Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-29 Thread Suchith Anand
ry2...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 6:49 AM To: Suchith Anand Cc: ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; mso...@aag.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations The developing world includin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
The developing world including India battles a scourge 'P I R A C Y'. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/it-services/Nehru-Place-A-beehive-for-software-piracy/articleshow/11349126.cms Unless this affliction to society is cured, Open Source Software will have very slow growth. While I teach Ope

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-28 Thread Randal Hale
If a bootable USB version could be developed for schools/kids with suggestions of "buy this USB drive" and here's how you load everything - that would help in a lot of cases. BUT * I underestimate the kids abilities - some are very sharp - some look for the anykey. * In general many of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] > > Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is > quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has > been to replace everything with QGIS - GIS i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Roche
(Note extended "quote tail" omitted from this post--remember, folks, we have archives![1]) Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] > Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly > going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 9:17 PM To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org Cc: mso...@aag.org; Leah Keith-leah Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations I'm probably not cleared for every list I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-26 Thread Randal Hale
I'm probably not cleared for every list I've got on CC. So part of the Story that Dr. Anand has mentioned was dealing with a small public school in Tennessee. I looked at GeoForAll and apparently there are 97 labs - most of the labs appear to be university settings. Is there any plan or wish t

[OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-25 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, It was just by coincidence while i was working on getting data for a research paper on "How to quantify the economic impact of Open Source Geospatial software " that i came across Randal Hale's email's on the difficulties faced by one high school in the USA for Proprietary softwa