FOSS4G Europe 2015 BirdsOfAFeather

= Introduction = Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

General Information
During the FOSS4G Europe 2015 conference in Como, Italy, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

The 1-hour time blocks outlined below are just general guidelines. Adjust as needed. For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Program.

Rooms
We have available the three rooms of the conference (VS9, V08, V2.12) from 8 am up to 8 pm. Therefore the BOFs can be there when there are not sessions.

Capacities

 * Room VS9: 236
 * Room V08: 98
 * Room V2.12: 93

FOSS4G Contact

 * conference-europe(at)lists.osgeo.org

FOSS4G 2016 Planning BOF

 * Description: Planning for the 2016 conference that will be held in Bonn, Germany
 * When/Where: Wednesday 15th of July, 13h-14h, Room V08
 * Topics:
 * Marketing & PR activities (Gert-Jan)
 * Sponsorship (Arnulf) (Do we need Media sponsors?)
 * FOSS4G-E 2016? (Till, @all)
 * Timetable (Till)
 * Relation FOSSGIS <-> OSGEO (Till, Jeff)
 * Academic Track (FJ)

Who is coming:
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Till Adams
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Gert-Jan van der Weijden
 * Franz-Josef Behr
 * Sanghee Shin
 * Astrid Emde
 * Peter Löwe
 * Dirk Frigne - sorry; missed it ...
 * Jachym Cepicky
 * Dimitris Kotzinos

GeoForAll BOF

 * Description: Discussions about open education. Sharing within the OSGeo, ICA, and ISPRS communities. http://www.geoforall.org/
 * When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 08:00-09:00, Room VS9
 * More info: Agenda

Who is coming:
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Phillip Davis
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Lene Fischer
 * Charlie Schweik
 * Zoltan Siki
 * BarendKobben
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Martin Landa
 * Ivan Minčík
 * Daria Svidzinska
 * Vaclav Petras
 * Franz-Josef Behr
 * Antoni Perez-Navarro
 * Anne aka aghisla
 * Georg Gartner
 * Luca Delucchi
 * Ron Fortunato
 * Maria Brovelli
 * Suchith Anand (attending by Skype - sanand1976)
 * Dirk Frigne
 * Mario Miler
 * Massimo Di Stefano

GeoForAll BOF 2

 * Description: Open session to plan our collective activities after reflecting on the conference experiences.
 * When/Where: Friday July 17th, 12:00-13:00 Room 3.6
 * More info: Agenda

Who is coming:
 * Charlie Schweik
 * BarendKobben
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Daria Svidzinska
 * Antoni Perez-Navarro
 * Luca Delucchi
 * Suchith Anand (attending by skype - sanand1976)
 * Massimo Di Stefano

OSM editing time

 * Description: Insert into OSM data collected during OSM Mapping Party
 * When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 Room V08
 * More info: OpenStreetMap wiki page

Who is coming:


 * Luca Delucchi
 * Peter Mooney

European Geoscience Union (EGU) Interest Group BoF

 * Description: A meeting place for OSGeo people interested in EGU/AGU. Discussion: OSGeo related research/activities in the EGU Divisions, stakeholders, current links between OSGeo and EGU/AGU, how to move on


 * When/Where: Thursday 16th of July,, 13:00-14:00 hours, room VS9
 * Agenda

Who is coming:
 * Peter Löwe
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Massimiiano Cannata
 * Margherita Di Leo

OSGeo Europe BOF

 * Description: Follow up of the conversation started at FOSS4G Europe 2014 about Osgeo Europe / OSGeo Membership / OSGeo Industry
 * When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 18:00-19:15 hours, room VS9
 * More info: Agenda

Who is coming:
 * Dirk Frigne
 * Kari Salovaara
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Oliver May
 * Gert-Jan van der Weijden
 * Markus Neteler
 * Jáchym Čepický
 * Till Adams
 * Dimitris Kotzinos
 * Peter Löwe

OSGeo Certification

 * Description: Follow up of the conversation started at the GeoForAll meeting on Tuesdy morning.
 * When/Where: Thursday 16th of July, 13:00-14:00 hours, room V2.12, see OSGeo Labs: OSGeo Certification

Who is coming:
 * Franz-Josef Behr
 * Tanzeel Khan

GIS and JavaScript (JS), the revolution on the client side?
Description:

In JavaScript land, for webmapping use, you only heard about OpenLayers and Leaflet, but the ecosystem is strongly evolving. Let's see and share our knowledge and experience(s) about the other available libraries, the trends, the new tools that can change both your web map conception and your development practices.

We planned to exchange about
 * libraries
 * tools like Grunt/Gulp/Browserify + PhantomJS/SlimeJS
 * server side JS (directly or influence on "browsers" land)

When/Where: Room V09 13h-14h

Who is coming:
 * Thomas Gratier

Goals would be:


 * to establish a list for all JS related things for Geo excluding OpenLayers and Leaflet "pure" questions. At the moment, dedicated lists exist for OpenLayers, Leaflet and Ows.js.
 * to start to make a list of software libraries for geo depending of goals.

At it's a late improvised session, we are open to any input we surely missed. So, come to discuss!!

Your BOF Name Here

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Who is coming:


 * See FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather for inspiration!