California Chapter Mission and Objectives

Mission

To promote the use and development of open source geospatial software in California.

Objectives & Goals

• Influence other professional groups in California.
  • Give Presentations to groups with an interest in Open Geospatial and/or Public Geodata (see list of available speakers)
  • Demonstrate diplomacy and interoperability of the OSGeo stack with other solutions(Free or Not) through our activities.
  • Represent OSGeo via booths, literature and presentations at academic and professional conferences in the Western US

• Promote Access to California Geodata.
  • Annual Award to the agency or institution in California that best exemplifies OSGeo's stance on Public Geodata
  • Work with the Public Geodata Project to Generate a catalog of catalogs, search tools, and metadata harvesters to better enable public access to Geodata.http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
  • Promote use of Public Geodata Catalogs

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