Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Setting up debian-gis homepage etc.

[Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>]

Silke Reimer wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I thought about how to bring a debian-gis project to a broader
> audiance and I have two suggestions to make
>
> 1. (which is rather easy to implement) we should announce this
> mailing list to debian-devel-announce, debian-announce and
> debian-devel. Perhaps this has already been done for debian-devel
> (I don't have enough time to read this list) but I didn't read
> anything about it on the other two.
>
> 2. It would be a good idea to set up a homepage where interested
> people could inform theirself about the status of GIS projects in
> debian: A list of packages that is already included, a list of ITP
> for other software. This list should me linked as well. We will
> probably find other topics which should be mentioned as well.
> Debian-med [1] is an example how such a page could look like. 
>
> What do you think?

Silke,

I think a page like the Debian-med page would be good.  In the formative
stages, it might also be helpful to have a nest in a wiki somewhere in
which we can put together notes on things that already exist (package-wise)
and things we would like to add.

Best regards,

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