Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?

2013-05-23 Thread Duarte Carreira
Cameron, just to say that for the first time I’m seing good strong arguments that make a clear case, that’s easy to understand and with very low emotional content… Thanks for your tireless work on this. Regards, Duarte De: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Enviada:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire conference 2013 paper and workshop

2013-05-23 Thread Just van den Broecke
Hi Jachym and all, Good initiative! I don't know if it is too late (busy), but I've also added my name to the paper. Unfortunately I can't be in Florence but may add some contribution. From 2009 on we (jointly with a.o. Lat-Lon/Occam Labs i.e. deegree) have been doing quite some INSPIRE FOSS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?

2013-05-23 Thread Peter Baumann
Cameron- from the perspective of an OGC spec writer (WCS, in this case) working hard on good engineering I very much appreciate your differentiated viewpoint, refining the catch-all headline appropriately. regards, Peter On 05/23/2013 10:53 AM, Duarte Carreira wrote: Cameron, just to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project not found in list

2013-05-23 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Hi Jeff and others, does it make any sense to have a space for pre-incubation projects (or OSGeo friendly projects) that OSGeo promote even if not still officially part of the family but recognized as interesting? For example I have a project on an OGC service (istSOS) that has a very limited

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] project not found in list

2013-05-23 Thread Helena Mitasova
Wasn't OSGeolabs supposed to fill the need for space for pre-incubation and other type of emerging projects? http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs It appears to be a forgotten OSGeo initiative which surfaced recently due to confusion with ICA-OSGeo research and education laboratories, which is

[OSGeo-Discuss] Market adoption in Korea

2013-05-23 Thread Jeff McKenna
This announcement is from Sanghee Shin from the OSGeo Korea local chapter. - The KAOS-G(Korea Alliance of Open Source Geospatial) was formed and launched on 22nd, May by 8 companies across open source geospatial business in Korea to drive market adoption of open source GIS. Open source GIS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Additional Workshops at FOSS4G 2013

2013-05-23 Thread Matt Walker
We are pleased to announce that we have managed to secure some additional rooms suitable for running workshops during the main conference. These workshops will be free to all delegates and will be ran on a first-come, first-served basis on the day. Paul Ramsey has kindly agreed to run a round of