FOSS4G2008 LightningTalks

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= Introduction = Eight speakers, five minutes each, Lightning Talks will be presented to the full conference attendance, and should be fast paced, visual, and entertaining. Please note we reserve the right to juggle the order of talks listed below to align better with topics etc.

= Proposed Speakers =

If you would like to give a lightning talk, or would like to put forward someone to give a talk, please provide adequate contact details here:


 * Name, affiliation, email, proposed topic

= Confirmed Speakers =

(speaking order to be confirmed)

1 Steven Ottens

 * Position / person title - steven AT minst.net
 * One sentence bio
 * One sentence talk summary - Map Builder PSC
 * URL to head shot

2 Speaker: OSGeo4W

 * Frank Warmerdam (or Jeff McKenna)
 * Position / person title - Frank Warmerdam 
 * One sentence bio
 * A brief introduction to OSGeo4W, the "OSGeo Windows Software Stack", including a call for users and packagers.
 * URL to head shot

3 Dr Manie Brynard: Serving global geological data using Mapserver

 * Dr Manie Brynard, Council for Geoscience mbrynard  geoscience.org.za:
 * One sentence bio GIS Specialist and Senior Geologist at the Council for Geoscience for 12 years
 * As a contribution to the global initiative to present global geology on a Google-earth like the CGS has applied MapServer to serve countrywide geological data as a WMS.
 * URL to head shot

4 Speaker: Geospatial at the United Nations

 * T. Suha Ulgen (Mr.) ulgen at un.org
 * Coordinator - UN Geographic Information Working Group Secretariat (UNGIWG)
 * Introduction to the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG), the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) and UN's FOSS4G initiatives.
 * URL to head shot

5 Dr. Horst Düster : Building a FOSS geospatial solution for a Swiss state

 * Dr. Horst Düster - Departement of Geoinformation State of Solothurn (Horst.Duester AT bd.so.ch)
 * GIS - Coodinator and CGO at Public Authority since 13 Years
 * A short overview on history of the FOSS geospatial infrastructure in Solothurn
 * URL to head shot
 * CONFIRMED

6 Paul Scott : Chisimba and Ubuntu GIS

 * Position / person title - Paul Scott  or representative
 * One sentence bio
 * One sentence talk summary
 * URL to head shot

7 Arnulf Christl, Wikinomics - The Foundation of Making Business with FOSS

 * Position / person title: Arnulf Christl, president OSGeo (arnulf AT osgeo.org)
 * One sentence bio: Spatial technician, FOSS business model advocate and promoter of standards
 * One sentence talk summary: This talk wants to make you want to read the book Wikinomics to give you deep insight into processes that change our economic and corporative landscape in unprecedented ways.
 * URL to head shot: User:Arnulf Christl

8 Raj Singh

 * Position / person title - Raj Singh - topic and slot to be confirmed(rsingh AT opengeospatial.org)
 * One sentence bio
 * One sentence talk summary
 * URL to head shot