[Ottawa_users] Proposal to expand Chapter

[Pagurek,Debbie [NCR]]

 I'm inviting Tom Kralidis to join into this conversation, because I
know he's been interested in starting a Toronto area chapter of OSGEO...

Tom - anything to add here?

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of 
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:23 PM
> To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List
> Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] Proposal to expand Chapter
> 
> On 5-Oct-07, at 12:47 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > I have not changed in my thinking.  I still see no good 
> reason to not 
> > continue what we are doing locally in Ottawa, and be more 
> inviting to 
> > the rest of Canada as the "Canada local chapter of OSGeo".
> 
> 
> As with any local chapter, you'll need to try to enumerate 
> the breadth of people who are interested in making it happen. 
>  If you are still convinced there is value, then I suggest 
> you help spearhead the discussion on the main list and help 
> populate the wiki page I just
> started:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canada
> 
> In the end, you may find that most people are from Ottawa 
> anyway, but I'm sure there will be others as well.  Maybe at 
> some point smaller regional groups could actually be 
> sub/working groups under national banners.
> 
> Tyler
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