Taiwan

Taiwan Chapter of OSGeo

About Taiwan OSGeo Chapter

Mission

The mission of Taiwan local chapter is to empower Taiwan's geo-information society via:

• Facilitate the development of open source geo-spatial software
• Promote open source geo-spatial software
• Promote collecting and sharing of open geo-spatial data

Objectives

• Legalization of OSGeo Taiwan
• Geo-spatial data roadmap?
• Localization?
• Goverment agencies lobby project

Other possible not yet discussed objectives;

• Integrating grassroot Geo-Data processing community and Scaling-up
• Visionizing future global geo-spatial scenario
• Lobbying and influencing governmental open geo-data initiatives
• Promotion and outreaching in GIS market and user communities
• Forming strategic alliance among affiliations

Legal status

Volunteer organization right now, about to turn into a legal Taiwanese organization.

Initial Membership

• Mr. Dongpo Deng (IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Hsiung-Ming "veevee" Liao (Computing Center, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Shih-Chieh "Ilya" Li (NDAP, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Sander Borghuis (s.borghuis at geo dot uu dot nl, NTU, UU.nl)
• Mr. Tain-Yuan Shih
• Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Creative Commons Taiwan Project, IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Yi-Hong Chang (IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Tsung-Wei "Marr" Hu (OSSF, IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Dr. Sheng-Tsai Huang (NPUST, Community University)

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