Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GRASS-user] New stable release: GRASS GIS 7.0.0

2015-02-22 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Big thanks to all the developers for this amazing achievement. I am sure that like me, many in the user community will be all smiles. Release of 7.0.0 is a wonderful way to celebrate 32 years (on 29 July 2013 [1]) of GRASS GIS. Best Venka [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

2014-09-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 9/16/2014 10:48 AM, Richard Greenwood wrote: I don't get it, and my question is moot at this point in time, but why do we need a new foundation? Why couldn't OSGeo have provided what LocationTech purports to provide? Was there any discussion, or awareness, in the OSGeo board prior to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

2014-09-13 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, On 2014/09/14 0:11, Jeff McKenna wrote: Responding to your comment, we now work closely with several foundations (ISPRS, ICA, GLTN, and soon GSDI, are examples that I have met with recently personally). There does seem to be something different about the way LocationTech is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Suggested text for Suggestions for Board Membership

2014-08-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Cameron, On 2014/08/15 7:36, Cameron Shorter wrote: Venka, Nick, We discussed your suggestions (along with others) in the board meeting today, and I've adjusted the text to emphasis that these board role descriptions are suggestions are guidelines only, not rules, and can be updated by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nominations finish tomorrow!!

2014-08-01 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Jorge, Thanks for your great work as CRO. On 2014/07/31 16:14, Jorge Sanz wrote: I have still a quite a big pile of nominations not confirmed[1]. Only nominations confirmed before Saturday 2nd 00:00 (GMT) will be added to the next phase so PLEASE, if your nominee has not responded to your

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Chaitanya Kumar Ch.

2014-08-01 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/08/02 0:09, K S Rajan wrote: Dear Community, I would like to nominate Chaitanya Kumar, an Open source developer/programmer, who is an active member of OSGeo-India Chapter and contributed to GDAL maintenance. In the last couple of years, he has been actively sharing his technical

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Nimalika Fernando

2014-08-01 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/08/01 23:48, Ravi Kumar wrote: +1 we need more and more Like Nimalika to evangelise. +1 for Nimalika's nomination. Venka She is a right choise for OSGeo charter On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:26 PM, Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: +1 from me for Nimalika

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination of Andreea Marin

2014-07-31 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/08/01 1:59, Jeff McKenna wrote: It's my pleasure to second Andreea's nomination by Markus. She may come off as a little quiet at first, but Andreea is another super active and passionate member of the geo-spatial.org/RomaniaChapter. I am very appreciative for all of Andreea's and the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello

2014-07-25 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/07/25 15:10, Andrea Aime wrote: And another +1 for yet another one I thought was a charter member already :-) Same here. +1 Venka Cheers Andrea On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Andrea Antonello nomination by Luca Delucchi Best Jorge

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Milan Antonovic

2014-07-22 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/07/22 19:52, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: I would like to nominate Milan Antonovic for OSGeo charter membership. I second this nomination. Milan is a regular at international and regions FOSS4G events and I did not realize that he was not CM as yet. Venka Milan is a passionate and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Mohammed Rashad

2014-07-22 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/07/22 21:29, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote: +1 +1 Venka On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear CRO and OSGeo people, I wish to nominate Mohammed Rashad [1,2] for OSGeo Charter membership. Rashad is from Kerala, India. He is currently

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw

2014-07-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/07/22 4:19, Jorge Sanz wrote: Nomination of Johan van de Wauw by Jeff McKenna. I second Johan's nomination Best Venka Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff McKenna Date: 2014-07-21 19:26 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw To:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl

2014-07-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2014/07/22 5:05, Jachym Cepicky wrote: +1 for Stephan's nomination +1 for Stephan's nomination Venka Jachym 2014-07-21 20:34 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com: I also support the nomination for Stephan, by Helmut and Mike. Stephan does a lot of work for OGC

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ivan Mincik

2014-07-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
I second Ivan's nomination. Venka On 2014/07/22 5:03, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi all, I would like to nominate Ivan Mincik [1] for OSGeo chareter membership. Ivan is very active at Slovakia, working with, promoting and providing support to the OSGeo stack. Among his publicly available work,

[OSGeo-Discuss] About Interactive Map patent application by Apple Inc.

2013-12-20 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the Interactive Map patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1] describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade. Best Venka [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India activity

2013-12-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 12/10/2013 2:15 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote: Congratulations to the IIIT-H colleague and friend! Congratulations Rajan-san!! Very well deserved recognition for the leader of a great team at IIIT-H, India. Best Venka Cheers. Maria Da:

[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS Mirror Sites

2013-12-03 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, GRASS Mirror sites [1] don't seem updated sing 1 Aug 2013. Some problem with the master Tier 1 site, I think. Best Venka [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/mirrors/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS Mirror Sites

2013-12-03 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Markus, On 2013/12/03 20:08, Markus Neteler wrote: Thanks for catching this. The current Tier 1 server is Wroclaw University, Poland (master mirror). Please check if your cronjob points to it (adapt local paths as needed): /usr/bin/rsync -r --delete --times --links

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

2013-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Rajan and All, I think Ravi was seeking clarification about All Rights Reserved mentioned in some of the OSGeo Software's copyright notices. © symbol or word Copyright followed publication date and copyright owner's name should be adequate (like in many web sites) to be protected under

[OSGeo-Discuss] Congratulations to Arnulf for Sol Katz Award 2013

2013-09-24 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, I would like to congratulate Arnulf on the Sol Katz 2013 award in recognition of his contributions to FOSS4G and the OSGeo Foundation. Looking forward to his many more contributions in the years to come. Cheers, Arnulf. Best Venka ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!

2013-07-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive and kicking for the last 30 years. Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations in the year 2033. Cheers and Kampai!! Venka On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. Markus you and all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination for Yann Chemin

2013-07-14 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2013/07/14 20:17, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Hi All, Let us nominate Yann Chemin [0] from France / Sri Lanka (rather citizen of the world), for OSGeo Charter membership. I second the nomination of Yann Chemin. Would be great to have Yann as Charter Member. Venka Yann is a researcher at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Nomination

2013-07-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 7/10/2013 1:09 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: It is a pleasure to nominate Harish Kumar Solanki for the OSGeo Charter. Solanki is a lead trainer / propagator of FOSS GIS India. I second the nomination of Harish Kumar Solanki. Have had the pleasure of meeting Harish on a couple of occasion and his

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2013/01/23 18:49, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: From the web page: We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English, of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline of 1 February 2013. Templates for submissions in a variety of formats can be found here, and detailed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Meeting Summary

2012-12-14 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/12/15 3:35, maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote: Many thanks to Frank! Jeff, C O N G R A T S Many thanks to Frank for the unparalleled services to OSGeo in his role as President. Congratulations and best wishes to Jeff in his new role as President. Best Venka Thanks

[OSGeo-Discuss] Many Thanks and heavy responsibility

2012-10-27 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Apologies for the delay in my response. Took me some time to recover from a bad cold and also from the pleasant shock of learning that Sol Katz award for 2012 was bestowed upon me. I think that the tiny bit that I could do to promote OSGeo/FOSS4G was possible only due the great work

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] CRO rules

2012-08-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Best of luck to all the nominees for the OSGeo Board election [1]. I will be voting shortly. I had specifically requested on the OSGeo-board list for Chief Returning Officers (CROs) to refrain from any electioneering activity in OSGeo Elections [2]. I would like to propose that for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial Atlas

2012-08-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Very interesting idea put forth by Barry. Would be great to see involvement from Local Chapters so that the Atlas could present contents other languages too. BTW, a Japanese company received Good Design Award for its maps that were prepared using FOSS4G tools some years ago (See

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CORRECTION -- Re: Board Elections 2012

2012-08-03 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/08/03 21:25, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Cameron Shorter's name was inadvertently omitted from the nomination page. Such omissions cannot be reported now after the election process have started. On one had the board says that election rules cannot be changed after the election process has

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination: Hirofumi Hayashi

2012-07-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/07/31 2:49, Paul Ramsey wrote: What super news! Hirofumi Hayashi would be a great representative for Japan and open source geospatial in general, I heartily second this nomination! P. I express my strong support for the candidature of Hayashi-san for the upcoming OSGeo Board Election.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board of Directors nomination: Anne Ghisla

2012-07-27 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/07/27 21:56, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Hi all, We would like to nominate Anne Ghisla (from Italy) to the Board of Directors. Great to see Anne as a nominee and also that nomination has been made on behalf of the very active Italian Local Chapter. I strongly support Anne's candidature.

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

2012-07-24 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/07/25 3:40, Mark Lucas wrote: Jeff, Great to have you back, look forward to working with you again. Same here. Nice to see Jeff back all fresh and shining. I would like to second his nomination to the OSGeo Board. And look forward to his contribution to the community with renewed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

2012-07-23 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/07/24 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote: Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by the charter member) in the Board election. Advantages: The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her more than once. I strongly support the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New charter members!

2012-07-10 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear New Charter Members and All, Hearty congratulations and big welcome as new charter members. Looking at the nominee list, I was surprised that many of you were not already Charter Members. Looking forward to you continued contribution to OSGeo and to the pleasure of working together. Best

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Massimiliano Cannata

2012-06-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, I would like to nominate Dr. Massimiliano Cannata as new Charter Member. Dr. Cannata is heading the Geinformatics Division at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a regular at FOSS4G meetings and has presented several interesting results on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-05 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
There was a discussion about responsibility of Charter members http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2011-December/009239.html and a wiki page (see below) was initiated (at the request of a Board member) but not much input after that.

Re: [Board] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-05 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
) are already the case, and some people (myself included) feel that (2) is not desirable right now.) About (2), why is it not desirable? Venka -mpg From: board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Raghavan Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 5:46

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote Sensing in Java

2012-02-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/02/15 19:04, Mohammed Rashad wrote: Can we do raster processing without gdal and using only java code because i am looking for a java library which can do some image processing like stretching compositing,filtering,georeferencing and classification of satellite imagery and bands I would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Remote Sensing in Java

2012-02-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2012/02/15 19:04, Mohammed Rashad wrote: Can we do raster processing without gdal and using only java code because i am looking for a java library which can do some image processing like stretching compositing,filtering,georeferencing and classification of satellite imagery and bands I would

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

2011-12-04 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/12/03 11:14, nicolas bozon wrote: They also have a website, but down for maintenance at the moment (some more info docs available there) www.gogps-project.org The above web-site is back online. Best Venka Best, Nick 2011/12/2 Tyler Mitchelltmitch...@osgeo.org ** There is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter member nominees -- where are you?

2011-11-26 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
I fully agree with the opinion expressed below by Dimitris. Rather then asking nominated members to justify their nomination and (harshly) stating that if they do not do so they may not be good champion of OSGeo, it is for the present charter members who will be voting to find out about

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

2011-11-18 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Nice to see the OSGeo Local Chapter pages growing. We now have osgeo.jp, osgeo.kr, osgeo.cn, osgeo.in, osgeo.id, osgeo.eu and perhaps several more that I am not aware off. jp.osgeo.org redirects to Japan Local Chapter page (osgeo.jp) and it would be nice to see cn.osgeo.org,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSs4G + SoTM

2011-11-16 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/17 11:00, maning sambale wrote: A good presentation by Arnulf on the various communities (osgeo, ogc and openstreetmap) during SOTM 2011 in Denver here: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/what-open-and-what-free-ogc-osgeo-and-osm My oneliner take: OGC = open standards OSGEO = open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSs4G + SoTM

2011-11-16 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/17 12:31, Frans Thamura wrote: cant get the slide ;( it is video http://www.slideshare.net/arnulfchristl/what-isopenness-ogctcmeetingboulder so can use for our presentation here ;) F On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: A good

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Maning Sambale

2011-11-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Maning is now at my University Guest House for the FOSS4G2011-Osaka event. It is a please to meet him in person and learn about his multi-faceted contributions to FOSS4GD! Strongly second Arnulf's nomination for Maning Sambale. Venka On 2011/11/10 1:03, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] charter member nomination: Tim Sutton

2011-11-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/10 0:34, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09.11.2011 13:13, Duarte Carreira wrote: I would like to nominate Tim Sutton. ... PS: I had to recheck because I was sure that he must already be a Charter Member but he is not - yet.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Yoicihi Kayama

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, It gives me great please to nominate Yoicihi Kayama as Charter Member. He is one of the most active members of OSGeo.JP. He has participated/contributed immensely to the local/international FOSS4G Community. Some of his major contributions are as below; 1) Japanese translation of QGIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Xianfeng Song

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/09 3:04, Gérald Fenoy wrote: Dear comrades, I'm pleased to nominate Xianfeng Song for his implication in many ways into OSGeo that you know but I will briefly remind here. First, he invest many time and efforts in spreading knowledge and promoting OSGeo in the lessons he give at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination: Xianfeng Song

2011-11-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/11/09 3:04, Gérald Fenoy wrote: Dear comrades, I'm pleased to nominate Xianfeng Song for his implication in many ways into OSGeo that you know but I will briefly remind here. First, he invest many time and efforts in spreading knowledge and promoting OSGeo in the lessons he give at

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

2011-08-12 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
All the new and wonderful ways to vote are fine. I prefer the old way and have already sent my votes by e-mail to c...@osgeo.org. I sent my votes twice and am still to receive any acknowledgments for my vote. New ways of voting need to be decided much in advance to avoid people like me (who are

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

2011-08-06 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
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 sense to me. Venka so they are very thought provoking for me.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GWF Hyderabad 2011

2011-01-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/01/21 18:05, Markus Neteler wrote: . congrats - hope you had a lot of audience in the OSGeo session. Yes, the session was the most well attended and a great success. The interaction with OSGeo-India was also very fruitful. Let's hope for the next time that I'll get the visa before

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GEOSHIELD RELEASE

2010-12-10 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Maxi, Congratulation in the release of GeoShield. Best Venka On 2010/12/10 10:39, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: Dear list, it is a pleasure to announce the release of GeoShield (version 0.2.1). GeoShield is a project born to offer a centralized way to define security access-control to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2010 Charter Member Selection

2010-11-12 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2010/11/12 21:20, Paul Ramsey wrote: ... • Alex Mandel • Andreas Hocevar • Anne Ghisla • Astrid Emde • Danilo Furtado • Gavin Fleming • Hirofumi Hayashi • Jo Cook • Maria Brovelli • Milena Nowotarska Welcome to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-16 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2010/09/16 22:45, Dave Patton wrote: ... Build some flexibility into the registration process. For those who do early bird registration, have a single option where they make a choice whether or not they want 'the OSGeo swag'. That could be a t-shirt + bag + LiveCD + button + etc. Have a

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2010: Good, Bad and the Ugly

2010-09-15 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Back to work after four weeks on the road with the ZOO-Team. Enjoyed being at FOSS4G2010. As usual there many good things, few bad things at least one ugly incident (for the ZOO-Team). About the good things, i will not spend too much time as it is obvious to all. Just to mention that

[OSGeo-Discuss] WPS BoF (breakout Session) at FOSS4G2010?

2010-08-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Several presentation on WPS implementation/application have been selected for presentation. This indicates growing interest amongst the FOSS4G communities. I have added request for WPS BoF (Break-out session) below. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Breakout_Sessions#WPS_BoF If

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Webcasts presentations of OSGIS 2010 @ Centre for Geospatial Science

2010-07-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Suchith, Many thanks for the Webcasts. The webcast player does no seem to work with Firefox both of Linux and Windows. Best Venka On 2010/07/08 21:45, Suchith Anand wrote: Dear All, The Webcasts of presentations of The Second Open Source GIS UK Conference (OSGIS 2010) is now available

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapters Mailing List

2010-07-07 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Subscribed. Not a official representative but involved in some of the local chapters in Asia. Venka On 2010/07/08 5:48, Jeff McKenna wrote: I am also subscribed, as a representative of the Atlantic Canada chapter (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Atlantic_Canada_Chapter). -jeff Seven (aka

Re: IS EVERYONE HERE FAST ASLEEP? was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data

2010-02-24 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
+1 for positive response to Ordinance Survey as requested by Jo. Awake, Alive and kicking in Japan. Venka On 2010/02/25 15:40, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Ditto - it seemed sort of so obvious that I assumed Our Board would just Do the Right Thing. +2 .mpg On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Chris

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] An interesting article about software licensing in the non-open source geospatial world

2009-12-20 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Frank Frank Warmerdam wrote: ... Building on software distributed under well understood and relatively unrestrictive open source licenses can help a great deal. Could you let me know what would the relatively unrestrictive open source licenses be.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: ISPRS Technical Commission VIII 2010 Count Down News Letter No.1

2009-12-04 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, The ISPRS meeting will be held in Kyoto City which is not far from Osaka City (which has a sizable OSGeo/FOSS4G community). If any of the OSGeo folks on this ML are planning to be at ISPRS, we could do an OSGeo event as a part pf ISPRS or pre/post ISPRS at my university in Osaka. Best

[OSGeo-Discuss] books on Web Services

2009-12-03 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Is there any reccomendation for good books on following topics (with many good examples) 1) Service Oriented Architecture 2) Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI 3) Web Service Security 4) Ext JS 5) Cloud computing platforms Thanks in advance. Venka

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Nice to see responses to the intresting thread started bu Daniele. 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-2009-Tokyo/Osaka promotion video

2009-11-14 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Nakagawa-san who made the music for the Mola-Mola 2009 promotion has kindly posted the lyrics on the OSGeo-Japan discuss list. the english translation is also included. Enjoy!! Venka Title: FOSS4G is damn simple FOSS4G,FOSS4G,FOSS4G, it's easy FOSS4G,FOSS4G、FOSS4G, it's s easy!

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-2009-Tokyo/Osaka promotion video

2009-11-04 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, FOSS4G-2009-Tokyo/Osaka promotion video is available on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF6_noLvmsw Enjoy!! Cheers!! Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] Tons of thanks and FOSS4G logo

2009-10-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi all, All good things must come to a close. and it is a 5 days since the curtains fell all at FOSS4G-2009-Sydney. Great job by the organizers and great conference. Now is the time to change FOSS4G-2009 logo on OSGeo site, on your blog and where ever else you have been good enough to proudly

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Health GIS 2009

2009-07-26 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Ravi, Nice to see FOSS4G related presentations at HealthGIS 2009. We did a Open Source Web-GIS workshop at HealthGIS 2008 (http://e-geoinfo.net/hgis.html). Couldn't do it this time due to other engagements. Regards Venka Ravi wrote: Hi, in the recently concluded event 'Health GIS 2009',

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g2009 abstract submit

2009-06-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
I added multiple author names to the abstract itself. Could not think of another way. Best Venka andrea antonello wrote: I need a small info about the submission mechanism for the foss4g abstract submission. I find no proper way to supply more authors and institutions for a submission. Is the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Please translate the FOSS4G 2009 description

2009-03-04 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, The chinese translation has just been added by Dr. Song. regards Venka Sanghee Shin wrote: ... I've just added korean translation there. regards, Sanghee 2009/3/3 Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com Thank you to everyone who has provided translations so far at:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Foreign Language Community Support

2008-11-10 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Mori-san, (Orkney)Toru Mori wrote: ... As Chris pointed out, our OSGeo local chapter discussion list could be the place to communicate. However, mailing list is sometimes difficult to view summary of discussions, I would prefer wiki typed page in local language. Please start the wiki section

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Appraisal of OSGeo events/workshops in Japan/Vietnam/Thailand

2008-11-09 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, The FOSS4G events in Osaka and Tokyo were a great success. The Stage Talk by Jeff,Claude and Chris can be seen at http://cliplife.jp/clip/?content_id=e4sr5ji4 The Promotion Video below was a big hit too. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHilajQkGM Cheers Venka Venkatesh Raghavan

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ES Local Chapter subdomain

2008-10-29 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Frank Warmerdam wrote: ... Yves and Venka, The jp and fr subdomain rewrites have been put in place. If anyone else wants one it is safer to file a SAC Trac ticket to ensure the request doesn't get lost in the email stream. Thanks Frank. ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] defining a Geospatial Integration Showcase to be launched at FOSS4G 2009

2008-10-23 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Markus Neteler wrote: ... There is another dataset, the OSGeo education data set: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina It contains all kind of data/maps in original formats and preprocessed, covering a wide range of potential applications. The Geospatial Integration

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] defining a Geospatial Integration Showcase to be launched at FOSS4G 2009

2008-10-23 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Cameron Shorter wrote: If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for that dataset? What license? Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Same as OpenStreetMap How should it be made available? Via

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

2008-05-31 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Lorenzo Becchi wrote: Dave Patton wrote: Changing the policy may be appropriate, but not during the process. +1 to Dave. I don't think it's a good idea to change policy now. +1 to the above. Venka ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time In GIS

2007-12-13 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Perhaps you can take a look at http://www.timemap.net/ I am marking CC to my colleague Dr. Yonezawa who is developing some application for Urban history using TimeMap Landon Blake wrote: ... That would be great. I'd really like to take a look at the thesis. You can send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] foss4g.org

2007-11-22 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Paul Ramsey wrote: So, what's the next step on moving this domain into a position where we can put it to conference use? (Thanks again for the use of it!) I think the foss4g.org domain has to be registered in the OSGeo DNS. We haven't done this before, so we are waiting for some input about

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-11-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Frank Warmerdam wrote: ... I am still not sure how to take the UbuntuGIS CD/DVD thing forward. I and Sarawut will willing to work on work-on this and hope others would join too. a) About what stack of software that could be offered, I think the initial stack that we have put up on the OSGeo

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

2007-11-21 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Arnulf Christl wrote: When I come to think of this I really despise myself. I wanted to be a developer but wasn't good enough so I started to do marketing and preach advocacy and now am just short of being a mean politician... hasta la vista, baby Arnulf, that phrase could boost

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-10-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Dear All, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: ... We are now testing and re-building RPM for Mandriva 2008. I will put all info about this on wiki and inform on this list. I have created a wiki page below with info about Mandriva 2008 RPM packages. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How do you create .mgp files?

2007-10-30 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Perhaps you could find your answer at http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2006/04/09/15/mapguide-open-source-package-utilities/ Or maybe direct your question pto the mapguide-users mailing list below http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users Venka Ayush wrote: hi, i'm a newbie and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-10-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Firman, Glad to know about FOSS4G activity at ITB. Maybe you happen to know Soni Darmawan too. He did som GRASS modules for our JICA training and was using Ubuntu Virtualbox. Think Soni is from ITB too. Happy to see all the recent activity on packaging OSGeo software stack. Venka Firman

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-10-26 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Frans, Frans Thamura wrote: ... Gavin, our experience with Ubuntu training, you can ask Arnulf christi for the detail 1. we just need Ubuntu in client 2. mirror of ubuntu reposittory.. we here copy the repo to 7 DVD, and put in the centralized server 3. start training That would still

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

2007-10-26 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Jacolin Yves wrote: ... The Francophone LC try to run such a project but with francophone documentation, application in french, francophone data, etc. Someone (french) is working on a personal liveCD (GeoLive) and I think we will use it. I think it is Gerald Fenoy who is working on Geolive

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Matt Perry's post on Ubuntu/GIS has gained a lot of attention

2007-10-26 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Jachym and all, Jachym Cepicky wrote: ... the idea is nice, however, the organization never makes the packages - the people always do. Very true. imho, unless you do not want Ubuntu to became *the* osgeo distribution, you must not ignore other distributions. True, one must not ignore

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Matt Perry's post on Ubuntu/GIS has gained a lot of attention

2007-10-25 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Hendra, We are starting to look into packaging OSGeo software stack for Ubuntu using the AptonCD packaging tool (http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/). We are in the process of learning to package software for Unbuntu. If any others are interested in working on this, we would be glad to join.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Presentation materials

2007-10-03 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Paul Ramsey wrote: ... They'll be found attached to the relevant abstract pages (e.g. http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=212). About 40% of presenters have uploaded so far, and I will be harassing the stragglers in the days to come. It seems that the poster

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-02 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Fawcett, David wrote: A first, and maybe only step might be to provide wiki space, That should be a good start. We already something similar on the OSGeo wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Libgeos http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mobile_Solutions A link OSGeo frontpage under the OSGeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

2007-10-01 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Tamas Szekeres wrote: 2007/9/30, Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What do others think about this? Should OSGeo be in the business of helping new OSGeo projects get off the ground? I think OSGeo should be helping new projects in whatever way it can. Saw a couple of nice onces (including the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Frank Frank Warmerdam wrote: I've yet to return to some of the interesting email since I went away on the challenges in the developing world (though many of them - at a glance - seems similar to the challenges we face in the developed world). Think are reffering to the e-mail from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
P Kishor wrote: ... Now I go back to my remaining mangoes of the season here in the still hot Lucknow, India. Just back form India, myself. Hope you have time to look up the OSGeo folks in India (Hyderabad, Pune). Venka ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Election Results

2007-08-08 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Congratulations to the new BoD. Great team for the exciting times ahead Venka Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo CRO) wrote: The election for the OSGeo Board of Directors in now completed. The following, in alphabetical order, were elected to fill the 5 vacant positions: * Jeroen Ticheler * Jo Walsh

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