Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [SAC] OSGeo SAC Meeting highlights

Yes, we should be able to start the transfer soon. I want to make sure we have the current DNS settings before starting, and I'm waiting to hear from QGIS PSC that they will take QGIS.us So should happen this week, though might want until FedGeoDay is over to make sure nothing is disrupted thi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [SAC] OSUOSL mirror link on download page

On 11/29/19 7:48 AM, Regina Obe wrote: We never got around to load balancing our download.osgeo.org with the osuosl ftp one. Part of me is thinking maybe it's not worth it to do so especially since the osuosl one is not real time - could lag by hours. So instead, I just put the link to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki Clean-Up

On 02/09/2016 05:17 PM, Landon Blake wrote: > I'm trying to clean-up some of the Incubation pages on the wiki. Any idea > how I delete a page? I've banged my head on this problem for 30 minutes and > can't find the answer. > > Please let me know if you've got the answer. > > Thanks! > > Landon >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM

This is not feasible on OSGeo hardware. The system, bandwidth, staff requirements are all well beyond what we have. Something like this would need to be outsourced to a cloud service provider. I'm not convinced this really works in general for any desktop applications without quite a lot more than

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

On 10/14/2015 03:07 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote: > Are there no more sponsors for OSGeo, or is the sponsors page broken ? > http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors > > If you ask google, it gives big visibility to AutoDesk as a sponsor: > https://www.google.it/search?q=osgeo+sponsors > Taking you to a page (h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] code of conduct: another real case

This might just be an accidental bit of confusion. At some point the Marketing and Outreach committee did want to make sure that all OSGeo projects had listings on OpenHub because we pull these stats into OSGeo-Live and other materials. We also wanted all OSGeo projects to show up if someone looked

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nigeria OSGeo Local Chapter

On 05/31/2015 04:25 PM, Ayo Akinseye DSS wrote: > Hello All, > > I hold a Masters in GIS from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1997) and > have > worked on GIS projects in Nigeria ever since. > My transition to Opensource software (operating systems, Server, Desktop and > Web) began about 5 y

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

On 04/21/2015 01:10 AM, Serena Coetzee wrote: > Dear all, > > on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to the > Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization with > 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source softwa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2015

On 02/09/2015 04:23 PM, Cristiano Giovando wrote: > Hello, > > We, at the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) [1] just started the > organization application for Google Summer of Code 2015. Considering > that some project ideas may be of interest to both OSGeo and HOT, we > were wondering if you are plann

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live @ Foss4gNa call for help

All, I'm proposing an OSGeo-Live workshop for Foss4gNA in March. For this to be a success I'd like to get some experts/users of a variety of projects to be available for part of the workshop to answer questions from participants. The more projects represented the better we'll be able to answer que

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [California] Reminder: Annual Meeting Is Tomorrow (9/27/14)

Opps meant to say 9/27 in the subject, Saturday in San Jose, CA All are welcome. -Alex On 09/26/2014 08:31 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > --- Forwarded Message > > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:21:30 -0700 > > From: Landon Blake > To: califor...@lists.osgeo.org >

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [California] Reminder: Annual Meeting Is Tomorrow (9/26/14)

--- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:21:30 -0700 From: Landon Blake To: califor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [California] Reminder: Annual Meeting Is Tomorrow List-Id: "OSGeo California \(USA\)" List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] On the subject of tilecache

On 09/25/2014 06:53 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > Dear List, > > A while ago I reached out to the tilecache mailing list to try and > understand what's happening with the project. The company that I work for > has a few minor fixes that we would like to contribute back to the main > code, and I also notice

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] prepare questionnaire for our members, about osgeo mission, goals review, ...

I didn't actually test conference events specifically, and it's only a correlation (not causation). But it would be easy to if there's a good list somewhere of events by country (might have to be by region analysis). And of course as I mentioned in the talk testing local chapter activity too. Than

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Openlayers API problem

On 08/18/2014 06:06 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > unable to pop-out attribute information from Openlayers API. > It gives some security error. > > You may pl see our website on societal gis for a city in India. > mana-rajahmundry.org > where there is a need for some debugging pl. > ThanQ in

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

A NO vote would be that you don't trust the person to uphold the principles of OSGeo or think they would be terrible as a board member or voting for a board member. There's all sort of possible reasons, perhaps too much commercial interest, or not understanding FOSS well enough), too new to the com

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

I encourage you to directly ask OSGeo California members to participate in the planning. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California There's an upcoming local meeting, Sept. in San Jose http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_California_Chapter_2014_Annual_Meeting Mailing List http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] deegree on OSGeo Live DVD

Danilo, Updating the sheet is a good start but what follows after that is 1. updating the install script in our svn 2. testing the script 3. getting people to review the Overview and Quickstart docs. 4. testing that deegree works in the nightly builds This page has good overview, no need to do th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

In general this sounds workable for this year. Nominations will no longer compete against each other but only against the benchmark of what makes a good member. The only reservation I have is on the 50% Yes/No, but maybe I just need a clarification. I see plenty of people potentially voting Yes/No

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership fee (was: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members)

On 06/24/2014 06:14 AM, Mateusz Łoskot wrote: > On 24 June 2014 14:38, María Arias de Reyna wrote: >> >> But there is a big but: > > That's why I decided to ask, what are those "buts", as I haven't learned > any concrete arguments from the original thread. > >> It happened to me with IEEE and >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

; paying US taxes, and that is not what I want OSGEO to become... > > > -- > Barend Köbben > ITC - University of Twente > PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands) > +31-(0)53 4874 253 > @barendkobben > > > > > On 23-06-14 21:00, "Alex Mandel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

On 06/19/2014 11:58 AM, Peter Baumann wrote: > Hi all, > > good - and important! - discussion! > Being Charter Member I am somewhat concerned: > > - I am surprised that the common democratic procedure of election is > perceived as creating "dissent". Well it's somewhat conjecture without public

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

On 06/23/2014 11:01 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: > Dear Cameron, > > thanks for the reply and the comments to my previous e-mail. It also > gave me a chance to revisit the rules around the charter members. > I was expecting this issue to be further discussed within the community > and i am a bit d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

On 06/17/2014 12:22 PM, Eli Adam wrote: > I like the idea of the new Charter Membership rules. > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Jo Cook wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> Regarding the new proposal for voting in charter members- it's slightly >> off topic, but I doubt all existing Local Chapter r

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

That's on topic, actually I think that is the topic. I agree that it's a little odd. I can actually see cases where someone may be on a PSC but not because 3 charter members voted for them (could even have voted against them). I suspect in the case of Local chapters the idea was that several memb

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)

y and dump results to csv after. Thanks, Alex On 05/29/2014 01:40 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Let me ask my advisor if we can use our Lab instance for free. I should > have answer quickly. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 05/29/2014 01:38 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: >> Hi Jorge,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)

Let me ask my advisor if we can use our Lab instance for free. I should have answer quickly. Thanks, Alex On 05/29/2014 01:38 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Hi Jorge, > > I tried your demo, seems a perfect fit. Questions: > > - would we just leave it hosted there and buy 250 responses for $22 ? > (

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] High level guidance/info requested

On 05/22/2014 09:20 AM, roghellman wrote: > I have written healthcare software that merges medical records with GPS data. > It is for use in developing countries, where Internet access is less than > dependable. > > When the Internet is available, I send the medical data to the cloud, where > I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any spatial databases for high performance geo-computing

On 05/19/2014 03:04 PM, Zhang, Shuai wrote: > Hi All, > > sorry for asking, but what do you think is a good choice of spatial database > for high performance geo-computing? > > In some high performance computing scenarios, data size tends to be huge, and > a bunch of computer clusters work toge

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)

tp://jorgesanz.net > > Sent from my phone, Sorry for my brevity, top posting, etc. > El 17/05/2014 02:33, "Alex Mandel" escribió: > >> On 05/16/2014 03:41 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: >>> 2014-05-16 17:14 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna : >>> >>>> On 2014-05

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)

On 05/16/2014 03:41 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: > 2014-05-16 17:14 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna : > >> On 2014-05-16, 12:06 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: >>> >>> - maybe this is the most interesting, the Open Source Initiative used >>> "evote" (https://github.com/mdipierro/evote), will paste the full email >>> from

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [was:Php map framework] Setting up a Simple Web Map

Michael, Yes - Geomoose is one possible option to solve your need. For your use case I would suggest you just pay a mapping service initially to run the map for you. 2 super common options built largely on FOSS4G tools are: CartoDB.com and Mapbox.com If you want to try it your own, download a co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] update osgeo live 5.0 to osgeolive 7.0

On 05/15/2014 11:13 PM, Andreas Hoffmann wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a small installed version of osgeo live 5.0 and we would like to > update it to version 7.0 > is there a way to do this on the running version without the need to do a > clean install from a 7.0 DVD and then put all data back

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] gvSIG: as desktop application officially supported by OSGeo

OSGeo Live is intended for testing, demos, teaching, and virtualization. It's goal is not to be a normal install and use workstation distro - though it can be installed we don't support this. Yes you are right Xubuntu is not the lightest distro, it is a lighter weight distro compatible with Ubuntu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Starting build cycle for OSGeo-Live 8.0

We do include the most popular/common R packages from the spatial task view and have for years. You are welcome to discuss modifying the selection. There simply isn't room for all of them. We'll take RStudio into consideration, but it may be a space issue again. Is RStudio server geographic specif

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Downtime Notice for some OSGeo Hosted sites

All services are now restored. Please report if something isn't working as expected. Thanks, Alex OSGeo System Admin Committee On 04/25/2014 10:51 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > The following sites will be down later today for hardware maintenance > starting at approxima

[OSGeo-Discuss] Downtime Notice for some OSGeo Hosted sites

The following sites will be down later today for hardware maintenance starting at approximately http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140425T2000 Outage will likely take an hour or less. All OSGeo hosted Trac & SVN instances. OSGeo based Logins will also likely by down. osgeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Local Chapter Guidance

On 04/23/2014 10:01 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: > Santa Rosa So moving into OSGeo California territory? FYI, the closest current thing is the GeoMeetup in SF area that Ragi runs. http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/ For everyone else: In big states it's a little harder for a Chapter to hold meetings more

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback

other non-profit orgs? (These are open questions to everyone, I don't > have the answers) > > Daniel > > > On 14-04-18 7:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Calling all Project Steering Committees, SAC is looking at the future of >> OSGeo hosted services. Please chime

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback

/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014 More details below. Thanks, Alex OSGeo Sys Admin Committee Chair Original Message Subject: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:25:41 -0700 From: Alex Mandel Reply-To: t...@wildintellect.com, System Administration Committee

[OSGeo-Discuss] Downtime Notice for many OSGeo Hosted sites

The following sites will be down later today for hardware maintenance starting at approximately http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140418T2000 Outage will likely take a couple of hours. All OSGeo hosted mailing lists will also likely be down. Messages sent during that time

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] 2015 North American conference

Yes and no. I was at the DC Fossg4NA. Location did matter for the set of attendees there, but choice of location also prevents attendance. If the goal is penetration into the Federal market, DC is important. If the goal is to foster Foss4g around North America then it needs to move around so that p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 North American conference

On 04/04/2014 02:02 PM, Andrew Ross wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss & conference_dev > lists as well as LocationTech's discussion list. I'm hoping to enable > inclusive discussion about an idea. > > Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), Loca

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ubuntu vs. Centos for GIS?

On 04/02/2014 11:13 AM, David Strom wrote: > We have a project where people are using R & Grass & GDAL for various > sorts of Geoprocessing. The first server we put up is running Ubuntu > 12.0.4, and we installed Grass, Gdal, etc. from repository(ies) - i.e., > we didn't build it. > > 2nd server

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] can not unzip osgeo live

On 03/28/2014 01:28 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems with unpacing osgeo-live CD (current version), am I the only > one? > > === > $ p7zip -d osgeo-live-vm-7.9.7z > > 7-Zip (A) [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 > p7zip Vers

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] istSOS new application request [was: Final OSGeo-Live 7.9]

Maxi, It's too late for this version, but version 8 in 6 months is a good possibility. Here's the info on how to add a new project. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project Start by replying to the live-demo list with your answers to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Applicat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to edit the page of the main site

On 02/14/2014 01:44 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Bu Kun wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I want to change some information on "http://www.osgeo.org/local/china";. >>> However, I found I can do nothing when I l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New to OSGeo

On 01/28/2014 11:04 AM, Pulkit Agarwal wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to OSGeo and would like to contribute. > I read the various prerequisites in terms of knowledge of different > platforms of the organization. And i have basic idea of almost all the > platforms mentioned. In-fact i worked on an academ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham archiving

On 12/04/2013 08:00 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Jo Cook wrote: >> There's already a repository for 2013 at >> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2013/ it has some files in it (mainly bid >> documents at present that I uploaded at the start of the process). I'm >> c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list

ame works for me. > > Daniel > > > On 13-10-28 12:49 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Are we sure there's enough "Linux" specific packaging dicsussions to not >> make it a more generic list that covers issues that apply to osgeo4w, >> *BSD, OS X, mobile

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list

Are we sure there's enough "Linux" specific packaging dicsussions to not make it a more generic list that covers issues that apply to osgeo4w, *BSD, OS X, mobile platforms (not mention Cygwin, Macports, homebrew, etc...)? Ubuntu and Debian already have lists specific to them. Or is this the RPM wo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining a GIO position (or attmepting to . . .)

Sure, but it should be the GIO's role to decide when to go with one solution vs another. To me that is their job description. Duties: Assess and plan implementation of geospatial software solutions that meet the needs of the science team. Includes web, field, desktop and database geospatial inte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

I forgot to mention I have a 1-2 hour QGIS workshop that covers the basics of vector and raster with a dataset. Been meaning to post it, I've done it with OSGeo Live several times. If you want it let me know. Thanks, Alex On 09/30/2013 10:18 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Here are my slides t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

Here are my slides that I've remixed a few times for various guest lectures in College GIS courses. http://www.scribd.com/doc/172165387/Introduction-to-Geospatial-The-open-source-method I mostly cover how the license makes it different, but students shouldn't be afraid of it - then how you can do

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom discussions

ts, > etc." [1] > > I'll report back on the WebCom list > > [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/202 > > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: > >> Ian, >> >> That plan is I think the same conclusion I had reached.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom discussions

d get started and we can use > WebCom to report regular progress on the specifics. > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: > >> On 09/26/2013 02:10 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Alex Mandel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom discussions

On 09/26/2013 02:10 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: > >> On 09/26/2013 05:26 AM, Ian Edwards wrote: >>> To make more concrete progress on the larger issues facing WebCom I'd >> like >>> to start

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WebCom discussions

On 09/26/2013 05:26 AM, Ian Edwards wrote: > To make more concrete progress on the larger issues facing WebCom I'd like > to start some closed discussions. > > If you have experience with the admin of any of the OSGeo infrastructure > then please join us. We'll report back progress on the open We

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

On 09/24/2013 12:50 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos > wrote: > >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks >> incubation process. >> >> Best, >> Angelos >> > My own impression is that if we want to r

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

On 09/20/2013 05:33 PM, Dave Patton wrote: > On 2013/09/20 16:39, Alex Mandel wrote: > >> Unlike OSGeoLive we can't supply VMs as that takes paid licenses for >> the software in question. > > Alex - could you please clarify what you mean by this statement. >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

o I thought that as you put this discussion on table it was > perfect timming to share my thoughts on this. > > Waiting for your input and comments. > > If this sounds totally irrealisitic please let me say that it is not. > > Best regards. > > Gėrald Fenoy > http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO4W future

On 09/20/2013 02:45 PM, Tamas Szekeres wrote: > 2013/9/20 Paolo Cavallini > >> I suggest to make a Steering Committee >> for OSGEO4W, so to have a clear roadmap, and give Windows (urgh!) >> users a predictable environment. I think some of our million users >> would be happy to support this effort

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 6.5 on VM Depot

that can't be overcome fairly easily I'll take you up on the offer. If we end up changing the VM format we'll push that upstream too. Thanks, Paul Ramirez On 5/30/13 8:39 AM, "Alex Mandel" wrote: On 05/30/2013 07:10 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) wrote: All, Not sure wh

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 6.5 on VM Depot

On 05/30/2013 07:10 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) wrote: All, Not sure who to ask but figured this list could provide some insight. I'd like to take the OSGeo-Live [1] and make it available on VM Depot [2] run by Microsoft Open Tech. VM Depot is really just a community catalog of VMs that could

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The OSGeo response to the proposed "GeoServices REST API" document [was: Would you be concerned ...]

Adrian, Thanks for the in depth review. I admit I haven't read the document over thoroughly but even without doing so there are some obvious concerns. From a user perspective (my user), this appears to be a push to get their way of doing things stamped as a standard so they can let their use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] West Coast USA Conference

On 05/07/2013 06:54 PM, Landon Blake wrote: I've been tossing around the idea of organizing an open source GIS conference on the USA West Coast. I'd thought it would be good to bounce that idea by this general discussion list. I think the organization of a conference could be spearheaded by the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Are there opportunities to collaborate in the GIS Portal market?

I'll modify/add to that list: localwiki is not a a GeoPortal it's a place based wiki, quite different from the others (It's not meant to catalog data sets, it's meant to catalog the real world with geotags/geofences). Example: https://scruzwiki.org/ Geodjango is a framework for creating such sites

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?

On 08/13/2012 05:29 AM, G. Allegri wrote: > As far as I know PROJ4 cannot apply the Peirce quincuncial projection. > Does anybody know what libraries/softwares can manage it? > > giovanni > > > I've seen it done in GIMP with a plugin, not exactly manageable data but the right output. Other tha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.0 beta9 status

North American mirror is up http://live.osgeo.org/dev/build On 08/08/2012 08:00 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Greetings, > > After 8 days of restless development we are releasing beta 9 towards > version 6.0 of OSGeoLive: [1], [2] > > After our last release (beta7) we came across a blocker issue:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Geotools fork and current relicensing discussion [was Re: The importance of a project's license]

On 07/27/2012 11:09 AM, Adrian Custer wrote: > > Third, the decision strikes me as between honoring the intent of > contributors to Geotools 2.6 and honoring the desire of the Geotoolkit > contributors to take forwards their code base and build a community > after having been rejected by OSGeo. Pe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and I'm also sure many of us can name firms that have no issue shipping LGPL components. Aside from that though, reading about the Apache SIS project motivati

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

On 07/23/2012 09:48 PM, 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. > Or use a choice v

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Libraries to support OSGEO metadata standards

On 06/13/2012 07:04 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 13/06/2012 15:45, Markus Neteler ha scritto: > >> It is a wiki - please edit it. > > done (BTW: there is no single signon on osgeo?) There is a long standing ticket/discussion on finalizing a change to the wiki to make it use the regular osgeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

On 03/13/2012 10:06 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > OSGeo Folks: > > I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS > user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing > of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on > copyright and a bit on its ap

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which Java OS GIS project to join ?

On 02/14/2012 09:09 AM, Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to contribute to a Java based OpenSource GIS project. > Which ones have backlogs of tasks I can work on as a Java programmer and > architect ? > Any recommendations ? > I'm sure all of them have something they could use mo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recommended Geography grad programs

On 02/10/2012 08:25 AM, Jake Sopher wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for the comprehensive list. I might have even met you at the > 2009 AAG conference in Las Vegas. I do remember taking home some > OpenStreetMap buttons from the UC Davis table. > > - Jake Yes you likely met me and several other Dav

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recommended Geography grad programs

On 02/09/2012 01:35 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: On 02/09/2012 10:04 AM, Jake Sopher wrote: Hi All, I'm finishing up my degree in Geography @ University of California, Santa Barbara, and I'm interested in (hopefully somewhat funded) graduate programs in Geography that would allow me to use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recommended Geography grad programs

On 02/09/2012 10:04 AM, Jake Sopher wrote: Hi All, I'm finishing up my degree in Geography @ University of California, Santa Barbara, and I'm interested in (hopefully somewhat funded) graduate programs in Geography that would allow me to use my coding skills to develop Open Source GIS solutions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What is the point in formalising OSGeo Local Chapters?

http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html You need to meet once per year in some way. Have an mission statement. Select a Liason to the board. Apply to the board for approval. That's it. Benefit, you are allowed to use the OSGeo name and brand as you now represent OSGeo in your Geogra

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] why python is stuck at 2.5 in osgeo4w?

On 01/17/2012 09:48 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 01/17/2012 07:59 AM, Helena Mitasova wrote: >> I have the same question - python2.5 is common source of problems >> for students starting with GRASS on mswindows >> >> Helena >> >> >> On Jan 17, 2012,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] why python is stuck at 2.5 in osgeo4w?

On 01/17/2012 07:59 AM, Helena Mitasova wrote: > I have the same question - python2.5 is common source of problems > for students starting with GRASS on mswindows > > Helena > > > On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I believe that programs shipped in osgeo4

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The amicus curiae brief in the Orange County, California public records / geo data court case

If the Foundation was to sign this I imagine the mechanism is Board approval. However, we may need legal advise first as making such statements might change our ability to get 501(c)3 status. We would also need to consider if the Foundation as a whole should make these types of decisions as a boar

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

On 12/02/2011 12:58 PM, Charles Schweik wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any open source software to do post-process differential > correction of GPS data, similar to Trimble's Pathfinder software? > > Thanks in advance, > > Charlie Schweik http://www.rtklib.com/ But if you're using Trimble's you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Today's XKCD

On 11/14/2011 01:26 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > On 14 November 2011 22:01, Dheeraj Chand wrote: >> Hello all, >> I'm a lurker, but I am curious if everyone enjoyed today's XKCD as much as I >> did. >> http://xkcd.com/977/ >> -dx > > :) yeah it did my morning and of some other geogeeks,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Translation to Indian languages Feed back please

On 11/07/2011 06:19 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Indian scene: > European: English to Spanish etc are meant for using GIS itself by the > learned user. > Indictranslation: Most Indians who use GIS use it in English. The Indic > translation is for making > the semi-english-lit

[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Geospatial California UnConference, Oct 22 @ UC Davis

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, California Chapter invites you to our Fall Fiesta 2011 - Saturday October 22, 2011 in Hunt Hall on the UC Davis campus. This is your opportunity to ask questions, hear about new exciting software, network with you neighbors who share a common geospatial

[OSGeo-Discuss] Calling all Charter Members @ Foss4g - volunteer at the booth

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2011_OSGeo_Booth#Signup_Schedule Catch me or Robert Hollingsworth at the conference if you have any questions or want to know how to help. Thanks, Alex Mandel IRC:Wildintellect ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Networking Opportunity at FOSS4G

On 08/23/2011 10:30 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > > 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 de

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo Board Election Nominations

On 08/02/2011 10:03 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > OSGeo Members, > > This is a reminder that you have 5 days left (until 23:59 on August 7) > to submit nominations for the 2011 OSGeo Board of Director Election. > There are 5 seats up for election this year. > > Please get in touch with your cand

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

http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2044/digitizing-buildings-in-potlatch The key is that it's a different tool (like most GIS desktop). It's a line that has the same start/end point and then a proper tag to indicate what it is. You can see in downloads of OSM data that buildings etc get put i

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

I've seen (and contributed) to wiki software dev on kickstarter. It was however 1 big fund-raising drive, not a constant bounty system. Alex On 06/04/2011 02:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > I've done collaborative funding projects by hand a couple times (and > am doing one now: if you are interested

[OSGeo-Discuss] NOTICE: Server Maintenance Today

All, Some OSGeo services will be down briefly (about 30 minutes) today starting at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20110603T1330&p1=217&am=30 These include Trac, Svn, Wiki, Foss4g, and OSGeo Live websites. Also logins to other various services will be down during the time

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

On 05/05/2011 07:06 PM, H.S.Rai wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) > wrote: >> >> What about the Windows Emulator “Wine” for Linux? > > Can be tried, but mostly thing don't work. > > As a personal choice, I want wish to run software natively on Linux. > > -- > H.S.Ra

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Correct List for Newcomers

On 03/28/2011 05:43 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote: > Hello, > > Is this the correct list for asking newbie questions? > > For example, I am using the decklogs from a 1940s US Navy cruiser to trace > its journey's from 1942 through 1945. I know how to enter coordinates, draw > lines and load maps, bu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] LiveDVD Copyright Ambiguity

Simon, Thanks for taking the time to look this over. I'm redirecting the conversation over to the Live-demo mailing list where I think it will get more attention. Short answer, I assume you are referring to the documentation portion of OSGeo Live, which is also it's website. I believe the correct

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating *.shp.xml files with open source tools

I created an experimental plugin for QGIS to deal with Metadata xml records. We never got the creation part finished, but there should be template xml files for FGDC, ISO and some other standards (USGS and all US agencies follow FGDC, and now the FGDC variant of a new ISO format). Though FGDC only

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Creating Value from Raster Data

One might argue that slippy maps and tile caches have added a lot of value to raster data or at least demand. But more directly on the topic in addition to GDAL. GRASS http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=104 See pg 115+ from Open Source GIS A GRASS Approach (Neteler, Mitasova) More generically a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Please help us choose the logo for FOSS4G 2011 in Denver

On 12/08/2010 03:36 AM, Peter Batty wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please take a moment to review our contenders for the FOSS4G 2011 logo, and > vote for your favorites. More info at > http://geothought.blogspot.com/2010/12/help-us-choose-logo-for-foss4g-2011.html. > > Thanks, > Peter. > It mig

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

On 12/06/2010 01:39 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > > 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? > :)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Unsupervised clustering question.

On 11/18/2010 08:22 AM, Ringle, Bill wrote: > I am new to GRASS and have run into a problem using the GUI to do an > unsupervised classification. I am running v. 6.4.0 that I downloaded and > installed a few days ago. > > My problem is that after I create a group and subgroup, when I then go int

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