[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

[Allan Doyle]

Another good place to introduce OSGeo to NASA is the ESIP Federation,  
where I think a number of OSGeo folks are already active. Their next  
meeting is in July in New Hampshire. http://esipfed.org/events (ignore  
the date typo, the 2007 there should be 2008...)

	Allan


On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ned Horning wrote:

> Greetings -
>
> I'll give the “standard process” for announcing possible OSGeo  
> events suggested by Arnulf a try. If there is interest I'll create a  
> Proposed Event Wiki page.
>
> NASA is holding their bi-annual Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Joint  
> Science Workshop April 28-May 2 in College Park Maryland: http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2008/
>
> This event would be an excellent opportunity to introduce OSGeo to  
> NASA and it's funded researchers. It will be well attended and I  
> think this NASA community is ripe for learning more about OSGeo.  
> This is potentially an important community since NASA is funding  
> researchers that develop software but it's often not developed  
> within open source communities even though there is an increase in  
> the use of open source software. My gut feeling is that the reason  
> for this is that many folks are not familiar with what open source  
> is all about and they are not aware of the great resources out there.
>
> If folks are interested in pursuing this I will do what I can to  
> facilitate OSGeo involvement. I'm not certain if I will be able to  
> attend and even if I do it would be good to have someone involved  
> who is more adept at advocating for OSGeo than me.
>
> All the best,
>
> Ned
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