[OSGeo-Discuss] Poland OSGeo Chapter's members will co-organize a conference

2010-01-16 Thread Tomasz.Kubik
I am pleased to announce that: The OSGeo Poland Chapter is co-organizing a conference on the GIS applications of open source software. The event will take place on May 13-14 in Wroclaw, in co-operation with the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformati

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

2010-01-16 Thread Vasilis Vlastaras
It seems the new Greek government turns to open source software for what it calls 'electronic government'. The new government through a series of one day conferences tries to describe its vision for a new way to provide services of public interest and stimuli businesses based on such software. Per

[OSGeo-Discuss] Amazon Initiative - online spatial analysis for ecosystem service management

2010-01-16 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, It may be of interest: """ Amazon Initiative - online spatial analysis for ecosystem service management Supported by the World Agroforestry Center - ICRAF, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture ? CIAT and the WorldBank, the Amazon Initiative and its partners are developing an inte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Haiti Response

2010-01-16 Thread Mateusz Loskot
David William Bitner-2 wrote: > > Of particular interest to myself and the work that I am doing to support > the Sahana Software Foundation's ( > http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php/haiti:start) efforts is making sure we have > a > good catalog of the Web Services that are being put out there right n

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

2010-01-16 Thread Ravi
--- On Fri, 15/1/10, Ravi wrote: > From: Ravi > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gov't adopting open source ? > To: "OSGeo Discussions" > Date: Friday, 15 January, 2010, 3:32 PM > Hi. > in India the southern state of Kerala is officially > committed to Open Source. > > http://www.catfoss.kerala.

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

2010-01-16 Thread Andy Turner
Hi, In the UK, you can see this happening from: http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/ Best wishes, Andy From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Haris Kurtagic [ha...@sl-king.com] Sent: 16 January 2010 0

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

2010-01-16 Thread Haris Kurtagic
I really like presentation from Jason Birch from City of Nanaimo about reasons to open data and how to do it. http://www.slideshare.net/JasonBirch/moving-beyond-the-desk Don't forget to look at notes too, I did forgot first time. Haris