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SharedGeo Sponors GITA

Steve — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:03:20 +0000

Recently, the SharedGeo Board of Directors voted unanimously to become a sponsor of the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) of Auroa, Colorado. As such, it became GITA’s first “Bronze sponsor”, a sponsorship level tailored for small businesses and nonprofits such as SharedGeo. In light of this development, SharedGeo Executive Director Steve Swazee offered the following:

“Although GITA is often thought of as an organization where only the likes of ESRI, Autodesk, GE and other major players in the infrastructure and geospatial communities participate, SharedGeo appreciates the affordable opportunity to sponsor another nonprofit that has led the way on several issues of high importance to SharedGeo. Among these is GITA’s eight-year-old effort to develop national awareness about the important interplay of geospatial technologies, infrastructure, and emergency response as embodied in their Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration (GECCo) program. Additionally, GITA’s development of a “Thought Leaders Symposium” is another area where we believe our interests align closely. Structured to help America’s public-private “Decision Makers” gain in-depth understanding of the significant challenges that lie ahead as geospatial technology continues to develop and move ever more into the main stream, we believe this upcoming event will be very important for any leader who wants to effectively combine technology, policies and people in a way that ultimately creates a “best practice”. As such, SharedGeo is a proud and committed sponsor of GITA.”

SharedGeo Presentation at FOSS4G North America 2012

Alison — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:02:26 +0000

Jim Klassen, one of the SharedGeo’s programmers, is presenting at FOSS4G North America 2012. Check out his talk on Wednesday April 11 at 2pm. He’ll be explaining how he set up a system to store and serve 50 TB of imagery on a limited budget. Read more about his presentation, Build your own Cloud – an Open Source approach to Imagery Storage.

Technical Director Basques to Present at WLIA

Steve — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:23:26 +0000

SharedGeo’s Technical Director, Bob Basques, has been selected to present at the Wisconsin Land Information Association’s (WLIA) Annual Convention being held in Stevens Point, WI on February 15-17, 2012. The subject of Bob’s talk will be GeoMoose, an open source software project that Bob helped develop while working in the Public Works Department of the City of St. Paul, MN. GeoMoose is currently in the final stages of becoming an endorsed project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

SharedGeo helps sponsor Twin Cities GECCo

Nancy — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:06:15 +0000

What’s a “GECCo”? In this case it is a 2-day invitational session to promote Geospatial support for Emegency Managers, “Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration”, October 27-28, 2011. Part of a nationwide series of events inaugurated by GITA, the Twin Cities GECCo is supported by a number of sponsors including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA), and local participants including members of the EPC, MetroGIS, and SharedGeo.

Open Source resources from FOSS4G

Nancy — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:09:28 +0000

What do you get when you put together 900 people – software developers, users, sponsors, from legendary coders to newbies – and let them talk about their latest Open Source projects? Lots of excitement, lots of sharing, lots of opportunities for collaboration – and a lot of great solutions for problems ranging from national infrastructure and global environments to mapping slums to empower residents. Check out the talks and resources available online from FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for GeoSpatial), including talks by SharedGeo staff.

SharedGeo at Foss4G 2011, Denver

Nancy — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:20:45 +0000

Mon. 9/12, 1-5 pm, Tower Ct. B – Workshop on GeoMoose, an extensible client framework for MapServer that provides a robust web mapping interface but with data maintenance and management distributed to the data owners. Bob Basques & Jim Klassen, with Dan Little http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/moose-loose-mapping-geomoose

Weds. 9/14, 5:30 or 7 pm, (Room TBA) Birds-of-a-Feather session on GeoMoose and new releases – Dan Little, Jim Klassen, Bob Basques, Brian Fischer, + … http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Breakout_Sessions

Thur. 9/15, 3:30-4 pm, Tower Ct. B – GeoMoose and NonProfits – Bob Basques & Jim Klassen http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/google-maps-geomoose-whats-nonprofit-do

Fri. 9/16, 1-1:30 pm, Denver Rm. – Open Source and the Common Operating Picture – Steve Swazee & Bob Basques http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/opensource-and-common-operating-picture-cop

Plus watch for GeoMoose demos at the OSGeo Booth – times to be posted…(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2011_OSGeo_Booth)

Open Source and the Common Operating Picture

Nancy — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:24:12 +0000

Steve Swazee returned from the GITA national meeting impressed by the widespread interest in using Open Source solutions to enable critical response in major industries. Check out his talk, recently accepted for presentation at the international Open Source Geospatial conference, Foss4G, in Denver. http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/opensource-and-common-operating-picture-cop

GIS for Disasters: State services backups provided by SharedGeo

Nancy — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:27:54 +0000

At the end of June it appeared that the MnGeo image service that so many depend on would be shut down with other MN State services. SharedGeo offered to provide a backup site, since we had the capacity and expertise needed, and the state GIO accepted our offer. About 4 hours before the cutoff deadline the MnGeo image service was given a reprieve and left up, with no means of support if it went down. The SharedGeo backup was fully functional and word was spread through the MnGeo Emergency Preparedness Committee that the backup was available. The Metro Geocoder, however, was shut down with other MnGeo “non-essential” services, and SharedGeo staff set up an alternative instance which went into use soon after the shutdown. See “Available GIS for Disasters” for the latest details.

SharedGeo Supports GITA Minnesota-Wisconsin Conference

Steve — Sun, 15 May 2011 19:46:17 +0000

SharedGeo was one of the sponsors of the “New and Emerging Spatial Technologies Seminar” May 3-4 organized by the Minnesota and Wisconsin Chapters of GITA. Bob Basques spoke on Open Source Geospatial Software in Government and Steve Swazee gave a presentation on the MnGeo Emergency Preparedness Committee. Steve also presented at the Apr. 10-13 GITA Geospatial Solutions national conference in Dallas where he spoke on two topics: the “Accelerating Integration of Infrastructure”, and the use of Geospatial Information Systems within the “Emergency Management Cycle”.

SharedGeo in Montreal Code Sprint

Nancy — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:49:33 +0000

SharedGeo contributed to the Open Source community through the OSGeo Code Sprint in Montreal March 14-18, with programmer Jim Klassen working primarily on areas related to MapServer, including maintenance to Ruby bindings for both MapServer and OGR. For a general description of the work done (and photos of participants), check out Daniel Morissette’s blog at http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/, or the OSGeo site http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011