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Every fall, we look forward to gathering together as a NWGIS community. Here are the annual gatherings we can look forward to in the next few years:

October 25-28 2021: Virtual Conference! Please join us virtually for workshops, demos, technical presentations from fellow NWGISers, and networking events.  $40 member/$55 non-member.

2022: Boise, ID

2023: Yakima, WA 

 We look forward to seeing you soon!

The Idaho Geospatial Office is seeking feedback from GIS practitioners across Idaho to assess the GIS Maturity in the state. See details here.

Most of the conference presentations from the fall 2020 conference are now freely available from our YouTube channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZtjGSwC0B4&list=PLiC1i3ejK5vsAraUOjp3wKadPeX0e2ivr

Ten videos exist in the playlist on the following topics, all with an emphasis on why and how GIS helps with each:

1. GIS helps you get a job
2. GIS provides double benefits
3. GIS helps bring people together
4. GIS helps you solve problems
5. GIS helps with location analytics
6. GIS is more than mapping, it is understanding and analysis.
7. GIS helps us plan what the world could and should be like.
8. GIS helps us solve 21^st Century problems.
9. GIS helps us understand content, skills, and perspectives.
10. GIS helps us understand place and space, including through map quizzes.

As GIS practitioners it is important to take our work seriously…just not ourselves. Enjoy. See video here

We are on the hunt for pictures of people and memorabilia from past conferences that you are willing to contribute. NWGIS has been going strong since the late 80’s. While we are pretty good about looking toward the future, we are losing a lot of the history about our user group. Do you have pictures of: t-shirts or other NWGIS SWAG, hard copy programs, conference events? Do you have a NWGIS story you would like to share? Please contact Eric Wing at ewing@cityofboise.org

If enough content can be captured we may be able to put together a story map to share the legacy of NWGIS.