Ottawa Chapter Report 2007 - Revision history

Warmerdam: /* Key Accomplishments */ added geofunctions

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Key Accomplishments: added geofunctions

Wiki-Smitch: cleanup edits, add links

2008-02-13T15:28:03Z

cleanup edits, add links

Wiki-Smitch: Initial draft

2008-02-13T15:11:29Z

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= Ottawa Chapter =
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
* Contact name: [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]]

== Key Accomplishments ==
* regular meetings, with a combination of presentations to share experience, and social/networking purposes, with a wide range of participants
* presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including GDAL, PROJ, Geoserver, GRASS, Mapbuilder, Nunaliit, the Antarctic Atlas, and Mapnik
* booth presence at the GIS Day events at Carleton University and University of Ottawa, as well as Software Freedom Day
* developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop
* shared experiences from FOSS4G07 with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria

== Areas for Improvement ==
* keeping momentum going to have regular meetings is occasionally challenging

== Opportunities to Help ==
* suggest presentations that you might be able to give to the group
* encourage others to give presentations, or submit suggestions to the group on things you'd like to see
* help pay attention to the calendar and get meetings scheduled, venue reserved, A/V equipment arranged

== Outlook for 2008 ==
* more great (informal) meetings!
* work together towards presence at [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoTec2008 GeoTec 2008] (Jun 2-5, in Ottawa)
* GIS Day 2008
* which lucky members can make it to South Africa?

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 * held regular meetings, which included both presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc
 * WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms
-* presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including [http://gdal.osgeo.org GDAL], [http://proj.maptools.org PROJ], [http://geoserver.org Geoserver], [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS], [http://www.mapbuilder.net Mapbuilder], [http://nunaliit.org Nunaliit], the [http://www.carleton.ca/gcrc/caap/ Cybercartographic Antarctic Atlas], and [http://mapnik.org Mapnik]
+* presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including [http://gdal.osgeo.org GDAL], [http://proj.maptools.org PROJ], [http://geoserver.org Geoserver], [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS], [http://www.mapbuilder.net Mapbuilder], [http://nunaliit.org Nunaliit], the [http://www.carleton.ca/gcrc/caap/ Cybercartographic Antarctic Atlas], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions GeoFunctions] and [http://mapnik.org Mapnik]
 * booth presence at the GIS Day events at [http://www.library.carleton.ca/gis/gisday.html Carleton University] and [http://www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/gisday/ University of Ottawa], as well as [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]
 * developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop

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 == Key Accomplishments ==
-* regular meetings, with a combination of presentations to share experience, and social/networking purposes, with a wide range of participants
+* held regular meetings, which included both presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc
-* presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including GDAL, PROJ, Geoserver, GRASS, Mapbuilder, Nunaliit, the Antarctic Atlas, and Mapnik
+* WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms
-* booth presence at the GIS Day events at Carleton University and University of Ottawa, as well as Software Freedom Day
+* presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including [http://gdal.osgeo.org GDAL], [http://proj.maptools.org PROJ], [http://geoserver.org Geoserver], [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS], [http://www.mapbuilder.net Mapbuilder], [http://nunaliit.org Nunaliit], the [http://www.carleton.ca/gcrc/caap/ Cybercartographic Antarctic Atlas], and [http://mapnik.org Mapnik]
 * developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop
-* shared experiences from FOSS4G07 with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria
+* shared experiences from [http://www.foss4g2007.org FOSS4G07] with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria
 == Areas for Improvement ==
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 * work together towards presence at [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoTec2008 GeoTec 2008] (Jun 2-5, in Ottawa)
 * GIS Day 2008
-* which lucky members can make it to South Africa?
+* which lucky members can make it to [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008 South Africa]?
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