Fw: [Aust-NZ] Incorporation of Aust-NZ chapter

[Brent Wood]

--- Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:

> IMO:
> 
> 
> Hamish,
> 
> 
> I personally think that the DebianGIS project is one of the key OS Spatial 
> intergration activities going on at the moment and will open up easy 
> access to these apps to many people. 


Not to forget those who maintain the OpenSuse GEO repository for RPM's of
several FOSS GIS apps for SUSE, OpenSuse, Fedora & Mandriva for those of use
who prefer something other than a Debian based distro :-)

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

Cheers,

   Brent Wood

> 
> For the uninitiated I vaguely recall that around 50% of Linux 
> distributions have been derived from Debian (including Ububtu) and should 
> be able to use the DebianGIS work. 
>  
> Welcome aboard OSGeo-AustNZ. Its good to have you here! 
>
> Bruce