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Geoservices REST API

2013-05-09T12:48:57Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard. It is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion before the end of May 2013.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''

* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
* [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Prinicipal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
* [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]
* [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]
* Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]
* [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
* [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
* [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.
* [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.
* [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
* Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
* [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
* [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Italy
* [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
* [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.
* [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
* [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
* [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member
* [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
* [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.
* [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]
* [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]
* [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
* [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com| GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter]
* [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed "GeoServices REST API" does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.
# Given backwards compatibility with the ESRI Restful implementation is mandated, this is not an Open Standard, and should not be ratified as if it was.

== Political Concerns ==

* Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.
* It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?

== Commercial Concerns ==

* Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.
* Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.
* Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.
* Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.

== Technical Concerns ==

* The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.
* The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.
* At least as far as "imagery" is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):
** data model:
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.
** service model:
*** The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.
*** Functionality in the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.
*** It has been said that the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" can be seen as a "wrapper around OGC W*S" services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.
** In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. Therefore, Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard, needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.

== Methodological Concerns ==

* No public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.
* The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.
* OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.
* ESRI/OGC have specifically [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011659.html rejected requests] to openly share their justifications document being selectively sent to OGC voters.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on ArcGIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-09T12:48:30Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard. It is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion before the end of May 2013.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''

* [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
* [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Prinicipal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]
* [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]
* [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]
* Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]
* [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
* [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
* [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.
* [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.
* [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
* Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
* [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
* [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Italy
* [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
* [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.
* [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
* [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
* [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
* [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member
* [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
* [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.
* [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]
* [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]
* [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
* [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com| GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter]
* [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed "GeoServices REST API" does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.
# Given backwards compatibility with the ESRI Restful implementation is mandated, this is not an Open Standard, and should not be ratified as if it was.

== Political Concerns ==

* Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.
* It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?

== Commercial Concerns ==

* Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.
* Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.
* Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.
* Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.

== Technical Concerns ==

* The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.
* The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.
* At least as far as "imagery" is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):
** data model:
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.
** service model:
*** The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.
*** Functionality in the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.
*** It has been said that the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" can be seen as a "wrapper around OGC W*S" services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.
** In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. Therefore, Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard, needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.

== Methodological Concerns ==

* No public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.
* The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.
* OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.
* ESRI/OGC have specifically [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011659.html rejected requests] to openly share their justifications document being selectively sent to OGC voters.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on ArcGIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Live GIS History

2012-10-11T00:51:26Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

Where has the LiveDVD been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event, City, Country
* link to event webside
* Was OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many were handed out? Were USBs or DVDs handed out? How many were handed out?
* Was the OSGeo-Live lightening overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* Was OSGeo-Live used for workshops? What did the workshop cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?'
* Contact: person involved from the conference

== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ==
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ==
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Making use of OSGeo-Live DVD (please explain how)
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin

== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ==
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ==
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

==25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ==
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation planned to be given
* Contact: K S Rajan

== October 2012, LatinOSGIS ==
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* Lightening presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

==17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ==
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ==
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ==
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightening presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ==
* Hannover Germany
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* Lightening presentation
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: Astrid Emde

== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ==
* Seoul, Korea
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo booth will be opened
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ==
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== October 2012, GISSA conference ==
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* OSGeo 6.0 DVDs to be handed out. Estimate a few hundred.
* Lightning overview will also be presented.
* It will also be used in various workshops.
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== September 2012, Geocamp ==
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ==
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ==
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightening presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ==
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ==
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightening overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ==
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ==
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

== July 2012, AGIT ==
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

==June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ==
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ==
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ==
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ==
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ==
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ==
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ==
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ==
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ==
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ==
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

== April 2012, AGILE 2012==
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ==
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ==
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ==
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ==
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ==
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightening overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

== February 2012, AAG 2012 ==
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

== February 2012, GIS courses ==
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ==
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== December 2012, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ==
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ==
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ==
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ==
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ==
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ==
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ==
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ==
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ==
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightening presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

== May 2011, CGS 2011 ==
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

== April 2011, GITA 2011 ==
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

== April 2011, AAG 2011 ==
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ==
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== November 2010, GeoData Camp ==
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightening presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ==
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ==
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference==
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightening talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ==
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ==
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ==
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

==September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]==
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Board Press Release New President 2012

2012-08-21T13:06:47Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* OSGeo Board Names Frank Warmerdam as President */

=OSGeo Board Names Frank Warmerdam as President=

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Board of Directors is excited to announce that Frank Warmerdam has been elected as the new President of OSGeo. Frank brings many years of geospatial experience and has been involved in the OSGeo foundation since its inception. He is known for his work with the GDAL/OGR translation library, which has become the backbone of the spatial industry. Frank possesses a rare combination of technical expertise and leadership that continues to benefit the organization.

The President is the public face of OSGeo. {Quote from Frank about his goals as President}

'''About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation'''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

[[Category:Board]]

OSGeo Advocate

2012-07-07T15:13:45Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mark Lucas */

__FORCETOC__

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}
{{User:jive}}
== Europe ==

{{User:Arnulf Christl}}
{{User:Astrid_Emde}}


{{User:Ticheler}}


{{User:Jsanz}}
{{User:Vehrka}}
{{User:Lluís}}


{{User:Sanand}}
{{User:JoCook}}
{{User:Ianturton}}


{{User:Kalxas}}
{{User:ArArgyridis}}
{{User:kotzino}}


{{User:Aghisla}}
{{User:Aaime}}
{{User:Madi}}


{{User:volaya}}
{{User:grizonnetm}}
{{User:JRM}}


{{User:Vasile}}


{{User:KarelCharvat}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Dmorissette}}

== United States ==

{{User:pmbatty}}

===Brian M Hamlin===
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
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Location: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley, CA USA]

''"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."''

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the '''5th International Symposium on Digital Earth''' in 2007. [http://isde5.pbworks.com link] As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international conference a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis Gaia]

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* Member, [[California| California OSGeo Chapter]]
:* Member, [[Marketing Committee]]
:* Developer Diplomat for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
:* Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
:* Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
:* [http://blog.light42.com Geo Web Log]

;Contact:
: Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
: IRC: darkblue_b dbb

;Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

=== Mark Lucas ===

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Mark Lucas]]

;Job Title:Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

;Location:Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

Write a sentence or two introduction to yourself, written in third person. I.e., "Joe Blow is a ..." rather than "I have done ...". This text should be written in the style used by conference programs. (Recommend approx 50 words. Max 70 words).

Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996.

[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mark_Lucas more information on Mark Lucas]

:
;OSGeo Experience -
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:* Current member of Board of Directors
:* Founding member of Board of Directors
:* OSGeo Charter Member
:* OSGeo Incubation committee
:* OSGeo Advocate
:* OSSIM Program Steering committee
:* OSGeo Advocate

;OSGeo experience:* Original founder of the OSSIM remote sensing project, on the original organizing committee for the OSGeo, a founding member and board member. Recently returned to serve on the current Board of Directors

;Contact:
Email: mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone (work): 321 266 1475 (USA)

;Spoken Language(s): English, Spanish

;Profile last updated: 07 JULY 2012

{{User:Rburhum}}
{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

== Latin America ==

{{User:Aborrell}}


{{User:Maurimiranda}}


{{User:Perriger}}

== Asia ==

{{User:Sanghee}}


{{User:Yoichi}}

== Africa ==

{{User:Eyedol}}

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Country, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

OSGeo Advocate

2012-07-07T15:09:28Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mark Lucas */

__FORCETOC__

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}
{{User:jive}}
== Europe ==

{{User:Arnulf Christl}}
{{User:Astrid_Emde}}


{{User:Ticheler}}


{{User:Jsanz}}
{{User:Vehrka}}
{{User:Lluís}}


{{User:Sanand}}
{{User:JoCook}}
{{User:Ianturton}}


{{User:Kalxas}}
{{User:ArArgyridis}}
{{User:kotzino}}


{{User:Aghisla}}
{{User:Aaime}}
{{User:Madi}}


{{User:volaya}}
{{User:grizonnetm}}
{{User:JRM}}


{{User:Vasile}}


{{User:KarelCharvat}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Dmorissette}}

== United States ==

{{User:pmbatty}}

===Brian M Hamlin===
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
[[File:BrianPortrait1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|dbb]]

Location: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley, CA USA]

''"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."''

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the '''5th International Symposium on Digital Earth''' in 2007. [http://isde5.pbworks.com link] As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international conference a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis Gaia]

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* Member, [[California| California OSGeo Chapter]]
:* Member, [[Marketing Committee]]
:* Developer Diplomat for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
:* Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
:* Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
:* [http://blog.light42.com Geo Web Log]

;Contact:
: Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
: IRC: darkblue_b dbb

;Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

=== Mark Lucas ===

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Mark Lucas]]

;Job Title:Principal Scientist, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

;Location:Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA

Write a sentence or two introduction to yourself, written in third person. I.e., "Joe Blow is a ..." rather than "I have done ...". This text should be written in the style used by conference programs. (Recommend approx 50 words. Max 70 words).

Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996.

[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mark_Lucas more information on Mark Lucas]

;OSGeo Experience -
[[File:OSGeo_board.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]] Current member of Board of Directors
[[File:OSGeo_exboard.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]] Founding member of Board of Directors
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] OSGeo Charter Member
[[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] OSGeo Incubation committee
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]] OSGeo Advocate
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] OSSIM Program Steering Committee
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

;OSGeo experience:* Original founder of the OSSIM remote sensing project, on the original organizing committee for the OSGeo, a founding member and board member. Recently returned to serve on the current Board of Directors

;Contact:
Email: mlucas17 AT mac DOT com
Phone (work): 321 266 1475 (USA)

;Spoken Language(s): English, Spanish

;Profile last updated: 07 JULY 2012

{{User:Rburhum}}
{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

== Latin America ==

{{User:Aborrell}}


{{User:Maurimiranda}}


{{User:Perriger}}

== Asia ==

{{User:Sanghee}}


{{User:Yoichi}}

== Africa ==

{{User:Eyedol}}

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Country, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

OSGeo Advocate

2012-07-05T14:41:44Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mark Lucas */

__FORCETOC__

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}

{{User:jive}}

== Europe ==
{{User:Arnulf Christl}}

{{User:Ticheler}}

{{User:Jsanz}}

{{User:Vehrka}}

{{User:Sanand}}

{{User:JoCook}}

{{User:Kalxas}}

{{User:Ianturton}}

{{User:Aghisla}}

{{User:volaya}}

{{User:Lluís}}

{{User:ArArgyridis}}

{{User:grizonnetm}}

{{User:Astrid_Emde}}

{{User:Vasile}}

{{User:Aaime}}

{{User:KarelCharvat}}

{{User:JRM}}

{{User:Madi}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Dmorissette}}

== United States ==

{{User:pmbatty}}

===Brian M Hamlin===
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
[[File:BrianPortrait1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|dbb]]

Location: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley, CA USA]

''"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."''

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the '''5th International Symposium on Digital Earth''' in 2007. [http://isde5.pbworks.com link] As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international conference a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis Gaia]

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* Member, [[California| California OSGeo Chapter]]
:* Member, [[Marketing Committee]]
:* Developer Diplomat for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
:* Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
:* Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
:* [http://blog.light42.com Geo Web Log]

;Contact:
: Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
: IRC: darkblue_b dbb

;Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

=== Mark Lucas ===

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

Articles:

* [http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]
* [http://www.imagingnotes.com/go/archive-issue.php?cat_id=40 OMAR - Open Source Software for Geoint 3.0]

{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

== Latin America ==
{{User:Aborrell}}
{{User:Maurimiranda}}

== Asia ==
{{User:Sanghee}}

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Country, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

OSGeo Advocate

2012-07-05T14:40:12Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* United States */

__FORCETOC__

= Introduction =

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.

= OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists current OSGeo Advocates:

== Australia ==
{{User:camerons}}

{{User:jive}}

== Europe ==
{{User:Arnulf Christl}}

{{User:Ticheler}}

{{User:Jsanz}}

{{User:Vehrka}}

{{User:Sanand}}

{{User:JoCook}}

{{User:Kalxas}}

{{User:Ianturton}}

{{User:Aghisla}}

{{User:volaya}}

{{User:Lluís}}

{{User:ArArgyridis}}

{{User:grizonnetm}}

{{User:Astrid_Emde}}

{{User:Vasile}}

{{User:Aaime}}

{{User:KarelCharvat}}

{{User:JRM}}

{{User:Madi}}

== Canada ==
{{User:Gzeiss}}
{{User:Dmorissette}}

== United States ==

{{User:pmbatty}}

===Brian M Hamlin===
{{User:Brian Hamlin}}
[[File:BrianPortrait1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|dbb]]

Location: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley, CA USA]

''"The time is now to accelerate geo data and geo software. I will use my abilities as a speaker, investigator, coder and event organizer to further the development and deployment of Open Source Geospatial Software."''

By fate or by fluke, Brian served as steering committee member for the '''5th International Symposium on Digital Earth''' in 2007. [http://isde5.pbworks.com link] As liason to speakers and distinguished guests, network administrator and conference strategist, Brian built on experience with un-conferences and an unusual collection of resources to make the five day, one hundred and twenty presentation international conference a critical success. Subsequently Brian dove headlong into the vast arcana of geo-software, beginning with GDAL and moving on to C-Tribe projects and web software. The OSGeo Live DVD is a fundamental piece of the puzzle, in a rapidly changing and perhaps urgent context of the relationship of civilization and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis Gaia]

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]][[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
:* Member, [[California| California OSGeo Chapter]]
:* Member, [[Marketing Committee]]
:* Developer Diplomat for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
:* Teaches: Introduction to PostGIS, GeoWeb, Spatial Databases
:* Uses: C, Python, Postgis, Debian, Ubuntu, GDAL, Openlayers, Geoserver
:* [http://blog.light42.com Geo Web Log]

;Contact:
: Email: maplabs AT light42 DOT com
: IRC: darkblue_b dbb

;Profile last updated: 04 July 2012

=== Mark Lucas ===

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

Articles:

* [http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]
* [http://www.imagingnotes.com/go/archive-issue.php?cat_id=40 OMAR - Open Source Software for Geoint 3.0]

{{User:Alex Mandel}}
{{User:Woodbri}}

== Latin America ==
{{User:Aborrell}}
{{User:Maurimiranda}}

== Asia ==
{{User:Sanghee}}

= Past OSGeo Advocates =
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.

= Understanding OSGeo roles =

Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:

====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====
: We only have 8 active board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.

====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.

====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or Regional Chapter, or as a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).

====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.

====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.

====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.

= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =

Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See "login" link in top right of this page).
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Country, using the following:
{{User:<YourOSGeoWikiUserName>}}

= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.

= Other Resources =
Links to other organizations running a similar process.
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585

Board Meeting 2012-05-10

2012-05-10T12:10:13Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Agenda */

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2012]]

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of May 2012 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2012&month=05&day=10&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 at 17:00 UTC] on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

== Agenda ==
* Review past minutes: [[Board Meeting 2012-04-19]]
* Appoint secretary
* Action items from last meeting
*# Peter Batty and Jo Cook to work on getting FOSS4G 2011 material online
*# Arnulf to start thread on policy for FOSS4G 2012 on board list (done).
*# Arnulf to carry over items that were not addressed during the meeting.
*#* Preparation for elections in July (see also board list email)
*# '''mpg''' to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting again)
*#* Clean out and update Charter Membership (carried over from previous meeting again)
*# '''Daniel''' to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
*# '''Jo''' report from the ELOgeo importation process
*# '''Daniel''' to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
*# Short report from the Marketing committee resurrection efforts(Arnulf)
*# update on Beijing FOSS4G conference discussion (limited to 7 minutes discussion time)
*# Is there in principle agreement to development of an OSGeo Ambassador role, in line with [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-May/010296.html proposal] from Cameron Shorter, and for the coordination of this role to be managed by the Marketing Committee. (With board approval, Cameron will convert this email into a wiki, then ask Marketing Committee and Board to approve).
* [[OSGeo Ambassador]] at Eclipse WG meeting? Summary of Eclipse discussions?
* Confirm next meeting time and date [[Board Meeting 2012-06-08]]
* ''please add items''

== Minutes ==
* logistics
** detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-05-10.log
** Attending:
** Absent:
** Chair:
** Scribe:
** Secretary:

==== Assigned Tasks ====
# ...

==== Motions ====
# ...

==== Notes ====
...

Mark Lucas

2012-03-19T18:49:35Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

Articles:

* [http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]
* [http://www.imagingnotes.com/go/archive-issue.php?cat_id=40 OMAR - Open Source Software for Geoint 3.0]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Board of Directors]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]

Mark Lucas

2012-03-19T18:45:46Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

Articles:

* [http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]
* [http://www.imagingnotes.com/go/article_freej.php?mp_id=282 OMAR - Open Source Software for Geoint 3.0]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Board of Directors]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]

Mark Lucas

2012-03-19T18:41:38Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

Articles:

[http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Board of Directors]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]

Mark Lucas

2012-03-19T18:40:43Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

[http://www.lbxjournal.com/articles/agility-and-innovation/260295 Agility and Innovation - the NGA turns to open source]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Board of Directors]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]

Mark Lucas

2012-03-18T13:14:50Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

[[File:MarkLucas.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mark Lucas]]
Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in Open Source Software Development in remote sensing, image processing and geographical information systems. Mark established ossim.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include the Open Source Software Image Map [http://www.ossim.org OSSIM] projects for the [http://www.nro.mil NRO], the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source extraordinary Program projects for [http://www.nga.mil NGA]. He was one of the authors of the [http://http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf Open Technology Roadmap] for the Department of Defense. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universtiy of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University, he was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation, the [http://www.oss-institute.org Open Source Software Institute], and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at [http://www.radiantblue.com RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.]

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Board of Directors]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]

North America Regional

2012-02-20T17:48:16Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Update 20 Feb 2012 */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

==Update 20 Feb 2012==
At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012). We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences. The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://foss4g-na.org/
Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world. For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference. (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas). The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas. The regional conferences will contribute back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.

These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.
Paul Ramsey is the conference chair for the upcoming conference in April. The conference will fill up quickly so please sign up if you plan on attending.

We'll leave the NA chapter information in place for a while in case anyone has any comments or wants to have further discussions. Please contact me directly or on the mailing list if you have any questions or comments. -- Mark Lucas

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2012-02-20T17:47:21Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Update 20 Feb 2012 */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

==Update 20 Feb 2012==
At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012). We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences. The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://www.foss4gna.org
Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world. For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference. (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas). The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas. The regional conferences will contribute back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.

These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.
Paul Ramsey is the conference chair for the upcoming conference in April. The conference will fill up quickly so please sign up if you plan on attending.

We'll leave the NA chapter information in place for a while in case anyone has any comments or wants to have further discussions. Please contact me directly or on the mailing list if you have any questions or comments. -- Mark Lucas

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2012-02-20T17:46:02Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

==Update 20 Feb 2012==
At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012). We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences. The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://www.foss4gna.org
Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world. For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference. (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas). The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas. The regional conferences can contributed back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.

These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.
Paul Ramsey is the conference chair for the upcoming conference in April. The conference will fill up quickly so please sign up if you plan on attending.

We'll leave the NA chapter information in place for a while in case anyone has any comments or wants to have further discussions. Please contact me directly or on the mailing list if you have any questions or comments. -- Mark Lucas

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

Face to Face Meeting Seattle 2012

2012-01-08T13:35:47Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Agenda */

== Meeting ==

As many board members as possible (and potentially others contributing to OSGeo) are planning to meet for two days.

== When and Where ==
* Pre [IslandWood Code Sprint 2012 Islandwood Codesprint] in Seattle, 4th and 5th February (Saturday and Sunday).
* 9AM to 5PM on Saturday and 9AM to Noon on Sunday.
* Cedarboork Lodge near the Seattle airport (http://www.cedarbrooklodge.com/)
** venue includes wireless internet access, lodging, conference room, breakfast/lunch/snacks during meeting, etc

== Attendees ==
# [[User:Warmerda | Frank Warmerdam]] (arrive Saturday morning, leaving Sunday evening)
# [[Arnulf Christl]] (Friday and Saturday over night, leaving Sunday pm)
# [[Jeff McKenna]]
# [[User:Mpg | mpg]] -- arriving Saturday morning (8am), leaving Sunday afternoon (after meeting ends)
# [[Daniel Morissette]] -- arriving Friday night, leaving Sunday pm
# [[Peter Batty]] - arriving Friday night, leaving Sunday afternoon (flight at 3:09pm, so need to leave at 1pm or so)
# [[User:Mlucas17 | Mark Lucas]] -- arriving Friday night, leaving Monday (I'll pay the extra day)
# [[User:JoCook | Jo Cook]] -- arriving Friday, leaving Monday (I'll pay the extra obviously)

== Agenda ==

Friday evening: informal group dinner [if sufficient people around]

Saturday: 09:00 to 17:00

Official chapter status http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nederlands

Sunday: 09:00 to 17:00

== Discussion Topics ==

* Strategic mission, goals
* Our budgeting process
* FY2012 budget

[[Category: Board]]
[[Category: Board Meetings 2012]]

Face to Face Meeting Seattle 2012

2011-12-22T22:20:46Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Planning to Attend */

== Meeting ==

As many board members as possible (and potentially others contributing to OSGeo) are planning to meet for two days.

=== When and Where ===
* Pre [IslandWood Code Sprint 2012 Islandwood Codesprint] in Seattle, 4th and 5th February (Saturday and Sunday).
* Likely 9AM to 5PM on Saturday and 9AM to Noon on Sunday.
* Likely venue is Cedarboork Lodge near the Seattle airport (http://www.cedarbrooklodge.com/)
* Venue includes wireless internet access, lodging, conference room, breakfast/lunch/snacks during meeting, etc

=== Planning to Attend ===
# [[User:Warmerda | Frank Warmerdam]]
# [[Arnulf Christl]] (Friday and Saturday over night, leaving Sunday pm)
# [[Jeff McKenna]]
# [[User:Mpg | mpg]] -- arriving Saturday morning, leaving Sunday night
# [[Daniel Morissette]] -- arriving Friday night, leaving Sunday pm
# [[Peter Batty]]
# [[User:Mlucas17 | Mark Lucas]] -- arriving Friday night, leaving Monday (I'll pay the extra day)
# [[User:JoCook | Jo Cook]]

=== Agenda ===
Meeting time: 09:00 to 17:00

* Strategic mission, goals
* Our budgeting process
* FY2012 budget

[[Category: Board]]
[[Category: Board Meetings 2012]]

North America Regional

2011-12-10T22:10:20Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-12-01T21:09:19Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

47 Subscribers as of 1 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-27T19:24:16Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Initial Thoughts */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

44 Subscribers as of 25 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-27T19:23:50Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Initial Thoughts */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

44 Subscribers as of 25 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''
''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-27T19:21:55Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Initial Thoughts */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

44 Subscribers as of 25 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.

On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-25T16:57:42Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Management and Contributors */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

44 Subscribers as of 25 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-25T15:45:33Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

44 Subscribers as of 25 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-23T14:04:31Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

39 Subscribers as of 22 Nov 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-18T19:03:47Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Initial Thoughts */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-18T17:21:46Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-14T00:06:13Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Chapter Formation Submission */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]

== See Also ==
=== Questions and Answers ===

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

= Questions and Answers =
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-12T12:41:03Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Questions and Answers */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]

== See Also ==
=== Questions and Answers ===

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

= Questions and Answers =
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-12T01:51:35Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Management and Contributors */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]

== See Also ==
=== Questions and Answers ===

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

= Questions and Answers =
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-11T19:11:10Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Organization */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

In work DRAFT

* President
* Steering Committee
* Executive Director
* Conference Chair
* Treasurer
* Membership Committee

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]

== See Also ==
=== Questions and Answers ===

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

= Questions and Answers =
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

North America Regional

2011-11-11T14:33:10Z

Wiki-Mlucas17:

North America Regional

2011-11-11T14:30:39Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* See Also */

North America Regional

2011-11-11T14:28:58Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Organization */

North America Regional

2011-11-11T14:24:28Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

North America Regional

2011-11-11T14:22:42Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

North America Regional

2011-11-07T14:07:06Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Upcoming Events */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T14:03:50Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Upcoming Events */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

Board Meeting 2011-11-10

2011-11-07T13:37:37Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Agenda */

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2011]]

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of November 2011 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=11&day=10&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 at 17:00 UTC] on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

== Agenda ==
* Review past minutes: [[Board Meeting 2011-10-05]]
* Appoint secretary
* Action items from last meeting
*# mpg: remove last line from codesprint guidelines ''[done]''
*# Peter: make mission text same on all pages
*# Jeff/Tim: draft RCMRD MOU
*# Peter: look into conf call options
*# All: review Tyler's task list and prioritize, mark for budget if outsourcing is the option
* (Motion to) accept Jody Garnett as new Incubation Committee chair replacing Daniel Morissette
* (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional#Official_expression_of_interest_to_form_a_North_America_Regional_chapter_of_the_OSGeo_Foundation OSGeo-NA]
* Discuss how to proceed with [[FOSS4G 2012]] in Beijing.
* Review, simplify and harmonize [[OSGeo Bylaws]], guidelines and [[OSGeo Constitution]]
* Review [[What's_Not_Working]] and [[What's Working]] (last edits from 2006) and update or delete (not sure whether we need this pages).
* Task WebCom (if still alive) with web site redesign, see also http://www3.osgeo.org/ and [[WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#All_Together_Now]]
* ''please add items''

== Minutes ==
* logistics
** detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-11-03.log
** Attending:
** Regrets:
** Absent:
** Chair:
** Scribe:

==== Motions ====

# approval of previous meeting's minutes (m/ Daniel, 2/ Jeff, all +1)
# appoint mpg as secretary (m/ Daniel, 2/ Peter, all +1)
# close meeting (m/ Frank, 2/ mpg, all +1)

Board Meeting 2011-11-10

2011-11-07T13:37:06Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Agenda */

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2011]]

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of November 2011 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=11&day=10&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 at 17:00 UTC] on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

== Agenda ==
* Review past minutes: [[Board Meeting 2011-10-05]]
* Appoint secretary
* Action items from last meeting
*# mpg: remove last line from codesprint guidelines ''[done]''
*# Peter: make mission text same on all pages
*# Jeff/Tim: draft RCMRD MOU
*# Peter: look into conf call options
*# All: review Tyler's task list and prioritize, mark for budget if outsourcing is the option
* (Motion to) accept Jody Garnett as new Incubation Committee chair replacing Daniel Morissette
* (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional#Official_expression_of_interest_to_form_a_North_America_Regional_chapter_of_the_OSGeo_Foundation OSGeo-NA]
* Discuss how to proceed with [[FOSS4G 2012]] in Beijing.
* Review, simplify and harmonize [[OSGeo Bylaws]], guidelines and [[OSGeo Constitution]]
* Review [[What's_Not_Working]] and [[What's Working]] (last edits from 2006) and update or delete (not sure whether we need this pages).
* Task WebCom (if still alive) with web site redesign, see also http://www3.osgeo.org/ and [[WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#All_Together_Now]]
* ''please add items''

== Minutes ==
* logistics
** detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-11-03.log
** Attending:
** Regrets:
** Absent:
** Chair:
** Scribe:

==== Motions ====

# approval of previous meeting's minutes (m/ Daniel, 2/ Jeff, all +1)
# appoint mpg as secretary (m/ Daniel, 2/ Peter, all +1)
# close meeting (m/ Frank, 2/ mpg, all +1)

Board Meeting 2011-11-10

2011-11-07T13:36:39Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Agenda */

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2011]]

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of November 2011 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=11&day=10&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 at 17:00 UTC] on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

== Agenda ==
* Review past minutes: [[Board Meeting 2011-10-05]]
* Appoint secretary
* Action items from last meeting
*# mpg: remove last line from codesprint guidelines ''[done]''
*# Peter: make mission text same on all pages
*# Jeff/Tim: draft RCMRD MOU
*# Peter: look into conf call options
*# All: review Tyler's task list and prioritize, mark for budget if outsourcing is the option
* (Motion to) accept Jody Garnett as new Incubation Committee chair replacing Daniel Morissette
* (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional#Official_expression_of_interest_to_form_a_North_America_Regional_chapter_of_the_OSGeo_Foundation OSGeo-NA]
* Discuss how to proceed with [[FOSS4G 2012]] in Beijing.
* Review, simplify and harmonize [[OSGeo Bylaws]], guidelines and [[OSGeo Constitution]]
* Review [[What's_Not_Working]] and [[What's Working]] (last edits from 2006) and update or delete (not sure whether we need this pages).
* Task WebCom (if still alive) with web site redesign, see also http://www3.osgeo.org/ and [[WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#All_Together_Now]]
* ''please add items''

== Minutes ==
* logistics
** detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-11-03.log
** Attending:
** Regrets:
** Absent:
** Chair:
** Scribe:

==== Motions ====

# approval of previous meeting's minutes (m/ Daniel, 2/ Jeff, all +1)
# appoint mpg as secretary (m/ Daniel, 2/ Peter, all +1)
# close meeting (m/ Frank, 2/ mpg, all +1)

North America Regional

2011-11-07T13:33:23Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T13:30:59Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact with be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T13:26:16Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact with be Mark Lucas.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T12:56:49Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Chapter Formation Submission */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

= Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation =

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized establishing a wiki and mailing list.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T12:14:56Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas - academic, social, environmental, government, etc.

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T12:11:24Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* People */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]

North America Regional

2011-11-07T12:08:16Z

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America regional charter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
The intent is to organize as a 501c non profit organization.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4g 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17]]- Mark Lucas - Lets get this moving
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]

== See Also ==

= Chapter Formation Submission=

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter.
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance).
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo.
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation?
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapter]]