Hello Fabien,<div><br></div><div> Thanks very much for the summary, and your intention to continue being active with OSGEO Ottawa. You're doing a very good job!<span></span></div><div><br></div><div> I don't see any problem with you working with ESRI. Personally, I don't see it as ESRI (or other commercial software) vs open source. As GIS practitioners we should use the tools that suit our applications and clients best. Sometimes it's closed/commercial, sometimes open source, and sometimes both.</div>
<div><br></div><div> I am in the same boat with you on FOSS4G Ottawa. Although very interesting I don't think we have the capacity to tackle an event that size. If the interest is there we could start with something small, maybe a local (Eastern Ontario) event.</div>
<div><br></div><div> I am up for the geocaching event. Let me know how I can help.</div><div><br></div><div> I'd like to know more about the hackathon event with EnvisionGeomatics. For example, what's the scope? Just involving open data? Will it be some kind of competition?</div>
<div><br></div><div> I look forward to your presentation next week.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Regie<br><br>On Saturday, May 24, 2014, Fabien Ancelin <<a href="mailto:fabien.ancelin@gmail.com">fabien.ancelin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello folks,<div><br></div><div>This is a summary of the meeting that happened Thursday May 22 (Richard, Javed, feel free to add to it), since we discussed a couple of things everyone should be aware of.</div>
<div><ol><li>First of all as a co-chair of an organization that promotes Open Source, I feel the need to communicate a bit about a change in my professional life, since I want to make sure people are comfortable with my new position and my involvement in OSGeo. As many of you may know, I am still contracting for my old company (Rhexia Inc) part time but I am now a full time developer at ESRI Canada. I am very excited and I see that as a great opportunity. However, from now on I will be very careful about any situation where I could be a conflict of interest between me, OSGeo, and ESRI Canada. If you think that it impacts the image of OSGeo, or you are not comfortable with that situation and think I should step down, please feel free to do so. OSGeo works on a democratic basis, where everyone's opinion matters.<br>
</li><li>The Geocaching : given the low number of response, we will postpone that for one month. Richard will try to get Open Street Map people from his group, and if needed, I will check with the Ottawa Geek Social Club. The format I have in mind is definitely something that takes only Saturday morning and everyone can go back home at noon. Feel free to bring people but I need to know the number of people to expect in advance. Let me know if you would be interested in that and you availability. Saying that you are not interested HELPS me to organized that, so let me know that too.</li>
<li>Javed has started a discussion about having a FOSS4G in Ottawa. As much as I am enthusiastic about it I know one thing. That is an important event and if we jump in that, we can NOT screw up. It required dedicated volunteers, finding event planners, getting speakers to come. It is something that 3-4 people can carry on their shoulder, regardless how motivated they are. So guys, if that lights an candle in your eyes, you need to let us know what you think and we need to be active about OSGeo. Again, I need feedback from you guys.</li>
<li>I will be doing the presentation about OSGeo next Friday, since Richard won`t be able to do it. This is an important event and we need to get some exposure. </li></ol><div><br></div></div><div>At the same time, I am working with Daniel Morissette and bunch of other people to get a hackathon running in association with EnvisionGeomatics 2014. The concept of the hackathon is to find organisation that provides with a challenge (and $500). The hacker tackle that challenge and get $150. We need to find organisations that provides with a challenge. I am going to use GoGeomatics and Open Data to pass the word on but if you can encourage / organisation people to jump in, I strongly encourage you to do so, and report to me. We need to act quick. Summer won`t help us. I will contact Rob Giggey and OCTranspo, but feel free to add any contact idea. I need all the help you can give me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As a reminder, all the upcoming meeting dates are defined on our wiki page and meetup (<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/OttawaOSGeo/events/177808952/" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://www.<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)">meetup</span>.com/OttawaOSGeo/events/177808952/</a>). When people RSVP on meet up, we actually gain visibility.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, as you can see, my agenda is pretty full and I carry a lot on my shoulders. Having your ideas opinion, feedback on the ideas I bring allow me to know if I am wasting time on this idea or not. And time is not something I have a lot right now. So I trust you to give me feedback when I need it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Have a good week-end.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Fabien</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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