Summer meetups

Last week I had the pleasure of attending one day of GeoWeb - always a great place to connect with several OSGeo members and also to introduce OSGeo to potential new ones. The night before we held a meeting of our provincial OSGeo-BC chapter and had a record turnout of almost 30 people! I met many new people who are already avid open source users and am following up with several to get case studies about their work.

Next week I deliver a talk at the Mil-OSS event in Atlanta. As many know, acquiring open source software in government doesn't have a reputation of being easy. Working group meetings like this have helped to raise the profile, importance and viability of OSS in various sectors within the US government. We have enough talks to even have a geospatial stream.

Later in the week I'll be at WhereCamp5280 in Denver. I'm looking forward to catching up with many different attendees and hearing their thoughts, stories and ideas.

If you are going to be at either of these events and would like to meet please don't hesitate to drop me a note (tmitchell at osgeo.org).