British Columbia Chapter Meeting 2010-07-27

This page provides information on a regular scheduled meeting of the OSGeo BC Local Chapter

Meeting Info
Open to all interested geonerds at no cost.

Location: Sierra Systems Vancouver 1177 West Hastings Street, Suite 2500 Room Blackcomb Chair: Martin Kyle Date: Tuesday 27 July 2010 Time: 1800 hrs - 2000 hrs PT

Topic: OSGeo BC Chapter Meeting Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Time: 6:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco )

You can contact Martin Kyle or Jason Birch for more information. If you want to dial in, please let us know in advance.

Pizza Preferences
Hawaiian, plain cheese, meat lovers, vegetarian, add more...

Welcome and Introduction
Confirmed: Martin K.

Presentations

 * Open Source Geospatial Foundation Update - Speaker TBD
 * OpenStreetMap Update - Speaker TBD (Sam Vekemans - Across Canada Trails OSM Contributor)
 * Open Source Project Success - Speaker TBD
 * iVAULT - Web Mapping Portal Infrastructure Development based on Open Source MapGuide - Eric Schwartz & Dmitry Mishchenko, Pacific Alliance Technologies (http://www.ivault.pat.ca/)
 * Development of a Web Mapping Portal Infrastructure based on Open Source MapGuide off-the-shelf technology provides our clients with a fully customizable Web Mapping Portal technology and turnkey projects.
 * Eric is a Principal Technical Consultant with PAT dealing with Strategic Accounts and Dmitry is the lead developer at PAT
 * iVAULT Web Mapping Portal Infrastructure:
 * System Architecture & Development Insights
 * Integrations
 * Project Successes & Demos
 * Currently in Development ...
 * Open Source Business Requirements - Christy Lightowlers, Population Data BC (http://www.popdata.bc.ca/)
 * Population Data BC, a multi-university platform, is BC’s first pan-provincial population health data service. It is a nationally active and recognised data and education resource that facilitates interdisciplinary research and teaching on the determinants of human health, well-being and development
 * Christy is the lead of PopData's Spatial Data Unit, whose mission is to increase the capacity of Population Researchers in British Columbia (BC) by facilitating access to spatial data and services tailored to the needs of the research community.
 * PopData BC is currently researching FOSS and proprietary software and Christy will be discussing the requirements for a spatial infrastructure in the population health business domain

Chapter Business
Call for changes

Minutes/Actions
Please let the chair know if you can attend (i.e. for the pizza count)...or add your name to the list.

Attendees
Jason Birch (City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo - http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/)

Martin Kyle (Sierra Systems, Vancouver)

Michael Weisman (Safe Software, Vancouver)

John Bryant (Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City)

Steven Citron-Pousty (deCarta Inc., San Jose, CA, USA - http://developer.decarta.com)

Ducky Sherwood (coming independent of my employer, I did http://maps.webfoot.com)

Alison Fischer (Abask Geospatial Solutions, Vancouver)

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