Initial Ottawa Local Chapter Meeting 2006-07-20

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Ottawa OSGeo Local Chapter Initial Meeting

Location

DM Solutions' office

Attendees

Dave Sampson
Jeff McKenna
Frank Warmerdam
Peter Brimacombe
Debbie Pagurek
Dave McIlhagga
Shawn Barnes
Yewondwossen Assefa
Zak James
Girma Gebrehana
Mark Sunohara
Robert Roberts
Paul Spencer
Dave Howlett
Christy Nieman
Regie Alam
Richard Alam
Grahame Cole
Pedram Karimi
Mike Adair
Scott Mitchell
Peter Pulsifer
Jean-Francois Doyon
Xiaoyuan Geng

Project Representation

GRASS
MapServer
[http://communitymapbuilder.org/ Mapbuilder]

Discussion

Introductions

  • round table introductions
    • diverse backgrounds, including government, private, academic, NGOs, contractors, general interest
    • background on Ottawa GRASS users group (OGUG) by Dave Sampson
    • background on Ottawa MapServer users group (OMSUG) by Jeff McKenna
    • background on Mapbuilder project by Mike Adair

OSGeo Foundation Background

Frank Warmerdam, the president of