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User:Mdgreaney

2008-08-08T13:03:50Z

Wiki-Mdgreaney:

Now a Programme Officer with English Heritage, playing my art in bringing their archives at the National Monuments Record to the masses via the Net.

I discovered open source while looking for a bankrupt-student-friendly solution to learning GIS. I'm currently working on a website on the archaeology of Liverpool, sort of my tuppence worth to help celebrate its 800 year anniversary. It's built exclusively using free software, e.g. MapServer, BlueFish, QGIS. See historic-liverpool.co.uk[http://www.historic-liverpool.co.uk]

User:Mdgreaney

2007-05-08T16:46:56Z

Wiki-Mdgreaney:

Currently a research assistant at Oxford Archaeology.

I discovered open source while looking for a bankrupt-student-friendly solution to learning GIS. I'm currently working on a website on the archaeology of Liverpool, sort of my tuppence worth to help celebrate its 800 year anniversary. It's built exclusively using free software, e.g. MapServer, BlueFish, QGIS.

United Kingdom

2007-04-19T08:59:19Z

Wiki-Mdgreaney: /* People */

== Mission ==

'''The mission of the UK Chapter broadly follows the general [[OSGeo Mission]], with emphasis o n the following areas: (please add and edit as you see fit):'''

* To provide a forum for discussion and promotion of Open Source Geospatial Software in the UK
* To help more UK organisations discover the opportunity of open source geospatial tools
* To support the development of a fully featured [[UK SDI]]
* To provide a starting point for people from the UK who are new to the Open Source Geospatial movement
* To raise awareness of the benefits of public access to geodata in the UK
* To work with OGC members in the UK to promote the implementation and development of open standards for geodata exchange
* To, maybe, one day, act as focal point for a UK-hosted and organised FOSS4G conference

== Mailing List ==

Discussion list:

* http://lists.openarchaeology.net/mailman/listinfo/osgeo-uk

== Meetings and Events ==

One really useful role of a UK OSGeo chapter would be as a focal point for organising meetings - evening presentation sessions or short seminars with Q and A afterwards.

=== Upcoming Events ===

'''17th March 2007''':
An [[Public Geospatial Data Project|Open Geodata]] session at a one-day event on Open Data covering geodata, civic information and scientific data, organised by the [http://okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation]; See the description at [http://blog.okfn.org/2006/12/14/open-knowledge-10-london-saturday-17th-march-2007/ OKFN - Open Knowledge 1.0] and contact [[User:JoWalsh|Jo]] if you have questions or demos you would like to present.

=== Recent Events ===

'''8th-10th December 2006''':
The UK-originated [http://openguides.org/ OpenGuides] Open Source spatial wiki project is having a pub meetup and "hackfest" in Oxford - http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordMeetup2006
: There will be a few OpenStreetMap people at this event too (there's a fair degree of overlap). Crash space is available, and nice pubs will be visited!

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Tuesday September, 26th 2006''': Steve Coast of OpenStreetmap fame gave a talk to the BCS entitled Geospatial Open Source Activity. Details at [http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#3 http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#3]

[http://openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetmap] also have regular UK mapping parties in different cities

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'''Don't forget to sign the Inspire petition -and tell your friends too - you don't have to use geo-data to believe that publically funded work should be public property! http://petition.publicgeodata.org/
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== People ==

Sign up here to show interest!

* [[User:Chrisputtick]]- Yes, definitely worth doing
* [[User:JoCook]] - woohoo!
* [[User:Leifuss]]
* [[User:Stuarteve]] - +1
* [[User:JoWalsh]]
* [[User:andyt]]
* [[User:Davidjlock]]
* [[User:Simon]] - Excellent! All for this!!
* [[User:Graeme]]
* [[User:SteveW]]
* [[User::andrewlarcombe]]
* [[User:Gagravarr]] - involved in OpenGuides and OpenStreetMap in the UK
* [[User:Mdgreaney]]

== See Also ==

[[Useful Links UK]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

Archaeology

2007-04-19T08:54:34Z

Wiki-Mdgreaney: /* Sign up here! */

A special interest group for archaeology would help develop both archaeology's use of open source GIS and develop archaeology's use of GIS. The latter would be helped by using open source tools that could be adapted to deal with the special requirements of archaeology GIS, in stark contrast to the proprietary tools commonly used.

===Interesting links===
* http://www.iosa.it
** http://list.iosa.it International Mailing List
* http://www.arc-team.com Creators of the first GNU/Linux distribution for archaeology
* http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/asiaa
* http://www.bajr.org/bajrresources/Software.asp
* http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk
* http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
* http://www.maparch.com

===Archaeology-Focussed GIS Blogs===
* http://www.gisarch.com/
** http://www.gisarch.com/2006/06/08/mapbender-wms-yucatan-penninsula-mayan-archaeology-sites/ Interesting blog article about the Yucatan Penninsula
* http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/
* http://www.pastthinking.com/
* http://archaeogeek.wordpress.com/
* http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/wordpress/

===Open Source Persuaders===
* http://digifreedom.net/

===Groups===
[[Mapping The Past]] - (OSGeo Arch. Sig) Theory Group discussing the practice of mapping history

===Sign up here!===
* [[user:chrisputtick]]
* [[User:Steko|Steko]]
* [[user:Leifuss]]
* [[user:JoCook]]
* [[user:Davidjlock]]
* [[user:Stuarteve]]
* [[user:mharris]]
* [[user:SteveW]]
* [[user::andrewlarcombe]]
* [[user::vera]]
* [[user:ThGonon]]
* [[user:Mdgreaney]]

User:Mdgreaney

2007-04-19T08:53:27Z

Wiki-Mdgreaney:

Currently a research assistant at Oxford Archaeology.

I discovered open source while looking for a bankrupt-student-friendly solution to learning GIS. I'm currently working on a Mapserver based website on the archaeology of Liverpool, sort of my tuppence worth to help celebrate its 800 year anniversary.