Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Need for to to convert/deconstruct a shapefile to create a relational table

2012-03-18 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2012-03-18, at 6:46 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Does this get you any closer to what you need: > > SELECT OGR_GEOM_WKT, * FROM data; > > -Steve That's some nice ogr-foo to learn :) Simon, it sounds like you could wrap this up pretty quickly in a python script too. A rough approach exa

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Survey re: OpenStreetmap

2012-03-14 Thread Tyler Mitchell
FYI .. Begin forwarded message: > From: Theodor Foerster > Date: March 14, 2012 7:16:10 AM PDT > To: Theodor Foerster > Subject: [ica-opensource] motivations for contributing to OpenStreetmap - > survey > > Dear friends and collegues, > > Please distribute and participate! > > Apo

[OSGeo-Discuss] QGIS Supporters...

2012-03-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
rship/sponsors.html > [1] http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship/donors.html > [2] http://qgis.org > ___ > Qgis-user mailing list > qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user - Tyler Mitchell, Publisher Locate Press, i...@locatepress.com O

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: GFOSS Education Resources Survey

2012-02-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Have your training programs listed for others to find them... > > I just put up a survey to collect information about courses, institutions, > schools, companies, etc. that provide some sort of GFOSS/OSGeo training. I > feel like I've done this before, but after a thread earlier this week, >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recommended Geography grad programs

2012-02-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2012-02-09, at 1:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > > San Diego State - Ming Tsou > Somewhere in England - Haklay > Univ Nottingham - Suchith Anand > Canada - Thierry Badard > > I want to say there are a couple of universities with official MOUs with > OSGeo besides Nottingham but I can't recall ri

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Proceedings Online

2012-02-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
In celebration of OSGeo's 6th Anniversary... I'm happy to announce that select academic papers from the FOSS4G 2011 Denver event are now available online, in OSGeo Journal Volume 10: http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/33 When you are finished reading those papers, indulge your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGIS book available...

2012-01-25 Thread Tyler Mitchell
, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Landon Blake > wrote: > Tyler: > > Congratulations on getting this book published. I look forward to your future > works. > > Thanks. > > Landon > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > In case you didn't read the spam else

[OSGeo-Discuss] New OSGIS book available...

2012-01-25 Thread Tyler Mitchell
e creator of Quantum GIS, so you can rest assured that you will be led by one of the most knowledgeable authors on the subject. - Tyler Mitchell, Publisher Locate Press, i...@locatepress.com Open Source "geo" Books http://www.locatepress.com __

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Conference coming April 10-12

2012-01-23 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Awesome - really excited to see it so far along and well though out already. I only regret that I can't make it do to other speaking commitment, but will be looking forward to promoting it for sure :) Tyler On 2012-01-23, at 12:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > On behalf of OSGeo North America, we’d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [planet] Bloggers, clean your (X)HTML!

2011-12-21 Thread Tyler Mitchell
If only it was the bloggers fault ;-) My blog is more recently broke but I didn't roll my own feed - just using Drupal syndication right out of the box. I doubt I'll be able to change anything internally to fix that :[ If anyone else does, I'll be happy to apply the changes here too! Tyler

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Post-process DGPS software?

2011-12-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell
There is also a group of GPS pros over on the foss-gps list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ in case you still need a hand :) - Original message - > On 12/02/2011 12:58 PM, Charles Schweik wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there any open source software to do post-process differenti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Distracting discussions of discussing [was:] What is North America?

2011-11-24 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-11-24, at 1:25 PM, Landon Blake wrote: > So did we decide what we would geographic region we would include in a > "North American chapter"? How would this chapter interact or relate to > existing chapters in the United States and other parts of North > America? Hi Landon, Come on over to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Redirection to OSGeo Local Chapter web sites

2011-11-19 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-11-19, at 2:58 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: >> I do not believe that OSGeo SAC controls the osgeo.eu site. > > What's the policy of OSGeo for this? Can I happily buy osgeo.xyz > and redirect to my business site (ideally OSGeo related but private > business)? Trying to impose a policy is th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoCoworking

2011-11-17 Thread Tyler Mitchell
http://www.mutinerie.org/ - but I can't vouch for them personally :) On 2011-11-17, at 12:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > Anyone co-working in Paris? I'm going to be there for a month in May, > need references for nice spaces to work. > > P. > ___ > Discu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoCoworking

2011-11-16 Thread Tyler Mitchell
; What is geo coworking? > > Sound.new jargon for me... > > On Nov 17, 2011 2:30 PM, "Tyler Mitchell" wrote: > Curious how many folks on the list may use a local coworking space. > I assume in some centers there is potential for geogeeks to meet at > certain cowor

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoCoworking

2011-11-16 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Curious how many folks on the list may use a local coworking space. I assume in some centers there is potential for geogeeks to meet at certain coworking areas to collaborate - but just curious since I sure don't have one nearby :) ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSs4G + SoTM

2011-11-16 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi Frans, It seemed to be a coincidence that SOTM also chose the same location that FOSS4G had planned for. Both groups helped advertise both events, but there was no more collaboration beyond that really. Just friends meeting friends and staying longer in Denver :) Best wishes, Tyler On 2011

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominations

2011-11-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2011 Awesome list for sure :) Glad others beat me to nominating a few of the people I had in mind too. I've worked closely with folks like Tim Sutton, Suchith Anand, Pedro-Juan and Massimo on and off over the past few years so here's my +1,

[OSGeo-Discuss] video.. Fwd: GEOINT 2011-Breakout Demonstration of Military Relevant Open Source Geospatial Software - GEOINTv

2011-10-24 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Awesome line-up of several of our OSGeo friends at the colossal GEOINT event - glad to see it! Begin forwarded message: > From: John Scott III > Date: October 24, 2011 10:49:37 AM PDT > To: mil-...@googlegroups.com > Subject: [mil-oss] GEOINT 2011-Breakout Demonstration of Military Relevant >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fw: CFP: The Business of Open Source, Australia, January 2012

2011-10-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell
> I'm organizing a one-day miniconf on the business of FOSS as part of > LCA in Ballarat (near Melbourne) in January.  The business miniconf is > not just about business in the traditional sense and it would be nice > to get some talks about building communities and foundations.  Please > see be

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICA-OSGeo MoU

2011-10-18 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Thanks for posting this Suchith. I'm glad that anyone who has a connection with ICA now also has one more excuse to work with OSGeo :) On 2011-10-18, at 4:46 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International Cartographic > Association (ICA) Memora

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ICA-OSGeo MoU

2011-10-18 Thread Tyler Mitchell
FYI... :) Begin forwarded message: > From: Suchith Anand > Date: October 18, 2011 4:34:43 AM PDT > To: "ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" > > Subject: [ica-opensource] ICA-OSGeo MoU > > > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International Cartographic > Association (ICA)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
- Original message - > > I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. > That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; > advertise the services and results (not the tools used). That too. I can imagine for some shops that small bug squashing jobs may not be worth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] An OSGeo Marketplace?

2011-10-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On October 11, 2011 02:21:30 PM Paul Ramsey wrote: > Possible you have an error? Every one of the providers says they support > Jump? P. Indeed - good catch (it was late ok?) Jump folks were only 14 :( Now you've got me wondering about the PostGIS stats. hmmm Thanks! _

[OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, I'm regularly asked about how users or companies can request improvements to OSGeo software or to make a specific bug go away. Short of pointing people to the ~200 OSGeo Service Providers (http://osgeo.org/search_profile) and helping them get onto the right lists to ask for help... wh

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [Board] Denver F2F Board Meeting Minutes Posted

2011-09-24 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Some have asked me for more information about the recent board meeting and decisions, direction, etc. Hopefully I can just send one message instead of replying to each individually :) Instead of guessing on the plans, I suggest you look at the detailed minutes (below) that are now available. I do

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Projects Mailing List

2011-09-22 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-09-22, at 11:31 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > El 23/09/11 00:22, Sunburned Surveyor escribió: >> This is what I meant: (proje...@lists.osgeo.org) >> >> I don't have my heart set on a projects mailing list, but I thought it >> was a good idea. How do the software project contacts

[OSGeo-Discuss] Moving On

2011-09-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
This weekend the OSGeo Board of Directors held their annual face-to-face meeting where they hash out direction, budgets and other items for the upcoming year. For me, the most important outcome from the meeting was that they decided to end my position as Executive Director. It has been an incr

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: GIS Research UK 2012

2011-09-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell
via http://www.lulu.com. > > The conference will be proceeded by a Open Source GeoSpatial software > workshop and a Young Researchers Forum commencing on Tuesday 10th April 2012. > > We are pleased to confirm that the keynote speakers for this year’s > conference will be: &

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AAG 2012 - NYC :)

2011-09-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell
> On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > >> Are you planning to submit any talks that tie into OSGeo projects at the AAG >> event in February? >> >> "Abstracts for the 2012 AAG Annual Meeting must be submitted by September >> 28, 2011.

[OSGeo-Discuss] AAG 2012 - Washington, DC

2011-09-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Are you planning to submit any talks that tie into OSGeo projects at the AAG event in February? "Abstracts for the 2012 AAG Annual Meeting must be submitted by September 28, 2011. Earlier submission is strongly encouraged. To see the call for papers, register for the conference and submit your

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source for America Awards: Nominate someone today!

2011-09-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Nominate an OSGeo project :) Begin forwarded message: > From: "General announcement list (low traffic)" > > Date: September 9, 2011 9:46:30 AM PDT > To: osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org > Subject: [OSA-Announce] Open Source for America Awards: Nominate someone > today! > Reply-To: no

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Online Reg. closing

2011-09-06 Thread Tyler Mitchell
If you've been holding off doing online registration, please do it soon. After tomorrow all registrations will have to be done on-site, in person, at the FOSS4G registration desk. Don't wait until then if you want to make sure you get the workshop of your choice and a ticket to the Big Party d

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [mil-oss] Mil-OSS Working Group 3 Live Stream

2011-08-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Live... military OSS event.. agenda: http://mil-oss.org/wg3-agenda live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/miloss1 (looks like it's defcon5 track streaming) Begin forwarded message: > From: Military OSS > Date: August 30, 2011 8:23:49 AM PDT > To: mil-...@googlegroups.com > Subject: [mil-

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source for America Awards Nominations Now Open!

2011-08-24 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Another annual award worth following... Begin forwarded message: > From: "General announcement list (low traffic)" > > Date: August 24, 2011 10:44:50 AM PDT > To: osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org > Subject: [OSA-Announce] Open Source for America Awards Nominations Now Open! > Reply-To: no-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Networking Opportunity at FOSS4G

2011-08-23 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-08-23, at 10:22 PM, Robert Hollingsworth wrote: > 1. since the individual OSGeo projects don't have dedicated exhibit booths at > the conference, might be nice if there is a listing at the OSGeo booth of any > of the projects' major developers, steering committee members and other > 'he

[OSGeo-Discuss] Networking Opportunity at FOSS4G

2011-08-23 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, Just a quick note to mention that OSGeo will have a grand size booth space at FOSS4G, with lots of space for meeting friends, old and new. The Booth ends up being the goto place for finding others in the community. I've got some marketing material to hand out and show off, but that won

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source for America Newsletter

2011-08-22 Thread Tyler Mitchell
In case you aren't already aware of the OSFA... Begin forwarded message: > From: "General announcement list (low traffic)" > > Date: August 22, 2011 11:01:20 AM PDT > To: osa-annou...@opensourceforamerica.org > Subject: [OSA-Announce] Open Source for America Newsletter > Reply-To: no-re...@open

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Results for 2011

2011-08-22 Thread Tyler Mitchell
From: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2011_Results Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and they have been filled by, in alphabetical order: • Peter Batty • Jo Cook • Michael G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board election closing soon - 21-Aug end of day

2011-08-21 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Board election closing soon - 21-Aug end of day To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: c...@osgeo.org, Werner Leyh > > Would like to “vote” > but didn´t get > > “an invite in your > email box from c...@osgeo.org with further instructions” > … > thanks > Werner > > >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board election closing soon - 21-Aug end of day

2011-08-20 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Only a handful of people haven't yet responded. Last chance, no more reminders :) You should have an invite in your email box from c...@osgeo.org with further instructions. Otherwise, email c...@osgeo.org. Thanks to all who voted! If you aren't receiving harassing reminders to vote every 20

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] North America (Seattle) codesprint -- last chance to save it!

2011-08-18 Thread Tyler Mitchell
It'd certainly be cool to help prop these up. Collecting sponsors, etc. could be a part time job for an organiser :) It has been neat to see the other code sprints (New York, Toronto, and others I forget) self organise and deal with it all. Usually they aren't aiming for as nice as a facili

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Election Update

2011-08-15 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
! Thank you to the 65% of respondents so far who sent in their votes. Hopefully we can get this closer to 100%. Tyler Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org See you in Denver @ FOSS4G 2011! http://2011.foss4g.org ___ Discu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election 2011 - Time to vote

2011-08-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell
" and coming from c...@osgeo.org. >> >> And if in doubt after submitting the form about the information that you >> submitted, no worries, you can click the personal link again at a later time >> (before the voting closes) to see/review your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G papers and workshop materials for ELOGeo

2011-08-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
When the dust starts to settle from FOSS4G preparation, among other things, my hope is to take content (speakers, workshops) from past FOSS4G events and upload them. That should be a very interesting exercise :) Tyler On 2011-08-11, at 8:11 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Hi all, > > We have mad

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Board Nomination - Gérald Fenoy

2011-08-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Thanks to all candidates for sharing your thoughts and comments. It's great information and, for many, it is encouraging to hear such enthusiasm about the effects of the work that we have all, collaboratively, been doing. I'm certainly looking forward to this second half decade of innovation a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Workshops filling up...

2011-08-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Was sure if you meant to response privately, but thought others might have the same questions, so replying on the list too :) On 2011-08-10, at 9:05 AM, Nitin Gadia wrote: > One quick question - I'm thinking the Introduction to Geospatial > Opensource would be the best for me... It appears that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-08-09, at 12:56 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: > Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board > should be We probably each have our own list of the most important things to consider, so I share mine as well. :) My votes will be less influenced by global coverage or

[OSGeo-Discuss] Workshops filling up...

2011-08-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Some FOSS4G workshops are filling up fast. If you've been holding out to get registered, you might want to do it sooner than later in order to secure access to the workshops you most desire. OpenLayers app development is sold out, looks like Intro to PostGIS isn't far behind! Tyler___

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: GITA Education Commitee Datasets Survey

2011-08-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Survey (only 2 questions I think) re: datasets and industry you are in. Tyler Begin forwarded message: > From: GITA Education Committee > Date: August 8, 2011 3:05:31 PM PDT > To: tmitch...@osgeo.org > Subject: GITA Education Commitee Datasets Survey > Reply-To: i...@gita.org > > SmartUnsubsc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-06 Thread Tyler Mitchell
> On 2011/08/06 10:28, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: >> Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North >> America, > There are many other things not "realized" in North America, > so the Tyler's "not even" does not make much se

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
> important to highlight the benefits on working together OSGeo to these > parallel heads. > > Ten or fifteen years ago I saw a lot of projects and services to be > killed because the lack of free options or free cases. Now, we have a > lot of options to replace or interoperate wi

[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What cha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Mark Lucas

2011-08-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Sorry for the urgent flag... I blame OSX ;-) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Mark Lucas

2011-08-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I nominate Mark Lucas for the OSGeo Board of Directors. With over 25 years experience in the geospatial and remote sensing fields, he has lots to offer, especially his enthusiasm for OSGeo and helping teams work together. He works as Principal Scientist for http://www.radiantblue.com/ where OS

[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominating Thierry Badard

2011-08-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I nominate Thierry Badard to serve on the OSGeo Board of Directors. His involvement in OSGeo to date shows an encouraging commitment to advancing OSGeo's mission on many fronts. While primarily focused on the academic side through Laval University, he is also active with the OSGeo Francophone

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] online open source polygon mapping, like OSM?

2011-08-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
add, remove or modify the features > that are loaded, and most importantly allows for the changes to be > committed back and saved to the parent source." > > http://www.gistutor.com/openlayers/22-advanced-openlayers-tutorials/47-openlayers-wfs-t-using-a-geoserver-hosted-postgis-layer

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board nomination for Peter Batty

2011-08-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I nominate Peter Batty for a position on the OSGeo Board. I've worked closely with Peter in a variety of situations - his focus and experience would serve OSGeo well as a director. As Chair of the FOSS4G 2011 event he has shown a willingness to stick his neck out for FOSS4G and OSGeo - taking

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Do we want OSGeo-Live on a USB or DVD at FOSS4G?

2011-08-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-08-02, at 3:57 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > In Barcelona, we were unsure whether the USB version would work on most > computers, so we gave USB's to presenters only, who we thought would likely > be forgiving if it didn't work) and we gave DVDs to everyone else. I think cost would have

[OSGeo-Discuss] Press Release: Top 10 Reasons to Attend FOSS4G 2011 in Denver

2011-07-27 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Top 10 Reasons to Attend FOSS4G 2011 in Denver The Event Presents Great Value and Rare Opportunity DENVER, July 27, 2011 -- The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is the premier international conference focused on open source geospatial software. The event presents

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Booth at FOSS4G...

2011-06-29 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, it's that time of year to think more about what we want the OSGeo booth to look like at FOSS4G. In the past it has served as a meeting place and key location for helping connect people with projects and their teams, etc. Think back to the last booth you may have seen and share your tho

[OSGeo-Discuss] Poll module for Drupal 5?

2011-06-14 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Anyone have a recommendation for a poll/survey module for Drupal 5? Until we get our new site up and running on 6.x (or will that be 7.x? :-) )... Tyler___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
tainly makes me wonder if that's what respondents were thinking too. Certainly also makes me want to start cataloguing trainers ... hmmm. Thanks for the thoughts.. hope there are more! On 2011-06-10, at 12:08 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > On 10/06/2011 4:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >&g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-06-09, at 11:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> Anyone else thinking about this or want to weigh-in on what their thoughts >> were? > > If this competes with the activities the professionals and enterprises are > currently > offering, -1. We want OSGeo to support our work, not to compete w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-06-09, at 11:00 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote: > 3. To technically certify a product or application - (e.g. as a sort of > endorsement that the technology meets some OSGeo standard) > > I don't understand this. The following standards come to mind: Does the > product output OGC complian

[OSGeo-Discuss] Media Sponsorship

2011-06-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi everybody, I've been working on an idea to start a Media Sponsorship opportunity for OSGeo. We already do this same idea for FOSS4G each year, so why not try it for the organisation in general? I already know of a few media companies that would be interested in: * providing $x worth of adver

[OSGeo-Discuss] Working together on fundraising?

2011-06-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
It's been an inspiring week to see others thinking about fundraising and I'd like to help encourage you to share your thoughts on the subject too. I believe we could really benefit from a concerted group effort on this if we want to continue to extend OSGeo's reach as an organisation. If there

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeoprojects?

2011-06-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Great to see several conversations coming together and with some enthusiasm too! :) I'm very keen to work together with others on these ideas. I've also had quite a few discussions with people from the OSGeosphere I've met during meetings this week. I'll try to get some of my thoughts down in

[OSGeo-Discuss] www.osgeo.org login issues

2011-05-25 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Just an FYI, and hopefully it's old news by the time you read this. With some recent improvements in our authentication backend for all our osgeo.org services, we still have a couple glitches to iron out with logins on the Drupal site: www.osgeo.org. Logins are failing but we're working on it.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Jaspersoft DC Meetup - Open Source BI

2011-05-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell
FYI Begin forwarded message: > From: "kbr...@jaspersoft.com" > Date: May 13, 2011 11:39:18 AM PDT > To: Military Open Source Software > Subject: [mil-oss] Jaspersoft Meetup - Open Source BI > Reply-To: mil-...@googlegroups.com > > Don’t miss this event sponsored by Jaspersoft, Talend & Infobri

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell
get areas devoted to > "development". > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On Friday, 13 May 2011 at 5:30 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > >> View online: http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2 >> >> >> We just hit > 100 respondents on my recent survey! You can

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

2011-05-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-05-12, at 3:53 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: > It would be interesting to get a summary of the participant background. was > their more academic respondents resulting in a bias? I wonder what the chart > would look like if you extracted the broad OSGeo groups (academics, > government, develop

[OSGeo-Discuss] Survey: Next Steps for OSGeo

2011-05-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
(De-uglified version) The new life of Spring is in the air over here in Western Canada. It's a good time to step back and take stock of where we all think OSGeo should be heading in the upcoming months and years. I've put together a very short survey, only 4 questions, and invite everyone to s

[OSGeo-Discuss] Survey: Next Steps for OSGeo

2011-05-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The new life of Spring is in the air over here in Western Canada. It's a good time to step back and take stock of where we all think OSGeo should be heading in the upcoming months and years. I've put together a very short survey, only 4 questions, a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for map matching software

2011-05-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-05-09, at 8:36 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Do we have any good map matching code around? I looking for something that > does more than simple snapping of points to nearest segments. I have read > tons of academic papers and played around with some simple algorithms in > postGIS. I ha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] F4G 2012

2011-05-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-05-09, at 5:52 PM, Eduardo Kanegae wrote: > I'll not be able to visit F4G2011 but I´d like to start planning > myself for the next year conference. > > Is there any proposal of places for hosting 2012 conference or am I > asking this too early? Nothing yet, but there is a request for prop

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: DGPS with software for Linux

2011-05-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Someone on our sister list might know too: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps Tyler On 2011-05-05, at 6:43 AM, K S Rajan wrote: > Can anyone help on this? > > Original Message > Subject: DGPS with software for Linux > Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 22:43:49 +0530 > F

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some services down

2011-05-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell
list if you need this kind of help: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac Or file a trac ticket (which is working now). Tyler On 2011-05-02, at 8:37 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > Just an FYI - our website SSL certificates are being rnewed, but in the > meantime you'll likely

[OSGeo-Discuss] Some services down

2011-05-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Just an FYI - our website SSL certificates are being rnewed, but in the meantime you'll likely find a few services complaining about it or preventing your from logging in. Hoping to have it fixed today, sorry for the inconvenience. Tyler___ Discuss m

[OSGeo-Discuss] Systems FYI

2011-04-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Just an FYI that our OSGeo web certificate expires shortly. A couple of us are working on implementing the renewal which is underway, but in the meantime you might see some certificate hickups. It might affect a few services you use, but hopefully you can ignore the outdated warnings and carry

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Speakers: now or never...

2011-04-14 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Reminder... get your abstracts in! On 2011-04-13, at 6:58 AM, Peter Batty wrote: > Hi everyone, > > One last reminder that the call for papers for FOSS4G closes this Friday, > April 15th. Thanks to all who have submitted already, if you haven't got your > abstract in yet I encourage you to do

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Posters and Flyers

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-04-03, at 12:13 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > can you please do a "svn propset svn:mime-type application/pdf *.pdf" > to let our browsers detect the good stuff??? Done :) Still trying to make it do automatically :( ___ Discuss mailing

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Posters and Flyers

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, we now have some FOSS4G promo posters and flyers available. Full press quality PDFs are available for download at: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2011/documents/ See: FlyerFinal2011press.pdf and PostFinal2011press.pdf The poster is designed for 11x17in and flyer is 4x9in double sid

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Finding position based on horizon profile?

2011-03-28 Thread Tyler Mitchell
It's definitely in the field of augmented reality research - I had been looking for the same answer a few years ago and was pointed to a (closed access) research paper - never did get beyond that restriction :/ I'm very interested in any results you get to. Tyler On 2011-03-28, at 1:48 PM, Mi

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: feedback on OSS in Government Systems

2011-03-11 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Begin forwarded message:From: jmw Date: March 10, 2011 11:14:51 AM ESTTo: o...@oss-institute.orgSubject: [Ossi] We'd like your feedback on OSS Adoption/Usage in Government SystemsReply-To: j...@oss-institute.org We'd like to get your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] open-source project site construction

2011-03-07 Thread Tyler Mitchell
This reminded of http://collab.net - which a few of us are familiar with from back in 2006. Since then I think they've opened some stuff up http://www.collab.net/community - not sure if that's what you were thinking, but they had a user account system managing email lists and more. I know some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Cloud-centered activities and implementations?

2011-03-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
This paper from the OSGeo Journal may be of interest: http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/174 " > Geoprocessing in the Clouds > > Bastian Baranski, Bastian Schaeffer, Richard Redweik > > Abstract > > > Cloud Computing is one of the latest hypes in the mainstream IT world.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Command line tool for dissolving polygon boundaries

2011-03-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Brent, I'm sure a few of us are interested - sounds good! :) Tyler On 2011-03-02, at 8:28 AM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi Brent, > > I can compile C++, and I'm interested. Is it possible to access the code? > > Dan > > On 03/02/2011 07:04 AM, Brent Fraser wrote: >> Dan, >> >>I've got some C

[OSGeo-Discuss] Anniversary Celebrations!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Is it anniversary or birthday? Ah, maybe both! I started putting some of the ideas for celebrating onto the wiki page - add your ideas, challenge others, have some fun! http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anniversary_Celebrations_2011___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] not spam :)

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Oh darn, they put a silly subject line :) Believe it or not, this is not SPAM... much tastier! On 2011-02-03, at 9:35 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > > My 2 minutes cake decorating. You can better, I challenge you!! :) > > Tyler > > To check the card, click here: > > h

[OSGeo-Discuss] Tyler Mitchell sent you an e-card through TheoWorlds.com!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
My 2 minutes cake decorating. You can better, I challenge you!! :) Tyler To check the card, click here: http://www.theoworlds.com/birthday/index.php?CardID=146004 --- TheoWorlds.com - make your message fun! Flash games, e-cards, applications...

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Yikes, we have the fifth OSGeo Anniversary TOMORROW!

2011-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 2011-02-03, at 3:50 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > Ok as Tyler is apparently very busy I'll post here some ideas (without > of course any time to implement some) Hehe, yes running behind on a few things, but I know your ideas would be better than mine anyway ;-) > * A metapixel[2] im

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Software Awards

2011-02-02 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
FYI - In case anyone wants to nominate their favourite OSGeo project or contributor... Tyler Begin forwarded message: > From: John Sullivan > Date: February 2, 2011 11:01:01 AM PST > To: info-...@fsf.org, info-pr...@fsf.org > Subject: [FSF] Call for nominations for the 13th Annual Free Softw

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for "aliveness" . . .

2011-01-24 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
You might also want to take a peek at how Nagios does it's monitoring - I'm sure there are a few good examples in there, if not a whole package you could tweak. I used it a long time back... http://nagios.org/ Tyler On 2011-01-24, at 8:17 AM, Bob Basques wrote: > All, > > I'm working on a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Seeking Articles, Reports, and Volunteers for Volume 9 of the OSGeo Journal

2011-01-14 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 2011-01-14, at 7:20 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > I don’t think there is a problem covering other programs or libraries, as > long as they are open source and related to geospatial data. Landon's definitely right on this - and Ann we'd love articles re: 52 North or and other "friends" that are

[OSGeo-Discuss] What events are on your radar for 2011?

2010-12-22 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Likewise, with news about the broader community, projects, chapters, etc. you can always email your news postings to news_i...@osgeo.org Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! http://2011.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Foss4g sponsorship question

2010-12-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
g sponsorship :) Stay Tuned! -- Tyler Mitchell Executive Director, OSGeo tmitch...@osgeo.org +1-250-303-1831 See you at FOSS4 2011 Denver in September! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Elevation and profile service

2010-12-07 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On December 7, 2010 04:26:08 am nicolas bozon wrote: > Hello Cédric, > > One of the ZOO Project demo could fit to your second use case. > > The user can draw a polyline on a DEM layer and see the corresponding > elevation profile in a jquery dialog. > The calculation is done using GDAL as a WPS Z

[OSGeo-Discuss] Drupal 6.x translations..

2010-12-06 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
I'm looking at upgrading osgeo.org but it's Drupal 5.x site with lots of translated pages (using localization module), but in 6.x language handling is a core feature. Anyone know off hand if this is going to get messy quickly? :) Tyler ___ Discuss ma

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

2010-11-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
FYI - some of you might find this useful re: open source law... -- Forwarded Message -- http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr You may also want to encourage government folks to subscribe to the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSSLR, www.ifosslr.org). All o

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