[Aust-NZ] DebianGIS (was - Incorporation of Aust-NZ chapter)

[Bruce Bannerman]

(thread renamed)


From observation, the DebianGIS team is trying to get as much done as
possible before the new version of Debian is released (?later this
year?).

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis

They are working to a tight schedule and from what I can see would
welcome additional help (Hamish, would you like to comment further
here).

I understand that QGIS is currently at threat and may/has been removed
from the development version of Debian.

While I would like to help, I'm not currently in a position to take on
any more work. 

Is anyone else in a position to help the DebianGIS team?


Hamish, could you please post a message outlining how people could get
involved and start helping the DebianGIS team? Are there any priority
areas that need work?


Bruce Bannerman




On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 06:37 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > IMO:
> >
> >
> > Hamish,
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good to have you here!
> >
> >
> >
> > Bruce
> >

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