[Data-Mongers] Fwd: Proj.4 Talk at USGS on August 11, this Friday

[Daniel Nowacki]

Hello data mongers:

A seminar of potential interest; details below. Tilley Conference Room is in Gosnold Lab on this map: http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=206444&pt=2&p=20929 <http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=206444&pt=2&p=20929>

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> From: Joanne Sedlock <jsedlock at usgs.gov>
> Subject: FW: Proj.4 Talk at USGS on August 11, this Friday
> Date: August 9, 2017 at 15:54:58 EDT
> To: gs-mawhl_all at usgs.gov
> Cc: ing <cpolloni at aol.com>
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> Hi All, 
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> My apologies for the mass email.  I’m not quite sure who my target audience is.  Howard Butler will be here this Friday to talk about Proj 4, and Gerry Evenden.  
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> 11 August 2017, 11:30am USGS Tilley Conference Room
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> Bio
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> Howard Butler is an open source software developer who leads the PDAL, Entwine, and Greyhound open source point cloud software projects. He is a GDAL and MapServer Project Steering Committee member, the maintainer of the Proj.4 coordinate system library, a former OSGeo board member, a contributing author to the IETF GeoJSON standard, and an active participant in the ASPRS LAS committee. His company, Hobu, Inc., develops open source solutions for clients such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage and operate point cloud data warehousing systems. He still doesn't know how to merge CVS branches, and his pull requests usually contain gobs of cruft.
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> A history, status report, and outlook of Proj.4 
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> The Proj.4 library and its many language ports provides the coordinate system math implementation that underlies most of the FOSS4G software ecosystem. The original author of Proj.4, Gerald Evenden of USGS, who first published the library in 1983, recently passed in April of 2016. After a long release hiatus, the library has gained new maintainer, the user-contributed proj4.org <http://proj4.org/> website recently modernized the documentation management for the project, and the first significant library feature was added to support coordinate transformation pipelines. In this talk we will discuss Gerald's software legacy with Proj.4, describe how the library has evolved through the years, and demonstrate recently added capabilities. 
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> Thank you.

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