PDX OSGEO 20121017 Meeting

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Location

  • Renewable Funding
  • 400 SW 6th Ave, suite 902
  • 6pm-7:30pm
  • directions/map
  • Access Details: Exit the elevators on the ninth floor and it's the double glass doors immediately to the left.
  • If you arrive after 6pm, please buzz the security guard, who will open the doors and let you up to the 9th floor.

Agenda

  • Crazy ConferenceMonth wrap-up
  • November/December meetings. (since we moved to 3rd wednesday, do we keep skipping Nov/Dec?)
  • Mothball planners list for while?
  • GIS in Action Unconference
  • Alex Mandell (CA OSGeo chapter)

Introductions

Attendees: Alex (UC Davis), Craig Beebe (1000 friends), Aram Hata (UN – GIS officer), Neil (city of Portland), Percy (no explanation needed), Matthew (Public Laboratory), Eli (Lincoln County), Brian (GIS enthusiast), Wm (Flightstats), Mele (Trimet), Grant (Trimet), Darrell (Renewable funding), Jeremy (iTen developer), Katie (Pedestrian GIS jammer), Christian (BlueSky GIS)

Next Meetings

November: Next month we'll be at Flightstats (they have beer) Jeremy O'Leary December: not sure yet

Conference Reports

SOTM-US was awesome! Where Camp report - we sponsored WhereCampPDX $180 plus $60 from members. GISPro report - Ignite session at URISA was good

UnConference Planning

GIS in Action Unconference – Tentatively this will be Monday the 29th of April, 2013. We'll plan it for a late start so travelers from CUGOS can join us. We'll roll that into a

Presentation Alex Mandel

check out his slides on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/wildintellect and projects at GitHub: http://github.com/wildintellect

Tour of OSGeoLive DVD – great for offline work, teaching, etc. All the projects have descriptions & tutorials, and sample data. http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

QGIS development – lots of cool things you can do with QGIS. Everyone should check out Aaron's QGIS tutorial from foss4g 2011 http://www.qgisworkshop.org/html/workshop/index.html

GeoNode – data sharing environment (integrates geoserver w/ geonetwork). Version 1.0 is stable, 1.1 is not, 1.2 will have some cool stuff that comes from GeoServer 2.2 http://geonode.org/

EoXServer – like GeoNode but for MapServer http://eoxserver.org/

Future meeting schedule for 2012 (every third Wednesday)

  • November 21st - We'll be at FlightStats (317 Southwest Alder Street #500 Portland, OR 97204)
  • December 19th - TBD
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