Interest Groups

This page documents the current dicsussion and has not yet been approved as official OSGeo policy!

Interest Groups are less formal than Local Chapters and function as coordination and discussion area for like minded people who want to work on common projects with a local focus.

How to start an Interest Group
Interest Groups should first start their own Wiki page, link it from this page and add a member list. After some time when there is a substantial list of interested people they can officially request for a mailing list under the OSGeo domain. (Until then WebCom/board must have worked out how to name them to keep things manageable).

Guidelines

 * Typically an interest group would focus on a region, content or infrastructure.
 * An interest group should not overlap or replicate other existing OSGeo projects if at all possible. Therefore, a thorough search/review of existing projects is necessary and open invitations made through the OSGeo discussion list.
 * The OSGeo does not want to highjack, take over or interfere with any groups that already function well. The focus is on cooperation and collaboration.

Proposed Interest Groups
I'd like to be given the url for starting this Interest group instead of me creating it somewhere, if posible :). For mailing lists/subdomaining/etc 'cat' is ideal, for subfolders use 'Catala'.
 * (add your proposal here)
 * I propose to create a catala language interest group, which could deal with mapping activities in the administrative area where is spoken & official (3 regions in Spain basically). For the future, it could create an autonomus entity which accepts Local Foundations/etc as colaborators of it or be given a 'delegation' from an existing OSGEO.org rules' compliant and colaborator Foundation(s) dealing with catalonian issues in the Spanish State territory.

Funny note: I didn't see this place before and i have requested straight a Local chapter for the iberian penisula.. I have added categories in there.. and even if it's not aproved and cat.osgeo.org, it gives a good look on how to achieve a good division between geography/languages/administrative/ and their subcategories.. If so, use it as a case study/example at least.