Frugosapalooza 2008

Overview 

Brian Timoney:

What I'd like to have by the end of the week are some venues and 
possible dates so everyone can check their calendar.

--Dan Huber is going to set up the Colorado Springs event.

--I'll set up the Denver logistics.

--Sean Gillies will handle the Ft. Collins meeting

--I've got a lead or two on Boulder, but if a local wants to take the 
lead, that would be great.

Here are the desiderata for meetings as I see them--

1.  Sometime between mid-Feb and early March

2.  Tuesday or Wednesday night

3.  A locale with a private/semi-private room

4.  Wifi enabled

5.  A venue serving adult beverages is preferred, but merely caffeinated 
fallback options would work too.

Only as a last resort should we consider "meeting in one place (e.g. 
office)/drinking afterwards in another place"; I find too often too many 
folks are tempted to bolt after the technical material leaving only the 
lushes slurring their acronyms amongst themselves.

But that's just my opinion.

So let's try and get some preliminary Date/Time/Place options up on the 
board by the end of the week.


Thanks,

Brian

Boulder 

 Tuesday March 4th, Boulder Beer Company, 6PM-8PM

Denver

Tuesday February 19th, Forest Room 5, 6PM-8PM

Presenters:  Peter Batty --Facebook geo-app using PostGIS

                  Sean Gillies--Python-based Shapely library & Humanities mapping

Sean's links:

• Shapely: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
• Mush: http://zcologia.com/mush
• EveryBlock: http://blog.everyblock.com/2008/feb/18/maps/ 
• Knowhere: http://zcologia.com/kw/demo/index
  

Colorado Springs 

Wednesday February 27th, Jack Quinn's Pub, 6PM-8PM

Fort Collins

Tuesday February 26, the Bean Cycle loft (up in the back), 6pm-8pm.

RSVP: Sean Gillies, Bill Thorp, Dave Bouwman, [add your name here]

Names:

Sean Gillies, University of North Carolina, Ancient World Mapping Center

Robert  Burton Archaeologist,  Bureau of Reclamation

Darrin Sharp, s/w engineer @ Riverside Technology (darrin.sharp@riverside.com)

Dave Bouwman s/w architect / DTS / davebouwman.net/contact.aspx

Randy How s/w engineer i-cubed

amnon.nevo@riverside.com

Nils Babel, GISP nils.babel@riverside.com

Graeme Aggett, Graeme.Aggett@riverside.com 

Steve Malers, s/w engineer, Steve.Malers@riverside.com 

Colby Ackerfield, RealGo, Inc.