FOSS4G2007
This is the main page for holding information for discussion on the FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria, BC, Cananda, September 24 to 27, 2007.
- Conference Web Site: http://www.foss4g2007.org
- Conference Mailing List: http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2007
- Workshop/Lab Mailing List: http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2007-workshops
- IRC Channel: irc://freenode.net/foss4g2007
- other FOSS4G2007 wiki pages
For the official conference schedule, please see the Program Overview page on the conference website.
Monday, September 24 - Workshops Day
- 08:00 Registration Opens
- 09:00-12:00 Six Morning Workshops
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
- 13:00-16:00 Six Afternoon Workshops
- 16:30-18:00 OSGeo Annual General Meeting
- 18:00-22:00 Welcome Reception @ Sticky Wicket
Tuesday, September 25 - Opening Plenary and Presentations and Labs
- 08:00 Registration Opens
Opening Plenary
- 09:00-09:15 Welcome from Chair
- Welcome
- Thank Sponsors
- Promote Evening Events
- Housekeeping
- 09:15-10:00 Sponsor Talks
- One 15 minute talk by the Premier sponsor
- Three 10 minute talks by the Platinum Sponsors
- 10:00-10:40 Lightning Talks
- Howard Butler (hobu@hobu.net) will be coordinating the lightning talks. Some possible topics are provided below. Please add a topic and your name if you are interested in presenting a lightning talk. We will be selecting no more than 8 lightning talks for the plenary session. You will have the whole conference watching, and using dual 30' projection screens, so being brisk and entertaining and providing lots of colorful pictures is a good idea.
- The State of Mapguide
- Big Mapserver Deployments
- Desktop GIS: Conundrum?
- Incredible GRASS Analyses
- "Proprietary", "Open Source", "Commercial" and "Free" (User:Arnulf Christl)
- Spatial Databases are Fun
- 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
- Don't stray too far...
- 11:00-12:00 Keynote Address
- Damian Conway - A terrific speaker and with a particular talk on open source for suits that will fit our mixed suit/geek attendance.
Presentations and Labs
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
- 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
- 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 17:00-18:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings
Wednesday, September 26 - Presentations and Labs
- 08:00 Registration opens
- 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided, and Poster Session
- 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 18:00-20:00 Reception @ Royal BC Museum
Thursday, September 27 - Presentations and Labs and Closing Plenary
Presentations and Labs
- 08:00 Registration opens
- 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
Closing Plenary
- 13:00-13:05 Welcome from Chair
- Housekeeping
- 13:05-13:45 Panel Discussion
- Moderated by Adena Schutzberg (Directions Magazine)
- Three luminaries (now we need to find some, ideas are welcome):
- One from proprietary world
- One from open source world
- One from consumer spatial world
- 13:45-14:00 Sol Katz Award
- Award explained, Sol Katz memorialized
- Presented to...
- Remarks from recipient
- 14:00-14:15 Coffee
- Don't stray too far...
- 14:15-14:30 FOSS4G2007 in Review
- Adena Schutzberg shares her off-the-cuff observations of the event and how what she has seen relates to the larger field of geospatial.
- 14:30-14:45 FOSS4G 2008
- 2008 hosts describe next year's event and venue
- 14:45-15:00 Adjourn
- More thanks
Friday, September 28 - Code Sprint
- 9:00-17:00 @ Harbour Towers Hotel, West Ballroom