FOSS4G2008 Workshops

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Introduction
The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G2008 Conference Committee.

FOSS4G Workshop Committee Members

 * Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)
 * [Gavin Flemming]
 * [Graeme McFerren]
 * Dave Patton (chair)
 * Jeff McKenna

Next Committee Meeting
The date/time for the next meeting is tentative
 * date: 2007/09/05
 * time: To be confirmed[]
 * meeting will be via
 * Agenda:

List of workshop submissions
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Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions

 * 1) meets conference mandate:
 * 2) matches with the themes of the conference
 * 3) makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"
 * 4) submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities
 * 5) likelyhood of a quality workshop:
 * 6) successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference
 * 7) expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter
 * 8) any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2006, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences
 * 9) demonstrates practical applications
 * 10) expected level of interest in the workshop topic

Scoring
The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5: 0 = does not meet any of the criteria 1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria 3 = average 5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:
 * 1) Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.
 * 2) Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

Workshops Notes
Note: Some of the information below is out of date.

Workshop Duration and Scheduling
http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/program

and

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008_Programme

Questions for Organising Committee

 * Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note)

 * overcrowded workshops are bad
 * registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
 * LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
 * grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)
 * foss4g2006 workshops wiki : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Foss4g2006_wks
 * foss4g2006 workshops rooms : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2006#Rooms
 * foss4g2006 number of attendees per workshop : http://www.foss4g2006.org/site/pdf/WksNbOfAttendees.pdf