Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Doyle
Another good place to introduce OSGeo to NASA is the ESIP Federation,  
where I think a number of OSGeo folks are already active. Their next  
meeting is in July in New Hampshire. http://esipfed.org/events (ignore  
the date typo, the 2007 there should be 2008...)


Allan


On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ned Horning wrote:


Greetings -

I'll give the “standard process” for announcing possible OSGeo  
events suggested by Arnulf a try. If there is interest I'll create a  
Proposed Event Wiki page.


NASA is holding their bi-annual Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Joint  
Science Workshop April 28-May 2 in College Park Maryland: http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2008/


This event would be an excellent opportunity to introduce OSGeo to  
NASA and it's funded researchers. It will be well attended and I  
think this NASA community is ripe for learning more about OSGeo.  
This is potentially an important community since NASA is funding  
researchers that develop software but it's often not developed  
within open source communities even though there is an increase in  
the use of open source software. My gut feeling is that the reason  
for this is that many folks are not familiar with what open source  
is all about and they are not aware of the great resources out there.


If folks are interested in pursuing this I will do what I can to  
facilitate OSGeo involvement. I'm not certain if I will be able to  
attend and even if I do it would be good to have someone involved  
who is more adept at advocating for OSGeo than me.


All the best,

Ned
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[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

2008-01-18 Thread Ned Horning

Greetings -

I'll give the “standard process” for announcing possible OSGeo events 
suggested by Arnulf a try. If there is interest I'll create a Proposed 
Event Wiki page.


NASA is holding their bi-annual Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Joint Science 
Workshop April 28-May 2 in College Park Maryland: 
http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2008/


This event would be an excellent opportunity to introduce OSGeo to NASA 
and it's funded researchers. It will be well attended and I think this 
NASA community is ripe for learning more about OSGeo. This is 
potentially an important community since NASA is funding researchers 
that develop software but it's often not developed within open source 
communities even though there is an increase in the use of open source 
software. My gut feeling is that the reason for this is that many folks 
are not familiar with what open source is all about and they are not 
aware of the great resources out there.


If folks are interested in pursuing this I will do what I can to 
facilitate OSGeo involvement. I'm not certain if I will be able to 
attend and even if I do it would be good to have someone involved who is 
more adept at advocating for OSGeo than me.


All the best,

Ned
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