OSGeo California Chapter Hack-A-Thon 2011

Description

The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics. In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects or a cartography sprint. This hack-a-thon may also serve as our annual meeting.

Preliminary Date

Saturday October ?, 2011

Preliminary Schedule

• 07:30 AM to 08:00 AM> Reception and Sign-In
• 08:00 AM to 09:00 AM> Annual Meeting Business
• 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM> Talk (TBD)
• 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM> Break
• 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM> Lightning Talks
• 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM> Talk (TBD)
• 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM> Lunch
• 1:30 PM to 01:50 PM> Hackathon Project Pitch, Team Organization and Kickoff
• 1:50 PM to 05:30 PM> Hack Sessions (or Cartography Sprint)
• 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM> Hack Sessions/Cartography Spring Results
  

Project suggestions

Landon Blake:

• OpenJUMP Plug-In Coding
• Java Topology Suite Enhancements
  

Ragi Burhum:

• GDAL/OGR driver
• Tracking application

Brian Hamlin

• PostGIS 2.0 tricks and tests
• Framework spatial - featureserver, web2py, mapfish, django, other?

Interests/Programming Languages

• Landon Blake: Java, OpenJump
• Ragi Burhum: ObjectiveC, C++, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, ArcObjects
• Josh Livni: Python/Django, Javascript, Google APIs
• Alex Mandel: Python/Django, QGIS, Javascript, SVG
• Michele Tobias: QGIS, Cartography, Data Representation, Python (limited use), R