| 15:35:42 | ww: | hello |
| 15:36:41 | ww: | a question. i have these .NTF files that contain DTM information, and I'm trying to do something useful with them. |
| 15:36:58 | ww: | ogr2ogr can understand them just fine and make them into, e.g. shapefiles. |
| 15:37:38 | ww: | but what they actually contain is a bunch of point data, so when i import it into grass it tries to add zillions of points to some sort of r-tree and blows up |
| 15:38:11 | ww: | since i know the resolution of these points, i ought to be able to instead make it into raster format before telling grass... |
| 15:38:18 | ww: | question is... how? |
| 18:41:00 | jmckenna: | reports of trac being down..anyone else have this issue? trac.osgeo.org will report to SAC list now |
| 18:41:18 | wildintellect: | jmckenna, I'll go look |
| 18:41:47 | dbb: | I am in the maachine now jmckenna |
| 18:41:59 | dbb: | but I have not found anything |
| 18:42:47 | wildintellect: | apache appears to not be working (based on munin chart) |
| 18:43:05 | dbb: | right cant hit localhost |
| 18:43:13 | dbb: | it doesnt respond, though I see apache running |
| 18:43:31 | dbb: | there is disk space and no crazy processes |
| 18:43:36 | wildintellect: | I'll just restart apache |
| 18:45:17 | wildintellect: | hmm, apache restart and it's still not listening on port 80 |
| 18:45:26 | nhv: | it is not down just very slow |
| 18:45:45 | nhv: | usually timing out from here before anything comes in |
| 18:46:29 | wildintellect: | well looking at the machine, it doesn't appear to be listening to port 80 |
| 18:46:51 | wildintellect: | at least not on ipv4 |
| 18:47:02 | wildintellect: | though it is coming up on ipv6 |
| 18:47:40 | wildintellect: | guess that's the way it shows on debian (odd) |
| 18:47:56 | nhv: | it is very *slow* but comes in eventually here |
| 18:48:25 | nhv: | have connected to ossim,gdal,postgis tracs |
| 18:48:26 | wildintellect: | since I restarted, it's not slow for me |
| 18:48:32 | nhv: | cool |
| 18:48:55 | nhv: | much better :-) |
| 18:49:25 | | * wildintellect reminds himself about the need to move to mod_wsgi |
| 18:50:36 | jmckenna: | works well here again. thanks wildintellect and all for fast response! |
| 19:31:08 | CameronShorter: | osgeolive meeting at #osgeolive in 3 mins. |
| 19:31:08 | CameronShorter: | board meeting here at #osgeo in 33 mins |
| 19:51:21 | FrankW_G: | wildintellect, jmckenna: by the way, last time I saw trac being really slow I check the server-status and there seemed to be alot of bot timeline requests for date ranges so I'd like to keep an eye on this and try to make the robots.txt more restrictive. It is a hassle though to have to do it for so many domains. |
| 19:52:25 | wildintellect: | you should be able to wildcard that (could even use 1 robots.txt for all of them, stored centrally) |
| 19:53:17 | FrankW_G: | I checked the robots.txt spec, and wildcards are not support except for one particular case. |
| 19:53:28 | FrankW_G: | There is only one robots.txt file (see http://trac.osgeo.org/robots.txt) |
| 19:53:32 | FrankW_G: | but it has to list each subdomain. |
| 19:53:42 | FrankW_G: | I might write a little python script to generate it from a list of projects. |
| 19:54:04 | wildintellect: | that sounds like a good idea |
| 19:55:09 | FrankW_G: | I thought I had created a ticket on this issue, but I don't see it now. |
| 20:02:10 | jmckenna: | hi all, Board meeting time |
| 20:02:23 | mlucas: | here |
| 20:02:23 | CameronShorter: | Cameron here. |
| 20:02:27 | | * FrankW_G is present. |
| 20:02:36 | FrankW_G: | http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-01-17 |
| 20:02:37 | sigq: | Title: Board Meeting 2013-01-17 - OSGeo Wiki (at wiki.osgeo.org) |
| 20:02:52 | mpg: | here |
| 20:02:59 | | * mdsmith lurks |
| 20:03:24 | jmckenna: | I believe we need one more board member |
| 20:05:36 | FrankW_G: | aghisla: around? |
| 20:06:49 | aghisla: | yes |
| 20:06:56 | jachym: | sorry, irc client down. back again |
| 20:07:32 | jmckenna: | i guess we can start. need chair of meeting and secretary |
| 20:07:46 | jmckenna: | i can chair, unless frank is itching |
| 20:08:06 | | * FrankW_G defers to jmckenna |
| 20:08:53 | jmckenna: | volunteer to record minutes on wiki? |
| 20:09:16 | | * jachym voluteer |
| 20:09:23 | jmckenna: | thanks jachym |
| 20:09:44 | jmckenna: | Review minutes: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-12-13 |
| 20:09:45 | sigq: | Title: Board Meeting 2012-12-13 - OSGeo Wiki (at wiki.osgeo.org) |
| 20:10:25 | jmckenna: | look fine to me. can someone make a motion to approve past meeting minutes? |
| 20:10:39 | aghisla: | I move to approve past meeting minutes. |
| 20:10:46 | jmckenna: | +1 |
| 20:10:46 | mlucas: | second |
| 20:10:50 | CameronShorter: | +1 |
| 20:10:50 | jachym: | +1 |
| 20:11:02 | mpg: | +1 |
| 20:11:09 | FrankW_G: | +! |
| 20:11:13 | FrankW_G: | +1 |
| 20:11:30 | jmckenna: | approved, thanks |
| 20:11:38 | jmckenna: | next item: Face-to-Face Board meeting |
| 20:11:39 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [9570]: Adding a TilleMill image <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/9570> |
| 20:12:07 | mlucas: | I'll be at Minneapolis and Nottingham |
| 20:12:50 | jmckenna: | I'm likely to be in Minneapolis (FOSS4G-NA) as well, in May |
| 20:12:53 | CameronShorter: | as mentioned before, I won't be able to travel to a face to face, but please go ahead and plan without me. |
| 20:13:28 | jmckenna: | i'm very open to having a virtual meeting, over a block of 2 hours, if we can't do a face-to-face |
| 20:13:36 | CameronShorter: | I might be able to dial in for an hour or 2 teleconference. |
| 20:13:54 | FrankW_G: | I prefer something virtual. |
| 20:14:00 | aghisla: | I plan to be in Nottingham, and likely in other European conferences. I am of course available for virtual meeting. |
| 20:14:08 | jmckenna: | actually i prefer virtual as well, so we can all attend |
| 20:14:24 | mlucas: | I'd prefer that if we could do Google Hangout, irc really slows the discussion down |
| 20:14:51 | jmckenna: | mlucas: sounds good to me |
| 20:14:54 | jmckenna: | timing? |
| 20:15:33 | jmckenna: | how is 31 January? |
| 20:15:35 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [9571]: New interface image for tilemill overview <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/9571> |
| 20:15:37 | CameronShorter: | I suggest a timeslot of NOW-1 hour (for up to 2 hours) |
| 20:15:39 | jmckenna: | (sooner than later) |
| 20:15:50 | mlucas: | I'm on a cruise until 5 Feb |
| 20:16:07 | aghisla: | I will be traveling on 31st until 9th Feb. |
| 20:16:11 | jmckenna: | ok, hmm |
| 20:16:16 | jachym: | time slot now-1 fine for europe |
| 20:16:24 | jachym: | let's put doodle for this? |
| 20:16:28 | FrankW_G: | I thought we were contemplating quite a bit more time than 2hours? |
| 20:16:41 | jmckenna: | 2 hour min |
| 20:17:06 | jmckenna: | 7 Feb? |
| 20:17:26 | mlucas: | aghisla is out until 9 Feb |
| 20:17:28 | aghisla: | I'll be at GRASS meeting in Genova, and most likely will be online. |
| 20:17:38 | jmckenna: | oh read that wrong soory aghisla |
| 20:17:56 | aghisla: | so count me in for half a day meeting or bit more |
| 20:18:03 | jmckenna: | 14 feb? doodle is fine jachym |
| 20:18:11 | CameronShorter: | I'm +1 for all proposed days so far. |
| 20:18:25 | jmckenna: | does this require a motion? |
| 20:18:32 | jachym: | -1 for the whole week after 9th febr |
| 20:18:54 | jachym: | I'll preare doodle for this. what parameters should it have? |
| 20:19:15 | jachym: | proposal: we fix the time slot first, the date then will be fixed with doodle (?) |
| 20:19:24 | CameronShorter: | I'd prefer to limit the meeting to 3 hours. |
| 20:19:37 | jmckenna: | 3 hours is good |
| 20:20:25 | jmckenna: | we can bring the doodle to the mailing list |
| 20:20:39 | CameronShorter: | I'm assuming that everyone is ok for this day of the week? (if not on holidays) |
| 20:20:58 | jmckenna: | good here |
| 20:21:01 | mlucas: | good here |
| 20:21:15 | aghisla: | same for me |
| 20:21:18 | FrankW_G: | I'd actually be open to weekends too, taking a large part of a work day is going to be slightly ackward for me. |
| 20:21:21 | jachym: | no problem |
| 20:21:35 | FrankW_G: | But I can deal with any day. |
| 20:21:36 | mlucas: | weekend is fine for me |
| 20:21:42 | jmckenna: | weekend good for me |
| 20:21:54 | jachym: | usually fine for me, 3 hours should be fine |
| 20:22:01 | CameronShorter: | Sat is hard for me, but Sun is ok, (which is Mon for me) |
| 20:22:10 | jmckenna: | ok we must make a doodle of options. jachym i can help with params |
| 20:22:36 | jachym: | ok, I'll make first draft version and send you the admin url of the pool |
| 20:22:49 | jmckenna: | next agenda item: next AGM |
| 20:22:51 | aghisla: | thanks jachym! |
| 20:23:01 | | * jachym did nothing yet |
| 20:23:24 | aghisla: | I think ahead :_ |
| 20:23:25 | aghisla: | :) |
| 20:23:49 | jmckenna: | for AGM the logical timing is during FOSS4G Nottingham |
| 20:24:12 | FrankW_G: | agreed |
| 20:24:18 | jachym: | agreed |
| 20:24:41 | mlucas: | agreed |
| 20:24:43 | jachym: | for 2012, we will not make it anyway |
| 20:24:46 | jmckenna: | jo and the local committee are very open to fitting us in a timeslot |
| 20:25:03 | aghisla: | I agree |
| 20:25:19 | CameronShorter: | +0 for me, (as I won't be able to attend where ever it may be) |
| 20:25:44 | jmckenna: | I motion to hold the OSGeo Annual General Meeting during the FOSS4G Nottingham event in September |
| 20:25:52 | aghisla: | second |
| 20:26:01 | mlucas: | +1 |
| 20:26:08 | jachym: | +1 |
| 20:26:22 | FrankW_G: | +1 |
| 20:26:34 | CameronShorter: | +0 |
| 20:26:40 | jmckenna: | I can take an action item to contact jo/peter to make sure they know we are confirmed |
| 20:26:54 | mlucas: | great |
| 20:27:02 | mpg: | +0 |
| 20:27:09 | jmckenna: | next item: FOSS4G updates |
| 20:27:10 | | * jachym supports this |
| 20:27:29 | jmckenna: | nothing specific other than relaying Peter's Notthingham update |
| 20:27:56 | jachym: | note: missing item in the wiki - Bucharest (Foss4g-cee) |
| 20:28:16 | jmckenna: | they will need seed money shortly (Nottingham committee) |
| 20:28:32 | jmckenna: | jachym: please add other foss4gs |
| 20:28:46 | jachym: | done |
| 20:28:57 | jmckenna: | FOSS4G NA registration opened. and call for sponsors |
| 20:29:23 | jmckenna: | (at almost the same time as foss4g nottingham) |
| 20:29:53 | jmckenna: | any other FOSS4G updates? |
| 20:30:24 | jachym: | can I go on with short foss4g-cee info? |
| 20:30:33 | jmckenna: | please do |
| 20:31:02 | jachym: | As you might now, in 2012, we had first FOSS4G-CEE in Prague. It was nice. |
| 20:31:33 | jachym: | For 2013, we knew, it will be difficult (thanks to foss4g global), but the Bucharest team still wanted to go. |
| 20:32:10 | jachym: | I've checked several times in Romania (this week for the last time) how things are going), response was always positive |
| 20:33:01 | jmckenna: | jachym: great, i was not aware of Bucharest plan |
| 20:33:07 | mlucas: | when is it scheduled? |
| 20:33:14 | jachym: | Just for this week, Vasile Crăciunescu said, he had some family troubles and things were not moving along |
| 20:34:05 | jachym: | to say the truth, we still did not see *any* progress at their side. They even did not require any server passwords etc (all the infrastructure is hosted at our servers). |
| 20:34:08 | jachym: | May |
| 20:34:55 | jachym: | Vasile was very positive and enthusiastic about 2013, but I'm not sure, whether it will be organized or not. |
| 20:35:10 | jachym: | So, we will see :-/ |
| 20:35:25 | aghisla: | Can we help make it happen? |
| 20:35:26 | jachym: | jmckenna: it was announced at the end of 2012 in Prague |
| 20:35:35 | jmckenna: | thanks jachym please keep me in the loop for this |
| 20:35:46 | jachym: | I see no way. Vasile did not require any help, any support. |
| 20:36:17 | jachym: | for 2014 we (Prague team) will continue having an eye on this (it's "our baby" in a way) |
| 20:36:48 | jmckenna: | jachym: maybe we can discuss this more offline, 2013 i mean |
| 20:36:51 | aghisla: | I see |
| 20:36:52 | jachym: | not to forget, it was required to make it FOSS4G-E for 2014 |
| 20:37:11 | jachym: | (E for europe, not for East ;-) ) |
| 20:37:18 | jmckenna: | E = great plan! |
| 20:37:20 | jachym: | howg |
| 20:38:11 | jmckenna: | i'm very focused on making these regional events happen. it seems the global is strong so ive been dedicating my time and trips to regional |
| 20:38:37 | jmckenna: | ok i guess we can move onto next item |
| 20:38:49 | jmckenna: | next item: MoU with universities |
| 20:39:28 | jmckenna: | aghisla: you have the floor |
| 20:39:36 | aghisla: | I have a few updates, mainly I report what Suchith mailed to several universities that required more information on MoUs |
| 20:41:01 | aghisla: | universities of Kathmandu, Melbourne, Kentucky, Warsaw and Mexico asked how to establish open source geospatial labs |
| 20:41:23 | aghisla: | there is a lot of momentum |
| 20:41:33 | jmckenna: | wow, that is excellent news |
| 20:41:42 | aghisla: | I am still following Suchith's steps on the procedures |
| 20:42:02 | jmckenna: | it sounds like a lot of work for you aghisla |
| 20:42:07 | aghisla: | and plan to be more active in following months to support these initiatives |
| 20:42:32 | jmckenna: | thank you for this hard work |
| 20:42:45 | aghisla: | well suchith, helena and charles schweik did a great job so far |
| 20:43:00 | jmckenna: | are we documenting this process on the wiki? |
| 20:43:08 | CameronShorter: | I'm interested to know who at the Uni of Melbourne, Australia is enquiring. (I did suggest it to someone, would like to know if it is the same person). You can email me about it later if you like. |
| 20:43:28 | aghisla: | not yet but it is quite needed, jmckenna |
| 20:43:46 | jmckenna: | aghisla: ok cool, as we go we can document and develop process |
| 20:44:15 | aghisla: | CameronShorter: University of Melbourne, our contact is Chris Pettit |
| 20:44:22 | aghisla: | let me find the mail |
| 20:44:59 | CameronShorter: | aghisla, ok, that is my contact. |
| 20:45:04 | aghisla: | the collaboration will be held within the project Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) http://aurin.org.au/ |
| 20:45:06 | sigq: | Title: AURIN | Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (at aurin.org.au) |
| 20:45:07 | aghisla: | ok great! |
| 20:45:58 | aghisla: | I will keep you updated on the topic. Suchith asked me to take care of announcements on osgeo website |
| 20:46:04 | aghisla: | and relevant lists |
| 20:46:18 | jmckenna: | thanks aghisla |
| 20:46:26 | jmckenna: | does anyone have any other agenda items to discuss with the Board? open floor for all IRC lurkers |
| 20:46:34 | jmckenna: | we have a few minutes |
| 20:46:44 | aghisla: | btw, FrankW_G there is a pending request for a news item about Newcastle lab |
| 20:46:45 | mlucas: | none here |
| 20:46:50 | jachym: | speaking about conferences |
| 20:46:52 | mdsmith: | awesome news about the university outreach |
| 20:47:08 | jachym: | I'll prepare something for next meeting |
| 20:47:21 | jachym: | March 1, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals for next INSPIRE conference in Europe |
| 20:47:38 | FrankW_G: | aghisla: I'll get on it. |
| 20:47:51 | aghisla: | thanks! |
| 20:48:16 | jachym: | I was not attending INSPIRE conferences till now, but members of our team are going regulary there and I think, it should be possible, I go there and "say something" |
| 20:48:44 | jmckenna: | oh good, thanks for speaking up at INSPIRE events |
| 20:48:48 | | * jachym things, the best OSGeo speaker is Arnulf, it's hard to "replace" him |
| 20:49:15 | FrankW_G: | Certainly I think he is pretty knowledgable about INSPIRE related stuff, and presumably osgeo implementations. |
| 20:50:11 | jachym: | next week, there is czech-slovak local (rather big) event in Ostrava, maybe osgeo-czech-something will be formed, you will be informed, if it happens (and what it happens). the process is (will be) very slow here. |
| 20:50:33 | jmckenna: | oh great, osgeo-czech! |
| 20:50:48 | jachym: | I know something about implementations, but I do care about the techincal stuff. |
| 20:51:09 | aghisla: | more diacritics from a land of great FOSS4G developers :) |
| 20:51:19 | jachym: | still the generic feeling of mine is, they think, osgeo-projects are not aware of inspire |
| 20:51:38 | jachym: | :-) |
| 20:51:52 | jachym: | that was just for the info, that something is moving, we will se |
| 20:51:53 | jmckenna: | ok, let's pick a day for the next Board meeting |
| 20:51:53 | jachym: | e |
| 20:52:20 | jmckenna: | maybe the virtual meeting will count as that?? |
| 20:53:18 | FrankW_G: | that seems reasonable |
| 20:53:32 | CameronShorter: | +1 |
| 20:53:32 | jachym: | should be possible for me |
| 20:53:54 | aghisla: | +1 |
| 20:54:12 | jmckenna: | ok |
| 20:54:42 | jmckenna: | followup on mailing list with proposed dates |
| 20:54:51 | jmckenna: | I motion to close this Board meeting |
| 20:55:11 | jachym: | shall we make motion out of it? |
| 20:55:22 | jachym: | (sorry) |
| 20:55:43 | jmckenna: | jachym: please |
| 20:55:44 | jachym: | +1 for closing (thanks to all) |
| 20:55:48 | CameronShorter: | +1 |
| 20:55:49 | jmckenna: | oh ok |
| 20:55:51 | jmckenna: | +1 |
| 20:56:32 | mpg: | +1 |
| 20:56:39 | jmckenna: | nice to hear updates from aghisla and jachym - sometimes i'm too in my northamerican hole |
| 20:56:51 | aghisla: | +1 (for closing) |
| 20:56:56 | jachym: | I always am in europe hole |
| 20:57:01 | jmckenna: | ha |
| 20:57:10 | aghisla: | I am in a narrow valley in northern italy |
| 20:57:14 | FrankW_G: | +1 for closing. |
| 20:57:19 | aghisla: | but will be in Brussels for FOSDEM |
| 20:57:30 | jmckenna: | FOSDEM?? |
| 20:57:56 | aghisla: | https://fosdem.org/2013/ |
| 20:57:57 | sigq: | Title: FOSDEM 2013 - Home (at fosdem.org) |
| 20:58:01 | jmckenna: | bad that i didn't know of it! |
| 20:58:02 | jmckenna: | wow |
| 20:58:03 | FrankW_G: | A bit open source conference - not just geospatial. |
| 20:58:10 | aghisla: | the biggest european open source developers meeting |
| 20:58:16 | FrankW_G: | bit -> big |
| 20:58:26 | aghisla: | leslie hawthorn is one of the keynotes |
| 20:58:47 | aghisla: | ther will be something like 350 presentations and sessions |
| 20:58:55 | jmckenna: | wow interesting |
| 20:59:19 | aghisla: | if I thought of it earlier, I could have proposed an osgeo booth. |
| 20:59:27 | | * aghisla adds it to 2014 todo list |
| 20:59:31 | jmckenna: | nice |
| 20:59:33 | dbb: | we floated an idea for custom art and data on the Live for that, but we are staying simple |
| 20:59:51 | dbb: | we/I |
| 21:00:03 | jmckenna: | dbb: osgeolive is given out at that event??? |
| 21:00:14 | dbb: | well I dont know their plans |
| 21:00:45 | dbb: | someone should let them know that they can make a customized version of the Live, if they wish, and abide by a few basic guidelines |
| 21:00:46 | | * FrankW_G heads off in search of food. |
| 21:00:51 | aghisla: | it could be a very appropriate occasion |
| 21:00:58 | jmckenna: | question for anyone: doe we have any OSGeo contacts in Denmark? I will travel there to give training next month |
| 21:01:11 | jmckenna: | Copenhagen |
| 21:01:41 | CameronShorter: | aghisla, do you know any contacts at the conference who might be the right people to talk to about OSGeo-Live? |
| 21:02:13 | CameronShorter: | Details about adding OSGeo-Live at an event are here: |
| 21:02:13 | CameronShorter: | http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event |
| 21:02:15 | sigq: | Title: Live GIS Disc - OSGeo Wiki (at wiki.osgeo.org) |
| 21:03:00 | aghisla: | CameronShorter: actually not, but I'll try to find a way of bringing OSGeo live disc. |
| 21:03:12 | dbb: | oh! my mistake.. not that event, the one in Spain |
| 21:05:44 | jmckenna: | i will try to reach out to the danish chapter. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Danmark |
| 21:05:45 | sigq: | Title: Danmark - OSGeo Wiki (at wiki.osgeo.org) |
| 21:05:46 | aghisla: | CameronShorter: let me contact OSGeo-fr chapter too |
| 21:07:49 | CameronShorter: | ok |
| 21:08:42 | dbb: | http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/ |
| 21:08:44 | sigq: | Title: JornadasSIGLibre - Presentación (at www.sigte.udg.edu) |
| 23:12:07 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [9572]: Greek translation: Added TileMill and Cartaro Overviews <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/9572> |
| 23:14:09 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [9573]: Added NTUA logo <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/9573> |
| 23:22:41 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [9574]: Added NTUA to sponsors <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/9574> |