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About the Italian OSGeo Chapter and GFOSS.it

The Italian OSGeo Local Chapter has been formally accepted by the OSGeo Board of Directors on the 7th September 2007 meting.

The Italian OSGeo Local Chapter is based on the existing association "Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera (Gfoss.it)".

GFOSS.it has been funded by the Italian GFOSS community during the 8th GRASS e GFOSS (Palermo, 14-16 febbraio 2007) annual meeting. The Italian community includes many professional, university and governative members with long national and international experience in the field of the Geomatic and in the free and open source.

The objectives of the GFOSS.it are:

• Promote the development, the diffusion and the protection of the Free and Open Source Software for the geo-information.
• Promote the Open Standards for the geo-information and the free access to geographic data.
• Promote the contacts among developers and users within the community and among the community and external body.
• Foster and coordinate the translation, localization and internationalization of software and documentation for the geo-information.
• Promote relationships with other national and international associations, and with governative agencies and private companies.

Italian chapter mission

Italian Local Chapter mission is to respect OSGeo Guidelines on local chapters and continue supporting all Italian Community contributions to FOSS GIS community. Main goal is the OSGeo foundation one: to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.

Italian community contributions and resources

This part shows the Italian community contributions on the web:

Community

• GFOSS site - the site of the first italian Geospatial Free and Open Source Software community.
• GFOSS wiki - the wiki page of GFOSS.it, contains many howto in italian and other resources.
• GFOSS mailing list - the first meeting point of the community.
• Il canale IRC: #gfoss su irc.freenode.net irc://irc.freenode.net/#gfoss
• Italian GRASS users site
• Italian GRASS users mailing list

Data

• Italian and greek VMAP0 elaboration - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci
• Fedora and Debian GRASS Packages - contribution by Andrea Scianna
• Italian Open Street project - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci
• a Debian Free GIS repository - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci
• Gentoo Gis Overlay - Emiliano Valvassori e Luca Casagrande

Contents

• Qgis 0.7 User Manual - The italian translation. Complete.
• GRASS 6.2 Reference Manual - The italian translation. Still a lot to be done.
• GFOSS presentations - A repository of links to presentations on Gis FOSS.
• Many useful university courses slides - From Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano.
• Geomatic Workbooks - From Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano (free registration).
• GRASS GIS main site - from L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura - IRST.
• GIS software at the University of Trento under GNU license - Available GIS software at the University of Trento under GNU license.
• Online GIS documents at the University of Trento - GFOSS Tutorials and other documents at the University of Trento.

Events

Past Events

• VIII GRASS and GFOSS annual Meeting - February 14-15-16 2007, Palermo Univesity.

Future Events

IX GRASS-GFOSS Italian users meeting.
21st, 22nd February 2008
Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università di Perugia
Perugia, Italy

Italian OSGeo Chapter Officers

Italian OSGeo Representative

Italian OSGeo Chapter Coordinators