[OSGeo-Discuss] Dutch Local Chapter & OSGeo presentation

[Emil Zegers]

Hello Jeroen,

I'm interested in a Dutch Local Chapter.

Although not active involved in OS GIS development at the moment, I believe
a local chapter would be a nice place to keep myself informed.

Most of the time the Dutch don't seem to need a translated website or local
initiative because we know how to read and write English, at least good
enough we think :-)

But I welcome the ease and charm of a local chapter so I support the idea.

On http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Local_Chapters the Dutch chapter is
already listed I saw.

Regards,

Emil
 
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Jeroen Ticheler
Verzonden: donderdag 18 oktober 2007 17:00
Aan: OSGeo Discussions
Onderwerp: [OSGeo-Discuss] Dutch Local Chapter & OSGeo presentation

Hi all,
I've been in The Netherlands this week in a seminar on FOSS in the  
geospatial world. Wim de Haas and Wim Blanken were organizing this  
excellent seminar in which I had the honor to also speak on behalf of  
myself. I tried to make it into a good pitch for OSGeo. The  
presentation has been added to the documents library.

http://www.osgeo.org/node/452

It's in Dutch and I used a previous presentation already available  
here in English (although I can't seem to find it anymore....). It  
was extended with OSGeo stuff.

======== Dutch local Chapter =========

What came up pretty strongly was the idea of a Dutch local chapter.  
This would be an inclusive, or linguistic chapter for those speaking  
Dutch, so more a Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) and other  
places like Suriname.

This is a good opportunity for consolidation of existing Dutch  
websites focussing on open source GIS into a more active community  
location. I just write this email to get the discussion started :-)

So:
Alle Nederlanders met interesse voor een Nederlandstalig OSGeo  
Chapter, laat je horen.

I've asked for a Dutch mailing list. Once created it should appear in  
the list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org

Groeten,
Jeroen
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