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OrangeCounty Amicus

2011-12-17T07:11:01Z

Wiki-Putler:

OSGeo has been asked to sign an amicus brief for an open data court case in California.

Dan Putler wrote the following on osgeo-discuss on 16 Dec 2011:

''I've been in contact with Bruce Joffe who has been working on an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief associated with two court decisions that have gone in completely opposite directions in California, one involving Santa Clara County and the other involving Orange County. The legal point is the same in both cases, is GIS data (parcel data in particular) data or is it software? If it is data, then it is covered under the California Public Records Act, requiring that it be released to the public for reproduction costs, if it is software, it isn't covered, and is subject to licensing fees. The judge in the Santa Clara County case (correctly) determined it was data, while the judge in the Orange County case (incorrectly) determined it was software. The case is now heading to the California Supreme Court, and Bruce Joffe is rounding up potential individuals and organizations to sign on to the amicus curiae brief. More details about the situation was posted on the Directions Magazine daily newsletter on Wednesday. Here is the link to the article: http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/sierra-club-vs-orange-county-pra-lawsuit-update-december-10-2011/219926''

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) is in touch with Bruce Joffe and is doing some homework on this issue in expectation of asking the OSGeo Board for approval to add our name to the brief.

The process for getting Board approval is documented here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support.

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The following documents provide a good summary of (both sides of) the issue:

* (A) [http://www.calpubrec.org/oclawsuit/appeal/SCPetReviewSCvOC.pdf Petition to Supreme Court, by The Sierra Club]

* (B) [http://www.calpubrec.org/oclawsuit/appeal/SCvOCSCPetitionAnswer.pdf Answer to petition, by Orange County]

* (C) [http://www.calpubrec.org/oclawsuit/appeal/SCvOCReviewPetitionReply.pdf Reply to the Answer, by The Sierra Club]

* (D) Amicus Brief by Bruce Joffe, in support of The Sierra Club '''(no link yet)'''

* (E) [http://www.calpubrec.org/oclawsuit/appeal/LccCsacAmicus.pdf Amicus Brief of League of Cal. Cities and Cal. State Assoc. of Counties, in Support of Orange County]

* (F) [http://nsgic.org/public_resources/NSGIC_Data_Sharing_Guidelines_120211_Final.pdf "Data Sharing Guidelines" document by NSGIC (National States Geographic Council)]

For further reading, previous filings and briefs are archived at http://www.calpubrec.org/oclawsuit/appeal/index.html.

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Added by Dan Putler:

Another important analysis is contained in the [http://ag.ca.gov/opinions/pdfs/04-1105.pdf California Attorney General's opinion] on the matter requested by the state legislature at the time of the original Santa Clara County case.

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-09T05:26:31Z

Wiki-Putler: /* SpatiaLite */

= Introduction =
During the [http://2011.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2011 conference] in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

== Organising Contact ==

== Timeslots Available ==

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

== Rooms Available ==

= Proposed Topics =

== GeoMoose ==

*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint
**Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]

== Tiling ==

*Proposed Topics
**standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
**TMS/WMTS evolutions:
***Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
***TMS multiple grids per tileset
***WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Tbonfort]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)]]
**[[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**[[User:Springmeyer|Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)]]

== GeoNode ==

*Proposed topics:
**Brief overview
**Get involved with the community!
**Meet developers and institutional partners
***Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
***Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
**[http://geonode.org/2011/08/geonode-at-foss4g/ Join us for drinks afterwards!]
*Attending:
**Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
**David Winslow (OpenGeo)
**Robert Soden (World Bank)
**Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
**Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
**Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
**Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
**Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
**[[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)]]
**Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Python ==

*Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
*Proposed topics:
**High fives
**Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
**Python 3
**PyPy
**Packaging and distributions
*Attending:
**Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
**Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
**[[User:Dandye|Dan Dye (WeoGeo)]]
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]
**[[User:Hobu|Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale)]] MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
**Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**Thomas Emge (Esri)

== Opengeoportal ==

http://opengeoportal.org/

*Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
*Attending:
**Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
**Patrick Florance (Tufts)
**Chris Barnett (Tufts)
**David Siegel (Harvard)
**Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
**Garey Mills (Berkeley)
**John Ridener (Berkeley)
**Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
**Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

== Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI) ==

*Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
*Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
*Attending:
**Christine White (Esri)
**Andy Gup (Esri)

== Mobile GIS ==

*Proposed Topics
**General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
**"OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)]]
**[[User:Hal sk|Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)]]
**Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)

== Education / Academic ==
* Separate sign up page: [[FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up]]

== Spatial Databases ==

*Proposed Topics
**Do we need some more
**Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
**Do the processing within the database or outside?
**Add yours...
*Attending:
**Volker Mische (Couchbase)

== SpatiaLite ==

*Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session?
*Proposed topics:
**Meet and Greet

*Attending:
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:putler|Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)]]

== Add yours below ==

*Add yours below...

[[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:FOSS4G2011]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2009-10-31T20:46:09Z

Wiki-Putler: Added Dan Putler's information

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
** Vasile Crăciunescu
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
** Maria Antonia Brovelli
** Massimiliano Cannata
** Vincent Picavet
** Marco Ciolli
** Clara Tattoni
** Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
** Martin Dresen
** Luca Casagrande
** Robert Szczepanek
* TZ GMT+0
** Suchith Anand
** Nigel Trodd
* TZ GMT-5
** Ian Turton
** Ned Horning
** Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
** Scott Mitchell
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot
** Bill Woodall
** Gerry James
** Dan Putler

[[Category:Education]]

Call for reviewers

2007-05-27T03:28:58Z

Wiki-Putler: /* List of Reviewers */

== Call for OSGeo Journal Reviewers ==

Attention OSGeo Community! We need your help. Please list yourself below if you are willing to be an anonymous peer reviewer for OSGeo peer reviewed papers. Please list your areas of expertise in parentheses and create an external link to your personal contact information web page. Journal reviewers will be asked to review papers that fit within their expertise areas and with which they have no direct conflict of interest. Generally this means that the reviewer is not a coauthor or funding source for the paper. Beyond this, please use your own judgment as to when it is appropriate to self eliminate yourself as a reviewer. Indeed, it is hoped that rather than simply accepting all review requests, you will also suggest alternative reviewers who might be willing and qualified. In this way, it is hoped that the following list will grow rapidly to include a large community of willing and able reviewers for this journal.

== List of Reviewers ==

Note: This list is not comprehensive and it is likely that any particular manuscript will be reviewed by some combination of individuals on this list and others who are willing to review, but prefer not to be listed. If you are a new reviewer, please consider listing yourself and your expertise below, perhaps in alphabetical order by surname.

* [http://www.hydromap.com/ Ames, Daniel] - Acting Associate Editor, Peer Review (Hydrology, Modeling, MapWindow GIS, .NET Development)
* [http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/faculty/directory/faculty/putler.cfm Putler, Dan] - Expertise in GIS applications to marketing and business; geo-statistics; geocoding.

Call for reviewers

2007-05-27T03:27:09Z

Wiki-Putler: /* List of Reviewers */

Journal

2007-05-25T23:27:46Z

Wiki-Putler: /* Reviewers */

[http://www.osgeo.org/journal '''OSGeo Journal'''] is the OSGeo publication highlight open source projects, news, event and OSGeo Foundation updates. This is the summary page for the Journal project and its future editions.

For already release volumes see the official [http://www.osgeo.org/journal/ OSGeo Journal homepage]

''OSGeo Journal volumes'':

Please add yourself (incl. e-mail) to an open volume Wiki, if you like to submit an article; an editor will contact you.

* Volume 1 (closed): [[Journal Volume 1 ]]

* Volume 2 (open): [[Journal Volume 2 ]]

== Background ==
OSGeo Journal builds on top of the successful history of the [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php GRASS-News] production. [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf Volume 4] (5.8MB) of that production was a joint GRASS/OSGeo effort. The next edition is broader and branded as OSGeo Journal.

== Editions ==
* [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf GRASS/OSGeo-News Volume 4] (5.8MB)
* OSGeo Journal Volume 1 ([[Journal Volume 1]] - [http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1 released])
* OSGeo Journal Volume 2 ([[Journal Volume 2]] - in development)

== Content Outline ==
This is the typical outline for an edition:
# Editorials
# News
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
# Project Spotlight (Introductions) (1-2 articles)
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
# Programming Tutorials (2-3 tutorials)
# Interviews (1-2 people)
# Developer Announcements

=== Short description of content ===
Suggested max. length of articles in brackets. Page counts are based on output in newsletter format. Word counts assume several images, about 1.5 per page.

* Editorials: written by Edt. in Chief or/and well-known person - (1 page)
* News: past 6 months and next 3 months, just keywords/URL/date - (all short notes: 1 page)
* Event Reports: Brief article about meetings/conferences etc. - (1/2 page per report or 750 words)
* Project Introductions: General introduction to one software project or particular new features of a project - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Case Studies: Highlighting specific application of technologies to a certain problem, user community or developer needs - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Integration Studies: Articles showing how many projects can work together in an integrated fashion, e.g. the power of GRASS, QGIS and GDAL all working together - (5 pages, 2500 words)
* Topical Studies: Introductions to concepts and theories, e.g. what something means, how to work with certain types of things - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Programming Tutorials: Tutorials showing how to use a library or application at a programmatic level - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Interviews: Introducing open source community members or organisations - (1-2 pages, 1000 words)
* Developer Announcements: Announcements about recent changes/improvements to projects - (0.5 - 1 page, 750 words)

== Production Team ==
Typical needs include volunteers to collect, edit, format articles and design/proof layout. Because layout is done using LaTeX, volunteers familiar with it are always appreciated. By having several editors and categories we spread the word out and reduce the overall load for each volunteer.

Each editor is in charge of:

* looking through submitted articles
* doing a brief review and perhaps fwd. them to another more experienced user/developer or other Reviewer
* asking certain projects to submit articles (for volumes covering one subject)
* check for layout errors, so that the final files can easily be merged with all other sections
* optionally converting content to LaTeX if needed

=== Team Positions ===

* '''Newsletter Chair''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
** Announcing new vol./call for articles; announce release dates
* '''Editor in Chief''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
** Merging all sections, check for final version, asking all editors to submit final versions, etc.
* '''Editor, News''': [[User:Jfournier | Jason Fournier]]
** Compiling general new items from past 6 months
* '''Editor, Project Spotlights''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
** Solicit, collect, edit and reformat content
* '''Editor, Case Studies''': [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver]
* '''Editor, Integration Studies''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
* '''Editor, Programming Tutorials''': Landon Blake
* '''Layout/Design''': Kevin Yam
** Designing and changing look and feel of publication

=== Open Positions ===
Interested in helping? This section lists current positions that need filling. If you have other interests, you are also welcome to add them for discussion.
* '''Editor, Event Reports''' - Compiling information about OSGeo-related events and to find summary reports that could be included as part of the newsletter
* '''Editor, Topical Studies'''
* '''Editor, Developer Announcements'''
* '''Spell/grammer-checker'''
* '''Reviewers''' - You have particular expertise and can review certain kinds of articles for content. Somewhat like a peer reviewer too, so logical questions can be turned back to authors if needed.
* '''Formating/Conversion''' - moving non-LaTeX content into LaTeX forms (each author/section Edt.has to check for latex errors etc.)
* '''Sponsor''' - interested in sponsoring the newsletter creation?

== Reviewers ==

Please list yourself below with name, e-mail and field of expertise to review certain articles - individual editors will contact you if necessary:

* [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] - Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, Surveying, Applications of GIS to Public Works and Parcel/Cadastral Records Management
* [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver] - Using GIS and GPS in agricultural pest control projects; watershed analysis
* [mailto:dan.putler@sauder.ubc.ca Dan Putler] - Application of GIS to marketing, retailing, and other business problems; geo-statistics.

== Submission of articles ==

Your article should be written in [http://www.latex-project.org/ Latex]. For instructions which format/style shall be used, please have a look at this working [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS Newsletter Latex] template. If you do not know Latex yet, don't be scared as it is quite easy. You might want to have a look at the [http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ Latex Cheat Sheet] to get to know a few commands, e.g. how to enumerate, make tables etc.
Please send your zipped document to the respective Editors (see below).

If Latex is a problem for you or your article, please discuss it with your editor. At their discretion, editors can choose to help you convert your content into a suitable format for publishing.

== Newsletter Software ==

Based on GRASS-News (which was based on R News) Latex is recommended, but other publishing packages might be considered for forthcoming issues. (For example, [http://www.scribus.net Scribus] has been recommended.)

Contributors ought to submit articles in Latex and images as pdf (high res jpg is fine as well, kim (inside kde) can convert them easily to pdf):

'''links to templates will go here'''
* template for article
** template for inserting images
** template for inserting tables

They can be copied from [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS-News LaTex template].

== Process ==
# Confirm editors/volunteers
# Set deadlines
# Solicit articles
# Collect/edit/review articles
# Format to LaTeX
# Produce draft
# Set deadline for review
# Revisions
# Final production
# Press Release and promotion

== Online Location ==
OSGeo Journal team uses a subversion code repository for managing content for the publication.
It can be accessed publicly [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal here].

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Geodata Committee Sixth Meeting

2006-06-29T17:27:39Z

Wiki-Putler: /* People */

== Meeting Info ==

Chair: Jo Walsh
Minutes:
IRC: [irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org]
Date: 2006-Jun-30 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
Time: ([http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=29&year=2006&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 fixed time])

== People ==
* David Bitner
* Christopher Schmidt, http://crschmidt.net/
* Perry Nacionales
* Dave Sampson http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/Members/drsampson/emp/
* Dan Putler

== Agenda ==

* What more is needed to get OSGeo's [[Geodata Repository]] running at Telascience
** User accounts to ask SAC for if needed
** Responsibilities for different data sets
* What kind of portal is needed - is wiki enough?
* Some type of browsing interface for the data neccesary:
** OpenLayers for Raster/Vector data? Easy to set up, might not be full featured enough for some people?
** Perhaps Ka-Map's tile.php as cached layer to feed both kamap and openlayers?
** Single-image screenshots for Raster data as overviews
** Vector dataset descriptions: What various attributes are/mean (better metadata)
** GeoRSS out to get updates, with bounding boxes -- need to get some way to display this data, does anything do GeoRSS rendering with bounding boxes right now?
* [http://www.freeearthfoundation.org Free Earth Foundation] working on distributed open geodata services targeted at WorldWind - how can we help?
* Feedback appreciated on metadata client
* ''Please feel free to add items here''

== Minutes ==
In the meeting, we discussed:

* Current Status of Telescience hosting. The infrastructure is
set up, and users who are looking to contribute to the effort should
be able to get accounts -- talk to the System Administration
Committee for access.
* What kind of Data display framework is necesary for the geodata
repository to start with? Wiki was discussed: In the backend,
structured metadata will be stored, but the wiki-nature will allow
for descriptive (non-normative) content to be added, which may later
migrate to metadata storage when a more permanent solution arises.
* Data storage should have three 'levels' of data:
* Raw files. (Shapefiles, images, etc.) These would be designed for
use in cases where the default styling is 'not good enough' for
users who are attempting to use the data, or cases where data
processing is required, or whatever.
* WMS Server: For cases when you need to have the full WMS support,
there should be WMS servers available for datasets where it is
applicable. (WFS, and other similar OGC web services, would also
fit here.)
* Tiled Server: Datasets where tiling is applicable would have
support for making fast, cached requests against tiled-on-disk
datasets. nhv and others express an interest in getting a standard
for tile caching set up before we do too much work on this aspect
of it.

On the agenda, but not covered, were some visual suggestions for how
data should be exposed from the geodata repository browsing interface:

* OpenLayers for Raster/Vector data? Easy to set up, might not be
full featured enough for some people?
* Perhaps Ka-Map's tile.php as cached layer to feed both kamap and
openlayers?
* Single-image screenshots for Raster data as overviews
* Vector dataset descriptions: What various attributes are/mean
(better metadata)
* GeoRSS out to get updates, with bounding boxes -- need to get some
way to display this data, does anything do GeoRSS rendering with
bounding boxes right now?

This was tabled until the next meeting.

Jo offered

https://geodata.osgeo.org/source/browse/geodata/trunk/metadata/

as her work on a MetaData client, to collect data from shapefiles, etc.
and put it into a database.

At approximately this time, we reviewed the content of the meeting, and
adjourned for two weeks, same bat time, same bat channel.

== Next Meeting ==

Geodata Packaging Working Group

2006-03-30T22:27:08Z

Wiki-Putler: /* Participants */

This is a project of the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

While OSGeo can provide guidance as to [[Geodata Discovery Working Group|finding good sources of open and public geodata]], it would be good to offer maintained packages of high-quality data and metadata for education and demonstration that can be used by the software projects.

== Focus ==

* Packaging / Quality Control / Metadata Augmentation / Documentation (focus on education, create educational/training data sets such as the GRASS Spearfish)

== Participants ==

* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]: Interested in data processing and development of quality measures
* [[User:warmerda|Frank Warmerdam]]: Interested in processing data into more usable form, and providing foundation hosted or related download options, possibly also geotorrent.org.
* [[User:FlorianKindl|Florian Kindl]]: Interested in defining metadata and qc guidelines, processing data and documentation.
* [[User:bitner|David Bitner]]: Interested in creating packages of data formatted for use in MapServer or other OSGEO projects where optimization could come into play.
* [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]]: What they said! :)
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]]: Interested in setting guidelines for data distribution (formats etc)
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]: Interested in methods to augment public geodata to improve its usefulness.
* Please add your details!

== Tasks ==

* Choose a data format for package distribution
* Define data sets
** (what should be the contents of a training dataset)
** other Datasets: content
* Set up metadata guidelines (digest OGC specs):
** Specifications of a data set
*** Creator
*** Date
*** License
*** Data Type
*** Topic
*** Spatial Extent
*** Coordinate System/Projection
*** Target Scale/Precision
*** Attribute Data
* Quality Control
** Involve Community (feedback)
** Cross-check data sets spatially (VMAP0 over MODIS over ...), develop correction mechanisms
** Offer means to easily correct data

== Existing and related projects ==

Any possibility of replacing Spearfish, SD with an equally well-mapped place like Cambridge, MA? Or is the interest in updating Spearfish for the 21st Century? [[User:SchuylerErle|SchuylerErle]]

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]]

Public Geospatial Data Committee

2006-03-30T22:24:30Z

Wiki-Putler: /* Current Committee members */

== Mission and Approach ==

See [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Current Committee members ==

* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]] (chair)
* [[User:cmbarton|Michael Barton]]
* [[User:bitner|David Bitner (irc:bitner)]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:Adoyle|Allan Doyle]]
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles (Perry) Nacionales]]
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:Arnulf_Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]

== Committee Website and Discussion List ==

* http://geodata.osgeo.org
* discussion: [https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList geodata@geodata.osgeo.org]

== Task ==

Add basic description and references to the http://geodata.osgeo.org/ site

== Documents ==

* [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Meeting Agenda and Minutes ==

Meeting in IRC #osgeo channel (irc.freenode.net)

* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060322 | First meeting]], 1500 UTC 22 March, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=22&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060329 | Second Meeting]], 1500 UTC 29 March, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=29&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060405 | Third Meeting]], 1500 UTC 5 April, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=05&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])

== Milestones ==

Milestones will be developed by the working groups.

== Working Groups ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]]

== Outreach ==

* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive] signed (3/2006)

User:Putler

2006-03-29T00:22:00Z

Wiki-Putler:

Dan.Putler@sauder.ubc.ca

Public Geospatial Data Project

2006-03-29T00:21:23Z

Wiki-Putler: /* People interested in participating */

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A collection of geospatial datasets shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Wednesdays at 15:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=29&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world]

=== People interested in participating ===

* David Bitner
* Allan Doyle
* Florian Kindl
* Pericles S. Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier
* Schuyler Erle
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast
* Mikel Maron
* Alessandro Frigeri
* David Blasby
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]
* ''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]

== Events ==

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://metrogis.org MetroGIS] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons