[California] Does anyone know when FOSS4G North America might be taking place and if it will be in NorCal?

Mon Oct 26 15:29:21 PDT 2015

Sounds good. Note that I gave some workshops at CalGIS 2014 when I was
at Boundless/OpenGeo together with the guys from MapBox and we were
asked back this year, but I didn't have time and am no longer at
Boundless so not being paid for it. CalGIS is the main California GIS
conference (other than the Esri UC obviously), its much more oriented
toward the URISA type crowd, but there is huge latent interest in Open
Source. I've given a few workshops for local URISA chapters and have
been asked to do several more but had to decline. Basically promoting
OSgeo to the URISA crowd is a win win for all of us as this is really
the heart and soul of GIS.

Here is the info for 2016. I can find out who the main organizers are
and perhaps we can organize a side event along with this?

http://www.urisa.org/education-events/calgis-conference/

Note, I am in southern california, so can more easily help with this
as its in Anaheim

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Yanes, Mateo at DWR
<Mateo.Yanes at water.ca.gov> wrote:
> It would be nice to have something going on that is Open Source GIS oriented in the area.  The GIS Symposium had elements of Open Source, but I’m thinking something closer to the annual meeting of the California OSGeo Chapter.  It just needs some planning so I’m thinking something next year.  Maybe end of spring/start of summer 2016?  I’m open to discussing it with those interested in putting something together.  Maybe we should have a California OSGeo Chapter meeting just to discuss this idea (and cover anything you need to do for regular org stuff)?  That's my thought at least.
>
> All the best,
> Mateo
>
> --
> Mateo Yanes
> GIS Senior Programmer Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office
> California Natural Resources Agency
> Department of Water Resources
> Bonderson Building
> 901 P Street, Room 313
> Sacramento, CA 95814
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Johnson [mailto:ortelius at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 3:19 PM
> To: Michele Tobias
> Cc: Yanes, Mateo at DWR; california at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [California] Does anyone know when FOSS4G North America might be taking place and if it will be in NorCal?
>
> Sorry, not thinking here. We _just_ hosted the FOSS4G-NA this year :) but as far as I know most of this was organized by the LocationTech folks and not really by our chapter. We did NOT put in a proposal for the 2017 global event.
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I know, our chapter has never gotten its act together to
>> organize a conference over here (I.e. never puts in a proposal for
>> either the NA or Global Conference). Note the next global (2017) event
>> after Bonn will be in the US too. We are the biggest chapter in OSGeo
>> iirc, so we should eventually get our act together and host a
>> conference. Im happy to help if others are willing to devote their
>> time to it.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Michele Tobias <mmtobias at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>> We're supposed to have an annual meeting of the California OSGeo Chapter.
>>> That usually happens around this time of year, if I'm not mistaken.
>>> It's been switching off between San Jose and Davis.  Should we be planning that?
>>> We could probably get a room to use at UCD, but Alex Mandel will have
>>> to be in charge of that since I don't work there any more.
>>>
>>> As far as the get together at UC Davis, are you talking about the GIS
>>> Symposium that happened last spring?  That probably won't happen
>>> again any time soon since most of the organizers have moved on to new positions.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Yanes, Mateo at DWR
>>> <Mateo.Yanes at water.ca.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to everyone who responded!  The date sounds good, but too far
>>>> for me to visit.  Does anyone know how often they visit Northern
>>>> California (every couple of  years, every decade)?  If it doesn’t
>>>> happen that often, is there any thought of doing something like the
>>>> get together at UC Davis again?  It would be good to have another
>>>> way to continue this sort of conference (especially when getting new
>>>> people involved) that is local and accessible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Mateo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Mateo Yanes
>>>>
>>>> GIS Senior Programmer Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office
>>>>
>>>> California Natural Resources Agency
>>>>
>>>> Department of Water Resources
>>>>
>>>> Bonderson Building
>>>>
>>>> 901 P Street, Room 313
>>>>
>>>> Sacramento, CA 95814
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: karsten [mailto:karsten at terragis.net]
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 2:44 PM
>>>> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Cc: Yanes, Mateo at DWR
>>>> Subject: RE: [California] Does anyone know when FOSS4G North America
>>>> might be taking place and if it will be in NorCal?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mateo,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it will be in Raleigh, North Carolina May 2-5 2016
>>>>
>>>> https://2016.foss4g-na.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Karsten
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> From: California [mailto:california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of Yanes, Mateo at DWR
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 13:01
>>>> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Subject: [California] Does anyone know when FOSS4G North America
>>>> might be taking place and if it will be in NorCal?
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I really wanted to go to the FOSS4G North America last year, but it
>>>> was happening the same time as the ESRI Developer Summit.  ESRI
>>>> already announced that the Dev Summit will be happening March 8-11,
>>>> 2016.  Does anyone know if FOSS4G North America will be happening at
>>>> a different time and in Northern California so I might be able to attend this coming year?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>
>>>> Mateo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Mateo Yanes
>>>>
>>>> GIS Senior Programmer Developer, Enterprise GIS Services Office
>>>>
>>>> California Natural Resources Agency
>>>>
>>>> Department of Water Resources
>>>>
>>>> Bonderson Building
>>>>
>>>> 901 P Street, Room 313
>>>>
>>>> Sacramento, CA 95814
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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