[OSGeo-UK] UK Digest, Vol 67, Issue 4
Michael Spencer
spencer.mike.r at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 23:27:29 PST 2014
Loving the Freudian 'support for Google handouts'...
If only!
Sent from my phone, apologies if there are any typos.
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> 1. MINUTES - OSGeo:UK - January 2014 (Edwards, Ian)
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:17:46 +0000
> From: "Edwards, Ian" <ian.edwards at metoffice.gov.uk>
> To: "'uk at lists.osgeo.org'" <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [OSGeo-UK] MINUTES - OSGeo:UK - January 2014
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> MINUTES
>
> OSGeo:UK January 2014
> 2014-01-27
> 13:00-14:00
>
> Present
> (AP) Abi Page - Central Scotland Forest Trust and Council member for AGI
> (AS) Ant Scott - Sustain
> (BR) Barry Rowlingson - Lancaster University Medical School
> (IE) Ian Edwards - Met Office
> (MW) Matt Walker - Astun Technology
> (SR) Saber Razmjooei - Lutra Consulting
>
> Items
>
> #1. Summary of UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest (Dec 2013)
>
> Information
> 2013-12-09 Members of OSGeo UK attended sprint 1 of the UK
> Interoperability Assessment Plugfest
>
> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2013/12/sprint-1-of-the-uk-interoperability-assessment-plugfest/
> Wide adoption of QGIS was noted at the event
> QGIS 2.2 feature freeze was last Friday 2014-01-24
>
> Actions
> [14-1] Email Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham, for his thoughts
> on restarting the OGC UK & Ireland forum
> [14-2] Raise a QGIS feature request for improving the interface for
> adding WMTS layers http://hub.qgis.org/issues/
>
> #2. Early plans for OSGIS 2014
>
> Actions
> [14-3] Confirm dates and room bookings for OSGIS 2014 with Suchith
> Anand, University of Nottingham
> [14-4] Set up a Base Camp project for the conference for OSGeo UK to
> assist with organising
> [14-5] Contact Jeremy Morley to determine OSGeo:UK's level of
> engagement
> [14-5] Start OSGeo Wiki page for OSGIS 2014 and document alternatives
> to basecamp for open discussion (e.g. mailing list, github, OpenAtrium, ...)
> [14-6] Create OSGeo UK github organisation
> [14-7] Communicate with AGI about their Open Geospatial event in May
> (and other events in 2014)
>
> #3. New process for sponsoring events and activities
>
> Actions
> [14-8] Contact OSGeo:Swiss group for an example of their processes for
> guide sponsoring activities - share on OSGeo wiki and OSGeo:UK mailing list
>
> #4. Support for google handouts
>
> Decisions
> Motion: Replace IRC with audio meetings and good minute taking [FAILED]
> -1 BR, 0 IE, -1 MW, -1 SR, 0 AS, -1 AP
>
> #5. AOB
>
> Information
> Deferred discussions about Twitter and social media for another day
>
> #6. Next meeting date
>
> Decisions
> Motion: February Monthly meeting on IRC - Monday 24th February 2014 -
> 13:00-14:00 [PASSED]
> +1 IE, +1 SR, +1 MW, +1 BR
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:40:15 +0000
> From: Jonathan Moules <jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk>
> To: "Edwards, Ian" <ian.edwards at metoffice.gov.uk>
> Cc: "uk at lists.osgeo.org" <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-UK] MINUTES - OSGeo:UK - January 2014
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> Hi,
> Further to " [14-2] Raise a QGIS feature request for improving the
> interface for adding WMTS layers", coincidently earlier this morning I
> raised a related issue on the QGIS dev list:
>
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Consistency-in-adding-layers-especially-OGC-td5100402.html
>
> Is this something others in the UK geocommunity are interested in
> particularly? Maybe there are some resources that could be pooled.
>
> There was also an issue with not being able to add WMTS layers to QGIS 2.0,
> but this has been fixed in master.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
> On 28 January 2014 10:17, Edwards, Ian <ian.edwards at metoffice.gov.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > MINUTES
> >
> >
> >
> > OSGeo:UK January 2014
> >
> > 2014-01-27
> >
> > 13:00-14:00
> >
> >
> >
> > Present
> >
> > (AP) Abi Page - Central Scotland Forest Trust and Council member for AGI
> >
> > (AS) Ant Scott - Sustain
> >
> > (BR) Barry Rowlingson - Lancaster University Medical School
> >
> > (IE) Ian Edwards - Met Office
> >
> > (MW) Matt Walker - Astun Technology
> >
> > (SR) Saber Razmjooei - Lutra Consulting
> >
> >
> >
> > Items
> >
> >
> >
> > #1. Summary of UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest (Dec 2013)
> >
> >
> >
> > Information
> >
> > 2013-12-09 Members of OSGeo UK attended sprint 1 of the UK
> > Interoperability Assessment Plugfest
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2013/12/sprint-1-of-the-uk-interoperability-assessment-plugfest/
> >
> > Wide adoption of QGIS was noted at the event
> >
> > QGIS 2.2 feature freeze was last Friday 2014-01-24
> >
> >
> >
> > Actions
> >
> > [14-1] Email Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham, for his
> thoughts
> > on restarting the OGC UK & Ireland forum
> >
> > [14-2] Raise a QGIS feature request for improving the interface for
> > adding WMTS layers http://hub.qgis.org/issues/
> >
> >
> >
> > #2. Early plans for OSGIS 2014
> >
> >
> >
> > Actions
> >
> > [14-3] Confirm dates and room bookings for OSGIS 2014 with Suchith
> > Anand, University of Nottingham
> >
> > [14-4] Set up a Base Camp project for the conference for OSGeo UK to
> > assist with organising
> >
> > [14-5] Contact Jeremy Morley to determine OSGeo:UK's level of
> > engagement
> >
> > [14-5] Start OSGeo Wiki page for OSGIS 2014 and document alternatives
> > to basecamp for open discussion (e.g. mailing list, github, OpenAtrium,
> ...)
> >
> > [14-6] Create OSGeo UK github organisation
> >
> > [14-7] Communicate with AGI about their Open Geospatial event in May
> > (and other events in 2014)
> >
> >
> >
> > #3. New process for sponsoring events and activities
> >
> >
> >
> > Actions
> >
> > [14-8] Contact OSGeo:Swiss group for an example of their processes
> for
> > guide sponsoring activities - share on OSGeo wiki and OSGeo:UK mailing
> list
> >
> >
> >
> > #4. Support for google handouts
> >
> >
> >
> > Decisions
> >
> > Motion: Replace IRC with audio meetings and good minute taking [FAILED]
> >
> > -1 BR, 0 IE, -1 MW, -1 SR, 0 AS, -1 AP
> >
> >
> >
> > #5. AOB
> >
> >
> >
> > Information
> >
> > Deferred discussions about Twitter and social media for another day
> >
> >
> >
> > #6. Next meeting date
> >
> >
> >
> > Decisions
> >
> > Motion: February Monthly meeting on IRC - Monday 24th February 2014 -
> > 13:00-14:00 [PASSED]
> >
> > +1 IE, +1 SR, +1 MW, +1 BR
> >
> >
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
> >
> > Please send corrections or questions to uk at lists.osgeo.org
> >
> >
> >
> > The meeting transcript is online at:
> >
> > http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo-uk/%23osgeo-uk.2014-01-27.log
> >
> >
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