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Ottawa Chapter Report 2008

== Ottawa Chapter ==
* Contact name: Scott Mitchell 
 
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* held semi-regular to regular meetings (depending on season), which included presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc
* WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms; we're encouraged that we continue to attract a trickle of new people coming out
* presentations and discussions exposed the community to developments in OSGEO/FOSS4G overall projects, including the experiences of attendees to the FOSS4G conference in South Africa, Open Source Boot Camp, and GIS Day events; specific theme presentations on OGC Simple Features, and a new Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada web mapping application
* booth presence at the GIS Day event at Carleton University, and significant participation in Open Source Boot Camp 6 (Geospatial)
* local chapter's mailing list traffic really picked up this year in terms of sharing variety of useful information
=== Areas for Improvement ===
* keeping momentum going to have regular meetings is occasionally challenging, but we're still plugging away...
 
=== Opportunities to Help ===
* In July we transitioned to new people responsible for booking and chairing the meetings ( Scott Mitchell and Phil Vachon), but may need new volunteer(s) again when Scott goes on sabbatical in 2009 (I'll be out of town more than usual)
=== Outlook for 2009 ===
* we have official confirmation that we're welcome to use the flat panel display recently installed in the Fox back room. No more carrying screens and projectors around! So all ideas and volunteers for new presentations are very welcome, and it's even easier / hassle free than before. Remember, we're a friendly group!
* also successfully tried out Frank's suggested model of getting everyone around the table to introduce themselves (as needed) and then give a quick summary of whatever issue/challenge/interesting tidbit related to OSGEO-related work is currently on their mind; it's a good way of getting relevant discussion and potentially very useful feedback, especially at meetings that don't have any formal presentations
 
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Category: Reports 2008
Ottawa Chapter Report 2009

== Ottawa Chapter ==
* Contact name: Scott Mitchell 
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* held meetings ever 1-2 months, which included presentations to share experience in particular projects/software, and social/networking to learn what others are doing, job opportunities, opinions on where the community is going, etc.
* WIDE range of participants, including programmers, users, experts, novices, educators, students, program managers, people from government, non-profits, large and small firms; continuing to see new faces
* local chapter's mailing list continues to be a valuable resource, sharing variety of useful information
=== Areas for Improvement ===
* number of actual presentations at meetings dipped in 2009 compared to previous years
 
=== Opportunities to Help ===
* presentation ideas, and especially volunteer presenters, are sorely needed
* ideas, and more importantly volunteers to help make it happen, are needed for other activities
=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* some great ideas have been voiced in the past year about outreach activities, collaborations with other groups, etc. Getting these ideas off the ground will require volunteers, of course, and we also encourage other groups to contact us if they have ideas for cooperation.
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Category: Reports 2009
Ottawa Chapter Report 2012

Submitted by Christy Nieman
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Met every month or two based on member availability.
* Tried planning meetings several months in advance to encourage presentations from non-members with varying success.
* Wide range of discussions and presentations surrounding many areas of spatial domain.
=== Moving forward ===
* Try to increase the number of presentations
* Consider reaching out to other groups (such as Open Data Ottawa)
* Work on increasing visibility to non-members
* Having members volunteer for presentations & other ideas to get off the ground.
=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* New co-chair Fabien Ancelin
* Get involved in GIS day again at local educational institutions
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Category: Reports 2012
Outstanding SAC Issues 2014

This is a page to list some important outstanding OSGeo architecture issues.
== Infrastructure Transition Plan ==
Yet to be implemented:
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014
== Update of projectsVM ==
Problem 1: the osgeo4 machine is deadly slow and needs to be low level reformatted. This requires to move the VMs on it off the server, reformat from RAID6 to RAID5 and move back everything.
Problem 2: the Debian version is outdated, in general the projectsVM is flooded with old project cruft and should be redone from a fresh new VM image
Problem 3: time is gradually passing by and we are stuck.
Ideas for the upgrades - implementation plan:
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-June/005152.html
* https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1325#comment:19
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-August/005235.html
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-September/005262.html
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-September/005264.html
--> ...and answers there
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-September/005275.html
--> ...and answers there
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-October/005310.html
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-November/005315.html
== Update of trac ==
Problem: old trac version is running on an antique Debian (lenny).
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2014-November/005341.html
== Service Provider Search Tool upgrade ==
* current version is linked to vulnerable versions of PHP and Drupal on WebsVM
* additionally it could be a highlight of "OSGeo in business" but it is not... (yet)
Category: Infrastructure
P.K.Sinha

== Praveen Kumar Sinha ==
Serving the Geological Survey of India since 14th July, 1986 
Location: India
== Professional experience ==
Experienced in field work for more that 10 years field programs on 
* Geological mapping,
* Mineral exploration, : Exploration for plateau type bauxites in a basaltic country
* Mineral exploration : Exploration for diamonds
*Trainings in digital technology 
** Primary course on Computer Basics,
** Geographical Information System (ARC/INFO),
** Oracle 8 and Developer 2000,
** Advanced Training in Arc/Info on N.T.
** Attended trainings on Raster GIS, Internet GIS, ARCGIS, ARCSDE and Prospectivity Mapping.
** I have attended trainings in the modules covering Principles of Cartography, Principles of GIS and Principles of Remote Sensing at ITC, the Netherlands (September to December 2000).
* Geoinformatics: 1996-97 to 2001 and 2004 to 2007 I was a member of the team engaged in creation of geoscientific databases (geological information system) in Oracle and GIS environment. 
* Faculty in GSITI for trainings in digital concepts and geographic information system: Started as a guest faculty (since March 2001) and there after as core trainer (since September 2001) led a favourable environment to enthuse me to my dedicated association with the training programs of the Organisation. As a core member of the faculty, I had utilized my innovative and modern methodology in the transfer of knowledge and development of the Scientific Human Resource of the organisation and Nation. I have been sharing my experience in the field of Geoinformatics and the knowledge acquired (with practical on ILWIS) at a short stint at ITC, the Netherlands. Courses covered wide fields from GIS: Raster, Vector, 3D, SRDBMS, capture, manipulation, analysis and modeling etc.
* In the year 2005, I was introduced to FOSS by Mr. Ravi Kumar (then Director, GSI; now an advocate member – OSGeo). Initiation of working in GRASS, followed by OpenJump, QGIS
* Spatial data editing for higher degree of authentication, data standardisation, projection management for the data acquired from feeder state centers, gap & overlap removal, edge matching, establishing the seamless-ness finalisation, geometry validation (simplification) for geological data layers (covering 13 themes and a region of 929 toposheets), maintanance of regional repository (PostGIS), positioning the GCPs of layers to correct point etc.
This work was carried out using FOSS: OpenJump, PostGIS (Postgres), spatialite (Sqlite). 
This data is loaded on Portal of the organisation.
Category:OSGeo Member
Category:OSGeo Charter Member
Category:India
PCI Geomatics Report 2008

== PCI Geomatics ==
PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of hardware/software systems for geo-imaging solutions. Since 1982, we have specialized in remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, spatial analysis, cartographic production, automated production systems, image management and on demand mapping solutions. Our advanced systems address a wide variety of industry applications including the environment, agriculture, security and intelligence, aerospace & defense, and satellite receiving stations. 
PCI Geomatics regards OSGeo to be beneficial to the geomatics industry and became an Associate Sponsor in 2008. In addition, PCI Geomatics also participated as a Silver Sponsor at the OSBootCamp event in June, at Carleton University in Ottawa. 
"PCI Geomatics uses a number of open source tools and software in its development process. We do this because our programmers often know the tools and the software that is made available for specific applications is usually the best. PCI Geomatics has frequently contributed to the open source community and will continue to do so. We believe OSGeo is the appropriate geospatial organization to work with and they have a strong local (Ottawa) presence."
Due to our activities and involvement with OSGeo, PCI Geomatics has contracted Frank Warmerdam to create an Open Source implementation of its PCIDSK file format with eventual inclusions into GDAL. The PCIDSK implementation will be both 32 and 64 bit implementation, provide read/write access to all data types and multi data, as well as provide thread safe asynchronous access to raster data.
We look forward to a continued relationship in 2009.
PDX-OSGeo 20120815 Meeting

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== Location ==
* Renewable Funding
* 400 SW 6th Ave, suite 902
* directions/map'''
* Access Details: Exit the elevators on the ninth floor and its the double glass doors immediately to the left.
* If you arrive after 6pm, please buzz the security guard, who will open the doors and let you up to the 9th floor.
== Agenda ==
=== Introductions ===
* Matt, Ryan, Mele, Katie, Grant, Neil, Justin, Darrell, Wm, Eli
=== Regular meeting business ===
(e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
* Renewable Funding worked well, Flightstats is nearby and well visit soon.
* Lots of October Conference: URISA GIS-Pro, WhereCampPDX, SOTM-US, NACIS.
=== Fun QGIS Geotagged Photos Desktop Demo - Eli ===
* GPS, Geotagged photos, and QGIS. Add in some Ogr2ogr, GPSBabel, GpsPrune, and Exiftools. Otherwise, the presentation was generally about invasive vegetation management.
=== OGC Seeks Comments on GeoServices REST API - Discussion ===
* This was not discussed much
== Future meeting schedule for 2012 (every third Wednesday) ==
* September 19th
* October 17th
* November 21st
* December 19th
PDX-OSGeo 20120926 Meeting

== Time and Location ==
* September 26, 6-8pm
* Flightstats, Inc.
* 522 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 200
* Portland, OR 97204 USA
* near corner of Alder
* map/directions
* Access Details: Take the elevator to the second floor, enter Flightstats and turn left.
* If you arrive after 6pm, please call Wm at 503-577-4247 and someone will come down to let you in.
== Agenda ==
To be filled in
PDX-OSGeo 2013 Unconference

== Registration ==
Register for the 2013 PDX-OSGeo unconference
== Notes ==
=== ESRI on github for recent contest and a little D3 ===
=== D3 ===
=== Review Oregon Walks GIS Jam Inventory ===
* review url
=== More stuff ===
=== Data Munging with GDAL/OGR ===
* GDAL and OGR can be used for all kinds of raster and vector data manipulation. It is the underlying engine for many softwares. The command line and various language bindings are handy for scripts or inclusion in other software.
* Get information about USGS geopdf topo file:
 gdalinfo OR_Portland_282793_1897_62500_geo.pdf
* Convert geopdf to geotif:
 gdal_translate OR_Portland_282793_1897_62500_geo.pdf topo.tif
* Reproject Natural Earth data from WGS84 to Spereical Mercator:
 gdalwarp -s_srs EPSG:4326 -t_srs EPSG:3857 -r bilinear -te -20037508.34 -20037508.34 20037508.34 20037508.34 NE2_HR_LC_SR_W.tif natural-earth-2-mercator.tif --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 500
* Get info about that file (to confirm the change):
 gdalinfo natural-earth-2-mercator.tif
* Add overviews to file:
 gdaladdo -r average natural-earth-2-mercator.tif 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 1024 --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 400
* Get info about that file (note the overviews):
 gdalinfo natural-earth-2-mercator.tif
* Record these commands (if using Windows/dos):
 doskey /history > gdal_commands.txt
=== QGIS tips ===
* Rename fields in shapefile with Table Manager plugin
* save as in a new format or projection (or properly assign projection)
* Prj2EPSG was shown as a way to get projection hints
* Other tips too
=== Coast line segmentation and environmental response ===
=== More stuff ===
=== TileMill and very new vector TileMill ===
=== The Science on a Sphere (SOS) challenge at OMSI ===
== Notes for next year ==
* Remember to email previous year attendees
* Determine best day (in relation to GIS In Action and weekday/weekend)
PDXOSGEO - 2012 Portland Meetings

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: 
New Meeting Location starting - June 20, 2012 
(see address below)
== Location ==
Lucky Lab - North Portland Tap Room
Location Info
== Agenda ==
=== Introductions ===
* Rod, Brian, Rob, Eli, Tanya, Wm, Darrell, Melanie, Madeline, Tim, Rafa, Scott, Ryan, Andy, Katie
=== Regular meeting business ===
(e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
* New Meeting Place - possibly meeting in different places each month. 
* We no longer meet at Collective Agency
* We have several options that seem possible
** Wm's office (flightstats) potentially too, some receptiveness to moving around, Darrell's Office (Renewable Funding) next meeting, third Wednesday could let us have meetings in Nov and Dec,
* Website
** Desire to have clean splash page Portland Functional programming website and cugos suggested as examples. 
** Interest in using github and git pages
* Conferences (NACIS, SOTM, WhereCamp, URISA)
** Wm presenting alternatives to Google maps at NACIS. Probably some leaflet stuff. Is anyone else interested in presenting longer workshop?
** Perhaps Trimet on OSM editing, styling, and OpenLayers.
** SOTM and WhereCamp same weekend (Oct. 13-14) at nearby venues.
** URISA - GIS-Pro 2012 in Oct too
=== Git, Github and affiliated tools - Darrell ===
* GitHub and the Git version control system, two tools at the heart of open source collaboration. Even if you're not a software developer this will be a great primer on what makes open source projects tick. Git veterans, bring your knowledge and stories of the wild west days of Subversion, CVS and dare I say it, Microsoft VSS.
** Version control ancient CVS, RCS
** Some newer ones too (some distributed). git came out of license change of bitkeeper.
** git, github, mercurial have really become popular lately.
** Demo: Creating new repo with the PostGIS table manager project Darrell presented a few months ago, adding to it, committing, edits, diffs, diffs between any commits, branch, checkout, merge, cherry-pick, view changes in git-x or others, push, fork, pull request, merge pull request,
== Future meeting schedule for 2012 (every third Wednesday) ==
* July 18th
* August 15th
* September 19th
* October 17th
* November (typically canceled)
* December (typically canceled, or Winter Coders Social)
PDX OSGEO 20110427 Meeting

PDX-OSGEO meeting 
 4/27/2011 6:30-8 
 Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland 
== Agenda ==
=== Introductions ===
=== Regular meeting business ===
* (e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
# Unconference recap and feedback (10 min) 
# Wiki page naming convention (5 min) 
# Review mission statement (10 min) 
# PNW FOSS4G carpool?
=== Presentations ===
# Percy demo of the ushahidi crowdmap app
=== Misc ===
== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==
* April 27th 
* May 25th (topics can go here) 
* June 29th 
* July 27th 
* August 31st 
* September 28th 
* October 26th 
* November 30th (likely canceled) 
* December 28th (likely canceled)
== Other ==
PDX OSGEO 20110525 Meeting

PDX-OSGEO OpenSourcery, NW Portland Wed May 25th, 2011
== Atendance ==
* Attending: Skip, Jeremy, Christian, Sarah, Tanya, Heather, Rob, Sean, Lynnae, Randy
* Absent: No beer present :(
== Announcements ==
* Rob, Christian and Heather are all working on a new small community open source GIS outreach organization check out: Geo CEG
== Demos ==
=== Demo I – GRASS Preview ===
* Rob re-capped the good old days of search and rescue in the coast guard (circa 1990’s), and led us into a demo of GRASS w/ a QGIS front end…
* First public GRASS release in 1991… taken over by Baylor University in 1997, now managed under OSGEO. Runs under almost everything
* Nowadays GRASS does 2D & 3D Raster, and 2D & 3D Vector. Connects natively to QGIS and PostGIS
* Quickie overview of setting up both permanent and project workspaces…
* Rob planned out a full blown demo for June that will include a project set-up, adding demo data, analysis, cartography examples
=== Demo II - Middle Earth Map ===
* Jeremy demo-ed an Open data project that seeks to build 3D Middle Earth data – digital elevation models, landcover, etc. (think OpenStreetMap except for fantasy terrains)
* Check out Middle Earth DEM site
* GEOTerSys is the 3D renderer
* Proland and Alterra are the 3D globe products used
* Jeremy’s geo project for them right now consists of a 2D 1 GIG tif file created by compiling multiple maps from various sources, served up on Geoserver with an OpenLayers frontend. See: Jeremy's website
* There is a work flow that uses Jeremy’s map as a departure point for eventually creating final rendered products. To check it out go to the ME-DEM.org site and look under articles --> modeling. To get a quick sense of what is happening as things transition from 2D to 3D rendered terrain, you can skim some images here: An introduction to using L3DT to model terrain in ME-DEM
== Reports back ==
* Trimet open house – a couple of us attended the Trimet open house for OSM editors. They currently have 4 interns working to improve the OSM data in the Portland metro area using RLIS and high quality imagery. Improvement areas include: street data, bike data, trails and pedestrian data, and turn restriction data. Trimet is making this investment in OSM because the new bus routing software that they will be using would have charged them a per bus license fee just to use the routable base map, which would have cost them over $100k per year.
* OpenBaseMap – the CUGOS folks have come quite long ways with the open base map project since last we heard about it (see Wherecamp PDX 2010 notes here: WhereCamp Notes) stay tuned to the CUGOS mailing list to learn more…
PDX OSGEO 20110824 Agenda

PDX-OSGEO meeting 
 8/24/2011 6-7 & 7-8 or 6:30-8 still discussing 
 Location: OpenSourcery in NW Portland & Across the street afterwards 
== Agenda ==
=== Introductions ===
=== Regular meeting business ===
* (e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)
# OSCON, OSBridge, and other reports
# Determine future meeting time
# Nov and Dec meetings?
=== Presentations ===
# Ecotrust: eCatch and bioregion discovery
=== Misc ===
== Remaining schedule (every fourth Wednesday) ==
* September 28th (Jonathan Karon (fightingmonk) is coming to present his OSBridge 2011 session)
* October 26th (Lev Tyspin from ThinkShout is coming to talk about some Drupal mapping work they've done)
* November 30th (likely canceled) 
* December 28th (likely canceled)
== Other ==
PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes

PDX-OSGEO OpenSourcery, NW Portland Wed August 24th, 2011
== Atendance ==
* Attending: Skip, Percy, Christian, Ryan, Darrell, Tim, Eli, Neil
== Announcements ==
* New meeting time 6-7 and social afterwards across the street, 
* WhereCampPDX Oct 8th - we should be involved with this. Perhaps setup software walk through of the OSGeo Stack
* 
== Demos ==
=== Demo I – bioregion and convening ===
* Simple: very stripped down MarineMap
* Tool to explore bioregions 
* Various factors (Tempurature, precipitation, language, etc) used as user defined input to model
* GRASS is the backend for the model. Based on wrapper of GRASS that makes shell calls. 
* Model returns bioregion based on least-cost analysis
* User can refine parameters
* Can edit, move, refine, share results
* Once bioregion is defined, reports are available (Climate Change, Socio-economic, Natural hazards) done with PostGIS
* Working with Global datasets for analysis was a challenge
* Probably rebrand MarineMap as a general purpose spatial platform sometime in the future
* Uses Google Earth browser plugin
=== Demo II - eCatch ===
* Mobile - needs Chrome, Safari, or other WebKitSDK browser
* Continue across the street
== Reports back ==