[OSGeo-Discuss] Kudos to the CRO, Board, Members and OSGeo in general

2018-11-29 Thread Arnulf Christl
This is just a big Thank-You and Well-Done to the CRO, current Board, new nominees, SAC and whoever else may have been involved in setting up this year's election. Having been a CRO earlier in the life of OSGeo myself and knowing how much work this involves I can just bow to the amazing job all of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Free-gis] ILWIS to become freeware

2007-01-31 Thread Arnulf Christl
Emil Zegers wrote: Hello list, From a contact at ITC I've heard that ILWIS will become open source under the GPL license. Hello, that is good to hear! More info is available on the 52 Degrees North website http://www.52north.org/ Emil Zegers FYI - there has been some discussion in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Free-gis] ILWIS to become freeware

2007-02-01 Thread Arnulf Christl
what happens, it is good to have development. Regards, Arnulf. I hope things will work out with ILWIS going Open Source because ILWIS has much to offer. Regards, Emil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnulf Christl Sent: Wednesday, Jan

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

2007-03-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
Bob Basques wrote: All, The MOOSE project has been working with essentially the same philosophy, with regards to normalizing the code into distinct Chunks, which make the mixing and matching very easy. Integrating services into it are very easy for example. I think our coding style is ve

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

2007-03-05 Thread Arnulf Christl
Zachary L. Stauber wrote: If I'm not mistaken at the last FOSS4G conference OracleXE already did have a demonstration and it wasn't nearly as integrated with open source software as the requirements we're now talking about to be part of FOSS4G. I didn't attend it, but I did talk to some of the p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

2007-03-05 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Mon, March 5, 2007 19:26, Allan Doyle wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2007, at 13:26, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > >> ross s wrote: >>> Just to add a bit more spice to the discussion. I think the root >>> problem here is a definition amoung open source purists. Jeff >>> Thurston has added some interesting p

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

2007-03-05 Thread Arnulf Christl
adjust to common people and say Open Source when we mean Free Software or do we educate people about the implications of FLOSS beyond dental hygiene. This is to be taken with some humor. I guess OSGeo is an organization that is about educating people. Ideally with that humor. My personal interest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free

2007-03-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Wed, March 7, 2007 15:37, Josef Assad wrote: > Hello OSGeo community, > > I am a little new in here, so a quick two line introduction; Ive been > involved with free software for something like 8 years now in almost > all capacities except programming it (much to the fortune of code > quality ev

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AJAX Trust and security

2007-03-11 Thread Arnulf Christl
anyone with an OSGeo account can secure theri service or access secured servcies. With OSGeo Single Sign On. Wanted to show that off at FOSS4G but what the heck lets do it now. :-) Best regards, Arnulf. > Arnulf Christl wrote: >> Bob Basques wrote: >>> All, >>> >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AJAX Trust and security

2007-03-11 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Mon, March 12, 2007 00:11, Arnulf Christl wrote: > > On Sun, March 4, 2007 00:26, Cameron Shorter wrote: >> Arnulf, >> You mention in this email thread that you are considering addressing >> security. >> We want to provide a secure mechanism for AJAX clients to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G 2007 Workshop Submission

2007-03-29 Thread Arnulf Christl
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > ___________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Arnulf Christl http://www.wheregroup.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G 2007 Workshop Submission

2007-03-29 Thread Arnulf Christl
; . >> >> http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations >> >> Yours, >> >> The FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee >> > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Arnulf Christl http://www.wheregroup.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

2007-03-30 Thread Arnulf Christl
colors. Most of the data is currently not protected by any license at all, some have a copyright tag somewhere. It is a pain, but it is getting better. Never stop talking to them, they need all the moral support they can get. :-) Regards, Arnulf Christl ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Freegis-list] Autodesk, DXF, OSGEO

2007-05-11 Thread Arnulf Christl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note the same Autodesk funding OSGEO is also the creator of .DXF, which one must jump thru HOOPS and turn purple even thinking of converting to other formats here on GNU/Linux. Hi Dan, Autodesk is a fairly old and large corporation with a straight forward proprietar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] > Although my University has a large Unix system also and while it runs > many debian-based systems, my experience is that it is even more > difficult to set up a free GIS environment (the Geoinformatica for > example) there - so in fact the Windows solution is not so bad after > all. And as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting article on open source economics

2007-05-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Sat, May 12, 2007 20:29, Jason Birch wrote: > Hmm. That sounds like an oxymoron, but: > > > > Jason >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron: An oxymoron (plural oxymora) is a figure of speech that combines t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] THIRD BRAZILIAN MAPSERVER USER'S MEETING

2007-05-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Paulo Marcondes wrote: 2007/5/16, Rafael Medeiros Sperb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Paulo, Your name is in the provisory OSGeo-Br committee... we will keep in touch. Você ou alguém da comissão organizadora irá atualizar o wiki, para refletir o desenvolvimento recente da OSGeo-Br?? Eu gostaria de sa

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks (was: Geographic Diversity)

2007-08-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
1,73 Euro-Cent Dearest all non-Directors, this interesting thread is void of relevance as long as we have no better understanding of what the title "OSGeo director" is good for. Let me share my experience as a director over the past 1,5 years and maybe you can help me to understand what this th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Integration test bed thingy at FOSS4G

2007-08-24 Thread Arnulf Christl
Our 2ct for the Integration Showcase: PS. I am really hoping that anyone good at MapServer will take a run at the problem. We are interested in consuming WMS and WFS services in our application Mapbender. We do not need the Online Resources or FeatureTypes of the services now because we want t

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs

2007-10-04 Thread Arnulf Christl
rface where you can use the mouse to reference points in the image (I don't know whether it is in the current release, check back with the qgis mailing list to be sure). Best regards, -- Arnulf Christl http://www.wheregroup.com ___ Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Turn around on new Incubation submittals.

2007-10-04 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Wed, October 3, 2007 17:18, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > On 10/3/07, Bob Basques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All, >> >> >> What's the turn around supposed to be on incubation submittals? I sent >> in an application last Friday and never got any sort of reply. Even >> a confirmation of recei

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-10-31 Thread Arnulf Christl
Cameron Shorter wrote: Good processes + no money is an acceptable strategy so long as we have consciously made this decision and everyone is aware of the strategy. Hello, keeping budgets low already is a corporate strategy of OSGeo as far as I am concerned. I am eager to extend this strategy to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

2007-11-02 Thread Arnulf Christl
Jody Garnett wrote: Arnulf Christl wrote: Cameron Shorter wrote: Good processes + no money is an acceptable strategy so long as we have consciously made this decision and everyone is aware of the strategy. Hello, keeping budgets low already is a corporate strategy of OSGeo as far as I am

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reflections on the Jornadas gvSIG

2007-11-21 Thread Arnulf Christl
Jo Walsh wrote: dear all, I got a lot out of the Jornadas gvSIG 3-day user/developer meeting last week, and wanted to share a few notes with la comunidad ingles-hablante. One thing that jumped out is the strength of positive language about "software libre" amongst the user community; not just a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Events on your calendar

2008-01-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Hi all, Starting into 2008 makes it a good time to update our event calendar. You can see events listed on the front page of osgeo.org - but there isn't much in there right now: http://www.osgeo.org/event/2008/01/10/list/all/all Keeping events in this list will he

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tim Bowden wrote: In putting together some words for the Aust-NZ chapters bid to host the 2009 FOSS4G conf, I went looking at what OSGeo stands for and how we could answer that mission in our conf hosting bid. I looked at http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html and got the distinct im

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 17-Jan-08, at 11:51 AM, Howard Butler wrote: I applaud OTG for developing a curriculum and providing training services to serve this market, and I think the osgeo-discuss is a perfect place for an announcement like this. I encouraged them to post here so oth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Yves Jacolin wrote: Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" links from the front page. Do we have a place where we put all our pres

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
k that this service would cost OSGeo $300 to 400 to publish news to reach "AP and UPI" (whatever that is...?). Confusing. I deleted it. Best regards, Arnulf. Jacolin Yves wrote: Le Friday 18 January 2008 14:05:49 Arnulf Christl, vous avez écrit : Yves Jacolin wrote: Le jeudi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] projection projects

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Mike Adair wrote: I'd like to follow up on a conversation that took place at FOSS4G in Victoria regarding a gathering of the open source projection clan under the OSGeo umbrella. Frank can probably expand on the idea more, but the idea being that it would be an opportunity to build up a commun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Howard Butler wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: If you were to lead the development of this material and put it into the Open Source (with your name attached) this would give you extra credibility and marketing reach. Why? Why must OTG put their hard earned training

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technology Group, Inc. announces PostGIS & UMN MapServer Training

2008-01-24 Thread Arnulf Christl
think the osgeo-discuss >>> is a perfect place for an announcement like this. >>> >>> Howard >>> >> >> Does this mean that all businesses providing this kind of service >> should now spam this list with their latest announcements? Maybe we can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?

2008-01-29 Thread Arnulf Christl
hould really have done that much earlier. Cheers, Arnulf. > Cheers, > Micha > > > -- > Micha Silver > Arava Development Co > +972-8-6592270 > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@

SPD Prioritization (was: Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before cancelling: OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?)

2008-02-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
rioritize: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SPD_Prioritization Frank has already reported to the board at the last meeting and implementation is more or less under way. So if you have cool ideas, then now is the time to share them. Best regards, Arnulf. --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OS Spatial environment 'sizing' + Image Management

2008-02-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
Lucena, Ivan wrote: Hi Bruce, Here I am again... Randy suggestion are pretty valuable and very well based but I have a especial interest on storing raster on databases so that is why I asked about it. Yes, raster is chunky and not very fluid but I love to hear from successful experience li

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatial environment 'sizing')

2008-02-21 Thread Arnulf Christl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO: Hi Tyler, Thanks for the reply. Am I correct in believing that the two things people desire with images in an RDB, is having an abstract 1) storage framework (tables) and 2) a common access language (SQL) for managing the framework. You could have the mo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatial environment 'sizing')

2008-02-22 Thread Arnulf Christl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO: [...] I am probably too vector oriented to understand the problems involved here but my experience is that there should be no issue if you have your services configured all right. I don't agree. But then my requirements are for spatial data that covers a la

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Image Management in an RDBMS...(was OS Spatial environment 'sizing')

2008-02-22 Thread Arnulf Christl
Randy George wrote: Hi Bruce, "What approaches are people using with large Lidar datasets?" You might take a look at the WeoGeo group. They are a commercial operation, not FOSS, BEEP! The opposite to "FOSS" is "proprietary"! Some related information can be found here: http://wiki.o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Buttons

2008-03-01 Thread Arnulf Christl
>> > > > > -- > Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE > Geospatial Software lab > Department of Geosciences > Idaho State University - Idaho Falls > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hydromap.com > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Arnulf Christl http://www.wheregroup.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Marketing Material For Chico Meeting of California Geography Society

2008-04-05 Thread Arnulf Christl
communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify > the sender immediately._______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Arnulf Christl htt

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal: OSGeo Cartographic Library

2008-04-08 Thread Arnulf Christl
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Markus Neteler wrote: Dear OSGeo, I would like to launch the idea of an "OSGeo Cartographic Library" to share concepts, source code and regression tests: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library GRASS, QGIS and others are in the need of own map printing too

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?

2008-04-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
andrea antonello wrote: Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do are a table join, a spatial join I'm not sure what you mean with spatial join, but if you mean overlay, and raster combination GRASS can do, and it can also do table joins, while it overlays two vector

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?

2008-04-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Fri, April 25, 2008 20:51, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote: > >> What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some >> strange reason all that I do starts with an http://... > > A Desktop GIS is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: OS and proprietary

2008-04-27 Thread Arnulf Christl
advantage - but you don't have to. So my suggestion is to put COTS on the shelf of terminology that is compatible with Open Source. Best regards, Arnulf. [1] http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/portal/article_show?article=osjb2007-01-02-freyermuth.pdf [2] http://wiki.o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
wrapping up... On Fri, May 9, 2008 00:32, Miles Fidelman wrote: > P Kishor wrote: > >> On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> One important point that Fogel makes that I think is worth noting >>> here is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially >>> successful softw

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] > I thought we were talking about forcing governments to offer up > information in a "open standard" format. Are you saying that if a city > has standardized on MS Office, it would be ok for them to continue to > post .doc? I got the feeling that folks are saying these cities need to > aba

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] > There is this cultural pressure on "standards" to be marketing tools. > Because of the government and military context for GIS, this pressure > is particularly intense for us. It starts to loop back on itself somewhat > like this, http://frot.org/on_standards/statements.html Jo, Thanks for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Voting for new OSGeo Charter Members open until 6th June 2008

2008-06-02 Thread Arnulf Christl
+1 from Arnulf Christl to add all 18 nominees as new charter members (this is not a motion and obviously we should not change the rules of the process while it is running - but what the heck, if We All think it makes sense?) Maybe it is also time to polish up the image of the (normal, intentional

[OSGeo-Discuss] Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions

2008-06-12 Thread Arnulf Christl
All, every now and then governance issues pop up in lists and on IRC. I will try to summarizes some of them for those of .us who do not follow all OSGeo communication that closely. One critique is that the board of directors does not make decisions easily and quickly which could be seen as a w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > > On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > > >> Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to >> represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with the >> usual free software values,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Thematic Mapping Engine as Open Source?

2008-06-24 Thread Arnulf Christl
Bjorn Sandvik wrote: Thanks for your feedback. I'll consider the pros and cons between different licenses. I don't have commercial interests, but I would like the project to be sustainable. I've changed my mind about using SourceForge, - I agree that Google Code is more suitable. Just as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-28 Thread Arnulf Christl
Yves Jacolin wrote: Le vendredi 27 juin 2008 19:22, Jason Birch a écrit : I agree with the concept of lightning-talk style reports, but I think that it was valuable having the open question/comment section at the end for general OSGeo organizational discussion. We didn't really have that availab

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help: GDAL and txt2shp.py

2008-07-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
Kjell Are Refsvik wrote: On 4. juli. 2008, at 02.46, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: ... You had mentioned to me earlier about GDAL/OGR from the infamous Kyngchaos package, right? Yes. Do you have the command "gdalinfo" and "ogrinfo" Yes: refsvik$ gdalinfo Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-07-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Mateusz Loskot wrote: On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote: On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to represent the found

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
tee Chair > Conference Committee member > http://www.foss4g2007.org/ > > > Personal website: > Maps, GPS, etc. > http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Tue, August 19, 2008 17:12, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > On 18-Aug-08, at 9:55 PM, Dave Patton wrote: > > >> Has the OSGeo foundation, or any of the OSGeo projects, >> done the Group Registration with freenode? >> http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml >> > > Yes, I did this a long tim

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Projects at FOSS4G

2008-09-10 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: I'm curious about how many different projects (OSGeo and others) will be represented at FOSS4G by speakers, workshops, etc. Rather than wade through the presentation listing, I thought I'd be lazy and ask here. If you know that your project(s) are going to be repr

[OSGeo-Discuss] We now have an updated version of the OSGeo Logo

2008-11-05 Thread Arnulf Christl
Hi All, some might remember that we started working on an updated version of the OSGeo logo (last year...). There have been some technical reasons to update the logo. It is now easier to stitch on paraphernalia, copy on table cloth banners, etc. Beyond this we have also listened to the critics

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] meruvian program

2009-03-02 Thread Arnulf Christl
Hey Frans, I was out of office for several weeks and only now found your mail. This sounds very interesting, I can see that you have been very aactive in the past years! Congratulations. Best regards, Arnulf. Frans Thamura wrote: hi there i just create a slide, still mixed indonesia and eng

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What usually your local chapter exhibit in a conference?

2009-04-15 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacolin Yves schrieb: > Le Tuesday 14 April 2009 22:46:13 Cameron Shorter, vous avez écrit : >> Yves, >> Have you considered using the LiveDVD instead of a USB key? I suspect it >> would be cheaper. (at ~ $2 per DVD). You can also include all the data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] parsing coordinates

2009-04-21 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pere roca ristol schrieb: > hi all, > > > I'm developing a webapplication that let's user upload their point data and > play with it. > > It currently works with lat/long in a CSV with this format (eg: *0.44, -79.9 > *) but we find users with some o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki Upkeep - Orphaned Pages

2009-04-23 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Birch schrieb: > Alex Mandel wrote: > >> There should be 0 pages removed from this process, and when in >> doubt about a link, just leave it for someone else who knows that >> topic. > > There are a bunch of old MapGuide links there that were

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
ow. Regards, Arnulf. > Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) a écrit : >> Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses schrieb: >> >>> I've found several pages and some users spamming the wiki as you can >>> see in [1] >>> >>> [1] >>> http://wiki.os

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Events OSGeo India

2009-11-23 Thread Arnulf Christl
appreciated. Regards, Arnulf PS: Trying to sort through mails after longer absence from office. Please bear with me. -- Arnulf Christl President OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman

Request for OSGeo projects logos (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for OSGeo projects logos)

2009-11-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
use. >> > > This is the place where we *should* have project logos, but at this > time there are just sponsors and general OSGeo branding stuff. Maybe > the logos are there, out of the "logo" folder... > > What about asking any project to

Re: [Fwd: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI]

2009-11-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
ithout politely asking beforehand. It may be unconventional to fight a well known Meme like "viral effect" but that does not make is any more appropriate. :-) Will need to add this to [[Category:Advocacy]] some day... -- Arnulf Christl President OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org ___

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: Request for OSGeo projects logos]

2009-11-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:39 -0500 From: Frank Warmerdam To: arn...@osgeo.org References: <5b9547fb0911250105g5453a933x4ac142702bbfb...@mail.gmail.com> <4b0cf81c.4070...@lingner.eu> <4b0cfafc.7060...@osgeo.org> <4b0d610f.8050...@osgeo.org> Arnulf Christl wrote: > OSGeo Pr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Incubator] [Fwd: Re: Request for OSGeo projects logos]

2009-11-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone was a lot brighter than me long ago: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Logos_from_OSGeo_projects Pls. update your links and add our new projects while you are at it. Regards, Arnulf Christl wrote: > Folks, > Frank is perfectly right in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] books on Web Services

2009-12-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Arnulf Christl Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership

2009-12-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
IANAL in any post, just argue straight forward to your point. /me slowly walks off for cover Best regards, Arnulf. [1] http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html -- Arnulf Christl Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us/ ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO code

2009-12-22 Thread Arnulf Christl
Jo -- "#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))" (Shakespeare) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Arnulf Christl Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us/ _

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

2010-01-25 Thread Arnulf Christl
ny other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are > not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need > are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our > partners. > > Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Arnulf

[OSGeo-Discuss] Mailing List for jquery geo development

2010-03-06 Thread Arnulf Christl
SAC, can you please set up a mailing list named "geojquery"? I volunteer as list admin. Once the list is up and prodictive we will announce it on this list again. After that you have to follow progress there. Best regards, Arnulf. - -- Arnulf Christl Exploring Space, Time and

[OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGeo Mailing List: jQuery for geospatial development

2010-03-06 Thread Arnulf Christl
://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geojquery Hack the Wiki at: http://geojquery.org/ Tweet it, blog on it. Maybe this is a chance to get the attention of spatially unaware developers. Thanks to Till for starting this and to Jan for bringing it into the Spanish speaking worlds. Best regards, - -- Arnulf

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is the integration of FOSS4G and proprietary software good for FOSS4G?

2010-03-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
prietary extensions, >> drivers, ... >> >> What is your oppinion about this tricky question? >> >> Best, >> >> [1] http://sextantegis.blogspot.com/ >> - >> Miguel Montesinos >> CTO >> PRODEVEL

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Generalizing complex 3D vector polygon data

2010-03-23 Thread Arnulf Christl
mplemented algorithms to generalize complex 3D to less complex 3D > data. Am I right? > > > Since my team is heavily using FOSS4G, we're looking for a solution (if > any) that would ideally be 100% FOSS4G. > > Thanks for any feedback, > > Alex I'd ch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
gt; >>> conference stands, and also be a page in a book of OSGeo projects. > >>> > >>> The aim of these overview pages is to have them be consistent, sexy, and > >>> sell OSGeo in a positive, professional manner. > >>> > >>> To

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSSGIS 2011 Call for Papers eröffnet

2010-10-21 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, the FOSSGIS conference (FOSS4G's small sibling) has opened the Call for Papers [1]. It will be in German language but we all manage some English, so feel free to come visit beautiful Heidelberg from 5th to 7th of April 2011. Best regards, Arnu

[OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-20 Thread Arnulf Christl
the many talks we had with OSGeo members and friends at the conference and look forward to a productive coming year. On behalf of the OSGeo board of directors, Arnulf Christl [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Denver_2011#Agenda [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board [3

[OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the Board Meeting in Seattle

2012-02-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
s but this will be a need that has to be formulated in the committees. All of these decisions are bound to cause discussions and we invite everybody to take part and collaborate to leading OSGeo in a sustainable and meaningful way. Best regards, Arnulf Christl [1] http:/

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Board] Resignation from Board

2012-02-08 Thread Arnulf Christl
Folks, this thread is growing way too big in my opinion. If you want to know why Jeff resigned, please ask him. I am not going to thank and farewell him because I don't think that he is leaving and I want to leave a door open for him to just continue doing what he is good at. This is not an employ

FOSS4G South America (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoBolivia - hiring personal)

2012-02-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
Hi Conference Committee, there are several mails related to having a FOSS4G in South America. Mabye we can keep an eye on this and support them from OSGeo. Cheers, Arnulf On 02/13/2012 05:24 AM, slesage wrote: > I hope we will succeed in having a close collaboration between > GeoBolivia and the O

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Elections 2012

2012-06-22 Thread Arnulf Christl
voice them here on the Discuss list or send them to c...@osgeo.org. All nominations and votes have to be sent to the email address c...@osgeo.org. This year the Chief Returning Officers are Michael Gerlek and Arnulf Christl. Thank you for your contribution! Best regards & have a nice weeke

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination starts 2012-07-23

2012-07-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
Dear OSGeo Charter Members, the Board nomination period starts 2012-07-23. Until then candidates can present their ideas to give us an idea what to expect from them if we vote them into the board. Best regards, CRO Seven (aka Arnulf) http://arnulf.us __

[OSGeo-Discuss] Cancellation of FOSS4G 2012 conference to be held in September in Beijing

2012-07-26 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Community, it was announced on July 10, 2012 by the FOSS4G local organizing committee that the FOSS4G 2012 conference that was scheduled to be held in September in Beijing has been cancelled. The OSGeo board was of course disappointed to hear this

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Elections 2012

2012-08-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
c...@osgeo.org Thank your for taking on this responsibility, Your CROs (Arnulf Christl & Michael Gerlek) [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2012 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012#Vote_for_new_Board_Members_-_2012-08

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for the OSGeo Board of Directors

2013-08-19 Thread Arnulf Christl
- -- Arnulf Christl http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Arnulf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlISdWcACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b3YngCfU5IM6+eLDGOyjo3O+S82yA6V kSIAnRpnpEKRAKU3bWt+UhP0ejVBF3af =6J4f -END

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo as LMO at INSPIRE

2013-08-19 Thread Arnulf Christl
Remote Sensing s.r.o. >> jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz >> http://les-ejk.cz >> >> >> > > -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. > jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz > http://

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board or Director Elections 2013

2013-08-22 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Charter Members, the OSGeo Board or Director Elections start tomorrow: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Elections_2013 With more than 180 members it has become necessary to somewhat streamline the process. To this effect we have created a dedicated Cha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mailmain password reminders

2013-08-26 Thread Arnulf Christl
;Send >>> monthly password reminders?" and set it to off - except at least >>> 51% of your subscribers cry out in pain and want it back on. :-) >>> >>> Have fun, Arnulf >>> >>> ___ >> ___ >>

[OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Chapters (was: Re: FOSS4G North America 2015 Expressions of Interest)

2013-09-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
ight now is to start the discussion and get > folks thinking about what we need to do to make the next FOSS4G NA > another awesome event! > > Cheers! > > David > > -- > > David William Bitner > dbSpatial LLC > > > __

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results 2013

2013-09-07 Thread Arnulf Christl
candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Best regards, Michael, Jakob and Arnulf [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results - -- Your Chief Returning Officers on behalf of OSGeo Arnulf Christl and Michael Gerlek with the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for a one pager write up for Why Open Source is good.

2013-09-12 Thread Arnulf Christl
cial', say 'proprietary' (if that's what you > mean). I'm surprised Arnulf hasn't already jumped in on that > point! > > Free and open source software can be commercial. > > Barry Haha, busy preparing my presentation "Introduction to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

2013-09-26 Thread Arnulf Christl
Folks, I very much support this activity and believe that it would be quite beneficial to participate. Ordnance Survey is a powerful multiplier in the UK geospatial business due to its position as the main data provider to the public. There is a license program in place called PSMA (Public Sector M

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-10 Thread Arnulf Christl
t;> Ordnance Survey Adanac Drive Southampton SO16 0AS Tel: 08456 >>> 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk >>> <http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/> >>> >>> _______ Discuss mailing >>> list Discuss@l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
t an officially endorsed position) can be found in recursive loops here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Commercial_Software http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Free_Software http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source Cheers, Arnulf [7] http://arnulf.us/Share - -- Arnulf Christl (Director) The metaspatial Institute Certifi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Inaugural webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on 18th October

2013-10-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
t; > Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 > margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu > <mailto:margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu> > > Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may > not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of > the Eu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone available to speak about OSGeo at FIG in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?

2013-11-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
skrivelse: >> cid:image001.jpg@01CC1EEC.0552F660 >> >> >> >> International Federation of Surveyors Fédération Internationale >> des Géomètres Internationale Vereiningung der >> Vermessungsingenieure >> >> International Federat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

2014-06-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] > Is the board going to vote on this proposal or all charter > members? > > Thanks, Alex This is actually a good question and maybe points towards a new way of leveraging our Charter Membership. I would think that it would be worthwhile to pass

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

2014-06-23 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/2014 08:46 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: [...] > Comparing to http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members is somewhat > challenging (seems to be in no particular order, perhaps random > order on purpose). > > Thanks, Alex [...] What do you mean "random o

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