\title{Cascadia Chapter}
\author{Aaron Racicot}
\maketitle

\section{Key Accomplishments}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Chapter Formation: we officially became an OSGeo Chapter at the 12/12/2008 OSGeo board meeting.
\item  Integrated existing Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (www.cugos.org) into Cascadia OSGeo Chapter.
\item  Held series of code sprints around the "Road Flaw" project.\footnote{Road Flaw project: \url{http://roadflaw.activetools.org/}}
\end{itemize}


\section{Areas For Improvement}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Get a real website up and move away from Google Groups.
\item  Try to start moving physical location of monthly meeting to "guest locations" to attract people from other locations.
\item  Integrate the CUGOS and OSGeo presence into more regional conferences.
\end{itemize}

\section{Opportunities To Help}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Website development
\item  Engagement of more local and regional governments into the group.
\end{itemize}

\section{Outlook For 2009}
We have already planned a great presence at this year's Washington URISA
conference.\footnote{Washington URISA conference: \url{http://www.waurisa.org/conferences/2009_Conference_Index.html}}
by hosting a workshop, booth and panel of talks within the program all
focusing on Open Source.
\begin{itemize}
\item  We intend to host a small regional mini-conference and hack fest in 2009.
\item  We have our eyes on fundraising to help support regional OSGeo efforts.
\item  We plan to partner with our regional friends in Portland via the PDX OSGIS group.\footnote{PDX OSGIS group: \url{http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis}}
\end{itemize}

\section{Remarks}
Although we were only officially approved as an OSGeo chapter 20 days before
the end of 2008, we have been growing in member numbers as well as "on the
ground" activities. As of March 2009 we have 119 members on our mailing
list and maintain an attendance of 15-25 members at our monthly meetings.
We have members from all aspects of the community and industry participating
and look forward to continued growth in 2009. Special thanks to LizardTech
for their continued support to OSGeo by providing the Cascadia chapter a
monthly meeting space. Please spread the word{\dots} Cascadia OSGeo would love
to see you at the next monthly meeting on the third Wednesday of every month
in downtown Seattle! Sign up to the mailing list at \href{http://www.cugos.org}{www.cugos.org}.