Scotland
Mission
The mission of the UK Chapter broadly follows the general OSGeo Mission, with emphasis on the following areas: (please add and edit as you see fit):
In addition we would like to work towards the following:
- A fully-featured open access Scottish SDI
- Assisting the UK Chapter someday hosting the FOSS4G conference in the UK
Links to Case Studies
Please add any appropriate links here
- City of Munich move to a completely open source software solution (pdf)
- Interview with CIO of Oxford Archaeology on the move towards open source [1]
- Not strictly a Case Study, but a useful discussion on the differences between Open Source Business Models in Europe and the US [2]
- Actuate Annual Open Source Survey 2008 shows open source is entering the business mainstream in both Europe and the US [3]
Publicly Available Geodata
In progress- please contact the mailing list if you have any legitimate free sources of geospatial data that you would like to include
Also check the CKAN pages for geodata sources- mainly global but some UK
Mailing List
Discussion list:
- http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/scotland
http://lists.openarchaeology.net/mailman/listinfo/osgeo-scotland
Meetings and Events
One really useful role of a Scotland OSGeo chapter would be as a focal point for organising meetings - evening presentation sessions or short seminars with Q and A afterwards.
Upcoming Events
Recent Events
21st November 2008: Initial meetup at the University of Edinburgh's Geowebservices workshop seminarseries. This meeting to ascertain level of inetetrst in establishing an offical local Chapter.
OpenStreetmap also have regular UK mapping parties in different cities
Don't forget to sign the Inspire petition -and tell your friends too - you don't have to use geo-data to believe that publically funded work should be public property! http://petition.publicgeodata.org/
People
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