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CUGOS 2012 Spring Fling

2012-03-29T02:51:48Z

Wiki-Keump:

''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 May 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

= 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

 

= 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 

''(alphabetical by last name)''

CUGOS 2012 Spring Fling

2012-03-29T02:50:25Z

Wiki-Keump: /* Attendees */

''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://cugos-springfling-2012.eventbrite.com/'''
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 May 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

= 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

 

= 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 

''(alphabetical by last name)''

CUGOS 2012 Spring Fling

2012-03-29T02:49:15Z

Wiki-Keump: /* Attendees */

''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://cugos-springfling-2012.eventbrite.com/'''
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 May 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

= 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

 

= 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] 

''(alphabetical by last name)''

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-08T20:32:38Z

Wiki-Keump:

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 -- 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 

'''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening '''

Six 30-minute slots: 
* OSM for Openbasemap stuff from Matt Kenny/Greg Corradini 
* Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source from Allison Bailey 
* gvSIG spatial analysis basics from Karsten 
* Basic LIDAR data processing (possible w/ mpg) from Roger 
* Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system from Roger 
* "R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", from Phil Hurvitz 

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

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

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

 

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

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

* Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek : "Does the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If So, How Would We Build It?"

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit) 
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-08T20:31:30Z

Wiki-Keump:

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 -- 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 

'''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening '''

Six 30-minute slots: 
* OSM for Openbasemap stuff from Matt Kenny/Greg Corradini 
* Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source from Allison Bailey 
* gvSIG spatial analysis basics from Karsten 
* Basic LIDAR data processing (possible w/ mpg) from Roger 
* Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system from Roger 
* "R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", from Phil Hurvitz 

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

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

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

 

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

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

* Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek : "Does the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If So, How Would We Build It?"

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit) 
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T22:53:15Z

Wiki-Keump:

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 UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

* OSM for Openbasemap stuff from Matt/Greg 
* Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source from Allison Bailey 
* gvSIG spatial analysis basics from Karsten 
* Basic LIDAR data processing (possible w/ mpg) from Roger 
* Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system from Roger 
* "R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", from Phil Hurvitz 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T22:52:11Z

Wiki-Keump:

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org])& CUGOS Blog ([http://cugos.posterous.com]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

* OSM for Openbasemap stuff from Matt/Greg 
* Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source from Allison Bailey 
* gvSIG spatial analysis basics from Karsten 
* Basic LIDAR data processing (possible w/ mpg) from Roger 
* Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system from Roger 
* "R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", from Phil Hurvitz 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T18:50:02Z

Wiki-Keump: /* Morning Session: Workshops (9am to 12pm) */

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

* OSM for Openbasemap stuff from Matt/Greg 
* Workflow Migration from ESRI to Open Source from Allison Bailey 
* gvSIG spatial analysis basics from Karsten 
* Basic LIDAR data processing (possible w/ mpg) from Roger 
* Install and setup of PostgresSQL/PostGIS on Linux system from Roger 
* "R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", from Phil Hurvitz 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T18:44:45Z

Wiki-Keump: /* Evening Session: Monthly Meeting (6pm to 8pm) */

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

*"OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer 
*"ERMA and the Gulf" from Aaron Racicot 
*"ArcGIS, OpenGeoDa, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler 
*~OSM stuff from Matt/Greg 
*~Workflow Migration from ESRI to OS from Allison Bailey 
*Karsten - gvSIG workshop in morning, also if of interest could do web mapping with mapsesrver, postgis + openlayers or even mapbender" 
*RAndre - "1 or 2 things from me, 
*1 or 2 things from mkenny and bigspoon. 
*Phil Hurvitz - would teach half of a workshop session, ""R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", if someone would teach first half on install and setup of Postgresql/PostGIS 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
* "OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer
* "ERMA and the Gulf Coast" from Aaron Racicot
* "ArcGIS, OpenGeoData, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler
* "Publishing Data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using GeoCat bridge" from Jubal Harpster.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T17:27:36Z

Wiki-Keump:

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

*"OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer 
*"ERMA and the Gulf" from Aaron Racicot 
*"ArcGIS, OpenGeoDa, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler 
*~OSM stuff from Matt/Greg 
*~Workflow Migration from ESRI to OS from Allison Bailey 
*Karsten - gvSIG workshop in morning, also if of interest could do web mapping with mapsesrver, postgis + openlayers or even mapbender" 
*RAndre - "1 or 2 things from me, 
*1 or 2 things from mkenny and bigspoon. 
*Phil Hurvitz - would teach half of a workshop session, ""R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", if someone would teach first half on install and setup of Postgresql/PostGIS 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
*Jubal Harpster from SpatialDev will talk about publishing data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using the new GeoCat Bridge.

 

= 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

<insert your name here>

CUGOS 2011 Spring Fling

2011-04-07T17:26:50Z

Wiki-Keump: /* Evening Session: Monthly Meeting (6pm to 8pm) */

On April 20th, 2011, CUGOS ([http://www.cugos.org/ www.cugos.org]) will be holding a special all-day "spring fling" event at UW in place of our regular monthly meeting.

 

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 -- 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) =

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

***'''''We are overbooked here -- need to work this out, likely move some talks into the evening'''''*** 

Six 30-minute slots: 

*"OSM in Disaster Response" from Dane Springmeyer 
*"ERMA and the Gulf" from Aaron Racicot 
*"ArcGIS, OpenGeoDa, and R or Why I use the tools I do: the sordid life of a spatial statistics post doc" from Chris Fowler 
*~OSM stuff from Matt/Greg 
*~Workflow Migration from ESRI to OS from Allison Bailey 
*Karsten - gvSIG workshop in morning, also if of interest could do web mapping with mapsesrver, postgis + openlayers or even mapbender" 
*RAndre - "1 or 2 things from me, 
*1 or 2 things from mkenny and bigspoon. 
*Phil Hurvitz - would teach half of a workshop session, ""R, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS: techniques for processing large data sets", if someone would teach first half on install and setup of Postgresql/PostGIS 

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

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

Dr. L. Monika Moskal will be providing supplies for a basic deli-style lunch, with funds courtesy of UW Geospatial Club. 

 

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

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

~Lidar stuff from Michael Gerlek *as proposed in email today: "Does >> the World Need an Open Source Server Framework for Lidar Data, and If >> So, How Would We Build It?"* 

 

= 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 (6pm to 8pm) =

'''Venue:''' 121 Raitt Hall 

*Yaw Anokwa of UW will be presenting on the Open Data Kit project (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit">code.google.com/p/opendataki)</a>
*mpg will be be presenting a short (~5 min) recap of last month's Montreal codesprint 
*mpg will be encoring his "Open Source Lidar State of the Union" talk, if time and interest permit 
*Jubal Harpster from SpatialDev will talk about publishing data to GeoNetwork/GeoServer from ArcGIS using the new GeoCat Bridge.

 

= 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 

<insert your name here>