#OSGEO IRC Log - 2009-12-05

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03:44:49 strk: bad news from OSM: http://gnashdev.org/?q=node/72
03:44:50 sigq: Title: Potlatch/Openstreetmap going proprietary ? | Gnash Project ( at gnashdev.org )
04:00:36 crschmidt: strk: have you not been paying attention for the past 4 years?
04:00:55 crschmidt: Richard has gotten every manner of grief from the OSM foundation because Potlatch is not AS3
04:01:26 crschmidt: OSM has never been a free software project, and it's easier to find flash hackers who can use Adobe's tools
04:01:34 crschmidt: so they have been trying to get him to rewrite it for years
04:13:27 strk: I'm glad Richard is not involved in this, as I consider him a good guy
04:13:41 strk: and he's been very helpful in enhancing gnash support of that
04:14:50 strk: "osm has never been a free software project" is new to me though. I'm not much into OSM but the feeling I get from outside is that it is very close to the free sofware movement.
04:15:31 strk: that announcement blog post itself make an effort to signal they are using an "Open Source" compiler ( Adob'es... )
04:23:11 strk: he doesn't even mention potlatch2 here: http://potlatchosm.wordpress.com/
04:23:12 sigq: Title: Potlatch the OpenStreetMap editor ( at potlatchosm.wordpress.com )
04:35:03 strk: looks like all starts here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-May/010010.html
04:35:04 sigq: Title: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch ( at lists.openstreetmap.org )
04:35:22 strk: so I must have been not paying attention for *only* 2 years ;P
04:57:55 crschmidt: strk: it started a long time before that
06:33:22 : * jmckenna it's lonely in #tosprint
06:33:49 FrankW: jmckenna: some of use irc clients with limited "tab real-estate" for new channels!
06:34:21 jmckenna: ha! : ) i see that's it's registered and i think we used it before...but i hear ya! me too! ha
06:35:31 FrankW: Also, nearly dead channels are kind of sad - better to push some stuff into #osgeo ( IMHO )
06:36:04 jmckenna: ok fair, i was just about to update the wiki, but if you all don't mind the flooding those days we can use #osgeo
06:36:43 FrankW: Well, during the actual sprint we might want to use #tosprint.
06:37:00 FrankW: but I think the occasional preliminary organizational discussion could happen here.
06:37:12 jmckenna: agreed
06:49:25 : * jmckenna edits the tosprint mailman page
08:09:26 jmckenna: 2010.foss4g.org seems down.
08:14:38 FrankW: I presume Lorenzo is hosting this himself? I see it pings to host93-39-static.56-88-b.business.telecomitalia.it
08:14:59 jmckenna: i was just trying to see who is hosting this also. hmm i have no idea either
08:16:34 jmckenna: i will let lorenzo know right away...and maybe we can point to our host, so we avoid this again
08:57:00 bitner: FrankW blogging?? What's this world coming to?
09:03:28 FrankW: There is no trend to trendy for me to jump on the band wagon 10 years later.
09:03:46 FrankW: In another five years I'm going to become a neogeographer.
09:04:49 jmckenna: don't worry, i've tweeted this for you ; )
09:05:01 jmckenna: ha
09:13:05 jmckenna: ( i guess i'm the last non-blogger....but each time i have a topic to 'blog', i realize the info in it should be posted to a public project/wiki ) but, twitter should be in everyone's toolbox, it's unbelievably perfect for monitoring the community in 140 characters or less </blog>
09:13:49 jmckenna: in fact all of that info in that dxf post should be accessible to gdal/ogr community
09:14:20 FrankW: It isn't really relavent as reference documentation, but it would be suitable as a gdal-dev email.
09:14:43 FrankW: And I am now posting a reference to it on gdal-dev.
09:14:50 FrankW: Which reminds me, I haven't written reference docs for the DXF driver yet...
09:14:59 jmckenna: i was looking for that ; )
09:15:35 jmckenna: great work, wow, monumental
09:16:07 FrankW: I think I'll cc: the fdo-users list since there may be interest in dxf support in that world.
09:16:35 jmckenna: sure, it's big news around the community
09:17:27 jmckenna: i do like it as a way to thank funding supports
09:17:41 jmckenna: supporters