PDX-OSGEO

Welcome to the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter!

News

• Details on 2011 Open Source GIS unconference

• Progress on OSGeo Local Chapter recognition

About the PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter

Introduction

PDX-OSGEO is a proposed Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGEO has a cachement area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

History

PDX-OSGEO has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA Special Interest Group (SIG). Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and GIS In Action. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, CUGOS.

Mission

The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

Objectives

Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:

• Presentations (Application and Technical)
• Chapter business
• Social gathering

Regional Events:

• Open Source GIS unconference
• Conference participation

Communication:

• Mailing List
• Wiki Development
• Monthly meetings

Legal Status:

• No real independent legal structure.
• No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
• Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
• There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

Getting Involved

The PDX-OSGEO Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

Mailing List

Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer. google email group

Membership

Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member. List yourself on the PDX-OSGEO Member Page and you're in!

Leadership

To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is Percy. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on almost tasks resulting in a light load for all.

Meetings

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

I was hoping to get an OpenLayers map of where we meet, but haven't figured out how without creating a false user at that location. Here is me as a stand in.

{{#umSetParam: -122.688206|45.529986|Portland, Oregon|OpenSourcery|Meeting Location}} {{#umUserMap: EliL|300px|300px|6|4|y}}

OpenSourcery 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209

• Agendas
• Minutes

Wiki

How To Write WIKI

Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips

• How to Write Wiki

The annual Open Source GIS Uunconference

Needs

We need an OSGeo Exhibition_Pack for conference booths. We can try borrowing CUGOS's.

Resources

SPRING GIS

• This documentation was translated and written by USFWS. At one point it was downloadable from the internet although I can't find it now.
• Some seems excellent. Some still has areas that could use polish. It is listed as a draft.

1. File:0 0 Using SPRING.odt
2. File:0 1 Main Steps to operate the SPRING.odt
3. File:1 1 Using Spring for the first time.odt
4. File:1 1 1 How to Begin Step 1 Activating a databank.odt
5. File:1 1 2 How to Begin Step 2 Activing a Project.odt
6. File:1 1 3 How to Begin Step 3 Visualizing an Image.odt
7. File:1 1 4 How to Begin Step 4 Enhancing a Colored Composition.odt
8. File:1 1 10 How to Begin Step 6 Visualizing other Categories.odt
9. File:1 1 13 How to Begin Step 7 Visualize Cadastral Data.odt
10. File:1 1 14 How to Begin Step 8 Closing SPRING.odt
11. File:1 2 (part2) Manipulating the Data Bank.odt
12. File:1 2 Manipulating Data Bank in SPRING.odt
13. File:1 3 Manipulating a Project.odt
14. File:1 4 Manipulating a InfoLayer.odt
15. File:1 5 Defining the Data Model.odt
16. File:2 3 Conceptual model of SPRING.odt
17. File:2 4 basic cartographic concept for the use of SPRING.odt
18. File:2 6 Vectorial data manipulation in the SPRING.odt
19. File:AllChaptersEnglish.odt
20. File:SPRINGManual032106p1.odt
21. File:SPRINGManual032106p2.odt
22. File:SPRINGManual032106p3.odt
23. File:SPRINGManual032106p4.odt

Acknowledgments

Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.