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| + | Followup- Brian ran the booth Friday/Saturday. In practice, involved topics (such as anything to do with Linux) didnt happen :-) Profoundly accomplished geo-scientists were mixed within the crowd of mainly kids and families. In prep for the kids, I (Brian) prepared a KML layer of all the public schools in California and displayed in Google Earth with a [http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigator.php 3DConnexion Space Navigator] input device. This was a huge hit! "Find your school" was the one-liner activity. ASPRS (our host) booth worked really well. THey have a continuous video, great branding and large visuals, a simple one-liner activity (look into the stereo viewer at the map) and then lots of depth for those that want to pursue it. Definitely a model for OSGeo in the future. {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:06, 17 January 2010
USGS Open House
- Event Owner
- Brian Hamlin (darkblue_b)
- When
- May 16-17, 2009
- Where
- Menlo Park, Ca
- What
- Annual USGS Open House
ASPRS rep Becky Morton invited Cal OSGeo to run some demos at the USGS open house.
I just spoke with Alan Mikuni, USGS and past-president of ASPRS.. there may not be any network connection at all (!) though he is checking into possibilities. Setup day is Friday all day. 20241127144126
Followup- Brian ran the booth Friday/Saturday. In practice, involved topics (such as anything to do with Linux) didnt happen :-) Profoundly accomplished geo-scientists were mixed within the crowd of mainly kids and families. In prep for the kids, I (Brian) prepared a KML layer of all the public schools in California and displayed in Google Earth with a 3DConnexion Space Navigator input device. This was a huge hit! "Find your school" was the one-liner activity. ASPRS (our host) booth worked really well. THey have a continuous video, great branding and large visuals, a simple one-liner activity (look into the stereo viewer at the map) and then lots of depth for those that want to pursue it. Definitely a model for OSGeo in the future. 20241127144126
Demos
- Possible screencast on OpenModeller - timlinux
- OGR, PostGIS and KML - darkblue_b
- OpenJump - Landon
- QGIS/Grass/Spatialite - Alex
I'd definitely like to make sure OpenLayers and QGis are represented well.. I feel like I would be a better rep for OpenLayers myself. Also thinking of an idea for "big picture" on OSGeo using the Wiki, and the mailing lists activity levels -Brian
Equipment
- Mac Book Pro laptop 10.5, with Ubuntu Virtual Machine
- Live DVD dedicated machine - Alex
- Ubuntu 8.10 QGIS, Grass, Postgis, maybe a locally running Openlayers example - Alex
Volunteers
- Landon Blake(Sunburned Surveyor)
- Alex Mandel - Should be able to make it one day and bring all the California/Exhibition Pack, +some other Davis folks