Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Dear all, I'll be glad if all original slides and a minutes (by Martin that, I understand from Jeff words, acts as osgeo representative) are going to be shared to the OSGeo community that supports this. Thanks, Maxi Il 29-mag-2015 19:14, "Cameron Shorter" ha scritto: > Punk, Martin, > I suggest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
Punk, Martin, I suggest that Martin's slides, or a summary of the slides, maybe in blog format, be distributed after the meeting. I'm hoping the geospatial media will pick up this story too. (If you know someone from the geospatial media who would like to write up this story then please sugges

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo adopts a Code of Conduct

2015-05-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
As per: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1525 Over the last decade there has been a gradual adoption of Code-Of-Conduct statements at events and within organisations, including at FOSS4G events and within OSGeo projects. Adopting a good Code-Of-Conduct consolidates expectations about respectful behav

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Scott Simmons
Dear OSGeo members, Per Cameron’s message below, we have a limited number of GoTo Meeting connections, so if you wish to join the meeting, please register at this link and the GoTo Meeting details will be forwarded to you. https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/1506pointcloud.php

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Martin, If you are ok with it, I suggest that we prime the media (particularly the media who have already reported this story and the spatial media) by providing them with advance warning that this story is going to break on Monday, and provide them with a write up of the story. If you pla

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Jeff McKenna
For the record Scott asked me for a representative of OSGeo to speak at the table and I of course recommended Martin. I feel it is very important to get everyone at the table together and to talk (I've seen strong words on all sides in e-mails and blogs flying back and forth for months now, al

[OSGeo-Discuss] spatial-science good-practice exemplars?

2015-05-29 Thread Tom Roche
Does OSGeo or related group keep any list(s) of organizations or projects recognized for doing spatial science particularly well/openly? Why I ask: I recently saw a Nature Physics commentary[1] claiming that ''[one] of the first scientists to recognize the need for reproducibility in computatio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread punk . kish
Can we all see Martin's slides please? — Puneet Kishor On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Following on from the OSGeo Open Letter on the Need for Open Standards > in LiDAR [1], Martin Isenburg has been invited to give a 10 minute > presentation as part of the Point Cl

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

2015-05-29 Thread Cameron Shorter
Following on from the OSGeo Open Letter on the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR [1], Martin Isenburg has been invited to give a 10 minute presentation as part of the Point Cloud discussion at the next OGC Technical Committee Meeting, 3pm EDT, this Monday 1 June [2], in Boulder Colorado USA. It

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Thank you Gert-Jan van der Weijden for these updates from the Netherlands. As with any new action plan and policy it will take some time to get this fully implemented but the good news is it is happening (though not as fast as we wish) and as more and more governments realise the economic benifi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

2015-05-29 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
First of all: I'm being proud to see The Netherlands being mentioned in such a positive way regarding open standards. A small addendum: In the years before and after 2007 the Action Plan has created a lot of awareness regarding the use of open standards in the (semi-)public sector. However, the s

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Standards - Good Practice guidelines

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, These good practice guidelines shared by various European governments will be of interest https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/open_standards_ict/og_page/best-practices-library Esp. the action plan for the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software in the public and semi-publ

[OSGeo-Discuss] Co-editors needed for "Geo for All" Newsletters

2015-05-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi all, As we are growing rapidly with lot of activities, it has become difficult to keep track of all developments, so Dr. Nikos Lambrinos (Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) has put forward an excellent idea for starting a "Geo for