I hope you all enjoyed the summer break. September started
with a Council meeting in London on the 6th. You will be pleased to
know that the Society’s finances are sound and the membership is up again. We
are looking at ways of reducing the overall costs of producing Maplines and
we’ve decided to delay the re-branding process until 2014 but we will be updating
the marketing material to reflect our 50th Anniversary next year.
The 2013 programme is coming together and there will be some exceptional
events.
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I hope you’ve all had the summer edition of Maplines by now
– another excellent effort by the Maplines team. The cut-off date for articles
for the winter edition is 16 October so please get those articles to the
editors as soon as you can.
We had a stand at the recent AGI conference in Nottingham
and our thanks go to our hosts the AGI and to Hugo Boylan and David Cooper who
helped to man the stand. I think we should get a few more members following
this event. The schools Restless Earth team have just got back from 2 days in
Penarth. We did 2 sessions on the Wednesday and 2 on Thursday which meant that
over 200 students took part in the exercise. We’ve been invited back next year
so the staff and students must have been pleased. This time we had help from
RGS ambassadors and students from the University of Glamorgan for which we are
very grateful.
There is a GIS SIG meeting on 24 October which is being held
at the British Computer Society offices, which are just off the Strand, and
entitled, 'Experiences of working with commercial and open source data and
software'. It promises to be a really useful and informative afternoon so do
come and join us. Details, of course, are on the BCS website.
On 26 October there is another schools
Restless Earth Workshop this time in Sandhurst. The final event in October is
our AGM, Lecture and dinner in the RAF Club on the 31st, again
details are on the website and Roger Hore will be sending out the paperwork
shortly.
And lastly, if you heard the short piece I did with Eddie
Mair on the Radio 4 pm programme you may have gathered
that I had to use the atlas index to establish the precise location of
Uttoxeter – my apologies to any members who live there!
And if you are short of ideas for a Christmas, well
membership of BCS might be appreciated?
Best Wishes
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