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

2010-01-15 Thread Ravi
Hi. in India the southern state of Kerala is officially committed to Open Source. http://www.catfoss.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=49Itemid=57 Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Fri, 15/1/10, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org wrote: From: Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2010 Call for Workshops and Tutorials is open

2010-01-15 Thread Oscar Fonts
Barcelona, Spain. 15 January 2010. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce a Call for Workshops and Tutorials for the 2010 conference, being held September 6-9, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain. FOSS4G is the international gathering of tribes for

[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.

2010-01-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up more of our datasets to the public. We currently have about 30 GIS data layers available to the public, ( http://, ) with ~170 layers that are not public. While there are some layers that won't be made available for security

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

2010-01-15 Thread Schlagel, Joel D IWR
Publishing data would be consistent with Presidents open government initiative http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/ -joel On 1/15/10 1:11 PM, Bob Basques bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote: All, I'm putting together a proposal