Belgium

= About OSGeo Belgium =
Welcome to the wiki page of the Belgium OSGeo chapter.
== Mission and objectives ==
After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:
* Community-building and networking around specific Belgian themes and within Belgian fora.
* Organisation of events
: These two mission statements are working together. We believe it is important to meet people face2face. To help them to start open source initiatives, to start using open source solutions, to establish an eco-system that benefits from the cooperation, the sharing and the co-creation open source delivers.
* Lobbying
: We think it is important to speak as one voice, and to get involved with other organisations: administrations, industries, user groups, ... OSGeo. Be will actively speak as an organisation to defend the OSGeo open source spirit in the broader Belgium community (government, academic, industry, other open initiatives).
* Networking with other OSGeos (notably OSGeo-fr and OSGeo.nl)
: OSGeo Belgium will focus on local activities (Belgium based). OSGeo Belgium will advertise and promote other OSGeo initiatives and invite members of the other OSGeo chapters on the Belgium events or meetings.
: We think that OSGeo Belgium can act as a bridge between several language communities and cultures, because of it's unique composition.
* Support to higher levels of OSGeo
: We believe that OSGeo only can grow if supported from the base. So OSGeo Belgium is willing to help OSGeo where necessary, to leverage idea's or act as an advisor if appreciated.
* Support to OSGeo in lobbying European Union Institutions (Commission, Parliament, etc) related to specific EU-Themes (INSPIRE, H2020, Procurement policy, ...)
==Articles of association==
Our official statutes (in french) can be found here.
==Members==
===Becoming an OSGeo Belgium member===
Everybody is free to join the Belgian local chapter, all you have to do is add your name to the list of members. It is strongly advised to also subscribe to the mailing list, as announcements about the general assembly and events are made there.
Alternatively you can fill out following form, this will automatically subscribe you to the mailing list, and you will be added to the list of members below:
Word lid van OSGeo.be - Devenez membre de OSGeo.be - Become member of OSGeo.be 
 Evaluation FOSS4G.be /Evaluatie FOSS4G.be 
===Board of directors===
Members of the board are chosen for a period of 3 years by the general assembly. All voting members are free to apply for a position in the board.
* Term 2015 - 2018
** Marc Ducobu (Treasurer) 
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May 
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel
* Term 2017 - 2020
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis
** Oliver May 
** Tommy Oozeer (Secretary)
** Johan Van de Wauw (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2020 - 2023
** Marc Ducobu
** Dirk Frigne
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Oliver May (Secretary as of 2021)
** Tommy Oozeer
** Johan Van de Wauw 
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Mathieu Carette
* Term 2023-2026
** Gaël Kruwialis (President)
** Roel Huybrechts (Treasurer)
** Marc Ducobu
** Simon van Hooren
** Jordan Ikalulu
===Voting members===
All members can become voting members by being introduced by two other voting members. Voting members are added once per year by the general assembly.
====Founding members====
* Dirk Frigne - founding member of the Geomajas community
* Gaël Kruwialis - active member of the local FOSS movement in the Brussels region - contact with administrations (regional& federal)
* Johan Van de Wauw - OSGeo Charter Member
* Maëlle Vercauteren Drubbel - contact with academic world and developing countries
* Marc Ducobu - liason with OSGeo.fr
* Moritz Lennert - GRASS GIS PSC Member, contact with academic world
* Oliver May - PSC member of the Geomajas project
* Tommy Oozeer - OSGeo Advocate
====Other Charter members====
* Julien Collaer
* Arnaud De Groof
* Nicolas Dufrane
* Christophe Guisset
* Roel Huybrechts
* Matthieu Carette
* Jonathan Beliën
===Supporters===
During its founding process, the Belgium OSGeo Chapter had the support of the following persons (alphabetic - first name):
* Ben Abelhausen - liason with OSM - Belgium community
* Pieter Colpaert - link with the open knowledge foundation
* Ruben Capelle
== Communication ==
Discussions are held on the dedicated mailing list.
Next to the mailinglist there is a (board) meeting planned monthly, most of them trough digital communication. The meeting minutes can be found on this page.
We also have a Mastodon account: Mastodon
== History of OSGeo Belgium ==
During the last FOSDEM Geospatial devroom OSGeo was represented. It
was a great opportunity for Belgium OSGeo members to meet each other and
start talking about organizing ourselves a bit more, so actions in
Belgium can be better supported. Belgium is, as a country divided in at
least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo
community members today are either active in the OSGeo.nl, the OSGeo.fr
or in several OSGeo communities.
However, OSGeo-nl and OSGeo-fr are language-oriented communities with
their geographical weight centred in respectively the Netherlands and
France, and the separation by language has impeded on any specific
Belgian activities, notably networking and lobbying with administrations
that are bilingual on some levels of governance. Thus the need arose to
provide a specific Belgian forum.
In the past there where already some OSGeo local activities:
* OSGeoGhent - 13 June 2013
* FOSDEM2014 - booth 1 & 2 Februari 2014
* Be-OpenGIS-Fr - 6 November 2014 
* FOSDEM2015- devroom - 31 Jan; 1 Februari 201
In 2015 we (OSGeoBE) organised the first Belgium/FOSS4G
on 29 October 2015 in Brussels. This event was used to announce
the birth of our Chapter.
== Legal information ==
We are a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with organisation number BE 0641.662.720
Our bank account is registered at Triodos Bank and has account number IBAN BE78 5230 8075 3686 (BIC: TRIOBEBB)
= Activities =
=== 2024 ===
* 25-27 September | FOSS4G BE+NL | presentations, workshops and codesprint | Baarle | https://foss4g.be
=== 2023 ===
* Annual General Meeting | /!\ change 18 May Ascension Day holiday => 16May 2023 | place to be confirme 
* 30 May 2023 6-9 PM 	| Geodev evening: General PostgreSQL & Postgis		| To be Confirme	| Gael	| 		Evenbrite 
* 13 June 2023 6-9 PM 	| Geodev evening: Postgis topology	| To be Confirme	| Geopostcodes| 		Evenbrite 
* Foss4G / Qgis-day /SotM | What and how ? | to be discussed at the general assembly or on the mailing list ...
=== 2022 ===
* Spring session Monday March 28th | (BrewDog Brussels )
* After work on 26/07/22 | (BrewDog ) 
* Foss4G | Firenze August
* Afterwork 13/09/22 | (BrewDog )
* FoSS4g & SotM | (17/11/22) | [FoSS4g&SotM https://2022.foss4g.be/]
=== 2021 ===
* General Assembly | 18 May at 19.30
=== 2020 ===
=== 2019 ===
When			What								Where			Who					INFO
* 2/2 - 3/2 	Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom 	| ULB 			| [Johan 			https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM 	Geodev evening: python 				To be Confirme 	| Mathieu 			Evenbrite 
* 04/03 			Open Belgium Conference 		Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 	http://2019.openbelgium.be/ 
* 19/03 			BEGEO 							palais 10		| Gael 				When	| 		What			| 					Where	| 		Who		| 			INFO
* 2/2 - 3/2 | Fosdem 2019: Geospatial devroom 	| ULB 			| [Johan 			| https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/geospatial/]
* 12/06 6-9 PM | Geodev evening: python 				| To be Confirme 	| Mathieu 			Evenbrite 
* 04/03 		| Open Belgium Conference 		| Teirlinck Building Havenlaan 88 | 	http://2019.openbelgium.be/ 
* 19/03 		| BEGEO 							| palais 10		| Gael 			| 	http://begeo.be/ 
* 25/03 		| General Assembly 				| Central Station	| Johan 		| 	https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium 
* 25/04 6-9 PM 	| Geodev evening: Data Access 		| To be Confirme	| Moritz 	| 		Evenbrite 
* 25/04 6-9 PM 	| Geodev evening: PostGIS 			| To be Confirme	| Moritz 	| 		Evenbrite 
* 26/08-30/08 	| FOSS4G International 			| 	Bucarest 						| 	https://2019.foss4g.org/ 
* October 		| FOSS4G.be 						| 	To be Confirme					| 	https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
* Others ? Feel free to provide us (via board [at] foss4g.be) with all activities / events / ideas / suggestions you would like us to organize during the next month.
= Past activities = 
=== 2018 18 - 25/03/2018 : Bonn - code sprint ===
=== 2018 24/03/2018 : National Missing Maps Mapathon 2018 ===
=== 2018 24/04/2018 : BeGeo 2018 ===
=== 2018 15 - 17/05/2018 : FOSS4G-fr ===
=== 2018 17- 19/07/2018 : FOSS4G-Europe ===
=== 2018 27/08 - 02/09/2018 : FOSS4G Dar-el-Salam ===
=== 2018 FOSS4G.be : FOSS4G Belgium ===
=== 2017 February 4 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
Geospatial devroom.
=== 2017 26 OCTOBER - FOSS4G.BE 2017 ===
organised by OSGeo.BE with a special session "FOSS4GeoEducation" 
=== 2017 14th-19th AUGUST FOSS4G in Boston ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE 
=== 2017 18th-22nd JULY FOSS4G.EU in Paris ===
-- supported by OSGeo.BE 
=== 2017 29 MARCH - OSGeoDevEvening - QGIS Plugin === 
[ https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium_OGDE_PluginQGIS#Date QGIS Plugin]
=== 2017 25-26th MARCH and 1 APRIL - Cartopartie "mapping the commons" === 
with maps.dewey.be more info here and + OSM Be Hackaton, here
=== 2017 25 MARCH - Belgium interuniversity === 
National Mapathon 
=== 2017 March 16 - BeGeo 2017 event , Brussels === 
OSGeo.be organised the open source community track on the BeGeo 2017 event
=== 2017 February 5 - FOSDEM Geospatial devroom, Brussels ===
Here FOSDEM geo track 2017
=== 2016 September 22 FOSS4G Belgium, Brussels ===
Here FOSS4G.be 2016 's program and talks
=== 2016 September 23-25 State of the Map 2016, Brussels ===
The international event of OpenStreetmap is organised this year in Belgium. Highly recommended as well!
=== 2016 August 24-26th Foss4G International in Bonn===
The most important international Event of OSGeo. Highly recommended!
Here FOSS4G 2016's videos of the talks
=== 2016 May 11-12 FOSS4G-fr Paris ===
Here FOSS4G-fr 2016 's program and talks
=== 2016 May 23-26 Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam===
http://geospatialworldforum.org/
OSGeo participated.
=== 2016 April 18, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be will be organising their first GeoDevEvening. The theme will be webmapping and especially Openlayers 3. There will be two speakers, Pierre Marchand of Atelier Cartographique wil give an overview of Webmapping tools. Later we will take a deeper dive with Thomas Gratier, one of the authors of the OpenLayers 3 Beginners guide.
OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.
The event will happen at BEL in Brussels (those who were at FOSS4G.be will remember the place), next monday 18 april at 19:00 until 22:00. The event is free. You can register here.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-osgeodevevening-openlayers3-24251072611
=== 2016 March 19 Mapps4ghent ===
http://2016.apps4ghent.be
=== 2016 February 29 Open Belgium, Brussels ===
OSGeo.be gave a presentation at Open Belgium 2016 about "Open in Geo".
=== 2016 February 27 Mapping party for homeless people, Brussels ===
The « mapping party for homeless people » took place in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Saturday,February 27. 
More information on wikipage :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-Cartopartie_sans-abri_27.02.2016
=== 2016 January 31 FOSDEM Geospatial devroom ===
Here FOSDEM geo track 2016
=== 2016 January 23 misssing Maps mapathon in Ghent===
Our colleagues of Openstreetmap were organising a missing maps party:
http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-gent
=== 2015 October 29th FOSS4G Belgium 2015 - Brussels ===
=== 2015 February 1st FOSDEM geo track 2015 - Brussels === 
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000
developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source
software developers and communities a place to meet and share
thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are
welcome. For the first time there will be a Geospatial
devroomon, organised by members of the OSGeo,
Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.
=== 2014 November 6th beOpenGISfr - Brussels === 
=== 2013 June 13th OSGeo Ghent - Ghent ===
=Meetings=
== 2015 ==
* Initial meeting - 15 April 2015
* IRC meeting - 22 April 2015
* IRC/Skype meeting - 19 may 2015
* Skype meeting - 05 June 2015
* Skype meeting - 03 July 2015
* Skype meeting - 21 August 2015
* Skype meeting - 08 September 2015
* face2face meeting - Brussels 21 September 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles
* face2face meeting - Brussels 05 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles
* Skype meeting - 12 October 2015
* Skype meeting - 19 October 2015
* face2face meeting - Brussels 26 October 2015 - Avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Bruxelles
* Skype meeting - 09 November 2015
* Skype meeting - 23 November 2015
== 2016 ==
* Skype meeting - 26 January 2016
* F2F board meeting - 8 March 2016
* General assembly - 24 March 2016
* Skype meeting - 02 May 2016
* Skype meeting - 18 May 2016
* General assembly - 22 September 2016
== 2017 ==
* F2F member meeting - 28 February 2017
* General assembly - 24 March 2016
* face2face meeting - Brussels 23 May 2017 - Gaël's place
== 2018 ==
* General Assembly - March 26, 2018
== 2019==
* F2F New years meeting - 10 January 2019 at Dolle Mol
* Foss4gBE - Preparation : second Face2Face meeting 
* General Assembly 24 April 2019
== 2020 ==
* Online meeting on foss4g.be 08/05/2020
* Online meeting on foss4g.be 13/05/2020
Category:Local Chapters
Category:Belgium
Category:FOSS4G Belgium
== 2021 ==
* General Assembly - May, 18, 2021
== 2022 ==
* Online meeting & onsite meeting | mailing list |https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/belgium/
== 2023 ==
* General Assembly 16 May 2023