I'm please to say that this morning I gave a 30 minute presentation on Open Source Geospatial software at the Southwest U.S. ESRI Users Group meeting and that it was well received.
Thanks to those of you that answered a couple I posted on lists recently in conjunction with researching my presentation. Regards, Rich On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel Montesinos wrote: >>> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Patton >>> Enviado el: sáb 18/10/2008 18:22 >>> Para: OSGeo Discussions >>> Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident >>> >>> >> >>> On 2008/10/17 12:15 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: >>>> Hi All, I resend this mail to OSGeo discuss because I think is a >>>> serious incident that cannot be obviated and shows how things are >>>> getting at least in Spanish market. >>>> As Alvaro says, why they have this behavior with his colleagues? Maybe >>>> they fear FOSS companies? >>>> >>>> Anyway, all of you are invited to the gvSIG conf, even to discuss, >>>> it's free in both senses ;) >>> ESRI was a sponsor at FOSS4G 2007, and had a Lab. >>> Who knows, maybe they will be involved somehow in >>> FOSS4G 2009(for sure they won't be excluded just >>> because they are viewed as competition for FOSS). >> >> "Viewed as competition for FOSS" -> Well, they say (I asked about it at >> ESRI's booth during both FOSS4G 2007 & 2008) that they have made some >> contributions to open-source, as the openness of shapefile format or >> offering WMS servers. :-D >> >> >>> Perhaps they can have a booth in the exhibition >>> (and maybe gvSIG wants to have a booth right next >>> to the ESRI booth ;-) >> >> For sure FOSS4G ESRI's attendees are much more polite (and clever) than >> their Spanish collegues. >> >> Maybe it would be wiser to make a request for a booth in the world annual >> ESRI's conference (I don't know nor want to, the exact name). Would they >> admit a FOSS4G booth (it doesn't matter which project could be) as we make >> at FOSS4G? It would be funny to see an OSGeo booth showing the integration >> capabilities of OSGeo projects against ESRI closed products, or even a >> comparison. >> > If we called it a Proj,Python,OGC booth they'd have a hard time saying > no considering their inclusion of said products/standards in their > application. > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
