[California] Update on Our 2013 Annual Meeting

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for reserving the room Michele. I'll do some footwork to get a OSM
activity involved. Do any Davis locals have suggestions on areas in the
vicinity that could use some OSM improvements?

Landon


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Michele Tobias <mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>wrote:

>  Ok, room confirmation was quicker than I thought.  We have a room
> reserved in Hunt Hall at UC Davis for December 7th all day.  It's the same
> place we used a couple of years ago.
>
> I like the idea of an OSM mapping party or some other entry-level
> activity.  I'll be giving a guest lecture in the into GIS class in the week
> right before the meeting, so it would be nice to be able to invite the
> students there and tell them that not all of it will be way over their
> heads.
>
>
> Michele
>
>
> On 10/9/2013 9:22 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
>
>  I've reviewed the 6 responses to my survey on the annual meeting and
> made some updates to the wiki page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_California_Chapter_2013_Annual_Meeting
>
> If Michele is still willing to host us at UC Davis, it looks like a date
> of December 7th works good for everyone.
>
> The most popular talk topics were "Geospatial Programming in Python" and
> "GIS on Mobile Devices". I added a second 30 minute talk about how we've
> been using ODK at my day job to do monitoring of flood control
> infrastructure in the Delta. I've also added a workshop in the early
> afternoon on open source Python scripting with ArcGIS.
>
> Another popular talk topic was "GIS Database Management and Design". I
> left a 30 minute slot open before lunch if someone would like to speak.
> Please let me know.
>
> All of the activites I suggested got a roughly equal number of votes. I've
> volunteered Brian to lead an activity for work on the OSGeo Live. I also
> added an OSM mapping party for those that don't want to work on the OSGeo
> Live. Can someone volunteer to coordinate the OSM activity? (If not, I'll
> take care of it.)
>
> Can we use the OSM activity to pull in some people that might not
> otherwise attend the meeting?
>
> Please review the proposed schedule and program for the annual meeting and
> let me know if you have any comments. Once we've ironed out the kinks, I'll
> put together a 1 or 2 page flyer we can use to promote the meeting.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Landon
>
>
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>
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