Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practicesand how it help to foster collaboration.

2010-01-19 Thread Bob Basques
All, Thanks for all the links to information, I've got a pretty good list of Federal initiatives, now I'm after more localized efforts, something at the City or Municipal level. Really it can be anything related to making government (geospatial) data available to the masses and why it makes

[OSGeo-Discuss] Website News Editor(s) welcome

2010-01-19 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Hi all, have a few minutes a week to help post news/events on the OSGeo website? Frank and I usually take care of these items but could use a bit of help to keep things running smoothly. There is a (volunteer) opportunity for at least one person to help out in the role of OSGeo News Editor.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gov't adopting open source ?

2010-01-19 Thread Sampson, David
There is also a small community of FOSS advocates growing using the Government of Canada's social networking tool GCconnex (currently a pilot) If you are a federal employee in Canada check out the FOSS4GOC group and also tag your profile with OSGEO so we can find who is using FOSS and FOSS4G

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Humanitarian GIS guide

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew Turner
Hi - I just was looking over the good MapAction GIS Field guide (http://www.mapaction.org/content/view/183/59/) I was wondering if OSGeo had a comparable guide. It could talk about how to use cross-platform tools such as QGIS or others to utilize both open data sources like OpenStreetMap

Re: FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practicesand how it help to foster collaboration. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-19 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Bob, Another one from Australia: The url at [1] contains the link to the final report for the (Australian State) Victorian Government Parliamentary Inquiry into improving access to Public Sector Information and data. If you look closely at the report you'll see a number of references to the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Humanitarian GIS guide

2010-01-19 Thread Ravi
--- On Wed, 20/1/10, Andrew Turner ajtur...@highearthorbit.com wrote: From: Andrew Turner ajtur...@highearthorbit.com Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Humanitarian GIS guide To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, 20 January, 2010, 1:25 AM Hi - I just was looking over the good