German Language Chapter Report 2009

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as local chapter D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference

 * FOSSGIS 2009 (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, hands-on workshops and speeches
 * Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the German language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
 * Planning FOSSGIS 2010 conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)

Participation and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions

 * LinuxTag (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
 * AGIT
 * Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of OSGeo Park)

Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings

 * OSGeo code sprint Bolsena
 * QGIS developer meetings in Hannover and Vienna
 * Mapbender developer meeting

Launching own Webserver to host the associations own

 * CMS
 * FOSSGIS-Wiki
 * Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference
 * Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)

Improvments of profile and PR

 * New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
 * Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)

Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract)

 * Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
 * Redesgn of FreeGIS-portal - relaunch coming soon in 2010
 * Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services

Members of FOSSGIS e.V./lc D-A-CH

 * Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolute numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships

Outlook 2010

 * FOSSGIS-conference 2010
 * FOSS4G in Barcelona
 * INTERGEO, AGIT
 * Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
 * Increase donations
 * Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)