[California] 2018 Planning

[Michele M Tobias]

I'm generally in favor of having a presence at CalGIS (et al) and I would like to encourage people to join in the effort!  I've been working with a couple of people outside of CA to re-vamp the QGIS US Users Group and coordinating #maptimeDavis so while I would love to see this happen, I need to be careful not to overextend myself.  But also, I'll hopefully have QGIS.us info to have at the table too by the time CalGIS rolls around.

By the way, you all are welcome to come to or speak at #maptimeDavis!  Fall Quarter schedule:  https://spatial.ucdavis.edu/2017/09/18/maptimedavis-workshop-series/ 

Michele

Michele Tobias, PhD
GIS Data Curator
Data Management Program
UC Davis Library 

161 Shields Library
(530)752-7532
mmtobias at ucdavis.edu
https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/service/data-management/ 

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From: California [mailto:california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Johnson
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 8:52 AM
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Subject: [California] 2018 Planning

Hi Folks,

Wanted to bring up an idea for 2018. The URISA GIS-Pro and CalGIS Conf [1] will be in Palm Springs just less than 1 year from now. We have done open source workshops and events at previous CalGIS events and it would be good to do this again. As this is the URISA Pro event together with CalGIS it should be one of the biggest gatherings of GIS Professionals in our State. It would be good to have a presence there and to really take a focus on doing outreach to folks from the wider GIS community that are open to open source.

Ragi, Alex, Michelle, Can we start to do some planning for this now so we don't get caught at the last moment.

Looking forward to 2018 being a year for growth in our chapter (jeez that sounds crazy to be saying that already)

Jeff

[1] http://www.urisa.org/clientuploads/directory/Documents/Conferences/GISPro/datesaver.png
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