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== California Chapter ==
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== California Chapter ==
  
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* Contact name: '''Alex Mandel''', '''Landon Blake'''
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*Contact name: '''Alex Mandel (Davis, CA)''', <br>'''&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Landon Blake (Stockton, CA),<br>'''&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;'''Ragi Burhum (San Francisco, CA)'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
  
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=== Key Accomplishments ===
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=== Key Accomplishments ===
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* 1st Meeting
 
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* Marketing and Events
 
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** [[AAG 2009 | Association of American Geographers]], Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
 
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** [[OSCON 2009 | OSCON Open Source Convention]], San Jose
 
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** [[Where 2.0 2009 | Where 2.0 ]], San Jose
 
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** GIS Day, UC Berkeley, UC Davis
 
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** [[NACIS 2009 | North American Cartographic Information Society]], Sacramento
 
  
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=== Areas for Improvement ===
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*1st Meeting
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* As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
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*Marketing and Events
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** There is a Bay Area sub chapter that hosts social meetups. http://baugos.com/
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**[[AAG 2009|Association of American Geographers]], Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
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* While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
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**[[OSCON 2009|OSCON Open Source Convention]], San Jose
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**[[Where 2.0 2009|Where 2.0 ]], San Jose
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=== Opportunities to Help ===
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**GIS Day, UC Berkeley, UC Davis
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* Always looking for more events to go to.
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**[[NACIS 2009|North American Cartographic Information Society]], Sacramento
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**Several presentations at local chapters and unconferences
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***[http://www.meetup.com/webmapsocial/calendar/11384495/?from=list&offset=0 WebMapSocial Silicon Valley Meetup Group]: OSGeo and PostGIS presentation (Google in Mountain View)
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***[http://www.cloudcamp.org/ Cloudcamp]: OSGeo in the Cloud (Silicon Valley)
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***[http://www.ardevcamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=ARdevcamp_HackerDojo Augmented Reality Dev Camp]: OSGeo and PostGIS presentation (Hacker Dojo in Mountain View)
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***[http://www.bayareaarcgisusersgroup.org/ Bay Area ArcGIS User Group]: Open Source GIS - OSGeo and PostGIS (Berkeley)
  
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=== Outlook for 2010 ===
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* this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)
 
  
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  include the notoc option in the wiki code and use the "Reports 2009" category (see source of template for example)
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=== Areas for Improvement ===
  
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*As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
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[[Category: Reports 2009]]
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**There is a Bay Area sub chapter that hosts social meetups. http://baugos.com/
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[[Category: California]]
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*While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
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=== Opportunities to Help  ===
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*Always looking for more events to go to.
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=== Outlook for 2010  ===
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The growth of mobile platforms like Android and iPhone has also caused a huge increase for the need of geospatial libraries and server technologies.
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Since the Bay Area has huge activity of startups with very talented people with low cash flow, it is a perfect incubator for adoption of OSGeo technologies.
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Several of the current startup companies that are doing anything related to geo have started using software like PostGIS. Interestingly enough, Unconferences
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and local meetup groups have proven to be very effective at producing follow up e-mails with questions about Open Source GIS technologies.Since the mobile
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application market keeps growing, it is unquestionable that OSGeo adoption in the Bay Area will follow, too.
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[[Category:Reports_2009]] [[Category:California]]

Revision as of 12:23, 26 January 2010

California Chapter

  • Contact name: Alex Mandel (Davis, CA),
                          Landon Blake (Stockton, CA),
                          Ragi Burhum (San Francisco, CA)
                          

Key Accomplishments


Areas for Improvement

  • As a very large area geographically we are encouraging more local interaction via unofficial subchapters.
  • While we have a strong presence in Northern California it would be great to bring together more people in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

Opportunities to Help

  • Always looking for more events to go to.

Outlook for 2010

The growth of mobile platforms like Android and iPhone has also caused a huge increase for the need of geospatial libraries and server technologies. 
Since the Bay Area has huge activity of startups with very talented people with low cash flow, it is a perfect incubator for adoption of OSGeo technologies. 
Several of the current startup companies that are doing anything related to geo have started using software like PostGIS. Interestingly enough, Unconferences
and local meetup groups have proven to be very effective at producing follow up e-mails with questions about Open Source GIS technologies.Since the mobile
application market keeps growing, it is unquestionable that OSGeo adoption in the Bay Area will follow, too.
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