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OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:26:35Z

Gael1:

= OSGeoBE General Assembly 2025 =

== General Information ==
* '''Location:''' Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
* '''Date:''' Nov 21, 2025 18:30 - Started at 19:00; Ended at 22:10
* '''Meeting Secretary:''' Jonathan

== Participants ==
=== Board Members ===
* Gaël (Chairman)
* Roel (Treasurer)
* Céline
* Marc
* Michel
* Jordan

=== Charter/Voting Members ===
* Maëlle
* Jonathan

=== Non-Voting Members ===
* Killian
* Olmo
* Xavier
* Charlotte
* Nicholus

== Agenda ==
# Opening
# Call to charter/voting members
# Activity report 2025
# Financial report 2025
# Discharge of the board
# Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
# Events planning for 2026
# Provisional budget for 2026
# Approval of status updates
# Call for board members
# Miscellaneous

== Minutes ==

=== 1. Opening ===
* Jonathan proposes himself and is appointed as meeting secretary.
* Gaël suggests moving the point ''"Call to charter/voting members"'' as the first point of the meeting to include the new members present.
* There is no proxy for the votes.
* Quorum is reached: Maëlle and Jonathan are present.

=== 2. Call to charter/voting members ===
The following people are proposing themselves as charter/voting members:
* Charlotte
* Killian
* Olmo
* Xavier

Those 4 new members are endorsed by at least 2 charter/voting/board members and are approved as new charter/voting members.

=== 3. Activity report 2025 ===
* Gaël summarizes the events/meetings that have happened since 2022.
* Gaël emphasizes the workload of organizing events such as FOSS4G and suggests spreading this load among members so it's not always the same "core people" doing all the work.
* Gaël also emphasizes the need for more communication around OSGeoBE in our respective networks to attract more members; without new members, the organization will not survive.

=== 4. Financial report 2025 ===
* Roel presents the financial final report for 2024 and the temporary report for 2025.
* Maëlle asks for changes: adapt the title to clarify the report.
* Roel will make the requested changes and publish the financial report.
* The financial report for 2024 is approved unanimously (after changes).

=== 5. Discharge of the board ===
* The board is discharged (unanimous vote).

=== 6. Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025 ===
* A separate meeting to debrief FOSS4G BE 2025 will be organized on '''Dec 3, 2025, at 18:30'''.
* Marc will communicate about the debriefing meeting via the mailing list.

'''Feedback:'''
* '''(Mostly) Negative:'''
** Ticket price too high
** Not enough food/drinks
** More involvement needed
** Start preparation earlier
** Make clear/defined tasks
** Difficult for newcomers to know what to do to help
** Split the work
** Need to send a feedback form after the event
** Debriefing needed
** More communication on social media needed
** Location too expensive

* '''(Mostly) Positive:'''
** Happy with the talks and the event
** Clear tasks were assigned
** Nice location
** Important event; we must keep organizing it

=== 7. Events planning for 2026 ===
* '''New Year celebration:''' Jan 2026; Gaël will organize it.
* '''FOSDEM 2026:''' Jan 31 or Feb 1, 2026; Michel and Jordan will support the GeoSpatial Dev Room if needed.
* '''PostgreSQL/PostGIS Meetup:''' OSGeoBE proposes to co-organize a meetup with the PostgreSQL BE community ([https://www.meetup.com/postgresbe/ PostgreSQL BE Meetup]) in the first quarter of 2026, focusing on PostGIS. Maëlle and Gaël are responsible for contacting Stefan to coordinate this event.
* '''FOSS4G BE:''' Sep 2026; Jonathan will take care of the OSMBE track.
* We will organize an '''OSGeo BE members meeting per quarter''' in Brussels on the last (or first) Wednesday of the month; Gaël will organize it.

'''Note on PostgreSQL events in Belgium (thanks to Stefan for precision):'''
* The annual ''pgconf.be'' is organized independently by a UCL professor ([https://pgconf.be/ website]) and does not accept external collaboration, including from the PostgreSQL community.
* For 2027, if the FOSDEM PGDay formula does not evolve, a new '''BeNeLux PostgreSQL event''' might be launched in March 2027.

=== 8. Provisional budget for 2026 ===
* There is no real need to search for extra income; FOSS4G BE is enough to cover our yearly costs.
* Roel will publish the provisional budget.
* The provisional budget for 2026 is approved unanimously.

=== 9. Approval of status updates ===
* Gaël presents the status updates, which were already presented and discussed during the General Assembly of 2024 but never finalized.
* Maëlle requests changes to clarify the statuses:
** ''Art. 6:''' Add that members have responsibilities to stay a member (take part in meetings, vote for the board, etc.).
** ''Art. 8 and 8 bis:''' Remove any mention of a physical person as a sponsor member.
* Gaël will make the requested changes and publish the updates to the monitor (including the list of updated board members).
* Status updates are approved unanimously (after changes).

=== 10. Call for board members ===
* Board members should take defined responsibilities.
** ''Secretary:''' No candidate.
** ''Web/Archives:''' Marc and Gaël; Jonathan will help (even though he's not a board member).
** ''Sponsors/Partnership:''' No candidate.
** ''Events:''' No candidate.

=== 11. Miscellaneous ===
* Marc suggests moving away from Google Drive (proposal supported by several members) and proposes moving to [https://nubo.coop/ nubo.coop].
* Olmo suggests improving internal communication by setting up something similar to Slack.
* We already have a channel on Element/Matrix; a few people suggest using Element/Matrix.
* Jonathan will set up an '''Element/Matrix Space for OSGeoBE''' to regroup our different channels (public channel, FOSS4GBE organization, members, etc.).
* The quarterly members meeting should also help improve internal communication.

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:16:38Z

Gael1:

= OSGeoBE General Assembly 2025 =

== General Information ==
* '''Location:''' Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
* '''Date:''' Nov 21, 2025 18:30 - Started at 19:00; Ended at 22:10
* '''Meeting Secretary:''' Jonathan

== Participants ==
=== Board Members ===
* Gaël (Chairman)
* Roel (Treasurer)
* Céline
* Marc
* Michel
* Jordan

=== Charter/Voting Members ===
* Maëlle
* Jonathan

=== Non-Voting Members ===
* Killian
* Olmo
* Xavier
* Charlotte
* Nicholus

== Agenda ==
# Opening
# Call to charter/voting members
# Activity report 2025
# Financial report 2025
# Discharge of the board
# Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
# Events planning for 2026
# Provisional budget for 2026
# Approval of status updates
# Call for board members
# Miscellaneous

== Minutes ==

=== 1. Opening ===
* Jonathan proposes himself and is appointed as meeting secretary.
* Gaël suggests moving the point ''"Call to charter/voting members"'' as the first point of the meeting to include the new members present.
* There is no proxy for the votes.
* Quorum is reached: Maëlle and Jonathan are present.

=== 2. Call to charter/voting members ===
The following people are proposing themselves as charter/voting members:
* Charlotte
* Killian
* Olmo
* Xavier

Those 4 new members are endorsed by at least 2 charter/voting/board members and are approved as new charter/voting members.

=== 3. Activity report 2025 ===
* Gaël summarizes the events/meetings that have happened since 2022.
* Gaël emphasizes the workload of organizing events such as FOSS4G and suggests spreading this load among members so it's not always the same "core people" doing all the work.
* Gaël also emphasizes the need for more communication around OSGeoBE in our respective networks to attract more members; without new members, the organization will not survive.

=== 4. Financial report 2025 ===
* Roel presents the financial final report for 2024 and the temporary report for 2025.
* Maëlle asks for changes: adapt the title to clarify the report.
* Roel will make the requested changes and publish the financial report.
* The financial report for 2024 is approved unanimously (after changes).

=== 5. Discharge of the board ===
* The board is discharged (unanimous vote).

=== 6. Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025 ===
* A separate meeting to debrief FOSS4G BE 2025 will be organized on '''Dec 3, 2025, at 18:30'''.
* Marc will communicate about the debriefing meeting via the mailing list.

'''Feedback:'''
* '''(Mostly) Negative:'''
** Ticket price too high
** Not enough food/drinks
** More involvement needed
** Start preparation earlier
** Make clear/defined tasks
** Difficult for newcomers to know what to do to help
** Split the work
** Need to send a feedback form after the event
** Debriefing needed
** More communication on social media needed
** Location too expensive

* '''(Mostly) Positive:'''
** Happy with the talks and the event
** Clear tasks were assigned
** Nice location
** Important event; we must keep organizing it

=== 7. Events planning for 2026 ===
* '''New Year celebration:''' Jan 2026; Gaël will organize it.
* '''FOSSDEM 2026 GeoSpatial Dev Room:''' Jan 31, 2026, or Feb 1, 2026; not organized by OSGeoBE, but Michel and Jordan will support if needed.
* '''PGDay Belgium 2026 (in collaboration with PostgreSQL):''' Spring 2026; Maëlle and Gaël will help organize it.
* '''FOSS4G BE:''' Sep 2026; Jonathan will take care of the OSMBE track.
* We will organize an '''OSGeo BE members meeting per quarter''' in Brussels on the last (or first) Wednesday of the month; Gaël will organize it.

=== 8. Provisional budget for 2026 ===
* There is no real need to search for extra income; FOSS4G BE is enough to cover our yearly costs.
* Roel will publish the provisional budget.
* The provisional budget for 2026 is approved unanimously.

=== 9. Approval of status updates ===
* Gaël presents the status updates, which were already presented and discussed during the General Assembly of 2024 but never finalized.
* Maëlle requests changes to clarify the statuses:
** ''Art. 6:''' Add that members have responsibilities to stay a member (take part in meetings, vote for the board, etc.).
** ''Art. 8 and 8 bis:''' Remove any mention of a physical person as a sponsor member.
* Gaël will make the requested changes and publish the updates to the monitor (including the list of updated board members).
* Status updates are approved unanimously (after changes).

=== 10. Call for board members ===
* Board members should take defined responsibilities.
** ''Secretary:''' No candidate.
** ''Web/Archives:''' Marc and Gaël; Jonathan will help (even though he's not a board member).
** ''Sponsors/Partnership:''' No candidate.
** ''Events:''' No candidate.

=== 11. Miscellaneous ===
* Marc suggests moving away from Google Drive (proposal supported by several members) and proposes moving to [https://nubo.coop/ nubo.coop].
* Olmo suggests improving internal communication by setting up something similar to Slack.
* We already have a channel on Element/Matrix; a few people suggest using Element/Matrix.
* Jonathan will set up an '''Element/Matrix Space for OSGeoBE''' to regroup our different channels (public channel, FOSS4GBE organization, members, etc.).
* The quarterly members meeting should also help improve internal communication.

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:09:12Z

Gael1:

OSGeoBE General Assembly 2025
Location : Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Brussels
Date : November 21, 2025, 6:30 PM (started at 7:00 PM, ended at 10:10 PM)

---

Participants

Board Members
- Gaël (Chairman)
- Roel (Treasurer)
- Céline
- Marc
- Michel
- Jordan

Charter/Voting Members
- Maëlle
- Jonathan

Non-Voting Members
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier
- Charlotte
- Nicholus

Meeting Secretary : Jonathan

---

Agenda and Decisions

1. Opening
- Jonathan appointed as meeting secretary.
- Gaël suggests moving "Call to charter/voting members" to the first point to include new members present.
- Quorum reached : Maëlle and Jonathan present.

2. Call to Charter/Voting Members
New members proposed and approved :
- Charlotte
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier

3. Activity Report 2025
- Gaël summarizes events and activities since 2022.
- Key points :
- Need to spread the organizational workload (e.g., FOSS4G).
- Importance of better communication to attract new members.

4. Financial Report 2025
- Roel presents the final 2024 report and provisional 2025 report.
- Decision : Maëlle requests title clarifications. Roel will publish the corrected version.
- Approval : 2024 report approved unanimously.

5. Discharge of the Board
- Decision : Board discharged unanimously.

6. Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
- Debriefing meeting : December 3, 2025, at 6:30 PM (Marc will communicate via mailing list).
- Feedback :
- Areas for improvement : Ticket prices, food/drinks, involvement, earlier preparation, clear tasks, newcomer guidance, feedback form, social media communication.
- Positive points : Quality of talks, venue, event importance.

7. Events Planning for 2026

| Event | Date | Responsible |
|---------------------------|----------------|----------------------|
| New Year Celebration | January 2026 | Gaël |
| FOSSDEM 2026 (GeoSpatial Dev Room) | January 31 or February 1 | Michel, Jordan (support) |
| PGDay Belgium 2026 | Spring 2026 | Maëlle, Gaël |
| FOSS4G BE | September 2026 | Jonathan (OSMBE track) |
| Quarterly Members Meeting | Last/first Wednesday of the month | Gaël |

8. Provisional Budget for 2026
- Decision : No need for extra income. Budget approved unanimously.

9. Approval of Status Updates
- Changes requested :
- Art. 6: Add member responsibilities (attendance, voting, etc.).
- Art. 8 and 8 bis: Remove mention of physical persons as sponsor members.
- Decision : Gaël will publish the updated status.

10. Call for Board Members
- Open roles :
- Secretary: No candidate.
- Web/Archives: Marc, Gaël (Jonathan to assist).
- Sponsors/Partnerships: No candidate.
- Events: No candidate.

11. Miscellaneous
- Proposals :
- Move from Google Drive to [Nubo.coop](https://nubo.coop) (Marc).
- Set up an Element/Matrix space for internal communication (Jonathan).

---
Meeting adjourned : 10:10 PM

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:04:46Z

Gael1:

# Assemblée Générale OSGeoBE 2025
**Lieu** : Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
**Date** : 21 novembre 2025, 18h30 (début à 19h00, fin à 22h10)

---

## Participants

### Membres du bureau
- Gaël (Président)
- Roel (Trésorier)
- Céline
- Marc
- Michel
- Jordan

### Membres charter/votants
- Maëlle
- Jonathan

### Membres non-votants
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier
- Charlotte
- Nicholus

**Secrétaire de séance** : Jonathan

---

## Ordre du jour et décisions

### 1. Ouverture
- Jonathan est nommé secrétaire de séance.
- Gaël propose de traiter en premier l’**appel aux membres charter/votants** pour intégrer les nouveaux membres présents.
- **Quorum atteint** : Maëlle et Jonathan présents.

### 2. Appel aux membres charter/votants
**Nouveaux membres proposés et approuvés** :
- Charlotte
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier

### 3. Rapport d’activité 2025
- Gaël résume les activités depuis 2022.
- **Points clés** :
- Nécessité de **répartir la charge d’organisation** (ex. FOSS4G).
- Renforcer la **communication** pour attirer de nouveaux membres.

### 4. Rapport financier 2025
- Roel présente les rapports 2024 (final) et 2025 (provisoire).
- **Décision** : Maëlle demande des clarifications dans le titre. Roel publiera la version corrigée.
- **Approbation** : Rapport 2024 approuvé à l’unanimité.

### 5. Décharge du bureau
- **Décision** : Bureau déchargé à l’unanimité.

### 6. Débriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
- **Réunion de debriefing** : 3 décembre 2025 à 18h30 (communication par Marc via mailing-list).
- **Retours** :
- **À améliorer** : Prix des billets, nourriture/boissons, implication, préparation, tâches claires, feedback post-événement, communication sur les réseaux sociaux.
- **Points positifs** : Qualité des conférences, lieu, importance de l’événement.

### 7. Planification des événements 2026

| Événement | Date | Responsables |
|-------------------------------|----------------|-----------------------|
| Célébration Nouvel An | Janvier 2026 | Gaël |
| FOSSDEM 2026 (GeoSpatial Dev) | 31/01 ou 01/02 | Michel, Jordan (support) |
| PGDay Belgium 2026 | Printemps 2026 | Maëlle, Gaël |
| FOSS4G BE | Septembre 2026 | Jonathan (track OSMBE) |
| Réunions trimestrielles | Dernier/1er mercredi du mois | Gaël |

### 8. Budget prévisionnel 2026
- **Décision** : Pas de besoin de revenus supplémentaires. Budget approuvé à l’unanimité.

### 9. Mises à jour des statuts
- **Modifications** :
- Art. 6 : Ajout de responsabilités pour les membres.
- Art. 8 et 8 bis : Suppression de la mention des personnes physiques comme membres sponsors.
- **Décision** : Gaël publiera les modifications.

### 10. Appel aux membres du bureau
- **Rôles à pourvoir** :
- Secrétaire : Aucun candidat.
- Web/Archives : Marc, Gaël (Jonathan en support).
- Sponsors/Partenariats : Aucun candidat.
- Événements : Aucun candidat.

### 11. Divers
- **Propositions** :
- Migration de Google Drive vers [Nubo.coop](https://nubo.coop) (Marc).
- Création d’un espace **Element/Matrix** pour améliorer la communication interne (Jonathan).

---
**Fin de la réunion** : 22h10

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:03:51Z

Gael1:

# Assemblée Générale OSGeoBE 2025
**Lieu** : Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
**Date** : 21 novembre 2025, 18h30 (début à 19h00, fin à 22h10)

---

## Ordre du jour
1. Ouverture
2. Appel aux membres charter/votants
3. Rapport d’activité 2025
4. Rapport financier 2025
5. Décharge du bureau
6. Débriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
7. Planification des événements 2026
8. Budget prévisionnel 2026
9. Approbation des mises à jour des statuts
10. Appel aux membres du bureau
11. Divers

---

## Participants
### Membres du bureau
- Gaël (Président)
- Roel (Trésorier)
- Céline
- Marc
- Michel
- Jordan

### Membres charter/votants
- Maëlle
- Jonathan

### Membres non-votants
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier
- Charlotte
- Nicholus

**Secrétaire de séance** : Jonathan

---

## Déroulement de la réunion

### 1. Ouverture
- Jonathan se propose et est nommé secrétaire de séance.
- Gaël propose de déplacer le point « Appel aux membres charter/votants » en premier pour intégrer les nouveaux membres présents.
- Aucun mandat de vote par procuration.
- Quorum atteint : Maëlle et Jonathan sont présents.

### 2. Appel aux membres charter/votants
**Nouveaux membres proposés** :
- Charlotte
- Killian
- Olmo
- Xavier
→ Approuvés à l’unanimité après parrainage par au moins 2 membres.

### 3. Rapport d’activité 2025
- Gaël résume les événements depuis 2022.
- **Points soulevés** :
- Nécessité de répartir la charge d’organisation (ex. FOSS4G) entre plus de membres.
- Besoin de renforcer la communication pour attirer de nouveaux membres.

### 4. Rapport financier 2025
- Roel présente le rapport final 2024 et provisoire 2025.
- Maëlle demande des clarifications dans le titre.
- **Décision** : Roel modifiera et publiera le rapport. Approuvé à l’unanimité.

### 5. Décharge du bureau
- Bureau déchargé à l’unanimité.

### 6. Débriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
- **Réunion de debriefing** prévue le **3 décembre 2025 à 18h30** (Marc enverra une invitation via la mailing-list).
- **Retours** :
- **Négatifs** : Prix des billets, manque de nourriture/boissons, manque d’implication, préparation tardive, tâches mal définies, difficulté pour les nouveaux à contribuer.
- **Positifs** : Qualité des conférences, lieu agréable, importance de l’événement.
- **Actions** : Envoi d’un formulaire de feedback, meilleure communication sur les réseaux sociaux.

### 7. Planification des événements 2026
| Événement | Date | Responsables |
|-----------|------|--------------|
| Célébration Nouvel An | Janvier 2026 | Gaël |
| FOSSDEM 2026 (GeoSpatial Dev Room) | 31/01 ou 01/02/2026 | Michel, Jordan (support) |
| PGDay Belgium 2026 | Printemps 2026 | Maëlle, Gaël |
| FOSS4G BE | Septembre 2026 | Jonathan (track OSMBE) |
| Réunions trimestrielles | Dernier/1er mercredi du mois | Gaël |

### 8. Budget prévisionnel 2026
- Pas de besoin de revenus supplémentaires (FOSS4G BE couvre les coûts).
- Budget approuvé à l’unanimité.

### 9. Mises à jour des statuts
- **Modifications demandées** :
- Art. 6 : Ajouter des responsabilités pour les membres (participation aux réunions, votes, etc.).
- Art. 8 et 8 bis : Supprimer la mention des personnes physiques comme membres sponsors.
- **Décision** : Gaël publiera les modifications après ajustements.

### 10. Appel aux membres du bureau
- **Rôles à pourvoir** :
- Secrétaire : Aucun candidat.
- Web/Archives : Marc, Gaël (Jonathan aidera).
- Sponsors/Partenariats : Aucun candidat.
- Événements : Aucun candidat.

### 11. Divers
- **Propositions** :
- Migration de Google Drive vers [Nubo.coop](https://nubo.coop) (Marc).
- Amélioration de la communication interne via un espace **Element/Matrix** (Jonathan).

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112

2025-12-03T16:02:44Z

Gael1: Created page with "Location: Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles Date: Nov 21, 2025 18:30 - Started at 19:00 ; Ended at 22:10 Agenda Opening Call to charter/voting..."

Location: Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
Date: Nov 21, 2025 18:30 - Started at 19:00 ; Ended at 22:10
Agenda
Opening
Call to charter/voting members
Activity report 2025
Financial report 2025
Discharge of the board
Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
Events planning for 2026
Provisional budget for 2026
Approval of status updates
Call for board members
Miscellaneous
Participants:
Board members:
Gaël (Chairman)
Roel (Treasurer)
Céline
Marc
Michel
Jordan
Charter/Voting members:
Maëlle
Jonathan
Non-voting members:
Killian
Olmo
Xavier
Charlotte
Nicholus
Meeting secretary: Jonathan
Meeting started at 19:00

1. Opening
Jonathan proposes himself and is appointed as meeting secretary.

Gaël suggest to move the point "Call to charter/voting members" as first point of the meeting to include the new members that are present (see below).

There is no proxy for the votes.

Quorum is reached: Maëlle and Jonathan are present.

2. Call to charter/voting members
The following people are proposing themselves as charter/voting members:

Charlotte
Killian
Olmo
Xavier
Those 4 new members are endorsed by at least 2 charter/voting/board members and are approved as new charter/voting members.

3. Activity report 2025
Gaël makes a small summary of the events/meetings/… that have happened since 2022.

Gaël emphasize on how much work it is to organise events such as FOSS4G and would like that that load would be spreaded amongst the members so it's not always the same "core people" that do all the work.

Gaël also emphasizes over needing more communication around OSGeoBE in our respective networks to try to bring more members inside OSGeoBE ; without any (new) members, the organization will not survive.

4. Financial report 2025
Roel presents the financial final report for 2024 and temporary report for 2025.

Maëlle asks for some changes: adapt the title to clarify the report.

Roel will make the requested changes and publish the financial report.

Financial report for 2024 is approved unanimously (after changes).

5. Discharge of the board
Board is discharged (unanimous vote).

6. Debriefing FOSS4G BE 2025
A separate meeting to debrief FOSS4G BE 2025 will be organized on Dec 3, 2025 18:30.

Marc will communicate about the debriefing meeting via the mailing-list.

Few comments and remarks already made:

(Mostly) negative:

Ticket price too high
Not enough food/drinks
More involvement needed
Start preparation earlier
Make clear/defined tasks
Difficult for newcomers to know what to do to help
Split the work
Need to send a feedback form after the event
Debriefing needed
More communication on social media needed
Location too expensive
(Mostly) positive:

Happy with the talks and the event
Clear task was assigned
Nice location
Important event ; we must keep organizing it
7. Events planning for 2026
New Year celebration: Jan 2026 ; Gaël will organize it
FOSSDEM 2026 GeoSpatial Dev Room: Jan 31, 2026 or Feb 1, 2026 ; not organized by OSGeoBE but Michel and Jordan will support it if needed
PGDay Belgium 2026 (in collaboration with PostgreSQL): Spring 2026 ; Maëlle and Gaël will help organizing it
FOSS4G BE: Sep 2026 ; Jonathan will take care of the OSMBE track
We will organise an OSGeo BE members meeting per quarter in Brussels on the last (or first) Wednesday of the month ; Gaël will organize it

8. Provisional budget for 2026
There is no real need to search for extra income ; FOSS4G BE is enough to cover our yearly costs.

Roel will publish the provisional budget.

Provisional budget for 2026 is approved unanimously.

9. Approval of status updates
Gaël presents the status updates. Those status updates were already presented and discussed during the General Assembly of 2024 but never finalized.

Maëlle requests some changes to clarify the statuses:

Art. 6: Add that the members have some responsibilities to stay a member (take part to the meetins, vote for the board, …)
Art. 8 and 8 bis: Remove any mention for a physical person to be a sponsor member
Gaël will make the requested changes and publish the changes to the monitor (including the list of updated board members).

Status updates are approved unanimously (after changes).

10. Call for board members
Board members should take some defined responsibilities.

Secretary: no candidate
Web/Archives: Marc and Gaël ; Jonathan will help (even though he's not a board member)
Sponsors/Partnership: no candidate
Events: no candidate
11. Miscellaneous
Marc suggest we move away from Google Drive (proposal supported by several members). He's suggesting to move to https://nubo.coop/.
Olmo suggest to improve our internal communication by setting up something similar to Slack. We already have a channel on Element/Matrix, a few people suggest to use Element/Matrix. Jonathan will setup a Element/Matrix Space for OSGeoBE that will regroup our different channels (public channel, FOSS4GBE organisation, members, …). The quarterly members meeting should also help improve our internal communication.

Belgium

2025-12-03T16:01:51Z

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[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën
* Jordan Ikalulu
* Killian Paenen
* Olmo Nieto
* FLASSE Charlotte
* Xavier Querriau

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

We also have a Mastodon account: [https://fosstodon.org/@osgeobe Mastodon]

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

== Legal information ==

We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720

Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)

= Activities =
=== 2025 ===
* 25 September | FOSS4G BE | presentations | Brussels | https://foss4g.be
* Nov 21, 2025 18:30 | General Assembly | Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
* 3 December 2025 18:30 | FOSS4G - Debriefing | Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles

=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]
== 2024 ==

* [[ | General Assembly ]]

== 2025 ==

* [[ Preparation Foss4g Mars 2025]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20252112|General assembly - Nov 21 2025]]

Belgium

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Belgium

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[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

We also have a Mastodon account: [https://fosstodon.org/@osgeobe Mastodon]

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

== Legal information ==

We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720

Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)

= Activities =
=== 2025 ===
* 25 September | FOSS4G BE | presentations | Brussels | https://foss4g.be
* Nov 21, 2025 18:30 | General Assembly | Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles
* 3 December 2025 18:30 | FOSS4G - Debriefing | Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles

=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]
== 2024 ==

* [[ | General Assembly ]]

== 2025 ==

* [[ Preparation Foss4g Mars 2025]]

Belgium

2025-12-03T15:52:50Z

Gael1: /* 2025 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

We also have a Mastodon account: [https://fosstodon.org/@osgeobe Mastodon]

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

== Legal information ==

We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720

Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)

= Activities =
=== 2025 ===
* 25 September | FOSS4G BE | presentations | Brussels | https://foss4g.be
* Nov 21, 2025 18:30 | General Assembly | Le Cercle des Voyageurs - Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Bruxelles

=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]
== 2024 ==

* [[ | General Assembly ]]

== 2025 ==

* [[ Preparation Foss4g Mars 2025]]

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I love pushing and raising awareness with the people around me to speed up the shift to open-source solutions in (Belgian) public services—because they should be a common good for everyone.
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[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

We also have a Mastodon account: [https://fosstodon.org/@osgeobe Mastodon]

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

== Legal information ==

We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720

Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)

= Activities =
=== 2025 ===
* end September | FOSS4G BE | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]
== 2024 ==

* [[ | General Assembly ]]

== 2025 ==

* [[ Preparation Foss4g Mars 2025]]

Belgium

2025-04-03T18:47:35Z

Gael1: /* Activities */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

We also have a Mastodon account: [https://fosstodon.org/@osgeobe Mastodon]

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

== Legal information ==

We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720

Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)

= Activities =
=== 2025 ===
* end September | FOSS4G BE | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be

=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516

2023-05-28T17:14:27Z

Gael1:

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting

Date: May 16th Start time: 7:30 PM

The Annual General Meeting commences promptly at the scheduled time. In-person, we are gathered in the upper room of Dolle Mol, with Marc, Celine, Olmo, Simon, Jordan, Gael, and Johan, who joined us towards the end of the meeting. Unfortunately, there is a lot of noise, and the conditions for remote members are not optimal.

Connected via Jitsi, we have Tommy, Maelle, Mathieu, and Roel.

1. Report about the activities organised in 2022 by President Gael Gael reports that in 2022, after the COVID period, contact was reestablished with some former members as well as new members and supporters. Here is an overview of the meetings:

- Spring session on Monday, March 28th at BrewDog Brussels

- After-work event on July 26th, 2022 (BrewDog)

- Foss4G in Firenze in August

- After-work event on September 13th, 2022 (BrewDog)

- FoSS4G & SotM on November 17th, 2022

Additionally, in 2022, the treasurer's official appointment was confirmed with Triodos Bank. Access to the account is now granted to:

- Gael as President

- Roel as Treasurer

- Marc as the person responsible for opening the accounts and the only one with access before the transfer.

For proper management, it was agreed that Roel would handle the account activities. Marc gathered the access information for the different accounts and made it available to everyone in an encrypted file on Google Drive. Furthermore, at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Gael cleaned up the mailing lists and merged the addresses on both distribution lists: <belgium@lists.osgeo.org> and <belgium-announce@lists.osgeo.org>. Currently, the amount of emails is not considered excessive and of collective interest. Gael proposes prioritizing messages on the most active list, which is <belgium@lists.osgeo.org>.

2. Financial report 2022 Here is the financial statement for 2022.

[[File:Foss4gbe 2022 provisial report.jpg|thumb]]

Regarding the FoSS4G & SotM specifically, it seems that a transfer of funds from a sponsor (Mapbox) is missing. They contributed to the OSM account, as they were co-organizers of the FoSS4G & SotM. Additionally, there is a pending payment from the Walloon region that requires a specific document. Once paid, we would have a positive balance of approximately €300 (to be confirmed with the correct figure). As agreed, the profit and loss of the event will be shared. Upon receipt of the balance, we will distribute the profits.

Below is a zoom on the budget for Foss4G & SotM 2022

[[File:Osgeobe financial report 2022.jpg|thumb]]

Maelle asks if the figures for the 2022 event are comparable to the previous one. The figures from the last event are available in the minutes here. Indeed, the total budget is comparable, although this year's expenses were higher, especially due to translation equipment and financing the after-session. However, the intention was to provide a quality event to our members while assuming the risk of a deficit after the COVID period and the potential risks for participants and sponsors. We deliberately took this risk considering the financial resources at our disposal.

3. Discharge of the members of the Board of Directors for the 2022 financial year. Due to the lack of voting members present at the AGM, Maelle, being the only one, grants discharge to the board.

4. Provisional Budget 2023 Above is the provisional budget.

[[File:Osgeobe budget 2023.jpg|thumb]]

Note: Gael proposed to support the Phacocher project. Matthieu asks why this was considered. Gael justifies this proposal as follows: It is a non-commercial project published on GitHub, based on the development of open-source software using open data resources, which have the specificity of being of national scale (Bestadress data). The developers requested assistance in covering hosting costs to promote its usage. Gael reminds everyone that OSGEO Belgium aims to bring our members together through the promotion of open-source "geo" software. Geocoding gathers many demands from our community and certainly fulfills this objective. This version is not contradicted and is accepted by the present members.

5.      Election & Resignation

/!\ We are at the end of the mandate, so everything needs to be renewed.

A. Resignations from the Board

- Marc Ducobu

- Dirk Frigne

- Gael Kruwialis (President)

- Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)

- Tommy Oozeer

- Johan Van de Wauw

- Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)

- Mathieu Carette

B. Proposal for new Voting Members i. Jordan (proposed by Gael) ii. Celine (proposed by Gael) iii. Charlotte (proposed by Maelle) iv. Simon (proposed by Maelle)

The four new members are unanimously accepted. Welcome to each of them!

D. Proposal for a new board

- President: Gael

- Secretary: None

- Treasurer: Roel None

- Simon

- Marc

- Jordan

E. Voting The new board is accepted and validated for a term of 3 years. Communication will be prioritized through the mailing list.

6. Preview of the events in 2023

-          Events a.

o   Annual General Meeting | (May 16, 2023) | Dolle Mol

o   May 30, 2023, 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & PostGIS Gael will give an introductory presentation on PostgreSQL & PostGIS based on OSGEO's training.

o   June 13, 2023, 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS topology | Geopostcodes

o   Foss4G / Qgis-day / SotM | What and how? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list...

The discussion excludes the possibility of organizing a joint event with OSM this year, despite the interest shown by participants in the last Foss4G.\
OSM Belgium will organize an SOTM Europe in 2024. The current team can contact them to propose a contribution.

The current board is considering organizing a Belgian Foss4G in 2023.\
Maelle suggests either scheduling our event before or after the SOTM Europe to benefit from the audience.\
Since OSM-be won't be available to assist or collaborate with us, we could schedule it before or after FOSDEM, which will be held on February 3rd-4th, 2024 (e.g., on February 1st, 2024). This way, we can benefit from the international audience and reduce travel costs.\
It is also discussed the possibility of either scaling down the event or complementing it with more technical components such as tutorials and training sessions.

-          Support for the incubation of the Phacochr project (<https://phacochr.github.io/phacochr/>) Refer to the previous discussion.

-          Activity with OSGEO-NL (contact Raymond) The activity is already scheduled with them. However, they have expressed their intention to potentially organize a Foss4G Benelux in 2024. The current board will get in touch to start discussions.

-          Collaboration... openstreetmap.be (Joost - Jonathan?) Regarding closer integration between the two entities, the door remains open on both sides. However, for now, OSM primarily focuses on OKF to clarify their organization and mode of operation.

7.      Agreement to mandate the Board of Directors to take the necessary measures regarding events, strategy, and administrative tasks. Nothing specific.

8. Varia :
. As a reminder, Maelle also proposed during the general meeting that we can organize a BBQ (open to all our community belgium@lists.osgeo.org). For example, we could have it at our President Gaël's place if he's okay with it, or if someone else is willing to host. Alternatively, we could have a simpler get-together in a park (although it might not be as suitable for combining with a work session ;-)).

This gathering would serve as a celebration for the new board and new members, as well as an opportunity to discuss our involvement in State of the Map Europe 2023 (taking place in Antwerp from November 10th to 12th, 2023: https://stateofthemap.eu/).

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Minutes of the Annual General Meeting

Date: May 16th Start time: 7:30 PM

The Annual General Meeting commences promptly at the scheduled time. In-person, we are gathered in the upper room of Dolle Mol, with Marc, Celine, Olmo, Simon, Jordan, Gael, and Johan, who joined us towards the end of the meeting. Unfortunately, there is a lot of noise, and the conditions for remote members are not optimal.

Connected via Jitsi, we have Tommy, Maelle, Mathieu, and Roel.

1. Report about the activities organised in 2022 by President Gael Gael reports that in 2022, after the COVID period, contact was reestablished with some former members as well as new members and supporters. Here is an overview of the meetings:

- Spring session on Monday, March 28th at BrewDog Brussels

- After-work event on July 26th, 2022 (BrewDog)

- Foss4G in Firenze in August

- After-work event on September 13th, 2022 (BrewDog)

- FoSS4G & SotM on November 17th, 2022

Additionally, in 2022, the treasurer's official appointment was confirmed with Triodos Bank. Access to the account is now granted to:

- Gael as President

- Roel as Treasurer

- Marc as the person responsible for opening the accounts and the only one with access before the transfer.

For proper management, it was agreed that Roel would handle the account activities. Marc gathered the access information for the different accounts and made it available to everyone in an encrypted file on Google Drive. Furthermore, at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Gael cleaned up the mailing lists and merged the addresses on both distribution lists: <belgium@lists.osgeo.org> and <belgium-announce@lists.osgeo.org>. Currently, the amount of emails is not considered excessive and of collective interest. Gael proposes prioritizing messages on the most active list, which is <belgium@lists.osgeo.org>.

2. Financial report 2022 Here is the financial statement for 2022.

![](file:///C:/Users/Gael/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png)

Regarding the FoSS4G & SotM specifically, it seems that a transfer of funds from a sponsor (Mapbox) is missing. They contributed to the OSM account, as they were co-organizers of the FoSS4G & SotM. Additionally, there is a pending payment from the Walloon region that requires a specific document. Once paid, we would have a positive balance of approximately €300 (to be confirmed with the correct figure). As agreed, the profit and loss of the event will be shared. Upon receipt of the balance, we will distribute the profits.

Below is a zoom on the budget for Foss4G & SotM 2022

![](file:///C:/Users/Gael/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.png)

Maelle asks if the figures for the 2022 event are comparable to the previous one. The figures from the last event are available in the minutes here. Indeed, the total budget is comparable, although this year's expenses were higher, especially due to translation equipment and financing the after-session. However, the intention was to provide a quality event to our members while assuming the risk of a deficit after the COVID period and the potential risks for participants and sponsors. We deliberately took this risk considering the financial resources at our disposal.

3. Discharge of the members of the Board of Directors for the 2022 financial year. Due to the lack of voting members present at the AGM, Maelle, being the only one, grants discharge to the board.

4. Provisional Budget 2023 Above is the provisional budget.

![](file:///C:/Users/Gael/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.png)

Note: Gael proposed to support the Phacocher project. Matthieu asks why this was considered. Gael justifies this proposal as follows: It is a non-commercial project published on GitHub, based on the development of open-source software using open data resources, which have the specificity of being of national scale (Bestadress data). The developers requested assistance in covering hosting costs to promote its usage. Gael reminds everyone that OSGEO Belgium aims to bring our members together through the promotion of open-source "geo" software. Geocoding gathers many demands from our community and certainly fulfills this objective. This version is not contradicted and is accepted by the present members.

5.      Election & Resignation

/!\ We are at the end of the mandate, so everything needs to be renewed.

A. Resignations from the Board

- Marc Ducobu

- Dirk Frigne

- Gael Kruwialis (President)

- Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)

- Tommy Oozeer

- Johan Van de Wauw

- Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)

- Mathieu Carette

B. Proposal for new Voting Members i. Jordan (proposed by Gael) ii. Celine (proposed by Gael) iii. Charlotte (proposed by Maelle) iv. Simon (proposed by Maelle)

The four new members are unanimously accepted. Welcome to each of them!

D. Proposal for a new board

- President: Gael

- Secretary: None

- Treasurer: Roel None

- Simon

- Marc

- Jordan

E. Voting The new board is accepted and validated for a term of 3 years. Communication will be prioritized through the mailing list.

6. Preview of the events in 2023

-          Events a.

o   Annual General Meeting | (May 16, 2023) | Dolle Mol

o   May 30, 2023, 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & PostGIS Gael will give an introductory presentation on PostgreSQL & PostGIS based on OSGEO's training.

o   June 13, 2023, 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS topology | Geopostcodes

o   Foss4G / Qgis-day / SotM | What and how? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list...

The discussion excludes the possibility of organizing a joint event with OSM this year, despite the interest shown by participants in the last Foss4G.\
OSM Belgium will organize an SOTM Europe in 2024. The current team can contact them to propose a contribution.

The current board is considering organizing a Belgian Foss4G in 2023.\
Maelle suggests either scheduling our event before or after the SOTM Europe to benefit from the audience.\
Since OSM-be won't be available to assist or collaborate with us, we could schedule it before or after FOSDEM, which will be held on February 3rd-4th, 2024 (e.g., on February 1st, 2024). This way, we can benefit from the international audience and reduce travel costs.\
It is also discussed the possibility of either scaling down the event or complementing it with more technical components such as tutorials and training sessions.

-          Support for the incubation of the Phacochr project (<https://phacochr.github.io/phacochr/>) Refer to the previous discussion.

-          Activity with OSGEO-NL (contact Raymond) The activity is already scheduled with them. However, they have expressed their intention to potentially organize a Foss4G Benelux in 2024. The current board will get in touch to start discussions.

-          Collaboration... openstreetmap.be (Joost - Jonathan?) Regarding closer integration between the two entities, the door remains open on both sides. However, for now, OSM primarily focuses on OKF to clarify their organization and mode of operation.

7.      Agreement to mandate the Board of Directors to take the necessary measures regarding events, strategy, and administrative tasks. Nothing specific.

8. Varia :
. As a reminder, Maelle also proposed during the general meeting that we can organize a BBQ (open to all our community belgium@lists.osgeo.org). For example, we could have it at our President Gaël's place if he's okay with it, or if someone else is willing to host. Alternatively, we could have a simpler get-together in a park (although it might not be as suitable for combining with a work session ;-)).

This gathering would serve as a celebration for the new board and new members, as well as an opportunity to discuss our involvement in State of the Map Europe 2023 (taking place in Antwerp from November 10th to 12th, 2023: https://stateofthemap.eu/).

Belgium

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Gael1: /* Meetings */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

== 2023 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20230516| General Assembly 16 May 2023]]

Belgium

2023-04-28T14:52:44Z

Gael1: /* Founding members */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Belgium

2023-04-28T10:04:47Z

Gael1: /* 2023 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => '''16May 2023''' | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Belgium

2023-04-28T10:03:37Z

Gael1: /* 2023 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | 18 (Ascension Day holiday) => '''16''' May 2023 | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Category:FOSS4G Belgium

2023-04-26T20:44:54Z

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'''FOSS4G Belgian Team'''

FOSS4G Belgium is the yearly Belgium event about Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. It is organised by the Belgium Chapter of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.be), which is one of the more than 50 local chapters of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) worldwide. As of today, almost every week there is a FOSS4G conference, somewhere on this planet. But only one is located in Brussels.

The conference is for and by everybody who is interested in an open and inclusive world. We promote free and open source software, but also open standards, open data, open government, ...

During the past conferences, around 400 enthusiasts came over. Thanks to our sponsors, we can keep the entrance free. Volunteers are presenting and sharing their best practices and experiences. Anybody is encouraged to submit a paper to present. And because the topic is all about Geo, maps are an important topic so we have a wall with the most beautiful maps. Show of your best by sending in your maps!.

If we have to describe a FOSS4G conference in one sentence, we should describe the fantastic atmosphere and energy around the event.

https://foss4g.be/
https://2019.foss4g.be/
https://2018.foss4g.be/

Belgium

2023-04-26T20:40:34Z

Gael1: /* 2023 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | (18 May 2023) | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Belgium

2023-04-26T20:39:41Z

Gael1: /* Activities */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | (18 May 2023) | place to be confirme
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis | To be Confirme | Gael | Evenbrite
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Postgis topology | To be Confirme | Geopostcodes| Evenbrite
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM| what and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Belgium

2023-04-26T20:30:30Z

Gael1: /* Meetings */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

== 2022 ==

* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation |Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/]]

Belgium

2023-04-26T20:24:14Z

Gael1: /* Activities */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog )
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518

2023-04-26T19:58:37Z

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Agenda AG 2021 Tuesday 18 May at 19.30
1. Approval of the minutes of the previous general assembly

The previous minute was not available on the website.
Gael present it own note et propose to compile theme for approbation
after it 'll be publish on website.

Approved

2. Report of the president / secretary
This year was really special.
Thanks to Covid 19 - less opportunity with less interaction in our community.
We work hard to imagine one future organisation of the foss4g-BE, our major event who’s the cement of our community.
Unfortunately, we receive the cancellation of all events at the BEL in September.

3. Report about the activities organised between Mai 2020 - Mai 2021
Nothing organize or supported directly be osgeo.be
Some member participation at different virtual event like:
Fosdem
Begeo
Other local Foss4g

4. Financial report 2020

Bellow all the transaction on our bank account (Triodos)

[[File:Triodos statut2021.png|thumb]]

Balance = 10810€

We need to check who have access to the account and if Rita (geosparc) is still in the place, we need to revoke them.

5. Discharge of the members of the Board of Directors for the 2020 financial year.

Approved by Simon and Maelle

6. Preview of the events in 2021

Plan actions about activities, events, and strategy (see call for activities below)
v Foss4G-BE
We make a small survey about these 2 options

Make a Foss4G in real +1 Oliver -1
Simon
Marc
Make a Foss4g in Virtual -1 Oliver +1 Simon only if « in real » is not possible
Marc
Johan
Maelle
Mathieu suggest postponing our decision until we know if « in real » could be possible.
We all agree and ‘ll make our decision at least in middle of September (we need to fix a meeting).
We will wait for the last decision of Codeco to organise a meeting and make our decisions.

But we can already start and post a contact list of potential places for Foss4G => all send by mail some suggestion.

Remarks:
Maelle also suggest move the usual date of FOSS4G-BE (around end October) near the Fosdem (beginning February).
The reason is to use the potential international public who come for the Fosdem.
No reject and no approvement, still in consideration

v Someone proposes to organise a Virtual Map Gallery to be posted on our website

v Implementation of training / knowledge sharing on OSGEO products and solutions:

Gael explain that those training could attract new member and enlarge our ‘active’ community
A related question talk about the cost of this training…
After discussion, it is conceivable to ask for a participation limited to the cost of organisation, but care must be taken not to enter into competition with certain sponsors.

v Marc proposes to organise more small (free) events to make ourselves known. These events can be supported by guests from our community

7. Provisional Budget 2021

[[File:Budget2021.png|thumb]]

To the budget proposed above we are adding an item for "communication on social networks": 500€
Gael is in charge of collecting some quotes to be submitted in advance for approval.

8. Composition of the voting members
* New members
None
* Resignations
None

9. Composition of the board
* New members
Term 2020 - 2023
· Marc Ducobu
· Dirk Frigne
· Gaël Kruwialis (President)
· Oliver May (secretary)
· Tommy Oozeer
· Johan Van de Wauw
· Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
· Mathieu Carette

* Resignations
None

10. Mandates
Oliver May (secretary)

11. Divers
Maelle: Collaboration between OSGeo.be and a Free GIS training at ULB
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/2021-May/001093.html
Approved

12. Closing of the general assembly

File:Budget2021.png

2023-04-26T19:57:49Z

Gael1:

budget2021

File:Triodos statut2021.png

2023-04-26T19:56:21Z

Gael1:

bank statut

Belgium

2023-04-26T19:53:33Z

Gael1: /* Meetings */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2018 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20180326|General Assembly - March 26, 2018]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20190424| General Assembly 24 April 2019]]

== 2020 ==
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200508|Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020]]
* [[OSGeo_be_meeting_20200513|Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium]]

== 2021 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20210518|General Assembly - May, 18, 2021]]

Belgium

2019-09-10T11:45:37Z

Gael1: /* 2019 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting |Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

Belgium

2019-09-10T11:44:42Z

Gael1: /* 2019 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan Beliën

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]
* [[Foss4gBE_-_Preparation_:_second_Face2Face_meeting]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

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== Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting ==

=== Present ===

* Roel
* Simon
* Gael

=== Agenda ===
== Next Preparation meeting: ==
o 23 September 18.30 at Dolle Mol
o 7 October 18.30 at Dolle Mol
o 21 October 18.30 at Dolle Mol

== Postpose end time for call of paper ==

=> Sunday 22 September.
· Action:
o Johan adapt the date on website
o Oliver send a Twitt
o Roel send a message on the mailing list.
o Simon propose to create an account LinkedIn => FOSS4GBE
o Facebook :Tommy send an email and Simon provides support to revitalize this account
o All: everyone call his personal contacts; we are looking for 3 to 6 paper.
· Dead line for this action => 10/09

== Keynote speaker ==
· Action:
o Gael contact officially them and send annoucement on mailling list after they agree
o Johan post on website
· Dead line for this action => 11/09

== Eventbrite registration ==
create a new event. Make attention on:
- Check date
- Place
- GDPR consent for sharing with sponsors and mailing list OSGEO
- Adapt LOGO
· Action: => Marc
o After Eventbrite is ok send announcement of the opening of the registration on Eventbrite mailing list. (Marc)
o Johan adapt the website
o Oliver send a Twitt
o Roel send a message on the mailing list.
o Simon on LinkedIn & Facebook
· Dead line for this action => 16/09

== Contact Brussels Environment ==

For a good collaboration with BE
· Action: => Johan if you still work next other Moritz or Mathieu?

o Confirmation availability of the room (check Aqua + Terra?)
o following the new configuration of the atrium need to check:
§ implementation for sponsor (7 desk)
§ implementation for catering
§ check parking
§ wall for the map
o Schedule
o Wifi code for the event
o Asking Laptop
o Recording?
o Printing (map & booklet) ?
o Cloakroom?
o Check beamer quality especially in small room...
· Dead line for this action => 20/09

== 5. Contact catering ==

Asking an offer base on last year
2 coffee break 10 h + 15h
+ Coffee & water & juice at lunch break AND negotiate for 200 sandwich cut in half
· Action => Tommy
· Dead line: Contract conclude for end of September
== 6. Call for maps ==

· Action => Roel
o + social media

· Dead line for this action => 13 /09

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== OSGeo.be - F2F New years meeting at Dolle Mol - 10-01-2019 ==

=== Present ===

* Johan
* Pierre
* Oliver
* Gael
* Tommy
* Jean-Luc
* Moritz

=== Agenda ===

* Schedule 2019
* Todo list of tasks related to events
=== Schedule 2019 ===
WE SCHEDULE TO PARTICIPATE OR ORGANIZE THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ON THESE DATES:

When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/02 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirmed | Mathieu | Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirmed | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 06/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirmed | Gaël | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirmed | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

=== Todo list of tasks related to events ===

• Fosdem 2019
Banner needed for the Fosdem - Mathieu

• Asking for presentation at begeo - gael
Suggestion :
○ Oliver- présentation VMM project ( Berdien? )
○ Moritz & ... : hiw can osgeo be benefic for industry, academic or administration.
○ Contact OSM

• Preparation Foss4g.be : Debrief meeting with BE : 5/02 AM or 6/02 AM or PM on site ( Gaël, Johan, Moritz,...)
• Asking for a présence at multiple conf, like Urbis day (gkr) picc day (gkr), trefdag (Johan?), union des commune, notaire, classe moyenne / PME.
Who?
• Debrief meeting with BE : 5am or 6/02 on site ( gaël, Johan, Moritz,...). Gael send email to BE

=== Point for next AG. ===
Can Osgeo be a partner to promote the formation of commercial companies? �Send a letter to : Poppy - Geosolution - Gim - …
Call for sponsor : Already send a message + a special attention for or sponsor in all event
+ asking a special sponsorsip for Geodev event.

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Gael1: /* Todo list of tasks related to events */

== OSGeo.be - F2F New years meeting at Dolle Mol - 10-01-2019 ==

=== Present ===

* Johan
* Pierre
* Oliver
* Gael
* Tommy
* Jean-Luc
* Moritz

=== Agenda ===

* Schedule 2019
* Todo list of tasks related to events
=== Schedule 2019 ===
WE SCHEDULE TO PARTICIPATE OR ORGANIZE THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ON THESE DATES:

When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu | Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

=== Todo list of tasks related to events ===

• Fosdem 2019
Banner needed for the Fosdem - Mathieu

• Asking for presentation at begeo - gael
Suggestion :
○ Oliver- présentation VMM project ( Berdien? )
○ Moritz & ... : hiw can osgeo be benefic for industry, academic or administration.
○ Contact OSM

• Preparation Foss4g.be : Debrief meeting with BE : 5/02 AM or 6/02 AM or PM on site ( Gaël, Johan, Moritz,...)
• Asking for a présence at multiple conf, like Urbis day (gkr) picc day (gkr), trefdag (Johan?), union des commune, notaire, classe moyenne / PME.
Who?
• Debrief meeting with BE : 5am or 6/02 on site ( gaël, Johan, Moritz,...). Gael send email to BE

=== Point for next AG. ===
Can Osgeo be a partner to promote the formation of commercial companies? �Send a letter to : Poppy - Geosolution - Gim - …
Call for sponsor : Already send a message + a special attention for or sponsor in all event
+ asking a special sponsorsip for Geodev event.

OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110

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Gael1: /* Present */

Belgium

2019-01-23T20:03:48Z

Gael1: /* Meetings */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

== 2019==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110|F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

OSGeo-BE-meeting-20190110

2019-01-23T20:01:14Z

Gael1: /* OSGeo.be - F2F New years meeting at Dolle Mol */

== OSGeo.be - F2F New years meeting at Dolle Mol - 10-01-2019 ==

=== Present ===

* Johan
* Pierre
* Oliver
* Gael
* Tommy
* Jean-Luc
* Moritz

Belgium

2019-01-23T19:52:51Z

Gael1: /* 2019 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

Belgium

2019-01-23T19:52:17Z

Gael1: /* 2018 */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

Belgium

2019-01-23T19:51:24Z

Gael1: /* Past activities */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

=== 2018 ===
* 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint]
* 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018]
* 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018]
* 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr]
* 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe]
* 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam]
* FOSS4G.be 2018
* GeoDevNights
# Postgres. Contact person : Gaël
# R. Contact person : Marc
# Python. Contact person : Mathieu
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint] ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018] ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018] ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr] ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe] ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam] ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium] ===

=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

Belgium

2019-01-23T19:42:42Z

Gael1: /* Activities */

[[File:FOSS4G Belgium 2015.jpg|right|600px|The first FOSS4G Belgium, October 2015]]

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.

* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.

* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).

* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.

* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.

* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)

==Articles of association==
[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2015/10/21/15317365.pdf Our official statutes (in french) can be found here].

==Members==

===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list], as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.

Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m40HVoaou7e3RhpSO4yBPG0TqIX6pFzIq1IWGvJUhdU/viewform?usp=send_form Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be ]

[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yt8CPBM1JaLY334ILxvtBsSG36LpeWBO_wXzgZQZvlY/viewform?usp=send_form Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be ]

===Board of directors===

Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.

* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer)
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette

===Voting members===

All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.

====Founding members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS momement in the Brussels area - contact with the Brussels administration
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Johanvdw Johan Van de Wauw ] - OSGeo Charter Member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maellevd Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel] - contact with academic world and developing countries
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Marcu Marc Ducobu] - liason with OSGeo.fr
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlennert Moritz Lennert] - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Toozeer Tommy Oozeer] - OSGeo Advocate

====Other Charter members====
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Julien.collaer Julien Collaer]
* Arnaud De Groof
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ndufrane Nicolas Dufrane]
* Christophe Guisset
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:RoelH Roel Huybrechts]
* Matthieu
* Jonathan

===Supporters===

During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle

== Communication ==

Discussions are held on the dedicated [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium mailing list].
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.

== History of OSGeo Belgium ==

During the last FOSDEM [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 Geospatial devroom] OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the [http://osgeo.nl/ OSGeo.nl], the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone OSGeo.fr]
or in several OSGeo communities.

However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.

In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeoGhent] - 13 June 2013
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014 FOSDEM2014] - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ Be-OpenGIS-Fr] - 6 November 2014
* [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1488 FOSDEM2015]- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201

In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first [[Belgium/FOSS4G]]
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.

= Activities =

=== 2019 ===
When What Where Who INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM Geodev evening: python To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 Open Belgium Conference Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 BEGEO palais 10 | Gael When | What | Where | Who | INFO

* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom | ULB | [Johan | https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python | To be Confirme | Mathieu Evenbrite
* 04/03 | Open Belgium Conference | Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | http://2019.openbelgium.be/
* 19/03 | BEGEO | palais 10 | Gael | http://begeo.be/
* 25/03 | General Assembly | Central Station | Johan | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: Data Access | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 25/04 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: PostGIS | To be Confirme | Moritz | Evenbrite
* 26/08-30/08 | FOSS4G International | Bucarest | https://2019.foss4g.org/
* October | FOSS4G.be | To be Confirme | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium

=== 2018 ===
* 18 - 25/03/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ Bonn - code sprint]
* 24/03/2018 : [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2018-tickets-43284758879 National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018]
* 24/04/2018 : [http://begeo.be BeGeo 2018]
* 15 - 17/05/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018/ FOSS4G-fr]
* 17- 19/07/2018 : [https://www.osgeo.org/events/foss4g-europe-2018/ FOSS4G-Europe]
* 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : [http://2018.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam]
* FOSS4G.be 2018
* GeoDevNights
# Postgres. Contact person : Gaël
# R. Contact person : Marc
# Python. Contact person : Mathieu
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.

= Past activities =
=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/geospatial/ Geospatial devroom].

=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - [http://foss4g.be FOSS4G.BE 2017] ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium/FOSS4GEducation "FOSS4GeoEducation"]

=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST [http://2017.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G in Boston] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY [https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G.EU in Paris ] ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE

=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin ===
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]

=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" ===
with [http://maps.dewey.be/ maps.dewey.be] [http://dewey.be/cartopartie/cartopartie-bruxelloise-au-pianofabriek/ more info here] and [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/238459488/ + OSM Be Hackaton, here]

=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity ===
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-missing-maps-mapathon-2017-tickets-32215979863 National Mapathon]

=== 2017 March 16 - [http://www.begeo.be/ BeGeo] 2017 event , Brussels ===
OSGeo.be organised [https://twitter.com/MoritzLennert/status/842332651537215488 the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event]

=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
[https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2017]

=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
[http://2016.foss4g.be/programme.php Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
[http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ The international event of OpenStreetmap] is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!

=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The [http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html most important international Event of OSGeo]. Highly recommended!
[http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/ Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks]

=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
[http://osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2016/programme.html Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks]

=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.

=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611

=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be

=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at [http://2016.openbelgium.be/ Open Belgium 2016] about "Open in Geo".

=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===

The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27.
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016

=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
[https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ Here FOSDEM geo track 2016]

=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent

=== 2015 October 29th [http://2015.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium 2015] - Brussels ===

=== 2015 February 1st [https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ FOSDEM geo track 2015] - Brussels ===
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

=== 2014 November 6th [http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/ beOpenGISfr] - Brussels ===

=== 2013 June 13th [http://www.geomajas.org/osgeogent2013 OSGeo Ghent] - Ghent ===

=Meetings=

== 2015 ==

* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415|Initial meeting - 15 April 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150424|IRC meeting - 22 April 2015]]
* [http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5206814/0/OSGeo%20Belgium%20minutes%20meeting%2019%20May%202015.docx IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150605|Skype meeting - 05 June 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703|Skype meeting - 03 July 2015]]
* [https://titanpad.com/uxEFzTdtIL Skype meeting - 21 August 2015]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150908|Skype meeting - 08 September 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150921|face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151005|face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151012|Skype meeting - 12 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151019|Skype meeting - 19 October 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151026|face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151109|Skype meeting - 09 November 2015]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20151123|Skype meeting - 23 November 2015]]

== 2016 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160126|Skype meeting - 26 January 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160308|F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-20160324|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160502|Skype meeting - 02 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160518|Skype meeting - 18 May 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20160922|General assembly - 22 September 2016]]

== 2017 ==
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228|F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-general-assembly-minutes-20170329|General assembly - 24 March 2016]]
* [[OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170523|face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Belgium]]
[[Category:FOSS4G Belgium 2015]]

FOSS4G-BE 2017 Call for Sponsors-nl

2017-10-02T10:08:30Z

Gael1:

== FOSS4G Belgium 2017 ==

Na de eerste geslaagde editie van het Belgisch FOSS4G event in 2015 en 2016, organiseert OSGeo.be een nieuwe editie van deze FOSS4G.BE conferentie op donderdag 26 october 2017.

FOSS4G conferenties brengen ontwikkelaars en gebruikers (zowel managers als beslissers) van open source geomatica software uit de hele wereld samen, om nieuwe richtingen, sprekende implementaties en groeiende zakelijke kansen in het gebied te bespreken. De afgelopen jaren hebben we veel veranderingen in de geo-ict sector gezien. Een van deze veranderingen is de toenemende volwassenheid van open source oplossingen en hun implementatie. Vaak gebruiken organisaties een combinatie van open source en eigen oplossingen. Momenteel zijn we op zoek naar sponsors voor dit tweede Belgische FOSS4G.

==Beoogde doelgroep==

Het doel van de conferentie is om een breed publiek te bereiken, zo’n 300 deelnemers. De conferentie zal onder meer plenaire zittingen omvatten, waarbij een keynote spreker zal uitgenodigd worden. Eén van de belangrijkste sessies zal de focus leggen op use cases, maar ook tal van parallelle sessies zullen gepresenteerd worden die de bijzonderheden van het gebruik van open-source-oplossingen in geomatica in organisaties toelichten. De presentaties en discussies zullen in het Engels zijn, het Nederlands en het Frans. Meer informatie kan u lezen op de website.

==Datum en locatie==

Het evenement zal plaatsvinden op 26 october 2017 in het mooie nieuwe congrescentrum van het agentschap Leefmilieu en Energie Brussel

==Sponsoring en Voordelen==

Hieronder vindt u de verschillende niveaus van sponsoring:

{| border=1 style="text-align: center"
! Niveau !! Prix !! Select your place!! Mention on stage !! Parking !! CV before the event !! Exhibition space !! Page in programme !! "Poster Track" in Auditorium !! "Poster Track" in Aqua & Sylva !! Logo on main web page !! Logo on web page of sponsors !! List of participants !! Access to the CV after the event !! Offer
|-
|align=right | Platinum || 1000 € || X || X || 2 || X || X || X (1 page) || X || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Gold || 750 € || || || 1 || X || X || X (1/2 page) || X || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Silver || 500 € || || || || || || || || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Bronze || 250 € || || || || || || || || || || X || X || X || X
|}
* '''Select our place''': The organization will provide a map of the stands and conference rooms. The Platinum sponsor will be able to choose first the place of his stand in the Atrium and the place for the “Track Poster” in the conference room.

* '''Mention on stage''': The Platinum sponsors will have the logo of their organization placed on scene in the Auditorium.

* '''Carpark''': The Platinum sponsors will receive two parking spaces on the site of Turn & Taxi for event.
The Gold Sponsors will profit only one.

* '''Access to the CV before the event''': Following many request, the organization puts on the Web an email box for CV’s; those will be available before the event for our sponsors Platinum and Gold.

* '''Exhibition space''': A place with a table two chairs and electrical plug in the Atrium for the sponsors Gold and Platinum.

* '''Page in the program''': A whole page is booked for our sponsors Platinum, half for our Gold sponsors.
Our sponsors will have to provide us logo & image and text for October 15th, 2017 at the latest.

* '''"Poster Track"''': We invite our sponsors to develop their activity and their commitment in the Open Source community. Starting from the level Bronzes, we solicit our sponsors so that they prepare a poster showing a development or specific project developing their company in a project using mainly components of the Open Source community.
These posters will be exposed in the various conferences.
- The sponsors Gold and Platinum will have the privilege to expose in the Auditorium
- The sponsor Bronze will be able to expose in the rooms Aqua and Sylva

* '''Logo on main web page''': The sponsors beyond Bronze have their logo of company taken again on all the Web site pages.

* '''Logo on web page of sponsors''': From sponsors Bronzes their logo of company taken again on the page sponsor and in the papers publications refer the event of Foss4G-Belgium

* '''List of participants''': We will transmit to our sponsors the list of the participants registered having made their agreement, one week before the event

* '''Access to the CV after the event''': The CV receipt by the organization will be transmitted to our sponsors, shortly after the event.

* '''Offer''': We offer space for our sponsors to publish specific jobs in geomatics.

== Contact ==
Als u geïnteresseerd bent in het sponsoren van het FOSS4G BE event, gelieve dan contact op te nemen met sponsors@foss4g.be

== OSGeo ==
De Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), is een non-profit organisatie met als missie het ondersteunen en bevorderen van de gezamenlijke ontwikkeling van open data en geomatica technologieën. De stichting geeft financiële, organisatorische en juridische hulp (support) aan de enorme open source gemeenschap op dit gebied. Daarnaast dient OSGeo als onafhankelijke juridische entiteit waaraan leden van de gemeenschap kunnen bijdragen op het gebied van IT-ontwikkeling, donaties, andere bronnen, en daarbij ook de zekerheid hebben dat hun bijdragen ten goede zullen komen aan allen. Ook OSGeo biedt bijstand en verdediging voor de open source (geospatial) gemeenschap en voorziet in een gemeenschappelijk forum en gedeelde infrastructuur voor het verbeteren van de samenwerking tussen de verschillende projecten.
De projecten van de OSGeo gemeenschap zijn allemaal vrij beschikbaar en bruikbaar onder een open source licentie gecertificeerd door OSI.

== Waarom OSGeo sponsoren? ==
* Uw organisatie is afhankelijk van OSGeo software - Uw bedrijf of uw instelling maakt gebruik van OSGeo technologieën in zijn dagelijkse werk, zodat het concurrerend is en zijn diensten kan verlenen op een rendabele manier. Door het ondersteunen van OSGeo, steunt u uw eigen lange-termijn business en bent u er zeker van dat een sterke OSGeo gemeenschap uw projecten ondersteunt.
* U vertegenwoordigt een gemeenschap die OSGeo software bouwt en onderhoudt - De OSGeo gemeenschappen vertegenwoordigen een breed scala van beroepsorganisaties en niet-gouvernementele organisaties, die gebruik maken van OSGeo software en die een essentieel onderdeel vormen van hun eindproducten. Het is in uw belang dat de gemeenschap zorgt voor de duurzaamheid van de gebruikte software. Door het sponsoren van OSGeo kan u uw steun aan de door de leden gekozen software laten zien.
* Uw objectieven van uw onderneming zijn vergelijkbaar met die van OSGeo, zijnde de ondersteuning van open standaarden of andere prioriteiten.
* Help uw eigen organisatie haar doelstellingen te bereiken door het sponsoren van OSGeo als organisatie. Wees proactief en profiteer zelf van de vrijwillige acties in een wereldwijde gemeenschap die snel aan het groeien is.
* Toon uw leiderschap in open source-technologieën in geomatica -Door het sponsoren van OSGeo zal u uw bedrijf associëren met de activiteiten van duizenden gebruikers van open source (OSGeo) software wereldwijd. Als sponsor van OSGeo, zult u de groei van uw bedrijf koppelen aan het momentum van OSGeo in de professionele wereld.
* Profiteer van de mogelijkheden om te netwerken - Als sponsor van OSGeo, profiteert u van unieke kansen om de belangrijkste leden van OSGeo te ontmoeten en uw ideeën te delen met andere OSGeo sponsors (personen en organisaties) die verbonden zijn met OSGeo en de OSGeo gemeenschap wereldwijd.

OSGeo-BE
Het opkomende Belgische hoofdstuk van OSGeo heeft tot doel de algemene missies van OSGeo om te zetten in Belgische context door het organiseren van netwerken en informatie-evenementen.

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FOSS4G Belgium 2017

Na de eerste geslaagde editie van het Belgisch FOSS4G event in 2015 en 2016, organiseert OSGeo.be een nieuwe editie van deze FOSS4G.BE conferentie op donderdag 26 october 2017.

FOSS4G conferenties brengen ontwikkelaars en gebruikers (zowel managers als beslissers) van open source geomatica software uit de hele wereld samen, om nieuwe richtingen, sprekende implementaties en groeiende zakelijke kansen in het gebied te bespreken. De afgelopen jaren hebben we veel veranderingen in de geo-ict sector gezien. Een van deze veranderingen is de toenemende volwassenheid van open source oplossingen en hun implementatie. Vaak gebruiken organisaties een combinatie van open source en eigen oplossingen. Momenteel zijn we op zoek naar sponsors voor dit tweede Belgische FOSS4G.
Beoogde doelgroep

Het doel van de conferentie is om een breed publiek te bereiken, zo’n 300 deelnemers. De conferentie zal onder meer plenaire zittingen omvatten, waarbij een keynote spreker zal uitgenodigd worden. Eén van de belangrijkste sessies zal de focus leggen op use cases, maar ook tal van parallelle sessies zullen gepresenteerd worden die de bijzonderheden van het gebruik van open-source-oplossingen in geomatica in organisaties toelichten. De presentaties en discussies zullen in het Engels zijn, het Nederlands en het Frans. Meer informatie kan u lezen op de website.
Datum en locatie

Het evenement zal plaatsvinden op 26 october 2017 in het mooie nieuwe congrescentrum van het agentschap Leefmilieu en Energie Brussel
Sponsoring en Voordelen

Hieronder vindt u de verschillende niveaus van sponsoring:

FOSS4G-BE 2017 Call for Sponsors-fr

2017-10-01T20:02:35Z

Gael1: /* FOSS4G Belgium 2017 */

== FOSS4G Belgium 2017 ==

Après les succès des [http://foss4g.be/ FOSS4G Belgium en 2015 & 2016] , OSGeo.be organisera le jeudi 26 octobre 2017 une nouvelle édition de la conférence FOSS4G Belgium.

Les conférences FOSS4G rassemblent les développeurs et les utilisateurs (pouvant être aussi bien des managers que des décideurs) de logiciels libres en géomatique du monde entier afin de parler des nouvelles directions, de passionnantes mises en oeuvre et des opportunités commerciales grandissantes du domaine. Ces dernières années ont vu beaucoup de changements dans le secteur de la géomatique. Un de ces changements est la montée en maturité de ces solutions ainsi que leur déploiement. Dans beaucoup de cas, les organisations utilisent un mixte de solutions ouvertes et propriétaires.

Nous sommes à la recherche de sponsors pour le troisième FOSS4G belge.

== Public ciblé ==

Le but de la conférence est de toucher un très large public (min 300 participants).

La conférence comprendra des séances plénières d'orateurs de renom, une session principale présentant des cas d'utilisation, une session parallèle destinée aux informaticiens où sera présenté les particularités de l'utilisation de solutions open-source en géomatique au sein d'institutions et une dernière session destinée aux développeurs de ces solutions.

Les présentations et les débats se tiendront en anglais, ainsi qu'en néerlandais et en français.

Plus d'informations seront données sur le site de l'événement : http://2017.foss4g.be.

== Date et lieu ==

L'événement se tiendra le jeudi 26 octobre 2017 dans le splendide centre des congrès de l'agence [http://www.environnement.brussels/ Bruxelles Environnement] qui supporte l'événement en fournissant le lieu.

== Sponsorisation et avantages ==

Voici la liste des différents niveaux de sponsorisation et les avantages qu'ils apportent :

{| border=1 style="text-align: center"
! Niveau !! Prix !! Choix de l'emplacement !! Logo sur la scène !! Parking !! Accès aux CV avant l'event !! Stand de présentation !! Page dans le programme !! "poster track" in Auditorium !! "poster track" in Aqua & Sylva !! Logo sur la page principale du site web !! Logo sur la page "sponsors" du site web !! Liste des participants !! Accès aux CV après l'event !! Offre
|-
|align=right | Platinum || 1000 € || X || X || 2 || X || X || X (1 page) || X || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Gold || 750 € || || || 1 || X || X || X (1/2 page) || X || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Silver || 500 € || || || || || || || || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
|align=right | Bronze || 250 € || || || || || || || || || || X || X || X || X
|}
* '''Choix de l'emplacement''' : L’organisation fournira un plan des stands et des salles de conférence. Le sponsor Platinum pourra choisir de manière privilégié son emplacement de stand dans l’Atrium et de place pour le « Poster Track » dans la salle de conférence.

* '''Logo sur la scène''' : Les sponsors Platinum verront le logo de leur organisation placé sur scène dans l’Auditorium.

*'''Parking''' : Les sponsors Platinum bénéficieront de deux places de parking sur le site de Tour & Taxi pour la journée du 26 octobre 2017.
Les Sponsors Gold en bénéficieront d’une seule.

*'''Accès aux CV avant l'Event ''': Cette année suite à de nombreuse sollicitation, l’organisation met sur le site web une boite à CV ; ceux-ci seront disponible avant l’évènement pour nos sponsors Platinum et Gold.

*'''Stand de présentation''' : Un emplacement avec la mise à disposition d’une table deux chaises et une multiprise dans l’Atrium pour les sponsors Gold et Platinum.

*'''Page dans le programme''' : Une page entière est réservée pour nos sponsors Platinum, une demie pour nos sponsors Gold.
Nos sponsors devront nous fournir logo & image et texte pour le 15 octobre 2017 au plus tard.

*'''"Poster Track"''': Nous invitons nos sponsors à valoriser leur activité et leur engagement dans la communauté Open Source. Pour ce faire à partir du niveau Bronze nous sollicitons nos sponsors afin qu’ils préparent un poster montrant un développement ou projet spécifique valorisant leur société dans un projet utilisant principalement des composants de la communauté Open Source.

Ces posters seront exposés dans les différentes salles de conférence au vue de tous.
- Les sponsors Gold et Platinum auront le privilège d’exposer dans l’Auditorium
- Les sponsor Bronze pourront exposer dans les salles Aqua et Sylva

*'''Logo sur la page principale du site web''' :Les sponsors au-delà de Bronze ont leur logo d’entreprise repris sur toutes les pages du site web

*'''Logo sur la page "sponsors" du site web''' : Les sponsors Bronze et au de-là ont leur logo d’entreprise repris sur la page sponsor et dans les publications papiers réfèrent l’évènement du Foss4G-Belgium

*'''Liste des participants''' : Nous transmettrons à nos sponsors la liste des participants inscrits ayant marqué leur accord, une semaine avant l’évènement

*'''Accès aux CV après l'Event''' : Les Cv reçu par l’organisation seront transmis à l’ensemble des sponsors au lendemain de l’évènement.

*'''Offre ''': Nous offrons en emplacement visible de tous afin que nos sponsors puissent exposer leur offre d’emploi spécifique à la géomatique.

== Contact ==

Si vous êtes intéressé pour sponsoriser l'événement FOSS4G-BE, veuillez
contacter sponsors@foss4g.be.

== OSGeo ==

La fondation Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo), est une organisation sans but lucratif dont la mission est d'aider et de promouvoir le développement collaboratif des données et des technologies ouvertes en géomatique. La fondation fournit une aide financière, organisationnelle et légale à l'immense communauté open-source de ce domaine. En outre, elle sert d'entité légale indépendante à laquelle les membres de la communauté peuvent contribuer (développements informatiques, dons, autres ressources) tout en ayant l'assurance que leurs contributions resteront au bénéfice de tous. Aussi, l'OSGeo sert d'assistance et de défense pour la communauté géospatiale libre, et fournit un forum commun et une infrastructure partagée pour améliorer la collaboration entre ses différents projets.

Les projets de la fondation sont tous librement disponibles et utilisables sous une licence open source certifiée par l'OSI.

== Pourquoi sponsoriser l'OSGeo ==

* Votre organisation dépend d'un logiciel de l'OSGeo

Votre entreprise ou votre institution utilise des technologies de l'OSGeo dans son travail quotidien, ce qui lui permet d'être compétitive et de fournir des services d'une manière rentable. En soutenant l'OSGeo, vous soutenez votre propre activité à long terme sachant qu'une OSGeo solide soutient vos projets.

* Vous représentez une communauté qui a adopté les logiciels de l'OSGeo

Des communautés représentant un large éventail de domaines, allant des associations de professionnels aux organisations non-gouvernementales, tirent profit des logiciels de l'OSGeo qui sont un composant critique de leurs produits finaux. Il y a un intérêt à ce que votre communauté s'assure de la pérennité du logiciel utilisé. En sponsorisant l'OSGeo, vous montrez votre soutien au logiciel choisi par vos membres.

* Vos objectifs sont similaires à ceux de l'OSGeo concernant le soutien aux standards ouverts ou à d'autres priorités

Aidez votre propre organisation à atteindre ses objectifs en sponsorisant l'OSGeo en tant qu'organisation proche de la votre et bénéficiez des actions volontaristes d'une communauté mondiale prenant rapidement de l'ampleur.

* Montrez votre leadership dans les technologies open source en géomatique

En sponsorisant l'OSGeo vous allez associer votre entreprise aux activités de milliers d'utilisateurs de logiciels de l'OSGeo à travers le monde. En tant que sponsor de l'OSGeo, vous allez lier la croissance de votre entreprise à l'élan impulsé par l'OSGeo dans le monde professionnel.

* Profitez des opportunités de mise en réseau

En tant que sponsor de l'OSGeo, vous allez bénéficier d'opportunités uniques de rencontrer et partager vos idées avec des membres clés de l'OSGeo, avec d'autres sponsors de l'OSGeo et avec les personnes et les organisations affiliées à l'OSGeo.

== OSGeo-BE ==

Le naissant chapitre belge de l'OSGeo a pour but de transposer les missions générales de l'OSGeo au contexte belge en organisant des événements de réseautage et d'information.

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