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20180814-Huntsville-foss4g

==Date== 
August 14th 2018
==Description==
This is Alabama's First FOSS4G meeting. 
It's an opportunity for Free and Open Source Software for GIS users in the area to get together and discuss projects, software, and get to know one another. This is a free event, registration is appreciated to help plan for lunch.
==Location== 
Madison City Hall 
100 Hughes Rd, 
Madison, AL 35758
==Tickets==
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-huntsville-2018-an-open-source-gis-event-tickets-47856090856
==Speakers==
Robert Nall with nSide: Spatial statistical analysis with R
Matt Brown with Alabama 811: The use of open source GIS tools at Alabama 811 from humble beginnings to an impressive modern cloud-based GIS stack
Trevor Gevers with Serverless Solutions: QGIS Leaflet plugin and Google integrations with GIS
Randy Hale with NRGS: A run through of some of the major changes to QGIS and where he thinks it’s headed
Michael Hughes with Franklin County: How do I do that with open source GIS software?
Adam Dunlap with Hexagon: An overview of using PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and pgRouting to build tools for GIS based data and routing linear data sets.
Joe Francica with Pitney Bowes: GDAL/OGR support for new MapInfo vector and raster formats
 
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==Sponsors==
Category:FOSS4G
Category:Events
2019.12.04

== Reboot Meetup - December 4, 2019 ==
Assembly Co-Working Space (thanks, Assembly!)
Pizza & Pop sponsored by SensorUp (thanks, SensorUp!)
* Speaker: Abraham Poorazizi
* Talk: "Building a Modern Geospatial IoT Platform at scale using Free and Open-source Software, Open Standards, and Open Data."
We had ~20 folks out to the first meeting - through a pretty decent snowstorm - to hear Abraham speak. We had some good discussion on what people were looking for in an open source geo community, locally. Lots of suggesetions from code-sprints to workshops, etc... Most were in favor of an informal feel to the meetings but there was also discussion of a more formal structure. 
The meeting was hosted by Scott McHale. No formal minutes were taken. The objectives and other points discussed have been added as part of the local chapter wiki.
20191204

Our inaugural meetup was kindly sponsored by SensorUp whose own Abraham Poorazizi also presented a talk on the modern IoT platform he is helping to build with open source technologies with the SensorUp team. 
Attendees were pleased to hear that Assembly CoWorking Space had agreed to provide regular meeting space to meet monthly on the first Wednesday from 5.30-7.30.
No formal minutes were taken. 
Suggestions and objectives from the first meeting are now incorporated into the wiki page for the Alberta Chapter.
Essentially, while there was agreement generally to more formally structure the chapter, most were looking for the chapter meetups to serve as an informal space to share knowledge, successes, and challenges with others in the field.
2020.02.05

This meetup was hosted at Assembly CoWorking Space. Thanks to Assembly for providing us space free of charge.
5:30 Doors Open	
6:00 Introductions attendees and OSGeo	
6:15 Presentations
	
*Jeremy Squire: Proposed a tool for aiding constituents in responding to civic development proposals.
**Jer has some documentation and examples already prepared
**It was mentioned that City of Calgary has some low resolution ("cube") spatial building information avialable as open source
*Scott McHale: QGIS Workshop Offer
**Briefly discussed offer from North River Geographic (Randall Hale) for discounted QGIS workshops
 
Following:
	
Housekeeping
	
Membership Signups
*Discussed the advantages of having people commit to membership as part of demonstrating interest
**There was also some discussion surrounding the perceived complexity of the processes for signing up to mailinglists, wiki's, etc ...
Mailing List signups
*We want to honour the transparency of the group by using accepted "low/no-barrier" methods such as mailing lists for formal chapter communications
**There was talk of the difficulty in making sense of all the mailinglists and the discussions within as well as the general sign-up complexity
***A couple people felt they had signed up for one thing or another but weren't sure if it was successful.
*Slack signups at #osgeo-alberta in TheSpatialCommunity workspace for ongoing chatter were encouraged.
2020.03.04

== Notes from March meeting: ==
 
Discussion on Radon Monitoring project: (Cassidy)
*What to build:
**Focus on something simple with focus on the radon use case 
***Be open to other applications as you build
***Look for existing projects or technologies that are relevant
ACTION: Cassidy will reach out to SensorUp to understand potential fit
*Engaging the community:
**Create some concise project documentation to enable engagement by others with as little intervention required as possible
ACTION: Gavin will create a starting point doc ( 5 Block Process )
Discussion on Meetup content:
*Exchanging knowledge is the best part of every meetup. 
*Cassidy has agreed to be a resource for image manipulation and analysis and Stefan also said he’d be able to contribute
*Cassidy loaded a poll on Slack #osgeo-alberta channel. “What would you like to learn more about the most in an OSGeo AB meeting"
So far “PostGIS” is in the lead and “FOSS4G” is second though we have few votes on there
REMINDER SLACK: Everyone is welcome to join us on the #osgeo-alberta channel of The Spatial Community Slack workspace. Information about joining The Spatial Community can be found here: https://thespatialcommunity.org/
We will continue to ensure any “formal” decisions are communicated via this mailing list but Slack seems to be a more natural space for folks to take part
VOLUNTEER YOUR KNOWLEDGE
If you have good knowledge on any relevant technologies, please feel free to let the community know. We can gather up questions on Slack ( or by whatever means ) and spend some time at any of the meetings to have experts answer to them or show a skill. 
Please feel free to respond via the mailing list, pick up the conversation on slack, or reach out directly to me at scott.mchale@shaw.ca.
2020.04.01

== PROPOSED AGENDA: April 1 ==
Always feel free to recommend changes or additions ( or make additions yourself )
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Introductions
*6.15pm: Any updates or proposals on projects
*Following:
**QGIS Walkthrough and Q&A
**Stefan Price
**Geomatics Services Supervisor, Town of Cochrane
***A quick walkthrough of connecting QGIS to a number of datasources followed by Q&A
****https://docs.google.com/document/d/113dYQLvRORXbqg35FmT26qTXSl90yHqmqcNfAxhs_fc/edit?usp=sharing
***Send your questions or how-to’s to this email list or join us on Slack or even Meetup.com
*Following: Chapter Discussion & Planning
**Discussion around how to meet going forward
***Continue doing learning sessions - the sharing works well
***Online means we can attract contributors from afar
****ACTION:SCOTT reach out to Paul Ramsey - PostGIS discussion
***Can we do online workshops - there was talk of a Leaflet workshop that had been canceled. There was mention it was AGG but I looked it up and it was GoGeomatics
****ACTION:SCOTT reach out to GoGeomatics Coordinators to discuss holding it online
***Alberta IoT was mentioned as possible participants
****It looks like Steve Liang ( SensorUp ) is on the board and I know he's a big OS booster ( SensorUp sponsored our reboot meetup )
****ACTION:IAN reach out to AlbertaIoT to guage potential
2020.05.06

== PROPOSED AGENDA: May 6 ==
Always feel free to recommend changes or additions ( or make additions yourself )
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Introductions
Ashok
Ian Butterworth - 
Mark Geisbrech
Doug Cameron
Wendy
Stefan
*6.15pm: Any updates or proposals on projects
Please feel free to come forward with your projects, initiatives, or even questions.
We have one brief project introduction and request for help planned:
* Ashok Krishnamurthy - Associate Professor, Mount Royal University
* Project: Application of mathematical models to track COVID-19 using Open Source tools such as Panoply, R and data such as SEDAC Gridded World Population.
* Needs: Advice on tools and approaches for manipulating spatialized population count data for epidemic state variable layers ( ex: Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered, Dead, etc..).
* Data Source: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4
Notes from Ashok Presentation
*Mark noted that Safe Software is granting FME license for Covid research and response
**Ashok will have the research assistants look into that
*Mark asked how much of the workflow is automated.
**Some of the data is a onetime download
**Spanish data download scripts are bring run daily
***There are troubles with translation and columns moving
***Some is daily data entry
***Ashok is working on R scripts to automate more of it
*What are the struggles:
**Would like the cropping of region data to be just a matter of clicking on the country and knowing the other data is excluded
**Currently using workarounds to zero out populations outside given area
 
*Mark can help in developing a workflow to use country outline layers for isolating data
**Both Mark and Ashok are willing to come back and speak to how the workflow is developed and utilized
*Ashok will inquire whether the research assistants have familiarity with Python 
*Doug will look into how python might also be used
It would be great to have a discussion around one or more of the OS Geo projects to find ways we can support the projects and make them as welcoming, and relevant, as possible to potential contributors here in Alberta.
I would suggest QGIS - https://qgis.org/en/site/ - but would welcome other suggestions.
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.06.03

== PROPOSED AGENDA: June 3rd ==
Always feel free to recommend changes or additions ( or make additions yourself )
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
*OSGeo Alberta Chapter intro: Slide Deck - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C3Ab4Hch04Cr5gvgE-wd1OFCRTwVMkMb/view?usp=sharing ( We'll cover the first 5 slides - super quick )
*6.15pm: Any updates or proposals on projects
Please feel free to come forward with your projects, initiatives, or even questions.
Following:
* Randal Hale will present Using QGIS and PostGIS in a Small City Government 
**Henry County TN was using a Commercial GIS to Manage their addresses and other information related to Emergency Services. In 2018 they moved to QGIS/PostGIS To manage these data layers and maintain their address data. Overall the move upgraded their existing capability and saved the small government several thousand dollars in the process.
** Randy is a well known QGIS evangelist and head of North River Geographic Systems working out of Tennessee. 
* Checkout the NRGS Blog
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* Teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.07.08

== PROPOSED AGENDA: July 8th ==
Always feel free to recommend changes or additions ( or make additions yourself )
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
*OSGeo Alberta Chapter intro: Slide Deck - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C3Ab4Hch04Cr5gvgE-wd1OFCRTwVMkMb/view?usp=sharing ( We'll cover the first 5 slides - super quick )
*6.15pm: Any updates or proposals on projects
Please feel free to come forward with your projects, initiatives, or even questions.
Following:
*QGIS NA 2020 Conference
**We can review the plans and schedules for the conference being put together by QGIS enthusiasts around North America. 
**This conference will run online July 17, and likely 24th as well based on the talk, workshop, and other session submissions. More TBD.
**(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/QGIS_North_America_2020)
Following:
Any chapter business or suggestions
 
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* Teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.08.05

== Minutes: August 5th ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
*OSGeo Alberta Chapter intro: Slide Deck - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C3Ab4Hch04Cr5gvgE-wd1OFCRTwVMkMb/view?usp=sharing ( We'll cover the first 5 slides - super quick )
Small group. Tanya Yeomans, Scott McHale, Ashok Krishnamurthy.
*Tanya Yeomans QGIS NA 2020 Conference Recap
**Tanya presented her takeaways from the 2 days of QGIS NA 2020 she attended
** (QGIS NA 2020 summary.pdf)
*General Discussion
**Ashok talked a bit about the work he and Mark Giesbrecht had done in automating some of his COVID analysis data mapping after he brought the questions to the chapter meeting.
**Ashok is willing to come back to talk in greater detail about that work.
2020.09.02

== Minutes: September 2nd ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
** Wendy
** Ashok
** Evan
** Stephan
** Tanya
** Scott
*Ashok Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor at Mount Royal University
**Ashok presented a follow-up on some work he was doing on COVID 19 modeling - see more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbGZ7lhISk - and had discussion on the geospatial effort required and problems he was encountering.
Following:
*Tanya Yeomans talked briefly about her effort to capture and attach Albertans' stories to the Alberta Parks system locations. See the story in LiveWire here: https://livewirecalgary.com/2020/08/28/calgary-woman-collects-alberta-parks-memories-as-areas-pulled-from-system/
Following:
*Heads-Up X-Domain Glossary project
**https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fjrl34ErnYammel9WmvXJ3rMWFANjoSiiGyyNSYOXUg/
*** General interest. Stephan will keep an eye on it to see what develops. No steps for this group.
*Workshop Delivery
**Asked the question: Can this community deliver these or other free workshop materials?
**https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/ 
*** Tanya thought this could fit with future events she is putting together and Wendy also thought there was possibility. 
**** They have (since the meeting) begun the work of divvying up some of the materials for delivery.
We were done by 7.30ish. 
These events are open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* Teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.10.07

== Minutes: October 7 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
** Stefan, Karang, Wendy, Ashok, Scott (I think I've missed one or more attendees but my notes are terrible )
Following:
*No talks scheduled. 
*Stefan brought a handful of items for discussion or information for the group:
** GoGeomatics Wetland mapping (https://gogeomatics.ca/event/wetland-mapping-qgis-tem/?utm_source=GoGeomatics+Canada+Newsletter&utm_campaign=70819de25a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_27_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4512ec0c46-70819de25a-53818093)
** Save our Parks campaign - a number of mapping and awareness initiatives including from Tanya Yeomans - one of our own - who'd presented her Parks Stories map project in an earlier meeting.
* We talked a bit around using Slack for technical questions (some are not super comfortable in that arena)
*Ashok agreed to present at the Nov meeting for a few minutes. 
Finished up around 7.30ish, I believe.
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.11.04

== Minutes: November 4, 2020 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
Tom, Scott, Wendy, Stefan, Tanya, Ashok
Following: (not necessarily in this order)
*Ashok Krishnamurthy spoke briefly with an update on his Ebola research, his work with R and other opensource tech, and specifically geospatial issues he is finding or solving for his work. 
** Ashok is hoping to get help reducing the steps he has to do as part of clipping WorldPop data rasters using 
***doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bNfizsNnM2AqzLoiDYbHlarpIo8IZQxgJFC8w_AO7I/edit
Following: Discussion on some events and training.
*Stefan sent on TerraGIS info:
** Terra GIS is offering "Practical QGIS" - a 3 day class taught online December 7th through 9th, 2020 live from Seattle. 
***Even though this is an online version of the class it will focus on learning QGIS doing practical exercises in a workshop style setting. ArcGIS users will learn how to easily transition to QGIS (or to using QGIS in addition to their existing GIS software/ toolset). Participants can choose to participate one, two or all three days. More information at http://www.terragis.net/gis-classes/practical-qgis/ 
* FOSS4G2021 "Come Hell or High Water" (which seems a bit brazen in these times. which I like) is launched - https://2021.foss4g.org/
* GISDay Geographies of Health and GIS Analysis research group at the O’Brien Institute of Public Health and is open to anyone with an interest in health and/or GIS. - https://events.ucalgary.ca/obrien/#!view/event/event_id/143419 
* GoGeomatics event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-apply-for-geospatial-jobs-with-the-federal-government-of-canada-tickets-127874097869?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.12.02

== PROPOSED AGENDA: December 2, 2020 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
** Wendy, Tanya, Doug, Scott, Rabin, Stefan
Following: Quick (3 min) look at the OSGeo, and this unofficial chapter with this slide deck: OSGeo Meetup Deck
We have no talks scheduled for this evening. We are super-casual so feel free to drop in with ad-hoc stuff. 
Following: 
* Tanya Yeomans is chairing a session at GeoConvention2021 - Open Data, Open Source and Open Geoscience 
* Alberta Jobs:
** gogeomatics
*** GIS Tech - UofC : https://gogeomatics.ca/job/geospatial-gis-technician/
*** Enterprise Support Consultant - ESRI : https://gogeomatics.ca/job/senior-enterprise-support-consultant-gis/
*** GIS Tech - City of Edm : https://gogeomatics.ca/job/geographic-information-systems-gis-technician/
*** Environmental Science Intern - Jacobs : https://gogeomatics.ca/job/environmental-science-intern/
** WowJobs - https://www.wowjobs.ca/BrowseResults.aspx?q=GIS&s=r&l=AB&job=OTi2Q_ZoKzAsb3cTi8P4PiWUhVPh8jLUIeTTmR9Hlizc4oAY3vCdrA
* Chat & any proposed Chapter business or initiatives
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2020.12.03

== PROPOSED AGENDA: December 2, 2020 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
Following: Quick (3 min) look at the OSGeo, and this unofficial chapter with this slide deck: OSGeo Meetup Deck
We have no talks scheduled for this evening. We are super-casual so feel free to drop in with ad-hoc stuff. 
Following: 
* Chat & any proposed Chapter business or initiatives
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2021.01.06

== PROPOSED AGENDA: January 6, 2021 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
**Ian, Wendy, Ross, Ysabel, Muhammed, Trudy, Vera, Scott, Wayne
*6.15pm: Trudy Curtis, CEO of PPDM (ppdm.org) Presented “Spatial Data in Governed Data Ecosystems” .
*Following:
**Suggestion from Ysabel, I believe, to look at both Hydrogen and Geothermal mapping techniques/projects, etc . 
***Ysabel may have a name to pass on for Scott to reach out
**Ross is working on a flooding preparedness map - NY, I think - project and might want to bring some presentations or problems to the group ( which is great ) or even look for potential volunteers. 
**Wendy shared Humanitarian street map - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb9506_-6FMFILgiHAQ9PphYWtaiBTU4f vid
**...and, as always, Slack notifications (just kidding, but a reliable way to turn on just a channel of interest on there would be great )
* Chat & any proposed Chapter business or initiatives
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).
2021.02.03

== PROPOSED AGENDA: February 3, 2021 ==
*5.45pm: ONLINE LOBBY (https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoAlbertaChapterMonthlyMeetup)
** Phone: 647.243.6108 | MeetingID: 2203355915
*6.00pm: Attendee Introductions
*Following:
** We have no presentations currently planned. Feel free to reach out either on the OSGeo mailing list, or you can reach me at scott.mchale@shaw.ca.
* Chat & any proposed Chapter business or initiatives
*"Design Thinking" with Kris Hans (Stefan or Tanya)
*Some Resources:
**MEETUPS: 
***https://www.meetup.com/University-of-Colorado-Computational-Science-and-Engineering/events/276117473 
***https://www.meetup.com/plantmap/events/275771855
***https://www.meetup.com/ARVR-Creators/events/276072983
***https://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-VR-For-Good-Meetup/events/272888457
***https://www.meetup.com/dataops-calgary/events/275983231
***https://www.meetup.com/Calgary-Nature-Lovers-Hiking-Meetup/events/275675704
***https://www.meetup.com/BDU-Calgary/events/275608181
***https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-AI-Tech-Talk/events/275958786
**Courses:
***https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-data-science-curriculum-with-advanced-math-and-machine-learning/
**Initiatives: 
***https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-January/085938.html
**Resources:
***https://gogeomatics.ca/
***https://gogeomatics.ca/jobs/
***https://medium.com/sentinel-hub
***https://gogeomatics.ca/resources/schools-programs/
This event is open to all. Feel free to bring your topics, projects, or presentations.
Some suggestions from the chapter for presentations include:
* Show us your side hustle
* Bring us your problems ( stuff you're working on and issues )
* teach something new ( OS Geo projects or other ).