[California] Hacker Dojo and GIS Day

[Ragi Burhum]

Great! I have their contact info since I did the GIS Day keynote at Berkeley last year. 

Is there something specific we want to organize? Some set of OS GIS tutorials?

I think it would be interesting to have an open source gis track. Alex's QGIS python plugin walkthrough he did at the GeoMeetup would definitely fit the bill. Not sure if he'd want to do the drive though and I dont want to volunteer him, but I am thinking something along those lines would be of interest to that audience.

Worst case, perhaps we can repeat the presentations we gave at our yearly meeting? 


Otherwise, we could do stick to a pure hackathon, but in my experience those work best if we don't make them too broad (center them around a specific small set of datasets, problem, purpose as opposed to purely open ended).

What does the list think we should do?


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On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:57 PM, "Hobbs, Jeff" <Jeff_Hobbs at sjwater.com> wrote:

> BAAMA are the folks that run GIS Day at UC Berkley.
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> Kevin Koy and Cristi Delgado have been the folks that have "sponsored" GIS Day for BAAMA the last few years.
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> Hi Landon,
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> UC Berkeley usually has talks / presentations for GIS day. Would it make sense to try to do something together with them as opposed to creating events that dilutes each other's attendance.
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>> I wanted to let everyone know we got approved for our Hack-A-Thon at 
>> the Hacker Dojo:
>> http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/1867001-2013-osgeo-california-chapt
>> er-hackathon
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>> Thanks for helping with this Bill Rainey!
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>> I hope to whip up a mobile friendly chapter web site soon. When this 
>> is done I'll add the hack-a-thon details to the event page of the web 
>> site.
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>> GIS Day is on November 14th? Do we want to organize any chapter 
>> activity for that? Some ideas might be:
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>> - Open Street Map mapping party.
>> - Coordinated launch of open source GIS software tutorials/videos.
>> - Donating some volunteer time to assist with mapping related work at 
>> a local non-profit.
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>> We've only got about 2 weeks, but I can help organize something for 
>> GIS Day if people are interested.
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>> Landon
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