Fw: [Aust-NZ] Incorporation of Aust-NZ chapter

[Cameron Shorter]

Nice to hear your background Hamish.

Extending Bruce's comments:
One of our risk items for the FOSS4G2009 conference is having all 
computers in the labs configured with an OSGeo stack that can be 
demonstrated from.

This could be solved if everyone came to the labs with pre-configured 
laptops, be they windows or linux based. So having OSGeo packaged into 
the Linux distributions would be very helpful.

Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
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> Hamish,
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> I personally think that the DebianGIS project is one of the key OS 
> Spatial intergration activities going on at the moment and will open 
> up easy access to these apps to many people.
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> For the uninitiated I vaguely recall that around 50% of Linux 
> distributions have been derived from Debian (including Ububtu) and 
> should be able to use the DebianGIS work.
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> Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good to have you here!
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> Bruce
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> *Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>*
> Sent by: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
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> 07/04/2008 06:16 AM
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> 	Bruce Bannerman <bruce at bannerman.id.au>
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> 	Aust-NZ OSGeo <Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> > Are you the same Hamish who has been busy packaging OS spatial apps
> > with the Debian GIS project?
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> Hi Bruce,
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> yes, that's me. I help out with DebianGIS a bit (make no mistake-
> Francesco Lovergine does the bulk of the hard work there), but my main
> OSS focus is as a core devel for GRASS GIS. which due to integration
> means that to a much lesser extent I also dabble in QGIS, GDAL, PROJ.4,
> GpsDrive, Gpsd, [general OSGeo], development too. This year I'm helping
> out as a GRASS/OSGeo mentor for Google's Summer of Code.
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> But not to be confused with Hamish Moffatt who is a well known Debian
> devel.
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> In my other life I'm really a contract modeler and oceanographer
> specializing in fjords, but through a quirk of office allocation my lab
> for the last 8 years has been in the Otago University's School of
> Surveying (ie NZs only surveying school) which means I have a lot of
> interaction with "real" geodesy and cartography researchers. Over the
> years I've also been present at a number of the Spatial Information
> Research Center (SIRC) Colloquiums here, which is an annual (mostly)NZ
> clan gathering for geospatial researchers. I've worked on some contracts
> mapping underwater habitats for NZ's Ministry for the Environment and
> Dept of Conservation wrt marine reserves too.
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> .... Circles are small, so I tend to pop up here and there on a number of
> fronts.
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> regards,
> Hamish Bowman
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