[Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

Thu Apr 30 05:57:53 PDT 2015

Hello Everyone,

I am soaking up the information from this user list. I have an interest in FOSS but I did not know about the live-cd.
The Esri scene can make GIS seem cost-prohibitive especially when pitching GIS to organizations that currently outsource their mapping / spatial analysis work.

Thank you for the resources.

Langdon Sanders | M.P.A., GIS Analyst
FORSYTHCOUNTY Geographic Information Services
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From: southeast-us-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:southeast-us-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Newcomb, Doug
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:40 AM
To: Randal Hale
Cc: southeast-us
Subject: Re: [Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

At our last regional training, I had a grad student seek me out.  She had been working with the educational versions of the ESRI software on her laptop.  She had graduated and the educational licensing was expiring.  She told me that it was going to cost her about $16k to buy the same software ( plus the annual maintenance) that she currently had loaded at the educational discount. She was very eager to see what open source software could provide the same functionality. Over lunch I helped her install OSGeo4W adn showed her some of the functionality.

The flexibility of use ( cross platform ), ability to scale,  and ability to fix problems that crop up are more important in my mind, but showing the economic benefits wouldn't hurt. It makes them, as a future employee, more marketable to be able to do things more than one way.

Doug

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com<mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>> wrote:
Yeah - this whole thing was very last minute and not polished - but it was interesting. I'm not sure exactly what to do to reach out to students - The DVD's were more along the lines of "What are those things?". Plus - most colleges get a free ride of the other software - most have no clue Open Source exists.

BUT - people did like the idea of an organization promoting open source software.

Next stage is to make an actual banner and do this a bit better. Onward and Forward.

Randy

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On 04/29/2015 08:05 AM, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
Randy,
Thanks for taking the time to attend and do outreach !  I wonder if, in addition to OSGEO Live DVDs, CD/DVDs with standalone Windows versions of QGIS, GRASS, Postgresql/postgis, etc.  and/or the OSGeo4W installer might be a good idea . ( Much as Windows is not my preferred platform :-)).

Doug

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com<mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>> wrote:
So I made the Georgia URISA Student day. The banner for SE OSGEO - well - ended up being just a me at a table. The tables were less than optimal for much of anything. I did hand out some OSGEO 8.5 Live DVD's....to which most of the students went "DVD's what are those?". I was able to sign up 3 or 4 students on the list and make a good effort at explaining why we needed an OSGEO group to students who only know one brand of software -  not that's there's anything wrong with that - but it could be better.

Right now we're up to 30 members on the list - we seem to be adding about 2 people per day.

Onward and Forward,
Randy

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