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Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009
 
Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009
 
[http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/index.htm Meeting Homepage]
 
[http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/index.htm Meeting Homepage]
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== Mini Report ==
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[[Image:Booth1.jpg|thumb|Andrew chatting with a Professor and Student from UCSB, while Dirk shows the wonder of OSM to the gentlemen from Qatar]]
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* Sessions were a success, we had 60+,50,20 for each respectively.
 +
* The booth is going well and pictures will be posted later.
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* Gave out ~400 [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/brochures/draft_2009/OSGeo_Brochure_1.pdf Full Color Pro Brochures]
 +
* Dirk was interviewed by [http://veryspatial.com/ VerySpatial.com], Alex lost his voice and couldn't give an interview.
 +
* Dirk gave out ? [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] buttons.
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* [http://www.nacis.org/ North American Cartographic Information Society(NACIS)] invited us to submit an article to the 1st free online version of their Journal
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* NACIS invited us to come to their conference - this year in [[NACIS 2009|Sacramento]]
 +
* ESRI said they'll be at FOSS4G in Sydney, and their EDU division wants to find a way to host OSM data.
 +
* Dirk Munson from Cloudmade/OSM live blog entries [http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/03/24/openstreetmap-at-the-association-of-american-cartographers-conference/ one], [http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/03/25/aag-conference-day-2-recap/ two]
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* We have a tentative booth reservation for [[AAG 2010]]
  
 
== OSGeo Sessions ==
 
== OSGeo Sessions ==
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We'd like to try and organize 2 or 3 sessions on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in Geography
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'''Tuesday March 24, Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor Starting at 1pm'''
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[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel]] and [[User:StaceyEllis|Stacey Ellis]] from the University of California, Davis will be organizing please contact them if you plan to give a talk and would like to be part of the sessions.
 
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'''Deadline''' to submit for talks is <strike>'''Oct 16, 2008'''</strike>(Extended until '''Nov 13, 2008'''), see the [http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm call for abstracts]
 
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The sessions are now being co-sponsored by the [http://cisg.gmu.edu AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group].
 
  
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What's on the books:
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The sessions are now co-sponsored by the [http://cisg.gmu.edu AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group].
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Proposed or Confirmed(+)
 
  
 
=== Session I: Papers ===
 
=== Session I: Papers ===
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source solutions for Geographers I
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source solutions for Geographers I (#3439)
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'''Details''' 3/24/09, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
 
  '''Description:'''Case studies and general overviews of free software and data sources as applied to geography.  
 
  '''Description:'''Case studies and general overviews of free software and data sources as applied to geography.  
 
  Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.  
 
  Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.  
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  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
 
  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
  
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# +Stacey Ellis - A Wiki for every Geography
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# Stacey Ellis - A Wiki for every Geography : Talk will be given by alternate speaker
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# Michael Treichler - Using open source in the food distribution industry.
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#<s>Ron Buliung - Opening up the Geographers' Craft: Open Source Spatial Analysis with R</s> - Cancelled
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# Ron Buliung - R aspace package - descriptive analysis of spatial point patterns using centrographics and home range metrics
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# Michael Treichler - Case Study in Sales Territory Definition using Open Source Software
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# Andrew Turner - OpenStreetMap
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# Andrew Turner - OpenStreetMap As A Successful Model for User-Generated Geospatial Content
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# Jay Parsons - NASA WorldWind
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# Joshua Campbell - The Disruptive Potential of GIS 2.0
  
 
=== Session II: Panel ===
 
=== Session II: Panel ===
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers II (Text needs editing)
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers II (#3539) (Text needs editing)
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  '''Description:''Not sure what Free and Open Source Software is, how to get, what you can do with it or which software to use.  
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'''Details''' Tuesday, 3/24/09, from 3:10 PM - 4:50 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
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  Come this panel and ask all your questions about how you can use 'Free' software for your research.  
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  '''Description:'''The Free and Open Source Software movement is built on the idea that software can be functional and free. 
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  The panel will have a wide range of participants - University, Government, and Private Consultants
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Programs such as QGIS (a GIS program), GRASS (GIS and remote sensing) and R (a statistics program) offer the same tools,
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  to help answer your questions and discuss this exciting movement.
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if not more, as their proprietary counterparts but without the expensive price tag.
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  Panelist from university, government and private consulting backgrounds will discuss how everyone can use  
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free sofware as tools in their research.  Database programs, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and statistics software
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  are just some of the topics that will be covered.  Come with questions or just come to listen.  
 
  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
 
  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
  
 
(Up to 6 panelists)
 
(Up to 6 panelists)
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# Alex Mandel - Graduate Student
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# Alex Mandel - Graduate Student (University of California, Davis)
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# Eric Wolf -  
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# Eric Wolf - Federal Government (United States Geological Survey)
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# Andrew Turner -
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# Andrew Turner - Private Industry (FortuisOne)
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# placeholder
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# Bruce Ralston - Professor (University of Tennessee)
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# placeholder
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# Shriram Ilavajhala - University Researcher (University of Maryland)
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# placeholder
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# -Open Spot-
  
 
=== Session III: Papers ===
 
=== Session III: Papers ===
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers III
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  '''Title:''' Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers III (#3639)
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'''Details''' Tuesday, 3/24/09, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
 
  '''Description:'''Case studies and in depth technical discussions of free software and data sources as applied to geography.  
 
  '''Description:'''Case studies and in depth technical discussions of free software and data sources as applied to geography.  
 
  Including neogeography tools, virtual  globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.  
 
  Including neogeography tools, virtual  globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.  
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  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
 
  '''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50
  
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# I directly invited about 12 already submitted papers to join(Alex 11/5)
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# Dan Goldberg - A Framework for Evaluating Geocoding Research and Practice
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# Jay Parsons - NASA World Wind Java
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# Shriram Ilavajhala - Providing Effective Fire/Hotspot Information Access through the Open Source Fire Information Resource Management System (FIRMS)
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# Eric Wolf - Functional Analysis for The National Map Server-side Computing
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# -Open Spot-
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=== Schedule of all FOSS speakers ===
 
=== Schedule of all FOSS speakers ===
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There are at least 10 talks that identify Open Source or Open Standards, they will be added here when the AAG publishes it's schedule.
 
There are at least 10 talks that identify Open Source or Open Standards, they will be added here when the AAG publishes it's schedule.
  
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=== Other Ideas: ===
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== OSGeo Booth ==
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Ideas (Claim one and move it up above with your name, and submit your abstract ASAP)
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It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.
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* Open Source - Community websites (Content Management, Wiki etc)
 
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* Open Street Map - Free Wiki Based Road Data
 
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* Open Source Business Case (slides available from lisasoft)
 
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* LiveDVD GIS
 
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* Helena Mitasova - Advanced Open Source GIS (Can't come)
 
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* Brian Hamlin - Intro to PostGIS
 
  
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=== To Do List ===
  
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Other Ideas:
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==== Materials ====
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*Plan A
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#<s>Table Throw - Order([http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/exhibitionpack Design] done)</s>
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**Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
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#<s>Pop-up Banner - Order(done)</s>
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**Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
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#<s>FOSS4G Postcards - Received</s>
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**Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.
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#Printed Materials - Prepare for printing
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##OSGeo Brochure - [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/brochures/two-side-overview Overview]/Case Study Bound Book (x5): spiral bound, anchored to the booth
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*Plan B
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##<s>[http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/bookmark Bookmarks](x1000 ~ 250 pages) - skipping</s>
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**Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
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##[http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/cards/OSGeo_Projects_Card_2sided_10up_a4.pdf Business Cards](x2000 ~ 200 pages) - ready to print
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**Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography
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#<s>Business Card holder(x1-2) - 2 </s>
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#<s>Magazine Racks(x1-3) - 1 </s>
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#Configure Demo Machines
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##<s>Download latest [http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ live DVD]</s>
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##Install and Configure partition
  
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== OSGeo Booth ==
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==== Booth ====
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It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.
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#<s>Get support from marketing team for a booth</s>
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#<s>Get booth</s>
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#Send in final paperwork for booth
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##<s>Conference Personnel - Due Feb 23 - Tyler is submitting</s>
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###<s>Figure out what to do with the 2 conference passes - Hurricane and Josh if they can come.</s>
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##<s>Booth Items - Due March 9th</s>
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###Get a union exemption for setup by volunteers
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###<s>Money for Table and electrical outlet($150)</s>
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#Volunteers for booth
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##Volunteer Schedule
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##Setup
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##Take Down
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#<s>T-shirts - Send size list to Tyler</s>
  
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==== Sessions ====
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#<s>Get speakers for the sessions</s>
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##<s>Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.</s>
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#<s>Register the sessions</s>
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#Confirm speakers
 +
#Arrange for laptop in room
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#Bring some handouts to session
  
 
=== Volunteers ===
 
=== Volunteers ===
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* Alex Mandel
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Name and specialty
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* Stacey Ellis
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(These are all the people with exhibit hall passes for setup/takedown, other volunteers will be welcome during normal hours)
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* Michael Treichler
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* Alex Mandel - QGIS, GRASS, R, Postgis, GDAL, OSM,
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* Michele Tobias
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* Michael Treichler - QGIS, Postgis, Private Industry
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*
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* Michele Tobias - QGIS, R, Teaching, University
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* Alyssa Nelson - Open Source Philosophy, Community Organizing
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* Dirk Munson - OSM, public geodata
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* Andrew Turner -?
 +
 
 +
Other Volunteers
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* (Add your name here and contact [[User:Wildintellect|Alex]])
  
 
=== Schedule ===
 
=== Schedule ===
 
Should we set this based on session times for talks so people can go to talks when not at the booth?
 
Should we set this based on session times for talks so people can go to talks when not at the booth?
 
Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.
 
Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.
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* Tuesday, March 24  9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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* Setup is Monday 8am – 4pm
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* Wednesday, March 25 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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* Monday, March 23,      6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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* Thursday, March 26 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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* Tuesday, March 24, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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* Wednesday, March 25, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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* Thursday, March 26, 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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* Tear down is Thursday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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{|border="1"
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!Day!!9:30-11:50AM!!11:55-12:55 PM!!1:00-2:40 PM!!3:10-4:30 PM!!6-8:30PM
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|-
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|Monday
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|Setup
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|Setup
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|Setup
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|Setup - Alex, Mike, Michele
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|Alex, Mike, Michele, Dirk
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|-
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|Tues
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|Mike, Dirk,Michele
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|Alex, Dirk
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|Alex, Dirk
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|Dirk, Alyssa
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|Closed
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|-
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|Wed
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|Mike, Dirk
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|Mike, Dirk, Alex
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|Andrew, Dirk, Alex
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|Andrew, Dirk, Alex
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|Closed
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|-
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|Thur
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|Mike,Dirk,Michele,Alex
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|Mike,Dirk,Alex
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|Clean Up - Alex, Mike, Dirk
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|Clean Up -
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|Closed
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|}
  
 
=== Proposed Budget ===
 
=== Proposed Budget ===
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|-
 
|-
 
|Banner
 
|Banner
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|$
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|$175/$295
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|Sent from?
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|Get an [[Exhibition Pack]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Table Skirt
 
|Table Skirt
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|$
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|$250(Guess)/$0 Re-used old +$145
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|Sent from ?
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|Get an [[Exhibition Pack]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Handouts
 
|Handouts
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|$500
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|$500/ $260 Business Cards + Brochures($260 used at AAG, $390 left for other conferences/chapters)
 
|How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference.
 
|How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Booth
 
|Booth
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|$1000 (non-profit price)
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|$1000+$150+120 (non-profit price)+(power & table & chairs)
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|Includes tables, do we have an internet connection? [http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/exhibitor.htm Need to book by ASAP].
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|Tables & power are the +150, Internet is too expensive. [http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/exhibitor.htm Booked, #620., moved to #618 actual spot]
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|-
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|Booth Other
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|$32
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|Literature holder, business card holder, sign holder for announcements.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Live CD/DVD or Software
 
|Live CD/DVD or Software
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|$200
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|$200/$0
 
|In the works, [[Live GIS Disc]], how many?
 
|In the works, [[Live GIS Disc]], how many?
 
|-
 
|-
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|T-shirts/hats
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|T-shirts/hats/pins
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|$0
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|$100/$0 Used what Tyler sent
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|How many tablers
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|How many tablers? New collared shirts?
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Demo Machines
 
|Demo Machines
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|Borrow or Rent?
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|Personal Laptops $0
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|For next time, the Gentoo liveCD or the GeoNetwork FOSS DVD.
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|[Live DVD]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Comp Fees for Staffing?
 
|Comp Fees for Staffing?
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|$500-1000
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|$0
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|Fly Tyler or a Board Member, a Marketing Team member or ?  
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|A few meals maybe?
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Banner/Skirt to next event
 
|Banner/Skirt to next event
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|
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|$0
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|Send where?
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|To be stored in California
 
|-
 
|-
 
!Total
 
!Total
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|$3000/~TBD
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|$2375/~$2002(+260 brochures)
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|Estimate/~Final(?)
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|Estimate/~Final
 
|}
 
|}
  
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=== Funding Sources ===
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=== Sponsors/Funding Sources ===
 
These are ideas for where to try and get funds for the booth.
 
These are ideas for where to try and get funds for the booth.
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We will be sending them a [[Media:Draft_Sponsorhsip_Letter_Jan09.pdf]] soon requesting funding, after a few more revisions.
  
 
* OSGEO - ?
 
* OSGEO - ?
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* Universities - ?
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* Universities - Davis, Berkeley,Santa Barbara
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* Open Source specialized companies - ? CloudMade?
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* Open Source specialized companies - ? CloudMade? FortiusOne?
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* O'Reilly (Napa/Sonoma)
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* [http://cirgis.org/ CIRGIS] members
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* Other trade org members focused on GIS
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* Google (Bay Area)
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* Apress (Berkeley)
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* Companies using OS - CoreMark,
  
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Sponsor
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{| border="1"
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!Sponsor!!Donation!!Notes
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|-
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|OSGeo
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|$1000?
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|Initial Booth fee and subsidy on the [[Exhibition Pack]]
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|-
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|University of Calfornia, Davis - Information Center for the Environment
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|$?
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|Photocopies and Live DVDs, maybe a plotted poster
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|-
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|Cloudmade/OSM
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|Booth Staff
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|Maybe some OSM handouts?
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|-
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|}
  
 
== OSGeo Social ==
 
== OSGeo Social ==
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Directions:
 
Directions:
  
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== To Do List ==
 
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#Get support from marketing team for a booth
 
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##It's $1000 for a non-profit and there are 8 spots left
 
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#Get speakers for the sessions
 
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##Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
 
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#Register the sessions
 
  
 
Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of [[AAG 2008| osgeo related speakers]]
 
Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of [[AAG 2008| osgeo related speakers]]
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== Ideas ==
 
== Ideas ==
 
#Do we want to do a [http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/workshop_planning.htm workshop], '''Deadline is Oct 1'''
 
#Do we want to do a [http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/workshop_planning.htm workshop], '''Deadline is Oct 1'''
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[[Category:Proposed Events]]
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=== Other Ideas: ===
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Ideas (Claim one and move it up above with your name, and submit your abstract ASAP)
 +
* Open Source - Community websites (Content Management, Wiki etc)
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* Open Street Map - Free Wiki Based Road Data
 +
* Open Source Business Case (slides available from lisasoft)
 +
* [[Live GIS Disc|LiveDVD GIS]]
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* Helena Mitasova - Advanced Open Source GIS (Can't come)
 +
* Brian Hamlin - Intro to PostGIS
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 +
 
 +
Other Ideas:
 +
*Plan A
 +
**Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
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**Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
 +
**Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.
 +
 
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*Plan B
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**Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
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**Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography
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[[Category:Past Events]]

Latest revision as of 00:04, 17 January 2010

Association of American Geographers annual conference.

2009 Conference

Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009 Meeting Homepage

Mini Report

Andrew chatting with a Professor and Student from UCSB, while Dirk shows the wonder of OSM to the gentlemen from Qatar
  • Sessions were a success, we had 60+,50,20 for each respectively.
  • The booth is going well and pictures will be posted later.
  • Gave out ~400 Full Color Pro Brochures
  • Dirk was interviewed by VerySpatial.com, Alex lost his voice and couldn't give an interview.
  • Dirk gave out ? OpenStreetMap buttons.
  • North American Cartographic Information Society(NACIS) invited us to submit an article to the 1st free online version of their Journal
  • NACIS invited us to come to their conference - this year in Sacramento
  • ESRI said they'll be at FOSS4G in Sydney, and their EDU division wants to find a way to host OSM data.
  • Dirk Munson from Cloudmade/OSM live blog entries one, two
  • We have a tentative booth reservation for AAG 2010

OSGeo Sessions

Tuesday March 24, Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor Starting at 1pm

The sessions are now co-sponsored by the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group.

Session I: Papers

Title: Free and Open Source solutions for Geographers I (#3439)
Details 3/24/09, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
Description:Case studies and general overviews of free software and data sources as applied to geography. 
Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics. 
This session aims to educate the general geography community about end user opportunities to implement cutting edge 
Free and Open Source solutions in your research.
Anticipated Attendance:	50
  1. Stacey Ellis - A Wiki for every Geography : Talk will be given by alternate speaker
  2. Ron Buliung - Opening up the Geographers' Craft: Open Source Spatial Analysis with R - Cancelled
  3. Michael Treichler - Case Study in Sales Territory Definition using Open Source Software
  4. Andrew Turner - OpenStreetMap As A Successful Model for User-Generated Geospatial Content
  5. Joshua Campbell - The Disruptive Potential of GIS 2.0

Session II: Panel

Title: Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers II (#3539) (Text needs editing)
Details Tuesday, 3/24/09, from 3:10 PM - 4:50 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
Description:The Free and Open Source Software movement is built on the idea that software can be functional and free.  
Programs such as QGIS (a GIS program),  GRASS (GIS and remote sensing) and R (a statistics program) offer the same tools, 
if not more, as their proprietary counterparts but without the expensive price tag.  
Panelist from university, government and private consulting backgrounds will discuss how everyone can use 
free sofware as tools in their research.  Database programs, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and statistics software 
are just some of the topics that will be covered.  Come with questions or just come to listen. 
Anticipated Attendance:	50

(Up to 6 panelists)

  1. Alex Mandel - Graduate Student (University of California, Davis)
  2. Eric Wolf - Federal Government (United States Geological Survey)
  3. Andrew Turner - Private Industry (FortuisOne)
  4. Bruce Ralston - Professor (University of Tennessee)
  5. Shriram Ilavajhala - University Researcher (University of Maryland)
  6. -Open Spot-

Session III: Papers

Title: Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers III (#3639)
Details Tuesday, 3/24/09, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Skybox 211, Riviera Hotel, 2nd Floor
Description:Case studies and in depth technical discussions of free software and data sources as applied to geography. 
Including neogeography tools, virtual  globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics. 
This session aims to explore the complexities and specifics of using cutting edge 
Free and Open Source solutions in geographical research.
Anticipated Attendance:	50
  1. Dan Goldberg - A Framework for Evaluating Geocoding Research and Practice
  2. Jay Parsons - NASA World Wind Java
  3. Shriram Ilavajhala - Providing Effective Fire/Hotspot Information Access through the Open Source Fire Information Resource Management System (FIRMS)
  4. Eric Wolf - Functional Analysis for The National Map Server-side Computing
  5. -Open Spot-


Schedule of all FOSS speakers

There are at least 10 talks that identify Open Source or Open Standards, they will be added here when the AAG publishes it's schedule.

OSGeo Booth

It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.

To Do List

Materials

  1. Table Throw - Order(Design done)
  2. Pop-up Banner - Order(done)
  3. FOSS4G Postcards - Received
  4. Printed Materials - Prepare for printing
    1. OSGeo Brochure - Overview/Case Study Bound Book (x5): spiral bound, anchored to the booth
    2. Bookmarks(x1000 ~ 250 pages) - skipping
    3. Business Cards(x2000 ~ 200 pages) - ready to print
  5. Business Card holder(x1-2) - 2
  6. Magazine Racks(x1-3) - 1
  7. Configure Demo Machines
    1. Download latest live DVD
    2. Install and Configure partition

Booth

  1. Get support from marketing team for a booth
  2. Get booth
  3. Send in final paperwork for booth
    1. Conference Personnel - Due Feb 23 - Tyler is submitting
      1. Figure out what to do with the 2 conference passes - Hurricane and Josh if they can come.
    2. Booth Items - Due March 9th
      1. Get a union exemption for setup by volunteers
      2. Money for Table and electrical outlet($150)
  4. Volunteers for booth
    1. Volunteer Schedule
    2. Setup
    3. Take Down
  5. T-shirts - Send size list to Tyler

Sessions

  1. Get speakers for the sessions
    1. Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
  2. Register the sessions
  3. Confirm speakers
  4. Arrange for laptop in room
  5. Bring some handouts to session

Volunteers

Name and specialty (These are all the people with exhibit hall passes for setup/takedown, other volunteers will be welcome during normal hours)

  • Alex Mandel - QGIS, GRASS, R, Postgis, GDAL, OSM,
  • Michael Treichler - QGIS, Postgis, Private Industry
  • Michele Tobias - QGIS, R, Teaching, University
  • Alyssa Nelson - Open Source Philosophy, Community Organizing
  • Dirk Munson - OSM, public geodata
  • Andrew Turner -?

Other Volunteers

  • (Add your name here and contact Alex)

Schedule

Should we set this based on session times for talks so people can go to talks when not at the booth? Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.

  • Setup is Monday 8am – 4pm
  • Monday, March 23, 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
  • Tuesday, March 24, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 25, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • Thursday, March 26, 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
  • Tear down is Thursday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Day 9:30-11:50AM 11:55-12:55 PM 1:00-2:40 PM 3:10-4:30 PM 6-8:30PM
Monday Setup Setup Setup Setup - Alex, Mike, Michele Alex, Mike, Michele, Dirk
Tues Mike, Dirk,Michele Alex, Dirk Alex, Dirk Dirk, Alyssa Closed
Wed Mike, Dirk Mike, Dirk, Alex Andrew, Dirk, Alex Andrew, Dirk, Alex Closed
Thur Mike,Dirk,Michele,Alex Mike,Dirk,Alex Clean Up - Alex, Mike, Dirk Clean Up - Closed

Proposed Budget

List of Items we need and proposed budget request from the Marketing team.

Item Cost Notes
Banner $175/$295 Get an Exhibition Pack
Table Skirt $250(Guess)/$0 Re-used old +$145 Get an Exhibition Pack
Handouts $500/ $260 Business Cards + Brochures($260 used at AAG, $390 left for other conferences/chapters) How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference.
Booth $1000+$150+120 (non-profit price)+(power & table & chairs) Tables & power are the +150, Internet is too expensive. Booked, #620., moved to #618 actual spot
Booth Other $32 Literature holder, business card holder, sign holder for announcements.
Live CD/DVD or Software $200/$0 In the works, Live GIS Disc, how many?
T-shirts/hats/pins $100/$0 Used what Tyler sent How many tablers? New collared shirts?
Demo Machines Personal Laptops $0 [Live DVD]
Comp Fees for Staffing? $0 A few meals maybe?
Banner/Skirt to next event $0 To be stored in California
Total $2375/~$2002(+260 brochures) Estimate/~Final

Sponsors/Funding Sources

These are ideas for where to try and get funds for the booth. We will be sending them a Media:Draft_Sponsorhsip_Letter_Jan09.pdf soon requesting funding, after a few more revisions.

  • OSGEO - ?
  • Universities - Davis, Berkeley,Santa Barbara
  • Open Source specialized companies - ? CloudMade? FortiusOne?
  • O'Reilly (Napa/Sonoma)
  • CIRGIS members
  • Other trade org members focused on GIS
  • Google (Bay Area)
  • Apress (Berkeley)
  • Companies using OS - CoreMark,

Sponsor

Sponsor Donation Notes
OSGeo $1000? Initial Booth fee and subsidy on the Exhibition Pack
University of Calfornia, Davis - Information Center for the Environment $? Photocopies and Live DVDs, maybe a plotted poster
Cloudmade/OSM Booth Staff Maybe some OSM handouts?

OSGeo Social

Anyone want to schedule a social?

Time: TBD

Place: TBD

Who: Anyone interested in Open Source Geo

Why: To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer and bar food or maybe a buffet?

Directions:


Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of osgeo related speakers

Ideas

  1. Do we want to do a workshop, Deadline is Oct 1

Other Ideas:

Ideas (Claim one and move it up above with your name, and submit your abstract ASAP)

  • Open Source - Community websites (Content Management, Wiki etc)
  • Open Street Map - Free Wiki Based Road Data
  • Open Source Business Case (slides available from lisasoft)
  • LiveDVD GIS
  • Helena Mitasova - Advanced Open Source GIS (Can't come)
  • Brian Hamlin - Intro to PostGIS


Other Ideas:

  • Plan A
    • Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
    • Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
    • Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.
  • Plan B
    • Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
    • Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography
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