Ottawa Chapter Report 2007
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Ottawa Chapter
- Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
- Contact name: Scott Mitchell
Key Accomplishments
- regular meetings, with a combination of presentations to share experience, and social/networking purposes, with a wide range of participants
- presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including GDAL, PROJ, Geoserver, GRASS, Mapbuilder, Nunaliit, the Antarctic Atlas, and Mapnik
- booth presence at the GIS Day events at Carleton University and University of Ottawa, as well as Software Freedom Day
- developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop
- shared experiences from FOSS4G07 with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria
Areas for Improvement
- keeping momentum going to have regular meetings is occasionally challenging
Opportunities to Help
- suggest presentations that you might be able to give to the group
- encourage others to give presentations, or submit suggestions to the group on things you'd like to see
- help pay attention to the calendar and get meetings scheduled, venue reserved, A/V equipment arranged
Outlook for 2008
- more great (informal) meetings!
- work together towards presence at GeoTec 2008 (Jun 2-5, in Ottawa)
- GIS Day 2008
- which lucky members can make it to South Africa?