Ireland/Aims-Objectives

Aims and Objectives for the OSGeo Ireland Chapter
Perhaps these can be discussed and reviewed during the Ireland/Symposium2017?


 * Promote use of open source spatial software amongst Irish institutions, businesses, and individuals.
 * Allow a forum to discuss and debate the use of this software
 * Use of the mailing list
 * Meetups and conferences

More specific actions:


 * Raise awareness of the Google Summer of Code programme, and help pair Irish students and mentors for OSGeo software development
 * Assist members in arranging informal meetups at OSGeo events (FOSS4G, FOSS4G-Europe etc.)
 * Provide assistance to businesses in open-sourcing geo-related projects
 * Raising awareness of these libraries to interested organisations providing commercial opportunities relating to open source projects
 * Documenting best practice for licensing and releasing open source software
 * Checking if GDAL and all other OSGeo software is using the incorrect projection parameters for Irish National Grid!
 * See https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/150 and the parameter TOWGS84[482.5,-130.6,564.6,-1.042,-0.214,-0.631,8.15]
 * Should 8.15 be -8.15? See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmert_transformation