Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Code of Conduct [was: OSGeo-Live adopts the OSGeo Code of Conduct]

2015-06-04 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Cameron, Well done on your research and on guiding this policy through to acceptance! Congratulations to all who participated in the creation of the Code of Conduct. It is something to be proud of! I will be happy to adopt the policy on projects that I'm involved with. Will it be possible to

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live adopts the OSGeo Code of Conduct

2015-06-04 Thread Cameron Shorter
In our OSGeo-Live weekly meeting today, we agreed to adopt the OSGeo Code of Conduct, which is now included in our processes here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Code_of_Conduct This formalises the previously unwritten practice of contributors acting respectfully toward others while w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Margherita, Your points have helped to distill the essense of this excellently and i couldn't agree more "The hidden cost, however, is the missed empowerment of a generation, that will most likely depend upon the software that they have learned to use at school. How would you quantify this e

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Suchith, On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Very good point and here is where we need help (maybe from an Economics > expert). > > There are many studies already done which we can build upon. For example > the Economic impact of open source so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Very good point and here is where we need help (maybe from an Economics expert). There are many studies already done which we can build upon. For example the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sect

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
First of all my big thank you to Doug ,Randal, Jeff,Vaclav,Patrick, Phillip, Johan for all your important inputs. This has provided lot of dimensions to explore for our research paper. Randal - your example was a real eye opener of the long term costs/sustainability issues of properitory softwa

[OSGeo-Discuss] SMART open source geospatial laboratory - They are really smart :)

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Today just by chance i came across the amazing research done by our colleagues in Australia at the the University of Wollongong. This summer, SMART's OSGeo lab took 20 UOW students on a study tour to Jakarta. Selected students gained valuable experience, training and education by wo