German Language Chapter Report 2009

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

• Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference:
  • FOSSGIS 2009 (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, practical workshops and speeches
  • Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the german language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
  • Planning FOSSGIS 2010 conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
• Participtaion and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions
  • LinuxTag (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
  • AGIT
  • Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of OSGeo Park)
• Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings:
  • OSGeo code sprint Bolsena
  • QGIS developer meetings in Hannover and Vienna
  • Mapbender developer meeting
• Launching own Webserver to host the associations own
  • CMS
  • FOSSGIS-Wiki
  • Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference
  • Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)
• Improvments of profile and PR:
  • New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
  • Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
• Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract):
  • Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
  • Redesgn of FreeGIS-portal - relaunch coming soon in 2010
  • Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
• Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships
• Outview 2010:
  • FOSSGIS-conference 2010
  • FOSS4G in Barcelona
  • INTERGEO, AGIT
  • Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
  • Increase donations
  • Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)