Maybe this link will help you: http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010/uploads/intro_FOSS.pdf
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > One of the internship projects at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at Centre > for Geospatial Science aims to look into the links between the various open > source GIS projects in the OSGeo umbrella to help us understand the > connections between the various communities, developers, users etc. We are > aiming to produce an academic paper with the results. Jianhua Shao is the > internship student who will lead this project. Myself, George Kuk, Jeremy > Morley ,Tyler Mitchell will also be involved in this project. > > Title: Study of collaboration networks in Open Source GIS > > Abstract: > > Over the last few years there has been tremendous increase in the growth > and maturity of Open Source geospatial software. The Open Source Geospatial > Foundation (OSGeo) has been instrumental in bringing together the various > open source geospatial communities and help sustain this growth. As part of > this project we aim to look into the linkages between various open source > GIS projects, communities, developers, users etc with the aim to better > understand the open source geospatial ecosystem. We will collect data such > as maillist, svn commits, issue tracker etc for doing the analysis and > building the model. The results of the work will be published as a paper. > > > > We greatly welcoming input and suggestions on the best methods for this > before 5th March. Is there any previous literature or examples of any > studies done before in this area? If so, please let us know. Please contact > Jianhua for any information needed on this. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > > > > > Dr Suchith Anand** > > Centre for Geospatial Science > The Nottingham Geospatial Building > > University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU > Tel: (0)115 82 32750 > > > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Elgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm> > http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ > http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ > > > > Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for > bridging the digital divide > > > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and > may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in > error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not > use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any > attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do > not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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