[GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

[Sampson, David]

E-GADS looks like nothing happened since 2004, except for one little
commit in 2007...

I wonder if sourceforge would allow a project to just use their mailing
lists.

Or maybe this might fit under the OSGEO banner... Now that I think of
it, why not ask?

I saw the SAR_APRS mailing list and there are a bunch of APRS open
source projects. I ams ure it's just a matter of a need and will to get
APRS connectivity into GRASS/QGIS...

So what first, the chicken (mailing list) or the egg (people for the
mailing list).

Cheers
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 14:18
To: Sampson, David
Cc: russo at bogodyn.org; grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Sampson, David wrote:

> I was thinking of seeing if there is enough interest amongst MANY MANY

> MANY SAR teams that might be able to contribute small amounts each 
> year to continued development of open source SAR stuff. Evrything from

> updating E-Gads (above) to building small scripts in GRASS/QGIS to 
> building custom interfaces or side applications.

There are a bunch of techies hiding in the woodwork here and there, I'm
one of them:  Unix SysAdmin during the day, open-source contributor and
SAR guy at other times.  I'm somewhat familiar with E-Gads and one of my
buddies in SAR is now officially one of the developers I think.


> I'd be interested in a seprate e-mail list for Open Source SAR 
> solutions related to mapping and such if we can get 10 people or more
interested.

There's also the SAR_APRS mailing list if you're interested in real-time
tracking of SAR teams on maps.  I am.  So is Mr. Russo.
If you start a list for the above topic you might post an announcement
about it on there too.

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