Another open source geospatial initiative ?

[Tyler Mitchell]

Do anyone of you know more about this 52 north entity.  Responding to the 
slashgeo.org posting (below) and osgeo discuss would help clear some air.

I assume Arnulf knows about them?

Tyler

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| 52North: New Open Source Geospatial Initiative                     |
|   from the how-obscure-press-release-can-be dept.                  |
|   posted by Satri on Wednesday October 11, @10:53 (Open Source Comm|
|   http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/1319233     |

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Here's a part of the press release: [0]Ann Hitchcock writes "[...]
52°North is an open initiative that strives to advance the development of
cutting edge open source geospatial software. The initial focii of the
open source technology development are Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Web
Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM). The members anticipate that
other streams of work will open up according to community direction.
[...]" You can read the full press release below. Now, can anyone tell me
if there is a relation between this initiave and the [1]Open Source
Geospatial Foundation?

This story continues at:
    http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/1319233

Discuss this story at:
    http://industry.slashgeo.org/comments.pl?sid=06/10/11/1319233

Links:
    0. mailto:hitchcock at 52north.org
    1. https://www.osgeo.org/