[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Workshop Community Vote ends today!

2013-06-06 Thread Matt Walker
Community Voting for the additional workshops running during FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham ends today. If you've not already voted then you can do so here: http://community-review.foss4g.org/. Thanks, Matt (on behalf of the LOC). -- Matt Walker @_walkermatt _

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] "Geoservices REST API" story is being discussed on slashdot

2013-06-06 Thread Baumann, Peter
I tend to disagree. The ESRI specification is technologically lagging behind about 10 years. Imposing it on the open standards community would have been a major step back. cheers, Peter From: standards-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [standards-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] "Geoservices REST API" story is being discussed on slashdot

2013-06-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
Arnulf, Yes, the news articles focus of "Open Source beats big bad vendor" failed to mention all the hard lobbying from a number of OGC members and I was a little embarrassed that the article over-emphasised my involvement. However, one thing that I think the OGC can learn is that the reasons

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] "Geoservices REST API" story is being discussed on slashdot

2013-06-06 Thread pcreso
+ 1/2 I agree with much of Arnulf's commentary, and as an OSGEO member who did sign the letter, my reasons were not primarily philosophical or technical, but political. Heavy sigh :-) For some years I have been working towards data sharing & interoperability between a wide range of national &