[Ottawa_users] Recap of last weeks meetup

[richard burcher]

Apologies for not getting to this sooner. I have been quite busy with my
new project work.

 I want to first thank all those that attended. We had a great turn out and
hope to see many more people next time:)

 Just want to give a quick overview (if I've forgotten anything please add
to the list) for the folks who could not attend of what was discussed,
covered and bantered around the table:

- Some pictures courtesy of Andrew's very slick Android phone will be
hitting the wiki page in the near future. Would like to get some newer
media up there.

- On Andrews phone, he mentioned an incredible multi-day battery life,
installed upgraded battery. Would like to know were he got this from.

- I gave a half-successful overview of my initial forays into using PostGIS
raster and some R raster modules for visualization.Live demos always seem
to never work.

- Questions raised about the FOSS4G-NA (North American) conference. Which
we know is April 10 to 12 in Washington DC. http://foss4g-na.org/about/.
There is only ~300 spots open. Sign up and hope to see you there!

- Scott offered use of his GIS lab, which is great. Thanks!. So hopefully
down the road we can make use of that facility for some hands on stuff.

- There was interest in getting some intro walk throughs around the QGIS
application & a bit more advanced usage in building a Python plugin. Would
anyone be interested in a short ~2-3hr intro and/or an intro to build a
simple plugin? If so let me know and we can pursue further with the list.

- I put forth the idea of looking into changing the current meet up venue
(Fox & Feather) & putting it to the group to decide. Scott was saying this
has been looked into in the past and the feedback from the group was that
the venue is not that bad. Through it would be nice to have WiFi. I have
not had time to look into this at moment due to a recent family injury. I
will keep you posted on this.

- I put the idea out of a monthly weekend coffee get together to drop by
and talk geo. I hope to announce the first one next month.

 If I have forgotten or missed anything, please add it to the list.

 Have a great night folks.

 Cheers,

 Richard
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