Taiwan

Taiwan Chapter of OSGeo

Mission
The mission of Taiwan local chapter is to empower Taiwan's geo-spatial information society via:
 * Facilitate the development of open source geo-spatial software
 * Promote open source geo-spatial software
 * Promote collecting and sharing of geo-spatial data in public and private sector

Objectives

 * Legalization of OSGeo Taiwan
 * Geo-spatial data roadmap?
 * Localization?
 * Goverment agencies lobby project

Other possible not yet discussed objectives;
 * Integrating grassroot Geo-Data processing community and Scaling-up
 * Visionizing future global geo-spatial scenario
 * Lobbying and influencing governmental open geo-data initiatives
 * Promotion and outreaching in GIS market and user communities
 * Forming strategic alliance among affiliations

Legal status
Volunteer organization right now, about to turn into a legal Taiwanese organization.

Initial Membership

 * Mr. Dongpo Deng (IIS, Academia Sinica)
 * Mr. Hsiung-Ming "veevee" Liao (Computing Center, Academia Sinica)
 * Mr. Shih-Chieh "Ilya" Li (NDAP, Academia Sinica)
 * Mr. Sander Borghuis (s.borghuis at geo dot uu dot nl, NTU, UU.nl)
 * Dr. Tain-Yuan Shih
 * Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Creative Commons Taiwan Project, IIS, Academia Sinica)
 * Mr. Yi-Hong Chang (IIS, Academia Sinica)
 * Mr. Tsung-Wei "Marr" Hu (OSSF, IIS, Academia Sinica)
 * Dr. Sheng-Tsai Huang (NPUST, Community University)
 * Mr. Kuei-Cheng Chen (Steps Co.,LTD)
 * Mr. Eric Sun (OSSACC)
 * Mr. TzuChiang Liou (IIS, Academia Sinica)
 * Dan Jacobson

Links
http://rt.openfoundry.org/Foundry/Project/?Queue=774, its mailing list.