<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Thought this might be of interest to many of you. I was asked to be guest editor for the geospatial edition of the Open Source Business Resource monthly journal.</div><div><br></div><div>A big thank you to Paul Ramsey, Tyler Mitchell, Mark Lucas, Scott Bortman, Andrew Ross, Haris Kurtagic and Geoff Zeiss for their contributions to this effort. Some excellent papers that provide a great perspective on the OSGeo world.</div><div><br></div><div>You can follow the links in the announcement to go to the website, or you can get the PDF directly here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/848/817">http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/848/817</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Dave McIlhagga</div><div><a href="http://www.dmsolutions.ca">www.dmsolutions.ca</a></div></span></div></span> </div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dru Lavigne <<a href="mailto:dru@osbr.ca">dru@osbr.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 2, 2009 1:31:49 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dru Lavigne <<a href="mailto:dru@osbr.ca">dru@osbr.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>March Issue of OSBR Available</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Readers:<br><br>The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now available in<br>HTML and PDF formats at <a href="http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/83">http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/83</a>.<br>The theme this month is "Geospatial" and the articles and authors include:<br><br>Paul Ramsay, a Senior Consultant with OpenGeo, examines how geospatial open<br>source provides an example of the market challenges of a mid-sized vertical<br>market.<br><br>Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial<br>Foundation, discusses the factors needed to get open source geospatial<br>products into the hands of users, the value of marketing open source<br>projects, and the advantages provided by an open source ecoystem.<br><br>Mark Lucas, a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc., and<br>Scott Bortman, system architect and primary developer for the OMAR web<br>processing system, introduce the OMAR web based system for archival,<br>retrieval, processing, and distribution of geospatial assets.<br><br>Andrew Ross, a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres, provides a<br>primer on geospatial technology and discusses some of the lessons learned<br>from Ingres' geospatial open source project.<br><br>Haris Kurtagic, General Manager and Founder of SL-King, and Geoff Zeiss,<br>Director of Technology at Autodesk, introduce a standards-based framework<br>for providing geospatial web services.<br><br>The editorial theme for the upcoming April issue of the OSBR is "Open APIs"<br>and the guest editor will be Michael Weiss from Carleton University. Contact<br>me if you're interested in a submission. <br><br>Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,<br>Dru Lavigne<br>Editor, Open Source Business Resource<br><a href="http://www.osbr.ca">http://www.osbr.ca</a><br>________________________________________________________________________<br>Open Source Business Resource<br><a href="http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr">http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>