RE: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Gavin Fleming
An excellent potted history of OSS is in Steven Weber's 'The Success of Open Source' Gavin Are you coming to www.foss4g2008.org?   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: 21 August 2008 07:53 AM To: PROJ.4 and general

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Rafal Wawer wrote: Thank you Markus, I will teach FOSS4G upcoming days. The article appeared right on time for me to include it in the references (-; Hopefully it will develop to cover most of the existing FOSS4G projects. A roadmap of FOSS4G projects? Rafal, Recently, I've been writing a

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Rafal Wawer
Thank you very much Mateusz. So far we are utilizing Paul Ramzsy's classification to language tribes and the utility groups from CASCADOSS inventory. A time dimension is a very nice add-on, especially that I am expecting a large growth in number of software projects becoming OSS4G to be

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
Mateusz Loskot wrote: 2000 - MapServer initial revision in CVS MapServer started using CVS only in 2000, but existed since around 1995. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Steven M. Ottens
Hi all, In light of the EndOfLive announcement of Mapbuilder I have done some research on the history of mapbuilder: 29 september 2001 Mapbuilder-devel mailinglist created 28 july 2008 End Of Life announcement Regards Steven On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Rafal Wawer

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and use of freenode for IRC

2008-08-21 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 20-Aug-08, at 7:55 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: I have very similar experience about registering a group/project on Freenode. I've done it for MOSS4G and #moss4g channel (I understood I have to register to get registered channel) but with no response. Yes, the group registration took some

Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

2008-08-21 Thread Dave McIlhagga
someone might be interested in getting this historical info into the wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a good way for long term maintenance and updating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgeo Dave On 21-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Steven M. Ottens wrote: Hi all, In light of the