Korean Chapter Report 2008

Korean Language Local Chapter

• Contact name: Shin, Sanghee

Key Accomplishments

• Organizing Korean Language Local Chapter at Feb, 2008
• Creating Korean Language Local Chapter Google Groups Page for Communications
• Holding 3 Times Regular Meeting(May, August, December, 2008)
• Translations(OSGeo Webpage, GRASS Glossary, QGIS Manual)
• Release uDIG Korean version(Thanks to Sejong Univ.)

Areas for Improvement

• OSGeo & FOSS4G are not so well-known to Korean GIS community still yet.
• Most of our works were done by small key-persons.
• We are not a legal entity.

Opportunities to Help

• Successful case of FOSS4G implementations will be warmly welcomed especially in the government area.
• Need help in translating many materials to Korean.

Outlook for 2009

• Regular Meeting(March, June, October - FOSS4G2009:Sydney, December). We are now discussing the joint conference with other major GIS society in Korea to promote FOSS4G & OSGeo.
• Attend GIS Conference as a exhibitor to promote our activities, OSGeo and FOSS4G.
• Preparing legal entity regsistration