California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

Logistics
The California Chapter Fall Fiesta will be held on: Tip: Bring your own Mug
 * Saturday October 22, 2011
 * 9am - 5pm (Come to as much as you want)
 * 142 Hunt Hall
 * UC Davis, California

Directions

 * PDF of Directions [[Media:CA meeting 2011.pdf]]
 * Open Mapquest Map

Talks 9am-11:15am
~9:10am
 * Michele Tobais - Quantum GIS & Inkscape: Cartographic Tools for Attractive Maps
 * Landon Blake - A Brief Introduction to OpenJUMP
 * Brian Hamlin - A Pragmatists Guide to PostGIS 2.0

--break--

~10:20am
 * Allan Hollander - Using GRASS and R for Landscape Regionalization through PAM Cluster Analysis
 * Robert Hijmans - Analyzing raster data with R.
 * Frank Warmerdam - Raster Formats Performance Optimization/Comparison

--break--

~11:30 Lightning Talks
 * Nate Roth - Python & Postgis (Lightning Talk)
 * Bob Moskovitz - QGIS Plugin Case Study - Geological Surveys

Many of the listed talks here are recaps of talks given at FOSS4G 2011

Lunch 11:45-12:45pm

 * Provided if you RSVP'd

Discussions 12:15-12:45
Discussion - How To Participate In Open Source Projects (Landon, Alex, Brian, et al.)

Chapter General Meeting 12:45-1:15

 * OSGeo Chapter liaison to the Board
 * Event Ideas
 * etc...

Indoor

 * Cartography Sprint (Bring a Laptop/Netbook)
 * create cartographic symbols for use in the public domain (don't know how? we'll teach you!)
 * Possible iconography to work on OSGeo map symbol set
 * Learn to Bug Hunt (Bring a Laptop)
 * find & report problems with GIS software
 * Code Sprint (Bring a Laptop)
 * help improve or expand software (no programming experience needed)
 * Chapter Event Planning
 * how can we improve? what plans do we have?
 * Public Geo Data Award Planning
 * Lightning Talks - 5 minutes or less, present something interesting of yours.

Outdoor

 * Kite Photography Demo
 * weather permitting, we'll play with some Kite Aerial Photography equipment
 * Mapping Party & GPS/Smartphone Games
 * Re-testing of the myth that people can't walk in a straight line while blindfolded- track it with a GPS.

Coffee House Snack Run

 * Guided tour across the street to the Coffee House for self service afternoon drinks and snacks.

Evening Social Downtown Davis 5pm

 * Location TBD - ideas: Dumpling House, ...

Planned Attendance List
To RSVP please email Landon (sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com) and Alex (tech [] wildintellect.com), or add your name to the list. Yes you can still attend if you didn't RSVP, but consider bringing your own lunch
 * 1) Michele Tobias
 * 2) Allan Hollander
 * 3) Dave Waetjen
 * 4) Sid Feygin
 * 5) Landon Blake
 * 6) Alex Mandel
 * 7) Nate Roth
 * 8) Robert Hijmans
 * 9) Bob Moskovitz
 * 10) Brian Hamlin
 * 11) Andrew Holguin
 * 12) Prashant Hedao
 * 13) Steve Greco
 * 14) Hyeyeong Choe
 * 15) Emily Sin
 * 16) David Chursenoff
 * 17) Leslie Sherrett
 * 18) Elena Lopez
 * 19) Wan-Ru Yang
 * 20) Jen Kovnats
 * 21) Ramon Solis
 * 22) Jordan Thomas
 * 23) Jeff E. Crocker
 * 24) Varinder Saini
 * 25) Adam Borchard
 * 26) Patrick Kilduff
 * 27) Josh Perlman

(Remote Participation)
 * 1) Joe Larson

(Maybe)
 * 1) Bryan Pon
 * 2) Trina Filan
 * 3) Frank Warmerdam
 * 4) Forest Fortescue
 * 5) Mike Migurski

Sponsors

 * Department of Environmental Design, Landscape Architecture Program, University of California, Davis
 * Geography Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
 * Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis
 * Redefined Horizons
 * your name/company here

Contact Landon (sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com) if you would like to help sponsor the meeting.

Carpooling

 * Several people will be travelling from the Bay Area and the Sacramento Area. Please post on the California Chapter mailing list if you have space or are looking for space in a carpool.


 * Davis is serviced by the Capital Corridor train service, though with fewer runs on Saturday it's still a reasonable option.

Remote Participation

 * Want to help with the Code Sprint, Bug Hunt etc... we'll have #osgeo-ca on freenode IRC turned on
 * http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wildintellect (Hope the audio works)
 * Some of the talks may be streamed via ustream.
 * Details will be posted the morning of when the stream is setup.

Topic List
(Percentages indicate the percent of survey respondents interested in the topic)
 * Desktop GIS (83%)
 * Databases (75%)
 * Web Technologies (75%)
 * Participation in Open Source (67%)
 * Cartography (67%)
 * Data Types (58%)