[Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

[Randal Hale]

Yeah - this whole thing was very last minute and not polished - but it 
was interesting. I'm not sure exactly what to do to reach out to 
students - The DVD's were more along the lines of "What are those 
things?". Plus - most colleges get a free ride of the other software - 
most have no clue Open Source exists.

BUT - people did like the idea of an organization promoting open source 
software.

Next stage is to make an actual banner and do this a bit better. Onward 
and Forward.

Randy

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On 04/29/2015 08:05 AM, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
> Randy,
> Thanks for taking the time to attend and do outreach !  I wonder if, 
> in addition to OSGEO Live DVDs, CD/DVDs with standalone Windows 
> versions of QGIS, GRASS, Postgresql/postgis, etc.  and/or the OSGeo4W 
> installer might be a good idea . ( Much as Windows is not my preferred 
> platform :-)).
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Randal Hale 
> <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com 
> <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>> wrote:
>
>     So I made the Georgia URISA Student day. The banner for SE OSGEO -
>     well - ended up being just a me at a table. The tables were less
>     than optimal for much of anything. I did hand out some OSGEO 8.5
>     Live DVD's....to which most of the students went "DVD's what are
>     those?". I was able to sign up 3 or 4 students on the list and
>     make a good effort at explaining why we needed an OSGEO group to
>     students who only know one brand of software -  not that's there's
>     anything wrong with that - but it could be better.
>
>     Right now we're up to 30 members on the list - we seem to be
>     adding about 2 people per day.
>
>     Onward and Forward,
>     Randy
>
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