OSGeo California Chapter Hack-A-Thon 2011

Description
The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics. In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects or a cartography sprint. This hack-a-thon may also serve as our annual meeting.

Preliminary Date
Saturday October ?, 2011

Preliminary Schedule

 * 07:30 AM to 08:00 AM&gt; Reception and Sign-In
 * 08:00 AM to 09:00 AM&gt; Annual Meeting Business
 * 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM&gt; Talk (TBD)
 * 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM&gt; Break
 * 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM&gt; Lightning Talks
 * 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM&gt; Talk (TBD)
 * 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM&gt; Lunch
 * 1:30 PM to 01:50 PM&gt; Hackathon Project Pitch, Team Organization and Kickoff
 * 1:50 PM to 05:30 PM&gt; Hack Sessions (or Cartography Sprint)
 * 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM&gt; Hack Sessions/Cartography Spring Results

Project suggestions
Landon Blake:


 * OpenJUMP Plug-In Coding
 * Java Topology Suite Enhancements

Ragi Burhum:


 * GDAL/OGR driver
 * Tracking application

Brian Hamlin
 * PostGIS 2.0 tricks and tests
 * Framework spatial - featureserver, web2py, mapfish, django, other?

Interests/Programming Languages

 * Landon Blake: Java, OpenJump
 * Ragi Burhum: ObjectiveC, C++, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, ArcObjects
 * Josh Livni: Python/Django, Javascript, Google APIs
 * Alex Mandel: Python/Django, QGIS, Javascript, SVG
 * Michele Tobias: QGIS, Cartography, Data Representation, Python (limited use), R