[Board] Request for recognition

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi JeffH,

I very much welcome your local chapter initiative. I was going to ask 
that you create a wiki page as the home of the chapter, and then found 
that you already created one... here is the link for anyone interested:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Yukon_Chapter


On 11-09-15 10:46 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi JeffH,
>
> Thanks for sharing this excellent news about the new Yukon chapter; I
> think it would be great if you could give a little summary of this at
> the AGM tomorrow.
>
> -JeffM
>
> On 11-09-14 11:29 PM, jeff at geoprism.ca wrote:
>> Following several years of discussion about the need for an organization
>> to promote development and adoption of open source geospatial
>> applications, standards compliant metadata and open data, it has come
>> time
>> to formalize the group as an OSGeo chapter. Although there are presently
>> no organizations in Yukon with similar objectives, our group is not
>> expected to be very large (we're a pretty small bunch of northerners to
>> stubborn to go where its warmer).
>>
>> I have discussed the prospects for a local chapter with Jeff McKenna, who
>> provided strong support, encouragement, and suggestions on how to proceed
>> with formal recognition. Jeff Hamm has agreed to act as the initial
>> liaison with the OSGeo board.
>>
>> Significant initiatives are already in place that use OSGeo projects,
>> most
>> notably the Yukon Planning Atlas (Mapserver/Chameleon). We intend to
>> probe
>> our existing network of local GIS users to identify other
>> opportunities to
>> promote adoption of open source geospatial software.
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