<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hello David,</span></div><div><span>take a look at www.gvsigce.org. gvSIG CE is a community driven Open Source GIS project based on a version of gvSIG OADE bundled with SEXTANTE, GRASS GIS and SAGA. gvSIG CE will be develop with English as the only project language, for a more international community. <br>A technical preview of the upcoming gvSIG Community Edition 1.0 is available for download here:<br>http://gvsigce.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php/download<br>That is a zero-install distribution. Simply unpack it somewhere on your harddisk and start it.<br>To install Grass GIS and SAGA in the technical preview follow this instructions:<br>http://gvsigce.sourceforge.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=14d8af342c35d83db614e800542a61f9</span></div><div><span>Markus, I'll try to update this link </span><a
href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Sextante" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Sextante</a> Developers of Sextante and gvSIG OADE made a great work to make easier the use of Grass GIS and SAGA with Sextante in gvSIG CE.</div><div>Best regards!</div><div>Jose<br></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>--<br>José Antonio Canalejo Alonso<br>gvSIG CE Team <br>www.gvsigce.org</div><div><br><span></span></div><div>>On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:27 AM, David Percy <<a ymailto="mailto:percyd@pdx.edu" href="mailto:percyd@pdx.edu">percyd@pdx.edu</a>>
wrote:<br>> Our local open source gis (PDX-OSGEO) group partners
with a regional<br>> conference (GIS in Action) each year to supply
an open source "track"<br>> in the program. The last two years we've
hosted a "open source GIS<br>> desktop smackdown", which is quite
popular and fun.<br>> The last two years gvSig and Quantum have each
won one year.<br>><br>> gvSig + Sextante pretty much looks like it
will do anything! get the<br>> Oxford Archaeology version...<br>><br>>
Quantum is great, it has tons of plugins, and ties into GRASS. I like<br>>
the interface a lot, and I've used it for teaching for four years.<br><br>>You
can of course also combine<br><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Sextante" target="_blank">>http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Sextante</a><br><br>>cheers<br>>Markus </div> </div></body></html>