2020.02.05
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This meetup was hosted at Assembly CoWorking Space. Thanks to Assembly for providing us space free of charge.
5:30 Doors Open
6:00 Introductions attendees and OSGeo
6:15 Presentations
- Jeremy Squire: Proposed a tool for aiding constituents in responding to civic development proposals.
- Jer has some documentation and examples already prepared
- It was mentioned that City of Calgary has some low resolution ("cube") spatial building information avialable as open source
- Scott McHale: QGIS Workshop Offer
- Briefly discussed offer from North River Geographic (Randall Hale) for discounted QGIS workshops
Following:
Housekeeping
Membership Signups
- Discussed the advantages of having people commit to membership as part of demonstrating interest
- There was also some discussion surrounding the perceived complexity of the processes for signing up to mailinglists, wiki's, etc ...
Mailing List signups
- We want to honour the transparency of the group by using accepted "low/no-barrier" methods such as mailing lists for formal chapter communications
- There was talk of the difficulty in making sense of all the mailinglists and the discussions within as well as the general sign-up complexity
- A couple people felt they had signed up for one thing or another but weren't sure if it was successful.
- There was talk of the difficulty in making sense of all the mailinglists and the discussions within as well as the general sign-up complexity
- Slack signups at #osgeo-alberta in TheSpatialCommunity workspace for ongoing chatter were encouraged.