[OSGeo-Alberta] notes on meeting #2

[Stefan Steiniger]

of course the meeting was not on friday but thuesday..
sorry

and also for the "wayside" ... that slipped in when I was typing in 
another program.

stefan

Stefan Steiniger wrote:
> Hei all,
> 
> last Friday, about 8 people made it to the second meeting.
> wayside
> i) First I talked for about an hour on state of FOS desktop GIS. I 
> re-presented actually a talk from 2009 at the OGRS conference. A copy of 
> those slides is available here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/w_other_freegis_documents/presentations/sstein_FOS_Desktop_GIS_Projects_and_Software_an_analysis_ogrs2009.pdf/download 
> 
> 
> ii) Then we discussed how we continue with the groups objectives. We 
> looked for instance on the Mission Statements of the OSGeo Chapters of 
> BC, Quebec and Ontario (see the http://wiki.osgeo.org). We agreed here 
> that we keep working on a mission statement - but will probably wait 2-3 
> more meetings until we figured what each of us does and is interested 
> in. However we already identified three main points of interest:
> * Alberta geodata
> * free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
> * GIS software n general
> 
> iii) We also agreed that it may be useful to setup a member list. I 
> created a new wiki page for that:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Alberta_Members
> 
> If you want to be on the list, then you either need to create an 
> account/login to be able to edit the wiki, or you send me an email and I 
> add you to that list.
> 
> iv) We then discussed how we continue with the meetings:
> - we found that it may be best to have a fix date. We decided that we 
> should have meetings *every 1st Tuesday of each month*.
> - hence, the next meeting should be on July 6th, 2010
> - for the next meeting will probably have (i.e. to be confirmed):
> -- a demo of AutoDesks MapGuide Open Source by Trevor Wekel (OTX 
> Systems) - a web map server software
> -- a presentation on the HEAT project by Chris Kyle (UofC and CDK) - a 
> web mapping system to check out the heat loss of your home
> 
> Finally, an invitation to all list members - PLEASE POST something on 
> this list, i.e. use this list. Post for instance questions (on software, 
> on data, on whatever) or news that might be interesting to 2-3 more 
> people. Because we should use and establish this email list as a 
> resource pool for our work.
> 
> cheers from the UofC
> stefan
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