Aust-NZ

Welcome to the home of the Australia/New Zealand chapter of OSGeo

Mailing List

Our mailing list can be subscribed to at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz

Presence at conferences

• 2009-11, Sydney [FOSS4G_2009]. The Free and Open Source conference for Geospatial.
• 2008-03, Brisbane, Queensland Spatial Conference
  • 3 hour workshop on Geospatial Open Source and Mapguide OpenSource
  • OSGeo Stand
• 2008-03, Perth. WALIS Forum
  • An afternoon thread dedicated to everything "Open". Presentations are available from the website.
  • OSGeo stand
  • Early details at [WALIS stand]
• 2007-05, Hobart. Spatial Sciences
  • OSGeo stand
• 2007-01, Sydney. Linux Australia. 1 day stand and lightning talk about OSGeo software

Incorporation

1. In the next month or so we need to get incorporated, probably in Western Australia.

The WA specific requirements can be summarized as: Legislation: WA incorporation legislation

Incorporation Guidelines

• More than 5 members
• Intention to apply for incorporation must be advertised between one and three months before the application is made.
• No residency requirements
• Keep accounts in such a state that they can be audited and presented to members at AGM
• Register of members to be kept with residential or postal address.

Committee

As per votes here, the Committee for the Aust-NZ chapter is:

• Cameron Shorter
• Bruce Bannerman
• Brent Wood
• Tim Bowden
• Shoib Burq

History

Our original page (which contains our initial plans for an Austalian chapter, can be found at [Old Aust chapter page- outdated]