Re: [DebianGIS] Open Source Geospatial Foundation and Debian GIS?
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:16:00PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> > So, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is being organized. Check
> > <URL:http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/06/02/06/213205.shtml> for
> > info on that topic. Should the Debian GIS subproject join forces with
> > them?
>
> Petter,
>
> There was some discussion at the Chicago meeting of the
> need to provide "ready to use" binaries to folks on different
> platforms, and I did suggest that OSGeo should try and
> cooperate with efforts such as the DebianGIS group, as well
> as other similar efforts for other packaging systems (ie. RPM,
> Fink, RPM, various win32).
>
> One possibility would be for DebianGIS to become a
> foundation project. But at the least I would like some
> sort of formal liaison between the us such that the appropriate
> OSGeo projects would appear in DebianGIS. That would
> mean pointers to DebianGIS on the foundation web site,
> and raising the profile of DebianGIS with some of the
> upstream maintainers.
>
... and in practice? But for a common 'letter of intents' and reciprocal
web linking I mean.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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