Dutch Chapter Report 2012

OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter Activity Report 2012

WORK IN PROGRESS - USING KOREAN CHAPTER AS TEMPLATE!!!

• Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
• Contact name: Just van den Broecke (info at osgeo.nl)
• The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007 and changed its status to an official OSGeo Local Chapter in April 2012. The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter had XY members as of Dec 31st, 2012.

Key Accomplishments

• Events

• • New Year's Drink with OpenStreetMap NL Community - about 40-50 people

• • Open Source Seminar at Geospatial World Forum
    • Date: April 25, 2012
    • Venue: RAI, Amsterdam
    • Organizer: OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
    • Keynote Speakers : Arnulf Christl
    • The event was highly successful with around 40-50 participants. If we had more room we could have seated twice the amount.

• • OSGeo.nl Day 2012 : The first annual OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter conference.
    • Date: June 30, 2012
    • Venue: Hogeschool Larenstein, Velp
    • Organizer: MapWindow Conference/Hogeschool Larenstein with OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
    • Keynote Speakers : Just van den Broecke
    • The event was highly successful with around 160 participants. (more text needed)

• Trainings
  • ??

• Developments
  • Wiki
  • Website

• • More?

• Regular Meetings
  • biweekly IRC (ref)
  • one-time IRL meeting
  • Date: February and August, 2012
  • Place: Amersfoort
  • Expand Expand

• Localizations & Translations
  • GeoServer : Milo?
  • QGIS: Richard en Raymond?
  • meer?

• Projects
  • PDOK?
  • NLExtract?
  • Heron?

• Outreach Activities
  • Dutch chapter has conducted several outreach activities???
  • Outreach Lectures : ????

Areas for Improvement

• Still, too much dependency on too small key members. More active members should be involved.
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Opportunities to Help

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Outlook for 2013

• We may see very prosperous year in 2013. ..
• Legal entity
• In 2013, we may attract more members to our chapter and could run our chapter in more systematic way. We hope that 2013 is the year that OSGeo Dutch Chapter remains flourishing and expanding.
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