Sorry about hardly posting anything. I’ve been running around to meetings, presenting, and having more meetings, but. . .
The Geoblogger Meetup rocked! I just wanted to say thank you to Rob Painter, the Google Earth Federal manager for sponsoring the event. I also would like to thank Mister Tiki for being great hosts.
So, who showed up? Peter Batty, Dave Bouwman, Dave Smith, The Very Spatial team (Frank-Sue-Jesse), the SketchUp Team, other Googlers, Jermey from ArcGIS Server Development Blog, and a few PlanetGS readers. It was a little less than we had last year, but I think there’s an explanation to that: Early UC and the Dev Summit.
It was still great to get to talk to a number of bloggers. Peter, the man without a [GIS] country, and the SketchUp team were reminiscing about Denver. I know I was in a conversation about environmental pollutants with Dave Smith and a reader (sorry, forgot your name) that was interesting. Even Rob said he had a great time chatting people up and offered to sponsor us again next year.
As for next year. . .
Rob and I had an idea: why not make it a little more than just a meetup? Perhaps we could get someone like Michael Jones to come and have some short talks about our community and what we could do together. There’s an thought that we can do more to bridge the GIS–neogeography gap. Heck, Jack in his planary was pretty much talking about neogeography, but called it the “geographic approach.” So, we may add just a bit of structure next year, some eats, and start something new.
Feel free to share your thoughts on the Meetup for next year.
The UC next year starts 4 August, so start making plans for the Dev Summit and the UC. Try to get both. I’ll probably be able to make it to the Dev Summit next year. I just got into the University of Redland’s Master’s in Geographic Information Science, so I’ll be nearby. (More on this next).
It was indeed a pleasure to finally put some faces to the names, some great conversation, and many thanks again to you for setting this up!
And thanks again to the Google Earth folks for picking up the tab on the drinks and “one of everything”…
Comment by Dave Smith — June 23, 2007 @ 2:55 am