Osaka 2007

Page for collecting thoughts for Japanese event schedule for Nov 9-10th, 2007 in Osaka.


 * Conference: Kansai Open Source 2007 (en)


 * Theme: Open Source Geospatial - Creative Tools for Creative Cities
 * Organized by: OSGeo.JP（OSGeo-Japan Chapter）
 * Sponsors:
 * Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University (OCU)
 * Applied Tecnology Co., Ltd
 * Orkney Inc.
 * Autodesk Japan

Tentative Schedule

 * Date:		Nov. 9 2007 (Friday)
 * Session Chair: Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University
 * 13:00-13:45	Lecture 1:（Title）
 * Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, OSGeo
 * 13:45-14:30	Lecture 2: Greetings from OSGeo.JP
 * Mori Toru Orkney Inc.
 * 14:30-15:00	Break
 * 15:00-15:45	Lecture 3: (Title)	Autodesk Inc.
 * Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk Inc.
 * 15:45-16:30	Lecture 4: (Title)
 * Markus Neteler, FBK-irst, Italy, Board Member OSGeo
 * 16:30-17:00	Break
 * 17:00-17:45	Lecture 5: (Title)
 * Lorenzo Becchi, Omniverdi，Spain, Charter Member OSGeo
 * 18:30-21:30 Ice-breaker
 * Date		Nov. 10 2007 (Saturday)
 * Session Chair:	Kazunori Noda, OSGeo.JP Board Member
 * 13:00-13:30	Lecture 1: OSGeo.JP – Activity Report
 * Kazunori Noda, OSGeo.JP Board Member
 * 13:30-14:00	Lecture 2 (Title)
 * Speaker to be announced, Applied Tecnology Co., Ltd.
 * 14:00-14:30	Lecture 3: OSGeo/FOSS4G Research Activity at OCU
 * Sarawut Ninsawat, Graduate School for Creative Cities, OCU
 * 14:30-14:40	Break
 * 14:40-15:10	Lecture 4: (Title)
 * Koki Iwao, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
 * 15:10-15:40	Lecture 5: (Title)
 * Speaker to be announced, Orkney Inc.
 * 15:40-16:10	Lecture 5: (Title)
 * Speaker to be announced, Autodesk Japan
 * 16:10-16:20	Break
 * 16:20-16:40	Open Discussion
 * Moderator, Mori Toru, Orkney Inc.

Stage Event (Morning of 10th Nov. 2007) outline
10 Nov 2007 (Sat.) 11:35-11-50 The following members are requested to be on stage. We have 15 minutes to talk about OSGeo to the general conference audience. 3 minutes for each would be too short. I think it maybe better one are two do most of the talking and also introduce others who will be on the stage. Any ideas?
 * 1) Tyler Mitchell
 * 2) Toru Mori
 * 3) Geoff Zeiss
 * 4) Lorenzo Becchi
 * 5) Markus Neteler

Tyler Mitchell

 * 1) Introduce OSGeo in general
 * 2) Present general structure and history
 * 3) Discuss ideas and sponsorship for local chapters
 * 4) Present mentorship as a means of professional development

Markus Neteler
(still ideas state)
 * 1) General
 * 2) GRASS Features now and the future
 * 3) will recycle fresh material from Helena's Canada talk
 * 4) Applications (Examples of projects using GRASS/OSGeo software stack with some Urban application in Trento or elsewhere):
 * 5) UXB unexploded bombs risk map (GRASS and machine learning)
 * 6) MITRIS accidents project (GRASS, WebGIS, DB stuff)
 * 7) InterSOS Dafur refugees project (maybe)
 * 8) GRASS in epidemiology with remote sensing:
 * 9) tick-borne encephalitis
 * 10) tiger mosquito spreading (maybe)
 * 11) Technical issues
 * 12) new GRASS book, new OSGeo edu data set
 * 13) translation of GRASS and other GFOSS messages
 * 14) how to join OSGeo projects as programmer

Lorenzo Becchi
tentative program


 * 1) OSGeo Europe overview
 * 2) Rapid overview of all formed or forming Local Chapters
 * 3) Two special cases:
 * 4) GRASS in Trento: brief history of GRASS development with a note on local administration connection.
 * 5) gvSIG in Valencia: brief history of the project and relacionships with Comunidad Valenciana.
 * 6) GIS Book Tyler is this your stuff?
 * 7) Open Format Initiative
 * 8) to be defined
 * 9) Web Mapping applications: OpenLayers and PyWPS
 * 10) general overview of both projects and live example of inter-operation of WPS/ka-Map (Embrio) and WPS/OpenLayers (Wuiw) accessing GRASS functions

To-Do (Venka)

 * 1) Make copies of the FOSS4G2008 Poster for distribution