Taiwan
Taiwan Chapter of OSGeo
About Taiwan OSGeo Chapter
Mission
The mission of Taiwan local chapter is to empower Taiwan's geo-spatial information society via:
- Facilitate the development of open source geo-spatial software
- Promote open source geo-spatial software
- Promote collecting and sharing of geo-spatial data in public and private sector
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.
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 (Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University)
- Dr. 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)
- Mr. Kuei-Cheng Chen (Steps Co.,LTD)
- Mr. Eric Sun (OSSACC)
- Mr. TzuChiang Liou (IIS, Academia Sinica)
- Mr. 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson