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FOSS4G 2014 BirdsOfAFeather

2014-09-02T15:00:21Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Maptime! BoF */

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

 
= BoF's NOT at the Oregon Convention Center =
== Wednesday ==
=== LocationTech Meetup ===
* Description: The [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/locationtech-meetup-portland-tickets-12165801239 LocationTech Birds of a Feather Meetup] is a chance to meet members, project developers, entrepreneurs, and other interesting people for an enjoyable evening of good food, drinks, and camraderie.

* When: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)

* Where: Spirit of 77, 500 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/locationtech-meetup-portland-tickets-12165801239 Please RSVP here]

=== Template ===

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== Thursday ==
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== Friday ==

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= BoF's at the Oregon Convention Center =
== General Information ==
During the [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2014 conference] in Portland, USA, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

 
The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/ https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/].

 
=== Rooms ===
We have three rooms each day at the Convention Center: E146, E147, & E148. These rooms are dedicated spaces so BoF to your heart's content! Default room configuration will be long tables arranged a U-shape (although "contents may settle while BoF'ing"). The room capacities stated below are based off of that U configuration. We'll try to have some additional chairs available as well.

 
Technically the Exhibit Hall has room too. It will be arranged ballroom style with round tables. However, keep in mind it is a large, open, and public space. As such, it can't really be reserved, and is probably not ideal for a formal meeting (i.e. it could be noisy). In a nut shell, use at your own risk.

=== Capacities ===
* Room E146: 36
* Room E147: 18
* Room E148: 20
 

==FOSS4G Contact==
* foss4g2014-info@osgeo.org
 

== Wednesday ==

=== Room E146 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || - || - || -
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| 5:00pm-6:00pm || Open Geo for telecoms and utilities || Is it possible? How can we move it forward? || Graeme Herbert (@red_baobab)
|-
| 6:00pm-7:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 

=== Room E147 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
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| 4:00pm-5:00pm || - || - || -
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| 5:00pm-6:00pm || Point Clouds || Point clouds, LiDAR, SGM || Howard Butler
|-
| 6:00pm-7:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 

=== Room E148 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
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| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
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| 4:00pm-5:00pm || - || - || -
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| 5:00pm-6:00pm || Geo4All || Education and research || Phil Davis, Helena Mitasova
|-
| 6:00pm-7:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
 

== Thursday ==
=== Room E146 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
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| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
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| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
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| 4:00pm-5:00pm || WebGL Geospatial || Introduction and updates for WebGL in general and discussion of open-source geospatial libraries using WebGL || Patrick Cozzi ([http://twitter.com/pjcozzi @pjcozzi])
|-
| 5:00pm-7:00pm || Maptime! || Maptimers of the world unite! Big things have been afoot at Maptime HQ. Come find out what's in the works. || Alan McConchie ([http://twitter.com/mappingmashups @mappingmashups])
|}

 

=== Room E147 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
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| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
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| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
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| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
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| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
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| 4:00pm-5:00pm || - || - || -
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| 5:00pm-6:00pm || - || - || -
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| 6:00pm-7:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
=== Room E148 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
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| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
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| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
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| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
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| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
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| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
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| 5:00pm-6:00pm || - || - || -
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| 6:00pm-7:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
 
== Friday ==
* Note that Friday is a short day

=== Room E146 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
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| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
=== Room E147 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
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| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
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| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
=== Room E148 ===

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Timeslot !! Topic/Group !! Description !! Contact
|-
| 8:30am-9:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || - || - || -
|-
| 11:30am-1:00pm || LUNCH || LUNCH || LUNCH
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| 1:00pm-2:00pm || - || - || -
|-
| 2:00pm-3:00pm || - || - || -
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| 3:00pm-4:00pm || - || - || -
|}

 
 
== FOSS4G Educators and Geo4all: ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS edu and research network==

* Description: Discuss new developments in FOSS4G education and research infrastructure
* When/Where: Wednesday September 10 5:00 - 6:00pm E148

Who is coming:
* Phillip Davis
* Helena Mitasova
* [[BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]

== BoF Open Geo for telecoms and utilities ==

* Description: What can we do to gain a foothold for Open Geo in the telecoms and utilities markets? A chance to share experiences, and make proposals on ways to take this forward with a view to increasing the presence of FOSS in this sector.

* When/Where: 5-6 p.m. Room E146 on Wednesday 10th September

Who is coming:
* Graeme Herbert
*


== WebGL Geospatial ==

* Description: The latest WebGL news: browser and mobile support, development tools, adoption across industries, and WebGL 2, followed by discussion of WebGL in open-source geospatial libraries. Come meet others working with WebGL. Bring interesting discussion and demos.

* When: Thursday September 11, 4-5pm

* Where: Room E146

Who is coming:
* Patrick Cozzi ([http://twitter.com/pjcozzi @pjcozzi], AGI, will demo [http://cesiumjs.org/ Cesium])
* Josh Poley ([http://twitter.com/cesiumjs @CesiumJS], AGI)
* Vincent Picavet ([http://twitter.com/vpicavet @vpicavet], Oslandia, coming with demo of 3D stack)
* Brett Camper ([http://twitter.com/professorlemeza @professorlemeza], Mapzen, can demo our current [http://vector.io/vector-map/ WebGL vector maps])
* [Add your name and join us!]

== Point Clouds ==

* Description: Point clouds, LiDAR, SGM

* When: Wednesday September 10, 5-6pm

* Where: Room E147

Who is coming:
* Howard Butler
* Patrick Cozzi

== Maptime! BoF ==

* Description: [http://maptime.io Maptime] is, rather literally, time for mapmaking. Our mission is to open the doors of cartographic possibility to anyone interested by creating a time and space for collaborative learning, exploration, and map creation using mapping tools and technologies.

* When: Thursday September 11, 5:00pm-7:00pm

* Where: Room E146

Who is coming:
* Alan McConchie ([http://twitter.com/mappingmashups @mappingmashups])
* Matt Sayler ([http://twitter.com/mattsayler @mattsayler])
* Rafa Gutierrez ([http://twitter.com/geografa @geografa])

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* More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event.
* See [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather] for inspiration!

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2014]]

PDX OSGEO Meeting Notes

2013-10-17T02:37:27Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* 2013 */

Return to [[PDX-OSGEO |PDX-OSGEO home page]]
==== 2013 ====
[[PDX_OSGEO_20131016_Meeting | October 16, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130918_Meeting | September 9, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130821_Meeting | August 21, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130717_Meeting | July 17, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130619_Meeting | June 19, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130515_Meeting | May 15, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130417_Meeting | April 17, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130320_Meeting | March 20, 2013 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20130116_Meeting | January 16, 2013 Meeting]]

==== 2012 ====
[[PDX_OSGEO_20121017_Meeting | October 17, 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX-OSGeo_20120926_Meeting | September 26, 2012 Meeting]] '''moved to 4th Wednesday to avoid conflict with Ignite!'''

[[PDX-OSGeo_20120815_Meeting | August 15, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - now always the third Wed)'''

[[PDX_OSgeo_20120718_Meeting | July 18, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New *new* location)'''

[[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New location)'''

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

==== 2011 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110427_Meeting | April 27, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110525_Meeting | May 25, 2011 Meeting]]

Agenda: [[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24, 2011]] Minutes: [[PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes | August 24, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Minutes | September 28, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26, 2011 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

July 18th (3rd Wednesday)

August 15th (3rd Wednesday)

September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

November (typically canceled)

December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX OSGEO 20131016 Meeting

2013-10-16T23:54:29Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Agenda */

Link back to [[PDX-OSGeo]]
= Time and Location =
* '''October 16th, 6-8pm'''
* '''Renewable Funding'''
* '''400 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 902'''
* '''Portland, OR 97204 USA'''
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=400+SW+6th+Avenue%2C+Suite+902%2C+Portland+OR+97204+US map]
* '''If you arrive after 6pm, please buzz the security guard, who will open the doors and let you up to the 9th floor.'''
* '''The office is through the double doors immediately to the left after exiting the elevators.'''

= Agenda =
# Rafa will talk geojson.io.
# FOSS4G 2014 Update
# let's work on the wiki! (rafa)
# let's work on the FOSS4G site! (rafa)

= Meeting Notes =

Attending:

== Announcements ==

* OpenStreetMap Edit-a-thon hosted by Mele, October 19th at Urban Airship.

* FOSS4G theme and promotion, on the FOSS4G list I'd like to start a brain storm about FOSS4G theme (someone suggested 'User focused' - similar to 2009 in Sydney) and promotion of the conference of that theme as well as Portland and Oregon. What makes Portland so Portland? Flipping through a recent copy of Momentum magazine, I noticed Kinn Cascade Flyer bikes (made is Portland), the produce pedaler, and North St bags (also made in Portland). These are just a few things. Making a list of these, we can then tie into them as appropriate in promotional material.

== FOSS4G 2014 in PDX ==

Please join the organizing mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2014

[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX OSGEO 20130821 Meeting

2013-08-21T18:23:29Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Agenda */

Link back to [[PDX-OSGeo]]
== Time and Location ==
* '''August 21st, 6-8pm'''
* '''Ecotrust (Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center)'''
* '''721 NW Ninth Ave'''
* '''Portland, Oregon 97209, US ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=45.52836&mlon=-122.68059&way=156415908#map=17/45.52836/-122.68059 map])'''
* '''We'll meet in the Ecotrust Alder Room. Enter the atrium of the Ecotrust building from either side. Feel free to bring food and/or beer up with you from Hot Lips or Laughing Planet! Walk up the inside stairs along the East Wall or take the elevator to the second floor. The Alder Room entrance is right behind the Ecotrust front desk. We'll have the gate open for at least the first part of the meeting. If it's not open, call Tim at 971-227-2357 or just yell through the gate at us :-)'''

= Agenda =
# FOSS4G 2014 in PDX
# Lyzi will show a new technique used to include geojson in a Leaflet map. (brief)
# Ecotrust will show off their latest geo survey platform (Django+Leaflet). Try your hand at their latest survey that lets you map your recreational activities from your last trip to the coast. Bring your tablet/smart phone
# Review and fill in [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013]]
# Announce WhereCampPDX and remind sponsors
# next topic

= Notes =

Attending:

== FOSS4G 2014 in PDX ==

[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX OSGEO 20130918 Meeting

2013-08-13T21:05:23Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Agenda */

Link back to [[PDX-OSGeo]]
== Time and Location ==
* '''September, 6-8pm'''
* '''Location TBD'''
* '''Location TBD'''
* '''Location TBD'''
* '''Access details'''

= Agenda =
# FOSS4G 2014
# Ian including Leaflet and D3
# next topic
# http://geojson.io - a fast, simple editor for map data.

= Notes =

Attending:

== FOSS4G 2014 in PDX ==

[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDXOSGEO Member Listing

2012-07-26T17:31:26Z

Wiki-Geografa:

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| Jeremy VanGelder
| GIS Technician
| I-10 Associates
|-
| align="center"|'''2.
| Robert Denner
| GIS Coordinator/Techie
| City of Philomath
|-
| align="center"|'''3.
| David Percy
| Geospatial Data Manager and Map Wrangler
| Portland State University Geology and Urban Planning Depts
|-
| align="center"|'''4.
| Eli L Adam
| GIS Analyst
| Lincoln County, GeoMoose, GDAL, PostGIS, webmapping, OSGeo, fun maps
|-
| align="center"|'''4.
| Melelani (Mele) Sax-Barnett
| GIS Intern
| TriMet, OpenStreetMap
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| align="center"|'''6.
| Ryan Hodges
| Applications Developer
| Ecotrust
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| align="center"|'''7.
| Matthew Perry
| Applications Developer
| Ecotrust
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| align="center"|'''8.
| Rafa Gutierrez
| Cartographer/Developer
| Grafa Geographic Design
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| '''*''' start with the line above
| align="center"|copy this''' TEMPLATE '''
| * include the next line '''*'''
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| colspan="4" align="left"| To EDIT this page and add your name follow the directions below.
 1.) Please click on the '''"EDIT"''' tab above.
 2.) Once in Edit mode, find and copy from the template above
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 3.) Locate the last entry and paste just below that. Change the '''"No."''' field to the next member number and add your personal data.
 
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PDXOSGEO - 2012 Portland Meetings

2012-06-21T01:29:04Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

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'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

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

== Location ==
'''Lucky Lab - North Portland Tap Room'''
[https://plus.google.com/103248025478021122745/about?gl=us&hl=en Location Info]

== Agenda ==
=== Introductions ===
* ''Rod, Brian, Rob, Eli, Tanya, Wm, Darrell, Melanie, Madeline, Tim, Rafa, Scott, Ryan''

=== 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 potentially too, some receptiveness to moving around''

=== 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.
** ''Notes here''

== 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)

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-16T18:38:03Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings */

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meetings ==
'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''
 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.
[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 2012 ====
[[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New location)'''

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

==== 2011 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110427_Meeting | April 27, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110525_Meeting | May 25, 2011 Meeting]]

Agenda: [[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24, 2011]] Minutes: [[PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes | August 24, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Minutes | September 28, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26, 2011 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

July 18th (3rd Wednesday)

August 15th (3rd Wednesday)

September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

November (typically canceled)

December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Annual Reports ==
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-16T18:36:34Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* News */

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meetings ==
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''
 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations. </center>
[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 2012 ====
[[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New location)'''

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

==== 2011 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110427_Meeting | April 27, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110525_Meeting | May 25, 2011 Meeting]]

Agenda: [[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24, 2011]] Minutes: [[PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes | August 24, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Minutes | September 28, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26, 2011 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

July 18th (3rd Wednesday)

August 15th (3rd Wednesday)

September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

November (typically canceled)

December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Annual Reports ==
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-16T18:35:50Z

Wiki-Geografa:

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

=== Meetings ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''
 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations. </center>
[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 2012 ====
[[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New location)'''

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

==== 2011 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110427_Meeting | April 27, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110525_Meeting | May 25, 2011 Meeting]]

Agenda: [[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24, 2011]] Minutes: [[PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes | August 24, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Minutes | September 28, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26, 2011 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

July 18th (3rd Wednesday)

August 15th (3rd Wednesday)

September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

November (typically canceled)

December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Annual Reports ==
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-15T23:17:22Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings: see the June 20th Meeting Page */

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meeting presentations or topics ==
''posting here to make it easier to work on planning, move if desired''

'''2011'''
<ul>
<li>August 24: Ecotrust eCatch and bioregion discovery</li>
<li>September 28: Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]</li>
<li>October 26: Lev Tyspin from [http://thinkshout.com/ ThinkShout] is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done</li>
<li>November: No meeting due to holidays</li>
<li>December: No meeting due to holidays</li>
</ul>

'''2012'''
<ul>
<li>January 25: TBD</li>
</ul>

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''
 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations. </center>
[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 2012 ====
[[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20, 2012 Meeting]] '''(3rd Wednesday - New location)'''

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

==== 2011 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110427_Meeting | April 27, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110525_Meeting | May 25, 2011 Meeting]]

Agenda: [[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24, 2011]] Minutes: [[PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes | August 24, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Minutes | September 28, 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26, 2011 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

July 18th (3rd Wednesday)

August 15th (3rd Wednesday)

September 19th (3rd Wednesday)

October 17th (3rd Wednesday)

November (typically canceled)

December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Annual Reports ==
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDXOSGEO - 2012 Portland Meetings

2012-06-15T23:00:56Z

Wiki-Geografa:

PDX OSGeo 20120425 Meeting

2012-04-26T02:38:35Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''4/25/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Notes''

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

* URISA abstract submissions needed, CUGOS too
** ''National conference here this year''
** ''Trying to get whole track on one day, might be interspersed throughout program''
** ''post to CUGOS list too, submit to abstracts to Amy Esnard''
** Have we continued on this?

* OS Bridge
** Did anyone put in a talk?

* OSCON booths available to non-profits (must apply in advance before May 3rd I think)
** Needs advanced planning
** Needs people to staff the booth
** Comes with a free pass!

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** Started [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | here]], please contribute
** ''Make edits on wiki or send to list''
** Anything else? If not, approve.

* Local Chapter recognition [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition]]
** Consider switching to opt-out member list
** ''Notes''

* New Meeting dates??
** Please vote for your favorite Wednesday of the month for regular meetings! [http://grafa.wufoo.com/forms/pdx-open-source-gis-meeting-date-poll/ Vote here!]

=== Presentations ===

* When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - Wm Leler - @wmleler. Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions have significant advantages over Google Maps. If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes (both free and paid). If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet and Modest Maps make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want.
** ''Notes''

* MapBox - Justin Miller - @incanus77. Justin is all things iOS for the MapBox team. He'll be joining us again to show us what MapBox has been up to lately (and they've been busy) including their strategy in the Google Maps space, their new iOS SDK, MapBox streets layer, custom styled maps, what Artem from Mapnik is doing now that he's joined the team and what they're doing with open source in general. Something for everyone and a great follow-up to Wm's talk.
** ''Notes''

== Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==
See Meeting Notes for voting on your favorite Wednesdays.

* May 23rd
* June 27
* July 25th
* August 22nd
* September 26th
* October 24th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX OSGeo 20120425 Meeting

2012-04-26T02:38:07Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Presentations */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''4/25/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Notes''

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

* URISA abstract submissions needed, CUGOS too
** ''National conference here this year''
** ''Trying to get whole track on one day, might be interspersed throughout program''
** ''post to CUGOS list too, submit to abstracts to Amy Esnard''
** Have we continued on this?

* OS Bridge
** Did anyone put in a talk?

* OSCON booths available to non-profits (must apply in advance before May 3rd I think)
** Needs advanced planning
** Needs people to staff the booth
** Comes with a free pass!

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** Started [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | here]], please contribute
** ''Make edits on wiki or send to list''
** Anything else? If not, approve.

* Local Chapter recognition [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition]]
** Consider switching to opt-out member list
** ''Notes''

* New Meeting dates??
** Please vote for your favorite Wednesday of the month for regular meetings! [http://grafa.wufoo.com/forms/pdx-open-source-gis-meeting-date-poll/ Vote here!]

=== Presentations ===

* When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - Wm Leler - @wmleler. Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions have significant advantages over Google Maps. If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes (both free and paid). If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet and Modest Maps make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want.
** ''Notes''

* MapBox - Justin Miller - @incanus77. Justin is all things iOS for the MapBox team. He'll be joining us again to show us what MapBox has been up to lately (and they've been busy) including their strategy in the Google Maps space, their new iOS SDK, MapBox streets layer, custom styled maps, what Artem from Mapnik is doing now that he's joined the team and what they're doing with open source in general. Something for everyone and a great follow-up to Wm's talk.
** ''Notes''

== Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* May 23rd
* June 27
* July 25th
* August 22nd
* September 26th
* October 24th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX OSGeo 20120425 Meeting

2012-04-26T02:37:52Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''4/25/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Notes''

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

* URISA abstract submissions needed, CUGOS too
** ''National conference here this year''
** ''Trying to get whole track on one day, might be interspersed throughout program''
** ''post to CUGOS list too, submit to abstracts to Amy Esnard''
** Have we continued on this?

* OS Bridge
** Did anyone put in a talk?

* OSCON booths available to non-profits (must apply in advance before May 3rd I think)
** Needs advanced planning
** Needs people to staff the booth
** Comes with a free pass!

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** Started [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | here]], please contribute
** ''Make edits on wiki or send to list''
** Anything else? If not, approve.

* Local Chapter recognition [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition]]
** Consider switching to opt-out member list
** ''Notes''

* New Meeting dates??
** Please vote for your favorite Wednesday of the month for regular meetings! [http://grafa.wufoo.com/forms/pdx-open-source-gis-meeting-date-poll/ Vote here!]

=== Presentations ===

* When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - Wm Leler - @wmleler. Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions have significant advantages over Google Maps. If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes (both free and paid). If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet and Modest Maps make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want.
** ''Notes''

* MapBox - Justin Miller - @incanus77. Justin is all things iOS for the MapBox team. He'll be joining us again to show us what MapBox has been up to lately (and they've been busy) including their strategy in the Google Maps space, their new iOS SDK, MapBox streets layer, custom styled maps, what Artem from Mapnik is doing now that he's joined the team and what they're doing with open source in general. Something for everyone and a great follow-up to Wm's talk.
** ''Notes''

See Meeting Notes for voting on your favorite Wednesdays.

== Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* May 23rd
* June 27
* July 25th
* August 22nd
* September 26th
* October 24th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX OSGeo 20120425 Meeting

2012-04-26T02:35:50Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''4/25/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Notes''

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

* URISA abstract submissions needed, CUGOS too
** ''National conference here this year''
** ''Trying to get whole track on one day, might be interspersed throughout program''
** ''post to CUGOS list too, submit to abstracts to Amy Esnard''
** Have we continued on this?

* OS Bridge
** Did anyone put in a talk?

* OSCON booths available to non-profits (must apply in advance before May 3rd I think)
** Needs advanced planning
** Needs people to staff the booth
** Comes with a free pass!

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** Started [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | here]], please contribute
** ''Make edits on wiki or send to list''
** Anything else? If not, approve.

* Local Chapter recognition [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition]]
** Consider switching to opt-out member list
** ''Notes''

* New Meeting dates??
** Please vote for your favorite Wednesday of the month for regular meetings! [http://grafa.wufoo.com/forms/pdx-open-source-gis-meeting-date-poll/ Vote here!]

=== Presentations ===

* When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - Wm Leler - @wmleler. Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions have significant advantages over Google Maps. If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes (both free and paid). If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet and Modest Maps make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want.
** ''Notes''

* MapBox - Justin Miller - @incanus77. Justin is all things iOS for the MapBox team. He'll be joining us again to show us what MapBox has been up to lately (and they've been busy) including their strategy in the Google Maps space, their new iOS SDK, MapBox streets layer, custom styled maps, what Artem from Mapnik is doing now that he's joined the team and what they're doing with open source in general. Something for everyone and a great follow-up to Wm's talk.
** ''Notes''

== Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* May 23rd
* June 27
* July 25th
* August 22nd
* September 26th
* October 24th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX OSGeo 20120328 Meeting

2012-03-29T01:16:46Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''3/28/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Darrell, Brian, Jason, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Neal, Heather, Rob, Deanne, Percy, Rafa, Edwin, Tanya, Tim, Justin, Eli, Jonathan, Wm, Nate, Rick, Christian''

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

* GIS In Action notes
** ''notes here''

* URISA abstract submissions needed, CUGOS too
** ''notes here''

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** Started [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | here]], please contribute
** ''Notes in italic here''

* OS Bridge Discount, abstracts, and pass raffle
** [https://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis/browse_thread/thread/623e8a1a76a059d list thread]

* Rick Nixon from the City
** CitySync platform, and the latest CivicApps contest

=== Presentations ===

* PostGIS Management Tools (Darrell)
** ''notes here''

* OpenStreetMap pre-direction (NE, SE, SW, NW) expansion in the Pacific Northwest discussion
** See also, [http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-January/007245.html], [http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-February/007436.html], Import information on the wiki [http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-January/007173.html] and Street Naming Conventions [http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-April/]
** ''Notes in italic here''

== Future meeting schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* April 25th
* May 23rd
* June 27
* July 25th
* August 22nd
* September 26th
* October 24th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)

PDX-OSGEO

2012-03-13T16:49:00Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* News */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meeting presentations or topics ==
''posting here to make it easier to work on planning, move if desired''

'''2011'''
<ul>
<li>August 24: Ecotrust eCatch and bioregion discovery</li>
<li>September 28: Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]</li>
<li>October 26: Lev Tyspin from [http://thinkshout.com/ ThinkShout] is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done</li>
<li>November: No meeting due to holidays</li>
<li>December: No meeting due to holidays</li>
</ul>

'''2012'''
<ul>
<li>January 25: TBD</li>
</ul>

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at [http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency] in NW (Old Town) Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Just buzz 200 at the front door. If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

[http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency]
322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209
Check their [http://collectiveagency.co/welcome/portland-faq/ Portland page] for transportation info their, including parking and Tri-met info.

==== 2011 ====
[[March 23, 2011]] - Discussion on the unconference.

[[PDX-OSGEO_20110427_Agenda | April 27th 2011 Agenda]]

[[May 25th, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24th 2011 Agenda]] Minutes: [[August 24th, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Agenda | September 28th 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26th 2011 Meeting]]

==== 2012 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-03-13T16:47:24Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* News */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meeting presentations or topics ==
''posting here to make it easier to work on planning, move if desired''

'''2011'''
<ul>
<li>August 24: Ecotrust eCatch and bioregion discovery</li>
<li>September 28: Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]</li>
<li>October 26: Lev Tyspin from [http://thinkshout.com/ ThinkShout] is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done</li>
<li>November: No meeting due to holidays</li>
<li>December: No meeting due to holidays</li>
</ul>

'''2012'''
<ul>
<li>January 25: TBD</li>
</ul>

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at [http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency] in NW (Old Town) Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Just buzz 200 at the front door. If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

[http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency]
322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209
Check their [http://collectiveagency.co/welcome/portland-faq/ Portland page] for transportation info their, including parking and Tri-met info.

==== 2011 ====
[[March 23, 2011]] - Discussion on the unconference.

[[PDX-OSGEO_20110427_Agenda | April 27th 2011 Agenda]]

[[May 25th, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110824_Agenda | August 24th 2011 Agenda]] Minutes: [[August 24th, 2011]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Agenda | September 28th 2011 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20111026_Meeting | October 26th 2011 Meeting]]

==== 2012 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

Add next meeting here like <nowiki> [[PDX_OSGEO_YYYYMMDD_Meeting | Month ## #### Meeting]]</nowiki>

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX OSGEO 20120222 Meeting

2012-02-24T21:03:10Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* More regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''2/22/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Rob, Edwin, Tanya, Eli, Rafa, Matt, Scott, Tim, Jeremy, Jeff, Andrew, Neal ''

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

* Gift for OpenSourcery. If you were able to enjoy our old meeting space with them consider bringing a contribution of $5 or more.
** ''Soft Cities midnight commander blanket - contribute funds. Sign card too''

=== Presentations ===

* UTFGrid support for openlayers (Matt)
** ''ascii art mapped to data dictionary''
** ''all in browser, avoids going to server''
** ''Adding this new to OpenLayers (was in some others [modest maps, leaflet] already)''
** ''New OpenLayers Layer and Control (UTFGrid) - similar to tiles - x/y/z''
** ''ascii art and corresponding data dictionary are all in json file, can have multiples''
** ''UTFGrids created by TileMill, TileStache (both Mapnik) python implementation perhaps coming''

* Spatial surveys on the windows tablet (Tim/Ryan)
** ''Continue technique of using Django to take applications on and offline''
** ''Tablets now - Windows 7 talet demo'ed''
** ''Attribute surveys''
** ''Mapping component (ExtJS, GeoEXT, OpenLayers...)''
** ''Bigger buttons, pinch zoom, swipe, digitize''
** ''TileCache pre-generated and accessed on hard-drive''
** ''Easier to do on a full blown OS and get access to computer as opposed to iOS or Android''

=== More regular meeting business ===
* GIS in Action conference talk proposals. Give your talk or let's brainstorm for them. Do we want to do an unconference day?
** ''Morning session will be smackdown - interfaces: leaflet(Lev or Rafa?), Google (Christian)''
** ''Karsten not able to present due to schedule uncertainty''
** ''Afternoon session will be smackdown - caches/servers: TileMill (Edwin), MapCache (), (Or: give afternoon time slot back, change title from ESRI+Open Source, Brian might have something, Dean ORTools...?)'' '''''Update: depending on time slot, Dean can do ORTools'''''
** ''GIS In Action table: Sign up with Jeremy, include some focus on Surveyors (gvSIG/Sextante), GPS/Mobile, ''

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** ''Notes in italic here''

* State of the Map US in Portland in fall

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

PDX OSGEO 20120222 Meeting

2012-02-23T02:57:32Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Minutes */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''2/22/2012 6-7:30''' </center>
<center> '''Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints''' </center>

* Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===
* ''Rob, Edwin, Tanya, Eli, Rafa, Matt, Scott, Tim, Jeremy, Jeff, Andrew, Neal ''

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

* Gift for OpenSourcery. If you were able to enjoy our old meeting space with them consider bringing a contribution of $5 or more.
** ''Soft Cities midnight commander blanket - contribute funds. Sign card too''

=== Presentations ===

* UTFGrid support for openlayers (Matt)
** ''ascii art mapped to data dictionary''
** ''all in browser, avoids going to server''
** ''Adding this new to OpenLayers (was in some others [modest maps, leaflet] already)''
** ''New OpenLayers Layer and Control (UTFGrid) - similar to tiles - x/y/z''
** ''ascii art and corresponding data dictionary are all in json file, can have multiples''
** ''UTFGrids created by TileMill, TileStache (both Mapnik) python implementation perhaps coming''

* Spatial surveys on the windows tablet (Tim/Ryan)
** ''Continue technique of using Django to take applications on and offline''
** ''Tablets now - Windows 7 talet demo'ed''
** ''Attribute surveys''
** ''Mapping component (ExtJS, GeoEXT, OpenLayers...)''
** ''Bigger buttons, pinch zoom, swipe, digitize''
** ''TileCache pre-generated and accessed on hard-drive''
** ''Easier to do on a full blown OS and get access to computer as opposed to iOS or Android''

=== More regular meeting business ===
* GIS in Action conference talk proposals. Give your talk or let's brainstorm for them. Do we want to do an unconference day?
** ''Karsten not able to present due to schedule uncertainty''
** ''Give time slot back, change title from ESRI+Open Source, Dean ORTools...''

* OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-February/010097.html Discuss call for reports]
** ''Notes in italic here''

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

PDX OSGEO Meeting Planning

2012-01-09T09:27:13Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Specific time line example */

== Background ==
* Meeting planning has been done loosely by an ad hoc group of varying people as needed and as schedules permitted. That has not always worked entirely smoothly.

== Plan for future ==
* Make a planners email list
* Document what it takes to plan a meeting
* Make sure all interested members can plan a meeting

== Specific time line example ==
* 1.5-2 months in advance
# Get a presenter, discussion topic, or some other meeting event
# (Tim and Ecotrust are often working on something fun if you need ideas)
# Email this to planners list
* 2-3 weeks in advance
# Email the planners list what you are doing for the meeting and call for others to pick up the rest
* 1 week in advance
# Make an Agenda Page on the wiki
# Email the group list that there is a meeting. Include the time, place, agenda link, and any other relevant details
* Day before or day of
# Send another reminder email?
# (We are thinking of having pizza every meeting, if so, then) order pizza?
* At meeting
# Take attendance
# Take notes in wiki
     ''Meeting notes can be added to Agenda inline as italics, in which case, it should probably just be a meeting page rather than an Agenda page.''

== Notes ==
* Rough outline so far.

PDX-OSGEO

2012-01-09T09:07:02Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meeting presentations or topics ==
''posting here to make it easier to work on planning, move if desired''

'''2011'''
<ul>
<li>August 24: Ecotrust eCatch and bioregion discovery</li>
<li>September 28: Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]</li>
<li>October 26: Lev Tyspin from [http://thinkshout.com/ ThinkShout] is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done</li>
<li>November: No meeting due to holidays</li>
<li>December: No meeting due to holidays</li>
</ul>

'''2012'''
<ul>
<li>January 25: TBD</li>
</ul>

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at [http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency] in NW (Old Town) Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Just buzz 200 at the front door. If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

[http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency]
322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209
Check their [http://collectiveagency.co/welcome/portland-faq/ Portland page] for transportation info their, including parking and Tri-met info.

* [[PDX-OSGEO_Agendas | Agendas]]
* [[PDX-OSGEO_Minutes | Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-01-09T09:01:21Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[PDX_OSGEO_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition | OSGeo Local Chapter Recognition]]

== Meeting presentations or topics ==
''posting here to make it easier to work on planning, move if desired''

'''2011'''
<ul>
<li>August 24: Ecotrust eCatch and bioregion discovery</li>
<li>September 28: Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]</li>
<li>October 26: Lev Tyspin from [http://thinkshout.com/ ThinkShout] is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done</li>
<li>November: No meeting due to holidays</li>
<li>December: No meeting due to holidays</li>
</ul>

'''2012'''
<ul>
<li>January 25: TBD</li>
</ul>

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at [http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency] in NW (Old Town) Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Just buzz 200 at the front door. If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

[http://collectiveagency.co/ Collective Agency]
322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209

* [[PDX-OSGEO_Agendas | Agendas]]
* [[PDX-OSGEO_Minutes | Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== 2011 Unconference ==
The annual Open Source GIS Unconference was coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There was an Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the Unconference, there was additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that were well worth checking out.

===== 2011 GIS in Action Notes =====
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 10:30-12:00: [[GIS Smackdown]]
* GIS in Action, Tuesday March 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00: [[Scripting and Beyond]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 1:30-3:00: [[ESRI and Open Source]]
* GIS in Action, Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:15-3:24: [[Update on Japan Crisis Mapping]]

===== Unconference Sessions =====

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 338
|-
| 10:00am-11:00am || [[Civic apps, OSM and State / Authoritative data]] || [[2011_Unconference_Routing_Session | Routing in Open Source]] ||
|-
| 11:00am-noon || [[Crisis Mapping: RDTN.org]] || Can Open Source Replace ESRI? ||
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[State of OR Services and Standards]] || [[QGIS Python Extensions]] ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[Open Street Maps HowTo]] || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || [[Integrating OpenLayers with GeoExt]] ||
|}

======= (preliminary) unconference lessons learned =========

Some discussion that Fri/Sat is a better day then Thur because more people can attend that are otherwise at work. Worth discussion before next year.

Two rooms was fine for venue was fine

Refreshments were sufficient. Lets see if we can get GIA to donate leftovers again.

Timing was OK once it started; but start time and planning should be tightened up some. Everyone that was going to be there at 9:00 was!

Where are all the notes that people took - please send to the listserv pdxosgis group or plug in here.

Hackathon-Crisis Map session at backspace on Friday averaged between 6-7 people. Lots of education about OSM and Tools. Would have liked to see more people there - maybe same day as main event - could be a 1/2 day tract on un-conference day. It was good to have something to focus on too.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

==== Volunteers ====

Thanks to all of you who presented, helped organized, or took a shift at the PDX-OSGeo booth at the events!

==== Social Media - Following the Unconference ====
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

==== Recommended Further Reading ====
The following websites were mentioned as further reading at the Unconference:
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

==== Event Set Up ====
[[Event set up]] notes.

[[Category:Events]]

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===

An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX OSGEO 20111025 Agenda

2011-11-16T00:39:51Z

Wiki-Geografa: Created page with "=== Introductions === Christian Schumann Heather Crowsley Rob Denner Neil Tom Dubuisson - PSU CS Rafa Gutierrez - Grafa John Stroud John Milem - GIS "user", lives in Vancouver W..."

=== Introductions ===
Christian Schumann
Heather Crowsley
Rob Denner
Neil
Tom Dubuisson - PSU CS
Rafa Gutierrez - Grafa
John Stroud
John Milem - GIS "user", lives in Vancouver WA - described redistricting
plans and using QGIS to measure the impact of business on
redistricting plan. Trying to create open source solution for...
Darrell Fuhriman -
Jeremy Van Gelder
Sean - Portland School District Redistricting
Tanya
Andy - Public Sector - redistricting, tax assessment, SAR,
manaagement, comm,
Nate Deniro - Open Health and Open TV, Open trip Planner for disabled
vets
Eli - Lincoln County
Sarah Chapman -
Others?

=== Agenda ===
New proposed meeting time - Wednesday, earlier; 6, 6:30p, 7p? Went in
circles but I think we're settled on 6:30p unless something changes in
the new year.

Formalizing the group - communication, email, CMS, meeting planning,
planners list,
Rob volunteered for meeting manager - rotating calendar (Google)

=== Presentation===
Lev Tsypin from Thinkshout gave short presentation on Mapping with
Drupal 7. He gave an overview of platforms, scripting libraries, and a
brief summary Drupal speak. Went over:

Input and Storage issues, Geofield, Address/Geocoders, File/OpenLayers
KML Layer (upload capabilities), Location - not so good in D7.

For Display - OpenLayers, Leaflet, GMap

Recommendations:
- Storage - Geofield
- Input - Geofield, Address Field and Geocoder, Openlayers map picker
- Display - Openlayers, Leaflet
GeoPHP, GEOS

Data Types are limited.

=== Other Stuff ===
Bring any and all cables for presentations.
Bring business cards, especially for new members/attendees.

PDX-OSGEO Minutes

2011-11-16T00:36:39Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* 2011 */

== 2011 ==
* [[March 23, 2011]] - Discussion on the unconference.
* [[May 25th, 2011]]
* [[August 24th, 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_20110928_Agenda | September 28th 2011]] combined with Agenda
* [[PDX_OSGEO_20111025_Agenda | October 26th 2011]] Minutes

PDX OSGEO 20110928 Minutes

2011-09-29T02:54:42Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''9/28/2011 6-7''' </center>
<center> '''Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards''' </center>

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===

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

* FOSS4G and other reports. Discussions on...
**routing talks
** gamification of maps and data collection (Skobler). Utilized OSM data.
** GIS going to an IT field; education curriculum not going to that. Job hires versus educational experience.
** Mini FOSS4G in North America; possibly piggy-backing off another conference.
* OSGeo discuss announce - we need an announcement.
* OSGeo Annual Report - need annual report for funders.
* [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCamp ] around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement. Announcements made to PDXOSGEO group, GIS_Info, and other groups.
* GIS In Action call for presentations - this Fall but will be hosted in Spring, Jantzen Beach.
* Nov and Dec meetings? Rob mentioned meeting with Seattle meetings.

Let it be known: Rob Denner bought beer.

=== Presentations ===

# Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done)
* November 30th (likely canceled)
* December 28th (likely canceled)

== Other ==

PDX OSGEO 20110928 Minutes

2011-09-29T02:51:39Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''9/28/2011 6-7''' </center>
<center> '''Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards''' </center>

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===

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

* FOSS4G and other reports. Discussions on...
**routing talks
** gamification of maps and data collection (Skobler). Utilized OSM data.
** GIS going to an IT field; education curriculum not going to that. Job hires versus educational experience.
** Mini FOSS4G in North America; possibly piggy-backing off another conference.
* OSGeo discuss announce
* OSGeo Annual Report
* [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCamp ] around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement. Announcements made to PDXOSGEO group, GIS_Info, and other groups.
* GIS In Action call for presentations
* Nov and Dec meetings?

=== Presentations ===

# Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done)
* November 30th (likely canceled)
* December 28th (likely canceled)

== Other ==

PDX OSGEO 20110928 Minutes

2011-09-29T02:48:14Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''9/28/2011 6-7''' </center>
<center> '''Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards''' </center>

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===

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

* FOSS4G and other reports. Discussions on...
**routing talks
** gamification of maps and data collection (Skobler). Utilized OSM data.
** GIS going to an IT field; education curriculum not going to that. Job hires versus educational experience.
* OSGeo discuss announce
* OSGeo Annual Report
* [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCamp ] around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement.
* GIS In Action call for presentations
* Nov and Dec meetings?

=== Presentations ===

# Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done)
* November 30th (likely canceled)
* December 28th (likely canceled)

== Other ==

PDX OSGEO 20110928 Minutes

2011-09-29T02:46:10Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Regular meeting business */

<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''9/28/2011 6-7''' </center>
<center> '''Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards''' </center>

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===

=== Regular meeting business ===

* (e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
# FOSS4G and other reports
Discussions on...
* routing talks
* gamification of maps and data collection (Skobler). Utilized OSM data.
* GIS going to an IT field; education curriculum not going to that. Job hires versus educational experience.

# OSGeo discuss announce
# OSGeo Annual Report
# [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCamp ] around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement.
# GIS In Action call for presentations
# Nov and Dec meetings?

=== Presentations ===

# Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/683 OSBridge 2011 session]

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done)
* November 30th (likely canceled)
* December 28th (likely canceled)

== Other ==

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T19:23:48Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* What to Map */

This is a page for the Crisis Camp Japan track at the [[PDX-OSGEO]] 2011 Unconference and Hackathon.

Where: Backspace Lounge: 115 NW 5th Ave Portland OR
When 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM April 1st 2011

==How to Begin==
Start [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami#For_beginners_to_OpenStreetMap_.28New_to_mapping.3F.29 here] for the basics. You can also try the examples from Mapping Roads example from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 Haiti].

==What to Map==
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map List of what to map (damaged areas)]
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map Mapping and Data Coordination] (best resource)
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Imageries#Aerial_orthophotos_from_Japanese_mapping_authority_GSI_.28Finished.29 Using different aerial image sources].

===Using Humanitarian Tags===
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Background Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Background]

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T19:15:44Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* What to Map */

This is a page for the Crisis Camp Japan track at the [[PDX-OSGEO]] 2011 Unconference and Hackathon.

Where: Backspace Lounge: 115 NW 5th Ave Portland OR
When 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM April 1st 2011

==How to Begin==
Start [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami#For_beginners_to_OpenStreetMap_.28New_to_mapping.3F.29 here] for the basics. You can also try the examples from Mapping Roads example from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 Haiti].

==What to Map==
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map List of what to map (damaged areas)]
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map Mapping and Data Coordination] (best resource)

===Using Humanitarian Tags===
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Background Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Background]

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T19:15:18Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* What to Map */

This is a page for the Crisis Camp Japan track at the [[PDX-OSGEO]] 2011 Unconference and Hackathon.

Where: Backspace Lounge: 115 NW 5th Ave Portland OR
When 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM April 1st 2011

==How to Begin==
Start [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami#For_beginners_to_OpenStreetMap_.28New_to_mapping.3F.29 here] for the basics. You can also try the examples from Mapping Roads example from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 Haiti].

==What to Map==
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map List of what to map (damaged areas)]
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map Mapping and Data Coordination] (best resource)

===Using Humanitarian Tags===
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Background Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Background]

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T18:57:00Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* How to Begin */

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T18:56:43Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* How to Begin */

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T18:55:46Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* How to Begin */

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T18:43:34Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* What to Map */

This is a page for the Crisis Camp Japan track at the [[PDX-OSGEO]] 2011 Unconference and Hackathon.

Where: Backspace Lounge: 115 NW 5th Ave Portland OR
When 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM April 1st 2011

==How to Begin==
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 Mapping Roads example from Haiti]

==What to Map==
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map List of what to map (damaged areas)]

===Using Humanitarian Tags===
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Background Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Background]

Crisis Camp Japan

2011-04-01T18:36:09Z

Wiki-Geografa:

This is a page for the Crisis Camp Japan track at the [[PDX-OSGEO]] 2011 Unconference and Hackathon.

Where: Backspace Lounge: 115 NW 5th Ave Portland OR
When 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM April 1st 2011

==How to Begin==
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 Mapping Roads example from Haiti]

==What to Map==
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Mapping_coordination_and_data_sources#Where_to_map List of what to map (damaged areas)]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-31T20:25:58Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Unconference starts at 9am (intros, how-to, coffee)
Sessions start at 9:30am

Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.
* Getting started with open source GIS tools for "data journalists" (telling stories with data on a deadline)

Session board at 12:45pm

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Time !! Room 328 !! Room 333 !! Room 338
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || State of OR Services and Standards || || QGIS Python Extensions ||
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || Open Street Maps HowTo || || Getting started with 'R' ||
|-
| 3:30pm-4:30pm || Building Minecraft Maps with USGS Data || || Integrating OpenLayers with RGIS. GRASS. Geoserver Help ||
|}

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. We're meeting at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&nord=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=backspace&fb=1&gl=us&hq=backspace&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=0,0,8416363487660196607&ei=2uKUTZmxHIr0tgPO8uHIBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQnwIwAQ Backspace] from 11am-2p. Submit your ideaz here.

* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-31T04:15:05Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* SPRING GIS */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Unconference starts at 9am (intros, how-to, coffee)
Sessions start at 9:30am

Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.
* Getting started with open source GIS tools for "data journalists" (telling stories with data on a deadline)

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* [[Crisis Camp Japan]]
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]
* I've got a fairly complete open source GIS stack built as an openSUSE Linux appliance. It consists of R plus the R "Spatial" task view plus all of its dependencies (Proj4, Grass, GDAL, PostGIS) plus QGIS. But not all of us run openSUSE Linux - yet ;-). I'd like to see this stack ported to Windows and MacOS X. I can do Ubuntu and Fedora ports myself if anyone's interested, and I can help with the Windows port. The scripts are on Github at [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts] and [https://github.com/znmeb/Data-Journalism-Developer-Studio/tree/master/Desktop/Install-Scripts/Spatial] if anyone wants to get a head start on this.

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p5.odt]]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-25T17:31:18Z

Wiki-Geografa: Undo revision 54034 by Geografa (Talk)

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Unconference starts at 9am (intros, how-to, coffee)
Sessions start at 9:30am

Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-25T17:30:01Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

[[The annual Open Source GIS Uunconference]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
* This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
* Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.
#[[File:0_0 Using SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:0_1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_1 Using Spring for the first time.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt]]
#[[File:1_1_14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt]]
#[[File:1_2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:1_3 Manipulating a Project.odt]]
#[[File:1_4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt]]
#[[File:1_5 Defining the Data Model.odt]]
#[[File:2_3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:2_6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt]]
#[[File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt]]
#[[File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt]]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-24T02:35:07Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Schedule */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Unconference starts at 9am (intros, how-to, coffee)
Sessions start at 9:30am

Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-24T02:24:37Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO Minutes

2011-03-24T02:11:21Z

Wiki-Geografa: Created page with ''''March 23, 2011''' Discussion on the unconference.'

'''March 23, 2011'''
Discussion on the unconference.

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-24T02:09:22Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Meetings */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]
* [[New Page]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-22T04:14:17Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Following the Unconference */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* gis.stackexchange.com, lightning talk?
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Japan/Libya Crisis Mapping, CUGOS discuss their OSM mapping on March 16th?
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Social Media - Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-18T05:04:39Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Following the Unconference */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators - suggested tags: #GIA, #pdxosgeo
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi - Log in with your Twitter ID or sign up: [http://geoloqi.com/ Geoloqi site]

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-18T04:59:31Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Organizing Notes */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}}
{{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators.
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa || Apparently, OR Conv. Ctr. has some. Trying for 100+
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]

PDX-OSGEO

2011-03-18T04:58:29Z

Wiki-Geografa: /* Organizing Notes */

'''Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!'''

== News ==
* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

* Progress on [[OSGeo Local Chapter recognition]]

== About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter ==

=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS].

=== Mission ===
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== Meetings ===
We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

'''I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.'''

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[http://www.opensourcery.com/ OpenSourcery]
1636 NW Lovejoy St.
Portland, OR 97209

* [[Agendas]]
* [[Minutes]]

=== Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

== Unconference March 31st and April 1st, 2011 ==
The annual Open Source GIS unconference will be coordinated in conjunction with [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action]. There will be a Open Source GIS Smackdown on Tuesday at 10:30am right after the Keynote. In addition to the unconference, there will be additional presentations on Open Source applications through GIS in Action that are well worth checking out.

=== Where ===
Portland State University, (45.5117, -122.6847)
Smith Memorial Center
Third Floor
Rooms: 327, 328, 329, 333, and Vanport Room

=== How to Register ===
* Please use the Eventbrite website to register. This is helpful for getting a general headcount for snacks and refreshments.
* '''Register for the unconference at [http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/ http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/]''' --and feel free to pass on the link to anyone you think would be interested! Assure the uncertain that we welcome all, especially the curious.

=== Cost ===
* There is no fee; it is free.
* If you would like to sponsor the event by providing goods (food, beverages, office supplies, etc) or money for other expenses, that would be greatly appreciated.

=== Schedule ===
====March 31, 2011 Unconference====
Potential Topics (this is where you chime in)

* Open Data
* LiDAR
* Cascadia data NW Open Data
* LBS
* Desktop GIS Apps
* File GDB is open! * see Eli's statement
* GDAL
* PostGIS
* Crowdsourcing
* Grassroots Mapping
* Creating a GIS Intern Group for local governments
* State of Oregon Standards for Services kickoff meeting from 1:15 to 2:45ish - a fixed time for this is better since some people will be coming especially for this.

====April 1, 2011 April Fools' Hackathon====
The Hackathon is OPEN. Submit your ideaz here.
* Documenting and How To's
* For people who don't want to do Hackathon activities, they could help with mapping the (Japan) crisis area for OpenStreetMap. See also, [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami OSM wiki]

====March 29, 2011====
8:30am - Keynote
10:30a-12p - Smackdown
see [http://calagator.org/events/1250459867 GIS In Action] site for more info on the schedule.

=== Volunteers ===

Want to volunteer? Sure you do! See [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am9F21fGPbhIdDA0R2ItQlJmcHpGMlRVcGlTNWNYV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJa57b4G Google Spreadsheet] for times you can volunteer.

=== Following the Unconference ===
* Twitter aggregators.
* Foursquare
* Geoloqi

Google Group
[http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis google email group]

=== Organizing Notes ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+'''Supplies'''
|-
! What !! How many !! Have it/who !! Comments
|-
| Name Tags || ? || Rafa getting some from OR Conv. Ctr. || No comments
|-
| Markers || 2-3 || Yes, Eli will bring ||
|-
| Sticky notes (large) || 2 pads || No ||
|-
| Masking tape || 2-3 rolls || No ||
|-
| Scrap paper || 1 stack || No ||
|-
| Dry erase board and markers|| 1-2 || No || Do we really need this? This or foamcore
|-
| Foamcore|| 4 || Yes, Rafa can get some. ||
|}

[[Category:Events]]

== Needs ==
We need an OSGeo [[Exhibition_Pack]] for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]