Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-11 Thread P Kishor
On 8/10/07, Steve Lime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in the future we might consider regionally based board seats. This is absolutely the most

Re: [OSGeo_discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India

2007-08-11 Thread H . S . Rai
On 8/11/07, Arup Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No body wants to touch OSS because it is perceived to be a nerd thing/ not useful/ not maintainable/etc. Can there be possibility of following for perceiving such things: a) Lack of confidence/competency b) Getting few events sponsored from

Re: [OSGeo_discuss] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS GIS in India

2007-08-11 Thread RAVI KUMAR
http://gis.nic.in/infrastructure.html shows proprietary software and in house developed software. Nowhere there is mention of GRASS and other FOSS GIS software. True to a large extent, but there are some nice exceptions. NIC Chennai, pioneers in using open source for webserving maps.