[VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon

[Markus Neteler]

On 8/23/06, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> On 22-Aug-06, at 4:17 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote:
>
> > Ari is right in his interpretation, I have co-convened a
> > Topical symposium: Synergy of GIS technology and the Earth
> > Sciences: current state and future prospects,
>
> It sure would be nice to find a 'niche' topic for a symposium that
> isn't simply 'free software', as many may not know they should care
> about GFOSS.  If you can put forward a topic that is more enticing to
> the larger group, I'm sure you could get a greater turnout?

I fully agree, Tyler. It should be data aggregation, analysis,
whatever, done with the OSGeo stack.

Markus