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California

2009-05-04T14:43:04Z

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== Introduction ==
A local region based chapter of OSGeo on the west coast of the United States. California is home to Silicon Valley, some of the top Public Research/Teaching Universities and some very large industries.

=== Mission ===
(Proposed)
To promote the use and development of open source geospatial software in California.

=== Objectives & Goals ===
* Influence Professional Groups
** Give Presentations to groups with an interest in Open Geospatial and/or [http://www.osgeo.org/geodata| Public Geodata] (see list of [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California_Chapter:_Outreach_Speakers available speakers])
** Demonstrate diplomacy and interoperability of the OSGeo stack with other solutions(Free or Not) through our activities.
** Represent OSGeo via booths, literature and presentations at academic and professional conferences in the Western US

* Development of OSGeo
** Maintain of list of local groups and events throughout California

*Promote Access to California Geodata
** Annual Award to the agency or institution in California that best exemplifies OSGeo's stance on [http://www.osgeo.org/geodata| Public Geodata]
** Work with the [http://www.osgeo.org/geodata| Public Geodata Project] to Generate a catalog of catalogs, search tools, and metadata harvesters to better enable public access to Geodata.http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
** Promote use of [http://www.osgeo.org/geodata| Public Geodata] Catalogs

== Events ==
We have an [[California/Exhibition Pack|California Chapter Exhibition Pack]], see the page for details if you want to use it.

=== Budget ===
Based on our fund raising efforts we will determine what our [[California/Budget| Budget]] will allow use to do.
The goal for '''2009''' is '''$1500'''.

=== Future ===
(In Date Order)
* [[CGS 2009]] May 2 - Santa Ynez - Always in California, small cheap, outreach to grade schools and non-profits.
* [[USGS Open House 2009]] May 16-17 - Menlo Park, we we're invited at [[CalGIS]]
* [[Where 2.0 2009]] May 20-21 - San Jose, CA- Paul Ramsey will join us.
* [[AGU 2009]] (Dec) - SF - It's always in California

=== Proposed ===
* [[OSCON 2009]] July 20-24, San Jose, CA
* [[APCG 2009]] Sept 30 - Oct 3 - San Diego
* [[NACIS 2009]] October 7- 10 - Sacramento
* [[AAG 2010]] April 2010, Washington, D.C. - California members will probably be there to volunteer
* [[CGS 2010]] May 1, Fullerton

=== Past ===
(Reverse Date Order, Most recent 1st)
* [[AAG 2009]] (Mar) - Las Vegas
* [[CalGIS 2009]] April 7-9 Sacramento - Booth was too expensive($800 for booth), Berkeley GIF Lab talked about QGIS
* [[California/InauguralMeeting|Inaugural Meeting]] (Feb) of California Chapter
* GIS Day 2008 - UC Berkeley GIF Lab, US EPA Region IX
* [[OSBootCamp OSBootCamp 2008]] - Open Source day at UC Berkeley
* [[CGS 2008]] - Booth at the Calfornia Geographical Society meeting in Chico.
* [[4H Workshop]] - [[User:bwoodall|Bill]] will be running a workshop at UC Davis for 4H high schoolers on GPS/GIS
* [[AGU 2008]] - Open Source Session at American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, CA

== Membership ==
To be a member of the Chapter you simply need to state that by adding yourself to the list below.

=== Meetings ===
Meetings will be held annually at minimum and as needed in between.

=== Members ===
Name(IRC/Chat Handle) - Short Description
* [[User:Cwhitney|Chris Whitney (Cwhitney)]] - UC San Diego / NASA ISS EarthKAM
* [[User:SunburnedSurveyor| Landon Blake(Sunburned Surveyor)]]
* [[User:Hollander|Allan Hollander ]]
* [[User:cgs_bob|Bob Moskovitz (cgs_bob)]]
* [[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (Wildintellect)]] - UC Davis
* [[User:dmbianco|David Bianco]] - US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles
* [[User:mdhancher|Matt Hancher]] - NASA Ames Research Center - interested in Bay Area local activities
* [[User:jlivni| Josh Livni (jlivni)]] Umbrella Consulting (San Francisco)
* [[User:bwoodall|Bill Woodall(bwoodall)]] San Diego
* [[User:StaceyEllis|Stacey Ellis]] - UC Davis
* [[User:MicheleTobias|Michele Tobias]] - UC Davis
* [[User:Mtreichler|Mike Treichler]] - UC Davis
* [[User:TaraAthan|Tara Athan]]
* [[User:glennon |Alan Glennon]] - spatial@ucsb
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian Hamlin (darkblue_b)]] - Berkeley
* [[User:j03lar50n|Joe Larson (j03lar50n)]] | Cal Fire - San Luis Obispo | Cal Poly - SLO Alumni
* [[User:TheSteve0|Steve Citron (TheSteve0)]] - Pousty - ICF/Jones&Stokes, San Jose
* [[User:osospdb|Paul Bartsch (osospdb)]] | UC Santa Barbara | Cal Poly - SLO Alumni
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Yaser Burhum(rburhum)]] | Self
* [[User:DylanBeaudette|Dylan Beaudette]] | CA Soil Resource Lab - UC Davis

== Fund Raising and Accounts ==
See the [[California Chapter Fundraising]] page for more information on fundraising, donations, and the financial accounts for the California Chapter.

== Geodata Access Award ==
See the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Geodata_Access_Award Geodata Access Award] page for more information on the annual award the California Chapter gives to a California organization in recognition of efforts to promote the free and open access to California GeoData.

== Chapter Outreach Speakers ==
You can find information about California Chapter members that are willing to serve as volunteer speakers at local events on the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Outreach_Speakers Outreach Speakers] page. This page includes a short biography for each speaker and a list of topics they would be willing to present.

== Meeting Minutes ==
Visit [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California/Meeting_Minutes this wiki page] for more information about California Chapter meeting minutes.

== Community ==
=== Mailing List ===
The main arena for discuss events and ideas in California is the email list, please join.
[http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/california Mailing List Info Page] (You subscribe to the mailing list at this page.)

=== Related Groups ===
For a list of local group contact information and events see [[California/Local]]

* Bay Area User Group (Social) [http://baugos.com]

== California GIS Links ==
Moved to [[California/GIS]]

== California Open Source Links ==

[http://opensource.ca.gov/ California Open Source Working Group]

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: California]]

GRASS GIS Report 2008

2009-03-05T21:22:08Z

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[[Image:Grasslogo_vector_small.png]]

== GRASS GIS ==

* Contact name: '''[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]'''
* Web site: http://grass.osgeo.org

=== Key Accomplishments ===

* GRASS 6.3.0 released - a technology preview ([http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html announcement])
* GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/WikiStart#Releases details])
* Work on [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning GRASS 7] started

* Integration of GRASS into the [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass OSGeo4W installer] now active and productive
* New developers acquired: '''5''' to main archive, '''12''' to AddOns repository.

* More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
: (470 in grass-dev, many more in the other [http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php GRASS mailing lists])

* In total '''22 TB of downloads''' from grass.osgeo.org in 2008
: ([http://grass.osgeo.org/logs-bin/awstats.pl?month=all&year=2008&output=main&config=grass.osgeo.org&framename=index statistic]; not including downloads from mirror sites)
* Three [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html Google Summer of Code] projects awarded and completed.

* [http://www.grassbook.org/ 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book] published by Springer.
: <font size="-2">--HB: ''while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.''</font>

* Chapter about GRASS published in [http://www.springer.com/geography/gis+cartography/book/978-3-540-74830-4 Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling].

* [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: more than 10 languages are well supported

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* An automated build environment, especially for the OSGeo4W installer is desired
* Development of a framework for efficient and [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Updating_GRASS_Documentation#Translations semi-automated translations of the 400+ module help pages]
* Unrelated to the GRASS development: a SVN history "annotate" ability for Trac source code browser would be helpful

=== Opportunities to Help ===

* Find more [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Translation_Team translators] among the (power) users
* Publish more "GRASS use cases" in the [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/ GRASS Wiki] to inspire newcomers
* We require more volunteers for [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass help with native MS Windows packaging] and testing
* Crossover with QGIS: QGIS [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/GrassCookbook grass-plugin] and [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Adding_New_Tools_to_the_GRASS_Toolbox toolbox] maintainer(s) required

=== Outlook for 2009 ===

* Vector topology speedup
* Overhaul of raster library
* Partially addition of parallelization (mostly using openMP)
* Cartography GUI extension programmed
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_SoC_Ideas Further participation] in Google Summer of Code (we hope)
* Stability on MS Windows leading to incredible gain of new users
* Move/removal of [http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/index.php web-svn] documentation to our [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki] site; move/removal of development material from MediaWiki to our [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki TracWiki] site

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[[Category: Reports 2008]]

AGU 2008

2008-12-17T03:23:19Z

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[[AGU| American Geophysical Union]] annual conference.

=2008 Conference=
San Francisco, December, 2008
[http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/ Link to Meeting Homepage]

== OSGeo Sessions ==
There are several; search for "open source" on the [http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/waisfm08.html abstract index page].

== OSGeo Booth ==
None this time how about next year [[AGU Fall 2009]] [http://www.agu.org/meetings/ AGU Meetings Page].

== OSGeo Social ==
Anyone want to schedule a social?

'''Time''': TBD

'''Place''': TBD

'''Who''': Anyone interested in Open Source Geo

'''Why''': To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer
and bar food or maybe a buffet?

Directions:

== To Do List ==

[[Category:Past Events]]

AGU 2008

2008-12-17T03:19:46Z

Wiki-DylanBeaudette: /* OSGeo Sessions */

[[AGU| American Geophysical Union]] annual conference.

=2008 Conference=
San Francisco, December, 2008
Link to Meeting Homepage

== OSGeo Sessions ==
There are several; search for "open source" on the [http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/waisfm08.html abstract index page].

== OSGeo Booth ==
None this time how about next year [[AGU 2009]]

== OSGeo Social ==
Anyone want to schedule a social?

'''Time''': TBD

'''Place''': TBD

'''Who''': Anyone interested in Open Source Geo

'''Why''': To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer
and bar food or maybe a buffet?

Directions:

== To Do List ==

[[Category:Past Events]]