Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tim Bowden wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:28 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Or, to quote the IETF, rough consensus and running code. Except that the reference is to the informal criteria for when one might even beginning to firm up a standard. In the

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-09 Thread Landon Blake
Real artists ship. For everyone else, there is wanking. I'm going to add that to my book of favorite quotes. To bad it means I'm a wanker myself... Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Kishor Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:15 PM To:

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-09 Thread Landon Blake
I wasn't trying to apply this quote to all forms of non-programming support on open source projects. I was applying it to programmers like myself, that have 52 projects in their Eclipse IDE, but only two Ant scripts that actually produce a working JAR file on a regular basis. It seems my bad

[OSGeo-Discuss] **GISCorps Volunteers Needed for an Urgent Project**

2008-05-09 Thread Tara Athan
Title: Subject of the email: I just received this notice from GISCorps. Although they state Google Earth as the platform, I imagine any software that accepts the Google Earth web service and produces output in KML format would work as well. Any use of an alternate platform would have to be