[OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

[Norman Vine]

Mateusz Loskot writes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM

> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)
> 
> George Silva wrote:
> > Hello lists,
> > 
> > As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web 
> > (im sorry if thats a problem).
> > 
> > At the moment i am writing my BSc thesis (Geography) focusing the 
> > development of a open source software and database for logging and 
> > analysing traffic accidents in Uberlândia, MG - Brazil.
> > 
> > I am dedicating a chapter in my thesis to explaining Open Source 
> > Software, and OSS for GIS. i searched the web for some 
> history of OSS in 
> > general, but i found too many different sources. So i come to you, 
> > developers of GIS OSS, to see if you can give me references 
> of where to 
> > search for the history and process regarding this theme.
> 
> George,
> 
> Here is number of "keywords" related to history of FOSS4G
> and that you may google for and find details:
> 
> - Sol Katz
> - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)
> - GRASS History (http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html)
> - UMP MapServer history


Mateusz

Great credits but don't forgot http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ or perhaps 

http://members.verizon.net/~vze2hc4d/proj4/ :-)

Thanks Gerry !!