The Biodiversity project of India is going to use Opensource GIS for implementing GIS, using their tabulated data. OSGeo India has plans to help the same.
Ravi Kumar Sean Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ned Horning wrote: > Frank Warmerdam wrote: >> I'd like to see OSGeo support socially relavent organizations in use of > open source >> software > > This is along the lines of what I'm working on so I figure this is a good > time to chime in to get feedback. I'm involved in a discussion between the > Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) and the Society for Conservation > Biology (SCB) to enhance an international Conservation GIS training program > sponsored by SCGIS. The SCGIS has a scholarship program that brings > international conservation practitioners to the States to receive ESRI > training, ESRI software, attend the ESRI conference, and sometimes get free > hardware. It is a great program but it's costly and only meets a fraction of > the demand. > > In principle having an SCB/SCGIS partnership is a good idea but it shouldn't > be ESRI-centric. I talked about OSGeo and this seemed to raise some interest > (curiosity?) but I sense skepticism. The (inaccurate) perception that ESRI > will donate software to any conservation group, largely negating advantages > of FOSS4G, doesn't help. The SCB has over 10,000 members and I think this > could be a great opportunity for OSGeo to increase global exposure and > possibly use it to solicit grant money to support training and software > development around the world. > > SCGIS has a small international network of user groups that can be used to > expand this program and I'm trying to figure out if OSGeo could help build a > similar or partnered network for open source offerings. The OSGeo education > committee members are creating course materials that will be leveraged for > this conservation-focused training. I addition to that we need to develop a > network of trainers. How much interest is there among the OSGeo > community/user groups to support and provide conservation-focused geospatial > training? I'd like to hear from anyone but I'm particularly interested in > hearing from people with connections outside of North America. > > Distance learning methods would help overcome the problem of distributing > this training globally but there is a strong interest in sponsoring > in-person workshops in addition to on-line offerings. Our group at the AMNH > is working on addressing both of these needs. > > Any feedback is appreciated. > > All the best, > > Ned Ned, I accidentally attended the SCGIS summer camp in 2005. I was visiting Mike Hamilton, Director of the James Reserve and SCGIS activist, who often hosts this thing. He's very interested in open source, and I think he'd be happy to add open source to the camp syllabus if the attendees wanted it. If you're not already in contact with Mike, you should give him a call. His ESRI partners, of course, had zero interest in open source, but this might have changed a bit over the past 2 years. Cheers, Sean _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.
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