Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-13 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] Although my University has a large Unix system also and while it runs many debian-based systems, my experience is that it is even more difficult to set up a free GIS environment (the Geoinformatica for example) there - so in fact the Windows solution is not so bad after all. And as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-12 Thread Ari Jolma
Tim Michelsen kirjoitti: Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to discuss this but I just start. We have OSGeo-edu, a working group and a list. The edu-list might be a better place to discuss this, so I include all your message in this and set replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] At my

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Maué
Hi Tim, I am not sure if using open source alternatives for education does necessarily mean that your students learn more than just pressing buttons in the right order. Actually, I guess this is one of the major arguments against open source software: it's the lack of user-friendly interfaces

[OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

2007-05-11 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to discuss this but I just start. At my university open source is little used in eductaion and research. There are only a few single warriors who care about it. We have serveral departments that use GIS programs. Each of them buys normally the