<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMO:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for the comment Roald,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I agree.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Lets see where this goes here first.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I submitted the post to the AustNZ list
as I understand that there are a number of people on the list who are new
to OSGeo and Open Source.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I was hoping that we could use the thread
to show how people could become involved in a project.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">...besides, I'd like to know how to
go about getting involved in the DebianGIS project myself (for future reference)
;-).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bruce</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Bruce,<br>
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Maybe you want to take this thread to OSGEO Discuss? You'll probably<br>
reach a bigger audience and increase the chance of finding people that<br>
can assist the DebianGIS team.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Roald<br>
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On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 07:49 +1000, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
> (thread renamed)<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> From observation, the DebianGIS team is trying to get as much done
as<br>
> possible before the new version of Debian is released (?later this<br>
> year?).<br>
> <br>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis<br>
> <br>
> They are working to a tight schedule and from what I can see would<br>
> welcome additional help (Hamish, would you like to comment further<br>
> here).<br>
> <br>
> I understand that QGIS is currently at threat and may/has been removed<br>
> from the development version of Debian.<br>
> <br>
> While I would like to help, I'm not currently in a position to take
on<br>
> any more work. <br>
> <br>
> Is anyone else in a position to help the DebianGIS team?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Hamish, could you please post a message outlining how people could
get<br>
> involved and start helping the DebianGIS team? Are there any priority<br>
> areas that need work?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Bruce Bannerman<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 06:37 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
> > Nice to hear your background Hamish.<br>
> > <br>
> > Extending Bruce's comments:<br>
> > One of our risk items for the FOSS4G2009 conference is having
all <br>
> > computers in the labs configured with an OSGeo stack that can
be <br>
> > demonstrated from.<br>
> > <br>
> > This could be solved if everyone came to the labs with pre-configured
<br>
> > laptops, be they windows or linux based. So having OSGeo packaged
into <br>
> > the Linux distributions would be very helpful.<br>
> > <br>
> > Bruce.Bannerman@dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > IMO:<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Hamish,<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > I personally think that the DebianGIS project is one of
the key OS <br>
> > > Spatial intergration activities going on at the moment and
will open <br>
> > > up easy access to these apps to many people.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > For the uninitiated I vaguely recall that around 50% of
Linux <br>
> > > distributions have been derived from Debian (including Ububtu)
and <br>
> > > should be able to use the DebianGIS work.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good to have you here!<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Bruce<br>
> > ><br>
> <br>
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