Rather than choose among these, I am actually going to talk about all of the above in Atibaia two weeks from now. These activities, however, concentrate on the data side, although Paulo's suggestions are only possible if, along with the technology, the legal and cultural hurdles are also tackled. To that end, encouraging the open geospatial players in Latin America to take the lead in licensing/contractual issues would be very important. OSGeo's geodata licensing group offers a space for them to get involved and take the debate/discussion beyond Canado-Euro-American framework.
Atibaia is a nice, quiet town. Look for the Bragança sausages, they are awesome! The weather should be very good right now.
Anyway, thanks for your ideas. Helps me "rightfully" spread the OSGeo ideas. If you have more, please do send them my way, as collectively you know way more than any one person does.
During may there will be the Mapserver user conference in Brasilia, I hope to be there. We shall see the formation of the Brazilian OSGeo Chapter, maybe you could post a short report of your findings in Atibaia, so we can tie things together. I assume there are going to be lots of people from leading universities and gov. agencies. -- Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc Debian GNU/Linux = http://rj.debianbrasil.org = http://www.debian.org http://www.kombato.org - Seja seu próprio guarda-costas
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