Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03

Meeting info

• When: December 3, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM timeandate
• Where: ESSC, Manila Observatory Building, Ateneo de Manila University Campus, QC. map
• irc channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo #osgeo-ph

Agenda

• Presentation of OSGeo
• The OSGeo-Live project
• Trip report from FOSS4G 2011 Tokyo/Osaka
• Short presentations about your organization and how you use OSGeo applications.
  • ESSC
  • World Agroforestry Centre - IRRI
  • Openstreetmap Philippines
  • UPLB SESAM
  • UP Diliman & Feati

• Brainstorming of ideas for the OSGeo-PH local chapter

Who attended

1. Maning Sambale - Environmental Science for Social Change
2. Nicolas Bozon (via skype) - OSGeo France
3. Venkatesh Raghavan (via skype) - OSGeo International and Japan
4. Lawrence Ramos - World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF
5. Jessie Linn Ablao - University of the Philippines Diliman - GE Dept.
6. Eugene Alvin Villar - Openstreetmap Philippines
7. Joan Pauline P. Talubo - University of the Philippines Los Baños - School of Environmental Science and Management
8. Rally de Leon - Openstreetmap Philippines

Notes/Minutes

Rough notes

• Need more meetings with other GIS practitioners
• Possible groups we can promote OSGeo:
  • Geodetic Engineering of the Philippines (jessie will initiate contact)
  • Regional Development Councils
  • group will prepare a standard slidedeck as presentation material
• More training materials needed
• Close project tie-ups with OSM-PH
• Need a better understanding on using open source in the business sector (maybe the next meeting can be a presentation on business use cases of OSGeo)
• Invite more people in meetings before formulating an OSGeo-PH plan and future organizational directions.
• Use the osgeo-ph mailinglist for answering specific GIS questions. Encourage non-english language.

• Photos/flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/tags/osgeoph/