Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:19:50 -0500 From: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@uwm.edu> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: FreeGIS Website started --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Linux Weekly News Editor, it is a pleasure to inform you that our new free software company has started a FreeGIS website to promote free GIS software and data. Our annoucements to the gis newsgroup and a german GIS mailinglist are=20 attached. As Intevation GmbH, based in Germany we started out this month and are still in the startup-process. We hope to offer consulting for free software issues and more. (Make whatever news you think is valuable to your readers out of this.) Kind Regards, Bernhard Ps.: I let opportunity to talk to you slip at ALS because your booth=20 was relativley busy, when I dropped by a couple of times.=20 You do a great job! --=20 Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard) Free Software Projects and Consulting (intevation.de) =20 Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=yy Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46rom jwagner@usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE Wed Oct 27 18:10:03 1999 Path: uwm.edu!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!newsfeed.tli.de!fu-berlin.de!= news.uni-paderborn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!not-= for-mail From: jwagner@usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis Subject: Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data Date: 27 Oct 1999 08:07:43 GMT Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Test Message-ID: <7v6bsf$lr7$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cheops.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii X-Trace: newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 941011663 22375 131.173.30.45 (27 = Oct 1999 08:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Oct 1999 08:07:43 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Xref: uwm.edu comp.infosystems.gis:65912 Status: RO Content-Length: 887 Lines: 25 Hi, allover the internet we did not find a site dedicated to freedom concerning GIS and geographic data. Loads of software and data can be found that is entitled "free", but usually "gratis" would be the correct term (no source codes, restricted use, restricted distribution etc. is often the truth). So, we have now started a project FreeGIS to fill the gap: http://intevation.de/freegis/freegis.en.html (English) http://intevation.de/freegis/ (German;Deutsch) We invite those of you who like to use, develop and promote free GIS software and free geographic data to send comments, hints and any discussion. That will make the FreeGIS pages most valuable and benefit the community. Jan --=20 Jan-Oliver Wagner http://www.usf.uos.de/~jwagner/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sci. Ass. Inst.of Environmental Systems Res. http://www.usf.uos.de/ --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xx Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46rom breiter@pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE Thu Oct 28 04:43:56 1999 Received: from batch3.csd.uwm.edu (root@batch3.csd.uwm.edu [129.89.169.226]= ) by alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (8.8.4/8.6.8) with ESMTP id EAA04833 for <bernhard@= alpha1.csd.uwm.edu>; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:43:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from uwm.edu (uwm.edu [129.89.7.2]) by batch3.csd.uwm.edu (8.8.4/= 8.6.8) with ESMTP id EAA11505 for <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 = 04:43:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (root@omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osna= brueck.DE [131.173.17.35]) by uwm.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA16961 = for <bernhard@uwm.edu>; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:43:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [131.= 173.30.42]) by omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04667 for <bernhard@uwm.edu>; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:52 +0200 Received: (from breiter@localhost) by pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA21437 for bernhard@uwm.edu; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:52 +0200 (MET D= ST) Received: from omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (root@omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osna= brueck.DE [131.173.17.35]) by pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA21426; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [= 131.173.30.45]) by omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04658; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:50 +0200 Received: (from fkoorman@localhost) by cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA05004; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:49 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:43:49 +0200 From: Frank Koormann <fkoorman@usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> To: ACDGIS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT Subject: Freie GIS-Software und freie Geo-Daten Message-ID: <19991028114349.A4681@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Diso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Status: RO Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 29 Hallo, in einer ausf=FChrlichen Suche im Internet haben wir keine Site gefunden, die sich der Freiheit von GIS und Geo-Daten widmet. Es findet sich eine Menge Software und Daten die als "frei" bezeichnet werden aber doch eher GRATIS sind: Tats=E4chlich sind oft keine Programmquellen verf=FCgbar, es liegen Einschr=E4nkungen bez=FCglich Benutz= ung und Weitergabe vor. Deshalb haben wir das Projekt FreeGIS gestartet, um diese L=FCcke zu f=FCllen: http://intevation.de/freegis/ (Deutsch) http://intevation.de/freegis/freegis.en.html (English) Wir laden alle, die sich f=FCr Anwendung und Entwicklung freier GIS-Software interessieren und die Idee der Freiheit von Geo-Daten unterst=FCtzen wollen, ein, uns weitere Hinweise, Kommentare und Diskussionsbeitr=E4ge zu schicken. Nur durch weitere Anmerkungen kann der= =20 Wert der FreeGIS-Seiten und der Nutzen f=FCr die Gemeinschaft gesteigert werden. Gru=DF, Frank -- Frank Koormann http://www.usf.uos.de/~fkoorm= an Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de Wiss. Mitarbeiter Inst. f. 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