[California] 2012 OSGeo California Chapter Annual Meeting

[Landon Blake]

California Chapter Members:

Half the year is over, which means we should get our required annual
meeting scheduled. This seems to be my only real duty as the board rep
for our chapter, and I don't want to neglect it. :]

Scott Gregory, the California State GIO, is scheduled to speak at the
CCVGPG () meeting on Friday, September 21, 2012. He is going to talk
about the state GIS data repo he is setting up, and it uses open
source software. I'd be open to hosting a joint meeting of the user
group and our OSGeo Chapter. The meetings are usually held in Manteca,
but they could be moved to other cities in the Central Valley.

If that doesn't work for the group, I'd like to propose a meeting on
Saturday, October 6, 2012. As always, I'm willing to host the meeting
here in Stockton. I know people don't like to come to Stockton, so if
you would like to host the meeting, please let me know.

I'm very interested in making our meeting accessible to people all
over the state. I definitely want to put up a web page for the event,
and I'd like to have at videos of the talks available from the web
site. I don't know how difficult it would be to stream the videos
live. If would also be cool if we could get our speakers to submit
talk videos prepared before the meeting so they could be available the
day of the meeting. I can help with video editing.

Not sure if we could enable remote participation in a cartography
sprint of code sprint, if we are going to have them, but I'd be
interested in that as well.

I can commit to doing a talk on GPX, OpenLayers, CAD versus GIS, or
OpenJUMP.  I could also lead a code sprint on OpenJUMP, Geotools, or
possibly OpenLayers.

Let me know what you think about the date, if you are willing to give
a talk, or host an activity at the meeting.

I haven't set up a web survey just yet. I thought I'd get some
informal feedback from the group before I decide if that is necessary.

Please let me know what you think of the joint meeting on September 21
or the meeting on October 6.

Landon