[OSGeo-Discuss] California Chapter Held First Annual Meeting

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

Landon,
cool to see lots of activity in your local chapter. I think the idea of awarding good geo data stewardship is very good and hopefully some other local chapters are interested in picking up this idea. 

The list of chapter members who are "willing to serve as outreach speakers" could also be extended to the international level. Do you have any suggestions of how we could organize this? 

Some questions that come up to my mind are whether people would be required to have some formal relationship with OSGeo in order to do this? What level of official endorsement would this mean for OSGeo? How can we keep this both easy to manage (not do anything) but prevent having people talk nonsense "in the name of" OSGeo? An informal list of speakers who are at least recognized by some other OSGeo members would probably be a good start. 

Best regards, 
Arnulf. 

Landon Blake wrote:
> On Saturday, February 21, 2009 the California Chapter held its first
> annual meeting in Davis, California. We had 10 people in attendance. (I
> want to thank Alex Mandel and the other people at UC Davis for setting
> up the meeting and hosting it.)
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> I wanted to share two (2) things that developed during the meeting with
> everyone on the discuss list, since the ideas might be used by other
> local chapters.
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> We talked about putting together a list of chapter members that would be
> willing to serve as outreach speakers to other professional groups and
> societies. You can view this list (which is just starting) on this wiki
> page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Outreach_Speakers
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> We also decided the chapter would give an annual award to a public
> agency or other organization in California that we wanted to recognize
> for efforts to promote free and open access to California geodata. This
> idea is still taking shape, but I think the final award will be a framed
> certificate and letter. (Something that would look nice hanging on the
> wall.) I hope to start the design of the letter and certificate soon, so
> if others wanted to help, I'd appreciate that. The idea of the award is
> to reward and encourage good geo data stewardship in California. You can
> see the wiki page for the award here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Geodata_Access_Award
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> Landon
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