Difference between revisions of "Brazilian Chapter Report 2007"

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== Areas for Improvement ==
 
== Areas for Improvement ==
 
* OGC WMS and WFS recomendation.
 
* OGC WMS and WFS recomendation.
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* I3GEO is now distributed unde Public License.
  
 
== Opportunities to Help ==
 
== Opportunities to Help ==
  
*    OSGeo Members can help in customising the Open Source GIS software such that the end user
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*    OSGeo members can support local initiatives for organizing the Brazilian Chapter.
can work around to add data, query etc with limited exposure. This will make the GIS data
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created sustainable. Customisation will include making a simple model for using a server (PostGIS)
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*    We help for organizing all documentation to request I3GEO incubation in OSGeo.
serving GIS data with customised frontend software like Qgis, OpenJUMP etc in India languages.
 
  
 
== Outlook for 2008 ==
 
== Outlook for 2008 ==
  
* The GIS datasets being created for the town of Rajahmundry using Open Source GIS, Andhra Pradesh, will be a model for other municipal corporations to follow. The benificiaries include Governament as well as the students of post graduation in Geoinformatics, of Nannaya University of the same town.
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* Fourth Brazilian Mapserver Users' Meeting - ENUM.
 
 
* OSGeo-India wishes to encourage academic institutes teaching GIS to also adopt Open Source GIS by helping them providing resource persons from OSGeo-India.
 
  
 
[[Category: Reports 2007]]
 
[[Category: Reports 2007]]

Revision as of 02:48, 27 March 2008

Annual Report

Key Accomplishments

  • Third Brazilian Mapserver Users' Meeting - ENUM
 This meeting was held in May 2007, in the auditorium of the Federal Government Palace, in Brasilia. 
 This meeting was held in Sept 2007, in the auditorium of the Ministry of Health, in Brasilia.

Areas for Improvement

  • OGC WMS and WFS recomendation.
  • I3GEO is now distributed unde Public License.

Opportunities to Help

  • OSGeo members can support local initiatives for organizing the Brazilian Chapter.
  • We help for organizing all documentation to request I3GEO incubation in OSGeo.

Outlook for 2008

  • Fourth Brazilian Mapserver Users' Meeting - ENUM.