What is DebianGis ?
DebianGis is about improving Debian to make it the best distribution for Geographical Information Systems applications and users. A good deal of GIS related softwares and libraries (e.g. GRASS, see http://grass.itc.it) are already present in Debian. Thanks to efforts of the DebianGis team, we have currently an up-to-date GRASS package in main and many other packages. Other programs are along their way to be included in the archive.
The coordination of this project happens on pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org. You can subscribe to it by using the form available here. Public archives of the list are at the same place. A list of svn committments and uploads is available at pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org and is generally used by developers for keeping tracks of work done. We started a DebianGis packages repository (also opened to non Debian Developers and sponsorees) and a Subversion (SVN) archive for co-maintainance.
UbuntuGis is a page that collects GIS-related information for the UbuntuLinux distribution. UbuntuGIS is not an actual project for maintaining GIS packages like DebianGis. Similar projects are conducted by a few other groups. See OSGeo Distribution Special Interest Groups for more information.
General contents
Mailing Lists -- the mailing lists used for coordinating the project
IRC -- Use the #debian-gis channel on the OFTC network
Packages List -- list of packages in, or proposed for, Debian (see also: The DebianGis packages thermometer)
The repository and backports -- get the latest DebianGis packages hot off the press or modern packages built for older versions of Debian
Reporting bugs -- how to report bugs about DebianGis packages.
PostGIS updating hints -- how to approach updating postgresql and postgis to newer versions
The DebianGis Manifesto -- first announce of the DebianGis Project
Live images -- Test the GIS tools in Debian using a live boot image
Development
Hot News -- latest news from development team
Web interface to DebianGis package development SVN repository
Developers Information -- information for packagers and developers
Packaging status -- The DebianGis packages thermometer
A todo list -- list of ideas
Grass Project -- the Debian Grass GIS Project on Alioth.
GDAL Packaging -- A few comments about the GDAL packaging
DebianGis Status -- Add news about DebianGis here as drafting for regular annouces to the general world.