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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"Free public data" would probably be a good thing to add into the mix too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Heck, by the time 2008 rolls around we should have many, many terabytes down at telascience :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>-mpg</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 8/22/2006 11:15 PM<BR><B>To:</B> dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> discuss@mail.osgeo.org; henning.lorenz@geo.uu.se<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On 8/23/06, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell@shaw.ca> wrote:<BR>><BR>> On 22-Aug-06, at 4:17 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote:<BR>><BR>> > Ari is right in his interpretation, I have co-convened a<BR>> > Topical symposium: Synergy of GIS technology and the Earth<BR>> > Sciences: current state and future prospects,<BR>><BR>> It sure would be nice to find a 'niche' topic for a symposium that<BR>> isn't simply 'free software', as many may not know they should care<BR>> about GFOSS. If you can put forward a topic that is more enticing to<BR>> the larger group, I'm sure you could get a greater turnout?<BR><BR>I fully agree, Tyler. It should be data aggregation, analysis,<BR>whatever, done with the OSGeo stack.<BR><BR>Markus<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org<BR>For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org<BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>