[Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit offtopic?)

[Landon Blake]

I might suggest migrating the content of the OSGeo entry at Wikipedia to
one at Wikinfo.

http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Main_Page

Wikinfo has a less restrictive content policy than Wikipedia. It would
allow us to have the main article on Wikinfo written from a positive
viewpoint, instead of a "neutral" viewpoint.

I know Wikipedia has more exposure, but if we get enough links to a
Wikinfo OSGeo page it would climb in the search engine rankings.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave McIlhagga
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:55 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit
offtopic?)

someone might be interested in getting this historical info into the  
wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a good way for long  
term maintenance and updating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgeo

Dave



On 21-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Steven M. Ottens wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In light of the EndOfLive announcement of Mapbuilder I have done  
> some research on the history of mapbuilder:
>
> 29 september 2001 Mapbuilder-devel mailinglist created
> 28 july 2008 End Of Life announcement
>
> Regards
> Steven
>
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
>> Rafal Wawer wrote:
>>> Thank you Markus,
>>> I will teach FOSS4G upcoming days. The article appeared right on  
>>> time  for me to include it in the references (-;
>>> Hopefully it will develop to cover most of the existing FOSS4G  
>>> projects. A roadmap of FOSS4G projects?
>>
>> Rafal,
>>
>> Recently, I've been writing a small article about FOSS in GIS with  
>> focus on Python applications and researched the history a bit. Here  
>> is a list of dates I've identified:
>>
>> late 70's - begin of Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)
>>
>> late 80's - US Army starts Geographic Resources Analysis Support  
>> System (GRASS)
>>
>> 1998 - GDAL initial revision in CVS
>>
>> 2000 - GDAL gets Python support
>>
>> 2000 - Atlantis Scientific starts OpenEV
>>
>> 2000 - MapServer initial revision in CVS
>>
>> 2001 - OSSIM initial revision in CVS
>>
>> 2002 - Intevation starts Thuban projects
>>
>> 2002 - Quantum GIS initial revision in CVS
>>
>> 2002 - GEOS initial revision in CVS
>>
>> 2002 - MapServer gets Python support
>>
>> 2002 - AVPython for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS
>>
>> 2006 - MapBender gets first bits in CVS
>>
>> Certainly, only a small part of FOSS4G projects are listed.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -- 
>> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
>> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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