[Aust-NZ] Upcoming OSGeo Chapter in the Central North Island

Thu Aug 15 18:48:33 PDT 2013

If you are interested Mark Leslie has paid for the meetup space (
http://www.meetup.com/osgeo-aust-nz/)  for another 6 months, and you would
be able to setup an additional page for New Zealand. A couple other parties
have also offered to keep it going if it is of interest to the community.

That said they have gone real light on the procedure for establishing a
group, just add a page to the OSGeo wiki:
- http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html

(Indeed we can mark the AusNZ group as established, as they have relaxed
the requirements)

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer <
heuert at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I agree that this could be under the aus/nz group banner. I'm all for less
> bureaucracy and a more complimentary group rather than having yet another
> group. However, we would like to plan a meetup here in Palmerston North on
> the 28/08. If you want to join us you are more than welcome. Let us know if
> you can make it to the pub or if you can join our hangout and give us your
> information so we can invite you. The other option would be a public
> hangout that people can join if they like and that could be streamed to
> YouTube.
>
> We're all about collaboration so please don't take this as a threat to
> existing groups.
>
> Regards
> Tim
> On Aug 15, 2013 11:58 AM, "Byron Cochrane" <cochranes4 at eml.cc> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Occasional regional get-togethers under the banner of Aust-NZ OSGeo are
>> the norm in Australia. Could proceed in that manner.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Byron
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 08:38 AM, Brent Wood wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Tim,
>>
>> I agree with Hamish.
>>
>> We already have an OSGEO chapter that encompasses NZ, we have the NZOSS,
>> reasonably active NZ GIS & GPS online groups (incl OSM support & dvpt), a
>> very active biodata group (Dataversity) all with some level of Open Source
>> focus & support. The new ECO/WWF Moodle website for tutorial/training
>> resources for environmental data management & analysis also has a strong
>> Open Source GIS focus, but is not built around OSGEO.
>>
>> More fragmentation I think would be divisive rather than productive.
>>
>> I'd sooner see an existing NZ group strengthened by more activity &
>> members instead. As a long time GMT user (as well as several OSGEO tools) &
>> a novice R user, I also suggest that running such a group as an "OSGEO
>> chapter" is unecessarily restrictive, and that if such a group is
>> established, it should be formed within and help grow existing NZ
>> initiatives rather than compete with them for members, time & resources.
>>
>> For this reason, I do not support & will not join the proposed group, as
>> I think it would be detrimental to the overall progress of Open Source GIS
>> in NZ, quite apart from not wanting to add yet another membership to my
>> list, which is already long enough that I can't do most groups justice. I
>> believe the NZ Open Source & GIS communities needs to pull together more,
>> not fragment even further.
>>
>> Just my opinion.... if there are enough interested people to form an
>> active chapter, I still wish you well, & hope we can work together on
>> shared goals in future.
>>
>>  Regards
>>
>>    Brent Wood
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>>  *To:* "heuert at landcareresearch.co.nz" <heuert at landcareresearch.co.nz>;
>> Aust NZ Aus Geo List <aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org>
>>  *Sent:* Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:22 PM
>>  *Subject:* Re: [Aust-NZ] Upcoming OSGeo Chapter in the Central North
>> Island
>>
>>   Hi Tim,
>>
>> why not just run it under the guise of the greater aust-nz chapter? unneccessary
>> bureaucratic overhead takes time away from coding :)
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>  Hamish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Tim-Hinnerk Heuer <heuert at landcareresearch.co.nz>
>>  *To:* Aust NZ Aus Geo List <aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org>
>>  *Sent:* Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:57 PM
>>  *Subject:* [Aust-NZ] Upcoming OSGeo Chapter in the Central North Island
>>
>>
>>   *
>> Hi,
>>  *
>>  *
>> I'm Tim-Hinnerk Heuer, a geo web developer working at Landcare Research
>> in Palmerston North. The Informatics group at Landcare Research has been
>> using open source geo-software for quite a while and we know there are
>> other people in the local region with an interest in such software.
>>  *
>>  *
>> We have come up with the idea of forming an informal group in Palmerston
>> North - or more specifically the lower North Island - to exchange ideas and
>> encourage collaboration on geospatial data and geospatial open source
>> software. One possibility is that this group becomes an OSGeo chapter (see
>> http://www.osgeo.org/).
>>  *
>>  *
>> At the moment, this initiative is driven by myself and my colleague
>> Pierre Roudier, who is working on soil data using open source software
>> (R, GDAL/OGR, QGIS, GRASS GIS). Anybody wanting to join the effort is
>> obviously more than welcome!
>>  *
>>  *
>> We are planning a meeting to gauge interest in forming such a group. It
>> is set to take place at the Village Inn Kitchen in Hokowhitu, Palmerston
>> North, from 5.30pm onwards, on Wednesday 28st August. (We chose this venue
>> because it has high-speed Internet access and one idea we have is to invite
>> people from around New Zealand or even the world to join us via video
>> conference to talk about their software and/or how they are using open
>> source geospatial software).
>>  *
>>  *
>> A couple of us are attending FOSS4G 2013 in the UK in mid September and,
>> if there is support for the idea of forming a chapter, we would raise it
>> with the OSGeo Board then.
>>  *
>>  *
>> We are looking forward to seeing you at the Village Inn Kitchen in
>> Hokowhitu, Palmerston North on the 28th August. Drop us an email if you
>> think you will come so we can get an idea of numbers.
>>  *
>>  *
>> Kind regards,
>>  *
>>  *
>> Tim
>>  *
>>
>> --
>>  Tim-Hinnerk Heuer
>>
>>
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