Cycle Seven Overview

The yearly Open Collective retreat shuffled our schedules around a bit: We used the two weeks before the retreat to tie up loose ends and take care of outstanding issues.  We ended the retreat with a two day hackathon which gave the team an opportunity to propose pet projects andContinue Reading

How to Set Up a Virtual Machine Host With Ubuntu Server

Virtual machines (VMs) are computer systems-within-computers. Each VM runs its own operating system and simulated hardware, providing it with autonomy from its host machine and offering strong isolation for resource intensive applications. Ubuntu Server is an emerging enterprise virtualization option that offers many benefits to businesses. In this article we’llContinue Reading

Introducing Open Source Gis

Whatever They Told You About Open Source Gis Is Dead Wrong…And Here’s Why When you have PostGIS and PostgreSQL installed, you should make sure the Windows path variable comprises the bin folder of the Postgres installation, if you wish to have the ability to execute Postgres functions from the commandContinue Reading