OSGeo at FOSS4G2006

= General =
 * FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
 * See http://www.foss4g2006.org/

To Do

 * What is to be done?
 * Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
 * Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
 * Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
 * Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
 * Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
 * Theme, do we want to have a point?

Workshops

 * Several workshops are running

BOFs

 * Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
 * Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
 * Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
 * Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop proposed by Ari
 * GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
 * ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi

Keynotes

 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Gary Lang

Talk Presentations

 * Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the Geodata Committee has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
 * Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?

Breakout session ideas

 * Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see Simple Catalog Interface
 * Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile

People planning to attend

 * most OSGeo folks