Posts Tagged geospatial
StackOverflow For Geo!
Posted by Jason Birch in Advocacy, Open Source on June 14, 2010
If you’re not familiar with StackOverflow, it’s a collaboratively edited questions and answers site for developers. With its wiki-like editing and community voting and reputation system, answers at StackOverflow (and its sister sites like ServerFault) are more complete, accurate, and accessible than any other technical resources.
With this understanding, I was excited to see that George Silva was involved in StackExchange’s incubator, and had put together a proposal for a StackOverflow for Geographic Information Systems.
GIS has long been more of a diaspora than an online community, with information stored across dozens of mailing lists, forums, blogs and other locations. Each open source project and proprietary application has its own set of resources, as do academic communities. Answers have been hard to find, and expert participation in these communities can quickly lead to burn-out. I believe that having a StackOverflow for GIS will help to solve these problems, and increase our individual efficiency working with GIS.
If you agree, please take the time to sign up for George’s proposal, and commit to being involved in StackOverflow for GIS!
-J
Decent entry-level job
Posted by Jason Birch in Nanaimo on September 2, 2008
The group I work for at the City of Nanaimo is looking for someone fresh out of university (3 months experience required) with a Comp Sci degree or equivalent to join our team:
http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/161.asp?jobpostingid=8372
This is an entry-level position, but with experience and good performance it can grow into regular and senior-level jobs. At these levels, the incumbent develops specializations in one or more of the development, database, or spatial areas. Read the entire posting for details, and check out the full job description on the City’s website once it is posted.
It’s up to you to decide whether working with me is a benefit… or not ;)
-J
GeoWorld Geospatial Leadership Awards
Posted by Jason Birch in FDO, Google Earth, Nanaimo, Open Source on May 9, 2008
Just a quick note asking you to VOTE for the solutions you think are best in the current GeoWorld Geospatial Leadership Awards.
Some interesting entries have been nominated. In particular, FDO and Fusion (both open source applications) are competing alongside other prominent applications in the Innovator Award category.
Full disclosure: My work on earth.nanaimo.ca (built with MapGuide Open Source technology) is nominated for the Public Enterprise category. Please only vote for it if you think it’s the most deserving solution in this category.
-J
OSGeo BC – Formation and First Meeting
Posted by Jason Birch in Advocacy, OSGeo on October 30, 2007
Just a quick note about the formative OSGeo British Columbia Local Chapter
If you are in BC and interested in the promotion or use of open source geospatial (and I haven’t already hit you with the flood of spam to my frequent hangouts), make sure you get signed up and plan to attend our first meeting on November 15 between 11:00am and 2:00pm. For this first session, we will be meeting simultaneously in Victoria and Vancouver, with videoconferencing connecting the sites. A tentative agenda has been drafted in the wiki, but if you have strong feelings one way or another, speak up on the mailing list.
I am extremely happy with the interest in this organisation from all levels of government (with a strong showing by local government – yay team!), private industry, and consulting agencies. I believe that this shows two things. First, that hosting FOSS4G in your region helps to build an awareness of the capabilities of open source geospatial software, and second, that open source geospatial is now at the level that it merits serious consideration as part of any enterprise geospatial strategy.
Even if you cannot attend the initial meeting, I would strongly encourage you to sign up for the mailing list (or its web-based shadow at Nabble) and spark up a conversation.
-J
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