Canada

There are many people involved in OSGeo who are from Canada. This page is to try to gather interest in establishing a nation-wide OSGeo chapter. The Ottawa Local Chapter has focused on the nation's capital, and other cities are sure to have particular smaller groups of interest as well.

Objectives

• Support development of local OSGEO chapters
• Support National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
• Organize National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
• Participate in National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO

Resources

• Starting a local Chapter
• Local Chapter Guidelines
• Proposed Membership Rules
• Interest Groups
• Like Minded Regional Organizations
• One Organizational Model
• International Outreach

Interested Individuals

• Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo, Williams Lake, British Columbia

• Dave Patton, CIS and Degree Confluence Project, Victoria, British Columbia

• Dave Sampson, Ottawa Chapter

• Tom Kralidis, Charter Member, Toronto, ON

• Scott Mitchell, Ottawa Chapter, Carleton University, GRASS project (PSC)

• Mike Adair, Ottawa Chapter, Charter member, MapBuilder project, DM Solutions Group

• Daniel Morissette, Mapgears, Chicoutimi, QC

• Mark Leslie, LISAsoft, Sydney, AU (but I'm still Canadian)

• Bob Bruce Province of Manitoba, HWPS, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Interests: MapServer, QGIS, uDig, Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI), Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) Webmap, MLI WMS Server

• Thierry Badard, Conference Committee, Francophone Chapter, Laval University (Centre for Research in Geomatics) , Quebec City, QC

• Ken Sanderson, Miistakis Institute, Hope River, PEI