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\title{Italian Chapter}
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\item Contact name: \textbf{Massimo di Stefano}
\item Website: \url{http://www.gfoss.it} %TODO: Italian url?
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\section{Key Accomplishments}

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	\item Substantial grassroots activities (numerous events in one year, following the numerous events in the previous years) 
	\item Rapidly increase in registered members (+33\%)
	\item Legal Action towards ISTAT (with ASSOLI), then translated to committee for evaluation of geospatial requirements 
	\item QGIS (and GRASS) funding initiative (see QGIS hackfest 2009 in Vienna) 
	\item New GFOSS.it server hosted by Regione Toscana (for wiki, main web site, and sample data sets) 
	\item Improved Relationship to OpenStreetMap community. 
	\item Great success for the second edition of the GFOSS day held in Bolzano in November (approx. 260 participants)
	\item During the year we had also a GFOSS.it participation writing articles for "Rivista Geomedia", with quasi-monthly contributions. This is currently the only hard copy publication on the GIS market in Italy\footnote{\url{http://www.rivistageomedia.it/it.html} \& \url{http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Rivista_geomedia}}
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\subsection{GFOSS.it-related events in 2009}

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	\item 10th Italian GRASS/GFOSS meeting\footnote{\href{http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg03652.html}{discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg03652.html}} 
	\item 4th Workshop Open Source, Free Software and Open formats in archaeological research\footnote{\url{http://www.archeo-foss.org/} }(\(\ast{}\))
	\item GFOSS.it and OSGEO sponsorship at the Matera's barcamp\footnote{ \url{http://barcamp.org/materacamp09} }
	\item Bettersoftware Conference\footnote{\url{http://www.bettersoftware.it/conference/talks/il-mondo-delle-imprese-e-lopen-source-gis} }
	\item First National Meeting about OpenStreetMap~: OSMit\footnote{\url{http://osmit.fbk.eu/} } %5
	\item Italian conference about free-libre software -- Bologna CONFSL\footnote{\url{http://www.confsl.org/confsl09/} }
	\item Portofino mapping party\footnote{\href{http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Genova\#M.28.27.29appare_Portofino_2_-_La_conclusione}{http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Genova}}
	\item OSGeo Hacking event Bolsena\footnote{\url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Hacking_Event_2009} } (\(\ast{}\))
	\item Dolomity Mapping Party\footnote{\url{http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Dolomiti_mapping_party} }
	\item Contribute to the FOSSFG live-dvd project\footnote{\url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc} } %10
	\item FOSS4G -- Sydney\footnote{\url{http://2009.foss4g.org/} }
	\item ITN 09 "Infrastructure Telematic \& Navigation"\footnote{\url{http://www.itnexpo.it/it/} }
	\item 2nd Meeting of Free Software for GIS (SASIG) Portugal\footnote{\url{http://evora.sigaberto.org/} }
	\item QGIS Hackfest -- Vienna\footnote{\url{http://www.qgis.org/wiki/2._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Vienna_2009} }
	\item 2nd GFOSS Day\footnote{\url{http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday} } %15
	\item Google Summer of Code participation with 4 student-projects approved\footnote{\url{http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/V.krige_GSoC_2009} (\href{http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023165994}{Abstract})} 
	\footnote{\url{http://web.me.com/epiesasha/PlanetSasha/Project.html} (\href{http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023166969}{Abstract})} 
	\footnote{\url{http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=gsoc2009_weekly_reports_giovanni_onofri} (\href{http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023167390}{Abstract})} 
	\footnote{\url{http://jgrass.wiki.software.bz.it/jgrass/Google_Summer_Of_Code_2009} (\href{http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/osgeo/t124023163767}{Abstract})} (\(\ast{}\))
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(\(\ast{}\)) informal gfoss.it presence

\section{Areas for Improvement~:}
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\item Opportunities to consolidate relationships with other associations with focus on open source software (not only GEO-)
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\section{Outlook for 2009~:}
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\item The new board will be elected in February 2010 
\item Interest in providing additional momentum in Italy, and in connection with other European chapters, towards FOSS4G 2010
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