[postgis-users] [OT] Digital Freedom Expo - South Africa

[Paul Ramsey]

The idea that this thread is "off topic" is hilarious :) It is  
completely on-topic... I wish we had more of them!  http:// 
postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies

I admit to falling behind, I have a couple case studies to do right  
now that I have material for that I have not written, but you can see  
the general expository format... write them up, and they *will* be  
posted for all to see. It is incredibly valuable to the community to  
have this information when advocating for an OSS solution.

P

On 17-Apr-07, at 12:05 AM, Guido Lemoine wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Good initiative. But the postgis web site already has some links to  
> use cases.
> We probably need (many) more of those, instead of fragmented info  
> in blogs.
>
> Good point as well wrt certification (Tomas' remark). Mature OSS like
> postgreSQL/postgis and (web)GIS client modules could benefit a lot  
> from
> some official form of accreditation. We ape their software, so we  
> may as well
> ape their certificates :-)
>
> GL
>
>
> Paul Scott wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:41 +0200, Tomas Lanczos wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, here in Slovakia an EDCL (European Driving Computer Licence or
>>> what) exam is required for employees in state administration - it's
>>> scandalous that in fact it is about using of MS products. Is it  
>>> the same
>>> in other European countries?
>>>
>>
>> Thank you both for sharing this information! There are similar  
>> issues in
>> many countries, and the only way that we can change that is to create
>> awareness and use events like the Digital Freedom Expo to educate and
>> work with governments and key roleplayers.
>>
>> I would like to invite anyone on this list to start a blog or  
>> share your
>> thoughts on the site http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za and let everyone
>> know (Larry Lessig and Mark Shuttleworth have already mentioned it in
>> their blogs) what you think. It is very important that free  
>> content and
>> free software are made more mainstream!
>>
>> --Paul
>>
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