The World Wind Developers Meeting is scheduled for March 13-14 (Tues-Wed) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. 

This meeting will demo DoD-related World Wind applications and discuss use of World Wind technology. If you would like to present or describe your application, please let me know so we can make a place for you on the agenda. 

The NASA World Wind development team will provide an inside look at World Wind open source technology, including its newest feature, full implementation of MIL-STD symbology and tactical graphics, i.e., 2525C, 1477, NATO APP-6A, etc., along with other functionalities of interest to DoD World Wind application developers and project managers.

Click here to register, http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/meeting/register/ (US citizens and residents only). Registration is required to attend and is limited to US Government employees and US Government contractors.

For more information, contact Patrick.Hogan@nasa.gov, (650) 604-5656 (office)

http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/showthread.php?t=32276 

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It is about time we did another one of these!

Last year, we did a User Presentation meeting where people showed the projects they had been working on. It was great. So let's repeat that!

People can get a short period time (divided among the presenters) to show a project they have been working. The simple rule is that this is not a platform for people to pitch their startup (there are other venues for that), but a way for you to explain some cool geo-related technology/side project.

Currently we have presentation for the following topics:

- Mobile 3D geo

- Real-time tracking of GPS devices

- Recent Explorations in Dynamic Mapping (Sha Hwang)

- Using Public Natural Disaster Data for Fun and Profit (Doug McCune)

If you have a presentation - side project - you would like to show, please send me some info so we can add you to the list.

http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/events/50463632/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1

We are honored to have Ryan Lane - Wikipedia engineer extraordinaire - come and talk to us about Wikipedia's architecture and infrastructure!

Essentially, what makes Wikipedia work...

So, stay tuned for the detailed agenda.

We are charging $5 for this event to offset snack costs and any surplus will be donated to the WikiMedia Foundation on behalf of CodeChix !!

So, please come and show us your support and Welcome Ryan !  And learn about how one of the top worldwide websites works.

We are, once again, being hosted at the fabulous Color.com digs in Palo Alto - 2 blocks from the Caltrain station.  And there is a huge parking deck just a block away, so parking should be a breeze.

http://codechix-wikipedia.eventbrite.com/ 

http://vocamp.org/wiki/GeoVoCampSB2012

The Santa Barbara 2012 GeoVoCamp will focus on geo-ontology design patterns and bottom-up, data-driven semantics. We will investigate two types of features: (i) Micro-scale features and their types. We will look at Points of Interest as used in mobile applications, recommendation systems, Volunteered Geographic Information, and Location-Based Social Networks. We hope that this part especially attracts GIScience people as well as others working on mobile computing, the mobile and social Semantic Web, as well as on sensor semantics. (ii) Meso-scale features and their types. We hope to continue the work on ontologies for landforms and land use classes. Instead of a purely top-down driven approach based on foundational ontologies, we would like to include bottom-up approaches and geo-ontology design patterns as well and continue the work that was started on the WDC 2011 GeoVoCamp on topographic eminences etc. We hope this part will additionally attract people working on remote sensing, standardization, digital gazetteers, digital earth research, and semantic web researchers interested in cultural-heritage or geographic data in general. Finally, and thanks to Karl Grossner, we will also try to develop patterns for the temporal domain, e.g., for use in semantically-enabled historical GIS.

Of course, and most importantly, the GeoVoCamp is free and open to everybody with an interest in geo-ontologies, spatial semantics (with and without geo), Linked Spatiotemporal Data and the Geospatial Semantic Web. We are also trying to co-align the Santa Barbara GeoVoCamp with another camp in Spain.

 Outcomes

We hope to develop at least one geo-ontology design pattern for each of the three domains, i.e., micro-scale features centered on POI, meso-scale features focusing on landscapes or administrative divisions, and a temporal pattern centered around the interaction of events with places. The team of organizers will prepare a template for documentation and at least one organizer will be present in each breakout group to take notes. We hope that by using this template we can come up with a joint publication by all participants documenting out results and implementing them for use by a wider community.

 When

The GeoVocamp will take place 3-5 February 2012. To ensure that the meeting is productive and we get some real outcomes we hope that you can stay Saturday and Sunday (4-5 February). We will start Friday 2pm with an informal get together and discussions for those of you who arrive on Thursday or Friday and will kick off the GeoVoCamp Saturday 9am. We will close the event Sunday 5pm.