[OSGeo-UK] Re: UK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1

[Robert Newnham]

Jo
Thanks for your reply to my email earlier today. I would be more than happy
to speak at FOSS4G on behalf of the UK Chapter. What an honour!

As for your points below I will have a closer read later on in the week but
I'm willing to help out as much as I can.

I see your job title has changed. Have you had a promotion?

Rob

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> Hi All,
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> After attending part of Suchith's excellent geoweb workshop last week, I
> thought about a few things that a local chapter could promote, and I would
> like people's thoughts on this.
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> 1: One thing that came out of discussions with a few people there was that
> they want advice on alternatives to various proprietary packages- not
> because they want to move over to open source per se but because they want
> to play around at home, or broaden their skill sets. I think it would be
> handy to provide a forum where people could get impartial non-rabid advice
> on how to achieve particular gis tasks with open source- or at least links
> to good sources of information.
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> 2: Companies considering the move to open source need something more
> substantial in the way of advice. Something that comes up a lot in the
> various discussion lists that I subscribe to is the need for good case
> studies for companies. We could provide links to these, or articles about
> the business case for open source, or write our own.
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> 3: We need a list of places to promote our local chapter. I think a section
> on the wiki would be handy, including all of the mailing lists, discussion
> groups, websites, magazines where we could sensibly post articles, press
> releases, conference notifications etc. I can start this off, but help would
> be valuable.
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> 4: At the meetup in May, the question was asked as to whether the local
> chapter should promote free software or free extensions to proprietary
> software (ie esri extensions). Looking through the mission statement of
> OSGeo, and the guidelines for local chapters- this isn't really what OSGeo
> is for. I also think it might muddy the waters somewhat- confusing free as
> in speech with free as in beer. What do people think?
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> Finally- I am speaking on open source software at the AGI conference in
> September, but will not be attending FOSS4G due to a lack of time and cash.
> I know of one or two people who are going, but we will need someone to
> report on the UK local chapter at that point. Ideally it would be good if we
> could have the chapter officially formed by then, though I'm not sure if
> that's really achievable, but whatever the state of the chapter it would be
> nice if someone could stand up and say a few words on our progress this
> year. If you're interested, let me know...
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> All the best
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> Jo
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