[geojquery] GeoJQuery posterpresentation at FOSS4G2010 in Barcelona

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Christian,

you are welcome to design the poster as you wish, but if I shall print 
it, I have to have it until Friday morning... otherwise we maybe can 
print it in Barcelona.

Go for it!

Marc


On 01.09.2010 22:19, Christian Wygoda wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> I can probably manage to make one Friday, but can't promise for sure 
> as I am busy preparing for my vacation, too.
> Probably some text on what, why and how plus all information to join 
> up the party.
>
> Cheers,
>   C
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de 
> <mailto:jansen at terrestris.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi list,
>
>     We have the chance to present a poster at this years FOSS4G in
>     Barcelona about GeoJQuery.
>
>     I originally submitted a talk about the project (see below), which
>     was rejected.
>
>     I am unable to create a poster by myself, but am willing to print,
>     carry and present it (together with everyone from the project who
>     is in Barcelona).
>
>     It would be great if someone would step up and create a poster
>     about our ideas, different options and opinions etc. If you have
>     wishes about the content of the poster, please express them here.
>     I think we shouldn't miss this opportunity, even a simple poster
>     would help pushing the project.
>
>     The poster has to have a maximum size of DIN A0, and the best
>     format for me to print it out is PDF.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Marc
>
>
>     My submissiontext:
>
>     Title:
>     Do we need another wrapper around OpenLayers? Ideas, hopes and
>     thoughts about a possible GeoJQuery-library
>
>     Abstract:
>     At last years FOSS4G in Sydney, Australia – and continued during
>     German and Spanish local chapter conferences – the idea of
>     combining the great JavaScript-libraries OpenLayers and jQuery
>     under the hood of the OSGEO was born and bread by various
>     interested parties.
>     OpenLayers (http://openlayers.org) is possibly the most widely
>     used open source library both for displaying and interacting with
>     geographic data of different origins in the web. John Resigs
>     jQuery (http://jquery.com) is currently used on millions of
>     webpages for the development of up-to-date – yet easy to create,
>     maintain and enhance – JavaScript-powered sites. Its
>     plugin-approach is outstanding.
>     The idea of combining OpenLayers with a full-featured
>     general-purpose library isn't new at all: the OSGEO project GeoExt
>     (http://geoext.org) shows the power of the union of OpenLayers and
>     ExtJS (http://www.extjs.com) to build a great tool for developing
>     drop-dead gorgeous and complex geospatial web applications very
>     well. Is there the need for another wrapper around the API of
>     OpenLayers? Can we get spatial without hassle on even more sites?
>     Do we want to rebuild GeoExt using jQuery? No, we don't: we want
>     to discuss ideas, hopes and (sometimes diverging) thoughts about
>     how to combine great open source tools to get something new:
>     GeoJQuery (http://geojquery.org).
>     We see a huge potential in combining great code from different
>     open source projects and are interested in your opinion – discuss
>     with us the (soon-to-come) capabilities of GeoJQuery!
>
>
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