PDX OSGEO 20110928 Minutes

PDX-OSGEO meeting 9/28/2011 6-7 Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards

Agenda

Regular meeting business

(e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)

• FOSS4G, SotM, and other reports. Discussions on...
  • routing talks
  • gamification of maps and data collection (Skobler). Utilized OSM data.
  • GIS going to an IT field; education curriculum not going to that. Job hires versus educational experience.
  • Mini FOSS4G in North America; possibly piggy-backing off another conference.

• OSGeo discuss announce -
  • we need an announcement.
  • Mail list thread

• OSGeo Annual Report -
  • need annual report for the OSGeo journal.
  • Mail list thread too

• WhereCamp around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement.
  • Announcements made to PDXOSGEO group, GIS_Info, and other groups.
  • Wherecamp folks need onsite volunteers, money for food, help with coordinating food, and help with coordinating games for Sunday. Also lots and lots of publicity, plus everyone should register http://wherecamppdx11.eventbrite.com/
  • Volunteers on Oct 8th Christian, Eli, Tanya–
  • GeoCeg will contribute $100 towards coffee – Contact Rob <shift-2> denner.us. Thanks GeoCeg!
  • Collective agency – possible space for Friday activities…
  • Possible lists to circulate on – CUGOS, GIS_info, GPL, ORURISA, PSU lists, OSU lists,

• GIS In Action call for presentations - this Fall but will be hosted in Spring, Jantzen Beach.
  • Put in for papers, PDX-OSGEO has been well represented in the past.
  • Please submit an abstract along with a brief biography by November 18, 2011 to doug <shift-2> davidsmithmapping.com and Bob.Pool <shift-2> clark.wa.gov. Abstracts submitted after this date are welcome, but those submitted by the deadline will be given first consideration in the program.

• Nov and Dec meetings?
  • Rob mentioned meeting with Seattle meetings.
  • Winter coders' social instead of December meeting

Let it be known: Rob Denner bought beer.

Presentations

• Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his OSBridge 2011 session
  • Awesome stuff
  • Cool animations
  • Python
  • Some tricks to convert DOGAMI modeled wave from binary to ASCII

Misc

• • We need to do a better job coordinating meeting time and space
  • Thinking more than a few days in advance would be ideal
  • Collective Agency also a venue option (NW 6th and Everett; contact: Audrey E).
  • Mississippi Pizza: Percy’s band is playing tomorrow night

Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday)

• October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done).
  • need to coordinate with Opensourcery earlier this time. We have a speaker lined up already. Also confirm our meeting time as 6pm.

• November 30th
  • possible shift to 3rd and coordinate/visit CUGOS in Seattle; Rob has a house to stay at.

• December 28th
  • (Winter Coder Social is in Dec, could be an alternative)

Minutes

• Minutes are throughout the agenda as italic