PDXOSGEO - 2012 Portland Meetings

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New Meeting Location starting - June 20, 2012  (see address below)

Location
Lucky Lab - North Portland Tap Room Location Info

Introductions

 * Rod, Brian, Rob, Eli, Tanya, Wm, Darrell, Melanie, Madeline, Tim, Rafa, Scott, Ryan, Andy, Katie

Regular meeting business
(e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)


 * New Meeting Place - possibly meeting in different places each month.
 * We no longer meet at Collective Agency
 * We have several options that seem possible
 * Wm's office (flightstats) potentially too, some receptiveness to moving around, Darrell's Office (Renewable Funding) next meeting, third Wednesday could let us have meetings in Nov and Dec,


 * Website
 * Desire to have clean splash page
 * Interest in using github and git pages


 * Conferences (NACIS, SOTM, WhereCamp, URISA)
 * Wm presenting alternatives to Google maps at NACIS. Probably some leaflet stuff. Is anyone else interested in presenting longer workshop?
 * Perhaps Trimet on OSM editing, styling, and OpenLayers.
 * SOTM and WhereCamp same weekend (Oct. 13-14) at nearby venues.
 * URISA - GIS-Pro 2012 in Oct too

Git, Github and affiliated tools - Darrell

 * GitHub and the Git version control system, two tools at the heart of open source collaboration. Even if you're not a software developer this will be a great primer on what makes open source projects tick.  Git veterans, bring your knowledge and stories of the wild west days of Subversion, CVS and dare I say it, Microsoft VSS.
 * Version control ancient CVS, RCS
 * Some newer ones too (some distributed). git came out of license change of bitkeeper.
 * git, github, mercurial have really become popular lately.
 * Demo: Creating new repo with the PostGIS table manager project Darrell presented a few months ago, adding to it, committing, edits, diffs, diffs between any commits, branch, checkout, merge, cherry-pick, view changes in git-x or others, push, fork, pull request, merge pull request,

Future meeting schedule for 2012 (every third Wednesday)

 * July 18th
 * August 15th
 * September 19th
 * October 17th
 * November (typically canceled)
 * December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)