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

Mon Oct 26 16:22:00 PDT 2015

Also, don't overlook Maptime Sacramento.  They meet monthly either at
Hacker Lab or McClatchy Library.  http://www.meetup.com/maptimeSac/

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> Mateo - our charter-required California Chapter annual meeting was held at
> for UC Davis several years (big thanks to Alex and Michelle for hosting) ..
> last year it was in San Jose (but we only got sparse attendance, which to
> me was disappointing).
>
>
>
> From my point of view, there is a huge gap between the insane startup
> culture near SF, the redwood tree-sized corporate giants in the San Jose
> valley, academics at Berkeley and Stanford and elsewhere, and then state
> and local government, without a lot in between..   No one has the exact
> answer, all we can do is keep trying things...
>
>
>
> Do you want to be involved in calling for an OSGeo sponsored meeting in
> the Sacramento Area ?  Intuitively I feel there could be a lot of
> participants from various government agencies, but I am wondering out loud
> what might get people out of there routines and arrive at a Meetup ?
>
>
>
>   best regards from Berkeley, California
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:24:21 +0000, "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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michele Tobias, PhD
> >>
> >> https://impactstory.org/MicheleTobias
> >> http://sites.google.com/site/mtobiasresearch/
> >>
> >> mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
> >> Twitter: @MicheleTobias
> >>
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> --
> Brian M Hamlin
> OSGeo California Chapter
> blog.light42.com
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