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

Representation (Prov/Terr)

A good goal would be for full representation across the country. Please change the list as we add missing representation. Either a group or single individual can be considered a representation. Next to the abbreviation we can list regional chapters that are also represented in this group. A regional chapter is not required for representation but can help network people to local activities.

Present

• BC: British Columbia Chapter,
• ON: Ottawa Chapter,
• QC: Chapitre québécois (Discussions started in Reflexions Quebec, with a meeting on June 4, 2008).
• MB:
• PEI:
• AB: Alberta Chapter - we plan on establishing one in April/May 2010

Absent

• NL
• NS
• NB
• NW
• NU

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 and Quebec chapters, Laval University (Centre for Research in Geomatics) and Spatialytics inc., Quebec City, QC

• Ken Sanderson, Miistakis Institute, Hope River, PEI

• Alexandre Leroux, Canadian Meteorological Centre and Slashgeo, Montreal, Qc

• Shawn Wallbridge Hobbyist, SynAck Hosting, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB. OpenJUMP Volunteer, my UofC homepage
• Jeff McKenna, Gateway Geomatics, Lunenburg, NS