Hi, On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +1300, Hamish wrote: > > *Subject: Introducing the DebianGis subproject* > > DebianGis is a new sub-project recently launched thanks to the efforts of a > group of Debian developers and users. The goal of DebianGis is to create a > Custom Debian Distribution [1] oriented to serious Geographical Information > Systems (GIS) users and applications [2]. > > Debian already includes several GIS oriented programs and libraries, thus > our first aim is to coordinate development efforts. In addition, at this > stage we wish to collect as much information as possible on users' needs > and suggestions. > > In the future we would broaden the project to include other Earth Observation > software categories in order to create the first all Free Software [3] > distribution dedicated to Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, and Geographical > Information Systems. > > Of course, all people interested are invited to join us. We are currently > using the pkg-grass project site on Alioth [4] to provide a mailing list [5] > and wiki [6]. > > Stay tuned, more novelties would come as soon as possible... > > [1] http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?CustomDebian > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis > [3] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > [4] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-grass/ > [5] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general > [6] http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl This text sound very good to me. Thanks Francesco for your effort to write the initial text! Before we announce this text I would like to ask you whether it is still possible to rename the package site. In my opinion it is somewhat confusing to have project named DebianGIS which is published at alioth under the name pkg-grass. Is it difficult to set up a new page named debian-gis and to point pkg-grass to this site? Or don't you think that this is necessary? Many greetings, Silke -- Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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