California

Mission
(Proposed) Provide local representation of OSGeo for public outreach and facilitate communication between FOSS4G professionals in the region.

Objectives
(Proposed)
 * Represent OSGeo interests at Academic and Professional Meetings in the Western US
 * Network Open Source developers and users in California
 * Facilitate local subgroups for more frequent interaction
 * Work on something not related to ESRI GIS :] (See the section entitiled "Proposed Chapter Goals For 2008").
 * Run public workshops and demonstrations of FOSS4G

Proposed Chapter Goals For 2008
Programming


 * Simple cross-platform and open source metadata editor similar to Metavist or Corpsmet.
 * Python Extension Scripts for Inkscape that enable cartographic/technical drawing.

Non-Programming


 * Catalog of Public GIS Data Sources For California
 * Set up OSGeo liason/ambassador with California Land Surveyors Asssociation.
 * Prepare documentation on cartographic map production using open source tools like the GIMP, Scribus, and Inkscape.

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

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

Mailing List
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Related Groups
Bay Area User Group (Social)

California GIS Links
Moved to California/GIS

California Open Source Links
California Open Source Working Group