California Chapter Report 2009

California Chapter

• Contact name: Alex Mandel, Landon Blake

Key Accomplishments

• 1st Meeting
• Marketing and Events
  • Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
  • OSCON Open Source Convention, San Jose
  • Where 2.0 , San Jose
  • GIS Day, UC Berkeley, UC Davis
  • North American Cartographic Information Society, Sacramento

Areas for Improvement

• As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
  • There is a Bay Area sub chapter that hosts social meetups. http://baugos.com/
• While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

Opportunities to Help

• Always looking for more events to go to.

Outlook for 2010

• this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)

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