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The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics.
 
The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics.
 
In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects
 
In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects
or a cartography sprint.
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or a cartography sprint. This hack-a-thon may also serve as our annual meeting.
  
 
== Preliminary Date ==
 
== Preliminary Date ==

Revision as of 12:17, 1 June 2011

Description

The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics. In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects or a cartography sprint. This hack-a-thon may also serve as our annual meeting.

Preliminary Date

Saturday March 19, 2011

Preliminary Schedule

  • 07:30 AM to 08:00 AM> Reception and Sign-In
  • 08:00 AM to 09:00 AM> Talk (TBD)
  • 09:00 AM to 09:45 AM> Talk (TBD)
  • 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM> Break
  • 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM> Lightning Talks
  • 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM> Talk (TBD)
  • 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM> Lunch
  • 1:30 PM to 01:50 PM> Hackathon Project Pitch, Team Organization and Kickoff
  • 1:50 PM to 05:30 PM> Hack Sessions (or Cartography Sprint)
  • 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM> Hack Sessions/Cartography Spring Results

Project suggestions

Landon Blake:

  • OpenJUMP Plug-In Coding
  • Java Topology Suite Enhancements

Ragi Burhum:

  • GDAL/OGR driver
  • Tracking application

Brian Hamlin

  • PostGIS 2.0 tricks and tests
  • Framework spatial - featureserver, web2py, mapfish, django, other?


Interests/Programming Languages

  • Landon Blake: Java, OpenJump
  • Ragi Burhum: ObjectiveC, C++, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, ArcObjects
  • Josh Livni: Python/Django, Javascript, Google APIs
  • Alex Mandel: Python/Django, QGIS, Javascript, SVG