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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jo,<br>
I'm not sure what the exact question is here.<br>
<br>
My suggestion is that you approach someone at the Police IT
department, and offer to give a presentation on the robust
geospatial open source alternatives that people are using
elsewhere. Note your level of experience and roles held within
OSGeo, but probably not that you are representing OSGeo. <br>
<br>
The OSGeo Case studies and Live DVD docs might be useful
resources:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html</a><br>
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On 21/10/2012 1:44 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:5acbf16c-79f9-4879-a9de-ca3627609341@email.android.com"
type="cite">Hello!<br>
<br>
Our local police forces are going through a merger, looking to
save money, seem to be struggling with very twentieth-century
looking software, like someone took a paper based system and
reworked it in Visual Basic. <br>
<br>
Anyway, I find their problems really interesting. I'm fantasising
about getting free software + open geodata quickly solving some of
the problems. <br>
<br>
OSGeo tools are obviously at the heart of that. And OSGeo with its
guarantee of standard quality, persistence, should help as a
convincer for what remains of their upper management. A glossy
information pack would help, is there something like that around
that one can send off for? <br>
<br>
My previous employer, EDINA, are big OSGeo users in the way that
fish are big water users - what do you mean, option? - and I could
invite them in to tell reassuring stories about things becoming
more reliable and manageable as they migrated. (They still work
with Cadcorp as well, though) <br>
<br>
Now, I don't know about the ethics of this: OSGeo would also serve
as a flag of convenience for me. It would be "may I come and talk
to you about OSGeo" rather than "may I talk to you as some kind of
private consultant" (which I wouldn't really be doing either. I
mostly just want a good look around). I mean, I would do justice
to it too, I would hope. Would that be all right. <br>
<br>
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