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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hamish,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I personally think that the DebianGIS
project is one of the key OS Spatial intergration activities going on at
the moment and will open up easy access to these apps to many people. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For the uninitiated I vaguely recall
that around 50% of Linux distributions have been derived from Debian (including
Ububtu) and should be able to use the DebianGIS work. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good
to have you here! </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bruce</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
> Are you the same Hamish who has been busy packaging OS spatial apps<br>
> with the Debian GIS project?<br>
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Hi Bruce,<br>
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yes, that's me. I help out with DebianGIS a bit (make no mistake-<br>
Francesco Lovergine does the bulk of the hard work there), but my main<br>
OSS focus is as a core devel for GRASS GIS. which due to integration<br>
means that to a much lesser extent I also dabble in QGIS, GDAL, PROJ.4,<br>
GpsDrive, Gpsd, [general OSGeo], development too. This year I'm helping<br>
out as a GRASS/OSGeo mentor for Google's Summer of Code.<br>
<br>
But not to be confused with Hamish Moffatt who is a well known Debian<br>
devel.<br>
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<br>
In my other life I'm really a contract modeler and oceanographer<br>
specializing in fjords, but through a quirk of office allocation my lab<br>
for the last 8 years has been in the Otago University's School of<br>
Surveying (ie NZs only surveying school) which means I have a lot of<br>
interaction with "real" geodesy and cartography researchers.
Over the<br>
years I've also been present at a number of the Spatial Information<br>
Research Center (SIRC) Colloquiums here, which is an annual (mostly)NZ<br>
clan gathering for geospatial researchers. I've worked on some contracts<br>
mapping underwater habitats for NZ's Ministry for the Environment and<br>
Dept of Conservation wrt marine reserves too.<br>
<br>
.... Circles are small, so I tend to pop up here and there on a number
of<br>
fronts.<br>
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regards,<br>
Hamish Bowman<br>
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