[Spanish] Fwd: [OSGeo-Announce] New German, Spanish and Québécois OSGeo Local Chapters Approved

[Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]

Os adjunto el comunicado oficial de aprobación del Capítulo
Hispanohablante que ha enviado Frank Warmerdam a la lista de anuncios
de OSGeo.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam en pobox.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] New German, Spanish and Québécois OSGeo
Local Chapters Approved
To: announce en lists.osgeo.org


The OSGeo board has formally approved three new local chapters. OSGeo
local chapters provide a venue to support local users and developers,
as well as a mechanism to further OSGeo's mission and goals in a
linguistic, or geographic area.

FOSSGIS e.V. has been approved as a local chapter for the german
speaking countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Dr. Georg
Lösel as representative. FOSSGIS e.V. has existed since the year 2000
at which time is was incorporated as GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung (GAV).
It was recently renamed FOSSGIS e.V. FOSSGIS e.V is responsible for
maintaining the FreeGIS Portal. Since 2006 it has held the FOSSGIS
conference promoting FOSS4G software, with 500 participants in 2008.
FOSSGIS e.V. also plays an important role in supporting a FOSS4G role
in other tradeshows such as InterGeo and AGIT.

  http://www.fossgis.de

The OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter has been approved for spanish speaking
areas of all continents with Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses as
representative. Since it's formation in 2007 the chapter has
established a members list, and elected a board of directors. Key
activities include work on the Free GIS Book, Spanish Localization and
events including Jornadas de SIG Libre and the Jornadas gvSIG.

  http://es.osgeo.org

The Comité de direction du Chapitre québécois de l'OSGeo has been
approved for the region of Québec (Canada) with Daniel Morissette as
representative. This chapter seeks to provide a channel for
communication, exchange and cooperation to facilitate the development
of the Québec community around OSGeo products and Open Source
Geospatial topics in general. With a primary focus on local community
development, it also plans to cooperate with the Francophone Chapter
on French translations, and with other nearby chapters on some events.
The chapter has approximately 90 members, and has formed a steering
committee.

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chapitre_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois

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Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
Valencia (España)