[California] SoCal Event

[Landon Blake]

Jeff:

Let me know if there is a good time to call and discuss this week.

Alex and Michele (or others) are welcome to sit in if they'd like to help.
:]

Landon

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:

> Landon et al,
>
> I'm certainly interested in doing this.
>
> I'm planning to help organize a set of OSGeo oriented activities at
> CalGIS in May and coordinating with the Organizing Committee.
> http://www.urisa.org/education-events/calgis-conference/#calgis_schedule
>
> Specifically the activities we had in mind were these.
>
> * One all day workshop during the conference workshop day May 10th. We
> can split this into 4x 2 hour blocks to do a high level overview of a
> variety of tools. My thought was a) qgis b) postgis/geoserver/ogc c)
> mapbox d) cartodb
>
> * Presentation Sessions on Applications of Open Source during the
> conference days (11th or 12th). We can organize as many blocks as we
> have proposals for. My thought was that all of us do some outreach to
> the universities, agencies and public/private orgs that are actually
> _using_ open source geo to submit abstracts about their work. I.e. not
> to focus on the tools themselves but how they are being applied in the
> real world in CA.
>
> * OSM Remote Mapping party at a bar somewhere near the conference
> hotel to pick up some tasks on MapGive/HOT and work on them together.
> Our thought was to find a nice bar back room where we can all setup
> our laptops and drink beer.
>
> Additionally, I'm going to chase down the companies using Open Source
> in our state and encourage them to sponsor and participate. I've
> started working on this already and my own consulting org is
> sponsoring.
>
> I think its also a nice idea if our chapter organizes a student award
> for the best student presentation on open source ... perhaps we can
> find a sponsor to send them to Bonn for the global FOSS4G?
>
> I can certainly use help on any/all of these things and I could really
> use help on the outreach for the presentations. Specifically, can we
> add a blurb about this to the site and push this out to our networks?
> It would be really fantastic if we could get quite a few submissions
> and have several session blocks. The deadline is ostensibly February
> 1, but the organizing committee is amenable to extending a 'special'
> one for open source for a few more weeks as many universities are just
> getting back in the swing of these in these weeks.
>
> Additionally, I think it makes sense to try to try to focus on open
> source in gis education as this is one of the key initiatives for
> OSGeo in general. I'll personally be reaching out to some folks around
> the geoforall initiative to see if they can participate.
>
> Sorry I could not travel to Davis this past weekend to present this.
>
> Should we setup a time for an IRC chat or call to discuss?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let me know if there is interest in hosting an OSGeo California event in
> > Southern California. I'm willing to attend as a speaker and help
> > organize/administer. We'll need a place to host.
> >
> > Landon
> >
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