Difference between revisions of "Australia"

Revision as of 04:05, 28 December 2006

This page is meant as a place to put down ideas for the formation of an Australian OSGeo chapter.

Put you name / wiki account down below to show support moving forward,

Chris Tweedie (ctweedie)
Geospatial Specialist
Department of Land Information, WA

Tim Bowden
Mapforge Geospatial
Perth, WA

Here are my thoughts on what has to be done to get an Australian Chapter of OSGeo up and running. Feel free to edit ferociously if needed;

Following the Local Chapter Guidelines we need to address the following issues;

Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities
- An active mailing list, chapter wiki and occasional face to face events should answer this need
Software Internationalization and Localization
- Anything to be done here for Australia (& NZ?)
Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences
- There are already a number of publicly available applications (wms/wfs mainly?) that are using osgeo software. Perhaps a web page pointing to them that details what software is being used in each.
Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs
- About the only regional need I can think of is pointers to free local geospatial data. Anyone got anything else?

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 Mapforge Geospatial<br/>
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+== Steps to create an Australian OSGeo Chapter ==
+Here are my thoughts on what has to be done to get an Australian Chapter of OSGeo up and running.  Feel free to edit ferociously if needed;
+Following the [http://osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html Local Chapter Guidelines] we need to address the following
+issues;
+*  Chapter Roles
+#  Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities
+#* An active mailing list, chapter wiki and occasional face to face events should answer this need
+#  Software Internationalization and Localization
+#*   Anything to be done here for Australia (& NZ?)
+#  Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences
+#* There are already a number of publicly available applications (wms/wfs mainly?) that are using osgeo software.  Perhaps a web page pointing to them that details what software is being used in each.
+#  Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs
+#* About the only regional need I can think of is pointers to free local geospatial data.  Anyone got anything else?
+#  Training, Support and Development of e-Learning Contents in local languages
 [[Category: Local_Chapters]]