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 =


 * 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)


 * 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)


 * 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)

http://opengeoportal.org/
 * Opengeoportal
 * 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)


 * 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)


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