[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Technical Committee Meeting protocol available Online

2009-07-15 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
All, the OGC [1] members meet four times a year for a one week long meeting to work in working groups. At the fourth day the Technical Committee meets and motions and votes on new standards, change requests, new working groups etc. The meetings themselves are only open to members and invited

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software in a commercial application.

2009-07-15 Thread G. Allegri
Hi Landon. If understand correctly you use AutoLISP to produce interpreted helper scripts, so you don't create binary libraries to be statically (in this case GPL is an issue) or dynamically (there are various interpretations in this case) linked, am I right? AFAIK you can keep your code GPL until

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Technical Committee Meeting protocol available Online

2009-07-15 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
All, the OGC [1] members meet four times a year for a one week long meeting to work in working groups. At the fourth day the Technical Committee meets and motions and votes on new standards, change requests, new working groups etc. The meetings themselves are only open to members and invited

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software in a commercial application.

2009-07-15 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:12:14PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote: I'm working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD and AutoCAD that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS software. (For example: One set of my scripts allows CAD users to export drawing geometry in OGC

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software in a commercial application.

2009-07-15 Thread G. Allegri
Ok, so I have a double issue :) If it went into SPAM it was deleted (my spam is empty now)... Qgis wiki admins: As you can see *I AM* the 'giohappy' account (you can see it because this is the email address I've registered). So, alternately: - can you confirm me manually? - can you delete my

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Anton Patrushev
Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such thing and would like to join the group if there we decide to start one. Anton. 2009/7/15 Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software in acommercial application.

2009-07-15 Thread Landon Blake
Thank you for the answers Mr. Allegri and Mr. Schmidt. I believe the GPL would be appropriate based on your comments, since the scripts are being interpreted and I am not distributing the consuming programs. I will see if I can do some more research on this topic. Landon Office Phone Number:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Milo van der Linden
1) A good starting point would be http://www.opengts.org/ 2) Yes. I am interested in a working group, preferably when there are business cases addressing the need for open source fleet management. Dimitris Kotzinos schreef: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Just van den Broecke
just googling: http://opentrucking.com ? and http://geotracing.com ;-) --Just Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl The Netherlands www.justobjects.nl Anton Patrushev wrote: Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka
Hi, I am also interested joining such a group. Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Kind regards, Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka (Geschaeftsfuehrer/Managing Director) --- Geo-IT GmbH - Geoinformatik, IT-Services Guggenberg 3, D-82380 Peissenberg Tel:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Arnie Shore
I'm quite interested. My special interest is where the 'fleet' consists of a number of emergency response vehicles, for public safety agencies whether career or volunteer. While I have an Open Source CAD package available that provides some level of such tracking via APRS and other sources, it's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Basques
Alll, You can count me as interested, I'm also interested in the emergency Management side of the equation. bobb Anton Patrushev anton.patrus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such thing and would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of starting/setting up a group to work on this? I am also interested in such a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Robert Hollingsworth
Assuming that Fleet Mgmt is synonymous with AVL, I have clients/contacts in the US Rural Electric Cooperative space that have interests in this area and are possible candidates for an O-S solution because of cost and other factors. I hope a new list forms around this subject Robert H. 1/

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software in acommercialapplication.

2009-07-15 Thread Moskovitz, Bob
Speaking of FOSS legal issues, you might be interested in this: http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Printy
I am interested as well and have been thinking about something like this for a couple of years now. Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet

[OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Annual Report Published

2009-07-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
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

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using GPL for geospatial software inacommercialapplication.

2009-07-15 Thread Landon Blake
Bob, The journal looks interesting. I will read over some of the articles and will pass the link to the journal on to some of my fellow programmers. Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

[OSGeo-Discuss] FYI - US Cong. Hearing on Geospatial Information

2009-07-15 Thread Julia Harrell
Might be of interest to some on the list This U.S. Congressional Oversight Hearing on the Management of Geospatial Information will be webcast live on Thursday, July 23rd at 10 AM EDT, as well as archived for later viewing.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie Shore wrote: Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that