On Jan 10, 2008 3:45 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.osgeo.org/event/2008/01/10/list/all/all
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If you have an event that you think is important to OSGeo members to
know about, attend or that open source will be presented at, please
drop me a note with details
On 9/5/07, RAVI KUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good idea. Open HIS enthusiasts can make a difference like this.
Please see my humble beginning at:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.910878591019117lon=75.96681554171508zoom=8layers=B0F
and
Lot many efforts are being undertaken by various agencies, individuals
to generate FLOSS software and to create data related to places. But I
found very little such data, belonging to Asian countries, available
on openstreetmap.org
Why we are not using this great facility, being offered by this
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
On 8/10/07, RAVI KUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The students of computer-science (a general term)
rarely develop code for
GIS, as they are probably much in demand elsewhere. It
is a fact that 'Google summer of code', may not be an
option for young programmers,
Though generalisation will be
Congratulations to the new BoD, and hope OSGeo will touch new heights
in their leadership. At the same time, I wish suitable strategies may
be adopted for more acceptance of OSGeo in developing countries, which
has huge potential.
--
H.S.Rai
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Although there is a need of developing countries to adopt OSGeo and
FOSS GIS. it is a fact, that adoption of such software is not upto
desired level. There is need of understand reasons behind this and
require more physical contact, conferences, workshops in
addition to using Internet for this
