Leith,
I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds.
You might be able to create some type of live CD that they use to demo
Linux distributions, but otherwise your map viewing software needs to be
installed on the target computer.
There are a few good open source
Point of Beginning Magazine has a news story about a recent California
Court Case that strikes down the requirement for Orange County to
release its GIS parcel layer to the public for only data reproduction
costs. This conflicts with an earlier decision from a higher court in
California. If you
This recent court decision may interest some of you.
http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=articleID=129029542gid=142675
articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elexology%2Ecom%2Flibrary%2Fdetail%2Easpx%
3Fg%3D97df70d2-af3c-4438-a1aa-bb2026124e10urlhash=duRVtrk=news_discuss
Landon
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Thanks for the quote Joel.
Landon
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On Behalf Of Schlagel, Joel D IWR
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:20 AM
To: OSGeo
ProPublica has a story from yesterday about a review of plans on
government transparency from United States federal agencies. It looks
like the agencies that deal with a lot of geospatial data scored the
best. This includes NASA, Department of Housing and Urban Development,
and the EPA:
As a surveyor, I really enjoyed this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8iQN04tOofeature=player_embedded
Glad to see non surveyor folks starting to communicate the importance
of considering spatial data accuracy. Good job Paul!
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian Turton
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 3:01 PM
How about an interview with Tyler Mitchell? :] I can help with that.
Might be a good article for the journal.
Landon
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Tyler,
Thanks for taking the initiative on this problem domain. I am certainly
interested and will subscribe to the carto mailing list.
Landon
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am looking for a paid internship in order to be able to cover my
living expenses. What would be a good time to call?
Kind regards,
Johannes Bolz
Am 02.04.2010 00:30, schrieb Landon Blake:
Mr. Bolz:
Are you looking for a paid internship?
Landon
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for my
presentation.
Please send it through.
I'm expecting I'll get a chuckle from the audience when mentioning you
as The Sunburned Surveyor.
Landon Blake wrote:
Cameron,
I recently gave a presentation entitled introduction to vector GIS
for
land surveyors at the joint California Land Surveyor
Mr. Bolz:
Are you looking for a paid internship?
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Bolz
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010
I'm curious if anyone knows of a decent open source viewer for 3D maps.
Does such a viewer exist? How widespread is its adoption?
I know that Adobe PDF has become a fairly common way to share 2D maps
digitally, but I didn't see a lot on the web about a PDF solution for 3D
maps. If you build 3D
John,
Thanks for telling us about Whitebox. I'm going to download the program
today and give it a spin. It is good to see more open source development
in DotNet languages.
Landon
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From:
It looks like I am getting to this late. Maybe too late to help.
Question 1:
In what areas/topics/information do we teach to new users or educate the
public in general? Basically, what is the 'content' of our education
endeavours?
Answer:
- How to install and use open source geospatial
Salih,
This question really needs to go the the mapguide user list, not the
Osgeo Discussion mailing list.
http://www.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
Landon
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From:
Tomas,
This type of question would be better for the Geotools user or developer
mailing list:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Mailing+Lists
I don't remember Geotools having direct support for DXF. Perhaps one of the
Geotools programmers can respond. Otherwise, I would ask
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:57 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: t...@wildintellect.com
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Summer of Code
Landon Blake wrote:
Do we have some one that is going to take the lead on SOC for OSGeo
Do we have some one that is going to take the lead on SOC for OSGeo this
year? I've been quite busy with the Journal this year, but I would like
to assist the lead as I have in years past.
Landon
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Frans,
I will try to provide an intelligent answer to your question based on my
own experience.
Here is my observation of the main difference between Deegree and
Geotools:
Degree seems to be a more closely knit group of developers, coming from
just a couple of organizations, while Geotools
Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Raster Tracing - Results
Landon Blake wrote:
Thank you for all of the responses. I will summarize here for
everyone's benefit:
- Line Trace Plugs was a raster to vector conversion program used by
the SCS, BLM and Forest Service
of the public
domain source code.
The GRASS source code and Linux Binaries are available at
http://grass.itc.it/oldprojects/ltplus/
David had a page up at ltplus.org, but it seems to be dead today.
Craig
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
Is anyone aware
Is anyone aware of a raster tracing tool for geospatial users released
under an open source license? I'm looking for something similar to:
http://www.vextrasoft.com/vextractor.htm
I found the Autotrace program (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/), but
it seems to be a little more limited,
I've got to review an article for Volume 6 of the OSGeo Journal on using
GPU processing for work with the GDAL programming library for Volume 6.
I'll be the first to admit I'm not an expert at C, C++, or GDAL. I have
used the library a little via FW Tools.
I will review the article, but was
Dave,
I know I had some problems getting Python 3.X to work on my Windows XP
computer a couple of weeks ago. I had no problems with the previous
release of Python.
Landon
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Robert,
You wrote: I'll see if I can come up with any cases where proper process state
management is truly dependent on geometry. Any one else?
I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about. But I will shoot this over
your bow:
Road maintenance department of City paves a section of road.
One example of the restrictions Luis is talking about is the prohibition
against distributing certain cryptographic software outside of the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography
Don't know that OSGeo would bump into that, but it is one example of a
US specific restriction on
women and science since more than 20
years ago I will recomend a look to Longino (1987) [1].
[1] http://www.jstor.org/pss/3810122
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
Tyler,
I understand your wife's perspective completely. It seems reasonable
to
conclude that there are fewer women
Andrea,
You wrote: This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more people that
can find
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed what we
might do to encourage the participation of more women in the project. I
think there was recognition across the board that the project would have
benefited from more diversity.
I'm
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From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tmitchell.os...@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Landon Blake
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant
Padmini,
I don't use Microstation or QGIS, but you might be better off exporting
your data to a DXF file.
Also, I would post your question on the QGIS mailing list. This isn't
the best place for questions on specific software.
Landon
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Is there a topic-specific mailing list on which it would be best to
discuss aspects of an agreement put out by a local government agency in
relation to their publicly funded GIS data?
Maybe the geodata list is the best place?
If there is no topic-specific mailing list for this topic, I
Miles,
That sounds like a positive development for FOSS in the United States. I
would imagine the military is a large customer of software. If they are
giving open source software more serious consideration, that should be a
good thing for our community in the long run.
Landon
Office Phone
We could use a couple articles for the December Volume of the OSGeo
Journal in the following sections:
Topical Studies
Programming Tutorials
Case Studies
Integration Studies
Developer Announcements
Sponsor Perspectives
Local Community Reports
Peer Reviewed Articles
Let me know if
Stephen,
I'm a land surveyor and a desktop application programmer. So the
interests at OSGeo may be more varied that you suspect.
Tell me more about your application. What exactly is its current
functionality?
I wish I had time to contribute to another project. Your program sounds
like it is
Matthew,
It doesn't look like anyone responded to your post, so I will offer some
brief comments. I don't think it likely that you will find a job focused
specifically on open source GIS. I am one of the moderator of the OSGeo
Jobs mailing list, and job postings there are quite rare in our
I'm interested in working with professional associations for land surveyors. I
would want to start with my local state association, of course.
I'm not sure how much interest there is in this type of cross-organization
collaboration.
Landon
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David,
Sorry for the delayed response.
I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not
anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from
Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first
name was Joe?) Most of the activity
Rene wrote: If we
were to produce a comprehensive suite of tools offering the standard
analytical tools as well as some more advanced ones, then these
proprietary offerings wouldn't look as appealing. Moreover, if we had a
consolidated toolset which could be used on a multitude of project we
+1 on the development of local chapters. Strong local chapters will make
for a strong organization.
Question: As local chapters become a more important part of the
organization, how do we encourage collaboration among chapters, so as to
avoid duplicated effort?
Landon
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FYI:
In some states professionals are restricted from forming LLCs or
corporations. The law requires that you are personally liable for your
work.
In some states professionals are only allowed to form special LLCs or
corporations.
This may only apply to licensed professionals at this time, but
Thank you for the summary MPG. The logic described in the example
response seems quite sensible.
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
I wonder if it would be helpful to send a quick e-mail to the list with
the following information:
How many board members we need to have next year.
How many board members will be voluntarily stepping down (it looks like
at least one.)
How many spots on the board we will need to fill due to
I posted a few weeks back I posted about possible ways to document and
share GIS data models. I decided to move forward with a graphical
approach.
I started building diagrams to document my GIS data model for the Public
Land Survey System in the United States. I am drawing these diagrams in
a
why
traditional OO diagrams such as UML Class diagrams won't work for the
GIS data you are modeling?
Craig
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:48 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject
Of Landon Blake
Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2009 5:48 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Documenting GIS Data Models (Again):
Using DXF
I posted a few weeks back I posted about possible ways to
document and share GIS data models. I decided to move forward
Michael,
I've been toying with the idea of doing some side work in the GIS arena
as a sole-proprietor or an S-Corp. In either case, if I move forward
with this, I would carry some basic business insurance.
Having said that, I can tell you I found it difficult to find a
professional liability
out :-) But that is a topic for another
day ...
Cheers,
Jody
On 22/08/2009, at 4:55 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered
among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) company that
maintains a separate fork of OpenJUMP
from scratch, if that's what you meant. I'd really only be
interested in C++ (or possibly mono-safe C#).
-mpg
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 4:11 PM
To: OSGeo
it's own rules associated with data resolution vs
files sizes, etc.
bobb
Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
Bobb wrote: Here's my reasoning, we're never (ever?) going to hit the
top end on how big files ever get, resolution just keeps going up and
up, so there is always going
Thank you for all the comments over the weekend on open source lurkers
and proprietary file formats/algorithms. The feedback was very
insightful and gave me a lot to think about.
Landon
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Bobb wrote: Here's my reasoning, we're never (ever?) going to hit the
top end on how big files ever get, resolution just keeps going up and
up, so there is always going to be some upper limit that will need to be
breached somehow. Working out a proper method for segregating the data
up front
MPG:
When you say effort do you mean some sort of library to support JP2
geo side of things?
What programming language would you be most interested in? C++?
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From:
Thanks for the information Michael. I am downloading Opticks right now.
:]
I also found this Java library for JP2, thought I'm not sure how
complete/up-to-date it is:
http://jj2000.epfl.ch/
Maybe we need a JPEG 2000 page on the OSGeo wiki.
Landon
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-0700, Landon Blake wrote:
Thanks for the information Michael. I am downloading Opticks right
now.
:]
I also found this Java library for JP2, thought I'm not sure how
complete/up-to-date it is:
http://jj2000.epfl.ch/
Maybe we need a JPEG 2000 page on the OSGeo wiki.
Note
search
would reveal a number of PhD theses and patents.
-mpg
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:45 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats
?
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Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open
FileFormatsandProprietaryAlgorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Sent: Aug 21 '09 12:42
Paul,
I was wondering the same thing.
It seems a little like choosing to drive a Honda Accord, or a
Ferrari
I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered
among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) company that
maintains a separate fork of OpenJUMP, but which monitors our mailing
list and likely grabs patches form our source code repository. They
never participate in
ivan.luc...@pmldnet.com wrote:
But you can't compress data types other than byte in JPG. Can you do
that in JP2K?
---Original Message---
From: Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open
FileFormatsandProprietaryAlgorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55:30AM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
Is OpenJUMP the only community with these open source lurkers?
No.
How many of these companies do you think there are? (I'm not talking
about
one guy who downloads an open source app
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:49 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers
Landon Blake wrote:
What do you think? Send an e-mail to the project list with an
invitation to contact me privately about getting more involved
!) requires evaluation of a myriad of criteria, only one of which
is open access.
-mpg (not speaking officially for LizardTech)
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:10 AM
the MrSID option provides for the best access for the largest
number of people.
Regards, Richard
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
MPG,
I didn't mean to shine a spotlight on the USDA's use of MRSID. It is one
of several examples of an attitude I was trying
I realized that publishing a spec for a file format like MRSID isn't as
clear cut as I had at first thought. If the MRSID software uses a fancy
top-secret compression/decompression algorithm to move data to and from
the file format knowing only the structure of the format would do no
good. You'd
-=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=-
Eric B. WolfNew! 720-334-7734
USGS Geographer
Center of Excellence in GIScience
PhD Student
CU-Boulder - Geography
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com
wrote:
I realized that publishing a spec
MPG:
Thanks for the clarification.
When you said there is today no open source implementation of JP2 that
is suitable for geo work do you mean that there is no open source
library that can read and write JP2? If so, who is using the format?
Do you know why there hasn't been a broader
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Schmidt
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:50 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary
Algorithms
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:57:16PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
MPG:
Thanks for the clarification.
When you said
Cameron wrote:
Canada looks preferable to the US. I wonder how much the Canadian
GeoConnections program is responsible for Canada's strong OSGeo
industry.
I believe governments in Canada are much more supportive of open source
software than governments in the United States. In my experience,
I'm a long ways from Washington DC and a lot closer to the Silicon Valley,
which may be a reason why I perceive different attitudes.
I do think the new US Administration seems friendlier towards open source
software. Still, when I think about the fight over using ODF in Maryland and
other
Great comments Andrew. We need a model where we have Europe's support of
open source with the United State's open data policies.
Landon
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It looks like I might have ruffled a few feathers with my earlier post
about the lack of support for open source software in the United States.
I was making a generalization, and didn't mean to criticize or downplay
the efforts of advocates and government employees that are promoting
open source
, when the opportunity arises,
that these interoperability things need to work across the product line.
bobb
Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
I'm a regular CAD user at my day job. I've been working for the last few
weeks on cleaning and packaging some of my AutoLISP code, which
There are a couple of GIS related patent applications online at
peer-to-patent. I have a hard time understanding patent applications,
but the first seems to deal with using an algorithm to calculate
neighborhood boundaries. The second seems to deal with using GIS
analysis to study damage (or
for geospatial software in
acommercial application.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:12:14PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
I'm working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD and AutoCAD
that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS
software. (For example: One set of my scripts allows
,
licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and
statutory changes.
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]on Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:15 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE
I'm working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD and AutoCAD
that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS
software. (For example: One set of my scripts allows CAD users to export
drawing geometry in OGC WKT format.)
I'd like to release these scripts under Version
191115 work item was based.
Landon Blake wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on
the
metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I'm particularly interested
in how if relates to the former FGDC metadata standard used in the
United States, and the differences
the plan is that the document will be available when NAP is
approved...
Hope that helps,
Ted
Landon Blake wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on
the metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I'm particularly
interested in how if relates to the former FGDC
Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on the
metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I'm particularly interested
in how if relates to the former FGDC metadata standard used in the
United States, and the differences between the two standards.
The FGDC metadata
29, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
How about OGC support for the Science Commons work on a public
domain
or creative commons type license for geospatial data.
That's not going to happen. OGC has many national mapping agencies as
members and USGS and OS are never going
How about OGC support for the Science Commons work on a public domain
or creative commons type license for geospatial data.
Landon
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I posted my comment in support of the Live CD.
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
(OSGeo)
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009
I'm looking for an open source library that will allow me to convert ECW
images into a more common format like JPG or TIFF. I'd love it if there
were something in Java, but I'm not running across anything via search
engine query so far.
I could probably work with a library written in Python,
https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/
Is it just today, or has the site been down for a while?
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:11 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Library For ECW Conversion
Landon Blake wrote:
I'm looking for an open source library that will allow me
13, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote:
https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/
Is it just today, or has the site been down for a while?
Landon
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Here is a concrete example:
I believe OpenJUMP plug-ins must be released under the GPL, because they
are dynamically loaded and share data structures with the core program.
This is a good discussion. Thanks. :]
On a side note: I believe that UDig is released under the LGPL and it is
I already look at Geotools library, and i am looking for something
similar but with better rendering performance.
I don't think such an open source project exists, at least not under the
LGPL. A couple of other projects you could check out are gvSIG and the
IGeoDesktop from the deegree Project.
Puneet,
Congratulations on your new position with the Science Commons. It is
great to have an open source advocate and geospatial professional with
the organization.
Please let me know if I can assist with your efforts.
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]on Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:45 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Liability Issues
I was thinking of starting my own list of FOSS GIS software being used
in the real world. Several examples have been cited in this mailing list
over the last couple of weeks. This list would be my ammunition in the
nobody uses that stuff gun battle.
I was wondering if there might be a home for
:02 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] List of FOSS GIS Implementations
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:49:45PM -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
I was thinking of starting my own list of FOSS GIS software being used
in the real world. Several examples have been cited in this mailing
list
I'm curious about the type if liability issues a company might open
itself up to by supporting open source software development. Let me give
you a scenario:
A graphic design company decides it will sponsor some development of the
SVG editor Inkscape. It puts out an RFP for the functionality it
Warmerdam
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:53 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Liability Issues For Companies Supporting
OpenSource Development
Landon Blake wrote:
I'm curious about the type if liability issues a company might open
itself up to by supporting open source
sort of
Corporate rep that can handle the administration of larger/longer term
projects.
I'm involved in a non-profit (SharedGeo) related to this type of work.
It seems there is a need for this knowledgeable middle level admin
component for largish projects related to OpenSource.
bobb
Landon
liable if it doesn't get back into
the developer/opensource project hands. Sort of using the system so to
speak.
bobb
Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com 04/02/09 1:59 PM
Bob,
I'd be issuing and RFP for the work, and we would be working with
another company. I hadn't thought about it, but that might
I must shamefully admit that I forgot the password to the mailing list
for the California Chapter:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california
Any idea who I would ask to get the password reset?
Thanks,
Landon
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Wolf,
I'll be mentoring for OpenJUMP if there is a student available. I could
also serve as a mentor for Geotools depending on the project.
I'll get signed up as a mentor on the Google site.
Landon
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The many features and advantages of the present invention are apparent
from the written description. Further, since numerous modifications and
changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, the invention
should not be limited to the exact
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