Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short report on OpenGIS-Moscow

2015-12-02 Thread Suchith Anand
From: Discuss [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Jeff McKenna [jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 9:32 PM To: osgeo Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short report on OpenGIS-Moscow Hello everyone, Last week I had the opportunity to attend

[OSGeo-Discuss] Short report on OpenGIS-Moscow

2015-11-30 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hello everyone, Last week I had the opportunity to attend the OpenGIS conference in Moscow, Russia (http://gisconf.ru). The venue was really nice, the huge headquarters of @mail.ru Group (http://mail.ru), Moscow's largest hi-tech company (2000 employees I believe), who in fact just purchased

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Short report on OpenGIS-Moscow

2015-11-30 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Jeff and others, Good news to hear about the success of the Moscow event. I'm particularly interested to hear more about "their prime minister has signed a law that requires government agencies to use Open Source software, which must be in place by January 2016". Is there an authoritative