An excellent potted history of OSS is in Steven Weber's 'The Success of Open Source'
Gavin Are you coming to www.foss4g2008.org? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: 21 August 2008 07:53 AM To: PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Users and Developers mailing list'; 'PostGIS Users Discussion' Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?) Norman Vine wrote: > Mateusz Loskot writes >> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM > >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?) >> >> George Silva wrote: >>> Hello lists, >>> >>> As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web >>> (im sorry if thats a problem). >>> >>> At the moment i am writing my BSc thesis (Geography) focusing the >>> development of a open source software and database for logging and >>> analysing traffic accidents in Uberlândia, MG - Brazil. >>> >>> I am dedicating a chapter in my thesis to explaining Open Source >>> Software, and OSS for GIS. i searched the web for some >> history of OSS in >>> general, but i found too many different sources. So i come to you, >>> developers of GIS OSS, to see if you can give me references >> of where to >>> search for the history and process regarding this theme. >> George, >> >> Here is number of "keywords" related to history of FOSS4G >> and that you may google for and find details: >> >> - Sol Katz >> - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS) >> - GRASS History (http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html) >> - UMP MapServer history > > > Mateusz > > Great credits but don't forgot http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ or perhaps > > http://members.verizon.net/~vze2hc4d/proj4/ :-) > > Thanks Gerry !! Norman, Yes, I've forgot about these two. Thanks for completing. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss