Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: The Rabbit

2009-10-27 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Remember, you must count three...

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: The Rabbit

2009-10-27 Thread Arnie Shore
One ... Two ... Five!

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses 
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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new military OSS policy

2009-10-27 Thread Landon Blake
Miles,

That sounds like a positive development for FOSS in the United States. I
would imagine the military is a large customer of software. If they are
giving open source software more serious consideration, that should be a
good thing for our community in the long run.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new military OSS policy

2009-10-27 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Miles,

It is encouraging to see this policy development.

When combined with the new UK Government Policy on Open Source and Open
Standards [1],  I can see that OS (spatial) is finally starting to get some
serious momentum within government circles.

Perhaps other Governments will also start following suit...

Bruce Bannerman

[1] http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government_it/open_source.aspx



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2009 Sol Katz Award?

2009-10-27 Thread Anton Patrushev
Daniel Morissette.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Richard Greenwood
richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote:
 So I know y'all had a great time down under and I'm sorry I couldn't
 make it. But who received the Sol Katz Award?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new military OSS policy

2009-10-27 Thread Cameron Shorter

Can someone point at this document on an official website somewhere?
It would be good to link to it from: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Open_Source_Policies


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RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new military OSS policy

2009-10-27 Thread Craig Miller
I'd like to comment that the government has always been a strong supporter
of FOSS and the DOD has made significant contributions.  This paper
clarifies what is in my opinion a long standing DOD OSS position.

 

For a long time the US Army, Corp of Engineers developed GRASS GIS and it
was the best solution out there.  The SCS helped fund this software
development work.  It kept pace w/ ESRI for many years before the DOD
decided to go with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software and stopped
GRASS development.  Other government workers such as Sol Katz contributed
all sorts of FOSS software.  LT Plus was an early Raster to Vector
conversion program used by the USFS, SCS, and DOD.  NASA has contributed
many more applications, data, and utilities.  I'm not positive, but I'm
pretty sure that the contribution of GRASS makes the DOD the largest
contributor to OSGeo out there.

 

For years we ran GRASS GIS on Sun workstations.  The fact that it was FOSS
and had the potential of being ported made me try an early 0.9.1 version of
the Linux kernel and Slackware linux distributed on 23 floppy disks.  A few
months later and we had GRASS running on Linux.  By 1994(ish) we had 30
Linux workstations running kernel 0.9.7 and Dan Haskell's port of LTPlus
doing raster to vector data conversion for the Interior Columbia Ecosystem
Management Project (ICBEMP).  Before there was PostGIS, GDAL, QGis,
MapServer, or MapGuide OS the DOD and other government agencies were
inventing OSGeo.  (Note:  See http://ltplus.org)

 

The DOD paper is notable in that it seems to somewhat reverse the late 90s
decision to push COTS.  Since that time, there has been much less FOSS
running on the military networks.  It's good to hear them make the
clarification that FOSS can be considered COTS, but IMHO the DOD and the US
Government in general should be given credit for their long standing support
of OSGeo/FOSS software.

 

Craig

 

 

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Miles,

It is encouraging to see this policy development.

When combined with the new UK Government Policy on Open Source and Open
Standards [1],  I can see that OS (spatial) is finally starting to get some
serious momentum within government circles.

Perhaps other Governments will also start following suit...

Bruce Bannerman

[1] http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government_it/open_source.aspx




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new military OSS policy

2009-10-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
It doesn't seem to be on the OSD web site yet - give it a few days and 
then you'll probably be able to find it somewhere near here:

http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/

Cameron Shorter wrote:

Can someone point at this document on an official website somewhere?
It would be good to link to it from: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Open_Source_Policies


Miles Fidelman wrote:

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