Alamo Area GIS User Group Quarterly Meeting January 27, 2011.

Alamo Area GIS User GroupQuarterly Meeting

January 27, 2011

Officers

• Rell Fowler, President

• Saul Teska, Vice President

• Abigail Bush, Treasurer

• Jennifer Moczygemba, Secretary

• Lydia Sauceda, 2010 SA GIS Day Coordinator

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Membership• Requirements

– Be a member of SCAUG ($30 Standard, $15 Student)– Attend at least 2 meetings a year

• Benefits– Voting privileges– Serve as an Officer or Board Member– Access to all SCAUG members over 5 states– Discounted trainings and conferences– Access to TWO organizations

How to Join…

• Sign up online at www.scaug.org

• Sign up today! See an officer for application and information (pay by credit card online, or by check only in person)

In the future…

• Presenters for future AAGIS Meetings

• Showcase how you use GIS in your organization

• Earn valuable GISP points

Logo Contest Winner!!!

• Thanks to all who submitted their ideas and helped us to update our old logo

• The votes are in! Without further delay…

Contest Rules

• Open to all AAGIS area professionals

• Contest Administrator & Non-Voting Member

• Judges were all other AAGIS Officers (4) who voted purely on submitted logo/desc

• Contest Form & Ballot random listing with alphabetic list

• Judges listed favorite to least favorite (A-K)

• Judges rated logos from 1 to 11, with 1 being the highest vote and 11 the lowest

• Tallied per Logo Entry

Logo Contest Results

Lowest score was winner (like in golf)

Logo Contest Entries

• There were 6 authors who submitted 11 logos & ideas

• Thanks to all, the AAGIS is proud to have such talented and creative professionals in our midst!

• The following are all of them (in no particular order)

Entry

• I derived this concept using mod block letters inspired by M.C. Escher’s work to spell out “AAGIS” and having in the background a faint outline of the Alamo edifice and the Texas flag. Above and below are spelled out “ALAMO AREA” and “USERS GROUP” I believe this is an attractive logo design and with the help of an artist to identify the best color palette for the letters, flag and Alamo outline it will prove useful.

Entry

• My idea was to take the recognizable roofline of the Alamo and use that as the outline for the logo, thereby incorporating an Alamo theme without being too obvious. The center shows Bexar and the surrounding counties, not limiting the focus strictly to the San Antonio area. The entire design has the feel of a Mexican tile. The design was created 100% in ArcMap.

Entry

• This logo would symbolize AAGIS through its use of: The shape of the great State of TEXAS and the inset background of the Texas flag. Being an organization in Texas it is important to show we hail from Texas. I have included a shadow of the Alamo because we are from the Alamo area which is represents us here in San Antonio and the surrounding area.

Entry

• No Description submitted

Entry

• I derived this concept using mod block letters inspired by M.C. Escher’s work to spell out “AAGIS” and having in the background a faint outline of the Alamo edifice and the Texas flag. Above and below are spelled out “ALAMO AREA” and “USERS GROUP” I believe this is an attractive logo design and with the help of an artist to identify the best color palette for the letters, flag and Alamo outline it will prove useful.

Entry

• My idea was to take the recognizable roofline of the Alamo and use that as the outline for the logo, thereby incorporating an Alamo theme without being too obvious.

Entry

• I designed it as a globe which other logos use to represent world mapping like ESRI, with the top having the Alamo and making the letters GIS to be the globe.

Entry

• This logo would symbolize AAGIS through its use of: The shape of the great State of TEXAS and the inset background of the Texas flag. Being an organization in Texas it is important to show we hail from Texas. I have included a shadow of the Alamo because we are from the Alamo area which is represents us here in San Antonio and the surrounding area…

Entry

• The Alamo projecting upward as a 2 dimensional image as some GIS mapping does and along the walls of it to have the letters that make up the name Alamo Area GIS.

Entry

• This is a spin off of the GIS Day logo. I always liked the logo. I thought it was simple and to the point.

Entry

• San Antonio is known for the Alamo and the San Antonio Riverwalk. The symbol is the remembering of the Alamo, the developing of San Antonio and the growing AAGIS.

Logo Contest Entries

• Thank you again for your submissions…

• Now for the unveiling…• Starting with 3rd Place

3rd Place

• Author– Samuel Martinez

2nd Place (Tie)

• Author– Belen Garcia

• Author– Bobby Gore

1st Place…

• And the winner of the AAGIS Logo Contest is…

The AAGIS Logo

• The New AAGIS Logo!

• Author– Robert McGarraugh

SCAUG Conference

• Crowne Plaza Hotel• Open for registration• Call for Presenters• Call for Volunteers• April 4 – 8, 2011

SCAUG Conference Training

• Creating Effective Web Applications Using ArcGIS Server

• What’s New in ArcGIS Desktop 10• Introduction to ModelBuilder Workshop• Introduction to ArcPad – ArcPad 10 Edition• Building & Deploying Add-Ins for ArcGIS

Desktop• And More! Check out www.scaug.org for details

AAGIS Membership Report

• SCAUG website query 25 AAGIS members, membership is up since the last meeting!

• There are many more SCAUG members that have yet to update their profiles…please do so!

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteers….we need YOUR help!!!– Serve on our Board– Be a future Officer– Join a committee

• Communications

• Memberships

• Fundraising

AAGIS Officer Elections

• Call for officer nominations beginning with April 28, 2011 meeting

• Offices up for election are: President, Vice President, and Secretary– Executive Committee shall appoint the

Treasurer and Events Coordinator

• New officers to be announced at July 28, 2011 quarterly meeting 

Member Input

• Thoughts on future GIS trainings?

• Quarterly meetings—should we make these after hours or leave as is?

• GIS Day survey—we are looking for your feedback…to be administered via email

• Any other thoughts or suggestions?

ArcGIS Network AnalystAdam Pittman, ESRI

In closing…

• Don’t forget to Sign In and Sign Up

• Announcements?

Next Meeting: April 28th, 2011Time TBA

Location TBA