Dutch Chapter Report 2012

OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter Activity Report 2012

• Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
• Contact name: Gert-Jan van der Weijden (chair), Just van den Broecke (secretary)
• The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007, applied for FOSS4G 2010 and then became semi-dormant.
• Revival started at the FOSS4G 2011 in Denver and a subsequent BoF meeting on december 1, 2011 with the support of Arnulf Christl.
• Throughout 2012 there was high activity; summary:
  • public events: Newyear's-party, GWF FOSS Seminar and OSGeo.nl Conference
  • meetings: biweekly IRC with reports and one IRL meeting
  • meeting: IRC with reports
  • legal foundation formation and board election preparation (to be finalized in april 2013)
  • OSGeo.nl website
  • OSGeo.nl Wiki
  • OSGeo.nl Agenda via Meetup
  • OSGeo.nl photos on Flickr
• Official OSGeo Local Chapter status was acquired in April 2012.
• The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter had around 100 members (via Wiki+mailing list) as of Dec 31st, 2012
• OSGeo.nl has a close relationship with the Dutch OpenStreetMap community, e.g. organizing events jointly as much as possible

Key Accomplishments

• Events
  • New Year's Party with OpenStreetMap NL Community - about 40-50 people
  • Open Source Seminar at Geospatial World Forum
    • Date: April 25, 2012
    • Venue: RAI, Amsterdam
    • Organizer: OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
    • Keynote Speakers : Arnulf Christl
    • The event was highly successful with around 40-50 participants. If we had more room we could have seated twice the amount.
  • OSGeo.nl Day 2012 : The first annual OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter conference.
    • Date: June 30, 2012
    • Venue: Hogeschool Larenstein, Velp
    • Organizer: MapWindow Conference/Hogeschool Larenstein with OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter
    • Keynote Speakers : Just van den Broecke
    • The event was highly successful with around 160 participants. (more text needed)

• Developments
  • Wiki (see above)
  • Website (see above)

• Regular Meetings
  • biweekly IRC (ref)
  • one-time IRL meeting
    • Date: February and August, 2012
    • Place: Amersfoort

• Localizations & Translations
  • GeoServer translations
  • QGIS plugins
  • OpenLayers contributions

• Projects
  • Dutch national open SDI built on OSGeo Software: PDOK, http://pdok.nl
  • NLExtract: ETL for Dutch Open Geodata: http://nlextract.nl
  • http://heron-mc.org, GeoExt-based Web Mapping Client

• Outreach Activities
  • Dutch chapter has conducted several outreach activities???
  • Outreach Lectures : ????

Areas for Improvement

• Still, too much dependency on too small key members. More active members should be involved.
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Opportunities to Help

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Outlook for 2013

• We may see very prosperous year in 2013. ..
• Legal entity
• In 2013, we may attract more members to our chapter and could run our chapter in more systematic way. We hope that 2013 is the year that OSGeo Dutch Chapter remains flourishing and expanding.
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