FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

= Introduction = During the FOSS4G2011 conference in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

Room allocation to be determined

Timeslots Available
Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

Rooms Available
= Proposed Topics =

GeoMoose

 * Scheduling:
 * 5:30 - 6:30, With get together afterwards.  Any suggestions for a location for Drinks afterwards?
 * Proposed Topics
 * Overview
 * GeoMoose 2.6
 * Ideas for CodeSprint.
 * Talk up your successes with GeoMoose.
 * Meet developers and learn how you can help.
 * Attending:
 * Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul, MN.)
 * Dan Little (GeoMoose)
 * Jim Klassen (SharedGeo)
 * Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
 * Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)
 * Steve Swazee (MnGeo Emergency Preparedness Committee)

Tiling

 * Proposed Topics
 * standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
 * TMS/WMTS evolutions:
 * Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
 * TMS multiple grids per tileset
 * WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
 * add yours...
 * Attending:
 * User:Tbonfort
 * Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)
 * Steven M. Ottens
 * Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
 * Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)
 * Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)
 * Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)

GeoNode

 * Proposed topics:
 * Brief overview
 * Get involved with the community!
 * Meet developers and institutional partners
 * Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
 * Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
 * Join us for drinks afterwards!
 * Attending:
 * Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
 * David Winslow (OpenGeo)
 * Robert Soden (World Bank)
 * Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
 * Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
 * Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
 * Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
 * Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
 * Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)
 * Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
 * Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
 * Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
 * Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)
 * Massimo Di Stefano (RPI - WHOI)

Python

 * Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
 * Proposed topics:
 * High fives
 * Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
 * Python 3
 * PyPy
 * Packaging and distributions
 * Attending:
 * Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
 * Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
 * Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
 * Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
 * Dan Dye (WeoGeo)
 * David Fawcett (MPCA)
 * Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
 * Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)
 * Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale) MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
 * Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
 * Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
 * Thomas Emge (Esri)
 * Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)
 * Julia Harrell (NC DENR)
 * Jachym Cepicky
 * Massimo Di Stefano (RPI-WHOI)

Opengeoportal
http://opengeoportal.org/


 * Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
 * Attending:
 * Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
 * Patrick Florance (Tufts)
 * Chris Barnett (Tufts)
 * David Siegel (Harvard)
 * Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
 * Garey Mills (Berkeley)
 * John Ridener (Berkeley)
 * Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
 * Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)
 * Karel Charvat (CCSS)

Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI)

 * Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
 * Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
 * Attending:
 * Christine White (Esri)
 * Andy Gup (Esri)
 * Karel Charvat (CCSS)

Mobile GIS

 * Proposed Topics
 * General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
 * "OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
 * add yours...
 * Attending:
 * Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)
 * Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)
 * Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
 * Daniel Morissette (Mapgears)
 * Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)
 * Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)
 * Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)
 * Karel Charvat (CCSS)

Education / Academic

 * Separate sign up page: FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up

Spatial Databases

 * Proposed Topics
 * Do we need some more
 * Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
 * Do the processing within the database or outside?
 * Add yours...
 * Attending:
 * Volker Mische (Couchbase)

SpatiaLite

 * Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
 * Proposed topics:
 * Community organization strategies
 * Meet and Greet


 * Attending:
 * David Fawcett (MPCA)
 * Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)
 * Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
 * Doug Newcomb (USFWS) ( I will not be available for much of Wed. Evening)
 * Julia Harrell (NC DENR)

Web Processing Services (WPS)

 * Scheduling: 5:30-6:30


 * Proposed topics:
 * Web Processing Services Ideas exchange and get-together
 * WPS 2.0 status and community input
 * Meet and Greet


 * Attending:
 * Bastian Schäffer (52North)
 * Benjamin Pross (52North)
 * Jachym Cepicky