Jake, Andy, Mike separately discussed having non-technical Boston geo meetup
Lyzi, Beth, Alan sent onboarding materials
Kickoff 6/25/2014
1 year anniversary this month!
The Meetups
One per month
Each event starts with brief Maptime overview - quotes from maptime.io/about and lyzidiamond.com/posts/why-maptime
Try to encourage participation, asking questions, etc
Speakers generally target ~30 min of material
Post slides to Meetup list
The Tutorials
Anatomy of a Web Map
OSM 101
QGIS (Mike invents the #ratmap)
Leaflet
Github for geo-data
Show-and-Tell
Holiday Potluck
CartoDB
D3
Spatial Data Formats and Data Sources
Projections and Coordinate Systems
Mapbox Studio and CartoCSS
The People
Cartographers, programmers, GIS analysts/researchers, data scientists, local government GIS engineers, journalists, graduate students (operations research, linguistics, MBA), OSM enthusiasts, hobbyists
Broad age range
Between 15-30 people at each meetup
The Space
Meet in an open cafe area
Large picnic style table that seats ~12 people plus number of smaller tables that seat 3-4.
Reserved every 3rd Wednesday through end of 2015 :)
Difficulties
Of our 10 tutorials, 7 led by organizers - unsustainable