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<p>A slight update on the events: <br>
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<li>Social: October 24th 2019 - The Tap House</li>
<li>Meeting: October 25th 2019 - Chattanooga State</li>
<li>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></li>
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<p>Two more speakers have been added: <br>
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<li>Keith Jenkins from Cornell University - Supporting QGIS At an
Academic University. <br>
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<li>Jody Garnett from BVCat - GeoCat Bridge for QGIS</li>
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<p>Keith will be covering QGIS uses at Cornell Librarian. I've had
the pleasure to run into Keith multiple times over the last few
years at FOSS4G events through out the US and this will be a
pretty excellent talk. <br>
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<p>Jody Garnett will be doing a product "unveiling" of sorts to US
Audiences at the QGIS US meeting. I've had the pleasure to meet
jody at multiple FOSS4G events. He's a well know Geoserver
contributor and has been called "The nicest guy in OSGEO". He will
be introducing GeoCat Bridge. Geocat Bridge was previously known
for helping ArcMap users publish data, metadata and importantly
cartography to a GeoServer or MapServer stack. With GeoCat Bridge
4, and customer demand, we are pleased to bring this experience to
QGIS Desktop. This presentation looks into what the
qgis-bridge-plugin offers, functionality made available for the
processing toolbox, and the open source python libraries used to
make it all happen. GeoCat is an established open-source company
focused on helping government customers of all sizes make the best
use of open source. Our company is known as experts with
spatial-data-infrastructure, core contributors of GeoNetwork, and
supporting OSGeo community on behalf of our customers.</p>
<p>Bonus - in the next two weeks I get the abstract from Nyall
Dawson on his topic....which will be awesome and I don't even know
what it is....which - CORE DEVELOPER TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE US.
If you haven't noticed we have a profound lack of core developers
here in the US on QGIS. <br>
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<p>The good news is we're starting to run out of slots for people to
speak - Which means I'd really like to pack this out with people.
$25 bucks gets you all this plus....plus....Lunch! Maybe some
snacks...and a head full of knowledge on QGIS. </p>
<p>Look forward to seeing you there. <br>
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<p>Randy<br>
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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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