STICHTING SVG NEDERLAND

Dutch SVG Foundation and

SVG in EuropeBarend Köbben

<kobben@itc.nl>

Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 2

Stichting SVG Nederland

non-profit foundationoriginated from organising SVGOpen 2005

Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 3

Stichting SVG Nederland

non-profit foundationoriginated from organising SVGOpen 2005

goals are:encouraging and facilitating the use of SVG in the Netherlands

in education, (governmental) organisations and bussinesses

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Stichting SVG Nederland

non-profit foundationoriginated from organising SVGOpen 2005

goals are:encouraging and facilitating the use of SVG in the Netherlands

in education, (governmental) organisations and bussinesses

means for achieving the goals:revenue from SVG Open 2005institutional backup, subsidies, sponsors, …?

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Stichting SVG Nederland

strategy for achieving the goals:awareness

initiating and supporting publicationsgathering ‘SVG champions”

eg. Central Bureau of Statistics Statline http://statline.cbs.nl/statweb/start.asp?lp=carto&la=en

information dissemination eg. websites http://svg.startpagina.nl

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Stichting SVG Nederland

strategy for achieving the goals:awareness

initiating and supporting publicationsgathering ‘SVG champions” information dissemination

facilitation: student travel fund to student thesis that employs SVG travel grant for presenting it at a conferencepreferably a ‘non-SVG’ conference

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Discussion open on…

1. if and how, there should be (european / worldwide?) cooperation on SVG ‘evangelism’…

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Discussion open on…

1. if and how, there should be (european / worldwide?) cooperation on SVG ‘evangelism’…

2. how (or even if?) the SVG Open conference series should be kept alive…

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Discussion open on…

1. if and how, there should be (european / worldwide?) cooperation on SVG ‘evangelism’…

2. how (or even if?) the SVG Open conference series should be kept alive…

some points:•under one ‘organisation’ (see 1?)•commercial or academic or both?•worldwide or regional?