Spanish Chapter Report 2008

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Spanish Local Chapter

  • Contact name: Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses

Key Accomplishments

  • the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period
    • Presenting OSGeo-es at Valencia, Spain, Dec. 2008, at Jornadas gvSIG and at La Habana, Cuba, Feb. 2009, at Informatica 2009.
    • Writing most of the "reglamento"
    • Supporting Libro SIG (the Free GIS Book)
    • Supporting the candidature of Barcelona for FOSS4G2010
    • Shared educational materials on GIS with Free Software.

Areas for Improvement

  • any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help
    • our key initiative (Libro SIG, sharing educational materials) would strongly boost with some sponsoring from interested entities as local governaments or institutions.
    • community support to common initiatives is still under-expressed.

Opportunities to Help

  • list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report
  • Free GIS Book -> help in editing materials in Latex, revisioning contents, sponsoring.
  • Shared educational material -> help in editing materials in Latex, revisioning contents, sponsoring.

Outlook for 2009

  • this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)
    • spread visibility all over latin countries
    • present our initiatives in more key events
    • creating committees


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