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CUGOS 2012 Spring Fling

2012-05-03T20:19:06Z

Wiki-Jericks:

''Last year's 2011 Sprint Fling event info can be found [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CUGOS_2011_Spring_Fling here]''
 

On Wednesday May 16, 2012, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org],[http://cugos.posterous.com]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at University of Washington Seattle Campus in place of our regular monthly meeting. We are open to sponsors donating money for free food and drink.

 

'''NEED TO SETUP EVENTBRITE PAGE''' 
Please register here for this free event: ''' http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3254583547'''
so we can plan for attendance and food ;)

 
The basic idea of this event is...well, it'll be determined in the next month by brainstorming ideas on IRC #cugos on irc://freenode and at the CUGOS April 2012 meeting
 

*'''9-12: morning session '''
*'''12-1: lunch '''
*'''1-5: afternoon session '''

 Details are given below, but be aware that all agendas and times are approximate -- we'll be loose and agile and nimble and react to changing events and schedules as our whimsies take us. 

 All skill and interest levels are welcome! -- please join us for as much of the day as you can. 

 

= Morning Session: Workshops/Talks (9am to 12pm) =

'''Venue:''' Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207) 

To be decided

Workshops:

Talks (15-20 min):
* Mobile Development with HTML5 and Open Source at Pierce County WA, Jared Erickson
* FOSS pipeline to produce meter-scale DEM and velocity products from commercial satellite imagery: First results for Antarctic/Greenland Ice Sheets, David Shean

= Meal Session: Lunch (12pm to 1pm) =

'''Venue:''' to be decided 

To be decided

= Afternoon Session: (1pm to 5pm) =

'''Venue:''' Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207) 

To be decided

= Annual Book Drive =

Once again this year, CUGOS will be having a book drive as part of the Spring Fling event!

You will recall that the process works like this:

Clean off your bookshelves to find good-quality books appropriate for the CUGOS audience. Bring them to the Fling, where we will have a table set up in the back of the room to display them on. Attendees will browse the offerings during the day, and if they see a book they could use they will take it home.

The suggested donation will be $5 per book. All proceeds will go to cover the Fling expenses and CUGOS operations in general.

Please take a few minutes in the next few weeks to look over your shelves and find some goodies you can donate to the cause. Items appropriate for donating to the book drive include things like:

* that extra copy of "Web Mapping Illustrated", which you never quite got around to having Tyler autograph for you

* a mint-condition copy of O'Connell's "Software Project Survival Guide", which your boss gave to you because he didn't have time to read it and which you somehow never quite got around to either

* your Physical Geography college textbook from 1989, which despite the coffee stains and cigarette burns is still perfectly usable because, hey, the earth doesn’t change very much very often anyway

 

= Directions and Transportation =

'''Parking:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily] 

'''Driving:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive]

'''Walking: '''[http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk] 

'''Bus/Train:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train] and [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes] 

 

One person noted that "my personal experience is that one can find street parking north of 50th, west of I-5, and down by University Village shopping center, if one is willing to walk 30 to 45 minutes () . But many of those areas were also being converted to resident restricted zones. Bus is really easy." 

Another noted that "There are a ton of routes which stops near Anderson hall (Forest Club Room): [http://bit.ly/eKKmHE bit.ly/eKKmHE] (OneBusAway pointing to nearest bus stops north of Anderson)

 '''Maps of event locations:'''

*Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207): [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?AND www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html]

 

= Contacts =

we need contacts

 

= Attendees =

List your name below, and/or register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3254583547 

* Gerlek, Michael P. (mpg)
* Erickson, Jared

CUGOS 2012 Spring Fling

2012-05-01T15:58:49Z

Wiki-Jericks:

''Last year's 2011 Sprint Fling event info can be found [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CUGOS_2011_Spring_Fling here]''
 

On Wednesday May 16, 2012, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org],[http://cugos.posterous.com]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at University of Washington Seattle Campus in place of our regular monthly meeting. We are open to sponsors donating money for free food and drink.

 

'''NEED TO SETUP EVENTBRITE PAGE''' 
Please register here for this free event: ''' http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3254583547'''
so we can plan for attendance and food ;)

 
The basic idea of this event is...well, it'll be determined in the next month by brainstorming ideas on IRC #cugos on irc://freenode and at the CUGOS April 2012 meeting
 

*'''9-12: morning session '''
*'''12-1: lunch '''
*'''1-5: afternoon session '''

 Details are given below, but be aware that all agendas and times are approximate -- we'll be loose and agile and nimble and react to changing events and schedules as our whimsies take us. 

 All skill and interest levels are welcome! -- please join us for as much of the day as you can. 

 

= Morning Session: Workshops (9am to 12pm) =

'''Venue:''' Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207) 

To be decided

* Mobile Development with HTML5 and Open Source at Pierce County WA, Jared Erickson

= Meal Session: Lunch (12pm to 1pm) =

'''Venue:''' to be decided 

To be decided

= Afternoon Session: (1pm to 5pm) =

'''Venue:''' Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207) 

To be decided

= Annual Book Drive =

Once again this year, CUGOS will be having a book drive as part of the Spring Fling event!

You will recall that the process works like this:

Clean off your bookshelves to find good-quality books appropriate for the CUGOS audience. Bring them to the Fling, where we will have a table set up in the back of the room to display them on. Attendees will browse the offerings during the day, and if they see a book they could use they will take it home.

The suggested donation will be $5 per book. All proceeds will go to cover the Fling expenses and CUGOS operations in general.

Please take a few minutes in the next few weeks to look over your shelves and find some goodies you can donate to the cause. Items appropriate for donating to the book drive include things like:

* that extra copy of "Web Mapping Illustrated", which you never quite got around to having Tyler autograph for you

* a mint-condition copy of O'Connell's "Software Project Survival Guide", which your boss gave to you because he didn't have time to read it and which you somehow never quite got around to either

* your Physical Geography college textbook from 1989, which despite the coffee stains and cigarette burns is still perfectly usable because, hey, the earth doesn’t change very much very often anyway

 

= Directions and Transportation =

'''Parking:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily] 

'''Driving:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive]

'''Walking: '''[http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk] 

'''Bus/Train:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train] and [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes] 

 

One person noted that "my personal experience is that one can find street parking north of 50th, west of I-5, and down by University Village shopping center, if one is willing to walk 30 to 45 minutes () . But many of those areas were also being converted to resident restricted zones. Bus is really easy." 

Another noted that "There are a ton of routes which stops near Anderson hall (Forest Club Room): [http://bit.ly/eKKmHE bit.ly/eKKmHE] (OneBusAway pointing to nearest bus stops north of Anderson)

 '''Maps of event locations:'''

*Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207): [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?AND www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html]

 

= Contacts =

we need contacts

 

= Attendees =

List your name below, and/or register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3254583547 

* Gerlek, Michael P. (mpg)
* Erickson, Jared

Annual General Meeting 2011

2011-09-16T21:47:11Z

Wiki-Jericks: /* Lightning Talks */

== Venue / Timing ==
* @FOSS4G2011, Friday September 16th, 4pm to 5pm, Grand Ballroom
* 1 hour long

== Description ==
The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody. Due to the very limited schedule and many important topics that will be presented there will not be much time for discussion on the floor but hopes are high that many of the ideas coming up during the AGM will be discussed on their respective lists in the coming weeks and months.

The AGM itself will be a succession of lightning talks (presentations limited to three or four minutes) given by you in your role as Local Chapter representative, Chair of a committee, representative of a software project, OSGeo director or administrator or whatever else makes up OSGeo. If you feel like you have to say something please add yourself to the list. This list will be closed on the 12th (one week from now) to be orderd and cleaned out. Please come to the OSGeo booth in the exhibition area after this to get final instructions, upload your slides (if you need any) and get acquainted with the moderator.

=== Lightning Talks ===
'''Please enter your name and sign with your Wiki user or full name.''' Additionally please send an email to seven[a]arnulf.us for confirmation and so that we can contact you back. The talks will be reordered and cleaned out by the moderator prior to the session, simply add yourself as you go.
* FOSS4G Japan Local Chapter activities, Toru Mori
* Dutch Local Chapter, [http://twitter.com/#!/deblondegod Thijs van Menen]
* FOSSGIS e.V., the German language Local Chapter, Astrid Emde
* What is a SAC? Alex Mandel
* Overview of OSGeo Edu activities and future plans, [[Helena Mitasova]]
* IncCom update, [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]]
* ConfCom update, Jeff McKenna
* California Local Chapter, Brian Hamlin
* Romanian Local Chapter activities, Vasile Crăciunescu
* [[Español|Spanish Language Local Chapter]], [[Jorge Sanz]], [http://jsanz.github.com/slides/foss4g-2011/osgeo-es.html slides]
* [[PDX|PDX-OSGEO (Oregon)]], Eli Adam [[File:2011_FOSS4G_PDX_Lightning.pdf]]
* [[Portugal|Portugal's Local Chapter]], [[User:jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo]]
* How to pursue regional conferences organized by [[Local Chapters]], [[Arnulf Christl]]
* CUGOS Local Chapter Report - mpg

== Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested) ==
''Due to time constraints this section has been removed from the AGM. Please feel free to come to the OSGeo booth and get your questions answered there - or give input for further dialog. If you cannot come in person or think your point is of broader interst, then please feel free to add your questions here:

# Membership ideas and status
# Fundraising goals and methods
# Other events that OSGeo should exhibit at or otherwise have representation
# ''Put your ideas here...''

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2011]]

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-13T15:24:51Z

Wiki-Jericks:

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org],[http://cugos.posterous.com]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at University of Washington Seattle Campus in place of our regular monthly meeting. We will provide FREE food and drinks, thanks to following sponsors:
'''TerraGIS'''([http://terragis.net]), '''Spatialdev'''([http://spatialdev.com]), '''Zonar System'''([http://zonarsystem.com]) & '''UW Geospatial Club'''.

 

The basic idea of this event is to come in the morning to learn something new (tools and real workflows)... stick around and apply it in the afternoon on some semi-structured hack sessions... and then learn some high level stuff in the evening.  As such, the day will be broken up as follows: 

*'''9-12: morning session -- "speed" workshops '''
*'''12-1: lunch '''
*'''1-4: afternoon session -- open hacking '''
*'''4-6: dinner '''
*'''6-8: evening session -- regular meeting '''

Details are given below, but be aware that all agendas and times are approximate -- we'll be loose and agile and nimble and react to changing events and schedules as our whimsies take us. 

All skill and interest levels are welcome! -- please join us for as much of the day as you can. 

 

= Morning Session: Workshops (9am to 12pm) =

Sponsor by '''TerraGIS''' & '''Spatialdev'''

'''Venue:''' Forest Club Room, Anderson Hall 

'''12 - 10 minute slots''' (10 min lightning instruction, 5 minutes Q&A each): Idea is a progression from server to desktop to web... hopefully utilizing common test data '''4 slots on server side tools:'''

*Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system - RogerA 
*R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets - Phil Hurvitz 
*Does the World Need a Lidar Data Server?  - mpg
*tbd (maybe gdal/ogr tips and tricks) ??? 
*tbd (basic batch processing with bash and python) AaronR? 
*tbd (maybe basic dev env tools like git/svn) GregC? 

 '''4 slots on desktop tools:'''

*gvSIG spatial analysis basics - Karsten 
*elevation data processing - Roger 
*Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source (python scripting) - Allison Bailey 
*Introduction to GeoScript - Jared Erickson 
*tbd (maybe qgis plugins) ??? 

 '''4 slots on web tools:'''

*OSM rendering (comparison of rendering tools and OpenLayers setup for OSM) - Matt K
*"Subverting the dominant paradigm: a critical look at the concept of Neo-postcounterhegemonic source" 
*tbd (maybe basic AJAX and jQuery) ??? 
*tbd (maybe OpenLayers) ??? 
*tbd (maybe tilemill/carto) DaneS? 

= Meal Session: Lunch (12pm to 1pm) =

'''Venue:''' Forest Club Room, Anderson Hall 

Lunch is sponsor by '''Zonar System'''& '''UW Geospatial Club'''.
 

 

= Afternoon Session: Open (yet organized!) Hacking (1pm to 4pm) =

'''Venue:''' Forest Club Room, Anderson Hall Idea is to have 2-3 pre-planned projects (topics) that small groups can self organize and hack on some code. There would be a group leader that will have much of the infrastructure set up ahead of time (test data, code repo, etc). Here are some ideas:: 

*"Does the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If So, How Would We Build It?":: Leader mpg 
<pre>- mpg will lead a 30 minute idea-gathering session, based on his lightning talk on this topic
- goal is to see if we can identify what existing tools we can use/extend to satisfy the goal
- this will proceed AaronR's OBM session
</pre>

*OSM rendering test framework:: Leader MattK and GregC

- Idea is to create as many rendering instances of OSM data as posible on the OBM server
- Come up with test cases that will stress all rendering engines
- Come up with jMeter test suites to run
- Maybe a django project to run tests, visualize results, and even add and remove tests.

 

*Restful interface to all OBM services:: Leader AaronR

- Idea is to create a django project to wrap all OBM services (NAIP images, OSM rendering, etc) into a logical restful interface
- Sub-projects include coming up with URL structures, implementing the restful interface, and finally implementing the pages (metadata, tests, examples, etc)

 

= Dinner Session (4pm to 6pm) =

We will be walking over to the University Ave for a no-host dinner sometime after 4pm, returning around 6pm.  Exact venue to be determined on the fly; this session might even split into parallel tracks. 

= Evening Session: Monthly Meeting and prepared talks (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall First 10 minutes will be CUGOS intro and mini meeting::

*Aaron intro the group and what we are and invite new folks to participate as well as recap of rest of day 
*MPG will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint and suggest CUGOS to host the 2012 event 

 2 hours of talks -> 6 - 20 minute talks (hard stop on timing)::

*"Open Data Kit project (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit)" -Yaw Anokwa of UW 
*"Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.
*"ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" - Chris Fowler
*"Open Source Lidar State of the Union" - MPG 
*"OSM in Disaster Response - Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT)" - Dane Springmeyer
*"ERMA and the Gulf Coast - Open Source tools in government disaster response" - Aaron Racicot

 

= Directions and Transportation =
'''Parking:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/daily] 

'''Driving:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/drive]

'''Walking: '''[http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/walk] 

'''Bus/Train:''' [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train] and [http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/bus-train/routes] 

 

One person noted that "my personal experience is that one can find street parking north of 50th, west of I-5, and down by University Village shopping center, if one is willing to walk 30 to 45 minutes () . But many of those areas were also being converted to resident restricted zones. Bus is really easy." 

Another noted that "There are a ton of routes which stops near Anderson hall (Forest Club Room): [http://bit.ly/eKKmHE bit.ly/eKKmHE] (OneBusAway pointing to nearest bus stops north of Anderson)

 '''Maps of event locations:'''

*Anderson Hall (Forest Club room 207): [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?AND www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html]
*Raitt Hall (room 121): [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?RAI www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html] 

 

If you are interested in an '''Olympia-based carpool''', contact Webb Sprague (webb.sprague=AT=gmail.com) 

= Contacts =

Local arrangements chair: Matt Dunbar -- dunbar.matt(AT)gmail.com 

Wiki chair: mpg -- mpg^AT^flaxen.com 

 

= Attendees =

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) - Flaxen Geo 

Peter Keum - King County DNRP - Wastewater Treatment Division

Greg Corradini

E. Ryan Small

Ruben Rodriguez

Aaron Racicot - Z-Pulley Inc.

Matthew Kenny - RIDOLFI Inc.

Matt Dunbar - UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)

Holly Glaser

Leah Saunders

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