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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Podcast: Three Paths to Open Source Geospatial

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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