[California] Annual Report and Annual Meeting

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Michele,

We have to have one meeting a year to qualify as an OSGeo chapter. Its
usually just the diehard geeky folks in Central California that get
together. However, I think we patched some of the SoCal people in via
skype last year.

One thing Ragi and I talked about for the code sprint was an open
source geoprocessing library written in Python. I've done a little
tinkering with some code, and I could get a polished turd ready by the
code sprint (Python isn't my greatest programming language). Alex also
mentioned a cartography sprint. I know I've wanted to do some work on
flood control and land surveying symbols.

Landon

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michele Tobias <mmtobias at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> One question I have is, what do we want to accomplish at this meeting and
> code sprint?  What are the goals?
>
> June 25th could work for me.  I'm working out some travel for research in
> that general time frame, but I think that might work.  I will definitely be
> out of town the following weekend and days surrounding it.
>
> best,
> Michele
>
> On 6/1/2011 1:18 PM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>>
>> I agree with all of Alex's comments. I appreciate his willingness to
>> host the next meeting.
>>
>> I'm willing to help organize the meeting. Any suggestions for the agenda?
>>
>> How does Saturday, June 25 work for people?
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> P.S. - I made some edits to this page for the meeting:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_California_Chapter_Hack-A-Thon_2011#Preliminary_Date
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Alex Mandel<tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a loose rules from OSGeo, so no definitive boundaries. Personally I
>>> would say at least once a calendar year works, even if it's more or less
>>> than 12 months from the last meeting.
>>>
>>> On that note, there's not reason we can't do 3-4 a year in various
>>> places. I think if we follow the model CUGOS did we could attract a lot
>>> of people who just want to learn some new cool stuff.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 06/01/2011 10:01 AM, Joe Larson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Remind me of the timeframe... do we need to have this meeting before
>>>> the Fiscal Year ends or something?
>>>>
>>>> Joe Larson
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Michele Tobias<mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/1/2011 8:51 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/01/2011 08:03 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone help me by putting together a short annual report on our
>>>>>>> chapter's activities for 2010? I'm working with the Journal team to
>>>>>>> put together last year's annual report and that would be helpful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, my efforts at getting together a spring code sprint didn't work
>>>>>>> out. However, we still need to have our annual meeting. (One meeting
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> year is required to be a chapter.) I know people hate coming to
>>>>>>> Stockton. Is there someone else that will host the meeting?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there was interest, I could possibly try to set-up a joint meeting
>>>>>>> with my local chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association.
>>>>>>> That might serve for some interesting cross-pollination.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At any rate, we need to have a meeting, and I'm open for suggestions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please let me know if you can help with the annual report.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Landon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I still think we can pull something off, and suggest using the CUGOS
>>>>>> Spring Fling as a planning start point
>>>>>> (http://cugos-springfling-2011.eventbrite.com/). It was 1 day talks,
>>>>>> workshops and sprint in Seattle. There's lot of details about it on
>>>>>> their mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/cugos
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My offer to host at UC Davis still stands, if someone can come up with
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> date and estimate of the number of people (so I can get an
>>>>>> appropriately
>>>>>> sized room). We will need a couple of volunteers to organize the
>>>>>> event.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a wiki page we're supposed to fill out for the annual report?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Alex
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>>>>>
>>>>> If it's at Davis, we may be able to get some support/sponsorship from
>>>>> GLOBAL
>>>>> (out geography club) and may get some students who otherwise wouldn't
>>>>> make
>>>>> it.  I think we can pull off a meeting and/or code sprint.  I'm not
>>>>> much of
>>>>> a programmer, but I'm a great tester :) and I can make cookies.
>>>>>
>>>>> best,
>>>>> Michele
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Michele Tobias
>>>>>
>>>>> PhD Candidate
>>>>> Geography Graduate Group
>>>>> University of California, Davis
>>>>>
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>>>>> http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/
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> Michele Tobias
>
> PhD Candidate
> Geography Graduate Group
> University of California, Davis
>
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