Hello Tyler,
I was a little quiet in the last two months. As we already wrote on the
mailing list we are very interested in creating a Romanian local
chapter. I'm saying "we" as the local community gathered around
http://www.geo-spatial.org. More about this topic was posted at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Romanian.
What we accomplished until now:
1. Visibility at conferences and workshops:
- Octomber 25-27 - a general presentation of geo-spatial.org, Romanian
in formation chapter and OSGeo was done at the 15th GIS Users
Conference, in Chisinau (Rep. Moldova).
- December 11 - a more detailed presentation was done at the second
National Spatial Data Infrastructure conference in Bucharest
(http://portal.rosa.ro/index.php?item_id=169,
http://earth.unibuc.ro/stiri/conferinta-sdi-2007)
- December 12, in the framework of the same conference, we manage to
organize a open source geospatial software workshop. Detailed
presentations and step by step demonstrations were made for: QGIS, uDig,
PostGIS, Geoserver, MapWindow, OpenLayers and VTP.
2. Romanian articles and tutorials published on geo-spatial.org:
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/open-source-gis-I (FOSSGIS
applications review: toolkits and libraries)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/open-source-gis-II (FOSSGIS
applications review: desktop software)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/vtp-primii-pasi (VTP tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/wingrass (GRASS Windows installation
tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/instalare-grass-macosx (GRASS MacOSX
installation tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/bazin-hidrografic-prin-QGIS-GRASS
(GRASS+QGIS watershed delineation)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/vtocx (VTP vtocx tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/manipulare-date-spatiale-gdal-raster
(GDAL tutorial)
3. Romanian articles and tutorials to be published on geo-spatial.org in
the following month:
- A translation and adaptation of Gary Sherman's "Shuffling Quantum GIS
into the Open Source GIS Stack" tutorial (http://earth.unibuc.ro/preview)
- FOSSGIS applications review: server-side and webmapping applications
- Mapnik tutorial
- Two more GDAL/OGR tutorials
- OpenLayers basic tutorial
4. Articles:
- Free and Open Source Geospatial Software. A Complete Alternative to
Propriatary Applications (published in a local journal)
- Developing an Open Romanian Geoportal (presented as poster at
FOSS4G2007 and published in a local journal)
5. Meetings
- Thursday evening, on 28th, we will have the first meeting (in a local
pub here in Bucharest) between authors and users of geo-spatial.org.
The main topics will be related to RO local chapter. Will try to see how
we can form a legal entity (like an NGO), search for volunteers for
translation of OSGeo website and software, etc. Until now we have 15+
people signed in. Details of the meeteng can be found on the
geo-spatial.org mailing list, Romanian only
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial/). On Friday i'll be
back with a short summary of the evening.
That's is for the moment.
Regards,
Vasile
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
Is anyone on this list interested in or working on local chapter work
in Israel or Romania?
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