OpenGeoSys Community Meeting 2012 Invitation

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OpenGeoSys Community Meeting 2012 Invitation

    Dear Ladies and Gentleman,

    it is our pleasure to invite you to the OGS community meeting 2012 in Leipzig. The workshop will be held on **11.10.2012**
    at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ on the Science Campus. More information concerning the venue will be provided later on.

    Please send an e-mail to ees@ufz.de until **03.09.2012**
    if you to participate the OGS community meeting. If you want to give a talk please provide us the title and a short abstract.

    We are looking forward seeing you in Leipzig in October

    With best regards

    Olaf Kolditz

    On behalf of the OGS board
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Hi there,

you are probably aware of the fact that we plan to make the next version of OpenGeoSys, i.e. ogs6, available as an open source project under BSD-Lisence. I assume that this is also one of the things that might be discussed on the next OGS Community Meeting in october.

I recently discovered a journal paper about software licensing for scientific/academic programmes and would like to recommend it to everyone to better understand why we actually want to go open-source and what it means that we chose BSD License.

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002598
(there is also a link to a pdf on this page)

The article compares open- and closed source lisences, explains many concepts such as "copyleft", "permissive software", etc. and explains why an open-source license doesn't preclude commercial use of a software.

The article also makes a strong argument for open-source licensing of academic software and gives a number of very good reasons for that.

Take care,
Karsten

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Dr. Karsten Rink
Department of Environmental Informatics
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49(0)-341-235-1067
e-mail: karsten.rink@ufz.de