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

[Paul Ramsey]

http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Rafal Wawer
<Rafal.Wawer at sadl.kuleuven.be> 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?
>
> Best regards:
> Raf
>
> Dr. Rafal Wawer
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org>
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit
> offtopic?)
>
>
> I have started a small article:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History
>
> Feel free to expand.
>
> Markus
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some interesting details about the OpenGIS birth can be found also in
>> Gardel's OGC history:
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong
>>
>> Giovanni
>>
>> 2008/8/21 Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>:
>>>
>>> Norman Vine wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>
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