The Advisory board is a body which was created within the project in order to support the activities of WP 5. The members are experts.  The reference group has all the skills needed to help and to advise the realizers of the project FreeGIS.net as will be a guide for each tasks. The members have also establishes a time-frame for the meetings ( about every six month until the end of the project). Each meeting is an official act within the project and therefore for each meeting a minute is written up.