I for one would be happy to drop by. There are quite a few geo types in Seattle and Vancouver - in both for profit and non profit communities.
- a On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jeremy Irish wrote: > I'm wondering if there is enough interest in a Seattle meeting. We're in the > process of moving to new digs, but I think it would be possible to host > something in November if others are interested. > > We're also planning on doing some open houses for the geocachers out there. > It's been interesting seeing the social aspect of geocaching take off. People > really enjoy putting faces to avatar names and logbook entries. > > Jeremy Irish > President, Groundspeak > http://www.groundspeak.com > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian > White|Urban Mapping > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:28 PM > To: geowanking > Subject: [Geowanking] Geowanking Live! or Geowanking! Live! // Thr, Oct 5 in > San Francisco > > > Urban Mapping, Inc. is proud to announce the first (of hopefully) many > geo-get-together events for those in the Bay Area. On Thursday October 5 the > doors of UMI will open at 6.30pm (not literally--you must ring a bell), we'll > begin at 7pm and we look forward to seeing you. It will be a BYOS (bring your > own stuff) event--beer, snacks, cola, etc is welcome. We'll provide the > 'infrastructure.' Our office can't hold more than 20 people or so, so we ask > that you RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and indicate how many in your party. > > Some info about our (evolving) ideas for the evening... > > For our inaugural event, Rich Gibson will speak on geocoded audio to support > mobile storytelling, defining informal space, tagging photos to waypoints > (and vice versa) (think travelogues) or another topic. Mike Liebhold will > bring "some kind of treats" and share some news from his recent meetings with > ESRI, Tim Berners-Lee, Intergraph, Nokia, Microsoft Vrtual Earth, the UK > Ordinance Survey, TeleAtlas, deCarta and others about open mapping. There > will be plenty of time to drink, meet others and be merry. > > Some of you have requested webcasts; we'll see what we can do! > > UMI is located on 5th & Townsend in SoMa. A handy map is here: > http://urbanmapping.com/about/contact_directions.html > > > ian > > > > > Ian White :: Urban Mapping, Inc > 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 > T 415.946.8170 :: F 866.385.8266 :: www.urbanmapping.com _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
