On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS (www.cugos.org) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

The basic idea of this event is to come in the morning to learn something new (tools and real workflows)... stick around and apply it in the afternoon on some semi-structured hack sessions... and then learn some high level stuff in the evening. As such, the day will be broken up as follows:

9-12: morning session -- workshops
12-1: lunch
1-4: afternoon session -- open hacking
4-6: dinner
6-8: evening session -- regular meeting

Details are given below, but be aware that all agendas and times are approximate -- we'll be loose and agile and nimble and react to changing events and schedules as our whimsies take us.

All skill and interest levels are welcome! -- please join us for as much of the day as you can.

Morning Session: Workshops (9am to 12pm)

Venue: Forest Club Room, Anderson Hall

Six 30-minute slots:

"OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
"ERMA and the Gulf" from Aaron Racicot
"ArcGIS, OpenGeoDa, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
~OSM stuff from Matt/Greg
~Workflow Migration from ESRI to OS from Allison Bailey
Karsten - gvSIG workshop in morning, also if of interest could do web mapping with mapsesrver, postgis + openlayers or even mapbender"
RAndre - "1 or 2 things from me,
1 or 2 things from mkenny and bigspoon.
Phil Hurvitz - would teach half of a workshop session, ""R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", if someone would teach first half on install and setup of Postgresql/PostGIS

Meal Session: Lunch (12pm to 1pm)

>> Matt Dunbar - Monika said she'll take care of supplies for basic
>> deli-style lunch, funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club.

Afternoon Session: Open Hacking (1pm to 4pm)

Venue: Forest Club Room, Anderson Hall

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does
>> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If
>> So, How Would We Build It?"*

Dinner Session (4pm to 6pm)

> and then a walk over to the University Ave for dinner b/w 4ish and
> ~6pm? The Student Union, with main cafeteria, is all under renovation.

Evening Session: Monthly Meeting (6pm to 8pm)

(121 Raitt Hall)

I just heard back from Yaw Anokwa here at UW, who said he'll be able to present in the evening on the Open Data Kit project:
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/

> MPG: Lidar OSSOU (can you acronym that?) and Montreal sprint for
> evening sound great.

Directions and Transportation

Official Link: http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily
and for driving at http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive

My personal experience is that one can find street parking north of 50th, west of I-5, and down by University Village shopping center, if one is willing to walk 30 to 45 minutes ( http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk
) . But many of those areas were also being converted to resident restricted zones. Bus is really easy http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train
and more specifically http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes

> I'd also highly support bus transpo. There are a ton of routes which
> stops near Anderson hall (Forest Club Room): http://bit.ly/eKKmHE
> (OneBusAway pointing to nearest bus stops north of Anderson)
>
> Maps of event locations:
> *daytime workshops/hack* Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207)
> http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?AND
> *evening meeting* Raitt Hall (room 121)
> http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?RAI

Contacts

Local arrangements chair: Matt Dunbar -- dunbar.matt(AT)gmail.com

Wiki chair: mpg -- mpg^AT^flaxen.com

Olympia carpool chair: Webb Sprague (webb.sprague=AT=gmail.com)

Attendees

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) - Flaxen Geo

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

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