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<span style="color:#ff0000">'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: '''</span>



'''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, 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)