Hi - In Italian an expression passed from the Romagna dialect to national use after Federico Fellini made his "Amarcord" movie.
Amarcord is the mis-spelling of "*a m'arcord"* , which means "I recall"....in Italy you will term something "amarcord" when somebody is re-proposing things that related to past -and generally perceived as better- times... So, possibly in the combination of a recent FOSS4G-EU in Italy, and in the announcement of an upcoming session by GFOSS.it in the next ASITA conference in Italy (ASITA is the "mother of all GIS conferences" in our country), I fished out from my memories an article I wrote in 2010, in fact during my transition phase from GFOSS.it to something new, which one year later became Attivarti.org. I thought the article may be of interest to OSGEO historians -I know a couple- so I provided an English translation...not easy because of some "word games" in the original version...I did my best *:* http://www.pibinko.org/in-between-the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar-points-of-view-on-freeopen-geographic-information-from-2007-to-2013/ Back in 2010 some of the main actors in the Italian geospatial arena told me this was an interesting note, so I hope some of you will find it interesting today. Personally, it helped me to consider how things have changed compared to a 2010 "baseline", so it was definitely useful. Best regards from Italy! Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org p.s. by the way: 2015 is much better than 2010, at least for the context I can see, so this is not maybe so much of an "amarcord" case ;)
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