[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

[Landon Blake]

I want to thank Allan, Brad, and Chris for their responses to my post
about starting a California Chapter.

Allan had an excellent suggestion about representing the OSGeo at the
CALGIS 2008 Conference in Modesto. I think this would be a great short
term goal for our chapter. Modesto is right down Highway 99 from
Stockton, so if this idea has support from other OSGeo members I can
plan on representing the OSGeo there in some fashion. Would any other
members of our fledgling chapter be able to help with that?

I think it would be prudent to request a mailing list for
"almost-a-chapter" from Tyler.

I think we then need to accomplish the following tasks to get our
chapter off of the ground:

[1] Determine what needs to be done to meet the requirements for an
OSGeo chapter. I imagine we might have to elect some chapter
representatives and come up with some type of charter.

[2] Decide on one or two well defined goals for 2008. Perhaps these will
be software-related, perhaps they won't be. I'll send a subsequent post
on this topic.

I can do some research on the requirements at a booth for the CALGIS
2008 Conference in Modesto. Can Allan, Chris or Brad work on determining
the requirements to become an OSGeo chapter? (Or, I can trade tasks with
someone.)

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Douglas [mailto:rez at touchofmadness.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:20 PM
To: Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter

> Has there ever been any discussion of forming a California chapter of
> the OSGeo? I would think with all the geo guys in the Bay Area that
> this would have been done already.

I queried about it early in OSGeo history, but never received interest.

> I would be interested in helping out with this, although I don't know
> if I want to "run and administer" things on my own. Are there any
> other interested OSGeo members in California?

I also had similar concerns.

> I was thinking we could form a chapter with one or two clear and
> simple goals. This would help our group to be focused and have
> something to actually "work together" on. I'm pretty flexible to what
> the goals might be, although I have a particular interest in a couple
> of areas. :]

What did you have in mind?  I'm a GRASS developer and reside in the
South-east Bay (Fremont).  It would be nice to work on something with
someone who didn't drink the ESRI Koolaid for a change...


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