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

Directions

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

Morning Talks, Discussions, Tutorials
Exact timing TBD


 * Michele Tobais - QGIS & Inkscape
 * Allan Hollander - GRASS and R
 * Brian Hamlin -  PostGIS 2.0
 * Frank Warmerdam - Raster Formats Performance Optimization/Comparison
 * Landon Blake - A Brief Introduction to OpenJUMP
 * Landon Blake - How To Participate In Open Source Projects

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

Tentative:
 * Robert Hijmans - Something using R?
 * 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): (Percentages indicate the percent of survey respondents interested in the topic)
 * Desktop GIS (83%)
 * Databases (75%)
 * Web Technologies (75%)
 * Participation in Open Source (67%)
 * Cartography (67%)
 * Data Types (58%)

Lunch

 * TBD

Indoor

 * Cartography Sprint
 * create cartographic symbols for use in the public domain (don't know how? we'll teach you!)
 * Learn to Bug Hunt
 * find & report problems with GIS software
 * Code Sprint
 * 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

 * 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) Frank Warmerdam
 * 19) Leslie Sherrett
 * 20) Elena Lopez
 * 21) Wan-Ru Yang
 * 22) Jen Kovnats
 * 23) Ramon Solis

(Remote Participation)
 * 1) Joe Larson

Sponsors
Contact Landon (sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com) if you would like to help sponsor the meeting.
 * Department of Environmental Design, Landscape Architecture Program, University of California, Davis
 * Geography Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
 * Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis

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.