[TCMUG] OSGeo twin cities chapter (TCMUG) annual report and summaryof February meeting

[Perry Nacionales]

Bob,

I thought we'd leave that part for next year's report (in case we need
something in the "accomplishments" section).  I also thought about having
Beer and Bitner's name in each section but he or someone else might complain
or something. ;)

-Perry

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>wrote:

>  Perry,
>
>  You should add something in about MapServer (since the "MUG" is being
> considered for removal) not everyone who reads these things automatically
> equates MN(Twin Cities) with Mapserver.  Also, can we say Twin Cities, Mn
> Region or some such in order to blur the edges somewhat about location.
>
>  Bitner's name needs to be highlighted some more.  :c)
>
>  bobb
>
>
>
>
> >>> Perry Nacionales <pnaciona at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, fellow map geeks!
>
> I have created the OSGeo twin cities chapter annual report and would like
> to share it with you all. Feel free to edit and make changes if you'd like
> as I don't think Tyler has compiled it with the rest of the annual reports.
> Here's the link:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Twin_Cities_Chapter_Report_2009
> You'll need to have an OSGeo account to edit this thing or you can just
> tell me what changes you'd like to make.
>
> As for the summary of our meeting... This was supposed to be an informal
> social event but Steve Lime and I added a couple of topics to
> discuss--annual report and participation with MN GIS/LIS, particularly with
> Paul Ramsey being a keynote speaker at MN GIS/LIS this year. To that end, we
> managed to be really productive as you can tell from the annual report.
> Please follow the link above to see what we talked about (in the last two
> sections). We also talked about being more actively involved and having a
> "more visible" presence at the GIS/LIS conference in support of Paul Ramsey
> and to promote our group better. Some of the ideas discussed include:
>
> 1. having a booth at conference--and Kari will relay that information to
> the conference committee but we need to find some sponsors to help cover the
> cost of the booth
> 2. having a birds of a feather (of course!)
> 3. having a dedicated open source GIS session
> 4. having a demofest (installfest)--this we can also, and should, do in one
> of our meetings.
> 5. taking Paul on a tour of the north shore (not just the brew pubs)
>
> While we were talking about being more inclusive this year, a suggestion
> came up that maybe we should change our name to be more inclusive. Some
> asked why not just promote ourselves as OSGeo-TC... this is something that
> we all need to discuss at some point.
>
> Oh, I have one number to share with you all; something we can build on: 67.
> That's the number of subscribers in our mailing list in 2009 and I'm pretty
> sure there are a few duplicates there. Let's see if we can increase that
> number at the end of this year.
>
> I'll leave this at that and we can start talking amongst ourselves. :)
>
> -Perry
>
> PS: March meeting anyone? Topic? Guest speakers?
>
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