[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

[Landon Blake]

Dan,

The website for the conference is here:

http://www.calgis.org/

I'll get a hold of the management to see what the costs/requirements are
for setting up a booth.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Putler [mailto:dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca] 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter - A Beginning

Hi Landon,

It turns out that for complicated dual career reasons, I'm in NorCal
about half of the time and Vancouver the other half (I guess making me
eligible to be both in the California and British Columbia Chapters).
I'm interested in helping out if I can. The CALGIS event seems
particularly interesting (I grew up in Modesto, and much of my family is
still there). What are the details on this event, and how can I
(potentially) help?

Dan

On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 09:37 -0700, Landon Blake wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
-- 
Dan Putler
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia


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