Italiano Chapter Report 2009

Italian Chapter

• Contact name: Massimo di Stefano

Key Accomplishments

• Substantial grassroots activities (numerous events in one year, following the numerous events in the previous years)
• rapdly increase in registered members (+33%)
• Legal Action towards ISTAT (with ASSOLI), then translated to committee for evaluation of geospatial requirements
• QGIS (and GRASS) funding initiative (see qgis hackfest 2009 in Vienna)
• New GFOSS.it server hosted by Regione Toscana (for wiki, main web site, and sample data sets)
• improved Relationship to OpenStreetMap community.
• Great succes for the second edition of the GFOSS day held in Bolzano in November (approx. 260 participants).
• During the year we had also a GFOSS.it partecipation writing articles for "Rivista Geomedia", with quasi-monthly contributions. This is currently the only hard copy publication on the GIS market in Italy [16]

GFOSS.it-related events in 2009 :

• 10th Italian GRASS/GFOSS meeting [1]
• 4th Workshop Open Source, Free Software and Open formats in archaeological research [2] (*)
• GFOSS.it and OSGEO sponsorship at the Matera's barcamp [3]
• Bettersoftware Conference [4]
• First National Meeting about OpenStreetMap : OSMit [5]
• Italian conference about free-libre software - Bologna CONFSL [6]
• Portofino mapping party [7]
• OSGeo Hacking event Bolsena [8] (*)
• Dolomity Mapping Party [9]
• Contribute to the FOSSFG live-dvd project [10]
• FOSS4G - Sydney [11]]
• ITN 09 "Infrastructure Telematic & Navigation" [12]
• 2nd Meeting of Free Software for GIS (SASIG) Portugal [13]
• QGIS Hackfest - Vienna [14]
• 2nd GFOSS Day [15]
• Google Summer of Code partecipation with 4 student-projects approved [17-20] (*)

(*) informal gfoss.it presence

Areas for Improvement :

• Opportunities to consolidate relationships with other associations with focus on open source software (not only GEO-)

Outlook for 2009 :

• The new board will be elected in February 2010
• Interest in providing additional momentum in Italy, and in connection with other European chapters, towards FOSS4G 2010

LINK :

• [1] - http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg03652.html
• [2] - http://www.archeo-foss.org/
• [3] - http://barcamp.org/materacamp09
• [4] - http://www.bettersoftware.it/conference/talks/il-mondo-delle-imprese-e-lopen-source-gis
• [5] - http://osmit.fbk.eu/
• [6] - http://www.confsl.org/confsl09/
• [7] - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Genova#M.28.27.29appare_Portofino_2_-_La_conclusione
• [8] - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Hacking_Event_2009
• [9] - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dolomiti_mapping_party
• [10] - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
• [11] - http://2009.foss4g.org/
• [12] - http://www.itnexpo.it/it/
• [13] - http://evora.sigaberto.org/
• [14] - http://www.qgis.org/wiki/2._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Vienna_2009
• [15] - http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday
• [16] - http://www.rivistageomedia.it/it.html & http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Rivista_geomedia
• [17] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023165994 http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/V.krige_GSoC_2009
• [18] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023166969 http://web.me.com/epiesasha/PlanetSasha/Project.html
• [19] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023167390 http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=gsoc2009_weekly_reports_giovanni_onofri
• [20] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023163767 http://jgrass.wiki.software.bz.it/jgrass/Google_Summer_Of_Code_2009