EGU Townhall 2016

Title of the event
[EGU Townhall Session: OSGeo: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Geosciences]

Type of event
Townhalls are "networking events" hosted at the European Geosiences Union (EGU) General Assembly (GA) for up to 350 people.

EGU-wording: "Townhall Meetings are meetings open for all participants in the conference at which new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience following an open discussion on the matter raised."

Townhalls are hosted in the evening following the conclusion of all scientific tracks. The events last one hour and usually have presentations / announcements taking up the first 20 minutes, to allow for an open discussion among the attendees. During this phase, refreshments are provided to ensure a lively and convivial atmosphere.

Expected Audience Size
80 - 100 people

Audience: Topical Background
Free Open Source Software from OSGeo projects affects most if not all EGU Divisions. Currently FOSS (OSGeo projects + R, GMT, etc.) is particularly strong in the Hydrology, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth and Space Sience Informatics and Tectonics Divisions.

Attendees are expected from the following fields (Academia, Research and Industry).


 * Atmospheric Sciences
 * Biogeosciences
 * Climate: Past, Present & Future
 * Cryospheric Sciences
 * Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
 * Energy, Resources and the Environment
 * Earth and Space Science Informatics
 * Geodesy
 * Geodynamics
 * Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
 * Geomorphology
 * Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
 * Hydrological Sciences
 * Natural Hazards
 * Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
 * Ocean Sciences
 * Planetary and Solar System Sciences
 * Seismology
 * Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
 * Soil System Sciences
 * Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
 * Tectonics and Structural Geology

Audience: Professional Level

 * Doctorate Students, PostDocs, Researchers, Activists, Leaders, Visionaries, Decision Makers, Funding Agencies

Venue

 * EGU GA location at the Vienna International Conference Centre, Austria
 * Townhall location: The townhall will be hosted in a dedicated lecture hall on the conference premises. Room capacity: Most likely up to 150 people.
 * Preliminary date and time: April 19/20 (Tuesday/Wednesday) 2016, 19:00 - 20:00 hours. The date will be synchronized with the FOSS-themend topical sessions (Hydrology and Earth and Space Science Informatics) and the OSGeo Training Course which is prepared by members of the OpenGeoScience Committee.

Relevance for OSGeo
how will our participation help OSGeo
 * Continuation and expansion of the "topical bridge head" established within EGU by the first two OSGeo Townhalls in 2014 and 2015.
 * Raise awareness at and reach-out to the European geoscience community by hosting a dedicated public OSGeo event at the largest European geoscience conference.
 * Reach out to young scientists starting their careers.
 * Meeting place for people already active in OSGeo ("meta-BoF") as a large number of people congregates every year at the EGU GA.
 * Reach out to decision makers/elders/scientific activists within the EGU Divisions.
 * Culmination of the "FOSS day" at the EGU GA: The organizers are urged to to schedule all FOSS / OSGeo - related events on the same day. This will ensure we have a large audience and niceties such as "FOSS flashmobs" can be arranged for poster sessions. The "FOSS day" could and should be finished off with the OSGeo townhall, as a "multiplier/bring them all together" event.
 * Peaceful und friendly coexistence: Propiertary platforms including Microsoft, Google and ESRI are also staging dedicated events during EGU GA.
 * Awareness on the decision maker level: Significance of OSGeo within the emerging Data Science / Open Science debate ("-> OSGeo-tailored research programmes ?")

Budget

 * Venue rental: none
 * Catering: 2000 USD [|Lessons Learned/Report for 2015] [required]
 * Promotional material: 200 USD (Posters/flyers announcing the event) [required]

Total requested budget: 2200 USD

Proposed Payment Method

 * No seed money required
 * All expenses (ca. 2000 USD) can be charged on the OSGeo Credit Card (as in 2014/2015) after the event.

Support by OSGeo

 * Finacial support
 * Use of Logos
 * Volunteers: Preparation phase, event hosting, presentations during the event (-> OpenGeoScience Committee).

Timeline

 * 2016-03-02: EGU Programme will become available online


 * 2016-04-16: GOAL: All potential guests have been informed ahead of time.
 * 2016-04-16: GOAL: Advertising material is ready. TODO: Update Steampunk Poster. TODO: new "official" poster for EGU use needed (based on Steampunk Design ?)
 * 2016-04-18: EGU begins: TODO: Personal invites @ the conference booths. TODO: Hang flyers / posters, etc.
 * 2016-04-19 19:00 - 20:00 hours: Townhall !

Action items

 * Request giveaways (flyers, etc) from FOSSGIS/FOSS4G 2016 organizers to be sent to Vienna: Requested 20160408


 * TODO: Send invitation emails to potentials and mailing lists (Discuss / GeoForAll / FOSSGIS-Talk / ICA_OSGEO-LABS / OpenGeoscinces / Live Demo / EDU_DISCUSS / EGU-ESSI / AGU-ESSI)


 * TODO: Set up Townhall Programme


 * TODO: Update Townhall Flyers, print them


 * TODO: Get stationary (scotch tape, etc)

Speakers

 * Peter Löwe (OSGeo Intro)
 * Jens Klump (CSIRO Lead Scientist)
 * Edzer Pebesma (Uni Münster IFGI)
 * Raffaele Albano (Young Scientist Leader in Natural Hazards) [will arrive later]
 * Alessandro Frigeri (tbc) (FOSS in extraplanetary research)

Budget
2016-01: Budget approved by Board via E-Mail list (no objections): 2000 EUR for catering, 200 EUR for advertising material, etc.

Catering
2016-02-16: Quotation requested from Caterer (Motto group), based on last years experience (70 pax, cold beverages, crisps (mandatory)) for 1600 EUR.

Short Courses
POC: Micha Silver

2015-03: Short courses withdrawn due to lack of travel funding for organizers.

Young Scientist Events
C2: Raffaele Albano (raffaele.albano85@gmail.com)


 * Young Scientist Splinter Meeting schduled for Tuesday morning: Townhall will be advertised there.

Sessions
EGU sessions with likely relevance for FOSS:

GI0.3/EOS13/AS4.33/BG1.13/CL5.01/CR2.5/EMRP4.11/ERE1.11/GMPV8.7/HS11.8/NH9.15

Application of Open-Source Microcontroller-Based Kits in Geosciences and Education (co-organized) 

Convener: Hans Christian Steen-Larsen | Co-Conveners: Christian Panton, Andrew Peters , Hera Gudlaugsdottir , Max Berkelhammer , Clement Miege , Samuel Monk

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

EOS14

Learning geosciences in the digital era: Apps, videos and digital mapping 

Convener: Adrian Gilli | Co-Conveners: Wouter Marra, Gert Verstraeten

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Room 2.83

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / Hall D

SC38/HS11.47 ECS

Hydroinformatics for hydrology: introduction to data science including data assimilation (co-organized)

Convener: Maurizio Mazzoleni | Co-Conveners: Nilay Dogulu, Wouter Berghuijs , Juan Chacon-Hurtado , Yared Abayneh Abebe , Hannes Müller

SC43

Standards-Based Services for Big Spatio-Temporal Data 

Convener: Peter Baumann

Mon, 18 Apr, 17:30–20:00 / Room 2.44

SC51

'''Machine Learning of Environmental Data. Foundations and Case Studies ''' Convener: Mikhail Kanevski

Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–12:00 / Room -2.61

SC59

How to build tools for spatial-temporal modelling with R and ArcGIS 

Convener: Ionut Cosmin Sandric

Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Room -2.61

SMP13

EarthServer: the Global Datacube Federation 

Convener: Peter Baumann

Tue, 19 Apr, 12:15–15:00 / Room 2.83

SMP26

r.avaflow - Progress and remaining challenges (public) 

Convener: Martin Mergili

Mon, 18 Apr, 12:15–13:15 / Room 2.43

SMP32

Advancing netCDF-CF (public) 

Convener: Ethan Davis

Thu, 21 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / Room 2.96

SMP56

Progress in Space Sciences Fostered by the European Commission (public)

Convener: Giovanni Lapenta

Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Room K1

IE1.2/TS7.3/GD7.3/GM1.9/NP3.6

'''Mind the Gap! Techniques to overcome multi-scale issues in geological and geomorphic processes (co-organized) '''

Convener: Anouk Beniest | Co-Conveners: Jan Henrik Blöthe, Camille Parlangeau , Henry Munack , Maurizio Petrelli , Sabine Kraushaar

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 08:30–10:00 / Room 0.88

Posters / Attendance Mon, 18 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X2

ESSI1.3

Earth system and space science applications on current and emerging high performance computing architectures

PICO Session

Convener: Xavier Lapillonne | Co-Conveners: Ebru Bozdag, Valentine Anantharaj , Oliver Fuhrer , Peter Düben , R. S. Nanjundiah , Mike Ashworth , Takane Hori , Tsuyoshi Ichimura

NP4.5/ESSI1.5

Big data and machine learning in geosciences (co-organized) 

Convener: Mikhail Kanevski | Co-Conveners: Reik Donner, Philip Brown , Karsten Steinhaeuser , Nicolas Brodu , Rosa Lasaponara , Nicolas Younan , Kwo-Sen Kuo , Peter Baumann , Morris Riedel , Sandro Fiore

Orals / Tue, 19 Apr, 10:30–12:00 / 13:30–15:00 / Room -2.16

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

GI3.2/EMRP4.18/ESSI1.7/NH8.6

Sensing techniques, geophysical methods, sensor network architectures and data analysis methods for critical and transport infrastructures monitoring and diagnostics (co-organized)

Convener: Jean Dumoulin | Co-Conveners: Francesco Soldovieri, F.C. Ponzo

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 08:30–12:00 / Room -2.31

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

GI3.3/ESSI1.9 Media

From Artefact to Historical Site : Geoscience and Non-Invasive Methods for the Study and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (co-organized) 

Convener: Nicola Masini | Co-Conveners: Lev Eppelbaum, Monica Alvarez de Buergo , Francesco Soldovieri

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 13:30–15:00 / Room -2.31

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI2.4

International cross-project collaboration and interoperability of data management systems 

Convener: Bernd Ritschel | Co-Conveners: Wim Hugo, Mike Sips , Steve Hughes

Orals / Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Wed, 20 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / Hall A

ESSI2.5

Metadata, Data Models, and Semantics 

Convener: Paolo Diviacco | Co-Conveners: Simon Cox, Lorenzo Bigagli , Jon Blower , Alaitz Zabala , Paolo Mazzetti , Andrew Woolf

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 13:30–15:00 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI2.6/GI1.6

'''20 years of persistent identifiers - where do we go next? (co-organized) '''

Convener: Jens Klump | Co-Conveners: Tobias Weigel, Fiona Murphy , Mark Parsons

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:15 / Room 2.61 / Fri, 22 Apr, 08:30–09:45 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / Hall A

ESSI2.7

The Networks of Earth Observation, its coordination and their infrastructures to enhance international geoscience information access, provision and use 

Convener: Joan Masó | Co-Conveners: Ivette Serral, Ian McCallum , Jay Pearlman

Orals / Fri, 22 Apr, 10:30–12:00 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Fri, 22 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

SSS12.18/ESSI2.9/GM2.6/HS11.41/NH6.5 Media

Unmanned Aerial Systems: Platforms, Sensors and Applications in the Geosciences (co-organized)

PICO Session

Convener: Michael Smith | Co-Conveners: Mike James, Damià Vericat , Saskia Keesstra

PICO / Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–10:00 / PICO spot 3

ESSI3.1

Innovative Evaluation and Prediction for Large Earth Science Datasets

PICO Session

Convener: Paul Kucera | Co-Conveners: Barbara Brown, Manfred Dorninger

PICO / Fri, 22 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / PICO spot 2

ESSI3.3

Earth science on Cloud, HPC and Grid 

Convener: Horst Schwichtenberg | Co-Conveners: Sébastien Denvil, Wim Som de Cerff , Monique Petitdidier

Orals / Wed, 20 Apr, 13:30–17:00 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI3.4

Open Access to Research Data and Public Sector Information towards Open Science 

Convener: Lorenzo Bigagli | Co-Conveners: Berit Arheimer, José Miguel Rubio Iglesias , Stefano Nativi , Martin Hammitzsch , Bernadette Fritzsch

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–12:15 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI3.5/GI1.5

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geoinformatics and Geosciences (co-organized)PICO Session 

Convener: Jens Klump | Co-Conveners: Dominik E. Reusser, Peter Löwe , Markus Neteler , Edzer Pebesma

PICO / Fri, 22 Apr, 13:30–15:00 / PICO spot 4

ESSI3.8/GI3.9 Media

'''Citizen-empowered science and crowdsourcing in the geosciences. Uncertainty and user perception. (co-organized) '''

Convener: Yves-Louis DESNOS | Co-Conveners: Norman Kerle, Bernhard Höfle , Pierre-Philippe MATHIEU , Martin Rutzinger , Georg Gartner , Rémy Bossu , Hans Keune , William Lahoz , Ayelet Tsabari , Alexa Wilkie , Fintan Hurley

Orals / Fri, 22 Apr, 13:30–17:00 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Fri, 22 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI4.3/GI1.2

3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization (co-organized) 

Convener: Bernhard Höfle | Co-Conveners: Balázs Székely, Norbert Pfeifer , Christian Briese

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 15:30–17:15 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

SSS11.4/ESSI4.6/HS11.39/NH9.13

Information in earth sciences: visualization techniques and communication of uncertainty (co-organized) 

Convener: R M Lark | Co-Conveners: Jon Blower, Niklas Röber , Alice Milne , Ewa Szynkaruk , Mohan Ramamurthy , Torsten Möller

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–12:15 / 13:30–15:15 / Room -2.32

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X1

G1.3

High-Precision GNSS Algorithms and Applications in Geosciences Convener: Pawel Wielgosz | Co-Conveners: Felix Perosanz, Shuanggen Jin , Anna Krypiak-Gregorczyk , Xingxing Li

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Room 2.20 / Tue, 19 Apr, 08:30–12:00 / Room 2.20

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X2

PS1.2/GI0.2

Instrument Design and Development (co-organized) Convener: Maike Brigitte Neuland | Co-Conveners: Martin Wieser, Lukas Hofer

PICO / Wed, 20 Apr, 08:30–10:00 / PICO spot 4

GI1.1/EMRP4.17/SSS12.22

Applications of Data, Methods and Models in Geosciences (co-organized)

Convener: Sid-Ali OUADFEUL | Co-Conveners: Leila Aliouane, Nicolas Younan

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 15:30–19:00 / Room -2.31

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

ESSI4.3/GI1.2

3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization (co-organized) Convener: Bernhard Höfle | Co-Conveners: Balázs Székely, Norbert Pfeifer , Christian Briese

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 15:30–17:15 / Room 2.61

Posters / Attendance Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

GM2.1/GI3.7/NH3.17/SSS12.26

Frontiers in Geomorphometry and Earth Surface Dynamics: Possibilities, Limitations and Perspectives (co-organized)

PICO Session

Convener: Giulia Sofia | Co-Conveners: John K. Hillier, Susan Conway

PICO / Tue, 19 Apr, 10:30–12:00 / PICO spot 2

TS7.1/GM2.3/GMPV1.5/SSP1.2

'''Digital mapping in the 21st century: share your experience! (co-organized)'''

PICO Session

Convener: Deta Gasser | Co-Conveners: Andrea Bistacchi, Stefano Tavani , Katie Whitbread

HS1.3/SSS12.30

Self-made sensors and unintended use of measurement equipment (poster-only session) (co-organized) Convener: Rolf Hut | Co-Conveners: John Selker, Flavia Tauro , Theresa Blume , Andy Wickert , Jan Bumberger , Cathelijne Stoof

Posters / Attendance Mon, 18 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

HS2.3.3

Innovative sensing techniques and data analysis approaches to increase (eco)hydrological process understanding Conveners: Markus Hrachowitz, Heye Bogena | Co-Conveners: Josie Geris , Miriam Coenders-Gerrits , Theresa Blume , Stefan Krause , Keith Smettem

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 08:30–12:00 / Room 2.20

Posters / Attendance Mon, 18 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

HS3.1

Hydroinformatics: computational intelligence, uncertainty, systems analysis, optimisation, data science, and data-driven modelling of social-hydrologic systems Convener: Dimitri Solomatine | Co-Conveners: Robert J. Abrahart, Amin Elshorbagy , Ghada El Serafy , Elena Toth , Matthias Cuntz , Juliane Mai , George Petropoulos , Dr. Prashant K. Srivastava

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 13:30–17:00 / Room 2.20

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

HS3.2/NH1.26

Spatio-temporal and/or geostatistical analysis of hydrological events, extremes, and related hazards (co-organized) Convener: Gerald A Corzo P | Co-Conveners: Dionissios Hristopulos, Andràs Bàrdossy , Mikhail Kanevski , Emmanouil Varouchakis , Sophie Bachmair

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–12:00 / Room 2.20

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

NP1.1

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive models and Data Inversion In Geosciences Convener: Sid-Ali OUADFEUL | Co-Conveners: Leila Aliouane, Nicolas Younan , Amar Boudella

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X4

NP4.1

Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences - Concepts, Methods and Applications Convener: Reik Donner | Co-Conveners: Susana Barbosa, Andrea Toreti , J. Runge , Marlene Kretschmer

Orals / Mon, 18 Apr, 13:30–17:00 / Room -2.16

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall A

AS4.20/OS4.4

Recent Developments in Numerical Earth System Modeling (co-organized) Conveners: David Hall, Florian LEMARIE | Co-Conveners: Ram Nair , Thierry Penduff , Laurent Debreu , Sergey Danilov , Mehmet Ilicak

Orals / Tue, 19 Apr, 15:30–17:00 / Room -2.91

Posters / Attendance Tue, 19 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X3

TS7.2/PS9.5

3D digital geological models: from terrestrial outcrops to planetary surfaces (co-organized) Convener: Andrea Bistacchi | Co-Conveners: Laurent Jorda, Matteo Massironi , Sophie Viseur

Orals / Thu, 21 Apr, 08:30–10:00 / Room G2

Posters / Attendance Thu, 21 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X2

SSS12.11/GM2.4

Learning from spatial data: representation, inference and modelling in earth and soil sciences (co-organized) Convener: Sebastiano Trevisani | Co-Conveners: Paulo Pereira, Jean Golay , Igor Bogunović , Marco Cavalli

Orals / Wed, 20 Apr, 15:30–17:15 / Room -2.21

Posters / Attendance Wed, 20 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Hall X1

TS7.4/GD8.4/GMPV8.13

Analogue and numerical modeling of tectonic processes (co-organized)

PICO Session

Convener: Marcel Frehner | Co-Conveners: Fabio Corbi, Max Peters

PICO / Thu, 21 Apr, 13:30–15:00 / PICO spot 2

Related Documents

 * Summary Report for the OSGeo Townhall at the EGU 2014 GA


 * Summary Report for the OSGeo Townhall at the EGU 2015 GA