[OSGeo-Discuss] An OSGeo Call for Papers, sort of

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Michael,
I hope this is of interest ot the site:

FOSS and OpenSDI
A presentation on Free and Open Source Software in the context of an  
OpenSDI (Open Source based Spatial Data Infrastructure). The  
presentation uses the LEGO® Metaphor as used in “Towards a Free and  
Open Source Spatial Data Infrastructure.”C. Holmes et. al. - 2005.

     * Presentation "FOSS and OpenSDI"

The presentation can be found on the GeoNetwork opensource Community  
website at http://193.43.36.138/relatedstuff/ (all the way at the  
bottom).
Feel free to download it or link to it. Published under the Creative  
Commons

Greetings from Rome,
Jeroen
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Jeroen Ticheler
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On May 2, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

> OSGeo-ers:
>
> The following is sort of an experiment, so please bear with me.
>
> Your Visibility Committee is setting up a "library" of content related
> to OSGeo activities, and we would like you to contribute.  We know  
> that
> there is a lot of very good content out there -- and so our idea is to
> be able to collect a number of presentations, talks, etc, under  
> terms of
> a CC-like license so that other OSGeo members can use them in order to
> create/derive/remix/mashup their own custom presentations, talks, etc.
>
> The sort of content we are looking for includes, but is not limited  
> to:
>   - papers
>   - slide presentations
>   - web-based presentations (e.g. for tutorials)
>   - podcasts
>   - ...?
>
> The topics we are looking to cover include anything that touches on
> OSGeo, e.g. the intersection of Open Source and GIS:
>   - overviews of what our Foundation is and does
>   - why open source is good, in the GIS world
>   - surveys of open source geo packages
>   - presentations on specific OSGeo member projects
>   - etc
>
> As we intend this to be a "permanent" library, higher quality material
> is preferred over random wiki pages of notes and scribblings.  That
> said, if all I can get is a bunch of outlines for talks written up in
> ASCII, I'd be happy with that.  If in doubt, go ahead and submit it.
>
> We're going to see how it goes and what happens, but for now the  
> ground
> rules will be:
>
> * The actual "library" will live on the OSGeo site as a simple Wiki  
> page
> with summaries and links.  I would prefer to host the actual  
> content at
> osgeo.org -- if you can't abide by that, you can send me a link and  
> I'll
> use that.
>
> * For now, unless otherwise indicated, if you submit material I will
> assume you consent to a
> "free-to-remix-this-content-as-long-as-you-give-me-credit" policy.   
> (I'm
> sure there's a formal CC term for this, but I need to do the  
> research on
> that.)
>
> * I'm not going to fight any file format wars at this point: whatever
> format is submitted will be what we use, at least for now.   
> PowerPoint,
> PDF, LaTex, troff, HyperCard, whatever.
>
> * Languages other than English are encouraged!  (although you'll  
> need to
> give me a short one-sentence summary in English of what the content is
> about...)
>
> (Also, I think we should exclude from this CFP any material that is  
> more
> "course-work" oriented, as that falls under the purview of the  
> Education
> and Curriculum Committee.)
>
> For now I'm just focused on getting a critical mass of content to  
> launch
> this, but if you have any suggestions for how to organize and host  
> this
> material later on, I'd be happy to hear them.
>
> Thanks in advance for your contributions!
>
> -mpg
>
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