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<p>Wiki-Rollo: </p> <hr /> <div>He's just zis guy, you know?</div>

Wiki-Rollo https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=United_Kingdom&diff=17044 2007-08-14T17:34:09Z

<p>Wiki-Rollo: </p> <hr /> <div>== Mission ==<br /> <br /> '''The mission of the UK Chapter broadly follows the general [[OSGeo Mission]], with emphasis o n the following areas: (please add and edit as you see fit):'''<br /> <br /> * To provide a forum for discussion and promotion of Open Source Geospatial Software in the UK<br /> * To help more UK organisations discover the opportunity of open source geospatial tools<br /> * To support the development of a fully featured [[UK SDI]]<br /> * To provide a starting point for people from the UK who are new to the Open Source Geospatial movement<br /> * To raise awareness of the benefits of public access to geodata in the UK<br /> * To work with OGC members in the UK to promote the implementation and development of open standards for geodata exchange<br /> * To, maybe, one day, act as focal point for a UK-hosted and organised FOSS4G conference<br /> <br /> == Mailing List ==<br /> <br /> Discussion list:<br /> * http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk<br /> * &lt;s&gt;http://lists.openarchaeology.net/mailman/listinfo/osgeo-uk&lt;/s&gt;<br /> <br /> == Meetings and Events ==<br /> <br /> One really useful role of a UK OSGeo chapter would be as a focal point for organising meetings - evening presentation sessions or short seminars with Q and A afterwards.<br /> <br /> === Upcoming Events ===<br /> <br /> '''17th March 2007''':<br /> An [[Public Geospatial Data Project|Open Geodata]] session at a one-day event on Open Data covering geodata, civic information and scientific data, organised by the [http://okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation]; See the description at [http://blog.okfn.org/2006/12/14/open-knowledge-10-london-saturday-17th-march-2007/ OKFN - Open Knowledge 1.0] and contact [[User:JoWalsh|Jo]] if you have questions or demos you would like to present.<br /> <br /> === Recent Events ===<br /> <br /> '''8th-10th December 2006''': <br /> The UK-originated [http://openguides.org/ OpenGuides] Open Source spatial wiki project is having a pub meetup and &quot;hackfest&quot; in Oxford - http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordMeetup2006<br /> : There will be a few OpenStreetMap people at this event too (there's a fair degree of overlap). Crash space is available, and nice pubs will be visited!<br /> <br /> '''<br /> Tuesday September, 26th 2006''': Steve Coast of OpenStreetmap fame gave a talk to the BCS entitled Geospatial Open Source Activity. Details at [http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#3 http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#3]<br /> <br /> [http://openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetmap] also have regular UK mapping parties in different cities<br /> <br /> ----<br /> '''Don't forget to sign the Inspire petition -and tell your friends too - you don't have to use geo-data to believe that publically funded work should be public property! http://petition.publicgeodata.org/<br /> ----<br /> <br /> == People ==<br /> <br /> Sign up here to show interest!<br /> <br /> * [[User:Chrisputtick]]- Yes, definitely worth doing<br /> * [[User:JoCook]] - woohoo!<br /> * [[User:Leifuss]]<br /> * [[User:Stuarteve]] - +1<br /> * [[User:JoWalsh]]<br /> * [[User:andyt]]<br /> * [[User:Davidjlock]] <br /> * [[User:Simon]] - Excellent! All for this!!<br /> * [[User:Graeme]]<br /> * [[User:SteveW]]<br /> * [[User::andrewlarcombe]]<br /> * [[User:Gagravarr]] - involved in OpenGuides and OpenStreetMap in the UK<br /> * [[User:Mdgreaney]]<br /> * [[User:Mander]] - New to all this, but it sounds interesting and I'd like to be involved.<br /> * [[User:rollo]] - sign me up!<br /> <br /> == See Also ==<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Useful Links UK]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Local Chapters]]</div>

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