NACIS 2009

=North American Cartographic Information Society=
 * Event Owner: Alex Mandel(wildintellect)
 * When: October 7-10, 2009
 * Where: Sacramento, Ca
 * What: Annual Conference

Papers, Posters & Web Maps
For more information, view the Call for Participation.
 * Paper submission deadline: May 31,2009
 * Poster submission deadline: Sept 21,2009
 * Student Web Map competition submission deadline: Sept 21,2009

Booth
NACIS representatives invited us at AAG 2009 but apparently they don't actually have booths as a means of keeping the conference less commercial. They did offer space for a poster and possibly fliers at the registration desk. Also see the speaker section below.

Speakers
In lew of a booth NACIS has asked if we want to speak for 30-60 minutes. One idea would be lightning talks followed by a panel. Alex will check on discounted entry for those OSGeo members participating as speakers.

Demos
It turns out they want hands on demos, so keep the slides to a minimum and drive the software. Here is my long winded idea where we just trade the talking stick around showing the whole process.
 * Make a map with QGIS - Alex or another person
 * Do some spatial operations in SQL in PostGIS and view them in QGIS and then Mapserver - Brian or Alex
 * Load up the data from QGIS into Mapserver - ?
 * Make an OpenLayers example using the data from PostGIS and Mapserver - Brian or Alex
 * View the WMS in OpenJump and make a map - Landon

Abstract Members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation will explain the free software offerings available for all major computing platforms and demonstrate their usage to make maps on the desktop and on the web...