[OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK Meeting - 29 Nov 2010

[Suchith Anand]

Hi All,

Trying to summarise the meeting discussions on 29th Nov. If i missed anything , please correct. Thanks to all  who attended.

Best wishes,

Suchith


Date - 29th Nov 2010 (Monday)

Time - 15:00-16:00



1. Casestudies update

Antony updated that we have a template content agreed and Mike Saunt was going to draft a publishable version. Once  this is ready Antony will send it around with a request to people to complete and submit. Newgrove will update some of the casestudies already there. There is interest from many organisations to do casestudies.

Action: Interested organisations to email casestudy updates to Antony and Jo. Laura (Newcastle) has also volunteered to help with this.


2. Events update

Suchith updated on the strong OSGeo presence and activities for the WhereCamp:UK at University of Nottingham last week. Laura updated on very successful Open Source GIS workshop at Newcastle University last month. It is good to see strong interest in Open Source GIS from many universities now  and this trend will rapidly increase.

Suchith updated on the OSGIS 2011 conference (June 21-22, 2011) . The call for papers released. OGC-OSGeo Interoperability Workshop and Open Gov workshops on 21st June 2011.

Main conference on 22nd June 2011. OSGIS has grown rapidly and aims to continue building up research activities in open source, open standards and open data and looking forward to all of your active participation.

Action : QGIS workshop- Sab to email Suchith


3.  Training and Marketing update

Matt informed OSGeo banner is now send to Jo. Thanks Astun for this.

Action:  Newgrove to email Matt on training page update. Any others who need to update Training info please send details to Matt.



4. Research and academic activities update

Suchith updated on the appointment of first batch of internship students for the various open source projects at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at CGS. The students will be presenting their research at OSGIS 2011. Thanks to Faunalia and other organisations who have expressed support for the projects. We welcome participation from all interested for building research collaborations.


5. Next meeting

Many expressed desire to change the timing of the meeting to  13:00-14:00, so that more people are able to attend the monthly meeting and to plan last Monday of every month for the meetings (so people have it in the calendars' in advance and can join if possible ).

No Meeting for December because of Christmas holidays.

Next OSGeo:UK IRC Meeting will be on 31st Jan 2011 (Monday) 13:00-14:00



From: Anand Suchith
Sent: 22 November 2010 10:22
To: uk at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Draft agenda for OSGeo:UK Meeting - 29 Nov 2010

Hi All,

It was good to see and talk to many of you at the WherecampUK at University of Nottingham last week and thanks to all of you we had a strong OSGeo presence and activities at the event.

Please find below draft agenda for the next OSGeo:UK IRC Meeting


Date - 29th Nov 2010 (Monday)
Time - 15:00-16:00

Draft Agenda

1. Casestudies update - Antony Scott

2. Events update - Jo Cook

3. Strategies and Marketing update - Mike Saunt/Matt Walker

4. Research and academic activities update - Suchith Anand

5. ....

6. ....

Please add/modify items to the agenda

IRC meeting:

1) Login at http://webchat.freenode.net/
2) Join the #osgeo-uk channel

Look forward to see many of you there.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
The Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/



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