{"id":251,"date":"2007-09-01T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-09-01T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T21:44:08","slug":"osgeo-boston-users-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/251\/osgeo-boston-users-group\/","title":{"rendered":"OSGeo: Boston Users Group?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an email I&#8217;ve been sending around:<\/p>\n<p>As part of an effort to seek out Open Source Geo people in the Boston area, I&#8217;m canvassing the local community for interest in a regular open source geospatial interest group meeting.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, <a href=\"http:\/\/osgeo.org\/\">OSGeo<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/geoserver.org\/\">GeoServer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/openlayers.org\/\">OpenLayers<\/a>. It is currently entering its third year of operation, and has a number of projects undergoing incubation currently to become &quot;OSGeo projects&quot;, including everything from uDig and QGIS to GRASS to GeoServer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vtsc.info\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/anton.vtsc.ws\/optical.jpg\" alt=\"Site for optical communication\" title=\"Fiber Optical Communications\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goal of having regular meetings would be:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Create Networking oppourtunities: allow users of open source geo software to meet with creators of open source geo software where possible.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Chill out&quot;: spend social time with other like-minded individuals &#8212; either users of open source geosoftware, or just people interested in learning more about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If such a thing were to take place in the Bostonish area, would anyone in the area be interested in attending? Anything in particular that strikes your interest?<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing from anyone interested in creating a local group of OS Geosoftware users&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an email I&#8217;ve been sending around: As part of an effort to seek out Open Source Geo people in the Boston area, I&#8217;m canvassing the local community for interest in a regular open source geospatial interest group meeting. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, OSGeo is a non-profit organization which is seeking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space","category-osgeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}