Italiano Chapter Report 2009

== Italian Chapter ==
* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2009
*Contact name: Massimo di Stefano User:Epifanio 
=== Key Accomplishments ===
*Substantial grassroots activities (numerous events in one year, following the numerous events in the previous years) 
*Rapdly increase in registered members (+33%)
*Legal Action towards ISTAT (with ASSOLI), then translated to committee for evaluation of geospatial requirements 
*QGIS (and GRASS) funding initiative (see qgis hackfest 2009 in Vienna) 
*New GFOSS.it server hosted by Regione Toscana (for wiki, main web site, and sample data sets) 
*Improved Relationship to OpenStreetMap community. 
*Great succes for the second edition of the GFOSS day held in Bolzano in November (approx. 260 participants). 
*During the year we had also a GFOSS.it partecipation writing articles for "Rivista Geomedia", with quasi-monthly contributions. This is currently the only hard copy publication on the GIS market in Italy [16]
 GFOSS.it-related events in 2009 : 
*10th Italian GRASS/GFOSS meeting [1] 
*4th Workshop Open Source, Free Software and Open formats in archaeological research [2] (*)
*GFOSS.it and OSGEO sponsorship at the Matera's barcamp [3] 
*Bettersoftware Conference [4] 
*First National Meeting about OpenStreetMap : OSMit [5] 
*Italian conference about free-libre software - Bologna CONFSL [6] 
*Portofino mapping party [7] 
*OSGeo Hacking event Bolsena [8] (*)
*Dolomity Mapping Party [9] 
*Contribute to the FOSSFG live-dvd project [10] 
*FOSS4G - Sydney [11]] 
*ITN 09 "Infrastructure Telematic & Navigation" [12] 
*2nd Meeting of Free Software for GIS (SASIG) Portugal [13] 
*QGIS Hackfest - Vienna [14] 
*2nd GFOSS Day [15] 
*Google Summer of Code partecipation with 4 student-projects approved [17-20] (*)
(*) informal gfoss.it presence
=== Areas for Improvement : ===
*Opportunities to consolidate relationships with other associations with focus on open source software (not only GEO-)
 
=== Outlook for 2009 : ===
*The new board will be elected in February 2010 
*Interest in providing additional momentum in Italy, and in connection with other European chapters, towards FOSS4G 2010
 
LINK : 
*[1] - http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg03652.html 
*[2] - http://www.archeo-foss.org/ 
*[3] - http://barcamp.org/materacamp09 
*[4] - http://www.bettersoftware.it/conference/talks/il-mondo-delle-imprese-e-lopen-source-gis 
*[5] - http://osmit.fbk.eu/ 
*[6] - http://www.confsl.org/confsl09/ 
*[7] - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Genova#M.28.27.29appare_Portofino_2_-_La_conclusione 
*[8] - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Hacking_Event_2009 
*[9] - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dolomiti_mapping_party 
*[10] - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc 
*[11] - http://2009.foss4g.org/ 
*[12] - http://www.itnexpo.it/it/ 
*[13] - http://evora.sigaberto.org/ 
*[14] - http://www.qgis.org/wiki/2._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Vienna_2009 
*[15] - http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday 
*[16] - http://www.rivistageomedia.it/it.html & http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Rivista_geomedia 
*[17] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023165994 http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/V.krige_GSoC_2009 
*[18] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023166969 http://web.me.com/epiesasha/PlanetSasha/Project.html 
*[19] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023167390 http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=gsoc2009_weekly_reports_giovanni_onofri 
*[20] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023163767 http://jgrass.wiki.software.bz.it/jgrass/Google_Summer_Of_Code_2009
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