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Revision as of 12:03, 12 October 2011
Logistics
The California Chapter Fall Fiesta will be held on:
- Saturday October 22, 2011
- 9am - 5pm (Come to as much as you want)
- 142 Hunt Hall
- UC Davis, California
Directions
- PDF of Directions Media:CA meeting 2011.pdf
- Open Mapquest Map
Agenda
Morning Talks, Discussions, Tutorials
Exact timing TBD
- Michele Tobais - QGIS & Inkscape
- Allan Hollander - GRASS and R
- Brian Hamlin - PostGIS 2.0
- Frank Warmerdam - Raster Formats Performance Optimization/Comparison
Many of the listed talks here are recaps of talks given at FOSS4G 2011
Tentative:
- Robert Hijmans - Something using R?
- Alex Mandel - QGIS, Geodjango, Spatiliate or another popular topic...
- Nate Roth - Postgis and Python
- Bob Moskovitz - QGIS Plugin Case Study - Geological Surveys
- Landon Blake - Open Jump? OSGeo Journal?
Would you like to give a 5 minute or 20 minute talk? We're looking for additional speakers on the following topics (email Landon sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com to be added):
- Desktop GIS (83%)
- Databases (75%)
- Web Technologies (75%)
- Participation in Open Source (67%)
- Cartography (67%)
- Data Types (58%)
(Percentages indicate the percent of survey respondents interested in the topic)
Lunch
- TBD
Afternoon Activities
Indoor
- Cartography Sprint
- create cartographic symbols for use in the public domain (don't know how? we'll teach you!)
- Learn to Bug Hunt
- find & report problems with GIS software
- Code Sprint
- help improve or expand software (no programming experience needed)
- Chapter Event Planning
- how can we improve? what plans do we have?
- Public Geo Data Award Planning
Outdoor
- Kite Photography Demo
- weather permitting, we'll play with some Kite Aerial Photography equipment
- Mapping Party & GPS/Smartphone Games
Evening Social Downtown Davis
- Location TBD - ideas: Dumpling House, ...
Planned Attendance List
To RSVP please email Landon (sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com) and Alex (tech [] wildintellect.com), or add your name to the list.
- Michele Tobias
- Allan Hollander
- David Bianco
- Dave Waetjen
- Sid Feygin
- Landon Blake
- Alex Mandel
- Nate Roth
- Robert Hijmans
- Bob Moskovitz
- Brian Hamlin
- Andrew Holguin
- Prashant Hedao
- Steve Greco
- Hyeyeong Choe
- Emily Sin
- David Chursenoff
- Frank Warmerdam
- Leslie Sherrett
(Remote Participation)
- Joe Larson
Sponsors
- Department of Environmental Design, Landscape Architecture Program, University of California, Davis
- Geography Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
- Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis
Contact Landon (sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com) if you would like to help sponsor the meeting.
Carpooling
- Several people will be travelling from the Bay Area and the Sacramento Area. Please post on the California Chapter mailing list if you have space or are looking for space in a carpool.
- Davis is serviced by the Capital Corridor train service, though with fewer runs on Saturday it's still a reasonable option.
Remote Participation
- Want to help with the Code Sprint, Bug Hunt etc... we'll have #osgeo-ca on freenode IRC turned on
- Some of the talks may be streamed via ustream or other web conference system, check back for specific details.