[Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Randal Hale <
rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Perhaps a flyer (or even a business card) with QR codes (OSGeo4W and
OSGeoLive) and some explanation of what open source mean. For example, many
people don't realize that open source is for free not only if you are a
student but also if you leave school (whatever distant this can seem if you
are a freshman). Something simple might be enough; here is one about our
lab just to get an idea what I mean by simple:

http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications/ncgis2015_handout_tangible_landscape.pdf
http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.html#other

Vaclav

> 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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> Randal Hale
> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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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> 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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>> Randal Hale
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>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
>> 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>> twitter:rjhale     http://about.me/rjhale
>> http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis
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