[Ottawa_users] Minutes of the meeting, Apr 25th

[Fabien Ancelin]

Hi everyone,

As we are trying to have those happening at Carleton University, I would
like to remind that it was suggested during the last meeting that the
presentations for Software Freedom Day should be different from the ones
that will be done for GIS Day.

So I would like to throw a list of ideas. People can add their own, and
whether or not they would like to do a presentation :

   - Google Refine, a tool for fast and repeatable data clean-up. (
   http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/)
   - R, the statistical software (http://www.r-project.org/)
   - Open Trip Planner, an Public Transit Trip Planner (
   https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner/wiki)
   - PGRouting, the routing library (http://pgrouting.org/)

So feel free to add any of your idea, and if you would be ready to do a
presentation.

Have a great day!





2013/4/28 Fabien Ancelin <fabien.ancelin at gmail.com>

> Dear fellow members of* *the Ottawa Chapter of OSGeo,
>
> Given the number of information and topics that were brought to the table
> on April 25th, I thought it would make sense to share the minutes of the
> meeting.
>
> *Talks about Open Data Initiative :*
>
>    - The role of GIS experts in the Open Data Initiative and the
>    usability of Open Data.How to provide developers with data that really
>    empower citizens through quality and usability.
>    - I would like to see if I can get us to connect at least once with
>    the open data Ottawa since my experience during Toronto Hackathon pointed
>    out a real need for spatial data. Out of 30 presented apps, between 5 and
>    10 were using geospatial information.
>
>
> *The **Ottawa Chapter of OSGeo would like to take part in two events :*
>
>    - Software Freedom Day in September 2013.
>    - GIS Day in November 2013
>
> It means that we need two things :
>
>    - A place for those two event
>    - Volunteers that would be up for a presentation. Up until know, we
>    have 4 people up for that. (I messed up with my notes, so please feel free
>    to modify that as you want.
>    - Javed : Optics
>       - Regie : Balloon mapping
>       - Richard : Open Street Map
>       - Me : PostGIS 2.0
>
> Other volunteers are welcomed. Regarding the venues, we mentioned a couple
> of options that I will explore during this month.
>
>    - Carleton University
>    - Ottawa University
>    - Find a place in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation
>
> If anyone can help to make those events happen, I would love to hear from
> you. More updates next month :).
>
> Cheers
>
> *Fabien*
>
>
>
>
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