<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>Hi Suchith,<br>There's a list of > 2,500 global Open Data portals here:<br>http://opendatainception.io/<br><br>All nicely mapped (but you can get the raw table too).<br><br>With these, I believe the Open refers to the data; the software behind them may or may not be Open Source.<br>You may be able to get a few students to go through them and try and figure out which are using Open Source software and contact them directly.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Jonathan<br><br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:35:11 +0100 <b>Suchith Anand<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk></b> wrote ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><meta> <div> <div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 10.0pt;"> <div> <div> <div> <div><font color="black"><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font> <div style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Tahoma;text-align: center;" align="center"> <br> </div> <div style="" align="center"> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3">Hi Cameron,</font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3">Thanks for this. I have added the two case studies that i am aware of (Warwickshire County Council and Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead) into this page. I request that wider community help with this and add more. </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For example , there are many SMEs in the UK (Aston, Dotted Eyes, Lutra, Envitia, ThinkWhere, SCISYS etc etc). I am sure there are all working on many government and local authority projects, so if all of them can help put the examples of their projects summaries, it will help everyone. It will be promotion of the SMEs as well as help show the examples that other government departments can learn from and also help create best practices. </span></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3">Jo and others have created case studies at </font><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/uk/case_studies" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/uk/case_studies</a> <font size="3"> but this needs to be expanded rapidly and we need the community and SMEs to come forward and share their projects.</font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3">All ideas welcome.</font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> <div style="orphans: 2;widows: 2;"><font size="3">Suchith</font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="3"><br> </font></div> </div> </font></font></span></font><font size="3"><font style="font-family: Tahoma;" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Tahoma , sans-serif;color: black;"></span></font><font style="font-family: Tahoma;" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Tahoma , sans-serif;color: black;"></span></font></font></div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';color: rgb(0,0,0);"> <hr> <div style="font-size: 16.0px;direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> Cameron Shorter [<a subj="" mailid="cameron.shorter%40gmail.com" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>]<br> <b>Sent:</b> 06 July 2016 11:56 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Suchith Anand; <a subj="" mailid="geoforall%40lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>; OSGeo Discussions<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geo4All] National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial - next steps<br> </font><br> </div> <div style="font-size: 16.0px;"></div> <div style="font-size: 16.0px;"><br> <div>On 5/07/2016 11:23 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman">1. Start collating casestudies of successful migrations from central and local governments [3] in the UK. We will need colleagues in OSGeo:UK chapter to help with this and link this to the OSGeo:UK website.</font></blockquote> <br> <p>Hi Suchith,</p> <p>People have been collecting OSGeo Case Studies for a while. There is a good collection here:</p> <p><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies</a></p> <p><br> </p> <p><br> </p> <pre>-- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com" target="_blank">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F +61 2 9009 5099</pre> </div> </div> </div> <pre> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 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