http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html
You need to meet once per year in some way.
Have an mission statement.
Select a Liason to the board.
Apply to the board for approval.
That's it.
Benefit, you are allowed to use the OSGeo name and brand as you now
represent OSGeo in your Geogra
Nice - so Aust-NZ may already qualify :-)
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Jody Garnett
On Friday, 27 January 2012 at 1:11 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Please also note that you do not need a legal entity to qualify as a
> local chapter, so being an OSGeo local chapter can be very lightweight
> contrary to what wa
Please also note that you do not need a legal entity to qualify as a
local chapter, so being an OSGeo local chapter can be very lightweight
contrary to what was suggested in the thread. Several OSGeo local
chapters are only virtual groups with a small steering committee,
mailing list, website a
The magic of cross posting…
This conversation started as a discussion on a different topic -> is there any
interest in having a conference, unconference or code sprint in the Aust-NZ
region :-)
As for the benefits of a local chapter; it may in fact being limited to running
a regional confere
OSGeo Discuss,
In Australia/New Zealand we have been discussing whether we should
legally "formalise" the Aust-NZ OSGeo chapter, and come to the
conclusion that we gain little, and loose a lot by becoming legal. Email
discussion here:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/aust-nz/2012-January/thre
