CT GIS User to User Meeting - June 18, 2010

The Connecticut GIS User to User Meeting will be held on June 18, 2010 at the University of Connecticut Waterbury Campus. This meeting will focus on Open Source GIS and related applications and will include both presentations and hands-on demonstrations of the technologies. Included below is the agenda for this meeting:


8:30 to 9:00am
Networking - Meet other GIS colleagues from around the state!

9:00 to 10:15am
Presentation of Freeware and Shareware Applications

- QGIS - Presented by Neil Curri, Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County
- BILKO Remote Sensing software by Jeffrey Dunn, University of Connecticut
- uDig - Presented by Thad Dymkowski, Town of Newington
- Open Indicators Consortium - Presented by James Farnam, Holt, Wexler & Farnam, LLP
- Weave -

10:15 to 10:30am
Break and Networking

10:30 to 11:30am
Small-group Live Demonstrations

Opportunity to learn more about the following:
- GIS on the Cheap - Peggy Minnis - Pace University
- QGIS - Neil Curri - Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County
- BILKO - Jeffrey Dunn - University of Connecticut
- uDig - Thad Dymkowski - Town of Newington
- Open Indicators Consortium - James Farnam, Holt, Wexler & Farnam, LLP
- Weave - Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell

11:30am to 11:45am
MapServer for WMS Access

- MapServer for WMS Access presented by Michael Smith, Maine GIS

11:45am-12:00pm
Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers

- Share free tools, scripts and tips
- Q & A

12:00pm
Adjourn

Note: This is a tentative agenda and subject to change

This meeting is free and open to all GIS users and there is no registration fee. If you are interested in attending join us on Friday June 18, 2010 at the University of Connecticut Waterbury campus in Multipurpose Room 113-116.

Parking is available in the Waterbury Campus parking garage for free and included below are links to directions to the Waterbury Campus.

Directions:

Directions to the UConn Waterbury Campus are available at: http://www.waterbury.uconn.edu/about/directionsgarage.html

Parking is free in the campus parking garage and the following link includes a Google Map with the garage entrance marked:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=41.556372,-73.036337&hl=en&geocode=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=17&sll=41.555762,-73.037463&sspn=0.005556,0.009645&ie=UTF8&z=17