<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I am very encouraged to learn more about all the OSGeo software available. </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">From an economic stand point I see the benefits of OSGeo and FOSS4G open source software as both personal and global. OSGeo software contributes to the economic sustainability of research in natural resources and many geoscience fields. </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Randal Hale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com" target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Langdon - welcome to the list! I should track you down one day: I'm in between Athens, Atlanta, and Chattanooga. </p><span class="im HOEnZb">
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 30, 2015 8:57 AM, "Sanders, Langdon M." <<a href="mailto:LMSanders@forsythco.com" target="_blank">LMSanders@forsythco.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Esri scene can make GIS seem cost-prohibitive especially when pitching GIS to organizations that currently outsource their mapping / spatial analysis work.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you for the resources.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Langdon Sanders
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:southeast-us-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">southeast-us-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:southeast-us-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">southeast-us-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Newcomb, Doug<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Randal Hale<br>
<b>Cc:</b> southeast-us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <br>
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BUT - people did like the idea of an organization promoting open source software.
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Next stage is to make an actual banner and do this a bit better. Onward and Forward.
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<pre><a href="tel:423.653.3611" value="+14236533611" target="_blank">423.653.3611</a> <a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com" target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a><u></u><u></u></pre>
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<pre><a href="http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis" target="_blank">http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis</a><u></u><u></u></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<br>
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Right now we're up to 30 members on the list - we seem to be adding about 2 people per day.<br>
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