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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>On Saturday, February 21, 2009 the California Chapter held
its first annual meeting in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Davis</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. We had 10 people in
attendance. (I want to thank Alex Mandel and the other people at UC Davis for
setting up the meeting and hosting it.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I wanted to share two (2) things that developed during the
meeting with everyone on the discuss list, since the ideas might be used by
other local chapters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We talked about putting together a list of chapter members
that would be willing to serve as outreach speakers to other professional
groups and societies. You can view this list (which is just starting) on this
wiki page: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Outreach_Speakers">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Outreach_Speakers</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We also decided the chapter would give an annual award to a
public agency or other organization in <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State>
that we wanted to recognize for efforts to promote free and open access to <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> geodata. This
idea is still taking shape, but I think the final award will be a framed
certificate and letter. (Something that would look nice hanging on the wall.) I
hope to start the design of the letter and certificate soon, so if others
wanted to help, I’d appreciate that. The idea of the award is to reward
and encourage good geo data stewardship in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>. You can see the wiki page for
the award here: <a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Geodata_Access_Award">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Geodata_Access_Award</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Landon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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