California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

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

Tip: Bring your own Mug

Directions

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

Agenda

Morning

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...

Afternoon Activities 1:15-5pm

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

Michele Tobias
Allan Hollander
Dave Waetjen
Sid Feygin
Landon Blake
Alex Mandel
Nate Roth
Robert Hijmans
Bob Moskovitz
Brian Hamlin
Andrew Holguin
Prashant Hedao
Steve Greco
Hyeyeong Choe
Emily Sin
David Chursenoff
Leslie Sherrett
Elena Lopez
Wan-Ru Yang
Jen Kovnats
Ramon Solis
Jordan Thomas
Jeff E. Crocker
Varinder Saini
Adam Borchard
Patrick Kilduff
Josh Perlman

(Remote Participation)

Joe Larson

(Maybe)

Bryan Pon
Trina Filan
Frank Warmerdam
Forest Fortescue
Mike Migurski

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.

Survey Results

Topic List

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)