Biggest and Best of 2006

2006-12-13T20:49:25Z in recreation, community, food and drink

Here's my list of some of the biggest and best of the community, blogosphere, and things tangential in the last 12 months, in no particular order, and with no apologies about the open source bias. I've omitted many worthy persons, events, and developments. Feel free to write about them in comments or on your own blog. You may be surprised at how long it takes you to make even deliberately casual, non-definitive, best-of lists.

Comments

1Re: Biggest and Best of 2006

Andy, 2006-12-15T21:00:22Z

Whatever happened with the Mapserver Cheeta thing? Once Autodesk put it's hands into it I dropped my list subsrciptions and haven't followed Mapserver since. Is it safe to come back now or is it still a fiasco? I still can't believe DM Solutions, Steve Lime, or Frank for that matter thought that would be an OK thing to do.

2Re: Biggest and Best of 2006

Sean, 2006-12-15T21:38:15Z

Andy, they agreed to agree that it never happened. Down the memory hole. Things are pretty much back to normal, except that MapServer has lost some momentum. If you miss MapServer, you should jump back in.

3Re: Biggest and Best of 2006

Andy, 2006-12-20T16:41:58Z

I'll look into it. I still follow OGR, GDAL, and PROJ fairly closely along with MITAB and Shapelib but this Mapserver thing really put a bad taste in my mouth for using the Mapserver technology again. I mean they let one of the biggest Open Source opponents come in and directly make a grab for the project if they did that once who is to say they won't do it again then next time a big company comes in waving a lot of money and promises around?

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