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

[Grignon, Alain]

What about something with a focus on sharing... I find this to be something of most interest in the people I talk to. I agree, the Free Software slant doesn't click so much with established geomatics organization, but provide them a means to share their data without the need for duplication and they are all ears.

Just my thoughts. 


Alain Grignon
Landslide GIS Specialist / Spécialiste SIG en glissements de terrains
Geological Survey of Canada / Commission géologique du Canada
601 Booth st. / 601 rue Booth
Ottawa, Ont.
Tel: (613) 947-8773
http://landslides.nrcan.gc.ca/


-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo at gmail.com] 
Sent: August 23, 2006 2:15 AM
To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Cc: discuss at mail.osgeo.org; henning.lorenz at geo.uu.se
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoscience World Congress 2008 - 33rd IGC with deadline soon

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

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