[AtlanticCanada] Introductions...

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello,

I wish to welcome everyone to the mailing list for discussions of the 
Atlantic Canada local chapter of OSGeo (the Open Source Geospatial 
Foundation).  The goal of our chapter is to promote the use of Open 
Source geospatial software and data at the local level here in Atlantic 
Canada - in private industry, academic, and the public sector.

I notice that there are currently 7 people registered to the mailing 
list - great, it's definitely a start.

Since I have not met anyone on this list face-to-face yet, I'll just 
give a little background on myself.  I have been active in the MapServer 
community for over 10 years, and I am on the MapServer Project Steering 
Committee.  Last year I was also named to the Board of Directors of 
OSGeo, which is quite an honour.  I was also one of the initial chairs 
of the Ottawa local chapter of OSGeo.  Oh I am also the chair of the 
OSGeo conference committee.

If you wish to introduce yourself briefly to others on this email list 
please do so.

I wish to thank Adam Hartling for writing a blog entry on our chapter 
(http://acoss.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/atlantic-canada-open-source-geospatial-foundation-chapter-created/), 
and I'd ask for everyone else to spread the word about our chapter 
through their own channels (blogs, tweets, mailing lists, friends, 
colleagues).

We can use this email list to plan for our initial meeting (there has 
been some talk about having the initial meeting in NB), and also please 
forward any related emails or news items to this email list - in other 
words let's use this email list for anything to do with Open software 
and Open data.  Let's get talking!!

Thanks everyone.

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/