"Who will attend: This meetup is very informal, open to anybody, you don't need to be a GIS professional or anything..."
Ok I fall under the classification "anything" ...eerrr Amateur Mapper?? I'm not using any of the mentioned softwares, but at one point installed and tried on my PC, yet failed and got stuck up in the middle of self-study for the nth time (for lack of necessary prerequisite knowledge in database management and/or programming languages). I'm still very much interested to learn to use one, and I'm trying to decide which direction to go. Looking for guidance from people in the industry, I'll try to sit-in and be inspired, observe to see how it goes. I'll probably volunteer to serve coffee/beer & snacks just to make myself useful :-) Regards, Rally On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com > wrote: > OSGeo is an umbrella organization of many free and open source > geospatial software (i. e. QGIS, GRASS, Mapserver, etc.) [0]. This is > not an elite community and participation is open to everyone. For a > simple analogy I look at it as: > > OSM = open geo data > OSGEO = open geo software > > We are also organizing local chapters (like osm-ph) to help spread the > use of OSGEO software. The group is very young and will take form > depending on how the group wants it to be [1]. I am sharing the > meetup invitation here because in many osgeo local communities, osm is > an important project for them. > > As for your question on the target profile, I actually don't know. I'm > still discovering who in the PH is using osgeo software. I use many > osgeo software (for work and for fun) hopefully this group can become > a venue for users/developers in the PH to share skills. > > [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Rally de Leon <rall...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Maning, > > my stupid questions (sorry for my long absence): > > > > what exactly is OSGEO-PH? Is this some sort of umbrella-org for > > geo-professionals only, or just 'one-geek-level higher' than osmph? from > the > > sound of it, it's not for amateurs (my impression only). > > > > if any casual osmph member/mapper invites himself (crash-in by signing > up in > > the wiki) to a osgeo-ph chapter meeting, what exactly can he expect; > > or will he find himself surrounded by geo-gods talking linux & all etc, > > finding himself out of place, not be able to participate? ;-) > > > > what are the target (particular) profiles of attendees? if you know what > I > > mean (or if I know what I mean)? hehe, sorry for my ignorance. > > > > Rally > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM, maning sambale > > <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Inviting you to the OSGEO-PH Dec 2011 meetup. > >> > >> Details here: > >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines/Chapter_Meeting_2011-12-03 > >> > >> Perhaps one OSMer can present something about OSM-PH? > >> > >> Please confirm or add your name in the wiki if you're coming. Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> cheers, > >> maning > >> ------------------------------------------------------ > >> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > >> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > >> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > >> ------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk-ph mailing list > >> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ >
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