| 20:16:22 | darkblueB: | FrankW: well I had a brief discussion with some folks about an OSGeo California chapter.. or Silicon Valley perhaps |
| 20:17:10 | FrankW: | Good to hear. |
| 20:17:12 | darkblueB: | Google - we'll see of anything comes of it |
| 20:17:28 | darkblueB: | I said there were overlapping interests ... |
| 20:17:34 | FrankW: | Did your session go well? |
| 20:17:45 | darkblueB: | yes, very well.. thank you |
| 20:17:45 | FrankW: | You were presenting/training today, right? |
| 20:17:55 | FrankW: | cool |
| 20:18:02 | darkblueB: | yes.. GeoServer did get some attention |
| 20:18:11 | FrankW: | excellent |
| 20:18:13 | darkblueB: | now they ( GeoServer ) has to back it up ! |
| 20:18:41 | darkblueB: | yeah.. the Google tech people are really good, but not all of them are up on the out of house innovations |
| 20:18:45 | darkblueB: | not too surprising |
| 20:18:58 | FrankW: | not surprising at all. |
| 20:19:22 | FrankW: | In fact, in the "old days" when I worked at PCI I was mostly unaware of anything going outside the company. |
| 20:19:34 | darkblueB: | yep.... |
| 20:19:36 | FrankW: | And I'm sure it is even easier to imagine the company is the whole world at Google. |
| 20:20:12 | darkblueB: | so Summer of Code was mentioned.. and I was happy to report - honestly - that that has become a pivotal event for OSGeo |
| 20:20:23 | darkblueB: | that went over well.. |
| 20:20:30 | FrankW: | yes indeed. In fact I got my shirt today! |
| 20:20:34 | darkblueB: | :- ) |
| 20:20:48 | TylerM: | hi guys ! |
| 20:21:08 | TylerM: | maybe we'll get a check soon too! |
| 20:21:12 | darkblueB: | it was almost as if.. realizing that they were perhaps not completely up on outside developer things, that they put SoC forward as sort of "see, we *are* doing things" |
| 20:21:14 | TylerM: | : ) |
| 20:21:29 | darkblueB: | and of course, SoC is a great suceess |
| 20:22:10 | TylerM: | darkblue_B: what were you up to today? |
| 20:22:41 | darkblueB: | I volunteered to do a half hour presentation on "advanced topics" for Google at their all day workshop |
| 20:22:55 | darkblueB: | .. titled "presenting your cause with Google Earth" |
| 20:23:04 | darkblueB: | to mainly nonprofits in the ecology realm |
| 20:23:22 | TylerM: | all right, good work |
| 20:23:26 | darkblueB: | for it, I got the after hours cocktail party thing, though tankfully not much booze ( I dont drink ) |
| 20:23:42 | TylerM: | heh.. beer's a waste on my too : ) |
| 20:23:50 | darkblueB: | and I was just telling FrankW, I got some Face Time with some higher ups at Google |
| 20:24:12 | darkblueB: | .. and brought up the OSGeo cause, among other things |
| 20:24:30 | darkblueB: | I think it went over well |
| 20:24:33 | TylerM: | yeah i saw - it'd be great to have a bigger group help host or encourage a california chapter : ) |
| 20:24:43 | darkblueB: | well I was just getting to that |
| 20:24:58 | darkblueB: | Google definitely offers monthly meeting hosting to other groups |
| 20:25:22 | darkblueB: | I really dont want to put a huge amount of effort into that now though if attendance is a challenge |
| 20:25:46 | darkblueB: | so I thought out loud that mayber we should dtart with being close to major conferences |
| 20:25:49 | darkblueB: | ..instead |
| 20:26:01 | darkblueB: | I have gone through this with some other user groups |
| 20:26:02 | TylerM: | other chapters are doing that as well, not a bad approach |
| 20:26:21 | TylerM: | espeecially ones trying to get started |
| 20:28:05 | darkblueB: | the libkml engineers are based there in Mtn View |
| 20:28:29 | darkblueB: | a bunch of things just depend on the winds |
| 20:28:48 | TylerM: | hah |
| 20:29:08 | darkblueB: | may of the other spatial engineers are not in Mtn View I think |
| 20:29:19 | darkblueB: | the customer support people are there |
| 20:29:23 | darkblueB: | many |
| 20:30:54 | darkblueB: | one of the guys in the audience tonight.. just sat, never said anything.. after the talk, a long while after, he gave me his card |
| 20:31:04 | darkblueB: | turns out he is a NY lawyer, with 13 years in the OGC ! |
| 20:31:13 | darkblueB: | one never knows |
| 20:31:42 | FrankW: | darkblue_B: do you recall his name? |
| 20:31:47 | TylerM: | sounds like an interesting group |
| 20:32:02 | darkblueB: | Bruce Cahan |
| 20:32:14 | FrankW: | Hmm, not familiar to me. |
| 20:32:45 | darkblueB: | apparently he was part of something that ended up being crucial in 9/11 response way back when |
| 20:32:53 | darkblueB: | or so the Internet story goes |
| 20:33:04 | darkblueB: | ( I looked it up just now ) |
| 20:33:25 | darkblueB: | also part of some things that I consider to be important work on the social side |
| 20:33:30 | darkblueB: | so, complex character |
| 20:34:08 | TylerM: | darkblue_B: Mike L. is interested in seeing OSGeo move in the valley too, in case you need more contacts.. http://www.iftf.org/user/12 |
| 20:34:10 | sigq: | Title: Michael Liebhold | Institute For The Future ( at www.iftf.org ) |
| 20:34:18 | TylerM: | of course there are others |
| 20:34:32 | darkblueB: | Mike L! I am a Mike L fan ;- ) |
| 20:34:39 | darkblueB: | and I dont say that about many people |
| 20:35:05 | TylerM: | ah, i see he's already on the california mailing list |
| 20:35:31 | darkblueB: | that list is pretty quiet |
| 20:35:39 | darkblueB: | I joined as per someone's suggestion |
| 20:35:54 | TylerM: | yeah i see ya |
| 21:24:10 | wildintellect: | darkblue_B, we've been thinking of having a planning meeting in the Norcal region sometime soon - and a BOF or other meeting at the Where conf next spring would be good too |
| 22:01:29 | sigq: | osgeofeed: Changeset [1245]: Initial check in for the udig-conf package. <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/1245> |
| 22:01:41 | CIA-52: | osgeo: jsanz * r1242 /community/presentations/200810-malaga-agueda/ ( 6 files in 2 dirs ): branched slides and added an ohloh chart |
| 22:01:42 | CIA-52: | osgeo: jsanz * r1243 /community/presentations/200810-malaga-agueda/ ( 4 files in 2 dirs ): set mime types |
| 22:01:42 | CIA-52: | osgeo: jsanz * r1244 /community/presentations/200810-malaga-agueda/OSGeoMalaga.html: added license and minor changes |
| 22:01:44 | CIA-52: | osgeo: shansen * r1245 /livedvd/ ( 20 files in 6 dirs ): Initial check in for the udig-conf package. |
| 22:48:20 | CameronShorter: | I'm here for the marketing meeting in 10 minutes. I'm on a bus and internet connection is a bit flaky, so I appologise in advance if I drop out. |
| 22:50:06 | wildintellect: | I thought It was tomorrow |
| 22:51:28 | wildintellect: | CameronShorter, I'm pretty sure you're a day early for the meeting http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=10&day=22&hour=7&min=0&sec=0 |
| 22:51:29 | sigq: | Title: The Fixed Time World Clock ( at timeanddate.com ) |
| 22:53:21 | CameronShorter: | ah, so I am. Thanks wildintellect. |
| 22:55:59 | wildintellect: | I like the "arramagong" but I question it's practical application, I spend enough time with people arguing over the pronunciation of Ubuntu or for that matter Linux |
| 23:00:14 | CameronShorter: | wildintellect, fair comment, although I not expecting to change the name. ( Our marketing guys like it, and I prefer to focus on tech bits and let others worry about what we call it. |
| 23:01:17 | wildintellect: | fair enough, but I hesitate to use that for the official osgeo or anything outside Australia where it will take 5 min to explain the name |
| 23:02:30 | wildintellect: | so I guess the question is, is this a Lisasoft venture or a community project with Lisasoft support? |
| 23:03:07 | CameronShorter: | I'm hoping it will become a community project. |
| 23:03:39 | wildintellect: | then I don't know if having your company arbitrarily decide the name is a good idea for community sake |
| 23:04:15 | CameronShorter: | noted. |
| 23:04:30 | CameronShorter: | Your issue is that the name is too difficult to say? |
| 23:04:37 | wildintellect: | and understand |
| 23:04:47 | CameronShorter: | Maybe find a simple name like "skype"? |
| 23:04:55 | wildintellect: | right |
| 23:06:27 | wildintellect: | so the windows usb thing is PortableGIS, why not something like LiveGIS |
| 23:07:57 | wildintellect: | if we stick with something generic at least for naming the trac/svn then we're always open to a more creative name later |
| 23:08:05 | CameronShorter: | Possible, but so many of our GeoFOSS names contain derivatives of "Open" and "Geospatial" in it. |
| 23:08:34 | CameronShorter: | We were hoping to get a name that was more memorable. |
| 23:10:55 | wildintellect: | like I said make the svn/trac generic and readable, then we can discuss finding a good exciting name |
| 23:11:36 | wildintellect: | terrago |
| 23:11:48 | wildintellect: | latin for "Live Earth" roughly |
| 23:12:16 | wildintellect: | terra+ago |
| 23:12:26 | wildintellect: | could even flip it agoterra |
| 23:12:56 | CameronShorter: | Your feedback is good, I'll forward back through the LISAsoft team tomorrow and see if we get anywhere. Might be good to put your thoughts into an email and see if others agree. |
| 23:13:14 | wildintellect: | lol, can't use terrago, that's a company that make Geopdf |
| 23:13:39 | wildintellect: | but agoterra is still ok |
| 23:15:07 | wildintellect: | I'm sure your marketing people can come up with some better ones, just remind them, simple and fairly pronounceable |
| 23:16:16 | CameronShorter: | ok |
| 23:16:47 | wildintellect: | as someone who hands out many discs, I appreciate it - thanks |