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== California Chapter ==

* Contact name: '''Alex Mandel''', '''Landon Blake'''

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* 1st Meeting
* Marketing and Events
** AAG
** OSCON
** Where 2.0
** GIS Day

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
* While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Always looking for more events to go to.

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)

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	*Always looking for more events to go to.		*Always looking for more events to go to.
		+	*Looking for help designing and administering award to government agencies in California that promote free and open access to geospatial data.
		+	*Looking for programmers to assist with software development projects hosted by Chapter.

	=== Outlook for 2010 ===		=== Outlook for 2010 ===

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 === Outlook for 2010  ===
- The growth of mobile platforms like Android and iPhone has also caused a huge increase for the need of geospatial libraries and server technologies.
+The growth of mobile platforms like Android and iPhone has also caused a huge increase for the need of geospatial libraries and server technologies.<br>Since the Bay Area has huge activity of startups with very talented people with low cash flow, it is a perfect incubator for adoption of OSGeo technologies. <br>Several of the current startup companies that are doing anything related to geo have started using software like PostGIS.
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   Several of the current startup companies that are doing anything related to geo have started using software like PostGIS. Interestingly enough, Unconferences
   and local meetup groups have proven to be very effective at producing follow up e-mails with questions about Open Source GIS technologies.Since the mobile
-  application market keeps growing, it is unquestionable that OSGeo adoption in the Bay Area will follow, too.
+  application market keeps growing, it is unquestionable that OSGeo adoption in the Bay Area will follow suit.
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-== California Chapter ==
+== California Chapter  ==
-* Contact name: '''Alex Mandel''', '''Landon Blake'''
+*Contact name: '''Alex Mandel (Davis, CA)''', <br>'''&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Landon Blake (Stockton, CA),<br>'''&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;'''Ragi Burhum (San Francisco, CA)'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
-=== Key Accomplishments ===
+=== Key Accomplishments  ===
-=== Areas for Improvement ===
+*1st Meeting
-* As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
+*Marketing and Events
-** There is a Bay Area sub chapter that hosts social meetups. http://baugos.com/
+**[[AAG 2009|Association of American Geographers]], Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
-* While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
+**[[OSCON 2009|OSCON Open Source Convention]], San Jose
+**[[Where 2.0 2009|Where 2.0 ]], San Jose
-=== Opportunities to Help ===
+**GIS Day, UC Berkeley, UC Davis
-* Always looking for more events to go to.
+**[[NACIS 2009|North American Cartographic Information Society]], Sacramento
-=== Outlook for 2010 ===
+<br>
-  include the notoc option in the wiki code and use the "Reports 2009" category (see source of template for example)
+=== Areas for Improvement  ===
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+*As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
-[[Category: Reports 2009]]
+**There is a Bay Area sub chapter that hosts social meetups. http://baugos.com/
-[[Category: California]]
+*While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

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 * 1st Meeting
 * Marketing and Events
-** AAG
+** [[AAG 2009 | Association of American Geographers]], Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
-** OSCON
+** [[OSCON 2009 | OSCON Open Source Convention]], San Jose
-** Where 2.0
+** [[Where 2.0 2009 | Where 2.0 ]], San Jose
-** GIS Day
+** GIS Day, UC Berkeley, UC Davis
 === Areas for Improvement ===
 * As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
 * While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
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