Ramblings from NRGS

We have a multitude of side projects. Some pay - Most don’t….but that’s fine. One of the things we started about a year ago was the East Tennessee GIS Website. It started last year (june 2007) as a conference announcement. From there it’s taken on a life of it’s own. A very rocky broken life.

Eventually it was moved from drupal to joomla. We liked drupal better - but at the time I was having to spend an inordinate amount of time coding - Joomla dropped that down to just a little bit.  We finally opened up a login/registration and a forum. It’s been painful getting anyone to use the forum - it was one of those things we would experiment with and see if we can draw people in. In general GIS people don’t talk. I think it is from the industry being so new everyone is afraid they are either going to look like they don’t know what they are doing or are scared they might “give away the farm” so to speak.

Finally the site is pulling together - a year of making stupid mistakes has finally paid off. Hopefully it will be a good resource. Time wise we’ve been chipping away when we don’t have anything else to do. We’ve noticed the hit count starting to go up - so I guess more people are finding the site and actually checking it out.

Welcome to the blog. The online ramblings and ravings of a GIS company. This site - the wordpress site - has been up and down. I used it alot - then used it very little.  The plan now is get the site into something we enjoy posting to…or on. We plan on making this the dynamic side of the company - somewhere we can talk about just about anything be it GIS or not. So Anyway - Sit back and enjoy.