Like Minded Regional Organizations

While OSGeo has no current plans for local chapters, it is desirable for it to establish contact with existing local organizations with a related charter. This page is an effort to collect a list of such organizations with a short English description of their mandate.


 * Brazil: GeoLivre (http://geolivre.org.br) - Community for exchange information about FOSS GIS in portuguese language. In download section, there are many users contributions. The Geolivre Linux is hosted by this community too.
 * Brazil: Geolivre Conference (http://geolivre.org) - Official website of brazilian FOSS GIS conference organization.
 * Germany: FOSSGIS (http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) - Organizing the FOSSGIS 2006 conference.
 * Germany: GRASS Anwender Vereinigung e.V. (http://www.grass-verein.de) - tax-exempt charity for promotion and dissemination of Free GIS
 * Canada: OMSUG (http://www.omsug.ca/) Ottawa MapServer User Group
 * Italy: GFOSS (http://www.gfoss.it) Geographic Free and Open Source Software
 * Minnesota, USA: TCMUG (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/MUGs/tcmug/) Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group
 * Melbourne, Australia: MMUG (http://nomad-labs.dyndns.org/melbmap/published) MapServer User Group of Melbourne
 * the Netherlands: OpenSourceGIS.nl A dutch site about Open Source GIS.