Poland

Chapter Mission Statement

• • To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its

widespread use in Poland.

• • To support the INSPIRE implementation in Poland, based on open source geospatial

software.

• • To promote GIS education based on open source geospatial software in Poland.
  • To develop and promote Polish open source geospatial software.

Chapter Goals

• To provide the platform for open source geospatial software community integration in

Poland (mailing list, forum, documentation, reference spatial data sets, wiki, etc.).

• To provide an organized structure for experiences and knowledge sharing in Poland

(workshops, conferences, demonstration, etc.).

• To organize users, software developers and interested volunteers in Poland.
• To lobby for the idea of open source geospatial software within Polish academic

community.

• To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based

interoperability in the Polish SDI (including metadata).

• To become SDIC in INSPIRE.
• To support software internationalization and localization to Polish requirements.
• To organize the resources for foundation projects.
• To provide direct links to the OSGeo.

Chapter Members

• Initial member list:
  • Adam Iwaniak (University of Environmental and Life Sciences)
  • Tomasz Kubik (Wroclaw University of Technology)
  • Bartosz Kopańczyk (Geoscope, Inc.)
  • Paweł Netzel (University of Wroclaw)
  • Witold Paluszyński (Wroclaw University of Technology)
• Representative:
  • Tomasz Kubik