[Board] Twin Cities Local Chapter

[Frank Warmerdam]

David William Bitner wrote:
> OSGeo Board Members,
> 
> The Twin Cities MapServer Users Group would like to request your support 
> in our bid to become an Official OSGeo Local Chapter. 
> 
> The Twin Cities MapServer Users Group was formed alongside the 
> organizing committee for MUM3/OSG '05 
> <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/> in the Fall 
> of 2004. TCMUG has met near monthly since that time with a mix of social 
> gatherings and technical presentations hosted at various locations 
> around the Twin Cities, MN Metropolitan Area. TCMUG is made up of people 
> representing government, non-profit, academic, and private interests. 
> Members of TCMUG are active in several areas within OSGeo. In addition, 
> TCMUG has a strong presence in state and regional GIS initiatives 
> through MetroGIS <http://metrogis.org/>, the Governor's Council on 
> Geographic Information <http://www.gis.state.mn.us/>, and Minnesota 
> GIS/LIS Consortium <http://www.mngislis.org/> as well as work with FGDC 
> grant funded projects [2] <http://openmnnd.org/>. Members of TCMUG are 
> active users and developers and have been a forum in the region for not 
> just MapServer, but also many other Open Source GIS packages.
> 
> Further information about our group  can be found on our OSGeo Wiki page 
> at http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Twin_Cities 
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Twin_Cities>

David,

I have added this to Dec. 7ths agenda.

Best regards,
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