Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread K S Rajan
Jeff, All, Well, we have been making and distributing OSGeo Live-USB drives in a few events over the last few years, in addition to LiveDVDs and have not faced any major issues. Sometimes also modified it by dropping/adding some tools or sample data. So, if USBs are centrally produced, tweaking

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 OSGeo Code Sprint in Philadelphia - Feb 9 - 13

2015-01-18 Thread Jody Garnett
That is great news about the sponsors! Glad to see the sprint coming together .. and I have booked a flight. If anyone is interested in cutting costs and sharing a room please send me an email. -- Jody -- Jody Garnett On 28 November 2014 at 03:13, Robert Cheetham wrote: > OSGeo Developers, >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 OSGeo Code Sprint in Philadelphia - Feb 9 - 13

2015-01-18 Thread Robert Cheetham
Prospective Code Sprinters, Just a reminder to make your travel reservations for the annual code sprint. Once you've made your travel plans, please add your name to the code sprint page in the OSGeo wiki . A big round of applause to the s

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Angelos, Yes this is a great plan (I spoke with BrianH about this idea a few months ago also). For those unaware, individuals (often local chapter reps) order USB drives from local distributors, and there are many many problems at FOSS4G events with incorrect formatting of drives, wrong O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi Jeff, After the problem we faced in 2014 creating working OSGeoLive USB drives for FOSS4G, I propose that we should produce Live USBs massively this year, and send to 2015 events according to estimated demand. Thoughts? Best, Angelos On 01/18/2015 09:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello com

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
..and also on that page is the 2006-2007 budget, which makes for a good read: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Budget_2006-2007 K thanks for your time! :) -jeff On 2015-01-18 3:13 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: You might also be curious of previous budgets for OSGeo; you can see all of them (from 2008-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
You might also be curious of previous budgets for OSGeo; you can see all of them (from 2008-2014) here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Budget -jeff On 2015-01-18 3:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hello community! It's important that we now come up with a budget for the OSGeo organization

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

2015-01-18 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hello community! It's important that we now come up with a budget for the OSGeo organization for 2015. This is a great opportunity for committees such as our Systems Architecture committee, or the Marketing committee, to request funding to be put aside for spending for specific needs. Thanks t