[GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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.
>

I think that OSGeo would be a nice place for any SAR / APRS related discussion 
and software development- considering the tools already hosted there. Maybe 
an article or two in the newsletter will spur some enthusiasm. 

73s

Dylan -- KE6UOP



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Dylan Beaudette
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