottawa, Canada. I'll try and jump into the discussions where I can participate. I'm sure I'll inevitably be lurking a lot o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India

On 8/10/07, RAVI KUMAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The students of computer-science (a general term) > rarely develop code for > GIS, as they are probably much in demand elsewhere. It > is a fact that 'Google summer of code', may not be an > option for young programmers, Though generalisation w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India

Hi, I would like to clarify on one aspect relating to GIS in educational institutes. If not for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the initiatives taken at Centre for Ecological Sciences, the GRASS mirror site in India would not have been hosted

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

I wanted to add my agreement with a couple of the statements made on this topic. First of all, I agree with Gary, I don't think the benefit of releasing the tallies outweighs the harmful side effects. Secondly, I think it would be a great idea to release a map showing the location of the board me

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India

I can corroborate Ravi Kumar's observation on GIS in educational institutes. The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing in Dehradun figured prominently in my dissertation research, and in a conversation with the dean of the Institute (V. K. Dadwhal) in 2005 he explained that IIRS had entertained the i

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

I too agree with Gary & Co.; I don't personally see the need to release the results, and in any case the "rules" for this past election were set and should not be changed retroactively. If we are interested in looking at geographic distributions -- and, being geo geeks, who wouldn't be? -- then I'

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS GIS in India

Hi Frank, here are some of my PERSONAL views. Programming skills and GIS: In developing countries like India, GIS and Software (GIS) development in education rarely have much common ground in general. So experts in GIS need not necessarily be software developers. The students of computer-science (