California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

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 9-11am

Exact timing TBD

Confirmed:

Michele Tobais - Quantum GIS & Inkscape: Cartographic Tools for Attractive Maps
Allan Hollander - Using GRASS and R for Landscape Regionalization through PAM Cluster Analysis
Brian Hamlin - A Pragmatists Guide to PostGIS 2.0
Landon Blake - A Brief Introduction to OpenJUMP
Robert Hijmans - Analyzing raster data with R.

Many of the listed talks here are recaps of talks given at FOSS4G 2011

Tentative:

Frank Warmerdam - Raster Formats Performance Optimization/Comparison
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)

Discussions 11-11:30

11am Discussion - How To Participate In Open Source Projects (Landon, Alex, Brian, et al.)

Lunch 11:30-1

TBD
- Possibly Catered
- On your own, UCD world famous Coffee House is across the street.

Chapter General Meeting 12:30-1

Afternoon Activities 1-5pm

Indoor

Cartography Sprint (Bring a Laptop)
- create cartographic symbols for use in the public domain (don't know how? we'll teach you!)
- Possible iconography to work on OSGeo map symbol set
Learn to Bug Hunt (Bring a Laptop)
- find & report problems with GIS software
Code Sprint (Bring a Laptop)
- 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
Re-testing of the myth that people can't walk in a straight line while blindfolded- track it with a GPS.

Evening Social Downtown Davis 5pm

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. Yes you can still attend if you didn't RSVP, but consider bringing your own lunch

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
Leslie Sherrett
Elena Lopez
Wan-Ru Yang
Jen Kovnats
Ramon Solis
Jordan Thomas
Jeff E. Crocker
Varinder Saini

(Remote Participation)

Joe Larson

(Maybe)

Bryan Pon
Trina Filan
Frank Warmerdam
Forest Fortescue

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.