[Ottawa_users] Recap of last weeks meetup

[Sampson, David]

I can help advise on creating QGIS plugins. I created a GeoRSS and CSW
plugin a couple of years back and demo'd for local OSGEO group. They are
probably broken now requiring version upgrades. By no means am I a pro
but I went through the hard knocks.
 
The plugins were both done in python (2.x) and using QT library. As I am
now using python 3.x for all new python projects (where possible) I
wonder if QGIS can use python 3 now, it has been a while
 
Community Plugin Project page here:
 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgiscommunitypl/
 
 
So I can help someone put some material together however between work,
running a ski school (http://freeheelers.net/) and a community non
profit (http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/) I have no spare cycles
to put together a quality tutorial.
 
Let me know if you want to venture down this route and we can work
together. I have a couple of pending QGIS plugin projects in my brain I
might be able to collaborate on.
 
Cheers

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From: ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of richard
burcher
Sent: January 24, 2012 20:24
To: ottawa_users_list_osgeo
Subject: [Ottawa_users] Recap of last weeks meetup



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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