[California] AGU in December (Volunteers)

[Brian Hamlin]

Last year, I went to the Virtual Globes Day only. Google had a huge 
hand in getting speakers, arranging talks and of course presenting. 
Since I know several of the Google Geo team, I was invited to the 
speakers dinner following a long and very worthwhile day. Pretty nice 
of Google to drop what, $500 for dinner afterwards?

The result was to discuss with the LibKML team OSGeo California, 
possible Google support, the role of LibKML, and general schmoozing.. I 
also talked a lot with Josie Wernecke, a technical writer at Google who 
had just finished the KML Handbook. Great book - recommended.

I havent looked at the schedule yet. I imagine some of the same re - a 
virtual globes day and online data. I think the speaker from the 
deserts of Nevada said it best in his colorful, colloquial way - paper 
maps, alone, are *over*. If you are not clued in to online data, 
geo-tagging photos, using blogs and wikis, you are just completely out 
of it. It was pretty easy to see, from his "I am a scientist who spends 
most of my time in the desert" talk, that the previous era of using 
paper alone to record and communicate your results is really, really 
not the way to be these days. Paper is not dead, but paper has new 
allies.

best
   -Brian


On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> All,
>
> Tyler is speaking at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec
> 14-18(Booth is 15-18) in San Fransisco. The question now, is if
> Marketing puts up the $500 for the booth can the chapter adequately
> staff it.
>
> So I have 2 questions:
> 1. Who is already planning to go to the AGU and could help at the booth
> occasionally?
> 2. Who would be willing to staff the booth assuming they get a booth 
> pass?
>
> We need to know before the marketing meeting tonight, 11pm PST if we
> have enough people to do the booth or not.
>
> I am willing to go under option 2, so presumably we need at least one
> other person who can do the same and a few already going people to 
> round
> it out.
>
> Dylan, do you know anyone else I should be asking?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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