[Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO

[Randal Hale]

Langdon - welcome to the list! I should track you down one day: I'm in
between Athens, Atlanta, and Chattanooga.

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On Apr 30, 2015 8:57 AM, "Sanders, Langdon M." <LMSanders at forsythco.com>
wrote:

>  Hello Everyone,
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> I am soaking up the information from this user list. I have an interest in
> FOSS but I did not know about the live-cd.
>
> The Esri scene can make GIS seem cost-prohibitive especially when pitching
> GIS to organizations that currently outsource their mapping / spatial
> analysis work.
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> Thank you for the resources.
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> *Langdon Sanders *| M.P.A., GIS Analyst
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> *FORSYTH*COUNTY Geographic Information Services
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> 110 E. Main St., Suite 130* |* Cumming, GA 30040
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> o: 770.781.2108  x3156 | f: 678.513.5890 | www.forsythco.com
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> *From:* southeast-us-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> southeast-us-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Newcomb, Doug
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:40 AM
> *To:* Randal Hale
> *Cc:* southeast-us
> *Subject:* Re: [Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO
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> At our last regional training, I had a grad student seek me out.  She had
> been working with the educational versions of the ESRI software on her
> laptop.  She had graduated and the educational licensing was expiring.  She
> told me that it was going to cost her about $16k to buy the same software (
> plus the annual maintenance) that she currently had loaded at the
> educational discount. She was very eager to see what open source software
> could provide the same functionality. Over lunch I helped her install
> OSGeo4W adn showed her some of the functionality.
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> The flexibility of use ( cross platform ), ability to scale,  and ability
> to fix problems that crop up are more important in my mind, but showing the
> economic benefits wouldn't hurt. It makes them, as a future employee, more
> marketable to be able to do things more than one way.
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> Doug
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Randal Hale <
> rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
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>  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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> Randal Hale
>
> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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> http://www.northrivergeographic.com
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> 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
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> twitter:rjhale     http://about.me/rjhale
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> http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis
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>   On 04/29/2015 08:05 AM, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
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>  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 :-)).
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> Doug
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> 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
> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
> 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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> Doug Newcomb
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> USFWS
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> Raleigh, NC
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> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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> The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the
> official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the
> Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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> --
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> Doug Newcomb
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> USFWS
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> Raleigh, NC
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> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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> The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the
> official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the
> Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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