[Foss4g2010] FreeGIS Book [was: foss4g2010 initiatives]

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Lorenzo,
> 
> Could you explain a bit more on 3) ?
> 

Hola Agustin,
the Libro SIG project started a couple of year ago by Victor Olaya. His 
idea was to contribute his contents about geo-analysis and to find some 
other contribution by other professors to complete the contents need to 
do a book of GIS available for everybody under a Creative Commons license.
the home page of the project is:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Libro_SIG
the latest unstable (sorry the geek term) version of the book is:
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/book/es/libro_sig/PDF/Libro_SIG_2009_01_21.pdf

The book progress, that's totally volunteer, is pretty slow and without 
some support it would be impossible to have a version good for print for 
September 2010. The language is Spanish but one chapter has been 
contributed in English.
It's a perfect project to be sponsored because the sponsor logo will 
remain in its pages for long. A similar book distributed with creative 
commons would be very interesting for many actors. Translating it in 
other languages would be the second good thing to sponsor.
some institutions said to be interested but nobody moved any step.

If we want to have the book ready for the conference in both Spanish and 
English we should find a responsive sponsor (or more) soon.

ciao
lorenzo




> Thanks
> Agus
> 
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> There are a couple of initiatives that we would like to support and 
>> present in Barcelona.
>>
>> 1) Climate Change Integration Plugfest
>> This is the OGC initiative that will be presented in Sydney too. OGC 
>> is supposed to support it economically (I guess) but it will be 
>> important to give then enough visibility.
>>
>> 2) the LiveDVD
>> in every foss4g event is a good way to present the complete stack of 
>> our softwares. In Sydney it has been sponsored a bit to make it better 
>> then usual. It would be good to find a little bit of money to update 
>> it and refine it.
>> ex: adding local data, update last version of all OSGeo/fossGis 
>> software, adding educational material...
>>
>> 3) Free GIS book
>> this is very important to me.
>> we have the chance to propose an excellent educational project in his 
>> first stable version. to do this we need some money.
>> we are trying to evaluate what it could be the minimum amount to reach 
>> version 1.
>> who could sponsor this? I would dream that the conference itself could 
>> sponsor it in part.
>>
>> ciao
>> lorenzo
>>
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