European Network

this is a temporary page to define a common set of interests between all European Chapters.

Active Chapters

• mailing list
  • url
  • subscribers: #
• legally recognized or not
• Brief History
• Successful realities of Gis-FOSS in the country (es: GRASS development in Trento, IT; gvSIG community in Valencia, OSM in England, ecc.)

Czech Chapter

mailing list

• URL
• number of subscribers: about 140

legally recognized or not

not yet

brief history

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• GRASSWikiCZ

France (in Francophone Chapter)

mailing list

• URL
• number of subscribers: about 110

legally recognized or not

not yet, soon.

brief history

create in 2006 after the Lausanne FOSS4G. This first group communicated about the Francophone Local Chapter to propose to everyone interesting in this local chapter, then we were present to the main french Trade show in april 2007. One of our biggest project is the translation of the OSGeo Journal. Finally our formal proposal has been accepted on September by the OSGeo Board.

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• CartoWeb et Communauté CartoWeb
• ...

German language Chapter (DACH)

mailing list

• inofficial mailing list
• number of subscribers:

legally recognized or not

not yet legally recognized, but discussion about the task is ongoing

brief history

The DACH-area (german language) is a very active part of the OpenSource-GIS Community. Several companies and projects acting at this field long before the creation of OSGEO. GAV (GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung e.V.) was founded in 2000 and worked on the support of Free GIS-software and geodata. Projects like freegis.org startet earlier. The communitie with strong support of the companies (i.e. CCGIS, MapMedia, Intevation, in medias res, delphi imm, ..) organized an annual conference concerning the topic and the FOSSGIS 2008 will take place in Freiburg (Breisgau) in southern Germany to get more people from Switzerland, Austria and France. The money, that was earned from the conferences is hold on trust through the GAV and will suppport the work of the OSGEO in DACH.

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• FreeGIS Portal
• GAV (GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung e.V.)
• FOSSGIS (Annual Conference)

Italian Chapter

mailing list

• URL
• number of subscribers: more then 260

legally recognized or not

• yes, as Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera GFOSS.it (Geographic Free/Open-Source Software)
• approved by OSGeo board

brief history

Legally recognized as Italian Association since February 2007, the community has a longer history around GRASS Italian Community and its meetings since year 2000. The mailing list is active since April 2005. Primary efforts are community knowhow, software localization, events organization, FOSS GIS lobbying in general.

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• GRASS in Trento: http://grass.itc.it
• JGRASS in Merano: http://www.jgrass.org
• others: ?!?

Romanian Chapter

brief history

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• http://geo-spatial.org/

Spain (in Spanish Language Chapter)

mailing list

• URL
• number of subscribers: more than 160 (Oct 17, 2007)

legally recognized or not

no

brief history

Start from Girona March 2007, mailing list, OSGeo portal translation, Libro SiG.

Related OSGeo page.

Successful realities of Gis-FOSS

• gvSIG: ...
• Sextante: ...
• Libro SIG
• ...

United Kingdom Chapter

mailing list

• mailing list

brief history

Related OSGeo page.