Ottawa Chapter

Key Accomplishments

held regular meetings, which included both presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc
WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms
presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including GDAL, PROJ, Geoserver, GRASS, Mapbuilder, Nunaliit, the Cybercartographic Antarctic Atlas, and Mapnik
booth presence at the GIS Day events at Carleton University and University of Ottawa, as well as Software Freedom Day
developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop
shared experiences from FOSS4G07 with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria

suggest presentations that you might be able to give to the group
encourage others to give presentations, or submit suggestions to the group on things you'd like to see
help pay attention to the calendar and get meetings scheduled, venue reserved, A/V equipment arranged