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Philadephia Local Chapter

The Philadelphia chapter of OSGeo is based on the user group around metropolitan Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia chapter is a proposed chapter of OSGeo, seeking out a critical mass of users prior to formal Chapter incorporation.

History

Started: November, 2008 at Chapter House coffee shop.

Mission

The OSGeo Philadelphia Chapter strives to provide support for local users of Open Source Geospatial software, and to promote the goals and projects of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The Chapter is focused on the Philadelphia metropolitan region of the United States. The group plans to host meetings providing networking, support and educational opportunities to the local members.

Events

OSGeo Philadelphia Event calendar: HTML ICAL

Continuing Goals

Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
Help act as a breeding ground for new projects
Serve as starting point/meetup resource for geospatial software discussions.

In a perfect world, we would like to see OSGeo-PHL as:

A meeting place for Software Developers to gather and discuss FOSS4G technologies.
Meetings could be facilitated by members who are interested in specific OS Geo projects/goals.
Meetings could be opportunities for members to participate in code sprints.

Notes on meetings: they should be presented as opportunities for both learners and doers. Learning a technology can be 1/2 the meeting time, and coding can be the remainder. Meetings should be advertised as 2-in-1, for example: Today we are listening to a presentation on OpenLayers for an hour. Following that, we will be coding on member projects or OSGeo projects for about an hour. Following that will be socialization at a nearby pub. Come for the learning, come for the coding, come for the beer, or come for all of them.

Near Term Goals

~~Set up mailing list~~
~~IRC room~~, meeting time
~~Set up OSGeo PHL event calendar~~
Identify mailing list audience and get to them
Come up with list of goals for group? Maybe a basic context for user list (list of topics/guidelines).

Initial User Base

Commercial:

http://www.wwwcomm.com/

Software User Groups:

http://phillyjug.jsync.com/ - Java UG
http://www.phillyalt.net/ - .NET UP
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PhillyPug/ - Python UG
http://phflex.org/ - Flex UG
http://philadelphia.pm.org/ - Pearlmongers
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pearstalk/ - Php UG
http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/ - Ubuntu UG

Other OS Users:

Drupal
DotNetNuke
Plone
Mambo/Joomla

Other Professional Organizations:

Urban Planning
Architecture
Geography
Open Data
Conservation
Environmental
Recreation
Campaigning

Social Networks:

LinkedIn
Facebook page?
Meetup.com?

Other Lists:

PANMA
Make:Philly
Hacktory

Membership

2 total.

Contact Information

Mailing list:

philadelphia@lists.osgeo.org

IRC:

#osgeo-phl (irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo-phl)

Founders:

Michael McLarnon: mmclar [at] gmail [dot] com
David Zwarg

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 * Help act as a breeding ground for new projects
 * Serve as starting point/meetup resource for geospatial software discussions.
+In a perfect world, we would like to see OSGeo-PHL as:
+* A meeting place for Software Developers to gather and discuss FOSS4G technologies.
+* Meetings could be facilitated by members who are interested in specific OS Geo projects/goals.
+* Meetings could be opportunities for members to participate in code sprints.
+Notes on meetings: they should be presented as opportunities for both learners and doers.  Learning a technology can be 1/2 the meeting time, and coding can be the remainder. Meetings should be advertised as 2-in-1, for example: Today we are listening to a presentation on OpenLayers for an hour.  Following that, we will be coding on member projects or OSGeo projects for about an hour. Following that will be socialization at a nearby pub. Come for the learning, come for the coding, come for the beer, or come for all of them.
 == Near Term Goals ==