California

Introduction
A local region based chapter of OSGeo on the west coast of the United States. California is home to Silicon Valley, some of the top Public Research/Teaching Universities and some very large industries.

Mission
(Proposed) To promote the use and development of open source geospatial software in California.

Objectives & Goals

 * Influence Professional Groups
 * Give Presentations to groups with an interest in Open Geospatial and/or | Public Geodata (see list of available speakers)
 * Demonstrate diplomacy and interoperability of the OSGeo stack with other solutions(Free or Not) through our activities.
 * Represent OSGeo via booths, literature and presentations at academic and professional conferences in the Western US


 * Development of OSGeo
 * Maintain of list of local groups and events throughout California


 * Promote Access to California Geodata
 * Annual Award to the agency or institution in California that best exemplifies OSGeo's stance on | Public Geodata
 * Work with the | Public Geodata Project to Generate a catalog of catalogs, search tools, and metadata harvesters to better enable public access to Geodata.http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
 * Promote use of | Public Geodata Catalogs

Budget
Based on our fund raising efforts we will determine what our Budget will allow use to do. The goal for 2009 is $1500.

Future
(In Date Order)
 * Inaugural Meeting (Feb) of California Chapter
 * AAG 2009 (Mar) - Las Vegas -
 * CGS 2009 (May) - Santa Ynez - Always in California, small cheap, outreach to grade schools and non-profits.
 * Where 2.0 2009 (May) - San Jose, CA- Paul Ramsey will join us.
 * AGU 2009 (Dec) - SF - It's always in California

Proposed

 * AGM 2008 - What event is this, the acronym is way too common?
 * CalGIS 2009 - Sacramento - Might be too expensive
 * California Central Valley Chapter Incubation Meeting - We need to fix a date and place.

Past

 * GIS Day 2008 - UC Berkeley GIF Lab, US EPA Region IX
 * OSBootCamp OSBootCamp 2008 - Open Source day at UC Berkeley
 * CGS 2008 - Booth at the Calfornia Geographical Society meeting in Chico.
 * 4H Workshop - Bill will be running a workshop at UC Davis for 4H high schoolers on GPS/GIS
 * AGU 2008 - Open Source Session at American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, CA

Membership
To be a member of the Chapter you simply need to state that by adding yourself to the list below.

Meetings
Meetings will be held annually at minimum and as needed in between.

Members
Cwhitney (Chris Whitney) - UC San Diego / NASA ISS EarthKAM

User:SunburnedSurveyor (Landon Blake) [A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor]

User:Hollander (Allan Hollander)

cgs_bob (Bob Moskovitz)

Wildintellect (Alex Mandel) - UC Davis

David Bianco - US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles

Matt Hancher - NASA Ames Research Center - interested in Bay Area local activities

Josh Livni Umbrella Consulting (San Francisco)

bwoodall (Bill Woodall) San Diego

Stacey Ellis - UC Davis

Michele Tobias - UC Davis

Mtreichler (Mike Treichler) - UC Davis

Tara Athan

darkblue_b (Brian Hamlin) Berkeley

j03lar50n Joe Larson - Lompoc/Santa Barbara, Cal Poly-SLO Alumni

TheSteve0 Steve Citron-Pousty - ICF/Jones&Stokes, San Jose

Fund Raising and Accounts
See the California Chapter Fundraising page for more information on fundraising, donations, and the financial accounts for the California Chapter.

Geodata Access Award
See the California Chapter: Geodata Access Award page for more information on the annual award the California Chapter gives to a California organization in recognition of efforts to promote the free and open access to California GeoData.

Chapter Outreach: Volunteer Speakers
You can find information about California Chapter members that are willing to serve as volunteer speakers at local events on the California Chapter: Volunteer Speakers page. This page includes a short biography for each speaker and a list of topics they would be willing to present.

Mailing List
The main arena for discuss events and ideas in California is the email list, please join. Mailing List Info Page (You subscribe to the mailing list at this page.)

Related Groups
For a list of local group contact information and events see California/Local


 * Bay Area User Group (Social)

California GIS Links
Moved to California/GIS

California Open Source Links
California Open Source Working Group