[Ottawa_users] next meeting

Darren Cope darrencope at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 20:41:47 EST 2010


Hi all,

I hope to attend, but cannot commit to it yet.  I have only been to one
meeting (about 2 years ago) so look forward to meeting you all again if
possible!

Cheers,

Darren Cope
http://dmcope.freeshell.org


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Ross <grof at rogers.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Let's use:
>
> Title: Building a spatially aware content management system using open
> source components.
>
> Abstract:
>
> This short demo/talk will serve as a brief introduction to the Drupal
> content management system including plugins that enable geospatial awareness
> of data. Drupal is a web based content management system, which means it can
> store, index, and present information in a variety of formats such as web
> pages, XML, RSS, Maps, and custom reports. Drupal allows customization of
> look and feel and there are many themes you can download to fast track to
> the look you want. Drupal is used by hundreds of thousands of web sites
> including sites used by the US Whitehouse, Fedex, AOL, and much more.
>
> Drupal comes with many features such as user and group based
> authentication, search, and much more. Adding some of the countless
> pluggable modules available for Drupal allows you to add even more
> functionality including custom user defined data types, location management,
> maps, integration with social media sites, and much more.
>
>
> If I have enough time that day, I'll record as well.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2010/1/21 <samper.d at gmail.com>
>
> Andrew,
>>
>> Do you have a short description of the presentation?
>>
>> I'd like to pass it along to some folks.
>>
>> Btw, are we recording the session to have it posted?
>>
>> Cheers
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Scott Mitchell
>> Sender: ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> To: Ottawa Chapter OSGEO
>> ReplyTo: Ottawa \(Canada\) Local Chapter List
>> Subject: [Ottawa_users] next meeting
>> Sent: Jan 20, 2010 4:10 PM
>>
>> Greetings, all,
>>
>> The next meeting will be on TUESDAY, the 9th of February, when Andrew
>> Ross will talk to us about Drupal, and the work they've done to embed
>> geospatial "stuff" in there (sorry, I can't remember what kind of
>> "stuff" they did with it).
>>
>> Phil is going to book us the space, and I imagine it will be the usual
>> Fox and Feather room, but he'll let us know if he was unable to
>> reserve that one.  See the website if you've never been there.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ottawa_Chapter
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>>
>>
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