Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] Although my University has a large Unix system also and while it runs many debian-based systems, my experience is that it is even more difficult to set up a free GIS environment (the Geoinformatica for example) there - so in fact the Windows solution is not so bad after all. And as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

2007-05-13 Thread P Kishor
I am following up on this thread, and cross-posting to several lists -- sorry for the noise -- to inform you all of my related activities. I have spent the past five days in Atibaia, Brazil at a CODATA-organized (http://www.codata.org) workshop on Open Access to Scientific Data

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting article on open source economics

2007-05-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
On Sat, May 12, 2007 20:29, Jason Birch wrote: Hmm. That sounds like an oxymoron, but: http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007-article.html Jason From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron: An oxymoron (plural oxymora) is a figure of speech that combines two

[OSGeo-Discuss] Bruce Bannerman is out of the office.

2007-05-13 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
I will be out of the office starting 14/05/2007 and will not return until 18/05/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss