[Aust-NZ] Spatial on the agenda at local OSS summit [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

 Hi all,

Just saw this on another list and session 12 is very relevant to OSGeo.
http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=9
Some interesting material and apparent recommendations supporting OSGeo
objectives.

The spatial aspect also got a specific mention in the local press
(Saturday's Canberra Times).

Cheers,

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: .... On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Monday, 7 April 2008 9:25 PM
Subject: [clug] Local 2020 Summit

Just received this and thought I would pass it on.
From the ACS Canberra Branch News Letter.

Let hope something comes from it.

CANBERRA BRANCH NEWS
 
Local 2020 Summit - Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital
Knowledge ACT Senator Kate Lundy with ACS Member and Adjunct Senior
Lecturer Tom Worthington co-chaired a local 2020 Summit on Thursday 3
April focussing on Open Source Technology. The full day of presentations
and discussions explored the possibilities around open source technology
and developed specific policy initiatives that will be forwarded for
consideration to the 2020 Summit that will be held in two weeks time.
Speakers included Pia Waugh on Open Source as a public resource, Jessica
Coates from QUT on the Creative Commons, Tony Hill from ICOC talking on
IPv6Now and Ann Steward from AGIMO on the trends of Open Source in
Government. 
Ideas from "Foundations of Open" will be collated and conveyed to the
National 2020 Summit. Presentations from the Local Summit are available
online via Tom Worthington's web site http://tomw.net.au/moodle and Kate
Lundy's web site http://www.katelundy.info.
Australia 2020 Summit


cheers,


--
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brent Wood
Sent: Monday, 7 April 2008 5:26 PM
To: Aust-NZ OSGeo
Subject: Re: Fw: [Aust-NZ] Incorporation of Aust-NZ chapter


--- Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:

> IMO:
> 
> 
> Hamish,
> 
> 
> I personally think that the DebianGIS project is one of the key OS 
> Spatial intergration activities going on at the moment and will open 
> up easy access to these apps to many people.


Not to forget those who maintain the OpenSuse GEO repository for RPM's
of
several FOSS GIS apps for SUSE, OpenSuse, Fedora & Mandriva for those of
use
who prefer something other than a Debian based distro :-)

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

Cheers,

   Brent Wood

> 
> For the uninitiated I vaguely recall that around 50% of Linux 
> distributions have been derived from Debian (including Ububtu) and
should 
> be able to use the DebianGIS work. 
>  
> Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good to have you here! 
>
> Bruce

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