Greetings! Welcome to the January 2007 Virtual Meeting of the California GIS Council. This will be a non-voting meeting, open to all. Please engage in the discussion, using the topic questions as points of departure. As the California GIS community, we need to have a healthy discussion regarding our common needs of a robust spatial data infrastructure. This forum just begins part of that discussion. I look forward to reading (and listening to) the the points of view presented.
The meeting will be open from Monday January 22, until Wednesday January 24 late PM. Below are the instructions for attending the meeting. I look forward to reading the discussion. Background information on the 50 States Initiatives, can be found at http://nsgic.org/hottopics/fifty_states.cfm
Meeting Location: http://giscouncil.oshpd.ca.gov. Please go to this site and register yourself as a participant.
Meeting Instructions:
You must register prior to attending. During registration you will be asked to fill out a profile. If you are a sitting member or proxy for a sitting member, please enter Member - in the ‘Location’ section of the profile, where is the seat you represent (e.g. US Geologic Survey, San Joaquin Valley Regional GIS Council). Everyone else, please enter ‘GIS Council’ in the location section. Any field in the Profile with an * is a required field. Once you complete the profile you will be sent an authentication email. There might be a short time delay to activate the registration. At this point you can login to the meeting. If you registered for last years meeting, your account is still active. There is a place to still attend if you have forgotten your password. Contact me if you have forgotten your user name, and I will reset it for you. Please first read the Welcome and Introduction Topic as this portion contains meeting guidelines. Please ‘discuss’ the topics. The meeting is open to all interested parties. Sitting members are encouraged to respond to discussion items. As a moderator, I will be following the discussion. If you have problems with registration or login please contact me and I will repair them. You can have sidebar discussions with individuals if they place their email in their profiles. Let us know what you think of this format, by posting a reply to the Welcome and Introduction Topic.
The virtual meeting will conclude on Friday, January 26, 1-4 PM, with a video webcast recapping the virtual discussion, further discussion on needed actions, and a presentation from Cy Smith, Oregon GIS Coordinator on the Oregon GIS Utility and coordination in Oregon. Please plan on attending this important session and interacting with Cy on his efforts and how we can improve coordination in our state. Additional instructions on this session will be mailed out later.
If you have any questions, please contact me directly.
Sincerely, Mike Byrne, California GIS Council Chair California GIS Council
