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PDX-OSGEO

2013-05-10T05:13:58Z

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

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.
* The [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference | 2013 PDX-OSGeo Unconference]] happened on May 2nd.

=== Meetings ===
The [[PDX_OSGEO_20130417_Meeting | next meeting]] is May 15th, 2013, at Flightstats.

Flightstats is in the Yeon building, on SW 5th and Alder.
The street door is locked (along with the elevators) promptly at 6pm. After that, you need to call me and I'll come down, so please try to get there before 6 if possible!
I'll post my phone number on the door.
Go up to the second floor (we have the whole floor), walk in and turn left. If you bike, feel free to bring the bike upstairs.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

== Events ==
=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

PDX-OSGeo members are encouraged to participate.

2013
* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)
* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)
* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

=== Past Events we participated in ===

* 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]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment 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]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The 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.

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

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

=== 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!'''

=== 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). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo 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.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

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

=== 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.

=== This 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]

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

== Geo 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 ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== 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

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [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]

== 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

2012-06-21T03:12:49Z

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{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" align=""
'''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, Andy, two later arrivals too''

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

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

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

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

=== Git, Github and affiliated tools - Darrell ===

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

== Future meeting schedule for 2012 (every '''''third''''' Wednesday) ==

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

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T20:36:56Z

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'''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: <ul>see the [[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20th Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
 *721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
 *Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a 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]]

==== 2012 ====

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120125_Agenda | January 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_20120222_Meeting | February 22nd 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX OSGEO 20110824 - Agenda

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PDX OSGEO 20110824 Agenda

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<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''8/24/2011 6-7 & 7-8 or 6:30-8 still discussing''' </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.)
# OSCON, OSBridge, and other reports
# Determine future meeting time
# Nov and Dec meetings?

=== Presentations ===

# Ecotrust: eCatch and bioregion discovery

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* September 28th (Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his OSBridge 2011 session)
* 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 20110824 - Minutes

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'''PDX-OSGEO OpenSourcery, NW Portland Wed August 24th, 2011'''

== Atendance ==
* Attending: Skip, Percy, Christian, Ryan, Darrell, Tim, Eli, Neil

== Announcements ==
* New meeting time 6-7 and social afterwards across the street,
* WhereCampPDX Oct 8th - we should be involved with this. Perhaps setup software walk through of the OSGeo Stack
*

== Demos ==
=== Demo I – bioregion and convening ===
* Simple: very stripped down MarineMap
* Tool to explore bioregions
* Various factors (Tempurature, precipitation, language, etc) used as user defined input to model
* GRASS is the backend for the model. Based on wrapper of GRASS that makes shell calls.
* Model returns bioregion based on least-cost analysis
* User can refine parameters
* Can edit, move, refine, share results
* Once bioregion is defined, reports are available (Climate Change, Socio-economic, Natural hazards) done with PostGIS
* Working with Global datasets for analysis was a challenge
* Probably rebrand MarineMap as a general purpose spatial platform sometime in the future
* Uses Google Earth browser plugin

=== Demo II - eCatch ===
* Mobile - needs Chrome, Safari, or other WebKitSDK browser
* Continue across the street

== Reports back ==

PDX OSGEO 20110928 - Agenda and Minutes

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<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, SotM, 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.''
** ''Mail list thread''

* OSGeo Annual Report -
** ''need annual report for the OSGeo journal.''
** ''Mail list thread too''

* [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCamp ] around corner. Stack demo? Other involvement.
** ''Announcements made to PDXOSGEO group, GIS_Info, and other groups.''
** ''Wherecamp folks need onsite volunteers, money for food, help with coordinating food, and help with coordinating games for Sunday. Also lots and lots of publicity, plus everyone should register http://wherecamppdx11.eventbrite.com/''
** ''Volunteers on Oct 8th Christian, Eli, Tanya–''
** ''GeoCeg will contribute $100 towards coffee – Contact Rob <shift-2> denner.us. Thanks GeoCeg!''
** ''Collective agency – possible space for Friday activities…''
** ''Possible lists to circulate on – CUGOS, GIS_info, GPL, ORURISA, PSU lists, OSU lists,''

* GIS In Action call for presentations - this Fall but will be hosted in Spring, Jantzen Beach.
** ''Put in for papers, PDX-OSGEO has been well represented in the past.''
** ''Please submit an abstract along with a brief biography by November 18, 2011 to doug <shift-2> davidsmithmapping.com and Bob.Pool <shift-2> clark.wa.gov. Abstracts submitted after this date are welcome, but those submitted by the deadline will be given first consideration in the program.''

* Nov and Dec meetings?
** ''Rob mentioned meeting with Seattle meetings.''
** ''Winter coders' social instead of December meeting''

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]
** ''Awesome stuff''
** ''Cool animations''
** ''Python''
** ''Some tricks to convert DOGAMI modeled wave from binary to ASCII''

=== Misc ===
** ''We need to do a better job coordinating meeting time and space''
** ''Thinking more than a few days in advance would be ideal''
** ''Collective Agency also a venue option (NW 6th and Everett; contact: Audrey E). ''
** ''Mississippi Pizza: Percy’s band is playing tomorrow night''

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done).
** ''need to coordinate with Opensourcery earlier this time. We have a speaker lined up already. Also confirm our meeting time as 6pm.''

* November 30th
** ''possible shift to 3rd and coordinate/visit CUGOS in Seattle; Rob has a house to stay at.''

* December 28th
** ''(Winter Coder Social is in Dec, could be an alternative)''

== Other ==

== ''Minutes'' ==
* ''Minutes are throughout the agenda as italic''

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<center> '''PDX-OSGEO meeting''' </center>
<center> '''4/27/2011 6:30-8''' </center>
<center> '''Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland''' </center>

== Agenda ==

=== Introductions ===

=== Regular meeting business ===

* (e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
# Unconference recap and feedback (10 min)
# Wiki page naming convention (5 min)
# Review mission statement (10 min)
# PNW FOSS4G carpool?

=== Presentations ===

# Percy demo of the ushahidi crowdmap app

=== Misc ===

== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==

* April 27th
* May 25th (topics can go here)
* June 29th
* July 27th
* August 31st
* September 28th
* October 26th
* November 30th (likely canceled)
* December 28th (likely canceled)

== Other ==

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'''PDX-OSGEO OpenSourcery, NW Portland Wed May 25th, 2011'''

== Atendance ==
* Attending: Skip, Jeremy, Christian, Sarah, Tanya, Heather, Rob, Sean, Lynnae, Randy
* Absent: No beer present :(

== Announcements ==
* Rob, Christian and Heather are all working on a new small community open source GIS outreach organization check out: [http://www.geo-ceg.org Geo CEG]

== Demos ==
=== Demo I – GRASS Preview ===
* Rob re-capped the good old days of search and rescue in the coast guard (circa 1990’s), and led us into a demo of GRASS w/ a QGIS front end…
* First public GRASS release in 1991… taken over by Baylor University in 1997, now managed under OSGEO. Runs under almost everything
* Nowadays GRASS does 2D & 3D Raster, and 2D & 3D Vector. Connects natively to QGIS and PostGIS
* Quickie overview of setting up both permanent and project workspaces…
* Rob planned out a full blown demo for June that will include a project set-up, adding demo data, analysis, cartography examples

=== Demo II - Middle Earth Map ===
* Jeremy demo-ed an Open data project that seeks to build 3D Middle Earth data – digital elevation models, landcover, etc. (think OpenStreetMap except for fantasy terrains)
* Check out [http://www.me-dem.org Middle Earth DEM site]
* [http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/geotersys.pl?category=what&sx=640 GEOTerSys] is the 3D renderer
* Proland and Alterra are the 3D globe products used
* Jeremy’s geo project for them right now consists of a 2D 1 GIG tif file created by compiling multiple maps from various sources, served up on Geoserver with an OpenLayers frontend. See: [http://67.170.189.14/jeremy/webmap.htm Jeremy's website]
* There is a work flow that uses Jeremy’s map as a departure point for eventually creating final rendered products. To check it out go to the ME-DEM.org site and look under articles --> modeling. To get a quick sense of what is happening as things transition from 2D to 3D rendered terrain, you can skim some images here: [http://me-dem.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33%3Aarticle-1&catid=19%3Amodelling-articles&Itemid=33 An introduction to using L3DT to model terrain in ME-DEM]

== Reports back ==
* Trimet open house – a couple of us attended the Trimet open house for OSM editors. They currently have 4 interns working to improve the OSM data in the Portland metro area using RLIS and high quality imagery. Improvement areas include: street data, bike data, trails and pedestrian data, and turn restriction data. Trimet is making this investment in OSM because the new bus routing software that they will be using would have charged them a per bus license fee just to use the routable base map, which would have cost them over $100k per year.
* OpenBaseMap – the CUGOS folks have come quite long ways with the open base map project since last we heard about it (see Wherecamp PDX 2010 notes here: [http://www.wherecamppdx.org/wiki/2010/openbasemap WhereCamp Notes]) stay tuned to the CUGOS mailing list to learn more…

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'''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: === <ul>see the [[PDX_OSgeo_20120620_Meeting | June 20th Meeting]] Page
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
 *721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
 *Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 2011 ====
[[PDX_OSGEO_20110323_Meeting | March 23, 2011 Meeting]]

[[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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

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* Name (once we decide, I'll start the page on the OSGeo wiki):
** ''PDX-OSGEO''
* Region of group.
** ''Match OR-URISA (Oregon and SW Washington). Cugos gave us Oregon so we are clear of overlap (some rounding needed).''
* "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating
the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linguistic extent for
instance).
** ''>With thanks and apologies to CUGOS (http://cugos.org/), here is a rough initial draft.
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly by 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.''
* “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise
with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative
will be an officer of OSGeo.
** ''<s>Percy</s> switched to Eli''
* List of initial members.
** ''<s>Opt-in. Darrell will use google form to have people sign up. We thought opt in was less evil than opt out.</s>'' That turned out to not be easy so we switched to opt out at the April and May 2012 Meetings. It was to be announced on the list with ample time.
* Email list, website, wiki, etc.
** ''For now stay with google groups for email''
** ''Darrell registered pdxosgeo.org''
** ''Here is the wiki''
** ''We considered switching to OSGEO mailman infrastructure, however, think that we may lose email list members.''
* Send announcement email to OSGeo-Discuss list
** ''The local Open Source GIS group that meets in Portland is turning 4 years old. We are finally officially becoming an OSGeo Local Chapter after being an unofficial chapter for years. We are a geographically based chapter welcoming members from all of Oregon and small parts of Southwestern Washington. We meet once a month in Portland (usually not November or December) on the <s>4th</s> 3rd Wednesday of every month. Once a year we put on an unconference (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PDX-OSGEO#2011_Unconference) We often coordinate with CUGOS, http://cugos.org/, the local chapter to the the North. We are also also recognized as an ORURISA Special Interest Group (http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS). Check us out on the wiki, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PDX-OSGEO or join our email list http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis''
* Ask OSGeo Board of Director for official recognition as a local chapter

[[Category: Local Chapters]]

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{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" align=""
!<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''</center>

<center> '''New Meeting Location starting - June 20, 2012 '''</center>
<center> see address below </center>

----

'''Ecotrust - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209

----
'''NOTES: '''
*Meeting are now on the Third Wednesday, from 6:00 PM - 7:30PM
*Access and bike parking details to come
*'''Beer at nearby pub to follow'''
![[Image:PDXOSGEO-Meeting_EcoTrust.jpg|Right|300px|link=http://goo.gl/maps/TqQ0| click for GoogleMap]]
|}

== Agenda ==

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

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

* New Meeting Place
* We no longer meet at Collective Agency
* We have several options that seem possible
** ''Notes here''

=== Presentations or activities ===

== 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

2012-06-11T04:16:20Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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: <ul>see the [[PDX OSgeo 20120620 Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
 *721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
 *Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T04:06:21Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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: <ul>see the [[PDX OSgeo 20120620 Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T03:38:51Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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: <ul>see the [[PDX OSgeo 20120620 Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

==== 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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T03:37:48Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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: <ul>see the [[PDX OSgeo 20120620 Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T03:35:18Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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: see the [[PDX OSgeo 20120620 Meeting]] Page ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]

PDX-OSGEO

2012-06-11T03:26:18Z

Wiki-Rdenner:

'''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 ===
<center>'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''

 We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at
 
 '''[http://www.ecotrust.org/ Ecotrust's - Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center]'''
*721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
*Portland, Oregon 97209
 ("SPECIAL ACCESS NOTES SHOULD BE ADDED HERE, IF ANY!")
 Still in NW (Old Town) Portland.
 No need to RSVP, all are welcome
 If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in discussions, so
 please check there for the most recent information and activity.
 
 ("OR SHOULD WE PUT A LINK HERE AND MEETING STATUS ON THE MEETING PAGE?")
 
</center>





[[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]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120328_Meeting | March 28th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120425_Meeting | April 25th 2012 Meeting]]

[[PDX_OSGeo_20120523_Meeting | May 23rd 2012 Meeting]]

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

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]]