[OSGeo-Discuss] Ominiverdi Desktop LiveCD 2007.1

2007-08-28 Thread Luca Casagrande
Hello everybody and sorry for cross-posting. The Ominiverdi LiveCD Team is proud to announce the second release of their Desktop LiveCD. This version, tagged as 2007.1, updates all software to their current versions and adds some changes/bugfixes. More information can be found here:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Ominiverdi Desktop LiveCD 2007.1

2007-08-28 Thread Luca Casagrande
Hello everybody and sorry for cross-posting. The Ominiverdi LiveCD Team is proud to announce the second release of their Desktop LiveCD. This version, tagged as 2007.1, updates all software to their current versions and adds some changes/bugfixes. More information can be found here:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity

2007-08-28 Thread P Kishor
Very well written Howard. In tribute to your writing, I will promptly snitch some ideas from your writing below. I have been tackling this issue of selling open geospatial, particularly to agencies for whom generally financial cost is a non-issue. I try to tell them that in most classes open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Return on Equity

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Patton
Howard Butler wrote: Most of OSGeo's measurable successes to date have been volunteer efforts, not primarily financially-backed ones. The OSGeo Journal effort, Google Summer of Code administration, the Geodata committee's efforts, and even much of our system administration to keep the lights