California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

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Logistics

The California Chapter Fall Fiesta will be held on:

  • Saturday October 22, 2011
  • 9am - 5pm (Come to as much as you want)
  • 142 Hunt Hall
  • UC Davis, California

Directions

Agenda

Morning

Talks 9-11am

Exact timing TBD

Confirmed:

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

Tentative:

  • Robert Hijmans - Something using R?
  • Frank Warmerdam - Raster Formats Performance Optimization/Comparison
  • Alex Mandel - QGIS, Geodjango, Spatiliate or another popular topic...
  • Nate Roth - Postgis and Python
  • Bob Moskovitz - QGIS Plugin Case Study - Geological Surveys
  • Landon Blake - Open Jump? OSGeo Journal?

Would you like to give a 5 minute or 20 minute talk? We're looking for additional speakers on the following topics (email Landon sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com to be added):

  • Desktop GIS (83%)
  • Databases (75%)
  • Web Technologies (75%)
  • Participation in Open Source (67%)
  • Cartography (67%)
  • Data Types (58%)

(Percentages indicate the percent of survey respondents interested in the topic)

Discussions 11-11:30

11am Discussion - How To Participate In Open Source Projects (Landon, Alex, Brian, et al.)


Lunch 11:30-1

  • TBD
    • Possibly Catered
    • On your own, UCD world famous Coffee House is across the street.

Chapter General Meeting 12:30-1

Afternoon Activities 1-5pm

Indoor

  • Cartography Sprint (Bring a Laptop)
    • 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

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.

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.

  1. Michele Tobias
  2. Allan Hollander
  3. David Bianco
  4. Dave Waetjen
  5. Sid Feygin
  6. Landon Blake
  7. Alex Mandel
  8. Nate Roth
  9. Robert Hijmans
  10. Bob Moskovitz
  11. Brian Hamlin
  12. Andrew Holguin
  13. Prashant Hedao
  14. Steve Greco
  15. Hyeyeong Choe
  16. Emily Sin
  17. David Chursenoff
  18. Leslie Sherrett
  19. Elena Lopez
  20. Wan-Ru Yang
  21. Jen Kovnats
  22. Ramon Solis
  23. Jordan Thomas
  24. Jeff E. Crocker

(Remote Participation)

  1. Joe Larson

(Maybe)

  1. Bryan Pon
  2. Trina Filan
  3. Frank Warmerdam

Sponsors

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
  • Some of the talks may be streamed via ustream or other web conference system, check back for specific details.
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