Quebec Chapter Report 2011

Quebec Local Chapter Report for 2011

Contact name: Daniel Morissette (for the Quebec Local Chapter Steering Committee)

Organized the Montreal OSGeo Code Sprint on March 15-18, 2011. This event was a great success with 29 OSGeo project developers and contributors from North America and Europe meeting face to face to work on half a dozen OSGeo project for four days. Read more in the wiki and in this blog article.
Held local meetings around the province:
- March 14, 2011: OSGeo-Qc 5 à 7 in Montreal, before the OSGeo Code Sprint.
- October 11, 2011: OSGeo-Qc 5 à 7 in Montreal, right after WhereCamp Mtl and before the opening of Geomatics 2011
- November 9, 2011: OSGeo-Qc 5 à 7 in Quebec City
Decision to organize a second edition of Rendez-vous OSGeo-Quebec in 2012, in collaboration with Vision Geomatique as was done in 2010.
Creation of a legal entity for the local chapter: OSGEO-QUEBEC was officially incorporated as a Quebec nonprofit organization on 2011-01-27, with the 5 members of the local chapter's steering committee as directors.
Elections for the Quebec Local Chapter Steering Committee took place between Nov. 28 and Dec 13, 2011. The current steering committee members for 2011-2012 are:
- Daniel Morissette (2008-2012)
- Thierry Badard (2008-2012)
- Simon Mercier (2009-2013)
- Daniel Pilon (2010-2012)
- Jean-Denis Giguère (2011-2013)

There continues to be growing interest for Open Source Geospatial software (and data) in Quebec, we had a great start in the past years and especially with our very successful Rendez-vous OSGeo-Quebec in 2010, and now that we set the bar high we need to keep the momentum going.

Rendez-vous OSGeo Quebec 2012 offers lots of opportunities for people interested in contributing:
- Join the organizing committee
- Answer the upcoming call for presentations and share your work with your peers
- Help with specific tasks
- Register for the event and join us in Saguenay in October!

The main activity of 2012 will be the Rendez-vous OSGeo-Quebec 2012 (October 17-18)
We will also continue to hold local meetings ("5 à 7") around the province with 2-3 15 minute presentations each time