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Tuesday, February 3. 2009

Podcast: Three Paths to Open Source Geospatial

Open Source Geospatial Business

Open source is in the news again. This past week the US Dept. of Defence announced Forge.mil, an open source project repository akin to SourceForge. Last month President Obama tapped Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to prepare a document on open source and its potential role in government. But what of open source GIS? How is that corner of geospatial being funded and groomed for growth? We'll look at three paths that have lead to open source growth and their likelihood for success in the coming months and years.



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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Crime at 01:00 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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The New York Times addressed Angel startup funding in these challenging times...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/technology/start-ups/03angel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
#1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2009-02-03 12:45 (Reply)
Can you please put up links to the discussion points in your podcast? I was really interested in reading more about the washington open source contest.
#2 Guido on 2009-02-05 08:36 (Reply)
Guido,

We always do, they are in the Read Show Notes link provided for each podcast. For this podcast they are at: http://www.directionsmag.com/podcast.php?id=3014

Enjoy!

Adena
#2.1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2009-02-05 10:00 (Reply)

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