[California] Hacker Dojo and GIS Day

[Brian Hamlin]

Hi All -

   quick update on GIS Day in Berkeley at the College of Natural  
Resources..

I spoke with Kevin Koy twice now, the Geospatial information Lab  
manager. Kevin is gathering possibilities for posters and talks, and  
will start the final schedule around November 1st. Ragi suggested  
that we have an 'OSGeo Track' - which sounds good to me too - but  
rooms may be hard to come by on that day, for unrelated reasons. So  
no word yet..

If you are going to be in the Berkeley Area on GIS Day and you are  
knowledgeable enough to hold a talk, or want to do a short, hands on  
sort of thing, say 30 minutes, on an OSGeo related topic, then please  
speak up and I can forward it all to Kevin .. as mentioned on the  
list it is probably a good thing to consolidate our events so we do  
not dilute attendance..  btw, It is always a good idea to promote  
your own talk to your community, too.. no point in going to a lot of  
work and then having sparse attendance..

There will be a presence from BAAMA, ASPRS and the Berkeley graduate  
students as always, more possible and unconfirmed.. I personally  
always like to see what the natural science people are doing,  
generally in the form of posters.. If *you* want to make a poster on  
a topic of your choice, poster printing is available at the GIF lab;  
contact myself or Kevin Koy for more info on sizes and price. Poster  
design goes from the sublime to the awful, but almost always  
interesting research topics.  :-)     I did an OSGeo poster one  
year.. new submissions welcome

in the past I have always made LiveDVDs and made them available, but  
I am still trying to find the right formula to get general interest.  
It is pretty nerdy!  Berkeley grad students in particular are under a  
lot of time pressure and often do not want to get started on  
something they see as time consuming, it seems.
    I do not have Live DVDs printed this year and despite Landon's  
generous offer, I am not in a huge hurry to print more *yet* unless  
we get a new plan to get them in to people's hand in a way that is  
compelling.. (also the PostGIS version is not 2.0 so I am less intent  
this time around :-)

anything else ?
best regards

Brian Hamlin
OSGeo California Chapter
415-717-4462 cell



On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Ragi Burhum wrote:

> If there is a particular project that you feel comfortable with  
> giving a talk/tutorial/presentation, I think other people will find  
> it useful...
>
> I guess this all depends on what people are willing to volunteer  
> for in GIS Day...
>
> In my case:
>
> - I would be willing to do a presentation on any OSGeo topic I  
> think I can help with
> - Work on a particular project (would have to be related to GDAL/ 
> Django/Tracking) or better yet, I need to do a windows installer  
> for a particular project of mine.
> - Do a small tutorial about a particular OSGeo project
>
> - Ragi
>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:36:05 -0700
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> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
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> *Hello,
>
> After reading Landon and Ragi?s ideas, a hybrid idea came to mind.  
> Landon
> mentioned participating in:
>
> - 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.
>
> 1) what would someone need to participate?  Someone familiar the  
> project
> would need to gave them both an overview of it and tell how the can  
> join in
> with today?s activity.
>
> 2) how long would they want to spend? Surely some would happily  
> spend all
> day with one project. With all the GIS Day activities, others would  
> come
> and go. Each project should think about how long someone would need to
> commit to help in some small way. It may make sense to repeat step  
> one a
> few times during the day as fresh recruits arrive.
>
> -jk*
>
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