% Maptime Boston
1st Year Retrospective
% Jake Wasserman / @jwass2000
Andy Woodruff / @awoodruff
Mike Foster / @mjfoster83
% Maptime Summit — 2015-06-08
- Jake met Lyzi @ SOTMUS 2014
- 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!
- 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
| :------------- |:-------------| | 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 |
- 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
- 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 :)
- Of our 10 tutorials, 7 led by organizers - unsustainable
- How often to repeat while maintaining interest?
- Stagnant chapter website
- It's been good for the community (we think)
- Being an organizer is a lot of work
- It's been fun!