FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

= Introduction = During the FOSS4G2013 conference in Nottingham, UK, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

Birds of a Feather sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

Organising Contact

 * Ian Edwards

Timeslots Available
We'll update this page soon with details of the sessions slots available.

= BOF sessions =

Early Birds

 * When - Sunday 15th September, 21:00 in Orchard Hotel Bar

A chance to meet up preconference for those of us who are arriving extra early.

Who is coming:
 * Ian Edwards
 * Jorge Sanz

Education and ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting
The aim is to update latest developments in the education efforts and progress update on the ICA-OSGeo Labs network and update members on future plans


 * When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Specific topics:


 * Current updates -Suchith
 * Updates on bid opportunities focusing on H2020(All)
 * Updates on relevant training opportunities (All)
 * GeoMOOC ideas - Phillip Davis
 * Webinar series plans - (All)
 * Curriculum discussion - (All)
 * ELOGeo update - Suchith, Jeremy
 * Responsibilities (moving forward (subcommittee chairs))
 * COST Action - Maria

Who is coming:
 * Jeff McKenna, OSGeo President
 * Suchith Anand, University of Nottingham
 * Jason Sadler, GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
 * Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano
 * Lluís Vicens, SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
 * Luciene Delazari, UFPR/Brazil

Apologies:
 * Barend Köbben - Sorry, chairing a session...

COST Action meeting
The aim is to discuss about next COST Action proposal "Smart environmental applications using free and open data and technologies"


 * When - Friday 20th September at 10:00 -11:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:


 * Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano
 * Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano
 * Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
 * Barend Köbben, ITC - University Twente (when not busy on LOC duties...)

OSGeo Local Chapter meetup

 * When - Saturday 21st September, Breakfast meeting: 08:00 - 09:00 in Restaurant of Rutland Hall


 * We'll have a table / space for each local chapter
 * Existing members can hang out, and new people can find out about their local chapter, while having breakfast...
 * Consider bringing something local to decorate your space - a small table-top flag, cloth or just leaflets describing your chapter
 * Contact Ian Edwards or update your chapter details below to take part

Who is coming:
 * OSGeo:UK. (chapter contact: Ian Edwards) [We'll be holding our Annual General Meeting - join us]
 * Dutch Language Chapter OSGEO.nl. (chapter contact: Just van den Broecke, Barend Köbben)
 * German Language Chapter FOSSGIS e.V.. (chapter contact: Marco Lechner)
 * Korean Language Chapter OSGeo Korean Chapter. (chapter contact:Sanghee Shin)
 * Spanish Language Chapter (chapter contact: María Arias, coordination)
 * Chapter of Portugal. Contact: Jorge Rocha
 * Add your chapter details here...

Note: The OSGeo AGM is taking place on Friday evening from 6pm-7pm, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

Sensor Web BOF
Time Slot: Sometime during Friday Topics: Who is coming:
 * Sensor Web is gaining more and more relevance in many SDI frameworks as well as in the INSPIRE context
 * Discuss on-going implementation activities
 * Exchange on practical experiences how to bring sensor and observation data into SDIs
 * What are new, upcoming challenges?
 * Simon Jirka (52°North)
 * Paul van Genuchten (Geocat)
 * Peter Baumann (rasdaman), if ever possible

Maps and Metadata BOF
Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September at 17:30 in the GeoCamp Marquee Topics:
 * improving interoperability between the open source metadata servers and clients
 * CSW OSGeo profile?
 * metadata101.org?
 * Faceted search extensions
 * metadata links articulation
 * spatial relevance algorithms
 * CSW 3, OpenSearch, Mass Market, Linked Data (rdf/sparql)
 * future CSW Shootout?

Who is coming:
 * Tom Kralidis (pycsw) (via irc)
 * Jeffrey Johnson (GeoNode maintainer)
 * Paul van Genuchten (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
 * María Arias de Reyna (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
 * Angelos Tzotsos (pycsw)
 * Stephan Meissl

Join a Software Foundation - OSGeo and LocationTech BOF
You owe it to your project, your users and yourself. Discussion and Q & A with OSGeo Incubation (and LocationTech?).


 * When - TBC

Who is coming:
 * Jody Garnett
 * Andrew Ross
 * Frank Gasdorf
 * Robert Cheetham

Mind the gaps
A hopefully fun brainstorming session and technology geek-out. As technology continues to evolve what are some of the gaps (& esp. open source) that may emerge in the future?


 * When - TBC

Who is coming:
 * Andrew Ross

OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities
Based on the discussion in OSGeo-Discuss list, the INPIRE/SDI BoF shall be a starting point for OSGeo being more active in SDIs. In particular europes INSPIRE directive has a big impact in all days work with geodata and national SDIs.

Who is coming:
 * Marco Lechner, OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.
 * Dirk Frigne, geomajas.org
 * Jachym Cepicky
 * Suchith Anand
 * Just van den Broecke
 * Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano
 * Stephan Meissl

OGC/OSGeo meet up
OGC and OSGeo have always been strongly linked, from our common roots in the early open source geospatial community, our 2008 MoU, and the ongoing benefits we continue to realize from each other's activities. As both organisations continue to lead at the top of their respective fields, are there ways that we can work more closely and provide greater support for each other's work?

This BoF is intended as an informal meet up to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.


 * When - Friday 20th September, 08:00 - 09:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:
 * Denise McKenzie, OGC Marketing and Communications
 * Ian Edwards, OSGeo UK/WebCom, OGC member
 * Marco Lechner, OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.
 * Jeff McKenna, OSGeo President
 * Suchith Anand, OSGeo member, OGC member
 * Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo member, OGC member
 * Jachym Cepicky
 * Stephan Meissl
 * Peter Baumann (rasdaman)

OSGeo-Live
Ideas for OSGeo-Live BOF (which might spill into a Code Sprint with sufficient interest):
 * Discuss strategy for improving translation process
 * Work out a strategy for printing and distributing DVDs / USBs, and paying for them. The hard part is working out how to process 50+ requests for DVDs per year.
 * Many of the quickstarts need review/tweaks. A day of people running quickstarts, reporting issues, capturing screen shots, would greatly benefit the project. It would be a great introduction for someone to both OSGeo software, and the Open Source development process, as well as being a very valuable contribution to the community.
 * How to create PDF documentation.

Time Slot: ??

Who is coming:
 * Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeoLive developer)
 * Jorge Sanz - OSGeo Live gvSIG package maintainer and Spanish translator
 * Luca Delucchi - OSGeo Live Italian translator
 * Stephan Meissl
 * Frank Gasdorf - uDIG and GeoServer maintainer & German translator
 * Johan Van de Wauw - maintainer and dev

InaSAFE BOF
Time Slot and location: TBD Great opportunity for the distributed network of developers and users to meet each other and discuss InaSAFE as well as for newcomers and workshop attendants  to become involved in the community.

Topics:
 * use cases: past experiences, future plans
 * documentation and training material
 * road map

Who is coming:
 * Vivien Deparday (InaSAFE Technical Working Group member)

ELOGeo - learning materials for FOSS-GIS
Time Slot and location: Friday, 1-1:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

The ELOGeo platform has been set up as a means for the community to share learning resources for FOSS GIS under a Creative Commons 3 licence. We at the University of Nottingham have some additional funding to work on functionality and design of the system, and we're interested in some community views on this. Please come along to say what you think! (Not usually a problem in OSGeo...) We'll have some design ideas for you to think about, and questions about the content & access.

Topics:
 * how useful is the current collection of materials?
 * organisation: what are good ways to tag or organise the collection?
 * design: how could this be improved?

Who is coming:
 * Jeremy Morley (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)
 * Adam Rousell (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)

More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event See FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather for inspiration!