[OSGeo-Board] GISCorps contact

[Michael P. Gerlek]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:45 PM
> To: OSGeo-Board
> Subject: [OSGeo-Board] GISCorps contact
>
> Hey all, just wanted to report on a nice conversation I had with Juna
> Papajorgji, who is one of the leads of GISCorps:
> http://www.giscorps.org/
>
> It sounds like a very cool organization, and though we didn't come up
> with an specific collaborations there's definitely some great
> potential
> to work together.  They have a number of volunteers who want
> to work on
> GIS projects.  They have some nice philosophies, like not having any
> paid staff, and not taking any 'software sponsorships' (which
> in my mind
> are mostly marketing, and getting you stuck on their stuff so
> they can
> 'upsell').  Juna was very excited about what we're up to, and
> if we ever
> pull together some education materials they may have volunteers
> interested in helping out and using them.  Most of their
> volunteers are
> GIS users, and I think most have not been exposed much to
> open source.
> But it fits well with their mission, especially if they are to leave
> behind software to help others do GIS.
>
> If anyone wants her contact info I can give it to you.  And if anyone
> thinks of specific projects that we could partner with them,
> she would
> definitely be interested in hearing more.
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Holmes
> The Open Planning Project
> http://topp.openplans.org
>
>