AAG 2009

Association of American Geographers annual conference.

=2009 Conference= Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009 Meeting Homepage

OSGeo Sessions
We'd like to try and organize 2 or 3 sessions on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in Geography Alex Mandel and Stacey Ellis from the University of California, Davis will be organizing please contact them if you plan to give a talk and would like to be part of the sessions.

Deadline to submit for talks is Oct 16, see the call for abstracts

Two ideas.
 * Plan A
 * Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
 * Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
 * Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.


 * Plan B
 * Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
 * Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography

OSGeo Booth
It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.

Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.
 * Tuesday, March 24 	9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
 * Wednesday, March 25 	10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
 * Thursday, March 26 	9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Proposed Budget
List of Items we need and proposed budget request from the Marketing team.

OSGeo Social
Anyone want to schedule a social?

Time: TBD

Place: TBD

Who: Anyone interested in Open Source Geo

Why: To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer and bar food.

Directions:

To Do List

 * 1) Get support from marketing team for a booth
 * 2) It's $1000 for a non-profit and there are 8 spots left
 * 3) Get speakers for the sessions
 * 4) Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
 * 5) Register the sessions

Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of osgeo related speakers

Ideas

 * 1) Do we want to do a workshop, Deadline is Oct 1