Boston User Group - Revision history

Wiki-Crschmidt at 05:04, 18 October 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt at 23:15, 1 September 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt at 14:32, 1 September 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt: i hate wikitext

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i hate wikitext

Wiki-Crschmidt at 13:26, 1 September 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt at 05:52, 1 September 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt at 05:51, 1 September 2007

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Wiki-Crschmidt at 05:50, 1 September 2007

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New page

Currently canvassing community to determine level of interest in regular meetings of a Boston area OSGeo users group.

Sent email to:
* MassGIS Web Services Mailing List
* Geomancers mailing list

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		+	First meeting of Group: Oct 17th, 2007, 7pm
		+	* 8 attendees
		+	* hosted by MIT museum
		+	* Next meeting Nov 14th, 7pm
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 * Guido Stein
 * Tracy Rolling
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 * Allan Doyle
 * Guido Stein
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 * Allan Doyle
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 * MassGIS Web Services Mailing List
 * Geomancers mailing list
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	* MassGIS Web Services Mailing List		* MassGIS Web Services Mailing List
	* Geomancers mailing list		* Geomancers mailing list
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		+	Email sent:
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		+	I'm Christopher Schmidt, a charter member of the Open Source Geospatial
		+	Foundation. (This title basically just means I'm a participant that
		+	people recognize the name of ;) I'm also a core developer for
		+	OpenLayers, and the maintainer of http://boston.freemap.in/, which is an
		+	online map built using MassGIS data. As part of an effort to seek out
		+	Open Source Geo people in the Boston area, I'm canvassing the local
		+	community for interest in a regular open source geospatial interest
		+	group meeting.
		+
		+	For those of you who don't know, OSGeo is a non-profit organization
		+	which is seeking to fulfill an umbrella organizational role for a number
		+	of Open Source Geospatial software projects, including projects like
		+	GeoServer and OpenLayers. It is currently entering its third year of
		+	operation, and has a number of projects undergoing incubation currently
		+	to become "OSGeo projects", including everything from uDig and QGIS to
		+	GRASS to GeoServer.
		+
		+	The goal of having regular meetings would be:
		+	* Create Networking oppourtunities: allow users of open source
		+	geo software to meet with creators of open source geo software where
		+	possible.
		+	* Share knowledge: meetings could have a presentation from a particular
		+	person on everything from how to use a certain tool, to types of data
		+	available, to anything else.
		+	* "Chill out": spend social time with other like-minded individuals --
		+	either users of open source geosoftware, or just people interested
		+	in learning more about it.
		+
		+	Essentially, I personally envision this as being very similar to a Linux
		+	Users Group meeting: go someplace, here a 45 minute presentation with 15
		+	minutes of questions on a particular related topic, then head out, get
		+	beers someplace, and relax.
		+
		+	If such a thing were to take place in the Bostonish area, would anyone on
		+	this list be interested in attending? Anything in particular that
		+	strikes your interest?
		+
		+	Looking forward to hearing from anyone interested in creating a local
		+	group of OS Geosoftware users...