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

What happened

Presentation of OSGeo - discussed by Venkatesh Raghavan highlighting the history of OSGeo and possible ways and activities OSGeo-PH can do for upcoming year
The OSGeo-Live project - presented by Maning Sambale
Short presentations about your organization and how you use OSGeo applications.
- Environmental Science for Social Change - Maning presented the current and previous geospatial research activities of the Institute
- World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF and UPLB SESAM - Lawrence and Joan presented QGIS training activities they provide to UPLB Environmental Science students and Agriculture teachers in Northern Luzon
- Openstreetmap Philippines - Eugen presented an overview of Openstreetmap and activities in the Philippines
- UP Diliman & Feati - Jessie presented using OSGeo software as used in the Geodetic Engineering department of UP Diliman and FEATI.
Brainstorming of ideas for the OSGeo-PH local chapter

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

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.