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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">The GeoMoose project (</font><a href="http://www.geomoose.org/)"><i><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">http://www.geomoose.org/)</font></u></i></a><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> was initially created by, and for, local governments, expressly for use as an online mapping publication, information and discovery tool. It's since gone on to see use in other business professions besides local government.</font> </p>
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>>> Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:<br> </p>
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Charlie Schweik wrote:<br>> OSGeo colleagues,<br>><br>> A colleague of mine is publishing an article in Government Technology<br>> Magazine. At the end of the article he wants to list some good<br>> resources that local governments might turn to if they were<br>> considering open source. I'd like to build such a list. This doesn't<br>> have to be OS Geo in particular. It could be just on open source in<br>> general.<br>><br>> If anyone has links to good content that would inform local gov<br>> decision-makers, can you send to me? I'll compile and send out what I<br>> learn or perhaps will make a wiki page for us with that content.<br>The obvious starting place is Open Source for America:<br><a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/">http://opensourceforamerica.org/</a> (mostly a Federal focus)<br>for Defense: mil-oss.org<br>the GOSCON conference, which we all know about: gocon.org<br>Oregon State Open Source Lab (and particularly see their sponsor list):<br><a href="http://osuosl.org">http://osuosl.org</a><br>Redhat has a page on State & Local Government use of Linux at<br><a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/state/">http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/state/</a> - with some links to<br>resources and case studies<br><br>Miles Fidelman, Principal<br>Protocol Technologies Group<br><br>--<br>In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br>In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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