Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO US National Chapter

2018-03-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
This is great! Looking forward to seeing this develop, and participating! On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Great to hear this . Thanks to all who are working for this. > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith > > > -- >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
ussions, so we > can keep making OSGeo fun and always growing. > > -jeff > > > > On 2017-10-12 1:32 PM, Rob Emanuele wrote: > >> Hi Toshikazu, Nick, >> >> Despite the fact that I have not been around long enough or have not been >> in the right places to se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination: Jeff McKenna

2017-10-12 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi Toshikazu, Nick, Despite the fact that I have not been around long enough or have not been in the right places to see directly a lot of the impact that Jeff has had on the community, it's very clear from many accounts that he has been an amazing and important figure in OSGeo (a Sol Katz award

[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for Conference Committee Chairperson for FOSS4G NA 2018

2017-06-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
Dear FOSS4G Community, We, the FOSS4G NA Core Committee, are looking for a volunteer to chair the conference committee for the FOSS4G North America 2018 conference. The Conference Committee Chair (CCC) will be responsible for working with the Logistical Organizer (LO) to run a successful

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Campaign Statement for María Arias de Reyna

2016-09-24 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi María, I'm not a charter member, so don't get to vote; however I do participate in the OSGeo and FOSS4G world, and I just want to publicly share that your statement really resonates with me. Though we have never met, it seems clear to me from your statement that you have vision, honesty, and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does rasdaman CE solve an open source geospatial problem?

2016-05-21 Thread Rob Emanuele
Peter, It's impressive that 20 TB is being served out by the community edition. However, the point that Edzer brings up (and that I was unaware of) causes me even more concern regarding the language used in service of promoting the potential OSGeo version of rasdaman around it's comparison to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from a Benevolent Dictator

2016-05-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
nce.org/groups/array-database-working-group.html > > Participation is at no cost and open, same the results. Just register > yourself with RDA and let me know so that we canplan contributions. > > Looking forward to welcoming you on board, > Peter > > > > > On 05/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from a Benevolent Dictator

2016-05-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
Apologies for veering off topic. Hi Peter, Thanks for citing your resources. Unfortunately I can't access the one paper, since the only version I could find is behind a paywall, and the bar chart you attached gives very little information; from these I cannot understand the methodology or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Tales from a Benevolent Dictator

2016-05-14 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi Peter, This is the second time I've heard you defend your position by simply saying the greatness of the project justifies whatever model you'd like for project governance, and mention some independent study that claims your software is "way faster" and "wins all benchmarks". These are bold,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Digital Image Processing - Libraries and Programs

2016-05-01 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi Eduardo, Have you taken a look at GeoTrellis [1]? It's a Scala based library for doing many things geospatial, but with a focus on raster processing. It handles raster data generally, but is being used for projects to manipulate imagery, mainly by stitching together web map tiles out of large

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] geospatial @ apache foundation

2016-02-04 Thread Rob Emanuele
Thanks everyone for bringing this to the list, and Jody for the nudge. I submitted my talk, and it's my hope that I'll get the chance to speak with others from OSGeo and the geospatial FOSS community in general at ApacheCon. Good luck to the other submitters! Best, Rob On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at

[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing FOSS4G North America 2016

2015-12-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
Dear Everyone, On behalf of the *Organizing Team* , we would like to invite you to submit talk & workshop proposals for *FOSS4G North America 2016*

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU :-o

2015-12-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
Thanks for pointing out that it wasn't yet posted to OSGeo-Discuss, I just posted it. There's a one-click unsubscribe button from that mailing list, sorry for the spam! On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Massimiliano Cannata < massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> wrote: > Just a funny note... > > Nice

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU :-o

2015-12-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
ng emails to your list > without a user's authorization. > > http://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/ > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015, at 10:16, Rob Emanuele wrote: > > Thanks for pointing out that it wasn't yet posted to OSGeo-Discuss, I just > posted it. > There's a one-click

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-16 Thread Rob Emanuele
I think there's two narratives that are at conflict in this entire thread. I'm going to try to try to spell them out as I see them: A. LocationTech is a newer-than-OSGeo organization that is trying to make a name for itself, capture market share, promote it's brand, in general act in a way that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

2015-11-15 Thread Rob Emanuele
aving a shared >>>>> "working group" on this involving both LocationTech and OSGeo board >>>>> members. >>>>> >>>>> I've done a lot of writing the last couple of days. I hope this at >>>>> least helps explain what is on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

2015-11-12 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi Jeff, I'm sorry to hear you are being bullied in private messages. It is perhaps best to bring in the Code of Conduct committee to help handle this; direct threats and private bulling tactics seem in violation with the CoC, and there should be steps taken to ensure that our community doesn't

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fun Event in Victoria with mix of OSGeo/LocationTech projects

2015-11-12 Thread Rob Emanuele
used on growing Open > Source geospatial software? > > I hope we can speak openly here Rob, I do not mean any disrespect to you > personally or to LocationTech (some take it personal). Please share here > the reasons you see to have 2 foundations focused on the same goal. > > Th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Funded projects using FOSS4G tools with respect to water management

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Emanuele
Hi Mauri, GeoTrellis (http://geotrellis.io), GeoServer, and PostGIS were used for this watershed modelling application by Azavea: http://app.wikiwatershed.org/stroudfx/bin-debug/Main.swf Cheers, Rob On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mauri,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] Announcing the program chair for FOSS4G NA 2015

2014-07-22 Thread Rob Emanuele
to announce that Rob Emanuele has joined the team to serve as program chair http://42aross.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/announcing-foss4g-north-america-2015-program-chair/ for FOSS4G North America 2015. Rob I will be working to build the program committee and we'll have some further announcements