FOSS4G 2017



Go to the official FOSS4G 2017 event page.

Birds Of A Feather (BoF)
BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in BoF rooms, the BoF lounge, or can be taken off site for lunch or dinner. FOSS4G will provide space, but the programming of events should be done informally through the community using the wiki and the on site BoF board.

BoF sessions rooms will be available through regular session times. There Are two rooms setup theater style without AV that are available. There will also be a lounge available on the trade floor to gather small groups. We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.

The community wiki page is: FOSS4G 2016 BirdsOfAFeather

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, National Innovation & Research Center for Geographical Information Technologies, 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
 * Kim Durante, Stanford University, USA : Spatial Data Infrastructure, Metadata, Standardization, Preservation
 * 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

FOSS4GHappyHour
With 68 days left until the conference we, the LOC, are going to start trying to connect more directly with those attending and thinking about attending. We are going to have happy hours with members of the committee and sub-committees. These sessions will be run in the form of an AMA (Ask Me Anything).

Live Video Stream:
 * youtube live channel

Live Chat:
 * #FOSS4G IRC Channel

For each happy hour we will list who is going to be in the hot seat, but feel free to list yourself as participating if you are planning on attending (Hot Seat = NO):