Ragi! Good to see you online. Are you independent now? e-me direct. (we both did time at esri. me: 11 years.)<br><br>The webmapsocial meetup group Ragi links to is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to see happen in Los Angeles. Monthly talks, free open-source desktop seminars .... all that would be great, but I'm content with starting out at the local pub. I know Portland has a bustling community (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis">http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgis</a> 82 members!). I found an LA openstreetmap meetup group last week, hoping to meet some new faces there.<br>
<br>I'm all for helping to build the CA osgeo chapter, but more to the point, I'm trying to get a local community brewing. LA is a huge city, I can't be the only evangelist. Perhaps the esri kool-aid is thicker than I realize since we are in their backyard after all.<br>
<br>David<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Ragi Y. Burhum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ragi@burhum.com">ragi@burhum.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Man, Blake, I guess I get no love even though I work the CA OSGeo booths a lot lately ha ha ha. Oh well.<br><br>Anyway, I am also interested in working in a CA-based project... put me down in your list. <br><br>On another note I am doing a presentation @ Google on PostGIS and OSGeo for one of the local meetup on Oct 6th if any of you bay area people are interested check it out <a href="http://www.meetup.com/webmapsocial/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/webmapsocial/</a><br>
<br>David: long time no see... we should go visit Juan one of these days :)<br><br>- Ragi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:california-request@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">california-request@lists.osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:02:42 -0700<br>
From: "Landon Blake" <<a href="mailto:lblake@ksninc.com" target="_blank">lblake@ksninc.com</a>><br>
Subject: [California] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles<br>
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David,<br>
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Sorry for the delayed response.<br>
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I believe we have a few lurkers in the Southern California area, but not<br>
anyone really active that I can think of. I do remember someone from<br>
Southern California that listened into one of our meetings. (His first<br>
name was Joe?) Most of the activity in our chapter is coming out of the<br>
UC Davis Campus. Alex Mandel is taking the lead there. We've also got<br>
someone from the Sacramento area that works at the California Geological<br>
Survey, if I am not mistaken.<br>
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Brian Hamlin is also quite active, and I believe he hangs his hat in the<br>
Bay Area. I'm in the Central Valley.<br>
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The size of our state is a challenge to organizing OSGeo activities.<br>
We've talked about organizing smaller regional chapters in the state,<br>
but I don't think we have the support for that yet. Personally, I would<br>
like us to think about how we can draw more OSGeo enthusiasts from<br>
California together via online means. Alex has focused a lot on getting<br>
an OSGeo presence at California conferences, which is great, but I'm<br>
personally interested in seeing what we can do as a group on the<br>
software front. Our chapter is home to Silicon Valley, after all. :]<br>
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I've been meaning to bring this up, but haven't had the time to put<br>
together an intelligent e-mail. I will try to make time to do so this<br>
week.<br>
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Landon<br>
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Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268<br>
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Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658<br>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of David Bianco<br>
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Los Angeles<br>
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I'm looking to meet up with fellow Los Angeles based osgeo people. I<br>
put a call out in the California chapter email list but did not get a<br>
response. Perhaps you all are lurking here on the main list? I work<br>
in downtown LA. Let me know where you at!<br>
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David Bianco<br>
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lax-osgis" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/lax-osgis</a><br>
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