[Local-chapters] Regional Chapters

[Jeff McKenna]

On my side of things, I often hear in my travels of "why don't we have
an OSGeo-Canada chapter".  This is where I'd love to put my passion.
For me it is hard to think of an OSGeo-NA chapter before we first form
an OSGeo-Canada chapter.

It is even conceivable that OSGeo-Canada operates a yearly
FOSS4G-Canada event.

Yes this is all in my head, but it is my own vision.  A regional
Canadian FOSS4G event moving around.  Not huge, no, but moving around
to help spread the passion.  A hundred in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary,
Vancouver, Quebec, Halifax (much smaller event there), etc.

I would love it.

This isn't to say I don't want the OSGeo-NA chapter to happen, quite
opposite.  I just mean I'd love to first get the Canadian chapter moving.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Canada

-jeff (speaking freely as usual ha)





On 2013-09-03 11:11 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> NA Local Chaps; I think it is high time for a North America
> Chapter. Maybe it suffices to start with slightly formalizing the
> existing team which already selects and organizes the conferences.
> I am sure that eventually a full-fledged Regional Chapter will form
> so it is just a questions of when to officially start. As we all
> know publish early and release often is the way to go. It seems
> like we are almost beyond publishing early.
> 
> 
> All, we are thinking about similar ideas in Europe with a strong
> CEE group already under way and Germany, UK, Spain, The Netherlands
> and Italy pretty strong already we will eventually have to
> coordinate anyway. One way to go forward would be to have
> representatives of the existing local chaps form a higher level
> group. The Spanish speaking group has gone a different way and
> organizes around a language regardless of location. Both can be
> good.
> 
> If you have ideas how to do this we'd be interested in learning
> about them and sharing experiences. Please subscribe to the Local
> Chapters list and let us know: 
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters
> 
> 
> Best regards, Arnulf
>