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<p>So Abstracts are starting to roll in</p>
<p>Big news: Social at the Tap House in Historic St Elmo the Night
before the meeting (October 24th). Sponsors have stepped and it's
happening. For those who are coming in the night before it's going
to be a fun event. <br>
</p>
<p>Abstracts of Note: <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Randal Hale - QGIS: It's all about Form(s) - QGIS comes with
the abilility to create forms to help you input data or capture
data. You can build simple forms to help users avoid
misspellings and help speed up data capture. You can also build
forms where data entry is dependent on previous data entered as
well as forms where data entry depends on other GIS data.
Building Forms in QGIS is easy, powerful, and easily done if you
have no programming experience. I'm going to attempt to talk you
through the easiest to make forms plus one difficult form to
show you how easy this can be (or hard depending on how the
demos work). <br>
</li>
<li>Erich Purpur - EcoValuator: QGIS plugin development. Working
in collaboration with Key-Log Economics (An environmental
economics consulting firm) in a project funded by the National
Fish & Wildlife Foundation, I (Erich Purpur) worked with a
group of other developers and contributors to build EcoValuator,
a plugin built for QGIS 3. EcoValuator is built on python and
provides a simple means of estimating the dollar value of a
study area, based on the land cover types in that study area,
and on your ecosystem service of choice. This presentation will
cover background information about the project, what are
ecosystem services, how the EcoValuator works, challenges of
using the QGIS python API, and demonstration of the plugin in
action. </li>
<li>Bernie Drahola - Building a cloud-based mapping and analysis
solution based on Openlayers and CesiumJS. 18 month ago our team
felt the need for having a next Gen cloud mapping solution. We
did not want to leave it all to ArcGIS Online, so we decided to
build our own. It is designed to make maps, analyze data, add
custom database solutions, and to share maps and data with
fellow users.Take a look behind the scene of the journey of
putting it all together and learn how far we have come and what
are our ideas in terms of connecting Open Source solutions like
QGIS and GeoServer. </li>
</ul>
<p>More are coming in! Please Submit if you wish to talk about QGIS
or any of the software QGIS touches. We're over the halfway mark
for Talks. <br>
</p>
<p>Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/20191000-QGIS-US">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/20191000-QGIS-US</a></p>
<p>Tickets: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free"
href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qgis-conference-tickets-67208884583">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qgis-conference-tickets-67208884583</a></p>
<p>Sponsors: <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>North River Geographic Systems, Inc - Gold Sponsor</li>
<li>Tony Kinder, PE, RLS - Gold Sponsor </li>
<li>Wicked Moon Webs - Gold Sponsor </li>
<li>Carl Anderson, GISP - Gold Sponsor</li>
<li>Drahola Technologies - Gold Sponsor</li>
<li>Paul Wickman - Gold Sponsor<br>
</li>
<li>Julian Burke - Silver Sponsor</li>
</ul>
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Randal Hale
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.northrivergeographic.com">https://www.northrivergeographic.com</a>
(423) 653-3611
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