1. OSGeo Conferences & Local Chapters Around the World Jeff McKenna Director, OSGeo Rendez-vous OSGeo Québec 15 juin 2010

2. From Where? Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

3. Lunenburg: More Than Just Fish

4. Local Challenge: Providing Broadband Access to Rural NS “Every Nova Scotian will have broadband access by the year 2010.”

5. Reality of High Speed Access in NS

6. Open Source Geospatial: In the Beginning

7. Getting the Community Together Ottawa 2004

8. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

9. Welcome, NeoGeographers

10. FOSS4G Workshops Capetown, South Africa 2008

11. FOSS4G Friendships Victoria, 2007

12. FOSS4G Attendance

13. Good Problems to Have ● FOSS4G2010 had 360 abstracts submitted with only 120 slots available ● Difficult to make sure that all OSGeo projects and OSGeo sponsors are represented

14. FOSS4G Budget ● The focus has not been on 'making money' ● Each hosting committee is expected to generate $20,000 for OSGeo

15. FOSS4G Lessons Learned

16. OSGeo Local Chapters

17. What Can Local Chapters Do?

24. ● Brought 5 international representatives to this event ● Possibly one of the largest and most active chapters in North America ● Recommendations: ● Also participate in Canadian chapter? ● FOSS4G 201x international?

25. ● Each year funds international representatives to travel to their events ● Possibly one of the largest and most active chapters in the world ● Use own infrastructure ● Extremely active, but separated from global community

26. OSGeo4W Translations

28. Conclusion

29. Making a Local Impact

32. Thank you! Chicoutimi, 2004

33. www.gatewaygeomatics.co m