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

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm delighted to see people documenting the OSGeo history. This sort of 
information is regularly embedded in presentations and it will be good 
to have a comprehensive history to reference.

I'm hoping some historian gets inspired to collect the war stories of 
all the different projects, collect the motivations, the trials, what 
worked and what didn't, and how GeoFOSS has grown to what it is today. I 
reckon it would be a very good read. (Well maybe a good read for us 
select geeks interested in this stuff).

Re Mapbuilder:

I'd be more inclined to say Mapbuilder started in December 2003, when 
the code for the current codebase started.

I recently updated the Mapbuilder timeline to include our key milestones 
here:
http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction#StrategicDirection-KeyMilestones


Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 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
>
> Steven,
>
> Is it correct to consider this date as the beginning of the project?
>
> Best regards,


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