Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

2012-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
Markus Neteler wrote: A project can decide what makes the most sense for them. Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer traceable..). Just check out how long it's taking on openstreetmap ... -- Lester

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board of Directors nomination: Anne Ghisla

2012-07-28 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:56:27 +0200 Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We would like to nominate Anne Ghisla (from Italy) to the Board of Directors. Hello all, thanks Margherita and Stefano for the nomination, and Italian chapter for support! I am honored for it, and

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: * Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or Open Data. * Collect

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread nicolas bozon
Barry, Hi also think it is a really good idea. However, one simple question comes to my mind: How to deal with the data property and rights, ragrding both printing or spreading on the Web ? May be such an initiative should accept maps using OpenData or OSM only ? Best, Nick 2012/7/28

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread Mark Lucas
Great idea, I was just thinking that we need to add something exciting and new that promotes OSGeo. The OSGeo live disk certainly does that, but this would place more emphasis on data/art/style. I know there is a large segment within OSGeo that would like to focus more on education and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread Mr. Puneet Kishor
On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was thinking: .. Great idea, but a physical book in today's day and age?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread maning sambale
cool idea! i love to bring this book to my regular fossgeo promotion rounds. On Jul 28, 2012 8:46 PM, nicolas bozon nicolas.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Great ideas ! I think if the input format is generic enough (LateX, or Sphinx may be..), we would be able to provide such a maps collection

[OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Meeting Tomorrow - July 23rd

2012-07-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Incubation meeting 19 is scheduled for tomorrow, you can catch up on the agenda here (or perhaps add to it?): - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IncCom_Meeting19 Meeting time: Australia 11pm India 6:30pm Europe 3pm America 9am

[OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013 Conference

2012-07-28 Thread David William Bitner
*May 22-24, 2013 FOSS4G North America 2013 Marriott City Centerhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspcc-minneapolis-marriott-city-center/ Minneapolis, MN - USA Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced that the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

2012-07-28 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.07.2012 05:44, Andrew Ross wrote: On 27 July 2012 18:43, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org mailto:nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org mailto:andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-07-28 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Very good idea. It would be also interesting if map creation instructions on the book could be demonstrated using OSGeoLive and the tools provided in it. This way the Live DVD could be distributed with the book (and vise versa). Thoughts? Angelos On 07/28/2012 03:07 PM, Mark Lucas wrote:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Cameron Shorter

2012-07-28 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
I am pleased to nominate Cameron Shorter to be a member of the OSGeo Board. Followers of this list will no doubt already be familiar with Cameron: active in this foundation since the very beginning, he chaired the 2009 FOSS4G conference, has served on various OSGeo committees, and has worked on