[Board] Some followup from California...

[Brian Hamlin]

Greetings, 2010 OSGeo Board Members:

from Where 2.0
* some of you may know that the California Chapter keeps a record of 
the events we officially attend on the OSGeo wiki. There is a brief 
summary there. There are no new leads nor any new news regarding 
financial sponsorships for OSGeo.
* a PhD candidate from the prestigious UC Santa Barbara geo program, 
Alan Glennon helped out with the booth at the last minute. Special 
thanks to Alan, and to all the others from another great show. This is 
significant also because we in California face a continuing challenge 
in uniting the disparate southern (UCSB, Los Angeles, San Diego) and 
northern (San Francisco Bay, Sacramento, far north) areas..

Chapter Business
* Our California Chapter had a March meeting, at which a board 
representative was selected.. Please expect Landon "The Sunburned 
Surveyor" Blake to be a board observer in the near future...

LiveDVD
* a recent email from the LiveDVD project, on which both Alex and I 
have participated.
We (OSGeo) want to collaborate with the Natural Earth data project 
somehow.. its an easy win for both parties..

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:32:02 -0700
From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Natural Earth mirror/distribution
To: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
Message-ID: <4BB75F72.1080101 at wildintellect.com>
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On 04/03/2010 09:19 AM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> Hi All-
>
>   At the just-over Where 2.0 OSGeo booth, Mr. Nathan Vaughn Kelso
> stopped by from the Washington Post. He and others are behind the
> cartographically lovely Natural Earth data set. The Natural Earth team 
> I
> think they are pretty happy with the results, and have received 
> critical
> acclaim...
>
>   http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>
>   So Mr. Kelso inquired if and how we, OSGeo would like to host or
> promote the set... Apparently a minimal set of all vector, plus two
> basic raster, is around 670 mb.  (the whole set of rasters brings it up
> to 4-6 GB ?)
>
>   seems like a great fit to me... Ideas ?


Brian,

I think we should bring it up with the OSGeo board. You can also mention
to Mr. Kelso that my lab might be interested in serving a mirror too.
http://ice.ucdavis.edu

Please pass him my contact info.

Thanks,
Alex


>   best regards
>    -Brian
>
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