California
Introduction
Mission
(Proposed) To promote the use and development of open source geospatial software in California.
Objectives & Goals
- Influence Professional Groups
- Give Presentations to groups with an interest in Open Geospatial and/or Public Geodata (see list of available speakers)
- Demonstrate diplomacy and interoperability of the OSGeo stack with other solutions(Free or Not) through our activities.
- Represent OSGeo via booths, literature and presentations at academic and professional conferences in the Western US
- Development of OSGeo
- Maintain of list of local groups and events throughout California
- Promote Access to California Geodata
- Annual Award to the agency or institution in California that best exemplifies OSGeo's stance on Public Geodata
- Work with the Public Geodata Project to Generate a catalog of catalogs, search tools, and metadata harvesters to better enable public access to Geodata.http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
- Promote use of Public Geodata Catalogs
Proposed Chapter Goals For 2008
Programming
- Simple cross-platform and open source metadata editor similar to Metavist or Corpsmet.
- SVG export support in open source GIS programs that would allow cartographic map production in Inkscape.
Non-Programming
- Catalog of Public GIS Data Sources For California
- Set up OSGeo liason/ambassador with California Land Surveyors Asssociation.
- Prepare documentation/videos on cartographic map production using open source tools like the GIMP, Scribus, and Inkscape.
- Prepare flood control GIS data model.
- Create relationship with/encourage involvement from local colleges and universities.
Events
Future
(In Date Order)
- Inaugural Meeting of California Chapter
- AAG 2009 - Las Vegas -
- CGS 2009 - Santa Ynez - Always in California, small cheap, outreach to grade schools and non-profits.
- Where 2.0 2009 - San Jose, CA- Paul Ramsey will join us.
- AGU 2009 - SF - It's always in California
Proposed
- AGM 2008 - What event is this, the acronym is way too common?
- CalGIS 2009 - Sacramento - Might be too expensive
- California Central Valley Chapter Incubation Meeting - We need to fix a date and place.
Past
- GIS Day 2008 - UC Berkeley GIF Lab, US EPA Region IX
- OSBootCamp OSBootCamp 2008 - Open Source day at UC Berkeley
- CGS 2008 - Booth at the Calfornia Geographical Society meeting in Chico.
- 4H Workshop - Bill will be running a workshop at UC Davis for 4H high schoolers on GPS/GIS
- AGU 2008 - Open Source Session at American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, CA
Membership
Cwhitney (Chris Whitney) - UC San Diego / NASA ISS EarthKAM
User:SunburnedSurveyor (Landon Blake) [A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor]
User:Hollander (Allan Hollander)
cgs_bob (Bob Moskovitz)
Wildintellect (Alex Mandel) - UC Davis
David Bianco - US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles
Matt Hancher - NASA Ames Research Center - interested in Bay Area local activities
Josh Livni Umbrella Consulting (San Francisco)
bwoodall (Bill Woodall) San Diego
Stacey Ellis - UC Davis
Michele Tobias - UC Davis
Mtreichler (Mike Treichler) - UC Davis
darkblue_b (Brian Hamlin) Berkeley
j03lar50n Joe Larson - Lompoc/Santa Barbara, Cal Poly-SLO Alumni
TheSteve0 Steve Citron-Pousty - ICF/Jones&Stokes, San Jose
Community
Mailing List
The main arena for discuss events and ideas in California is the email list, please join. Mailing List Info Page (You subscribe to the mailing list at this page.)
Related Groups
Bay Area User Group (Social) [1]
California GIS Links
Moved to California/GIS