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Revision as of 07:20, 15 May 2008
Mission
The mission of the UK Chapter broadly follows the general OSGeo Mission, with emphasis o n the following areas: (please add and edit as you see fit):
- To provide a forum for discussion and promotion of Open Source Geospatial Software in the UK
- To help more UK organisations discover the opportunity of open source geospatial tools
- To support the development of a fully featured UK SDI
- To provide a starting point for people from the UK who are new to the Open Source Geospatial movement
- To raise awareness of the benefits of public access to geodata in the UK
- To work with OGC members in the UK to promote the implementation and development of open standards for geodata exchange
- To, maybe, one day, act as focal point for a UK-hosted and organised FOSS4G conference
Mailing List
Discussion list:
- http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk
http://lists.openarchaeology.net/mailman/listinfo/osgeo-uk
Meetings and Events
One really useful role of a UK OSGeo chapter would be as a focal point for organising meetings - evening presentation sessions or short seminars with Q and A afterwards.
Upcoming Events
16-17th June 2008: Meetup during the University of Nottingham's Geowebservices workshop. We are looking for people to help promote OSGeo at the event- check out the mailing list for details.
Recent Events
1st May 2008: UK OSGEO meetup after 1Spatial Conference at Radisson Hotel, Stansted. This is your chance to decide what a UK local chapter should do! See the wiki page here to sign up.
8th-10th December 2006: The UK-originated OpenGuides Open Source spatial wiki project is having a pub meetup and "hackfest" in Oxford - http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordMeetup2006
- There will be a few OpenStreetMap people at this event too (there's a fair degree of overlap). Crash space is available, and nice pubs will be visited!
Tuesday September, 26th 2006: Steve Coast of OpenStreetmap fame gave a talk to the BCS entitled Geospatial Open Source Activity. Details at http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#3
OpenStreetmap also have regular UK mapping parties in different cities
Don't forget to sign the Inspire petition -and tell your friends too - you don't have to use geo-data to believe that publically funded work should be public property! http://petition.publicgeodata.org/
People
Sign up here to show interest! Also join the mailing list so we can be in touch directly.
- User:Chrisputtick- Yes, definitely worth doing
- User:JoCook - woohoo!
- User:Leifuss
- User:Stuarteve - +1
- User:JoWalsh
- User:andyt
- User:Davidjlock
- User:Simon - Excellent! All for this!!
- User:Graeme
- User:SteveW
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- User:Gagravarr - involved in OpenGuides and OpenStreetMap in the UK
- User:Mdgreaney
- User:Mander - New to all this, but it sounds interesting and I'd like to be involved.
- User:rollo - sign me up!
- User:SimonAbele
- User:Borntopedal
- User:Jcrone
- User:AntBeck