1. STICHTING SVG NEDERLAND Dutch SVG Foundation and SVG in Europe Barend Köbben

2. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 2 Stichting SVG Nederland non-profit foundation  originated from organising SVGOpen 2005

3. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 3 Stichting SVG Nederland non-profit foundation  originated from organising SVGOpen 2005 goals are:  encouraging and facilitating the use of SVG in the Netherlands  in education, (governmental) organisations and bussinesses

4. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 4 Stichting SVG Nederland non-profit foundation  originated 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 2005  institutional backup, subsidies, sponsors, …?

5. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 5 Stichting SVG Nederland strategy for achieving the goals:  awareness  initiating and supporting publications  gathering ‘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

6. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 6 Stichting SVG Nederland strategy for achieving the goals:  awareness  initiating and supporting publications  gathering ‘SVG champions”  information dissemination  facilitation: student travel fund  to student thesis that employs SVG  travel grant for presenting it at a conference  preferably a ‘non-SVG’ conference

7. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 7 Discussion open on… 1.if and how, there should be (european / worldwide?) cooperation on SVG ‘evangelism’…

8. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 8 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…

9. Stichting SVG Nederland – Barend Köbben 9 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?