[OSGeo-Discuss] Draft European Open Science Agenda and Call for EoIs for the Selection of members for the High level Advisory Group "Open Science Policy Platform"

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, With the objectives to enable more reliable science (by allowing data verification); more efficient science (by sharing resources); and more responsive science (by contributing to addressing societal challenges), and fostering research integrity are critical for Open Geospatial Sc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Maxi, Yes, I assume that Nik, Marc and others who draft the marketing wiki will consider feedback from the community, and the first draft will help us in the community refine our ideas about what we think is important. Warm regards, Cameron On 18/03/2016 10:35 pm, Massimiliano Cannata wrote

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

2016-03-19 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Bravissimo! Maria Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung Messaggio originale Da: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" Data: 18/03/2016 17:03 (GMT+01:00) A: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Discussions Oggetto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16 Dear OSGeo, NASA World Wind wi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
Hi Maxi, These are 3 tasks "in the middle": I suppose graphic design & structure are part of the WebCom's work. General (static) content could be part of the WebCom's job, whereas more dynamic content (announcements of events, elections etc.) should to my opinion be a task of the commit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the clarity Marc, there is a very different focus between the two activities. My two-cents is what we need here - and what Cameron asked for at the start of the thread - is volunteers to put time on the table. OSGeo is a volunteer organization, please in pitch in to make it great. -- J

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Thanks Cameron, I also think that Nik and Marc can start to work on the MarkCom and are legitimated to do so. This doesn't need stop the discussion which is aiming at providing positive aspects: thinking about needs and gaps to be filled and considered is a worth process. (I used to think and disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Jody Garnett
What did the dutch logo use? Now is a good time since we need new sponsor logos and the incubation committee is readjusting what we do for projects. Lucas did get back to me directly and I am prepared to purchase the fonts just so we can get back in the game... -- Jody Garnett On 18 March 2016 a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
Hmm, I was a bit too optimistic, I suppose. In the Dutch logo the Bitstream Vera sans is used, (according to the SVG) The main text "OSGeo.nl" in our SVG-version is no longer recognizable as text, it's a bunch of paths After some fizzling in Inkspace I notice that the Liberation Sans wou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Marc Vloemans
Thx Cameron for your positive feed back! I guess Gert Jan and I - from the perspective of our involvement in marketing FOSS4G in Bonn - are running into all sorts of questions/expectations/thresholds/legacies/assumptions/undecided items and the like. Thus our own questions and remarks and at le

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)
Hi all, The website is a tool, just as OSGeo-Live is a tool. The 2 committees (WebCom and MarkCom) are closely related. In my opinion MarkCom set the goals and probably defines what tools are needed to reach these goals. WebCom makes sure one of these tools is up and running. That requires d

[OSGeo-Discuss] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

2016-03-19 Thread Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Dear OSGeo, NASA World Wind wins two of the three awards at the ESA Big Data from Space, BiDS’16 conference. http://congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16m05/introduction (Yann Voumard is an ESA developer working on WorldWind) You can win too! http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ -Patrick From: Ya

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is supporting the Geospatial World Forum - opportunity for OSGeo advocates

2016-03-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)
Dirk, Johan Good to see you managed to make good agreements with the GWF organisation! Especially knowing that in 2012 and 2013 we hard some hard times to get things going... And the reduced attendence fee of 25 euro's in something we in Holland of course like as well! Through our Dutch chan

[OSGeo-Discuss] Are you acknowledged in our OSGeo-Live credits?

2016-03-19 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi all, As we wrap up our OSGeo-Live build and put out a press release, we acknowledge all the people who have directly contributed to OSGeo-Live. This is collated from our contributors.csv and translators.csv file. To date, we are aware of 185 people who have contributed, which is awesome. H

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Revising this email thread, the fonts used in the original logos do not quite match Vera Sans. Reading the logo_guide this bitstream vera sans is intended for copy font (website, handouts) - we have no record of the two fonts used in the OSGeo logo itself. Reading in the SVG files it shows that th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Looking at the price online - 40 EUR fun! -- Jody Garnett On 17 March 2016 at 16:23, Jody Garnett wrote: > Found the details here - > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/002643.html > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 17 March 2016 at 16:09, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> Revising thi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
I managed to create an account, and seem to be able to buy directly at lucasfonts [1] However, according to the license agreement "LucasFonts gives you the right to use the enclosed font software on one (1) printer and up to five (5) computers at a single geographic location." In order to p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update sponsorship logos

2016-03-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Found the details here - https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/002643.html -- Jody Garnett On 17 March 2016 at 16:09, Jody Garnett wrote: > Revising this email thread, the fonts used in the original logos do not > quite match Vera Sans. Reading the logo_guide this bitstream

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Cameron Shorter
Nicolas, Marc, You both have proposed some excellent ideas on what we should do within the marketing committee, and I think you are also offering to make it happen? Thank you. I suggest put your ideas into the existing marketing wiki, as linked from here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Ica-osgeo-labs] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

2016-03-19 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Congratulations to Patrick and the WorldWind team! Hope the WorldWind team will consider joining in as an OSGeo software project in the near future. Best Venka On 3/19/2016 2:58 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote: Bravissimo! Maria Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung Messaggio ori

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebWorldWind at BiDS'16

2016-03-19 Thread Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Suchith, NASA has a motto 'for the benefit of all.' WorldWind lives up to that motto. It is an honor and privilege to do so. Thanks much, -Patrick From: Suchith Anand [mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:16 AM To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osge

[OSGeo-Discuss] Expanding open source GIS in the public sector - use cases needed

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, It will be really helpful if councils and local governments who already migrated to Open Source GIS if they can please share their experiences as blogposts to the wider community as done by Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Borough Council https://www.ordnancesurvey.co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

2016-03-19 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Thanks Gert-Jan for the clarification. I have some questions that I cannot answer myself not being an expert: - Who design the website graphic? - Who decide the content? - Who decide the structure of the website? >From your previous mail I understand this is a task for the MarkCom (strategy), whi

[OSGeo-Discuss] Leveraging American Ingenuity through Reusable and Open Source Software

2016-03-19 Thread Suchith Anand
Another good news to share on accelerating open innovation and saving taxpayers money. White House have released for public comment a draft policy to support improved access to custom software code developed for the Federal Government.As part of the Second Open Government Partnership National Ac