Every day there seem to be more opportunities for FOSS GIS to be deployed in some production context. However it is a real missed opportunity when people come looking for a solution and we never get to hear about it. Two came accross my desk in the last week:

The first was a tender for building a geodatabase for rural water supply in rural Namibia using PostGIS, QGIS and other FOSSGIS tools. Unfortunately I only got the tender call after the closing date, but it seems it would have been a fantastic opportunity.

The second was a call by the South African IT Agency (SITA) for FOSS solution providers to attend a demonstration day to show ministers and decision makers the products that they can support. Once again this would have been a great opportunity to extoll the virtues of QGIS.

Reflecting on these and other missed opportunities makes me think it would be a nice idea to have some kind of website that aggregates opportunities by region….of coulse it would need time and energy from someone to populate it…