[OSGeo-Discuss] NASA meeting end of April

[Ned Horning]

Greetings -

I'll give the “standard process” for announcing possible OSGeo events 
suggested by Arnulf a try. If there is interest I'll create a Proposed 
Event Wiki page.

NASA is holding their bi-annual Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Joint Science 
Workshop April 28-May 2 in College Park Maryland: 
http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2008/

This event would be an excellent opportunity to introduce OSGeo to NASA 
and it's funded researchers. It will be well attended and I think this 
NASA community is ripe for learning more about OSGeo. This is 
potentially an important community since NASA is funding researchers 
that develop software but it's often not developed within open source 
communities even though there is an increase in the use of open source 
software. My gut feeling is that the reason for this is that many folks 
are not familiar with what open source is all about and they are not 
aware of the great resources out there.

If folks are interested in pursuing this I will do what I can to 
facilitate OSGeo involvement. I'm not certain if I will be able to 
attend and even if I do it would be good to have someone involved who is 
more adept at advocating for OSGeo than me.

All the best,

Ned