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
All rooms can hold 50+ people, some are a bit larger as noted below. Amount of room may vary depending on seating arrangement and size of group. If you need a larger space for your group, use the ballroom. If you need a smaller separate room for one group, use Denver, Spruce, or Century. At the venue, please check the room size to confirm it's what you want.

Pick a room, add to reserved:# beside room name below and mention the room name in your planning section further down on the page.

Tower Court A - 50+ (2 groups) - Reserved: 1/2 Tower Court B - 50+ (2 groups) - Reserved: 0/2 Tower Court C - 50+ (2 groups) - Reserved: 0/2 Tower Court D - 75+ (2 groups) - Reserved: 0/2 Windows - 125+ people (2-4 groups) - Reserved: 0/4 Silver - 100+ people (2-3 groups) - Reserved: 0/3 Denver - 1 group - Reserved: 1/1 Spruce - 1 group - Reserved: 0/1 Century - 1 group - Reserved: 0/1 Grand Ballroom - huge, can fit 10+ groups - Reserved: 1/10

= Proposed Topics =

GeoMoose

 * Scheduling:
 * 5:30 - 6:30, in the Grand Ballroom  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)
 * Stephen Woodbridge (iMaptools.com)

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)
 * Christian Spanring (MAPC)

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)
 * Mike Adair (DM Solutions Group)
 * Trevor Clarke (Opticks/Ball Aerospace) (tentative)

Opengeoportal
http://opengeoportal.org/ The meeting will start at 5:30 in Tower A at the Sheraton.


 * 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)
 * Massimo Di Stefano (RPI - WHOI)
 * Keith Jenkins (Cornell)

For those who cannot make this in person you are invited to call in via skype to username opengeoportal.


 * There will also be a gathering for developers to meet during the Tuesday evening Welcome Social at the Wynkoop Brewing Company.

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)
 * Brent Wood (NIWA)
 * Tom C.H. Lee (RollingStar Survey Tech.)

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)
 * Stephen Woodbridge (iMaptools.com)
 * Mike Adair (DM Solutions Group)
 * Wei-Che Chang (airGmap)

Education / Academic

 * Room: Denver - 5:30-7
 * Separate sign up page: FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up

PostGIS Raster
5h30, Tower Court A


 * Proposed Topics
 * What would you like to do with PostGIS Raster?
 * Raster/vector analysis in the database.
 * MapAlgebra
 * Outside db storage


 * Attending
 * Pierre Racine
 * Bborie Park
 * David Zwarg

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)
 * Stephen Woodbridge (iMaptools.com)
 * Yoichi Kayama (Aeroasahi)

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
 * Settle on mime types so at least our apps can be consistent


 * Attending:
 * Gėrald Fenoy (ZOO-Project)
 * Nicolas Bozon (ZOO-Project)
 * Bastian Schäffer (52North)
 * Benjamin Pross (52North)
 * Jachym Cepicky
 * Jody Garnett (Enthusiast)
 * Trevor Clarke (Opticks)

Free meditation and relaxing movements sessions
There are so many interesting people and ideas at FOSS4G that I’ve found it can be really helpful to have a quiet, meditative moment or two to let it all sink in. The intention is to help one release stress and relax muscles that commonly become tight from computer/desk work, travel, carrying bags.. the common issues that tend to manifest at a week-long conference! I’ve been leading meditation sessions for co-workers at MIT and receiving very positive feedback about how helpful they are.

My plan is to hold a few 30-minute, sessions of relaxed meditative breathing and gentle movements during the FOSS4G conference at the following times:


 * Wed. 8 pm
 * Thurs 5:30 pm
 * Friday 5 pm - after the Annual General Meeting

These sessions are available to anyone, including people with no prior experience with any movement styles, those who do not feel particularly flexible, and folks who are in their work/meeting clothes. These sessions are being hosted by Lisa Sweeney If you are interested please add your name below or email lsweenstar@gmail.com. I'll be seeking out room options and post them to this wiki page once identified.

Great idea! I'd like to add a related get together. Anyone interested in starting the day with some tai chi and chi gong, let's meet in the Sheraton pool area (5th floor of the Tower building) at 6:00 am. If there's inclement weather, let's meet in the lobby of the Sheraton. If you are interested but are not staying at the Sheraton, let me know (retrev@csh.rit.edu or retrev on twitter) and we'll meet somewhere more convenient.