#OSGEO IRC Log - 2009-04-03

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00:19:09 CIA-12: osgeo: camerons * r1467 /foss4g/2009/website/downloads/FOSS4G_Sponsorship_Exhibition_Document.pdf: Updated FOSS4G_Sponsorship_Exhibition_Document.pdf with Bronze level sponsorship.
02:53:23 ticheler: GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.0 Release Candidate 0 available. Read https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=937461
02:53:24 sigq: Title: SourceForge.net: News: GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.0 Release Candidate 0 ( at sourceforge.net )
07:17:13 jasonbirch: Moodle sounds familiar. Are we using it somewhere?
08:23:50 spsneo: _wolf_: how many apps this year so far?
09:17:58 springmeyer: hobu and TylerM: ya, OSGeo Canvas seems more appropriate
09:19:00 springmeyer: energy put to strategizing code for tackling the layout/surround issues that come up in both mapserver and qgis in a generic way
09:21:02 springmeyer: my fist impression though is that this seems more like an issue of a brightest minds figuring out whats feasible vs. what is a pipedream rather than a SoC project
09:22:00 springmeyer: unless it were targeted specifically as one-project as a plugin/extension with as a pilot
09:23:13 hobu: re: Canvas, my tongue was in my cheek there. There's already a Canvas project, no?
09:25:19 springmeyer: ya some mozilla project - that's all I know
09:38:03 TylerM: hi springmeyer
09:38:16 TylerM: hobu: I wasn't familiar with canvas, glad I didn't propose the name change :P
09:38:31 springmeyer: hi TylerM : )
09:38:35 TylerM: spsneo: looks like 22 proposals so far
09:39:17 TylerM: springmeyer: I'm going to try to move the project into either grass or qgis so there are no more questions re: scope
09:39:49 springmeyer: okay, sounds reasonable
09:40:29 springmeyer: While a lot on that wiki ( when looked at from the perspective of what a SoC student could do ) seems nuts...
09:40:52 TylerM: it's a wish list only : )
09:41:03 springmeyer: I'm very behind your effort to consolidate ideas like you have - pulling together big concepts like that
09:41:17 springmeyer: helps see the challenges and opportunities
09:41:49 TylerM: yeah, thanks
09:42:01 springmeyer: helps make it easy to cringe at all the various 'configuration formats' too : )
09:42:12 TylerM: having worked for most of my career to integrate foss desktop gis into business, I know some of the gaps intimately : )
09:43:10 springmeyer: : ) right on, i bet
09:53:43 springmeyer: cool, TylerM: just added /me to that wiki page
09:55:32 TylerM: great, i'm going to refactor it a bit
09:56:43 : * springmeyer noticed your new list, goes over to sign up
11:07:24 lynx_r: hi, is students application are reciving after 1900 UTC?
11:07:43 lynx_r: applications to GSoC
11:09:21 gsherman: application period ended 13 minutes ago
11:13:31 FrankW: :-(
11:13:54 : * FrankW is making a pass through proposals commenting where it might be constructive.
11:17:47 TylerM: lots of cool stuff
11:18:09 : * crschmidt wonders how many went in for OpenLayers
11:18:15 : * crschmidt is hoping very few
11:18:32 gsherman: i saw at least 200 for OL
11:18:35 gsherman: ; )
11:18:43 crschmidt: That's a shame, since we have 0 mentors : )
11:18:47 gsherman: heh
11:20:38 TylerM: sure were several interested in OL
11:20:57 TylerM: busy team eh crschmidt ?
11:23:04 crschmidt: well, no one responded to my "anyone mentoring?" email, so I assume they were too busy : )
11:27:29 : <_wolf_> crschmidt: we had a few but they were redirected
11:46:14 FrankW: danmo: I have similar concerns as you expressed about OSSIM decision making. But I feel they are making an effort to explain what is happening, and they have professed a willingness to do things on the list more if there are other PSC members outside their local area.
11:46:22 FrankW: I hesitate to stall things much longer.
12:08:45 danmo: FrankW: I understand and agree, except when you say that you "hesitate to stall things much longer". That's like saying that it's not possible for a project to fail graduation. Personally I see this as "being open to another way to manage an open source project in OSGeo" since they counterbalance their face to face PSC meetings by being quite active on the -dev list ( opinion based on quick browse of the list archives so I could be wrong )
12:09:35 danmo: ugh... sentence too long and complicated... will rewrite if it doesn't make sense to you
12:29:26 : * markusN remembers that GRASS almost failed to pass
15:51:03 mloskot: gsherman: great joke!