Following on from last weeks FOSS4G2006 conference in Lausanne, OSGEO the foundation behind the development of open source GIS software is establishing a UK Chapter.
This is great news, as the UK GI community is not a great user of such tools (The OS included it must be said – at least at the moment) and increased awareness of the value of open source tools was one of the main messages to come out of the AGI technical SIG meeting on Open Source earlier this year.
For more details contact Chris Puttick at Oxford Archaeology.