[California] Annual Report and Annual Meeting

Fri Jun 3 13:12:00 EDT 2011

everyone uses the code and docs in some way or another
I'll bet there is some opportunity to contribute for anyone that cares to
  whether its called code sprint or documentation or clean-up or whatever

Personally, I amworking on a couple of things I mentioned previously, 
  using IRC and mail-lists as collaboration tools
A real live meeting gets the benefit of real-live interaction 
 Face time is important !

  $0.02
   -Brian

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:01:58 -0700, Michele Tobias  wrote:
I understand the reasons for the annual meeting and I'm in complete
> support for that.  What I'm confused about is the purpose of 
> combining it with a code sprint.  If the annual meeting is for 
> everyone, but we combine it with something that is only for the 
> advanced programmers, it seems like the goal is more to limit than 
> include.  I'm not saying having a code sprint is a bad idea - it 
> sounds wonderful for people who can participate.  I however cannot 
> and I suspect others might also feel this way. 
>
> So, this is why I asked about the purpose.  Is it just to get 
> together the advanced programmers in the group or do we want to 
> encourage wider participation?  If we want to encourage wider 
> participation, how can we accomplish that?  Could we think of a way 
> to include non-programmers?  This is something I feel strongly about 
> for our chapter in general so I'm challenging everyone to give this 
> some honest thought. 
>
> best,
> Michele
>
> On 6/2/2011 1:16 PM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> > Michele,
> >
> > We have to have one meeting a year to qualify as an OSGeo chapter. Its
> > usually just the diehard geeky folks in Central California that get
> > together. However, I think we patched some of the SoCal people in via
> > skype last year. 
> >
> > One thing Ragi and I talked about for the code sprint was an open
> > source geoprocessing library written in Python. I've done a little
> > tinkering with some code, and I could get a polished turd ready by the
> > code sprint (Python isn't my greatest programming language). Alex also
> > mentioned a cartography sprint. I know I've wanted to do some work on
> > flood control and land surveying symbols. 
> >
> > Landon
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michele 
> Tobias<mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>  wrote:
> >> One question I have is, what do we want to accomplish at this meeting and
> >> code sprint?  What are the goals?
> >>
> >> June 25th could work for me.  I'm working out some travel for research in
> >> that general time frame, but I think that might work.  I will 
> definitely be
> >> out of town the following weekend and days surrounding it. 
> >>
> >> best,
> >> Michele
> >>
> >> On 6/1/2011 1:18 PM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> >>> I agree with all of Alex's comments. I appreciate his willingness to
> >>> host the next meeting. 
> >>>
> >>> I'm willing to help organize the meeting. Any suggestions for the agenda?
> >>>
> >>> How does Saturday, June 25 work for people?
> >>>
> >>> Landon
> >>>
> >>> P.S. - I made some edits to this page for the meeting:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_California_Chapter_Hack-A-Thon_2011#Preliminary_Date
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Alex Mandel<tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> >>>   wrote:
> >>>> It's a loose rules from OSGeo, so no definitive boundaries. Personally I
> >>>> would say at least once a calendar year works, even if it's more or less
> >>>> than 12 months from the last meeting. 
> >>>>
> >>>> On that note, there's not reason we can't do 3-4 a year in various
> >>>> places. I think if we follow the model CUGOS did we could attract a lot
> >>>> of people who just want to learn some new cool stuff. 
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Alex
> >>>>
> >>>> On 06/01/2011 10:01 AM, Joe Larson wrote:
> >>>>> Remind me of the timeframe... do we need to have this meeting before
> >>>>> the Fiscal Year ends or something?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Joe Larson
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Michele Tobias<mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>
> >>>>>   wrote:
> >>>>>> On 6/1/2011 8:51 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 06/01/2011 08:03 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Can anyone help me by putting together a short annual report on our
> >>>>>>>> chapter's activities for 2010? I'm working with the Journal team to
> >>>>>>>> put together last year's annual report and that would be helpful. 
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Also, my efforts at getting together a spring code sprint 
> didn't work
> >>>>>>>> out. However, we still need to have our annual meeting. (One meeting
> >>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>> year is required to be a chapter.) I know people hate coming to
> >>>>>>>> Stockton. Is there someone else that will host the meeting?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> If there was interest, I could possibly try to set-up a 
> joint meeting
> >>>>>>>> with my local chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association. 
> >>>>>>>> That might serve for some interesting cross-pollination. 
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> At any rate, we need to have a meeting, and I'm open for 
> suggestions. 
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Please let me know if you can help with the annual report. 
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Landon
> >>>>>>> I still think we can pull something off, and suggest using the CUGOS
> >>>>>>> Spring Fling as a planning start point
> >>>>>>> (http://cugos-springfling-2011.eventbrite.com/). It was 1 day talks,
> >>>>>>> workshops and sprint in Seattle. There's lot of details about it on
> >>>>>>> their mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/cugos
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My offer to host at UC Davis still stands, if someone can 
> come up with
> >>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>> date and estimate of the number of people (so I can get an
> >>>>>>> appropriately
> >>>>>>> sized room). We will need a couple of volunteers to organize the
> >>>>>>> event. 
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is there a wiki page we're supposed to fill out for the 
> annual report?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>> Alex
> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>> California mailing list
> >>>>>>> California at lists.osgeo.org
> >>>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california
> >>>>>> If it's at Davis, we may be able to get some support/sponsorship from
> >>>>>> GLOBAL
> >>>>>> (out geography club) and may get some students who otherwise wouldn't
> >>>>>> make
> >>>>>> it.  I think we can pull off a meeting and/or code sprint.  I'm not
> >>>>>> much of
> >>>>>> a programmer, but I'm a great tester :) and I can make cookies. 
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> best,
> >>>>>> Michele
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Michele Tobias
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> PhD Candidate
> >>>>>> Geography Graduate Group
> >>>>>> University of California, Davis
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
> >>>>>> http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/
> >>>>>> http://ggg.ucdavis.edu/student/michele-m-tobias
> >>>>>> http://ucdavis.academia.edu/MicheleTobias
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >> --
> >> Michele Tobias
> >>
> >> PhD Candidate
> >> Geography Graduate Group
> >> University of California, Davis
> >>
> >> mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
> >> http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/
> >> http://ggg.ucdavis.edu/student/michele-m-tobias
> >> http://ucdavis.academia.edu/MicheleTobias
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> California at lists.osgeo.org
> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california
> >>
>
> -- Michele Tobias
>
> PhD Candidate
> Geography Graduate Group
> University of California, Davis
>
> mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
> http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/
> http://ggg.ucdavis.edu/student/michele-m-tobias
> http://ucdavis.academia.edu/MicheleTobias
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