Dutch Chapter Report 2012

OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter Activity Report 2012

WORK IN PROGRESS - USING KOREAN CHAPTER AS TEMPLATE!!!

• Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
• Contact name: Just van den Broecke (info at osgeo.nl)
• The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in 2007 and changed its status to an official OSGeo Local Chapter in April 2012. The OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter had XY members as of Dec 31st, 2012.

Key Accomplishments

• Events
  • OSGeo.nl Day 2012 : 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)

• Trainings
  • ??

• Developments
  • NLExtract?
  • Heron?
  • More?

• Regular Meetings
  • biweekly IRC (ref)
  • 1 timee IRL meeting
  • Date: February and August, 2012
  • Place: Seoul
  • These meetings were followed by Open Source GIS schools held in Ewha Womans university supported by Ministry of Land, Transport and Marine Affairs.
  • Our members shared knowledge & experiences around open source GIS in the regular meetings. Also we discussed the future activities of OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter.

• Localizations & Translations
  • ??

• Projects
  • ??

• 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.
• Dutch chapter is not still legal entity, therefore there are several limitations to do our activities. We need to change our status to legal entity in near future.
• Need to expand activities to international scale. Our chapter has very talented members however their activities are somewhat isolated here in Korea.
• We need to seek stable revenue source to run our chapter. Our chapter financial is highly dependent on limited donation sources.

Opportunities to Help

• We definitely need some speakers for FOSS4G Korea 2013. If anyone wants to vist Korea and deliver some precious speeches, please contact us anytime.
• We hope more open source GIS related event could be held here in Korea or in Asia region.

Outlook for 2013

• We may see very prosperous year in 2013. As awareness of open source GIS has increased rapidly here in Korea, many organizations got to know the importance of open source GIS software and desire to cooperate with our chapter.
• 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 has started flourishing.
• We'll explore the possibility of hosing FOSS4G 2015 in Korea with other GIS related society like KSIS(Dutch Spatial Information Society).