USGS Open House 2009

=USGS Open House=
 * Event Owner: Brian Hamlin (darkblue_b)
 * When: May 16-17, 2009
 * Where: Menlo Park, Ca
 * What: Annual USGS Open House

ASPRS rep Becky Morton invited Cal OSGeo to run some demos at the USGS open house.

I just spoke with Alan Mikuni, USGS and past-president of ASPRS.. there may not be any network connection at all (!) though he is checking into possibilities. Setup day is Friday all day.

Followup- Brian ran the booth Friday/Saturday. In practice, involved topics (such as anything to do with Linux) didnt happen :-) Profoundly accomplished geo-scientists were mixed within the crowd of mainly kids and families. In prep for the kids, I (Brian) prepared a KML layer of all the public schools in California and displayed in Google Earth with a 3DConnexion Space Navigator input device. This was a huge hit! "Find your school" was the one-liner activity. ASPRS (our host) booth worked really well. THey have a continuous video, great branding and large visuals, a simple one-liner activity (look into the stereo viewer at the map) and then lots of depth for those that want to pursue it. Definitely a model for OSGeo in the future.

=Demos=
 * Possible screencast on OpenModeller - timlinux
 * OGR, PostGIS and KML - darkblue_b
 * OpenJump - Landon
 * QGIS/Grass/Spatialite - Alex

''I'd definitely like to make sure OpenLayers and QGis are represented well.. I feel like I would be a better rep for OpenLayers myself. Also thinking of an idea for "big picture" on OSGeo using the Wiki, and the mailing lists activity levels -Brian''

Equipment


 * Mac Book Pro laptop 10.5, with Ubuntu Virtual Machine
 * Live DVD dedicated machine - Alex
 * Ubuntu 8.10 QGIS, Grass, Postgis, maybe a locally running Openlayers example - Alex

=Volunteers=


 * Landon Blake(Sunburned Surveyor)
 * Alex Mandel - Should be able to make it one day and bring all the California/Exhibition Pack, +some other Davis folks

=Materials=