Slashgeo

First, I'm happy to announce a new financial donation to help Slashgeo.org stay not too far below the red line, ThinkGeo.com (blog entry) is now amongst the Slashgeo.org top donors. Thank you! Donors have a link to them in the right side column.

Second, I admit I'm not entirely proud of Slashgeo's geonews coverage since the beginning of the year. As most of you already know, Slashgeo is ad-free and is ran only by voluntary contributions, mainly time given by a small team of geoenthusiasts to aggregate the most pertinent geonews out there for the geospatial community. For the last two years and a half, I've had a lot of precious help from other enthusiasts who joined the Slashgeo bandwagon as editors, but I still publish most of the stories on Slashgeo at the moment. Being a new father and away from my day job for a while, I have trouble finding the required time to adequately feed Slashgeo on a regular basis. Unless something unexpected happens and instead of being myself constantly worried, I ask you, our dear users, to allow a reduction of service for the coming months until about September. This does not mean Slashgeo will stop publishing, it just means we'll more than ever rely on user contributions and, even if efforts will be done to cover the most pertinent geonews, they may be published with a delay of a few days or more. Hopefully, Slashgeo should afterward go back to our more frequent and timely geonews publishing. Thank you for your comprehension. Alex aka Satri.

A small glitch prevented a significant amount of our 1,550 registered members to received the daily stories summary by email for last Friday, here it is. Friday coverage included many major geonews about Microsoft and Google amongst others. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm happy to report a new donation to Slashgeo.org, this time from MapForums.com. Slashgeo's revenues are entirely based on user donations. I updated our Open Budget accordingly.