[OSGeo Africa] reminder: Survey of FOSS GIS usage in South Africa

[Gavin Fleming]

Thanks for your responses so far. This is a reminder to send your 
response today describing any FOSS GIS work you've done or know about 
(details below). You are welcome to send it to the list as some of you 
have but you can also send it to me off-list at gavin at afrispatial.co.za.

--------[sent last Friday]

Hi fellow FOSS GISers

I'm conducting a snap survey of FOSS GIS in SA - please respond by Mon 3 
Sept! I will use later responses but they won't be guaranteed to make it 
into the proceedings (deadline 5 Sept).

I'll be presenting a paper at the GISSA Ukubuzana in October with the 
following abstract:

    Free and Open Source GIS Software is being used widely across South
    Africa in diverse applications. This presentation will showcase a
    number of projects implemented with FOSS GIS in government, private
    industry, civil society and other sectors. Case studies will be
    drawn from various companies, consultants and service providers.

I'd like to showcase what's being done and if I get a big enough 
response, to compile some stats.

So, please send me some brief information about FOSS GIS work that you 
are or have been involved with or that you feel we should know about.

I'm looking for work done with FOSS GIS in southern Africa by anyone OR 
work done by South Africans anywhere in the world.

Any project counts, from a helpful script to a backend database to a big 
web application to a desktop GIS rollout - anything goes.

Please send roughly the following:

- a brief description
- if web-based and public, a url
- otherwise, send screenshots, publications, etc.
- reasons why you or the client chose to use FOSS GIS
- which FOSS GIS technologies you used

PS: Apologies for the short notice but I was only notified of paper 
acceptance yesterday [last Thurs now].

-- 
regards

Gavin

Gavin Fleming
http://afrispatial.co.za
t: 0218620670
c: 0845965680
f: 0866164820

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