Initial Ottawa Local Chapter Meeting 2006-07-20
Ottawa OSGeo Local Chapter Initial Meeting
Location
DM Solutions' office
Attendees
Dave Sampson Jeff McKenna Frank Warmerdam Peter Brimacombe Debbie Pagurek Dave McIlhagga Shawn Barnes Yewondwossen Assefa Zak James Girma Gebrehana Mark Sunohara Robert Roberts Paul Spencer Dave Howlett Christy Nieman Regie Alam Richard Alam Grahame Cole Pedram Karimi Mike Adair Scott Mitchell Peter Pulsifer Jean-Francois Doyon Xiaoyuan Geng
Project Representation
GRASS MapServer [http://communitymapbuilder.org/ Mapbuilder]
Discussion
Introductions
- round table introductions
- diverse backgrounds, including government, private, academic, NGOs, contractors, general interest
- background on Ottawa GRASS users group (OGUG) by Dave Sampson
- background on Ottawa MapServer users group (OMSUG) by Jeff McKenna
- background on Mapbuilder project by Mike Adair
OSGeo Foundation Background
Frank Warmerdam, the president of