Location Intelligence 2007

OSGeo at Location Intelligence is being organised by User:Tmitchell as  Event Owner. Please contact him or VisCom if you are interested in helping in any way.

Event Overview

 * Read a report by an OSGeo member, the Sunburned Surveyor's Blog.
 * Interview with Tyler at the OSGeo booth on 01net.com (in French)

Booth
Booth will be open at these times:
 * Exhibition hall open during breaks in the conference programme and special evening events
 * 10x10 booth space and dressing donated by Autodesk
 * Tuesday, April 16th
 * 7:30 – 8:45am
 * 10:15 – 10:45am
 * 11:30 – 1:00p
 * 3:00 – 3:30p
 * 5:30 – 7:30p
 * Wednesday, April 17th
 * 7:30 – 8:45am
 * 10:15 – 10:45am
 * 11:30 – 1:00p
 * 3:00 – 3:30p
 * 5:30 – 7:30p

Volunteers
If you can volunteer to help attend to and manage the booth, add your name below and specify time you are available. We also need volunteers to help handle booth setup/take down but this will be very easy.
 * Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo, most of both days
 * Toru Mori, OSGeo/Orkney, most of both days
 * Brian Timoney, Wednesday
 * Rich Gibson, part-time
 * Bob Bray, part-time
 * Chris Holmes, part-time
 * Landon Blake, one day, waiting confirmation (will need pass)

Speaking Session
Title: Collaborative Freedom Using Open Source Software Date/Time: OSGeo is organising a 1 hour open source focused session
 * 1) Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo: Introducing OSGeo
 * 2) Robert Bray, Autodesk: Leveraging Community Data Using MapGuide (A Case Study)
 * 3) Chris Holmes: An Open Data Architecture: Serving TIGER and other Large Datasets

Workshop
Title: Sharing Maps Through Interoperable Open Source Applications Date/Time: We are organising this 3 hour workshop. Chris Holmes and Robert Bray are hosting/leading the event and aiming to focus on an interoperability tutorial demonstration.

MapGuide BOF
Unsure about facilities

Attendees / Participants
For the sake of networking with other open source minded folks, here is a list of other attendees you might want to hook up with while at the conference:
 * Tyler Mitchell
 * Chris Holmes
 * Robert Bray
 * Rich Gibson
 * Brian Timoney
 * Andrew Turner
 * Mikel Maron