On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Yury Ryabov wrote:

 Hi,

 Is it possible to enhance /Application:/Geo with more GIS software? I represent "GIS-LAB" (http://gis-lab.info/index-eng.html) -  informal  non-commercial community of GIS/RS (geoinformation systems/ remote sensing)  specialists. We are trying do convince GIS specialists in Russia to use  open-sourced software and data. The problem is that there is a lack of GIS  and scientific software in such remarkable and useful distros like openSUSE and others,  so it is very difficult to inexperienced user to install programs by  themselves. This situation prevents users to move to the linux (and openSUSE  in particular) from damn Windows.

 I'm asking you to include open-sourced software from the list below into the  /repositories/Application:/Geo. When it will be done, openSUSE will get much  more users which work is in the field of GIS all over the world.

 The list (not by preferences):

  1. GEOS (http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/)   2. SpatiaLite (http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/)   3. gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.org/web/?id=1729&L=2&K=1)   4. uDig (http://udig.refractions.net)   5. GeoServer (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Stable)   6. Kosmo (http://www.opengis.es/)   7. OpenJUMP (http://openjump.org)   8. OSSIM (http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/Downloads.html)   9. JOSM (http://josm.openstreetmap.de/)   10. R (http://www.r-project.org/)

 I have seen some of the programs above in the openSUSE software wish-list  and hoped that they will be added to repositories, but they were not...

 You are doing a grate job in openSUSE project I appreciate it and I really have a lot of fun! But the fun is over when you have to do your work and there is no required program in the repository.

By the way. There is no QGIS in /Application:/Geo for openSUSE 11.3. Is this because of QGIS new release coming soon?

Best regards, Yury Ryabov

Yury, In case you don't know, opensuse is truly a open distribution. Anyone can maintain those packages in their home OBS repo and submit them to Geo from there, and then submit them to factory (if appropriate). In fact, several people from GIS-LAB could work together to support your list in OBS and submit them to Geo directly. If typical Geo users need to keep their tools updated, there's not much purpose them being in the main release, just leave them in Geo.. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org