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

[Irfon Jones]

Hi all, is there anyone on this list from Christchurch and interested in a
similar informal meeting around a brown beverage or two?

Regards

Irfon



On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Byron Cochrane <cochranes4 at eml.cc> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I am from the Top of the South (Nelson) and not Palmerston North, but I
> would be keen to join via conference. My specialty in FOSS-4G software is
> GeoNetwork. I also have a good deal of experience in PostGIS as well as a
> number of other open source geo packages.
>
> Currently I work for LINZ Geospatial Office on the Canterbury SDI program.
>
> Keep me posted. I am always interested in OSGeo activities in NZ!
>
> Cheers,
> Byron Cochrane
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, at 02:57 PM, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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/).
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> 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!
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Kind regards,
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> Tim
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