[Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

[Randal Hale]

That's been the approach I've been taking with work - what's more
important: your software or your data. Software can play a role and
does....but the open source side of life is exceptionally comparable and in
some cases better. Its just not as flashy. I should toss my
QGIS/Fulcrum/postgis talk up somewhere.

This is exciting. Woot.

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On Apr 30, 2015 8:40 AM, "Newcomb, Doug" <doug_newcomb at fws.gov> wrote:

> 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> 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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>> Randal Hale
>> North River Geographic Systems, Inchttp://www.northrivergeographic.com423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>> twitter:rjhale     http://about.me/rjhalehttp://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis
>>
>> 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> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Randal Hale
>>> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
>>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
>>> 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>>> twitter:rjhale     http://about.me/rjhale
>>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  Doug Newcomb
>> USFWS
>> Raleigh, NC
>> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
>>
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>> The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the
>> official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the
>> Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Doug Newcomb
> USFWS
> Raleigh, NC
> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
>
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> The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the
> official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the
> Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
>
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