OSGeo - User contributions [en]

California

2009-02-21T18:08:00Z

Wiki-StaceyEllis: /* Mission */ update phrasing per meeting discussion

== Introduction ==

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

== Objectives ==
(Proposed)
* Represent OSGeo interests at Academic and Professional Meetings in the Western US
* Network Open Source developers and users in California
* Facilitate local subgroups for more frequent interaction
* Work on something not related to ESRI GIS :] (See the section entitiled "Proposed Chapter Goals For 2008").
* Run public workshops and demonstrations of FOSS4G

== Proposed Chapter Goals For 2008 ==
'''Programming'''

* Simple cross-platform and open source metadata editor similar to Metavist or Corpsmet.
* SVG export support in open source GIS programs that would allow cartographic map production in Inkscape.

'''Non-Programming'''

* Catalog of Public GIS Data Sources For California
* Set up OSGeo liason/ambassador with California Land Surveyors Asssociation.
* Prepare documentation/videos on cartographic map production using open source tools like the GIMP, Scribus, and Inkscape.
* Prepare flood control GIS data model.
* Create relationship with/encourage involvement from local colleges and universities.

== Events ==

=== Future ===
(In Date Order)
* [[California/InauguralMeeting|Inaugural Meeting]] of California Chapter
* [[AAG 2009]] - Las Vegas -
* [[CGS 2009]] - Santa Ynez - Always in California, small cheap, outreach to grade schools and non-profits.
* [[Where 2.0 2009]] - San Jose, CA- Paul Ramsey will join us.
* [[AGU 2009]] - SF - It's always in California

=== Proposed ===
* [[AGM 2008]] - What event is this, the acronym is way too common?
* [[CalGIS 2009]] - Sacramento - Might be too expensive
* [[California Central Valley Chapter Incubation Meeting]] - We need to fix a date and place.

=== Past ===
* 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 ==

[[User:Cwhitney|Cwhitney]] (Chris Whitney) - UC San Diego / NASA ISS EarthKAM

[[User:SunburnedSurveyor]] (Landon Blake) [A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor]

[[User:Hollander]] (Allan Hollander)

[[User:cgs_bob|cgs_bob]] (Bob Moskovitz)

[[User:Wildintellect|Wildintellect]] (Alex Mandel) - 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:bwoodall|bwoodall]] (Bill Woodall) San Diego

[[User:StaceyEllis|Stacey Ellis]] - UC Davis

Michele Tobias - UC Davis

[[User:Mtreichler|Mtreichler]] (Mike Treichler) - UC Davis

[[User:TaraAthan|Tara Athan]]

[[User:darkblue_b|darkblue_b]] (Brian Hamlin) Berkeley

[[User:j03lar50n|j03lar50n]] Joe Larson - Lompoc/Santa Barbara, Cal Poly-SLO Alumni

[[User:TheSteve0|TheSteve0]] Steve Citron-Pousty - ICF/Jones&Stokes, San Jose
== 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 ===
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]]

Exhibition Pack

2008-12-12T05:34:10Z

Wiki-StaceyEllis: /* Overview */

'''<font color="red">This page is in DRAFT, awaiting Marketing Committee approval.</font>'''

The OSGeo Foundation supports local communities to promote OSGeo by providing exhibition material for use at conferences and related events. This page lists what is provided, what is funded and how to get hold of it. This page should be read in conjunction with the [[Conference Setup Guide]].

We are still to determine whether these items are to be shipped, or created locally.

== Overview ==
Parts of the exhibition pack come from various sources: some are simply downloaded, some are printed, others are provided professionally through local services. This section attempts to summarise them.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Description
! Delivery Method
|-
| rowspan="6" | '''Basic Starter Kit'''
| Retractable banner
| Pop-up stand with printed logo, description. For use with or without a booth. [http://flickr.com/photos/mloskot/1444449505/sizes/m/ Example photo showing several banners.]
| Locally created from downloadable template.
|-
| Portable Literature Stand
| For holding flyers and brochures. [http://www.displays2go.com/sub3.asp?ID=800 One example] or [http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/373894/Office-Depot-Value-Magazine-3-Tiered/ perhaps a few of these]
| Locally provided
|-
| Table skirt
| Printed table cloth cover for booth. Possibly as a banner for a wall too.
| Locally printed or shipped regionally
|-
| Shirts
| Business shirts with OSGeo logo over pocket. Maybe like [http://www.cafepress.com/osgeo.71360143 this golf shirt style] or [http://www.landsend.com/pp/LongSleevePerformanceTwillShirt~161296_59.html?bcc=y&action=order_more&sku_0=::BLA&CM_MERCH=SRCH_00001_0000000001 button-up] likely in black.
| Shipped regionally
|-
| Case studies book
| Various examples of our tools in use. Cleaned up and professionally presented in 1-2 page formats for several projects. Taken from [http://osgeo.org/journal Journal] or [[Case Studies]].
| Shipped regionally or printed locally depending on quality or style.
|-
| Overview Poster
| Poster presenting OSGeo as a block diagram showing overview of projects and work.
| Printed locally
|-
| '''Bare Essentials'''
| Retractable banner, overview brochures and LiveDVD
| The bare essentials for small functions especially without booth space. Brochures for insertion into attendees bags or distribution.
|-
| rowspan="3" | '''Basic Consumables'''
| Overview Brochure
| Two sided A4 overview of OSGeo and its projects. [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/brochures/two-side-overview/brochure_fold_2sided_A4.pdf Example PDF]
| Printed locally
|-
| LiveDVD
| Bootable demo discs including range of OSGeo software and files
| Shipped regionally
|-
| Project Flyers
| 1 page project summaries. Could be display electronically instead. [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/flyer/project_brochure_pdfs/OSGeo_Brochures_Geotools.pdf?format=raw Example PDF]
| Printed locally
|-
| '''Unfunded Consumables'''
| USB Sticks and [http://www.cafepress.com/osgeo/1752240 Shirt Pins]
| Provided by local presenters or others who want more promotional material.
| Printed locally
|-
| rowspan="3" | '''On-Site Requirements'''
| Demonstration Computer
| Including LiveDVD installation for demos.
| On-site
|-
| Large monitor or projector
| One that can be used to show attendees walking by, or for sitting down to do a demo.
| On-site
|-
| Table and chairs
|
| On-site
|}

==Starter kit==
The starter kit contains items that can be carried between conferences. Each Local Organizing Committee or regional group is entitled to a starter kit.
It contains:
# An OSGeo [http://www.displays2go.com/sub4.asp?ID=1897 retractable banner stand], approx 1 meter wide, 2 meters tall, with (proposed) text:
OSGeo
The
Open Source
Geospatial
Foundation
* Robust, Feature Rich, Open Source Software
* Open Mapping Data
* Educational Programs

# A [http://www.displays2go.com/sub3.asp?ID=800 portable literature stand].
# An OSGeo table cloth
# Business Shirts with OSGeo logo over the pocket for stand attendants. (Business shirts present a professional image, we have grown past the "hackers in garages" stage.)

==Desirable additions to the starter kit==
* A case study folder:
This is asking a lot. Various projects have been trying to compile lists of case studies and projects using their products for ages. We should have quite a few around by now. By compiling them all into proper prose and screen shots, we could bind them up into a loose leaf folder. People are always interested to know who's using this stuff, and while we can point them to web sites or give them examples we know about, I feel it would be much more powerful to walk them through a couple examples in the folder, and give them a chair while they browse the rest. See [[Case Studies]] for a start on this but also the [http://osgeo.org/journal Journal] which has many.
* A poster showing a block diagram of the Open Source geospatial stack.

==Essential Consumables==
# A [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/brochures/two-side-overview two sided A4 brochure] saying what OSGeo is, and listing all the OSGeo projects, with a paragraph summarising each project.
# LiveDVDs
## Bay Area, California [http://www.productioncity.com/duplication_conv.htm $2.00 ea for 500 qt and greater]

==Desirable Consumables==
# An [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/flyer A4 flier] for each project (these get outdated quite quickly).

==Unfunded Consumables==
Local presenters might want to hand out extra gadgets or promotional material.

* USB Sticks
* [http://www.cafepress.com/osgeo Shirt Pins]

==Locally Supplied==
* A demonstration computer, ideally with a LiveDVD installed into its own partition. (The LiveDVD is slow if running off the DVD).
* A large monitor or projector.
* Table
* Chairs

==Branding==
Local sponsors are encouraged to include advertise their OSGeo related services at the conference booth. In particular, they may wish to set up a banners, or add their own fliers. This local advertising will not be paid for by OSGeo. Ratio of branding should be proportional to who pays.

Banners and fliers paid for by international OSGeo will be branded with international sponsors. (How this is presented is still to be decided).

=Subset for events with no booths=
When OSGeo can promote itself in an event where there are not any booths, the following items can be carried:

# An OSGeo [http://www.displays2go.com/sub4.asp?ID=1897 retractable banner stand].
# Consumables for inserting into the material pack provided for attendees (depending on the expected number of them):
:: * A two sided A4 flier saying what OSGeo is, and listing all the OSGeo projects, with a paragraph summarising each project.
:: * LiveDVDs

== Cost Summary ==
This is a work-in-progress to estimate how much a package will cost.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
! Category
! Item
! Production Cost
! Shipping
! Source
! colspan="2" | Est. cost scenario
|-
| rowspan="6" | '''Basic Starter Kit'''
| Retractable banner
| $300
|
|
| $300
| $300
|-
| Portable Literature Stand
| $200
|
|
| $200
| $200
|-
| Table skirt
| $200
| $15
|
| $215
| $215
|-
| Shirts
| $30 x staff
| $20
|
| $170 (@5)
| $320 (@10)
|-
| Case studies book
| $5 x copies
| $20
|
| $45 (@5)
| $45 (@5)
|-
| Overview Poster
| $25
| $20
|
| $45
| $45
|-
| rowspan="3" | '''Basic Consumables'''
| Overview Brochure
| $1 x copies
| $20
|
| $70 (@50)
| $220 (@200)
|-
| LiveDVD
| $2 x copies
| $20
|
| $120 (@50)
| $420 (@200)
|-
| Project Flyers
| $8 x copies
| $20
|
| $400 (@50)
| $1600 (@200)
|-
| rowspan="3" | '''On-Site Requirements'''
| Demonstration Computer
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| Large monitor or projector
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| Table and chairs
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| '''Unfunded Consumables'''
| USB Sticks and [http://www.cafepress.com/osgeo/1752240 Shirt Pins]
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| '''Estimated Totals'''
|
|
|
|
| ''$1565''
| ''$4340''
|}

Proposed alternative spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pu9014gybzreYKdV8-WQ_SA

[[Category: Marketing]]

AAG 2009

2008-10-28T03:17:25Z

Wiki-StaceyEllis: /* Talks */ Updated title for talk

[[AAG| Association of American Geographers]] annual conference.

=2009 Conference=
Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009
[http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/index.htm Meeting Homepage]

== OSGeo Sessions ==
We'd like to try and organize 2 or 3 sessions on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in Geography
[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel]] and [[User:StaceyEllis|Stacey Ellis]] from the University of California, Davis will be organizing please contact them if you plan to give a talk and would like to be part of the sessions.

'''Deadline''' to submit for talks is <strike>'''Oct 16, 2008'''</strike>(Extended until '''Nov 13, 2008'''), see the [http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm call for abstracts]

The sessions are now being co-sponsored by the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group.

What's on the books:
'''Title:''' Free and Open Source solutions for Geographers I
'''Description:'''Case studies and general overviews of free software and data sources as applied to geography.
Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.
This session aims to educate the general geography community about end user opportunities to implement cutting edge
Free and Open Source solutions in your research.
'''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50

'''Title:''' Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers II
'''Description:'''Case studies and in depth technical discussions of free software and data sources as applied to geography.
Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics.
This session aims to explore the complexities and specifics of using cutting edge
Free and Open Source solutions in geographical research.
'''Anticipated Attendance:''' 50

Other Ideas:
*Plan A
**Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
**Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
**Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.

*Plan B
**Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
**Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography

=== Talks ===
Proposed or Confirmed
General
* Alex Mandel - Overview of Open Source tools for Geography
* Michael Treichler - Using open source in the food distribution industry.
* Stacey Ellis - A Wiki for every Geography

Techie
* Andrew Turner - OpenStreetMap
* Helena Mitasova - Advanced Open Source GIS
* Brian Hamlin - Intro to PostGIS

Ideas (Claim one and move it up above with your name, and submit your abstract ASAP)
* Open Source - Community websites (Content Management, Wiki etc)
* Open Street Map - Free Wiki Based Road Data
* Open Source Business Case (slides available from lisasoft)
* LiveDVD GIS

== OSGeo Booth ==
It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.

=== Volunteers ===
* Alex Mandel
* Stacey Ellis
* Michael Treichler
* Michele Tobias
*

=== Schedule ===
Should we set this based on session times for talks so people can go to talks when not at the booth?
Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.
* Tuesday, March 24 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
* Wednesday, March 25 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
* Thursday, March 26 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

=== Proposed Budget ===
List of Items we need and proposed budget request from the [[Marketing]] team.
{| border="1"
!Item!!Cost!!Notes
|-
|Banner
|$
|Sent from?
|-
|Table Skirt
|$
|Sent from ?
|-
|Handouts
|$500
|How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference.
|-
|Booth
|$1000 (non-profit price)
|Includes tables, do we have an internet connection? [http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/exhibitor.htm Need to book by ASAP].
|-
|Live CD/DVD or Software
|$200
|In the works, [[Live GIS Disc]], how many?
|-
|T-shirts/hats
|$0
|How many tablers
|-
|Demo Machines
|Borrow or Rent?
|For next time, the Gentoo liveCD or the GeoNetwork FOSS DVD.
|-
|Comp Fees for Staffing?
|$500-1000
|Fly Tyler or a Board Member, a Marketing Team member or ?
|-
|Banner/Skirt to next event
|
|Send where?
|-
!Total
|$3000/~TBD
|Estimate/~Final(?)
|}

=== Funding Sources ===
These are ideas for where to try and get funds for the booth.

* OSGEO - ?
* Universities - ?
* Open Source specialized companies - ? CloudMade?

== 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 ==
#Get support from marketing team for a booth
##It's $1000 for a non-profit and there are 8 spots left
#Get speakers for the sessions
##Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
#Register the sessions

Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of [[AAG 2008| osgeo related speakers]]

== Ideas ==
#Do we want to do a [http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/workshop_planning.htm workshop], '''Deadline is Oct 1'''

[[Category:Proposed Events]]

AAG 2008

2008-04-15T18:46:16Z

Wiki-StaceyEllis: /* 2008 Conference */

[[AAG|American Association of Geographers]] annual conference.

=2008 Conference=
Boston, April 14-19th

There will be several talks on [[OSGeo]] topics:
{|border="1"
! Date/Time !! Place !! Speaker !! Topic(Link)
|-
| 4/15 4:20
| Hyannis Room, Marriott (4th Floor)
| Michael Nicholas
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=20776 Survey of the Importance of Interregional Availability for Alternative Fuels]
|-
| 4/16 10:10
| Staffordshire, Weston (3rd Floor)
| Helena Mitasova
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=19185 Geospatial analysis of terrain dynamics using lidar technologies and Open source GIS]
|-
| 4/17 8:00
| Vineyard Room, Marriott (4th Floor)
| Michele Tobias
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=17604 Beachscapes: The Spatial Effects of Foot-Traffic on Beach Vegetation]
|-
| 4/17 3:10
| Empire Room #6, Westin (7th Floor)
| John Morgan
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=20722 OpenLayers: An Open Source Web Mapping Application]
|-
| 4/18 8:00
| Beacon F, Sheraton (3rd Floor)
| Rob Braswell
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=19866 Open Geoscience: Using Free and Open Source Software for Research and Education]
|-
| 4/19 4:30
| Beacon H , Sheraton (3rd Floor)
| Alex Mandel
| [http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=19450 Open Source GIS course development through directed group study]
|
|}

The [[Boston User Group]] has been discussing details of a social to be held one night of the conference.
[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Conference]]