Diskussion:Konferenzen/foss4g2010

Ideensammlung für einen Talk über die deutsche FOSSGIS und ihre Aktivitäten

Titel-ideas

FOSSGIS e.V. - 10 years of fostering Free and Open Source GIS and Free Data in Germany

Abstract

The FOSSGIS e.V. [1], formally known as 'GRASS Anwender Vereinigung', has its roots back in the year 1999. It was, thus, conceived way before the first mentioning of the OSGeo and is now already looking back on 10 successful years of fostering Free and Open Source Geographic Information Systems and Free Data in Germany. In 2008 the FOSSGIS e.V. became the German-speaking OSGeo-Chapter.

Over the years a strong and powerful community evolved and worked on many projects, such as educational projects, political statements, the FreeGIS Portal [2], software projects, user conferences. More recently the FOSSGIS e.V. was enriched by German OpenStreetMappers and became their trustee and contact for official matters.

This talk wants to give you a small taste of the German OSGeo-Chapter [1] and the yearly FOSSGIS conference [3]. The FOSSGIS-conference is the German-speaking equivalent to the international FOSS4G. It is a meeting of the FOSS GIS community and since its start in 2002 continuously growing up to its current size of about 500 participants. The conference is well established as a platform to present and discuss new ideas, learn from the experts, and to meet like-minded peoplle.

Links:

• [1] http://www.fossgis.de
• [2] http://www.freegis.org
• [3] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz