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\title{German (D-A-CH) Chapter}
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The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as local chapter D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. 

The following listing sketches the activities of 2009.

\section{Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference}
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\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2009}{FOSSGIS 2009} (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, hands-on workshops and speeches
\item  Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the German language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
\item  Planning \href{http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2010}{FOSSGIS 2010} conference in Osnabr\"uck (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
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\section{Participation and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions}
\begin{itemize}
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/node/64}{LinuxTag} (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/node/67}{AGIT}
\item  Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of \href{http://www.flickr.com/photos/osgeohackingevent2009/3969299175/in/set-72157622365217951/}{OSGeo Park})
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\section{Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings}
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\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/node/71}{OSGeo code sprint Bolsena}
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/node/84}{QGIS developer meetings} in Hannover and Vienna
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/node/82}{Mapbender developer meeting}
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\section{Launching own Webserver to host the associations own}
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\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de}{CMS}
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/wiki}{FOSSGIS-Wiki}
\item  \href{http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki}{Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference}
\item  Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, {\dots})
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\section{Improvements of profile and PR}
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\item  New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
\item  Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
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\section{Projects of the Local Chapter}
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\item  Further development of GISlive -- FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
\item  Redesign of \href{http://www.freegis.org}{FreeGIS-portal} -- relaunch coming soon in 2010
\item  Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
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\section{Members of FOSSGIS e.V./local chapter D-A-CH}
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\item  Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50\%. In a absolute numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships
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\section{Outlook 2010}
\begin{itemize}
\item  FOSSGIS-conference 2010
\item  FOSS4G in Barcelona
\item  INTERGEO, AGIT
\item  Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
\item  Increase donations
\item  Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010)
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