Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03

= Meeting info =
 * When: December 3, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM timeandate
 * Where: ESSC, Manila Observatory Building, Ateneo de Manila University Campus, QC. map
 * irc channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo #osgeo-ph

= Agenda =
 * Presentation of OSGeo
 * The OSGeo-Live project
 * Trip report from FOSS4G 2011 Tokyo/Osaka
 * Short presentations about your organization and how you use OSGeo applications.
 * ESSC
 * World Agroforestry Centre - IRRI
 * Openstreetmap Philippines
 * UPLB SESAM
 * UP Diliman & Feati


 * Brainstorming of ideas for the OSGeo-PH local chapter

= Who attended =


 * 1) Maning Sambale - Environmental Science for Social Change
 * 2) Nicolas Bozon (via skype) - OSGeo France
 * 3) Venkatesh Raghavan (via skype) - OSGeo International and Japan
 * 4) Lawrence Ramos - World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF
 * 5) Jessie Linn Ablao - University of the Philippines Diliman - GE Dept.
 * 6) Eugene Alvin Villar - Openstreetmap Philippines
 * 7) Joan Pauline P. Talubo - University of the Philippines Los Baños - School of Environmental Science and Management
 * 8) Rally de Leon - Openstreetmap Philippines

= Notes/Minutes = Rough notes


 * Need more meetings with other GIS practitioners
 * Possible groups we can promote OSGeo:
 * Geodetic Engineering of the Philippines (jessie will initiate contact)
 * Regional Development Councils
 * group will prepare a standard slidedeck as presentation material
 * More training materials needed
 * Close project tie-ups with OSM-PH
 * Need a better understanding on using open source in the business sector (maybe the next meeting can be a presentation on business use cases of OSGeo)
 * Invite more people in meetings before formulating an OSGeo-PH plan and future organizational directions.
 * Use the osgeo-ph mailinglist for answering specific GIS questions. Encourage non-english language.


 * Photos/flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/tags/osgeoph/