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<p>Mateo - our charter-required California Chapter annual meeting was held at
for UC Davis several years (big thanks to Alex and Michelle for hosting) .. last
year it was in San Jose (but we only got sparse attendance, which to me was
disappointing). </p>
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<p>From my point of view, there is a huge gap between the insane startup culture
near SF, the redwood tree-sized corporate giants in the San Jose valley,
academics at Berkeley and Stanford and elsewhere, and then state and local
government, without a lot in between.. No one has the exact answer, all we
can do is keep trying things...</p>
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<p>Do you want to be involved in calling for an OSGeo sponsored meeting in the
Sacramento Area ? Intuitively I feel there could be a lot of participants from
various government agencies, but I am wondering out loud what might get people
out of there routines and arrive at a Meetup ? </p>
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<p> best regards from Berkeley, California</p>
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<p><br>On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:24:21 +0000, "Yanes, Mateo@DWR"
<Mateo.Yanes@water.ca.gov> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">It would be nice to
have something going on that is Open Source GIS oriented in the area. The GIS
Symposium had elements of Open Source, but I’m thinking something closer to
the annual meeting of the California OSGeo Chapter. It just needs some planning
so I’m thinking something next year. Maybe end of spring/start of summer 2016?
I’m open to discussing it with those interested in putting something together.
Maybe we should have a California OSGeo Chapter meeting just to discuss this
idea (and cover anything you need to do for regular org stuff)? That's my
thought at least.<br><br> All the best,<br> Mateo<br><br> --<br> Mateo Yanes<br>
GIS Senior Programmer Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office<br> California
Natural Resources Agency<br> Department of Water Resources<br> Bonderson
Building<br> 901 P Street, Room 313<br> Sacramento, CA 95814<br><br><br>
-----Original Message-----<br> From: Jeffrey Johnson [mailto:ortelius@gmail.com]
<br> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 3:19 PM<br> To: Michele Tobias<br> Cc:
Yanes, Mateo@DWR; california@lists.osgeo.org<br> Subject: Re: [California] Does
anyone know when FOSS4G North America might be taking place and if it will be in
NorCal?<br><br> Sorry, not thinking here. We _just_ hosted the FOSS4G-NA this
year :) but as far as I know most of this was organized by the LocationTech
folks and not really by our chapter. We did NOT put in a proposal for the 2017
global event.<br><br> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Johnson
<ortelius@gmail.com> wrote:<br> > As far as I know, our chapter has
never gotten its act together to <br> > organize a conference over here (I.e.
never puts in a proposal for <br> > either the NA or Global Conference). Note
the next global (2017) event <br> > after Bonn will be in the US too. We are
the biggest chapter in OSGeo <br> > iirc, so we should eventually get our act
together and host a <br> > conference. Im happy to help if others are willing
to devote their <br> > time to it.<br> ><br> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at
3:02 PM, Michele Tobias <mmtobias@ucdavis.edu> wrote:<br> >> We're
supposed to have an annual meeting of the California OSGeo Chapter.<br> >>
That usually happens around this time of year, if I'm not mistaken. <br>
>> It's been switching off between San Jose and Davis. Should we be
planning that?<br> >> We could probably get a room to use at UCD, but Alex
Mandel will have <br> >> to be in charge of that since I don't work there
any more.<br> >><br> >> As far as the get together at UC Davis, are
you talking about the GIS <br> >> Symposium that happened last spring?
That probably won't happen <br> >> again any time soon since most of the
organizers have moved on to new positions.<br> >><br> >> On Mon, Oct
26, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Yanes, Mateo@DWR <br> >>
<Mateo.Yanes@water.ca.gov><br> >> wrote:<br> >>><br>
>>> Thanks to everyone who responded! The date sounds good, but too far
<br> >>> for me to visit. Does anyone know how often they visit
Northern <br> >>> California (every couple of years, every decade)? If
it doesn’t <br> >>> happen that often, is there any thought of doing
something like the <br> >>> get together at UC Davis again? It would be
good to have another <br> >>> way to continue this sort of conference
(especially when getting new <br> >>> people involved) that is local
and accessible.<br> >>><br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>> All the best,<br> >>><br> >>> Mateo<br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>><br> >>> --<br>
>>><br> >>> Mateo Yanes<br> >>><br> >>> GIS
Senior Programmer Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office<br> >>><br>
>>> California Natural Resources Agency<br> >>><br>
>>> Department of Water Resources<br> >>><br> >>>
Bonderson Building<br> >>><br> >>> 901 P Street, Room 313<br>
>>><br> >>> Sacramento, CA 95814<br> >>><br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>> From: karsten
[mailto:karsten@terragis.net]<br> >>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015
2:44 PM<br> >>> To: california@lists.osgeo.org<br> >>> Cc:
Yanes, Mateo@DWR<br> >>> Subject: RE: [California] Does anyone know
when FOSS4G North America <br> >>> might be taking place and if it will
be in NorCal?<br> >>><br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>> Hi Mateo,<br> >>><br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>> it will be in Raleigh, North Carolina May 2-5 2016<br>
>>><br> >>> https://2016.foss4g-na.org/<br> >>><br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>> Cheers<br> >>><br>
>>> Karsten<br> >>><br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>> ________________________________<br> >>><br> >>>
From: California [mailto:california-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On <br>
>>> Behalf Of Yanes, Mateo@DWR<br> >>> Sent: Monday, October
26, 2015 13:01<br> >>> To: california@lists.osgeo.org<br> >>>
Subject: [California] Does anyone know when FOSS4G North America <br>
>>> might be taking place and if it will be in NorCal?<br>
>>><br> >>> Hi,<br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>><br> >>> I really wanted to go to the FOSS4G North America
last year, but it <br> >>> was happening the same time as the ESRI
Developer Summit. ESRI <br> >>> already announced that the Dev Summit
will be happening March 8-11, <br> >>> 2016. Does anyone know if FOSS4G
North America will be happening at <br> >>> a different time and in
Northern California so I might be able to attend this coming year?<br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>><br> >>> Thanks for your
help,<br> >>><br> >>> Mateo<br> >>><br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>> --<br> >>><br>
>>> Mateo Yanes<br> >>><br> >>> GIS Senior Programmer
Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office<br> >>><br> >>>
California Natural Resources Agency<br> >>><br> >>> Department
of Water Resources<br> >>><br> >>> Bonderson Building<br>
>>><br> >>> 901 P Street, Room 313<br> >>><br>
>>> Sacramento, CA 95814<br> >>><br> >>><br>
>>><br> >>><br> >>>
_______________________________________________<br> >>> California
mailing list<br> >>> California@lists.osgeo.org<br> >>>
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california<br> >><br> >><br>
>><br> >><br> >> --<br> >> Michele Tobias, PhD<br>
>><br> >> https://impactstory.org/MicheleTobias<br> >>
http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/<br> >><br> >>
mmtobias@ucdavis.edu<br> >> Twitter: @MicheleTobias<br> >><br>
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<p><br> --<br>Brian M Hamlin<br> OSGeo California Chapter<br>
blog.light42.com<br></p>
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