\title{Ottawa, Canada}
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\begin{description}
	\item  [Period covered by report:] Jan-Dec 2007 
	\item  [Contact name:]  \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Smitch}{Scott Mitchell}
\end{description}

\section*{ Key Accomplishments }

Held regular meetings, which included both presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc. \\

\noindent WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms.  \\

\noindent Presentations exposed the community to developments in a number of OSGEO/FOSS4G projects, including \href{http://gdal.osgeo.org/}{GDAL}, \href{http://proj.maptools.org/}{PROJ}, \href{http://geoserver.org/}{Geoserver}, \href{http://grass.osgeo.org/}{GRASS}, \href{http://www.mapbuilder.net/}{Mapbuilder}, \href{http://nunaliit.org/}{Nunaliit}, the \href{http://www.carleton.ca/gcrc/caap/}{Cybercartographic Antarctic Atlas}, \href{http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions}{GeoFunctions} and \href{http://mapnik.org/}{Mapnik}. \\

\noindent Booth presence at the GIS Day events at \href{http://www.library.carleton.ca/gis/gisday.html}{Carleton University} and \href{http://www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/gisday/}{University of Ottawa}, as well as \href{http://softwarefreedomday.org/}{Software Freedom Day.} \\

\noindent Developed and hosted a GRASS/QGIS workshop. \\

\noindent Shared experiences from FOSS4G07 with community members that couldn't make the trip to Victoria 

\section*{ Areas for Improvement }

Keeping momentum going to have regular meetings is occasionally challenging 

\section*{ Opportunities to Help }

\begin{itemize}
	\item  Suggest presentations that you might be able to give to the group 
	\item  Encourage others to give presentations, or submit suggestions to the group on things you'd like to see 
	\item  Help pay attention to the calendar and get meetings scheduled, venue reserved, A/V equipment arranged 
\end{itemize}

\section*{ Outlook for 2008 }

\begin{itemize}
	\item  More great (informal) meetings! 
	\item  Work together towards presence at \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoTec2008}{GeoTec 2008} (Jun 2-5, in Ottawa) 
	\item  GIS Day 2008 
	\item  Which lucky members can make it to \href{http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008}{South Africa}? 
\end{itemize}
