[California] 2012 OSGeo California Chapter Annual Meeting

[Landon Blake]

I put up a wiki page for our 2012 Chapter meeting here:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California_Chapter_2012_Annual_Meeting#Event_Details

Thanks.

Landon

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Things have been pretty quiet, so I'm going to tentatively schedule
> our annual meeting for Saturday, October 16, 2012.
>
> Please let me know if you would like to (1) host our meeting or (2)
> give a talk or demo at the meeting.
>
> I'll get some information about the meeting on the wiki, and will see
> if I can round up some speakers.
>
> Landon
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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