FOSS4G2006

The wiki is only for organizers. Please see also FOSS4G2006 website.

= Workshop Sessions (Tuesday am/pm + Wednesday pm) =

Rooms
Each room will have a "local admin" to help workshop givers to prepare.

FOSS4G2006 LiveCD.

Some links.


 * LiveCD GIS oriented : List
 * List of GIS LiveCDs
 * Mandriva based : FOSS4G Toolkit CD --> Hum, it's not a LiveCD !!
 * Knoppix based : GIS Knoppix
 * LiveCD for GRASS Workshops

= Conference Sessions (Wednesday/Thursday/Friday) =

Timetable

 * A preliminary timetable will be available soon.
 * We have 8 sessions with ~122 talks
 * A talk is 30 min long (20min+10min questions and changing)

= BOFs / DEMOs / Lightning Talks =

BOFs
What is a BOF ?
 * A meeting in which a topic of specific interest is discussed.

When are BOFs scheduled ?
 * eh oui quand ça ? just after conferences ?

How to set up a BOF ?
 * ask directly conference@foss4g2006.org (no more submission through InDiCo)
 * what duration do you plan ?
 * who are the chairs ?
 * how many participants do you expect ?

Some BOFs :

Submitted through InDiCo :

1. Binary Distribution Builders 	Mr. WARMERDAM, Frank

2. Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard 	Mr. ERLE, Schuyler

3. Public Geodata: State Collected Geographic Information is Public Property 	Ms. WALSH, Jo

OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006 wiki :

4. GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF (Jody Garnett)

By mail :

5. ka-map/openLayers merging discussions (Lorenzo Becchi) -> same as 2 ?

DEMOs
What is a demo ?
 * Large space available with table and seets to show a demo on your PC (wifi connexion available)

When ?
 * Demo fest is scheduled on Wednesday afternoon in parallel of workshops.
 * Nonetheless, space will be available during the whole conference for on-the-fly demos.

Some demos : Submitted through InDiCo :
 * space for a couple GeoServer/GeoTools projects (cholmes@openplans.org)
 * A web based GIS solution to capturing everyday "fuzzy" geography. 	Mr. WATERS, Tim
 * Native, standalone Image Map Server project based on UMN Mapserver as possible ArcIMS replacement 	Mr. ALBARELLO, Andreas
 * GeoTracing	Mr. VAN DEN BROECKE, Just
 * Geospatial Virtual Appliance - MapSnack	Dr. SUMBERA, Stanislav
 * The Application of MapServer/MapScript to Map and Depict Murals in the City of Winnipeg	BRUCE, Bob
 * EduCal 2	Mr. LEAHY, Michael Mr. NATHAN, Engler Dr. HALL, Brent
 * Spatial Statistics in C# using Open Source Tools	Mr. LEAHY, Michael
 * EO1 GeoBliki - OGC Sensor Web Enabled Data Node	Mr. CAPPELAERE, Patrice
 * CampusMapper - a light-weight internet mapping tool using MySQL, Tomcat and SVG	Mr. KöBBEN, Barend
 * FIONA - SDI with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, UMN MapServer and Mapbender	Ms. EMDE, Astrid
 * Mapbender - an introduction to the Mapbender project	Ms. EMDE, Astrid
 * Native, standalone Image Map Server project based on UMN Mapserver as possible ArcIMS replacement	Mr. ALBARELLO, Andreas
 * Flash Mapping Applications Utilizing Open Source Web Services: Two Examples	Mr. CRAWFORD, Stephen
 * A web based GIS solution to capturing everyday "fuzzy" geography.	Mr. WATERS, Tim
 * Enabling Users to Produce personalized Geodata	Mr. TURNER, Andrew
 * uDig Demo	Mr. GARNETT, Jody

Lightning Talks
What ?
 * A Lightning Talk is a 5-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the FOSS4G communities.
 * Lightning Talks will be presented back to back with strict enforcement of the 5-minute time limit.

When ?
 * Scheduled for opening plenary.

Some lightalks :

(synchronize with The Economic Case for Open Public Geodata 	Mr. ERLE, Schuyler) (what about Enabling Users to Produce personalized Geodata 	Mr. TURNER, Andrew)
 * GIS and the Neogeographer 	Mr. ERLE, Schuyler
 * GRASS : Markus Neteler confirmed (what title?)
 * WEBGIS : Steve Lime
 * GDB : Paul Ramsey
 * JFOSS :
 * OSGeo's Public Geospatial Data Project 	Ms. WALSH, Jo

= Opening and Closing Plenary Activities =
 * Keynote: Gary Lang (topic?)
 * Keynote: Frank Warmerdam (topic? OSGeo related, but to be non-conflicting with Gary)
 * Sol Katz Award
 * Lightening talks (discussed earlier) are scheduled for opening plenary.
 * Developer round table? Other special events?

Gather great speakers and innovaters (Westervelt, Schuyler, Warmerdam, Ramsey, Venka, Mcilhagga, Tiemann) + moderator Tyler Mitchell (ask him)
 * Panel disussions :

= IRC chat and logs = Please join us :
 * irc://irc.freenode.net/foss4g2006
 * IRC Logs: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2006/

Agenda :
 * Foss4g2006_irc_20060612

= More documents = Here : conference Documents & files
 * Local committe todo list Foss4g2006 ToDoList