[Ottawa_users] Recap of last weeks meetup

[Regie Alam]

   I am interested in this as well. I can definitely help
compiling/organizing some sort of documentations/guide. I believe
there are some documentations from the QGIS website but I think it
would be better if those notes come from actual use cases.

   I learned that from delving into raster suport for PostGIS. There
are so many documentations scattered all over the web that it takes a
while to compile the ones that actually work.

   This was actually brought up because an organization was soliciting
for interest in a regular (introductory) QGIS workshop. We thought it
would be better to have a workshop on how to create plugins instead.

Regie





On 1/27/12, richard burcher <drownedfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks David,
>
> Thanks for posting, some really great stuff. I am very interested to head
> down this road and would like to work together to get something going. I'm
> certain others would join along in this.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 25 January 2012 09:09, Sampson, David
> <David.Sampson at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>wrote:
>
>> **
>> 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
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *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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