technology, and the process that has brought us our global nervous
system, and perhaps our /last best hope of earth.
/*Join me at **/Civic.Net/, ***subscribe, pipe up/, /pitch
in, contribute a few bucks to the cause - it's /Lives, Fortunes and
Sacred Honor/ time, I'm all in, and this
- which I envision as the hub of an internet of
hyper-local media networks.
I'd welcome the opportunity to chat about this - sooner, rather than
later, given that #dosomethingday is 20 days away. The best way to
reach me is at 617-538-9249 (cell/txt - eastern time, best to txt
Hi Folks,
I'm setting off to rebuild suburbia - check out ThisOldNeighborhood.Net
- subscribe to follow along, get on the bus.
And if anybody from Open Plans is listening, we'd love to talk about
including some community planning tools in the mix!
Miles Fidelman, ThisOldNeighb
of what we're up to.
I look forward to you reactions - and, hopefully, to some of you getting
involved.
Best,
Miles Fidelman, Chief Engineer, Civic.Net
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out "civic.net" ---
My Fellow Internet Engineers,
ystems - equivalent to the MDMP, Air Operations
planning processes, or similar doctrine. I'd love to get a look at some
of them. And talk to folks who've actually used/developed some of them.
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Miles Fidelman
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ace to start talking.
So.. anybody out there doing anything interesting that relates? Any
suggestions on other currently active communities to plant some seeds in?
Cheers,
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. Yogi Berra
T
... is just so relevant:
https://xkcd.com/2029/
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Ok. But, and this may be a dumb question, it's a very fancy, expensive
looking camera - one presumes that the person taking the pictures has
the software that goes with it. Can one not ask the person providing
the imagery to convert the raw files to a more usable format?
Miles Fidelman
to use a proprietary
internal format, as long as they provide software to convert it to
standard formats. Particularly if it's a camera with some special
sensor characteristics.
The real question is whether they provide their software with the
camera, or whether you have to pay beaucoup bucks
view
layers that come from a mix of ESRI, Google, and OGC-compliant sources.
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Lluís Vicens wrote:
On 18/10/13 15:05, Norman Vine wrote:
On Oct 18, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Margherita Di Leo
mailto:dileomargher...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi!
looks like the system requirements for the platform chosen for the
webinar do not support Linux.. I just received the confirmation
email
ogression from experimental to recommended to mandatory, but
only after a long incubation period - and don't even think of using the
word standard until there are at least 2 interoperable implementations.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In pr
rvices. If that were true, I would expect
(1) a list of resources at least as an example, and
(2) an example of the structure and structuring principles of
the URLs.
A lot more precise than my reaction "it just isn't very RESTful."
Miles Fidelman
--
In theor
on top of ESRI
tracking server. Nope, everything uses Google Maps. Even the aircraft
tracking stuff that used to run on ESRI seems all to be Google based
these days.
Miles Fidelman
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In practice, th
Thanks to all who've sent me comments!
The new, and hopefully improved Kickstarter page and video are now up at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
Take a look! Comments welcome. So are donations, likes, tweets, diggs,
+1s, re-dis
Pat Tressel wrote:
Miles --
this project stems from some work on tools for mission planning
and coordination that seem to have applicability for crisis
management and more general project management.
If you're heading in the direction of more general crisis / project
management, w
Hi Lee,
Lee Sanders wrote:
Greeting Miles:
First, I lived in Newton for a few years. Went to BC. Small World.
Yes it is :-)
I have been involved in project management for several years prior to
returning to school and new vocation in GIS. As a result, I thought I
would offer some commen
w to reach them, and what
might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing?
Thanks very much,
Miles Fidelman
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a
large event - I'm looking for scenarios to support - particuarly if
you're funded
And there's a 30-day clock running, so sooner is better!
Thank you very much for any support you might offer,
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice
So.. anybody know of any good maps of what's been going on in Boston's
Back Bay?
Miles Fidelman
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dhat has a page on State & Local Government use of Linux at
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/state/ - with some links to
resources and case studies
Miles Fidelman, Principal
Protocol Technologies Group
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In
(wide adoption, long-term
sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love.
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There are LOTS of hosting companies out there, ranging from Amazon and
Google cloud services (as well as various other smaller vendors), folks
who sell virtual slices of machines, generic hosting on a shared
machine, dedicated servers, rack space for your own hardware, and
various combinations.
daniele.ocu ocu wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions on reading
material about business and FOSS4G.
The idea for this report would be a summary with metrics showing how
companies have changed after adopting FOSS4G. It would be a document
to present why adop
Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> I think what Daniele is looking for is some kind of
> a "How to convince a venture (or social) captitalist
> to invest in FOSS4G technnologies and/or companies".
> Guess the venture capitalist would be inerested to
> see some statistical data on how FOSS4G based companie
One more reference:
Wikipedia's history of open source
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_history) has a pretty good
discussion
of the early days of software development - when pretty much everything
was open source, but the term had
not been coined yet.
Miles
Miles Fidelman
e - dating back to the period when government funded work
automatically entered the public domain (thus
predating the entire notion of open source licenses). Almost ALL early
software was funded by the government (notably
DARPA and NSF), was shared as academic research, and automatically entered
Landon Blake wrote:
Andrea Aime Wrote:
I believe the idea that OSGEO projects contributor tend to be paid
to work on the project itself is the result the very selection
criteria to become an OSGEO project:
- mature project
- established user base
- a formal governance model
You wrote: "This tel
Landon Blake wrote:
My main point is that we should encourage more diversity in our
professions. Software development and land surveying would benefit
from more women, and nursing would likely benefit from more men.
(Ironically, I have a good friend that is in school for nursing right
now, a
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the real or
perceived barriers people, in general, find to getting involved with
OSGeo. I'm sure that any barriers women would have might also affect
others, so it might be useful to broaden the discussion so more
pa
e work
ii. there are serious "business" reasons for open sourcing the code -
broadening a user base, reducing development and support costs, etc. -
and serious attention was/is paid to organization and management issues
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Somebody asked, here's where to find it:
http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/sites/oss/
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Traverse Technologies
145 Tremont Street, 3rd Floor
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link to it from:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Open_Source_Policies
Miles Fidelman wrote:
... fresh from the OSD e-press
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Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
* in the US, sole proprietorship is the way to go for simple one-person,
garage-based shops
Having contracted as both a sole proprietorship and a corporation, I'd
qualify that one. Sole proprietorship is easy, but.
- you don't get quite as many tax benefits
For what it's worth, I believe IEEE offers a professional liability
policy to members. If it's in line with their other insurance, the
price will be reasonable (I've carried their life insurance for years,
and their medical policy when I was out on my own for a while). I
wouldn't be surprise
There's a pretty good
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 15:17 +0100, Miguel Montesinos wrote:
Yes I mean list FOSS products and which OGC standards they support (and
whether as client or server if applicable).
There's a pretty good list of clients, both FOSS and commercial, at
http://geoserver.org/
Landon Blake wrote:
I’m currently working on a proposal to secure some corporate funding
for development of OpenJUMP, an open source desktop GIS viewer. I’d
like to know if any of you have experience with applying research and
development tax credits to the development of open source software
Mateusz Loskot wrote:
Bob Pawley wrote:
Hi
I am looking at Open Layers to display Postgis data.
I have a couple of questions to start.
- Can Open Layers connect directly to Postgis or does it require other
software?
- Is there documentation that shows how to make the connections and put
t
Paul Ramsey wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The reality is that the software world is dominated by the
western world and the English language. (How many programming languages do
you know of that are written in Russian?) :]
There's always
Bruce Bannerman wrote:
We need robust debate on these types of issues if we are to progress
them.
Ok.. let's try this :-)
I see that there are two main ways of utilising spatial information:
- producing a pretty picture that helps people understand an issue. We
have a number of types of pr
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
""Real artists ship. For everyone else, there is wanking."
For the record, while I acknowledge a kernel of truth in this, I find the
statement so elitist and dismissive of the varied efforts that it
takes to
make things work that I cringe every time I hear it.
Discussi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:14:40PM -0500, P Kishor wrote:
On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially successful
software project is *shipping working code*.
Until a developer does that,
Tim Bowden wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:28 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
Except that the reference is to the informal criteria for when one might
even beginning to firm up a sta
Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
Except that the reference is to the informal criteria for when one might
even beginning to firm up a standard. In the IETF community - unlike
pretty much every other standards body on the planet - there's a
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
software project is *shipping working code*.
Until a developer does that, the discuss
Howard Butler wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful open source
projects now need serious organisational backing. They can't be built
by a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors alone.
I think really su
Landon Blake wrote:
The lack of good user documentation is a weakness of many open source
projects. The problem is that most of us like to code, but few of us
like to write! It is something that needs to be addressed, although I am
unsure of the solution. Maybe we need to invent an IDE for user
d
P Kishor wrote:
For the two good examples of OSS that you provide that had well-funded
parents who lost interest in their children, Perl and Python and PHP
and Linux are four that didn't have well-funded parents, but once they
became successful, they attracted well-funded uncles and aunts. Not
fa
P Kishor wrote:
To paraphrase the popular saying, "There are 10 kinds of people in
this world -- those who see open source lacking what they need and
choose a proprietary software instead and those who see open source
lacking what they need and choose to make it better."
If you have the money th
Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Bruce-
It is not clear to me what sort of "study" you would need to convince
you, as the ISO standard for encoding data into the JPEG-2000 file
format is by construction mathematically and numerically lossless
process. (Indeed, "compression", i.e. throwing away bits
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