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OSGeo California Chapter 2014 Annual Meeting

== Introduction ==
Every year the California OSGeo Chapter is required to have an annual meeting. This year our meeting will hosted by Jeff Hobbs at the San Jose Water Company on Saturday, September 27, 2014.
~10 am - 12 noon Talks & Discussions
~12 noon - out to lunch, at Pruneyard Shopping Center is a few miles south
~1:30 pm Afternoon Activities - Whatever the group wants to work on/see, kinda like a WhereCamp+Code Sprint.
== Speakers ==
* 10:00AM to 10:30AM = QGIS for Texas Water Company (Jeff Hobbs)
* 10:30AM to 11:00AM = GIS for Central Valley Master Plan Communities (Landon Blake)
* 11:00AM to 11:30AM = Kriging with Curvilinear Anisotropy (Michele Tobias)
* 11:30AM to 12:00PM = Lightning Talks & Updates? (0-5 slides, 60 seconds, as any people as want to?), take 5 minutes to get everyone in line/slides loaded then go?
** FOSS4G 2014 Highlights, links, videos, etc...
** FOSS4G North America, Burlingame in March
** FOSS4G 2015 in Korea
== Activities ==
* 1:30PM to 4:30 PM: To Be Determined
* 1:30PM to 4:30 PM: To Be Determined
== Directions & Parking ==
1221 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
Gate will be open. Park in any open spot. Jeff will be checking the front-door periodically to let people in.
OSGeo California Chapter 2015 Annual Meeting

== Introduction ==
Every year the California OSGeo Chapter is required to have an annual meeting. Our 2015 Annual Meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2016 at UC Davis. 
== Schedule ==
* 9:30AM to 10:00Am = Welcome! Snacks (incl. Coffee), name tags, and mingling
* 10:00AM to 10:30AM = Discussion: Using Open Source in your Workflow - OSGeo California Team & You!
* 10:30AM to 11:00AM = Landon Blake - Scanning Mission San Miguel - terrestrial laser scanning
* 11:00AM to 11:30AM = Michele Tobias - Literature Mapper: QGIS + Zotero using Python
* 11:30AM to 12:00PM = Lightning Talks: (1) Alex Mandel - Geopackage Format, (2) Ragi Burhum (tentative) - leveraging Docker for reducing dependency pain, (3) Matt Connor - UC Davis Library Data Efforts, (4) Ani Ghosh - Remote Sensing with Python, (5) ___. 
* 12:00PM to 1:30PM = Lunch in Downtown (or brown bag) - OSGeo Team Discussion: Conference Attendance, Participation, Etc.
* 1:30PM to 2:00PM = Organizing UnConference Sessions
* 2:00PM to 4:00PM = UnConference Sessions
UnConference Ideas:
What is an UnConference? Participants organize themselves into groups interested in a particular topic to have discussions and informal learning sessions. For example, a group might decided to explore data sources, and another group might discuss drone systems. We'll explain more and organize on the day of the event.
* Geospatial Jobs Discussion
* Map Gallery
* Using Software - QGIS, R, Etc.
* Maptime Sacramento - Special Davis Session?
* Cartography Tools - Inkscape
* Cartography Sprint
* Missing Maps
* Drone & Kite Photography
* Open Source Contributing
== Directions & Parking ==
=== Exact Location ===
Hunt 142 - Enter via the building Courtyard, otherwise doors are likely locked.
=== Parking ===
Parking is Free so long as you don't park in reserved spot. Next to the tennis courts and the structure across the street offer plenty of Parking.
=== Map for Directions ===
Google Custom Map,
Google Maps, 
OpenStreetMap
=== Transit ===
==== In Town ====
Unitrans and take a bus to the MU (Memorial Union), right next to the meeting. Only $1
==== Out of Town ====
Amtrak Capital Corridor stops in Davis, though not many times on weekends. Get a free Transfer (ask on the train) to Unitrans and take a bus to the MU (Memorial Union), right next to the meeting. Or bring your bike on the train.
Yolobus from Sacramento or Woodland, 42 stops at the MU (Memorial Union), right next to the meeting.
== Sponsors ==
* UC Davis Geography Graduate Group
* Center for Spatial Sciences @ UC Davis
== History ==
Links to previous meetings:
* OSGeo_California_Chapter_2014_Annual_Meeting
* OSGeo_California_Chapter_2013_Annual_Meeting
* California_Chapter_2012_Annual_Meeting
* California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting
OSGeo California Chapter 2016 Annual Meeting

== Introduction ==
Every year the California OSGeo Chapter is required to have an annual meeting. Our 2016 Annual Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, November 15.
Goals discussed so far include increasing attendance and improving diversity in gender, culture, race, and employment sector.
== Schedule ==
To be determined.
===Ideas:===
* Talks: Work flows & problem solving, Student talks, Lightning talks; Topics: Drone laws, social justice, agriculture
* Workshop or group learning of skills: QGIS Plugin Development, Python for geospatial analysis
* UnConference What is an UnConference? Participants organize themselves into groups interested in a particular topic to have discussions and informal learning sessions. For example, a group might decide to explore data sources, and another group might discuss drone systems. We'll explain more and organize on the day of the event.
== Directions & Parking ==
To be determined.
=== Exact Location ===
To be determined.
=== Parking ===
To be determined.
=== Map for Directions ===
To be determined.
=== Transit ===
==== In Town ====
To be determined.
==== Out of Town ====
To be determined.
== Sponsors ==
To be determined.
== History ==
Links to previous meetings:
* OSGeo_California_Chapter_2015_Annual_Meeting
* OSGeo_California_Chapter_2014_Annual_Meeting
* OSGeo_California_Chapter_2013_Annual_Meeting
* California_Chapter_2012_Annual_Meeting
* California Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting
OSGeo California Chapter Hack-A-Thon 2011

== Description ==
The morning session will have talks on geospatial or programming topics.
In the afternoon participants can partake in hack sessions on open source geospatial software projects
or a cartography sprint. This hack-a-thon may also serve as our annual meeting.
== Preliminary Date ==
Saturday October ?, 2011
== Preliminary Schedule ==
*07:30 AM to 08:00 AM> Reception and Sign-In 
*08:00 AM to 09:00 AM> Annual Meeting Business
*09:00 AM to 09:45 AM> Talk (TBD)
*09:45 AM to 10:15 AM> Break 
*10:15 AM to 11:00 AM> Lightning Talks 
*11:00 AM to 12:00 PM> Talk (TBD)
*12:00 PM to 01:30 PM> Lunch 
*1:30 PM to 01:50 PM> Hackathon Project Pitch, Team Organization and Kickoff 
*1:50 PM to 05:30 PM> Hack Sessions (or Cartography Sprint)
*5:30 PM to 6:00 PM> Hack Sessions/Cartography Spring Results
== Project suggestions ==
Landon Blake: 
*OpenJUMP Plug-In Coding 
*Java Topology Suite Enhancements
Ragi Burhum: 
*GDAL/OGR driver 
*Tracking application
Brian Hamlin
* PostGIS 2.0 tricks and tests
* Framework spatial - featureserver, web2py, mapfish, django, other?
== Interests/Programming Languages ==
*Landon Blake: Java, OpenJump 
*Ragi Burhum: ObjectiveC, C++, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, ArcObjects 
*Josh Livni: Python/Django, Javascript, Google APIs
*Alex Mandel: Python/Django, QGIS, Javascript, SVG
*Michele Tobias: QGIS, Cartography, Data Representation, Python (limited use), R
OSGeo California Chapter Spring 2013 Hackathon

==Event Details== 
*Location: http://www.hackerdojo.com/
*Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013
*Start Time: 1PM Pacific Time
*End Time: 7Pm Pacific Time
==People Attending:==
*Frank Warmerdam
*Ragi Burhum
*Landon Blake
* Bill Rainey
==Activities==
===SlitherGrid Hacking===
Project Description:
http://redefinedhorizonsblog.com/2013/01/15/the-surveyos-projects-slithergrid-toolkit/
Task Suggestions
* Implement basic raster processes by creating implementations of the GridWorker classes.
** Simplify raster.
** Classify raster.
** Fill null cells.
** Create polygons from classified raster cells.
** Create ridges and valleys from elevation raster.
** Classify slopes from elevation raster.
** Classify aspect from elevation raster.
** Create elevation raster from LIDAR data.
** Create elevation variability raster.
** Create raster from polygon coverage.
* Implement basic IO support for common vector and raster formats.
** Raster data as ASCII text file (http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ppm/).
** Raster data as CSV file.
** Raster data as ESRI Grid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri_grid).
** Surface as TIN file.
** Surface as elevation grid.
** Simple feature geometry as WKT.
** Simple feature geometrys from Shapefiles.
*Implement basic grid painting.
** Paint grid as PNG image file.
** Paint grid as SVG.
===Inkscape Cartography and Drafting Tools===
Inkscape is a great program for creating cartographic maps. It would be even better for this task with some simple CAD and cartography tools. Inkscape can be extended through Python extensions. (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions)
Task Suggestions 
* Enter circle by Coordinate.
* Edit node coordinates in dialog box.
* Enter straight line by coordinates.
* Enter arc by coordinates and angle.
* Make line parallel to another line.
* Make text parallel to another line.
* Make line perpendicular to another line.
* Add nodes at distance along path.
* Match label parts to path segments.
===Balloon Mapping===
Last Saturday I went balloon mapping with some people from Public Laboratory and we ended up with a whole bunch of balloon imagery that needs to be stitched and geo-referenced. I was surprised to see that although there are several algorithms that could help with this, the popular tools like Mapknitter don't have something to do things in batch, so the process can become manually intensive. I'd love to see if we can use the new GDAL Surf Correlator or the classes in the Orfeo Toolbox which seem to do have the fundamental algorithms that we would need. IMHO, building a GUI would not be out of the question (web or native or whatever).
Category: Local Chapters
Category: California
OSGeo Certification

==Overview and background information==
Open source geospatial certifications are a need of geospatial technology education and industry sector. 
Parallel to proprietary software, free and open source software has become important in geospatial technology research and plays a significant role in the 
growth of the geospatial industry.
The basis for the creation of new open source geospatial certification program lies in online surveys as well as in personal interviews for its market demand,
and analysis of existing certifications. Target group and audience for this certification as identified by the online survey include specialist from water resources,
renewable energy, environmental studies, and emergency management etc.
To evaluate the significance of certification, an online geospatial certification survey of academic and professional was conducted. 
Participants from different parts of the world supported and reinforced the idea of an open source certification model. 
The survey helped improving the quality of certification for different competencies consisting different target groups.
== Purpose ==
Certifications play an important role to identify the skills abilities and knowledge 
1. This certification is based on Geospatial Technology Competency Model . which was prepared to produce best work force in geospatial industry from basic user to high professional. hence the proposed Open Source Certification is based on authenticated competencies which are designed by many experts and educators. In addition it will help to produce best professionals and users in geospatial industry.
2. Empowerment of open geospatial education which is less reflected in the universities.
3. The proposed Certification Model is based on acknowledged competencies and skills. It wil ease the relationship between comapnies and job seekers.
==OSGeo Certification Set-Up Process==
Who is going to accreditate this certification - many suggesions were in favour of OSGeo.
== Things to discuss and to elaborate==
* Becoming an OSGeo Certified Professional
* Becoming an OSGeo Certified Examiner
* Becoming an OSGeo Certified Educator
OSGeo Code Sprints Initiative

A codesprint is an in-person gathering of developers for doing some serious coding, writing documentation, and having face-to-face project collaboration. (It is not aimed at training, presentations, workshops, etc.)
The OSGeo Board manages a code-sprint initiative to help provide funding for these valuable community building events. For details on applying see OSGeo Financial Guidance document.
Update: During the Pandemic the OSGeo community has experimented with remote code sprints; which can be effective if participants are truly isolated with dedicated time for participation. The environmental impact and funding requirements for a remote event are low (take-out for participant meal of video chat, t-shirts for the event, ...).
References:
* OSGeo Financial Guidance provides application process
* Code Sprint Guidelines (Archived)
Category:Code_Sprints
Category:Initiative
OSGeo Community Project Initiative

The OSGeo Community Project Initiative is established to foster innovation and collaboration resulting in a lower barrier of entry to join the OSGeo Family.
About this initaitve:
# Applicants are welcomed by the incubation committee.
# Community projects are recognized as part of the OSGeo family and can proudly show the "OSGeo Community" badge on their website!
# OSGeo Board supports community projects with activities such as sponsorship and fundraising.
# Established community projects may wish to apply to the OSGeo "incubation" process to be recognized as full OSGeo Project (with independent steering committee and budget allocation).
For additional information please review how OSGeo supports project teams.
Category:Initiative
OSGeo Community Projects

This wiki page by the Incubation_Committee is a scratchpad of ideas forming the OSGeo community program. To see how these ideas have been realized please see our website page.
= Purpose =
The purpose of *OSGeo Community* projects is help foster innovation and include more project teams in the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
== About OSGeo Community Projects==
Projects applying to the *OSGeo Community* program are asked to:
# Be geospatial 
#* Confirm by checking README or project description
#* project page on the osgeo website
#* We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an OSGeo Live quickstart
# Have a free license or an open source license.
#* The license must be OSI approved
#* We ask that the project team check the file headers and double check the license has been appropriately applied
# Welcome participation and new contributors.
#* We look for a clear contribution policy
#* We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a history of bug report or pull requests
#* Projects are required to have a code of conduct
OSGeo Community Projects can take part in the incubation committee for guidance on open source use, setting up project governance, promoting the project, and building the project community. We look forward to working with you.
== Community Projects ==
For a complete list please see the osgeo website: menu > projects > community projects.
* actinia
* FDO
* GC2/Vidi
* GeoExt
* GeoHealthCheck
* Geomajas
* GeoServer Client PHP
* GeoStyler
* GeoWebCache - osgeo labs
* istSOS
* Loader - osgeo labs
* mapfish - inactive / forked
* MapGuide Open Source
* Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL)
* MobilityDB
* Open Data Cube
* Opticks
* OSGeo4W
* OSSIM - inacitve
* OWSLib
* pgRouting - osgeo labs
* Portable GIS - osgeo labs
* PROJ-JNI
* Pronto Raster - osgeo labs
* rasdaman
* TEAM Engine
* ZOO-Project
The following projects were used to bootstrap OSGeo Community program from the earlier OSGeo Labs program:
* Geoinformatica
* GeoWebCache
* MapProxy
* pgRouting
* Portable GIS
* Postal Address Geo-Coder
* Proj4php
* Pronto Raster
* Virtual Terrain Project
* Loader
The following projects have now graduated from incubation:
* pycsw
There is an archive of the old OSGeo Technology Projects page at OSGeo Labs Page Archive.
Category:Incubation
OSGeo Conference 2008 Release Text

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SUBJECT: Open Source Geospatial Foundation Announces Request for Proposal for Hosting 2008 Conference
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today released a request for proposal, or RFP, (available at http://www.osgeo.org/files/webfiles/conference/rfp/osgeo-conference-2008-request-for-proposal.pdf) for the hosting of the FOSS4G 2008 conference. As the excitement for the upcoming FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria Canada builds (http://www.foss4g2007.org/), OSGeo aims for the following 2008 conference to be a major geospatial conference during that year. The RFP solicitation closes July 20th, 2007.
Category:FOSS4G2008
OSGeo Conference Naming Results

<< Back to Conference_Committee 
The conference committee voted on the naming of the future conferences, and the results were:
OSGeo: 5
FOSS4G: 11
FOSSGeo: 1
Abstain: 1 
However, to try to keep everyone happy, the name was chosen to be FOSS4G 2007 Presented by OSGeo.
Category:FOSS4G
Category:Conference Committee
OSGeo Constitution

This is absolutely a draft in every respect and has no approval from the Board. Please feel very welcome to contribute to it!
= Social Contract =
OSGeo is committed to benefitting society, by developing and promoting geospatial software and information in forms that guarantee everyone the right to use, modify, and redistribute those works.
= Directors =
The Board of Directors has formal responsibilities as expressed in the bylaws. https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/
= Voting Members =
The 45 voting members have the ultimate authority and responsibility within the foundation.
They serve as a check on the board in that they select board members by vote.
= Participating Members =
The Foundation depends on volunteers of all kinds to carry out its activities.
= Projects =
OSGeo represents the interests of a collection of software Projects.
An initial set of Projects that are going through an Incubation
stage to gain a formal status as an "OSGeo Project".
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Incubation_Committee is working out
a formal process of deciding when a Project has been sufficiently incubated,
to offer as a proposal to the Board.
= Committees =
A Committee represents an activity in support of OSGeo.
A Committee is assigned some specific area of responsibility by the board.
Committees have Chairs who formally become Vice Presidents within the Foundation structure.
(Legal explanation of the structure)
A Committee must be formally instantiated by the Board, and the Chair of
that Committee approved in their position by vote from the Board.
Committee Chairs do not need to be Voting Members of the Foundation.
= Working Groups =
Working Groups are the expression of a "community of interest" within
the Foundation. They may be offered hosting and resources which are at the
disposal of the Web Committee. Working Groups can be initiated through one
of the Committees or by the Board directly.
= Related to this Document =
* OSGeo Foundation Roadmap - timeline of developments
OSGeo Description

Following is proposed 'boilerplate' language to describe the foundation and our activities in press releases, listings, event descriptions, and other public media.
=== Mission Statement ===
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. 
=== About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available at www.osgeo.org and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.
Following is more personable language that has been used in ad copy.
=== Building the Future is a Collaborative Process ===
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the collaborative development of geospatial open source software and data. Our projects represent the highest quality of open, shared resources — code from low-level libraries to high-level servers, and content from map data to educational curriculum. We are developers and executives, authors and educators, users and marketers. We’re a community that provides financial, organizational, and legal support to open source geospatial projects. Join us at http://www.osgeo.org. Working together, our future is wide open.
OSGeo Education Projects

= Todo items =
# Nominate an editor
= old stuff below delete or assimilate asap =
Charlie's idea for wiki sprint: Delete this and change to the list of subcommittee to dos for the next 3 months
Working groups are loosely coupled groups of individuals focusing on certain parts of the Education and Curriculum Committee mandate.
If you want a particular group, add it to the list and provide a goal for the group. When it comes time for reporting back to the membership and board, we can all briefly update the activities/status of the working group.
== Data Package Group ==
* Detail page Edu Data Package
=== Goal ===
* Produce a data package for common use in tutorials
=== Method ===
* Work with Public Geospatial Data Committee where needed
* Work with software projects to provide data package in meaningful format for their tool
* Use data package as a reference in writing tutorials
=== Status ===
* Just starting
=== Results ===
* Nothing yet
=== Contributors ===
* Tyler Mitchell
* Jo Walsh
* Perry Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* Charlie Schweik
== Education Resources Group ==
=== Goal ===
* Collect links to and describe educational resources
* Develop an "Introduction to GIS" course and courseware
* Support educators in their usage of GFOSS
=== Method ===
* Find people to test use what we will develop
* Promote GFOSS to colleagues
=== Status ===
* Just starting
=== Results ===
See the Educational Resources page.
=== Contributors ===
* Ari Jolma
* Perry Nacionales
== Research Outreach Group ==
=== Goal ===
* Link to research projects using and developing GFOSS
* Support researchers in their usage of GFOSS
* Start and support research projects that develop GFOSS
* Start and support research projects that help GFOSS developers
=== Method ===
* Promote GFOSS to colleagues
* Work with developers to identify research needs
=== Status ===
* Just starting
=== Results ===
See the OSGeo in Research page.
=== Contributors ===
* Ari Jolma
* Perry Nacionales
== FreeGISBook Group ==
* Detail page Free GIS Book
=== Goal ===
* Produce and maintain the Free GIS Book started by EOGEO 
=== Method ===
* ??
=== Status ===
* Just starting. Allan Doyle will investigate the logistics of moving the project from EOGEO to OSGeo.
update: we are waiting for mediawiki to be installed on telascience's server, and then wikibooks.osgeo.org will point to that. At that point, the content will be moved from eogeo.org to the new space.
=== Results ===
* Nothing yet
=== Contributors ===
* Jo Walsh - modulo some answers to some questions
Category:Education