FOSS4G 2017



Go to the official FOSS4G 2017 event page.

Initial Proposal
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf

Past Activities
Logo Contest

Scientific Committee
FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track 

Chair

 * Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst : VGI, Land Use/Cover, Commons-based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education

Reviewers

 * Andy Anderson, Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst (also Program Committee Chair): Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, HPC, 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
 * Nimalika Fernando : location based services, mobile GIS, route planning, indoor spatial data modelling & indoor navigation,web-GIS
 * Mark Iliffe, N-LAB, University of Nottingham : Volunteered Geographic Information, Systems Engineering, Crowd-Sorucing, OSM, Transport/Mobility
 * Simone Lanucara : 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, Department of Computer Engineering : Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mapserver, PHP
 * Peter Löwe: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS
 * Jeff McKenna, OSGeo : web mapping, databases
 * Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education
 * Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University : terrain modeling, visualization, GRASS GIS
 * Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences : 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 : Satellite image processing, WebGIS, Spatio-temporal data mining, Routing, GIS Education
 * Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing ,Disaster Management, LBS
 * Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho : VGI, OpenStreetMap, Software development
 * Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, crowd-sourcing
 * Kalum Priyanath Udagepola : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial BI, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying
 * Tuong-Thuy Vu: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big data
 * Mohammed Zia : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle-Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology
 * Add your name and institution here : And your areas of expertise here

Processes

 * 2017 Committee Member Selection
 * 2017 Session Selection
 * 2017 Keynote Selection
 * 2017 Website Updates

Lessons Learned

 * FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned