<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I know I'm new to the group, but here is my opinion: I think it best to leave this as the Ottawa Chapter. It's specific, and very clear. With most user group organisations, I'm used to seeing the city name, rather than the provincial, state, or national name. Great thing, too, is that most people, when they hear "Ottawa", they probably think of the capital of Canada, and not some other city in the world. So this is not some kind of issue like having the name "Kingston Chapter", which might be confused with another city in another nation.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Mike Quentel<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Sampson, David"
<dsampson@NRCan.gc.ca><br>To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List <ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 9:15:05 AM<br>Subject: RE: [Ottawa_users] Proposal to expand Chapter<br><br>Hey Folks,<br><br>Something to think about.<br><br>As I was populating some content on the Canada section of Osgeo I<br>pointed to some others resources on the OSGEO wiki. I then started to<br>think (ouch!).<br><br>I think that the Ottawa Chapter (if we stay as a local chapter) could<br>play a mentoring role for other groups wanting to self organize.<br><br>Think about this and we can discuss Thursday. If this is something we<br>agree to do then perhaps we can hash out something like "the 10 steps
to<br>create a local chapter" and link to it from the Canada page.<br><br>Just something else to think over.<br><br>Cheers <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>[mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">ottawa_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Tyler<br>Mitchell (OSGeo)<br>Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 16:23<br>To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List<br>Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] Proposal to expand Chapter<br><br>On 5-Oct-07, at 12:47 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br>> I have not changed in my thinking. I still see no good reason to not
<br>> continue what we are doing locally in Ottawa, and be more inviting to
<br>> the rest of Canada as the "Canada local chapter of OSGeo".<br><br><br>As with any local chapter, you'll need to try to enumerate the breadth<br>of people who are interested in making it happen. If you are still<br>convinced there is value, then I suggest you help spearhead the<br>discussion on the main list and help populate the wiki page I just<br>started:<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canada" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canada</a><br><br>In the end, you may find that most people are from Ottawa anyway, but<br>I'm sure there will be others as well. Maybe at some point smaller<br>regional groups could actually be sub/working groups under national<br>banners.<br><br>Tyler<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ottawa_users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org">Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a
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