I think we're all guilty of the grand visions we don't have time for. I've just learnt to give myself a reasonable time-frame before I consider a project dead. But I did manage to sneak in the creation of a debian virtual box and got mapserver running on it yesterday. was supposed to be working too. shh!<br>
<br>To get a basic locator app together is almost trivial in terms of coding (watch I'm going to choke on those words this week...) getting maps might be a bit trickier. but once its in, then we have a platform to build upon and we can have our own hacker gis for whatever we can imagine. i named the box noisegish and I'm hoping maybe he can either live inside one of the servers, or I will just move stuff over if they let me.<br>
<br>as for building, like I said, I am definitely down to build. but that sort of thing requires some member meetings/discussion etc.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Andy Isaacson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:03:52PM -0700, munkeyfreenix batcat wrote:<br>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andy Isaacson <<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> > > Re: Google -- why not use the nb servers to run mapserver and have<br>
> > > our own GIS. its open source, and we can run GRASS GIS inside it<br>
> > > as well if we're feeling ambitious, script with pywps and we have<br>
> > > something really cool to build upon. then we could get<br>
> > > multispectral satellite photos and find location by the best<br>
> > > frequency spectrum. that was a joke. kind of.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Re: building a barrier - it doesn't have to slide, and in fact we<br>
> > > could get some sound board and plywood and make little sandwiches,<br>
> > > mount them with some heavy duty hinges and a pulley so that they<br>
> > > can be pulled down and latched to the railing, or opened.<br>
> ><br>
> > These are great ideas! �I look forward to your implementation of them.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> Setting up a gis for noisebridge would be great and easy. creating the vm<br>
> right now to develop. I've been wanting to work on a gis server for awhile.<br>
<br>
</div>Awesome! �I'm really glad to see interesting projects happen. :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> As of now, I'm not a member, and while I'd be more than happy to bring<br>
<br>
</div>We get a *lot* of people who are really excited to suggest ideas, and<br>
even a fair number of people who are looking for someone to tell them<br>
what to do in fairly minute detail. �The part that we're missing is the<br>
people in the middle -- people who are interested in a project and<br>
devote time to making the infrastructure and planning happen.<br>
<br>
So I'm really happy to see people doing the grunt work on making<br>
projects start, and I'll continue to gently poke fun at people who have<br>
grand ideas but "no time to make them happen". �(And I'm as guilty of<br>
that as the next guy...)<br>
<br>
(I'm restraining myself from suggesting that we need Project Managers.<br>
Bad word! �Bad word! �Naughty hacker! �No 0day^Wcookie for you!)<br>
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-andy<br>
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