[Mapserver-west] another introduction

[Eric S. Theise]

Hi Ken-ichi,

> There are definitely others in the Bay Area doing Mapserver stuff.  I
> use FOSS web mapping products (Mapserver, PostGIS, Chameleon) pretty
> much exclusively on the Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project
> over at UC Berkeley (http://vtm.berkeley.edu), and a few other people
> in my group use GRASS, PostGIS, and Mapserver to varying degrees.

Thanks for the response, that's good to know.  Um, I'm not seeing
anything when I click through to

    http://fisher.cnr.berkeley.edu/vtm/PlotProgress/PlotProgress.phtml

Rather, I see a page with status "Applet started.", and a fully-checked
panel of layers, but nothing in the map box after the brief "Loading
map... Please wait".  Firefox on a Mac.

> I also know the excellent folks over at the GreenInfo Network
> (http://www.greeninfo.org/) use Mapserver, Chameleon, and Plone /
> PrimaGIS to some degree.  Some of them might even be on this list.

I approached them about doing some volunteer work, per their website,
http://www.greeninfo.org/html/jobs.html, but I gather there're enough
volunteers at the moment.

> Maybe a Bay Area meet-up is in order?  Just a thought.

I'd be up for that.  I live in San Francisco, but would be happy
to meet anywhere BARTable.  M/W nights are out due to a teaching
commitment.  Maybe a Tu/Th evening, May 2 or 4?

--Eric