Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Ramsey
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Steven Feldman wrote: > When do you want to run the code sprints? Our preference would be to provide > facilities for the code sprints on Sunday 22nd but if there was a strong > preference to go for the Monday we could try to secure space for that (not > guarantee

[OSGeo-Discuss] News: NASA World Wind Selects MapServer as Engine

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff McKenna
(I think this press release is of interest to the OSGeo community) -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *NASA World Wind Server to Leverage MapServer Open Source Engine* Moffett Field, CA. 16 October 2012 The NASA World Wind project team has selected the MapServer Open Source mapping engine to serve its m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 17 October 2012 11:11, Volker Mische wrote: > Hi Steven, > > I'd go for Sunday for the code sprint, as I would suspect that people > are heading home on Sunday, to get back to the normal work week on > Mondays. Those people could at least spend the morning sprinting. +1 Best regards, -- Mate

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Volker Mische
Hi Steven, I'd go for Sunday for the code sprint, as I would suspect that people are heading home on Sunday, to get back to the normal work week on Mondays. Those people could at least spend the morning sprinting. Cheers, Volker On 10/17/2012 10:39 AM, Steven Feldman wrote: > I know it is very

[OSGeo-Discuss] First CfP for Academic Track - FOSS4G 2013 "Geo for All"

2012-10-17 Thread Suchith Anand
On behalf of FOSS4G 2013 LOC, we are pleased to announce the first CfP for the Academic Track FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track: "Science for Open Source, Open Source for Science" The FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track is bringing together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out resear

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Steven Feldman
Bart We proposed the conference from Tuesday through Saturday in our original submission to OSGeo, those are the only dates available as we are dovetailing with the UK Association for Geographic Information's GeoCommunity event which runs on the Tuesday and Wednesday (overlapping with our works

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
Hey Steven, this has been discussed in the past, where I was in favour of a sprint before the conference, but I think I was one of the few (if not the only one), since most people have talks and workshops to prepare. I was a bit surprised though to see the conference move into the weekend, what

[OSGeo-Discuss] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-17 Thread Steven Feldman
I know it is very early to start talking about code sprints for FOSS4G 2013 but we have a couple of options that we would like to share. The rough timetable for FOSS4G 2013 currently looks like this: Tuesday 17th Sept - Workshops Wednesday 18th -Workshops, Icebreaker event in the eve