Group Goals:

• Coordination of development (in the US but also globally)
• QGIS information: meetings, articles in GIS magazines, QGIS information on Twitter, GIS discussion boards
• Initialization of domain-specific interest groups and application modules (like waste-water, urban planning, surveying, etc.)
• Organization of the annual or bi-annual QGIS user meetings. Inaugural Meeting April 11th 2014
• Serve as a point of organization for regional meetups (held as Birds of a Feather type metings at regional GIS events)
• Join us and share your ideas!

Come Join Us.

Our Inaugural US User Group Meeting will take place
Friday, April 11, 2014 from 9 am - 6 pm
Location OpenGovHub in Washington, DC.

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• Schedule:
• 8am - 9am Breakfast and Social
• 9am - 10am Introduction and Keynotes
  • Jeff Johnson - Boundless
  • Larry Shaffer - Dakota Cartography
  • Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee (Remote)
• 10am - 11pm Presentations
  • Kate Chapman - InaSAFE - HOT
  • Vivien Deparday - World Bank GFDRR
  • Yewondwossen Assefa - World Bank GFDRR
• 11am - 12pm - Future of QGIS Discussion
• 12pm - 1pm Lunch
• 1pm - 4pm Workshops
  • Using QGIS with OpenGeo Suite (Jeffrey Johnson, Boundless)
  • Becoming a QGIS Developer (Larry Shaffer, Dakota Cartography).
    Prerequisites: install VirtualBox 4.3.10 and the OSGeo-Live 7.9 Virtual Machine (~ 3 GB)
• 5pm - Closing Discussion
• 5:30pm - Happy Hour
• 6PM - MapBox State of the Map Happy Hour (SOTM 2014)

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