Difference between revisions of "Dutch Chapter Report 2012"

Revision as of 02:03, 11 April 2013

Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
Contact name: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (chair), Just van den Broecke (secretary)
The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007, applied for FOSS4G 2010 and then became semi-dormant.
Revival started at the FOSS4G 2011 in Denver and a subsequent BoF meeting on december 1, 2011 with the support of Arnulf Christl.
Throughout 2012 there was high activity; summary:
- public events: Newyear's-party, GWF FOSS Seminar and OSGeo.nl Conference
- meetings: biweekly IRC with reports and one IRL meeting
- legal foundation formation and board election preparation (to be finalized in april 2013)
- OSGeo.nl website
- OSGeo.nl Wiki
- OSGeo.nl Agenda via Meetup
- OSGeo.nl photos on Flickr
- Shared Dropbox Folder with all OSGeo.nl assets
Official OSGeo Local Chapter status was acquired in April 2012.
The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter had around 100 members (via Wiki+mailing list) as of Dec 31st, 2012
OSGeo.nl has a close relationship with the Dutch OpenStreetMap community, e.g. organizing events jointly as much as possible

Localizations & Translations
- GeoServer translations
- members working on QGIS plugins and Dutch translations
- OpenLayers contributions

Projects
- Dutch national open SDI built on OSGeo Software: PDOK, http://pdok.nl
- NLExtract: ETL for Dutch Open Geodata: http://nlextract.nl
- http://heron-mc.org, GeoExt-based Web Mapping Client

Still, too much dependency on too small key members. More active members should be involved.
How to involve the community more
(possibly many more)

any help is welcome, especially financially, organizing events and practial things like the website

We may see very prosperous year in 2013 as we are becoming a legal entity, attracting sponsors and organizing great events
Legal entity and first board elected
More outreach in other Dutch Language countries, already in progress with Belgium and the Antilles
New: GeoStammtisches, small local city events with 5-minute lightning talks, already two organized
In 2013, we may attract more members to our chapter and could run our chapter in more systematic way. We hope that 2013 is the year that OSGeo Dutch Chapter remains flourishing and expanding.

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 ** public events: Newyear's-party, GWF FOSS Seminar and OSGeo.nl Conference
 ** meetings: biweekly [[Nederlands/bijeenkomsten | IRC with reports]] and [[Nederland/bijeenkomsten/strategische-irl-1 | one IRL meeting]]
-** meeting: [[Nederlands/bijeenkomsten | IRC with reports]]
 ** legal foundation formation and board election preparation (to be finalized in april 2013)
 ** [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo.nl website ]