[Mapserver-west] Open Source GIS

[Dave McIlhagga]

Hi Dean,

Apologies to all for 'lurking' here without properly introducing myself. 
Just to get that over with - I know Tyler well, having given a few 
presentations together representing DM Solutions Group. We've been 
involved in MapServer since the early days when there were only 100 
members of the mailing list, no PHP mapscript, no regular builds for 
Windows, no OGC support ... things have come a long way since then.

I figured I'd keep in touch on this list to see what people are talking 
about and looking for, and adding the odd comment in here and there as 
required.

On that note, we have some material on Open Source for spatial - and in 
particular how/why we got into it as a company at:

http://www.dmsolutions.ca/technology/opensource.html

You can also learn a lot more from a number of perspectives on this 
during the management track that DM has organized at the upcoming 
conference in Minnesota:

http://www.dmsolutions.ca/images/events/BUSspeakers.pdf

and in a panel discussion along the same theme on the final day.


And BTW - on a totally off-topic note -- if any of you are interested in 
our recently launched ka-Map open source MapTools project 
(http://ka-map.maptools.org), Steve Lime is working with Paul Spencer on 
sneaking a presentation on this in at the conference as well.

Dean -- if you could use any other of my more recent presentations on 
open source, why/why-not and business model -- let me know and I'll send 
you something off-list.

Dave
-- 
Dave McIlhagga
President, DM Solutions Group

http://www.dmsolutions.ca
EMail : dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca
Phone : 613-565-5056 x15
Fax : 613-565-0925




Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Dean,
> I have some presentations too, but can't access them until next week.  I also have an article that may be published re: open source software in general, in the next couple weeks.  Then I will build on it to discuss open source GIS in particular.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean C. Mikkelsen" <dm at s-and-a.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 22, 2005 11:18 am
> Subject: RE: [Mapserver-west] Open Source GIS
> 
> 
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>Thanks for the links and the information. There are some good
>>presentations and I think I can easily tie together the business
>>perspective and the advantages.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dean
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Matthew Perry [perrygeo at gmail.com] 
>>Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:31 AM
>>To: mapserver-west at lists.maptools.org; Dean C. Mikkelsen
>>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-west] Open Source GIS
>>
>>
>>Dean,
>>
>>
>>>Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 00:21:47 -0700
>>>From: "Dean C. Mikkelsen" <dcmikkelsen at shaw.ca>
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any material on Open Source GIS that I could 
>>>incorporate into a PowerPoint Presentation that provides an 
>>
>>overview 
>>
>>>of the technology, products, and even the business model?
>>>
>>
>> There were two great presentations at last years conference that 
>>mighthelp out. Go to http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/proceedings.html
>>and look for these topics:
>>
>>Dave McIlhagga - Intro to Open Source GIS
>>Paul Ramsey - A Brief Survey of Open Source GIS Software 
>>
>>The first focuses more on the business model behind open source 
>>and the
>>second  on an inventory of open source GIS projects. Between these 
>>two,you should find something useful.
>>-- 
>>Matt Perry
>>Humboldt State University
>>perrygeo at gmail.com
>>
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