Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO Good call Cameron. In this day and age it would pay to be proactive on these types of issues. It's been a while since I last looked at this. >From memory, a number of large companies have pledged resources to help defend FOSS. I'm not sure where this is at currently. I think that its

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Cameron Shorter
Good processes + no money is an acceptable strategy so long as we have consciously made this decision and everyone is aware of the strategy. Allan Doyle wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 15:09 , Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Way back on that cold day in Chicago, I'm not sure anyone ever really thought a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Allan Doyle
On Oct 30, 2007, at 15:09 , Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Way back on that cold day in Chicago, I'm not sure anyone ever really thought about what it would mean when we said we'd "offer legal protection". Does it imply/lead-to/entail some sort of indemnification? Ouch, that would be pricey... How

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Way back on that cold day in Chicago, I'm not sure anyone ever really thought about what it would mean when we said we'd "offer legal protection". Does it imply/lead-to/entail some sort of indemnification? Ouch, that would be pricey... How does the Apache gang, et al, handle this? -mpg > --

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Landon Blake
Cameron, I think this is an excellent idea, and a lawyer should definitely be consulted. I wonder if the legal staff at the Software Freedom Conservancy could assist. Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter Sent: Tuesday, O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

2007-10-30 Thread Helena Mitasova
I am planning to attend and I will be willing to chair a session - I planned to submit an abstract today please let me know if we have enough people for the session so that I can adjust the abstract accordingly. I can also help with the booth. Helena Helena Mitasova Dept. of Marine, Earth an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How do you create .mgp files?

2007-10-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Perhaps you could find your answer at http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2006/04/09/15/mapguide-open-source-package-utilities/ Or maybe direct your question pto the mapguide-users mailing list below http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users Venka Ayush wrote: hi, i'm a newbie and h

[OSGeo-Discuss] How do you create .mgp files?

2007-10-30 Thread Ayush
hi, i'm a newbie and have just started to work with map servers. I was trying to develop a web page using the map server. I have some shape files and some layers edited ArcGIS and i was trying to use the same in my page using Map Studio. It seems that the studio only detects the .mgp formats. I tr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-30 Thread Cameron Shorter
OSGeo Board, (CC to OSGeo Discuss), During the founding of OSGeo, it was often noted that OSGeo projects would benefit from OSGeo legal protection. Now, as Geotools wrestles with graduation criteria and how to handle license assignment, the nature and level of legal protection offered by OSGeo is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-10-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: ... We are now testing and re-building RPM for Mandriva 2008. I will put all info about this on wiki and inform on this list. I have created a wiki page below with info about Mandriva 2008 RPM packages. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_Toolkit_for_Man