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Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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I've been out of the loop and missed all the summer meetings, did they
even happen? What about tonight, are we having a meeting?

Agenda Items:
FOSS4G - last minute stuff
AGM in December - Tyler was invited to speak? are we going to do a booth?
Next 5 years - Bob's ideas, Live GIS project might fit

FYI- California chapter is doing a 50min demo of QGIS, PostGIS,
Mapserver, OpenLayers and OpenJump at NACIS next week.

Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Mandel-2

Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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Bob,

I think there a few of us who could help you solve that over on the Live
Demo email list. I've done my share of work on USB portable applications.

Alex

Bob Basques wrote:

> Another item related to ease of use for newbies. I've been working on and off the last couple of weeks on a USB based Web demo.
>
> I've gotten all component to work, now trying to get it down to a single one button startup. I'm working on it for Emergency response uses, but there are other uses I'm sure. I'm also interested in how a standalone suite like this might update itself automatically.
>
> bobb
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>>>> Alex Mandel <[hidden email]> 09/30/09 9:36 PM >>>
> I've been out of the loop and missed all the summer meetings, did they
> even happen? What about tonight, are we having a meeting?
>
> Agenda Items:
> FOSS4G - last minute stuff
> AGM in December - Tyler was invited to speak? are we going to do a booth?
> Next 5 years - Bob's ideas, Live GIS project might fit
>
> FYI- California chapter is doing a 50min demo of QGIS, PostGIS,
> Mapserver, OpenLayers and OpenJump at NACIS next week.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)

Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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Hi Alex,
We didn't have any meetings while you were away - there weren't many (any?)
others around that were interested at the time, and also I wasn't sure there
was much to discuss.

Let's discuss in email first and if warranted, then have a meeting next
week.

I'm taking care of some of the FOSS4G booth and material stuff. We can
connect online if anyone is interested in more info, let me know.

I'm invited to speak at the American Geophysical Union in December, still
waiting to know if we'll be in a speaking spot or a poster session. Haven't
thought about a booth for that event as I couldn't really run it alone I
don't think. But might be able to if we have some more support. I think
they have a $500 deal for us.

Next 5 years stuff.. let's keep emailing to get a nice list.

Cool to hear about NACIS.

Off to bed for now,
Tyler

"Alex Mandel" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I've been out of the loop and missed all the summer meetings, did they
> even happen? What about tonight, are we having a meeting?
>
> Agenda Items:
> FOSS4G - last minute stuff
> AGM in December - Tyler was invited to speak? are we going to do a booth?
> Next 5 years - Bob's ideas, Live GIS project might fit
>
> FYI- California chapter is doing a 50min demo of QGIS, PostGIS,
> Mapserver, OpenLayers and OpenJump at NACIS next week.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> Marketing mailing list
> [hidden email]
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>

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Bob Basques

Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

Alex,

I've been experimenting mostly. Things are kind of gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far. I did try other combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from PortableApps.

I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do. I was really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since it would make portability across OS's much nicer. I may go back and hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make that work. The one click option seems like it might be nicer this way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB. Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.

So, where am I at now. PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for Windows which is what I started working on. I intend to attack MAC and Linux as well. The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.

bobb

>>> Alex Mandel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Bob,

I think there a few of us who could help you solve that over on the Live
Demo email list. I've done my share of work on USB portable applications.

Alex

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Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)

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"Bob Basques" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> So, where am I at now. PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for
> Windows which is what I started working on. I intend to attack MAC and
Linux as
> well. The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up
either
> automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.
>

This reminded me, a lifetime ago I was using Starkits (I think)
http://www.equi4.com/starkit/ and running MapServer and PostGIS on Windows
off a CDROM. Not sure if it's still useful, but it was certainly cool at
the time.

Tyler

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Jo Cook

Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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7. Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ? (Bob Basques)

Hi Bob,

Contact me off-list if you like, but I have a system that might do what you want (plug-and-play GIS), called Portable GIS (www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis). I don't want to hijack the list with "advertising", though it's all free, but I tried to email you directly and got the message bounced back.

Cheers

Jo

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Alex,

I've been experimenting mostly. Things are kind of gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far. I did try other combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from PortableApps.

I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do. I was really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since it would make portability across OS's much nicer. I may go back and hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make that work. The one click option seems like it might be nicer this way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB. Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.

So, where am I at now. PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for Windows which is what I started working on. I intend to attack MAC and Linux as well. The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.

bobb

>>> Alex Mandel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Bob,

I think there a few of us who could help you solve that over on the Live
Demo email list. I've done my share of work on USB portable applications.

Alex

Bob Basques wrote:

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Bob Basques

Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

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Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

Tyler,

It's still cool (to me). And having local (usb) write options put it out there even further, since I can have background processes do things like keep the data being served up to date automagically if there is a network available.

I'm really trying to build a cascaded mapping service model (complete with database support, before you started to quote OGC spec's), that can still run standalone if needs to in an emergency.

bobb

>>> "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <[hidden email]> wrote:

"Bob Basques" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> So, where am I at now.  PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for
> Windows which is what I started working on.  I intend to attack MAC and
Linux as
> well.  The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up
either
> automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.
>

This reminded me, a lifetime ago I was using Starkits (I think)
http://www.equi4.com/starkit/ and running MapServer and PostGIS on Windows
off a CDROM.  Not sure if it's still useful, but it was certainly cool at
the time.

Tyler

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Bob Basques

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Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

Joanne,

From the looks of the site you linked to, I think we're of the same mind about why to do such a thing. I'm thinking there is an obvious educational potential here. Having a self contained suite of service and client(s) that can all see and hear each others services is the nirvana I'm shooting for.

The other big piece of what I'm after is portability across OS's, as in plug the USB into something and it just works, no matter what OS (if possible)

Generally I would like to provide only a single data source to all clients via a web interface. The Windows version of things was simplest and had the most potential customer base out of the chute, but having something that works across OS's, as much as possible, is the eventual end goal.

I'm also big into the idea of letting the owners of GIS (and data in general) publish their own wares without necessarily needing to know(specifically) how a GIS system works.

bobb

>>> Joanne Cook <[hidden email]> wrote:

   7. Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ? (Bob Basques)

Hi Bob,

Contact me off-list if you like, but I have a system that might do what you want (plug-and-play GIS), called Portable GIS (www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis). I don't want to hijack the list with "advertising", though it's all free, but I tried to email you directly and got the message bounced back.

Cheers

Jo

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Alex,

I've been experimenting mostly.   Things are kind of gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far.  I did try other combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from PortableApps.

I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do.   I was really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since it would make portability across OS's much nicer.  I may go back and hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make that work.  The one click option seems like it might be nicer this way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB.  Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.

So, where am I at now.  PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for Windows which is what I started working on.  I intend to attack MAC and Linux as well.  The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.

bobb

>>> Alex Mandel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Bob,

I think there a few of us who could help you solve that over on the Live
Demo email list. I've done my share of work on USB portable applications.

Alex

Bob Basques wrote:

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Presentation template in SVN covers Australia

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As many people will be downloading the OSGeo presentation template from
SVN (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/present/) for the upcoming
FOSS4G conference in Australia, it's unfortunate that the map in the
template does not display Australia very well. Could the template be
updated so that the Australian continent is at least in view?

-jeff

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Re: Presentation template in SVN covers Australia

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> As many people will be downloading the OSGeo presentation template from
> SVN (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/present/) for the upcoming
> FOSS4G conference in Australia, it's unfortunate that the map in the
> template does not display Australia very well. Could the template be
> updated so that the Australian continent is at least in view?

Hmm.. it wasn't really designed to show any country well :)

I'm afraid the background graphic is static and we don't have sources for
those figures. It would probably not be worth the cost to have designers to
consider this.

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Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

>> As many people will be downloading the OSGeo presentation template from
>> SVN (http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/present/) for the upcoming
>> FOSS4G conference in Australia, it's unfortunate that the map in the
>> template does not display Australia very well. Could the template be
>> updated so that the Australian continent is at least in view?
>
> Hmm.. it wasn't really designed to show any country well :)
>
> I'm afraid the background graphic is static and we don't have sources for
> those figures. It would probably not be worth the cost to have designers to
> consider this.

ok, thanks for explaining. This issue was brought to my attention.

-jeff

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