<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>I think this is an admirable goal. Even if OSGeo members simply worked
<br>on publishing and/or cataloging publicly available data that they used<br>in their own work, this would be a start.</blockquote><div>Note your support on the wiki!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>You have outlined some great ideas, and indicated that a lot of the<br>resources we need to accomplish some of these tasks are already<br>available. I know I would be personally interested in:
<br><br>[1] Resolving questions about geo-data licensing.<br>[2] Advocating and coordinating the release of public geospatial data.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Again, use the wiki to put all the thoughts and support/opposition to these ideas. Collating this stuff through email is way too scattered, I know it's easier to just hit reply, but this is a case where I hope we can put the extra small effort to try to get this stuff all in one place.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>I think I might be able to coordinate some of this activity with my<br>efforts to get a California chapter of the OSGeo up and running. Members
<br>interested in the Chapter could use the website you set up to catalog<br>sources of geospatial data in California. I'd also like to get some<br>geo-data licensing issues resolved and put together a letter to the<br>
Southwestern Region of the United States Forest Service about releasing<br>their data in a format that is a little more open than ESRI's Personal<br>Geodatabase.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Use of Local Chapters sounds like a great thing to add to the lists on the wiki!
<br> <br><br>I really would like to see the wiki page I set up as a brainstorming board. Please, everyone, throw up any and all ideas (they don't have to be good, they can be pipe dreams, whatever. Once we have a good list (especially in the "Purpose" section) then we can start winnowing things down and isolate the themes that run through the lists.
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