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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:19:50 -0500
From: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@uwm.edu>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: FreeGIS Website started


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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!

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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)

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=46rom jwagner@usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE Wed Oct 27 18:10:03 1999
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From: jwagner@usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
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Subject: Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data
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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

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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/



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=46rom breiter@pepi.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE  Thu Oct 28 04:43:56 1999
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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
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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

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Frank Koormann                                http://www.usf.uos.de/~fkoorm=
an

Intevation GmbH                                         http://intevation.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter Inst. f. Umweltsystemforschung        http://www.usf.uos.=
de


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