Difference between revisions of "Dutch Chapter Report 2012"

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About the Chapter

The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter maintains an OSGeo presence within Dutch-speaking countries/areas. Currently it is active within The Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flandres), but has contacts within the Dutch Antilles as well. It organizes at least one annual meeting, the OSGeo.nl Day (see below) plus several other localized events. The Chapter also maintains close ties with the Dutch OpenStreetMap community, organizing joint events such as the annual New Year Party and OSM-tracks on the OSGeo.nl Day. Official OSGeo Local Chapter status was acquired in April 2012. OSGeo.nl (with .nl being the ISO-code for Dutch Language) as the Chapter is known locally, operates from a legal foundation, the OSGeo.nl Foundation, whose mission is to promote the adoption and use of Open Geo-ICT in general.

Contact

The OSGeo.nl Foundation, "Stichting OSGeo.nl", via [http:/osgeo.nl www.osgeo.nl] and the board members: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (director) and Just van den Broecke (secretary).

Activity Report 2012

Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
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

Key Accomplishments

Events
- New Year's Party with OpenStreetMap NL Community - about 40-50 people
- Open Source Seminar at Geospatial World Forum
  - Date: April 25, 2012
  - Venue: RAI, Amsterdam
  - Organizer: OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
  - Keynote Speakers : Arnulf Christl
  - The event was highly successful with around 40-50 participants. If we had more room we could have seated twice the amount.
- OSGeo.nl Day 2012 : The first annual OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter conference.
  - Date: June 30, 2012
  - Venue: Hogeschool Larenstein, Velp
  - Organizer: MapWindow Conference/Hogeschool Larenstein with OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
  - Keynote Speakers : Just van den Broecke
  - The event was highly successful with around 160 participants. (more text needed)

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, many OSGeo.nl members worked in this project
- NLExtract: ETL for Dutch Open Geodata: http://nlextract.nl
- http://heron-mc.org, GeoExt-based Web Mapping Client

Outreach Activities
- Local Outreach Lectures: several presentations, all available on slideshare:

Areas for Improvement

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

Opportunities to Help

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

Outlook for 2013

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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-==OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter Activity Report 2012==
+==About the Chapter==
+The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter maintains an OSGeo presence within Dutch-speaking countries/areas. Currently it is active within The Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of  Belgium (Flandres), but has contacts within the Dutch Antilles as well. It organizes at least one annual meeting, the OSGeo.nl Day (see below) plus several other localized events. The Chapter also maintains close ties with the Dutch OpenStreetMap community, organizing joint events such as the annual New Year Party and OSM-tracks on the OSGeo.nl Day. Official OSGeo Local Chapter status was acquired in April 2012. OSGeo.nl (with .nl being the ISO-code for Dutch Language) as the Chapter is known locally, operates from a legal foundation,
+the OSGeo.nl Foundation, whose mission is to promote the adoption and use of Open Geo-ICT in general.
+==Contact==
+The OSGeo.nl Foundation, "Stichting OSGeo.nl", via [http:/osgeo.nl www.osgeo.nl] and the board members: [[User:Geejee|Gert-Jan van der Weijden]] (director) and [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke ]] (secretary).
+== Activity Report 2012==
 * Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
-* Contact name: Just van den Broecke (info at osgeo.nl)
+* The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007, applied for FOSS4G 2010 and then became semi-dormant.
-* The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007 and changed its status to an official OSGeo Local Chapter in April 2012. The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter had XY members as of Dec 31st, 2012.
+* Revival started at the FOSS4G 2011 in Denver and  [[Nederland/bijeenkomsten/bof1|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 [[Nederlands/bijeenkomsten | IRC with reports]] and [[Nederland/bijeenkomsten/strategische-irl-1 | one IRL meeting]]
+** legal foundation formation and board election preparation (to be finalized in april 2013)
+** [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo.nl website ]
+** [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Nederlands OSGeo.nl Wiki ]
+** [http://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL  OSGeo.nl Agenda via Meetup]
+** [http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeonl  OSGeo.nl photos on Flickr]
+** [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u94nwpzstb30dxn/mtJ6b4tFn6 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
+{| border="0"
+|-
+| [[File:2012-09-12-OSGEO-Geonovum.jpg|left|240px|OSGeo.nl BoF deelnemers GIN congres]] || [[File:Logo-osgeo.nl.png|right|240px|logo osgeo.nl]] || [[File:Overview-osgeonl-day-2012.jpg|left|240px|OSGeo.nl Dag]]
+|}
-===Key Accomplishments===
-*Events
-**[http://www.osgeo.kr/82 FOSS4G Korea 2012] : The second annual OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter conference.
-***Date: October 12th, 2012
-***Venue: COEX, Seoul
-***Organizer: OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
-***Keynote Speakers : Dr. Paolo Cavallini, Dr. Taeyul Kim, Mr. Kosuke Asahi
-***The event was highly successful with around 90 ~ 110 participants. 3 keynote speeches and 8 presentations were delivered by great and smart people there and followed by Soju Party near Samsung station!!
-*Trainings
-**2 times 'Open Source GIS Winter School' was held in February, 2012 in cooperation with KSIS(Dutch Spatial Information Society). Although it was paid training program, it attracted huge number of people more than we expected.
-**1 time 'Open Source GIS Education Program' funded by MLTM(Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs) was held in August, 2012. It was full time 5 days training program covering open source GIS general, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer and OpenLayers.
-*Developments
+===Key Accomplishments===
-** Mr. Kyungtae Doh, one of Dutch chapter member, started to develop Node.js based MapServer
-** Mr. Minpa Lee, one of Dutch chapter member, released uDig plugin called GXT that increased the analysis functions in uDig drastically. http://www.onspatial.com/2013/01/gxt-toolbox-for-udig.html
-*Regular Meetings
+* Events
-**2 times regular meetings
+** [http://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/events/46060652 New Year's Party with OpenStreetMap NL Community] - about 40-50 people
-**Date: February and August, 2012
+** [http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm Open Source Seminar at Geospatial World Forum]
-**Place: Seoul
+*** Date: April 25, 2012
-**These meetings were followed by Open Source GIS schools held in Ewha Womans university supported by Ministry of Land, Transport and Marine Affairs.
+*** Venue: RAI, Amsterdam
-**Our members shared knowledge & experiences around open source GIS in the regular meetings. Also we discussed the future activities of OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter.
+*** Organizer: OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
+*** Keynote Speakers : Arnulf Christl
+*** The event was highly successful with around 40-50 participants. If we had more room we could have seated twice the amount.
+** [http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html OSGeo.nl Day 2012] : The first annual OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter conference.
+*** Date: June 30, 2012
+*** Venue: Hogeschool Larenstein, Velp
+*** Organizer: MapWindow Conference/Hogeschool Larenstein with OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
+*** Keynote Speakers : Just van den Broecke
+*** The event was highly successful with around 160 participants. (more text needed)
 *Localizations & Translations
-**Dutch chapter carried out several localization & translations
+** GeoServer translations
-**QGIS menu, messages and manual were translated in Dutch.  You can download PDF version of QGIS Dutch manual here: http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html
+** members working on QGIS plugins and Dutch translations
-**Hardcopy of QGIS Dutch manual was published.
+** OpenLayers contributions
-**Started to translate PostGIS, GeoServer and OpenLayers materials in Dutch
 *Projects
-**Dutch chapter has been fully or partially involved in several open source related projects.
+** Dutch national open SDI built on OSGeo Software: PDOK, http://pdok.nl, many OSGeo.nl members worked in this project
-**KOPSS(Korea Planning Support System) Open API Project funded by KRIHS(Dutch Research Institute of Human Settlement)
+** NLExtract: ETL for Dutch Open Geodata: http://nlextract.nl
-**"Open source software vs Private software: understanding and strategic approach" funded by KRIHS(Dutch Research Institute of Human Settlement)
+** http://heron-mc.org, GeoExt-based Web Mapping Client
-**"A Research on Open Source Based GeoSpatial Technology Development Strategy" funded by KRIHS(Dutch Research Institute of Human Settlement)
-**Online open source GIS education program project funded by NECGIS(National Education Center for GIS)
 *Outreach Activities
-**Dutch chapter has conducted several outreach activities including lecture, seminar and exchange programs.
+** Local Outreach Lectures: several presentations, all available on slideshare:
-**Outreach Lectures : LH Corp, KRIHS, KCSC(Korea Cadastral Survey Corp), GeoSpatial Asia Forum,  MND(Ministry of National Defense), Gyungbook National University and others.
+*** http://www.slideshare.net/justb4/osgeonl-introductie-geo-freedom-day
-**Exchange Program : Dispatched 2 delegates to Osaka, Japan to give keynote speech at FOSS4G 2012 Osaka
+*** http://www.slideshare.net/justb4/os-geonl-statusjustvandenbroecke1024
+*** http://www.slideshare.net/justb4/osgeonl-2012-retrospective
 ===Areas for Improvement===
-*Still, too much dependency on too small key members. More active members should be involved.
+* Still, too much dependency on too small key members. More active members should be involved.
-*Dutch chapter is not still legal entity, therefore there are several limitations to do our activities. We need to change our status to legal entity in near future.
+* How to involve the community more
-*Need to expand activities to international scale. Our chapter has very talented members however their activities are somewhat isolated here in Korea.
+* (possibly many more)
-*We need to seek stable revenue source to run our chapter. Our chapter financial is highly dependent on limited donation sources.
 ===Opportunities to Help===
-*We definitely need some speakers for FOSS4G Korea 2013. If anyone wants to vist Korea and deliver some precious speeches, please contact us anytime.
+* any help is welcome, especially financially, organizing events and practial things like the website
-*We hope more open source GIS related event could be held here in Korea or in Asia region.
 ===Outlook for 2013===
-*We may see very prosperous year in 2013. As awareness of open source GIS has increased rapidly here in Korea, many organizations got to know the importance of open source GIS software and desire to cooperate with our chapter.
+* We may see very prosperous year in 2013 as we are becoming a legal entity, attracting sponsors and organizing great events
-*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 has started flourishing.
+* Legal entity and first board elected
-*We'll explore the possibility of hosing FOSS4G 2015 in Korea with other GIS related society like KSIS(Dutch Spatial Information Society).
+* 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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