FOSS4G 2017



Go to the official FOSS4G 2017 event page.

Initial Proposal
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf

Past Activities
Logo Contest

Academic Committee
FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track 

Co-Chairs

 * Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA : Volunteered Geographic Information, Land Use/Cover, Commons-Based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education
 * Mohammed Zia, Turkey : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology

Reviewers

 * Andy Anderson, Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA : Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, Web GIS, CyberGIS, Education
 * Maria Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: GIS, Web Mapping, Collaborative Mapping, Geo-crowdsourcing
 * Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa : Spatial Data Infrastructure, Address Data, Standardization, Open Principles, GISc Education, Geovisualization
 * Nimalika Fernando, Sri Lanka: Location-Based Services, Mobile GIS, Route Planning, Indoor Spatial Data Modelling, Indoor Navigation, Web GIS
 * Mark Iliffe, N-LAB, University of Nottingham, Great Britain : Volunteered Geographic Information, Systems Engineering, Crowdsourcing, OpenStreetMap, Transport/Mobility
 * Simone Lanucara, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council of Italy : Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic Harmonization, Data Harmonization, Big Data
 * Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA : Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mapserver, PHP
 * Peter Löwe, Germany: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS
 * Jeff McKenna, OSGeo, Canada : Web Mapping, Databases, Standards
 * Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education
 * Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA : Terrain Modeling, Visualization, GRASS GIS
 * Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, USA : Natural Resources Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Modeling with GIS, FOSS4G
 * Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan : Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Geospatial Web Services
 * KS Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad, India : Satellite Image Processing, Web GIS, Spatiotemporal Data Mining, Routing, GIS Education
 * Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing, Disaster Management, Location-Based Services
 * Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Software development
 * Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, EU : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing
 * Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Australia : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying
 * Tuong-Thuy Vu, Malaysia: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big Data

Processes

 * 2017 Committee Member Selection
 * 2017 Session Selection
 * 2017 Keynote Selection
 * 2017 Website Updates

Lessons Learned

 * FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned