[GRASSLIST:7573] New GRASS Users group (Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA)

[Dave Sampson]

*Attention Ottawa area GRASS Users*

OGUG is Ottawa's GRASS (GIS) Users Group.  Although we have members from 
Toronto, and as far away as California OGUG was started in the hopes of 
forming a local community of GRASS users to learn about GRASS and arange 
joint projects. We invite all users of GRASS and GFOSS in the Ottawa 
Area to join in. If you want sugestions on how to start your own local 
GRASS community contact us for some pointers and encouragement.

We represent users from:
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* Public Sector
* Private Sector
* Not-For-Profit
* Research / Academic communities

OGUG Purpose:
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OGUG focuses its efforts in three capacities to develop of GRASS users 
community. First we focus on the use and aplication of GRASS as part of 
a general GIS workflow or a tool on its own. Second, we aim to provide 
introductory and advanced hands-on support and training to our members 
through workshops and seminars. Third we aim to create opportunities for 
colaborative projects.

OGUG will strive to develop some on-line resources such as the materials 
covered in a workshop or seminar (Copyrights permiting).

OGUG is NOT intended as a source of technical knowledge for development, 
programming or troubleshooting GRASS. Our discussions will generaly NOT 
cover installation issues, compiling woes, discussion of how to develop 
a particular modual, or development support. These issues should and 
will be directed to the appropriate mailing lists containing the propper 
resources.

What OGUG offers:
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* *Monthly meetings:* starting with a seminar or workshop and ending 
with a pint (or other Beverage) and networking
* *Introductory workshops:* GRASS from the roots up (beginers), QGIS as 
an interface
* *Advanced Workshops:* GRASS and; R-stats, postgres, mapserver, etc
* *Project Colaboration:* eg. developing university curriculum, 
instructing field studies GIS, building local datasets (similar to 
spearfish for the Ottawa region)
* *GFOSS integration:* We will be exploring how other GFOSS can be 
integrated into a full GIS production chain.

OGUG Communications
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*Home Page:*              http://cemml.carleton.ca/OGUG/
*Mailing List: *             http://cemml.carleton.ca/mailman/listinfo/ogug
*General Information*  OGUG at sympatico.ca

Next OGUG Meeting:
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Date:        Thursday July 28
Time:        6:00pm to 8:00ish
Location:  Carleton University (contact us for seminar room)
Social:      Then off to a pub somewhere near by
Agenda:    Presentation: GRASS as a tool for Habitat selection and modeling.
                 Presented By: Dave Sampson
                Source: Demonstration based off of course work of John 
Mackenzie at the University of Delaware 
[http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/frec682/682proj2.html]
 

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