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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> David William Bitner <david.bitner@GMAIL.COM> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3">At our last meeting, we discussed reforming as a local chapter of OSGeo.<BR><BR>I have stubbed in information on the osgeo wiki for this change:<BR><A href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Twin_Cities">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Twin_Cities </A><BR><BR>Please feel free to edit the wiki or to discuss anything on the wiki using the mailing list.<BR><BR>For reference:<BR><A href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Local_Chapter_Guidelines">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Local_Chapter_Guidelines </A><BR><A href="http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html">http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html</A><BR><BR><BR>Things to discuss:<BR>Scope -- do we want to represent just the Twin Cities or a larger area as well? <BR>Name -- do we need a catchy acronym? TCMUG rolls off the tongue much better than "Twin Cities, MN chapter of OSGeo"<BR>Any comments?<BR clear=all><BR><BR>David<BR>-- <BR>************************************ <BR>David William Bitner </DIV></BODY></HTML>