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<p>I am also interested in how we can protect taxpayers money in this. The need for cost savings by using Open source GIS software will help the local authorities and various government departments across Europe in reducing huge licence fee costs for proprietary
software and Government and taxpayers as a whole will benefit from cost efficiencies, reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products. This is especially important for future IT investments (for example Cloud Computing) , so that more options are explored
and choices available. I presented my ideas on the importance of having a National level strategy for Open Principles in Geospatial [1] . Overview slides are at
<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/national-level-strategy-for-open-principles-in-geospatial" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk937505" previewremoved="true">
https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/national-level-strategy-for-open-principles-in-geospatial</a>
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<p>It is my duty as a global citizen to work on this so that all our future generations are empowered fully. Let us plan to meet and discuss ideas at FOSS4G -Europe for making OSGeo European chapter.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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<p>[1] <a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/03/national-level-strategy-for-open-principles-in-geospatial-ideas-and-inputs-needed/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk54245" previewremoved="true">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/03/national-level-strategy-for-open-principles-in-geospatial-ideas-and-inputs-needed/</a>
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From: Discuss <discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of María Arias de Reyna <delawen+osgeo@gmail.com><br>
Sent: 23 March 2017 9:20 AM<br>
To: Luís Moreira de Sousa<br>
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?<br>
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Luís Moreira de Sousa <luis.de.sousa@protonmail.ch<mailto:luis.de.sousa@protonmail.ch>> wrote:<br>
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I believe we need a regulatory framework for "open source" labelling; something like the EU regulation 1169/2011 [2] for organic farming. It not only sets the criteria for farmers to label their products, as it actively prevents others from falsely claiming
to that criteria.<br>
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+1 Restarting the movement for the european chapter to be able to lobby for this...<br>
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