Africa Open Source GIS mailing list news

[Gavin Fleming]

Hi all

 

Some of you were on the Africa at mail.osgeo.org list and the rest I've
taken the liberty of adding. The guys at OSGEO decided to create a
standalone project for this community rather than just a mailing list,
hence the slight change in e-mail address. Please make a note of it and
spread the word about this forum.

 

To find out more about the purpose of this list and the Africa OSGEO
project, go to http://africa.osgeo.org <http://africa.osgeo.org/> . To
find out more about osgeo in general, see www.osgeo.org
<http://www.osgeo.org/> . 

 

Recent events: In April Jody Garnett of UDIG and GeoServer visited
Johannesburg and held a workshop. See the archive for news of that. A
few weeks ago it was GIS week. Did any of you participate with an Open
Source GIS emphasis? On that note are any of you involved with or aware
of any GIS education activities using open source GIS? GIS is in the
high school syllabus from this year in South Africa and we need OS GIS
resources that can 'compete' with the proprietary offerings,
particularly for disadvantaged schools and communities. 

 

Please use this list for all your ideas, questions, technical
discussion, etc. regarding OS GIS anywhere in Africa. 

 

Regards

 

Gavin Fleming MSc

Sustainable Development Researcher

Mintek 

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