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Open Geoscience Committee/events

2016-02-10T11:27:05Z

Wiki-Micha: /* FOSS related Sessions */

== FOSS related Sessions ==

=== EGU 2016 ===

In 2016 there will be multiple FOSS-related sessions at the EGU, see below. If you are aware of other EGU sessions about FOSS, please annotate them below.

==== ESSI sessions ====

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/21740 ESSI2.8 Quality-checked Software as a safe investment in Science: Lessons from Open Source communities]
Convener: Peter Löwe, Co-Conveners: Massimiliano Cannata, Margherita Di Leo, Raffaele Albano
'''Will be merged with ESSI3.5 (below)'''

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/sessionprogramme/ESSI ESSI3 Open Science 2.0 Informatics for Earth and Space Sciences]

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20148 ESSI3.4 Open Access to Research Data and Public Sector Information: perspective, drivers, and barriers]
Convener: Lorenzo Bigagli, Co-Conveners: Stefano Nativi, BERIT ARHEIMER, José Miguel Rubio Iglesias

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20149 ESSI3.5 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geoinformatics and Geosciences]
Convener: Jens Klump, Co-Conveners: Dominik E. Reusser, Peter Löwe, Markus Neteler, Yann Chemin

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20730 GI3.6/EMRP4.20/ESSI3.11/GM2.5/NH9.14 Low cost sensor systems and open source solutions for monitoring and assessment in the geosciences (co-organized)]
Convener: Pauline Miller, Co-Convener: Amy Woodget

==== HS Session ====

[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20238 HS3.3 Open Educational and Outreach Resources for Water Education -- PICO Session]
Convener: Attilio Castellarin
Co-Convener: Thorsten Wagener

[[Category:OpenGeoScience]]
[[Category:Committees]]
[[Category:Events]]

==== SC41 Session ====
[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/22294 Short course to introduce and use the OSGeo Live DVD]
Convener: Micha Silver
Co-Convener: Raffaele Albano

Open Geoscience Committee

2016-01-26T07:01:05Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Overview: OSGeo-related short courses at EGU 2016 */

== Background ==
The idea for the committee was conceived during a EGU-themed birds of a feather meeting at the FOSS4G-Europe in Como, Italy on July 16 2015

== Motivation ==

There is currently no established interface between the OSGeo communities and geoscience organisations like the American Geoscience Union (AGU) or the European Geoscience Union (EGU). At the same time OSGeo members publish their scientific work, which is based on FOSS and open data, within such organisations, often without being aware of each other. Further, students and young scientists who are using FOSS as a base for their work need information on how to share this work and reap the recognition within Academia which they deserve.

Within geoscience, the new role model of "Open Science" or "Science 2.0" is emerging. Many desiderata for future "open scientists", including publication of both the data and software, active international networking and reach out to industry and society are already common practice within OSGeo. Therefore OSGeo can provide guidance by best practices on how these practices can be established within Academia.

== Goals ==

* Launch the discussion how to address "Open Geoscience" among all stakeholders within OSGeo.

* Development of best practices within and beyond OSGeo.

* Establish communication with scientific communities such as EGU and AGU.

== Communication ==

* through the OpenGeoscience mailing list ([https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opengeoscience subscribe])

* conf calls are held via the [https://osgeo.slack.com/messages/opengeoscience/ OSGeo slack channel]. Slack uses text based communication (similar to ICQ)

== Activities ==
* Currently planning activities for EGU 2016 : a short course, sessions and a Townhall event.. join our [https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opengeoscience mailing list] and stay tuned, volunteers are always welcome

=== Overview: OSGeo-related short courses at EGU 2016 ===

{|
| '''Topic''' || '''Point of contact'''|| '''Remarks'''
|-

|''Aster/LiDAR using QGIS Processing''||Lene Fischer||tbd
|-
|''isSOS / PostGIS''||Maxi Cannata et al.||tbd
|}
----
''Introductory course to OSGeo-Live'':
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Topic
!Point of contact
!Remarks
|-
| Install on VM
| Micha Silver
| availability of DVD's or USB drives?
|-
| QGIS
| Raffaele Albano
|
|-
| GRASS
| Micha Silver/Peter Löwe
|
|-
| Geoserver
|
|
|-
| mbsystem
|
|
|-
| Cesium
|
|
|-
| R
| (high potential: Edzer Pebesma ?)
|
|-
| GMT
|
|
|-
| Python (iris,netcdf4,cartopy)
|
|
|-
| python notebook
|
|
|-
| gvSig
|
|
|-
| SAGA GIS
|
|
|-
| OSSIM
|
|
|-
| KOSMO
|
|
|-
| uDig
|
|
|-
|}

=== Ideas collected for the introductionary short course at EGU 2016 ===

* Introductory course to OSGeo-Live, duration 90 minutes, preferably during lunch break.
* Material that could be presented include gsoc work of Massimo Di Stefano (aka 'epifanio'), a series of educational material based on OSGeo-Live, featuring the main software included in the distro.
* epifanio made himself available to create ad-hoc material in collaboration with those who will be giving the course. In fact, at present the main issue remains that we don't have a lecturer.

=== Overview: [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events|FOSS-related sessions at the EGU GA 2016]] ===

=== OSGeo Townhall ===

==== Scope ====
(Source: EGU Page)
''"Townhall meetings are meetings open to all conference participants. At townhall meetings, new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience, followed by an open discussion on the matter raised.

Anyone may organize such a townhall meeting subject to approval by the programme committee chair. Townhall meetings will take place Monday–Tuesday, 18–19 April 2016, and Thursday–Friday, 21–22 April 2016, 19:00–20:00, in the lecture rooms of the congress centre. Applications need the prior approval by the programme committee chair. Upon acceptance, the respective meeting will appear in the townhall meetings programme as a regular session."''

==== Timeline ====
* Application at EGU: 205-12: Registration is open. Reservation based on first come / first served basis.
* Funding request at OSGeo BOard: next board meeting (when ?)
* Catering: not later than early March 2016
* Event layoout / Speakers: "before the event" (preferably not last minute)
* Interfaces: Synchronisation with session conveners, training course hosts, etc needed
* Marketing activities (Poster/flyer production, invites, etc): before March 2016
* Content for official EGU poster (to be produced by Copernicus (conference organizers)): to be announced.
* Blog entries as requested by Board: tbd

==== Volunteers ====
* Planning & Preparation-Team:
** Peter Loewe
** [your name here]

== Next steps ==
* update this page / outline of committee
* [ACHIEVED] create mailing list ([https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1518 ticket])
* [ACHIEVED] draft email request to send to the OSGeo Board to create a new committee (preferably before next Board meeting on 13 August)
* Schedule a telco regarding EGU 2016 planning

== Meetings ==

=== Channel ===
Meetings will be held on the Slack channel: #opengeoscience

=== Access ===
Please contact Jeff McKenna to receive an invite to the open geoscience committee slack channel

=== Minutes ===
https://osgeo.slack.com/archives/opengeoscience

=== Meeting 2015-10-30 18:00 hours ===

==== Topics ====
# EGU GA 2016:
## OSGeo-related sessions
## Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers
## Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers
# Promoting the new OSGeo Opengeoscience Committee
# Various

==== Participants ====
* Epifanio
* Madi
* Jeff
* Raffalba
* Peter

====Outcome====
===== Top 1: EGU GA 2016 =====
* ''OSGeo-related sessions''
Madi will create a sub page on [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events | FOSS sessions and conferences]]

* ''Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers''

Townhall topic and other details will be discussed later. Info about the past townhalls sits on the Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2015

Jeff lobbies OSGeo board to support Townhall even

Madi and Raffaele volunteer for the EGU Townhall preparation

* ''Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers''

We are planning for one short course during the lunch hours, focusing on OSGeoLive, and possibly a second one to cover more detailed topics. We can announce the event during the FOSS-themed sessions and the Townhall. Target groups are ECS (young scientists) representatives group, NH and others divisions.

OSGeo-related topics for short course:
# initial introduction on FOSS and OSGeo
# "integration" of several open source software in a single workflow (use case) to accomplish very complex task in geospatial data analysis
# involve scientists that present in not deep way several tools and software

* Candidates for the second course (istSOS + PostGIS) need to be heard. topic of the second course needs to be discussed at a later time

* Epifanio offers technical support for the first on the osgeolive (for which I can not be directly involved in giving the workshop) and very interested in a second one more focused on sw libraries and tools

* Information about student grant opportunities need to be added to the Wiki.

* It remains to be determined which persons will give the short course(s) at EGU. The whole Open GeoScience group and ICA Geolabs should be contacted.

* Epifanio will contact Maxi to discuss/push istSOS integration in the live and setup a wiki page on the osgeo wiki to plan the "Osgeolive-EGU-tuning

====== GSOC: Jupyter / Binder for OSGeo Live ======
Use Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks (Jupyter/binder) on OSGeo Live (GSOC 2015 project) to omit standard OSGeo Live spin-up/installation hazzles:

* No Desktop applications included
* Focus on software libraries or any other project which has a command line interface (R, GRASS, OSSIM, GDAL, Python, etc .. )
* Having a web interface for each to the workshop materials will simplify enormously the workshop logistic.
* Cloud platform based on binder (http://mybinder.org/) essentially it give "life" to any repository which has a specific structure.
* GSOC project example: https://github.com/epifanio/binder-docker-test the user just needs to open the browser and click to "launch binder" bunner to have access to a (osgeolive based, both data and sw) online.

"

===== Top 2: Outreach =====

* ''GIS DAY 2015''
** New Hampshire Uni: Poster about OSGeo Live + OSGeo givewaways (Epifanio)
** GFZ Potsdam (Peter): Presentation
* MOSCOW GIS CONFERENCE: Jeff
* SAN FRANCISCO: GSOC MENTORS SUMMIT (Madi)

===== Top 3: Various =====

''Student course:''
Prep of a prez about OSGeo-live for RAFFALBAs students (C2 Epifanio / Madi)

=== Past meetings ===

The minutes from past meetings can be found at this [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/meetings | page]]

== Members ==

* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]], Founding Member
* [[Jeff McKenna]], Founding Member, OSGeo President
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]], Founding Member [Chair]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]], Founding Member [Co-Chair]
* [[User:goliadranger | Phillip Davis]], Member Geo For All Education Committee
* [[User:maria| Maria Brovelli]], GeoForAll Europa Chair
* Christian Strobl (German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR-DFD)
* [[User:raffalba| Raffaele Albano]], Member

== Events ==

FOSS related conferences/sessions are listed at this [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events | page]]

== Pictures ==
Holding the 1st "charter" of the committee. On that paper was written: "Open Geoscience Committee: an entry for Open Source geoscience topics."

<center>

[[File:OGC_founding_event_01_20150716.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Founding meeting 01]]
[[File:OGC_founding_event_02_20150716.jpg|400px|thumb|center|Founding meeting 02]]

</center>

[[Category:OpenGeoScience]]
[[Category:Committees]]

Open Geoscience Committee

2016-01-05T17:59:57Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Overview: OSGeo-related short courses at EGU 2016 */

== Background ==
The idea for the committee was conceived during a EGU-themed birds of a feather meeting at the FOSS4G-Europe in Como, Italy on July 16 2015

== Motivation ==

There is currently no established interface between the OSGeo communities and geoscience organisations like the American Geoscience Union (AGU) or the European Geoscience Union (EGU). At the same time OSGeo members publish their scientific work, which is based on FOSS and open data, within such organisations, often without being aware of each other. Further, students and young scientists who are using FOSS as a base for their work need information on how to share this work and reap the recognition within Academia which they deserve.

Within geoscience, the new role model of "Open Science" or "Science 2.0" is emerging. Many desiderata for future "open scientists", including publication of both the data and software, active international networking and reach out to industry and society are already common practice within OSGeo. Therefore OSGeo can provide guidance by best practices on how these practices can be established within Academia.

== Goals ==

* Launch the discussion how to address "Open Geoscience" among all stakeholders within OSGeo.

* Development of best practices within and beyond OSGeo.

* Establish communication with scientific communities such as EGU and AGU.

== Communication ==

* through the OpenGeoscience mailing list ([https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opengeoscience subscribe])

* conf calls are held via the [https://osgeo.slack.com/messages/opengeoscience/ OSGeo slack channel]. Slack uses text based communication (similar to ICQ)

== Activities ==
* Currently planning activities for EGU 2016 : a short course, sessions and a Townhall event.. join our [https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opengeoscience mailing list] and stay tuned, volunteers are always welcome

=== Overview: OSGeo-related short courses at EGU 2016 ===

{|
| '''Topic''' || '''Point of contact'''|| '''Remarks'''
|-

|''Aster/LiDAR using QGIS Processing''||Lene Fischer||tbd
|-
|''isSOS / PostGIS''||Maxi Cannata et al.||tbd
|}
----
''Introductory course to OSGeo-Live'':
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Topic
!Point of contact
!Remarks
|-
| Install on VM
| Micha Silver
| availability of DVD's or USB drives?
|-
| QGIS
|
|
|-
| GRASS
| Micha Silver
|
|-
| Geoserver
|
|
|-
| mbsystem
|
|
|-
| Cesium
|
|
|-
| R
|
|-
| GMT
|
|
|-
| Python (iris,netcdf4,cartopy)
|
|
|-
| python notebook
|
|
|-
|}

=== Ideas collected for the introductionary short course at EGU 2016 ===

* Introductory course to OSGeo-Live, duration 90 minutes, preferably during lunch break.
* Material that could be presented include gsoc work of Massimo Di Stefano (aka 'epifanio'), a series of educational material based on OSGeo-Live, featuring the main software included in the distro.
* epifanio made himself available to create ad-hoc material in collaboration with those who will be giving the course. In fact, at present the main issue remains that we don't have a lecturer.

=== Overview: [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events|FOSS-related sessions at the EGU GA 2016]] ===

=== OSGeo Townhall ===

==== Scope ====
(Source: EGU Page)
''"Townhall meetings are meetings open to all conference participants. At townhall meetings, new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience, followed by an open discussion on the matter raised.

Anyone may organize such a townhall meeting subject to approval by the programme committee chair. Townhall meetings will take place Monday–Tuesday, 18–19 April 2016, and Thursday–Friday, 21–22 April 2016, 19:00–20:00, in the lecture rooms of the congress centre. Applications need the prior approval by the programme committee chair. Upon acceptance, the respective meeting will appear in the townhall meetings programme as a regular session."''

==== Timeline ====
* Application at EGU: 205-12: Registration is open. Reservation based on first come / first served basis.
* Funding request at OSGeo BOard: next board meeting (when ?)
* Catering: not later than early March 2016
* Event layoout / Speakers: "before the event" (preferably not last minute)
* Interfaces: Synchronisation with session conveners, training course hosts, etc needed
* Marketing activities (Poster/flyer production, invites, etc): before March 2016
* Content for official EGU poster (to be produced by Copernicus (conference organizers)): to be announced.

==== Volunteers ====
* Planning & Preparation-Team:
** Peter Loewe
** [your name here]

== Next steps ==
* update this page / outline of committee
* [ACHIEVED] create mailing list ([https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1518 ticket])
* [ACHIEVED] draft email request to send to the OSGeo Board to create a new committee (preferably before next Board meeting on 13 August)
* Schedule a telco regarding EGU 2016 planning

== Meetings ==

=== Channel ===
Meetings will be held on the Slack channel: #opengeoscience

=== Access ===
Please contact Jeff McKenna to receive an invite to the open geoscience committee slack channel

=== Minutes ===
https://osgeo.slack.com/archives/opengeoscience

=== Meeting 2015-10-30 18:00 hours ===

==== Topics ====
# EGU GA 2016:
## OSGeo-related sessions
## Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers
## Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers
# Promoting the new OSGeo Opengeoscience Committee
# Various

==== Participants ====
* Epifanio
* Madi
* Jeff
* Raffalba
* Peter

====Outcome====
===== Top 1: EGU GA 2016 =====
* ''OSGeo-related sessions''
Madi will create a sub page on [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events | FOSS sessions and conferences]]

* ''Townhall preparation: Timeline / Volunteers''

Townhall topic and other details will be discussed later. Info about the past townhalls sits on the Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2015

Jeff lobbies OSGeo board to support Townhall even

Madi and Raffaele volunteer for the EGU Townhall preparation

* ''Short courses: OSGeo-Scope / Format / Timeline / Volunteers''

We are planning for one short course during the lunch hours, focusing on OSGeoLive, and possibly a second one to cover more detailed topics. We can announce the event during the FOSS-themed sessions and the Townhall. Target groups are ECS (young scientists) representatives group, NH and others divisions.

OSGeo-related topics for short course:
# initial introduction on FOSS and OSGeo
# "integration" of several open source software in a single workflow (use case) to accomplish very complex task in geospatial data analysis
# involve scientists that present in not deep way several tools and software

* Candidates for the second course (istSOS + PostGIS) need to be heard. topic of the second course needs to be discussed at a later time

* Epifanio offers technical support for the first on the osgeolive (for which I can not be directly involved in giving the workshop) and very interested in a second one more focused on sw libraries and tools

* Information about student grant opportunities need to be added to the Wiki.

* It remains to be determined which persons will give the short course(s) at EGU. The whole Open GeoScience group and ICA Geolabs should be contacted.

* Epifanio will contact Maxi to discuss/push istSOS integration in the live and setup a wiki page on the osgeo wiki to plan the "Osgeolive-EGU-tuning

====== GSOC: Jupyter / Binder for OSGeo Live ======
Use Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks (Jupyter/binder) on OSGeo Live (GSOC 2015 project) to omit standard OSGeo Live spin-up/installation hazzles:

* No Desktop applications included
* Focus on software libraries or any other project which has a command line interface (R, GRASS, OSSIM, GDAL, Python, etc .. )
* Having a web interface for each to the workshop materials will simplify enormously the workshop logistic.
* Cloud platform based on binder (http://mybinder.org/) essentially it give "life" to any repository which has a specific structure.
* GSOC project example: https://github.com/epifanio/binder-docker-test the user just needs to open the browser and click to "launch binder" bunner to have access to a (osgeolive based, both data and sw) online.

"

===== Top 2: Outreach =====

* ''GIS DAY 2015''
** New Hampshire Uni: Poster about OSGeo Live + OSGeo givewaways (Epifanio)
** GFZ Potsdam (Peter): Presentation
* MOSCOW GIS CONFERENCE: Jeff
* SAN FRANCISCO: GSOC MENTORS SUMMIT (Madi)

===== Top 3: Various =====

''Student course:''
Prep of a prez about OSGeo-live for RAFFALBAs students (C2 Epifanio / Madi)

=== Past meetings ===

The minutes from past meetings can be found at this [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/meetings | page]]

== Members ==

* [[User:Madi| Margherita Di Leo]], Founding Member
* [[Jeff McKenna]], Founding Member, OSGeo President
* [[User:Peter_Loewe|Peter Löwe]], Founding Member [Chair]
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiiano Cannata]], Founding Member [Co-Chair]
* [[User:goliadranger | Phillip Davis]], Member Geo For All Education Committee
* [[User:maria| Maria Brovelli]], GeoForAll Europa Chair
* Christian Strobl (German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR-DFD)
* [[User:raffalba| Raffaele Albano]], Member

== Events ==

FOSS related conferences/sessions are listed at this [[Open_Geoscience_Committee/events | page]]

== Pictures ==
Holding the 1st "charter" of the committee. On that paper was written: "Open Geoscience Committee: an entry for Open Source geoscience topics."

<center>

[[File:OGC_founding_event_01_20150716.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Founding meeting 01]]
[[File:OGC_founding_event_02_20150716.jpg|400px|thumb|center|Founding meeting 02]]

</center>

[[Category:OpenGeoScience]]
[[Category:Committees]]

UnitedNations Committee

2015-10-31T10:57:52Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Members */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table", and is interested in an exchange of official letters (an MoU would take many years to pass through on their side apparently) to formalize the relationship. Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

== Goals ==

* Develop a closer relationship with the UN.

* Establish a formal agreement between OSGeo and the UN.

* Establish communication between the UN GIS team and the OSGeo community.

* Promote the use of Open Source geospatial tools by the UN's member states and committees.

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list will be created (see [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1567#ticket ticket])

== Activities ==
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

== Next steps ==
* put out call for members for this new committee to Discuss list
* organize a monthly meeting, possibly using IRC or Slack
* draft official letter for formalizing relationship with UN

== Meetings ==

*

== Members ==

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* ''add your name''

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

Live GIS History

2015-08-23T07:40:28Z

Wiki-Micha: /* 2015 */

Where has OSGeo-Live been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

See also [[Live GIS Testimonials]].

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event or training course, or program
* City, Country
* link to webside
* OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many?
* USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* OSGeo-Live used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?
* Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

== 2015 ==

=== October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015 ===
* Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
* OSGeo-Live workshop?
* Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo-Live presenters)

=== 14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015 ===
* Seoul, South Korea
* Contact: Sanghee Shin
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed out, OSGeo-Live used in a number of the workshops

=== 15-17 September 2015, INTERGEO 2015 ===
* Stuttgart, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-Live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 11-13 August 2015, Geomatics Indaba 2015===
* Ekurhuleni, South Africa
* http://geomatics.org.za/
* distribution of 800 OSGeo-Live 8.5 DVDs in delegate bags
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 27-31 July, 2015: GIS Training at IAEA===
* Vienna, Austria
* Workshop on GIS for agricultural pest control
* OSGeo Live was install as virtual machine on participants computers
* Training focused on QGIS and Spatialite
* Contact: [[User:micha|Micha Silver]]

=== 13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe ===
* Como, Italy
* Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
* Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

=== 8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria) ===
* 8.-10.July 2015
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Astrid Emde (german) [https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/presentation/index.html presentation]
* Workshops about PostGIS (> 30 attendees) and Mapbender3 (>30 attendees): people worked with OSGeo-Live 8.5 USB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page]
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-10. June 2015 FOSS4G India 2015, IIRS Dehradun, India ===
OSGeo-India tweaked the Live DVD to also contain the Digital Proceedings of the Conference (full papers and abstracts) and it was made available to all the Participants. My humble self mentioned in my inaugural presentation that the essence of all OSGeo and OS-GIS software are tucked into the live DVD. It was also emphasised that the Live-DVD is a way of seeing all the software run on one's computer / Laptop without soiling it by booting with it. Use of Virtual Machine on certain operating systems, which are not boot-friendly to the Live-DVD was also mentioned. As usual the conference acknowledges the untiring effort by live.osgeo.org (http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html) who keep the DVD afresh with all latest OS-GIS. https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/iXhdxwaePux
* http://foss4gindia.in

=== 11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung ===
* Königslutter (Germany)
* Workshop on OSGeo-Live:
** Workshop with OSGeo-live from USB
** 10 attendees
* PostCards postcards to all delegates - about 50 postcards
* used presentation: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/de/presentation/index.html
* http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 1-3 June 2015: CalGIS ===
* Sacramento, California, United States
* http://www.calgis.org
* Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

=== 11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS ===
* 11. - 13. March 2015
* Münster, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 500 postcards to all delegates
* > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 239 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** USB Sticks
** USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA ===
* Burlingame, California, USA
* Contact Andrew Ross

=== 31 January 2015 FOSDEM ===
* Location: Brussels, Belgium
* 31 January & 1 February 2015
* Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
* Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects.
Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian.
Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
* Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
* https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

== 2014 ==
=== 2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia ===
* Bankok, Thailand
* OSGeo-Live lightning talk presented.
* planning to use OSGeo-Live at the workshop.
* Planning to distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs in the conference kit.
* Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

=== 28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference ===
* Chicago, Illinois, US
* OSGeo-Live presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
* Handed out 23 OSGeo-Live USBs
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== 21 November 2014, FOSS4G Hungary Conference ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* Approximately 110 OSGeo Live 8 DVDs were distributed
* during the PostGIS in a Nutshell workshop OSGeoLive 8 was used http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3/eloadasok/postgis_mini.pdf
* Contact: [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* Photos: http://www.agt.bme.hu/keptar/phpslideshow.php?directory=workshop3&currentPic=0

=== 6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
* OsGeo-Live VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeo-live were distributed
* Contact: [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

=== 7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014 ===
* Berlin, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G===
* Portland, Oregon, USA
* https://2014.foss4g.org/
* Contact: ?
* 300 8Gig OSGeo-Live USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
* OSGeo-Live VM used for many of the workshops.

=== 2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014===
* University of Nottingham, UK
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== 27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective===
* University of Melbourne, Australia
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
* Students had a choice of USB or VM
* Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

=== 15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope===
* Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* http://foss4g-e.org/
* about 160 attendents
* OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to every participant
* Presentation on OSGeo-Live http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
* Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
* The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
* Contact: Lluis Vicens

=== 1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo ===
* Cape Town, South Africa
* http://www.africageo.org/
* presentation and paper based on OSGeo-Live (and distribution of ~550 OSGeo-Live DVDs in delegate bags)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], Tim Sutton

=== ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online) ===
* journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* June 2015
* journal: [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/anliegen36_1.htm ANLiegen Natur 36(1)]
* ''Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?''
* ''Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?''
* [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an36113kudrnovsky_2014_open_data.pdf article]
* Contact: [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]]

=== 17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop ===
* West Virginia, USA
* http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
* Contact: Doug Newcomb
* Presented OSGeo-Live presentation, handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs

=== 10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014 ===
* Helsinki, Finland
* http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
* Contact: [[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]]

=== 2-4 July 2014, AGIT26 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
* OSGeo Booth, OSGeo-Live Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
* Contact: Astrid Emde

=== 20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR ===
* Paris, France
* Contact: Vicent Picavet

=== 21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
* OSGeo-Live DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
* Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

=== 27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://www.egu2014.eu/
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out to participants
* Contact Peter Löwe
* Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeo-Live_DVDs

=== 26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G) ===
* 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeo-Live
** Introduction to QGIS
** Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
** Introduction to python for geospatial applications
** Introduction to MapProxy
** Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
** Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS ===
* 19. - 21. March 2014
* Berlin, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' '''maybe'''
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 204 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka ===
* Malabe, Sri Lanka
* OSGeo-Live Presentation including demo of OSGeo-Live
* Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
* Contact: Nimalika Fernando

=== 1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
* Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
* Contact: Anne Ghisla

=== 23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop ===
* Rajahmundry, India
* OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
* Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

== 2013 ==
=== 4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India ===
* Visakhapatnam, India
* OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

=== 14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013 ===
* Seoul, Korea
* http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
* OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
* Contact: [[User:sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]

=== 4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14 ===
* Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
* Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013 ===
* Essen, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
* slides about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013 ===
* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
* OSGEO-Live and ICA-OSGEO lab network [http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy presentation]
* Contact: [[TuongThuy Vu|Thuy Vu]]

=== 19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India ===
* Jodhpur, India
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
* Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
* Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

=== 17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://2013.foss4g.org
* Contact: Steven Feldman

=== 25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference ===
* Dresden, Germany
* http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Catalonia, Spain
* About 25 students running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 3-5 July 2013, AGIT25 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)===
* Paris, France
* http://osgeo.asso.fr
* Distribution to participants ?
* Contact : Vincent Picavet

=== 12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS ===
* 12.-14. June 2013
* Rapperswil, Switzerland
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' by [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live 6.5
** 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013 ===
* Bucharest, Romania
* OSGeo-Live 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
* Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeo-Live (call for workshops opens June 13th)
* A OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
* http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
* Contact: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu]

=== 21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference ===
* Washington DC, United States
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Amyonthemap|Amy Gao]]

=== 29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action ===
* April 29 to May 1, 2013,
* Portland, Oregon
* http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063948/http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action Archive.org site])
* The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
* The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
* On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
* Contact: [[User:EliL | EliL]]

=== 24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013 ===
* 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
* Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
* [http://jsanz.github.io/slides-201304-foss4gba/osgeo-live/#/title OSGeo Live presentation] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
* Contact: [[Mauricio Miranda]]

=== 10 April, 2013 EGU 2013 ===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
* DVD-distribution to journalists
* splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeo-Live
* Contact: Peter Löwe

=== 6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013) ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]]

=== 17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU ===
* Rome, Italy
* http://wherecamp.eu/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2012 ==

=== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ===
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

=== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ===
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* Contact: Maning Sambale

=== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ===
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Over 200 participants; OSGeo-Live DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

=== 14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012 ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within five workshops
* OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
* Title: OSGeo-Live: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeo-Live: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

=== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

=== 12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop ===
* Barcelona, Spain
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
* Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
* 21 OSGeo-Live handed to the participants and used for the exercises
* The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
* Contact: [[User:esllolo|Estela Llorente López]], Simon Jirka (52°North)

=== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ===
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

===25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ===
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to all participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
* Contact: K S Rajan

=== October 2012, LatinOSGIS ===
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

===17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ===
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

=== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ===
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

=== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ===
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

=== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ===
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeo-Live in [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ===
* Seoul, Korea
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012 ===
* Dehradun, India
* http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
* Nearly 80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
* Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
* Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

=== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Nearly 70~80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeo-Live project was given to participants
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ===
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ===
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== September 2012, Geocamp ===
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

=== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ===
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
* A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeo-Live was given in oral presentation session
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

=== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ===
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

=== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

=== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ===
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== July 2012, AGIT ===
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

===June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ===
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

=== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ===
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

=== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ===
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ===
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

=== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ===
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

=== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ===
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

=== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ===
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

=== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ===
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

=== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ===
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

=== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ===
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

=== April 2012, AGILE 2012===
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

=== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ===
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

=== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ===
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

=== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ===
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

=== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ===
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

=== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ===
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

=== February 2012, AAG 2012 ===
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

=== February 2012, GIS courses ===
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ===
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== 2011==

=== December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ===
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ===
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

=== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ===
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

=== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ===
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

=== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ===
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

=== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

=== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ===
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

=== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ===
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp_post.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

=== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ===
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

=== May 2011, CGS 2011 ===
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

=== April 2011, GITA 2011 ===
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

=== April 2011, AAG 2011 ===
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

=== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ===
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== 2010 ==
=== November 2010, GeoData Camp ===
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

=== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ===
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

=== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ===
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

=== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== 2009 ==

=== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

=== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ===
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== 2008 ==

=== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

===September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]===
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Live GIS History

2015-08-23T07:39:02Z

Wiki-Micha: /* 2015 */

Where has OSGeo-Live been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

See also [[Live GIS Testimonials]].

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event or training course, or program
* City, Country
* link to webside
* OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many?
* USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* OSGeo-Live used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?
* Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

== 2015 ==

=== October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015 ===
* Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
* OSGeo-Live workshop?
* Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo-Live presenters)

=== 14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015 ===
* Seoul, South Korea
* Contact: Sanghee Shin
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed out, OSGeo-Live used in a number of the workshops

=== 15-17 September 2015, INTERGEO 2015 ===
* Stuttgart, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-Live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 11-13 August 2015, Geomatics Indaba 2015===
* Ekurhuleni, South Africa
* http://geomatics.org.za/
* distribution of 800 OSGeo-Live 8.5 DVDs in delegate bags
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 27-31 July, 2015: GIS Training at IAEA
* Vienna, Austria
* Workshop on GIS for agricultural pest control
* OSGeo Live was install as virtual machine on participants computers
* Training focused on QGIS and Spatialite
* Contact: [[User:micha|Micha Silver]]

=== 13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe ===
* Como, Italy
* Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
* Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

=== 8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria) ===
* 8.-10.July 2015
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Astrid Emde (german) [https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/presentation/index.html presentation]
* Workshops about PostGIS (> 30 attendees) and Mapbender3 (>30 attendees): people worked with OSGeo-Live 8.5 USB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page]
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-10. June 2015 FOSS4G India 2015, IIRS Dehradun, India ===
OSGeo-India tweaked the Live DVD to also contain the Digital Proceedings of the Conference (full papers and abstracts) and it was made available to all the Participants. My humble self mentioned in my inaugural presentation that the essence of all OSGeo and OS-GIS software are tucked into the live DVD. It was also emphasised that the Live-DVD is a way of seeing all the software run on one's computer / Laptop without soiling it by booting with it. Use of Virtual Machine on certain operating systems, which are not boot-friendly to the Live-DVD was also mentioned. As usual the conference acknowledges the untiring effort by live.osgeo.org (http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html) who keep the DVD afresh with all latest OS-GIS. https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/iXhdxwaePux
* http://foss4gindia.in

=== 11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung ===
* Königslutter (Germany)
* Workshop on OSGeo-Live:
** Workshop with OSGeo-live from USB
** 10 attendees
* PostCards postcards to all delegates - about 50 postcards
* used presentation: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/de/presentation/index.html
* http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 1-3 June 2015: CalGIS ===
* Sacramento, California, United States
* http://www.calgis.org
* Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

=== 11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS ===
* 11. - 13. March 2015
* Münster, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 500 postcards to all delegates
* > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 239 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** USB Sticks
** USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA ===
* Burlingame, California, USA
* Contact Andrew Ross

=== 31 January 2015 FOSDEM ===
* Location: Brussels, Belgium
* 31 January & 1 February 2015
* Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
* Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects.
Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian.
Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
* Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
* https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

== 2014 ==
=== 2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia ===
* Bankok, Thailand
* OSGeo-Live lightning talk presented.
* planning to use OSGeo-Live at the workshop.
* Planning to distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs in the conference kit.
* Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

=== 28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference ===
* Chicago, Illinois, US
* OSGeo-Live presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
* Handed out 23 OSGeo-Live USBs
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== 21 November 2014, FOSS4G Hungary Conference ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* Approximately 110 OSGeo Live 8 DVDs were distributed
* during the PostGIS in a Nutshell workshop OSGeoLive 8 was used http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3/eloadasok/postgis_mini.pdf
* Contact: [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* Photos: http://www.agt.bme.hu/keptar/phpslideshow.php?directory=workshop3&currentPic=0

=== 6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
* OsGeo-Live VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeo-live were distributed
* Contact: [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

=== 7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014 ===
* Berlin, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G===
* Portland, Oregon, USA
* https://2014.foss4g.org/
* Contact: ?
* 300 8Gig OSGeo-Live USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
* OSGeo-Live VM used for many of the workshops.

=== 2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014===
* University of Nottingham, UK
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== 27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective===
* University of Melbourne, Australia
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
* Students had a choice of USB or VM
* Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

=== 15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope===
* Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* http://foss4g-e.org/
* about 160 attendents
* OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to every participant
* Presentation on OSGeo-Live http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
* Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
* The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
* Contact: Lluis Vicens

=== 1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo ===
* Cape Town, South Africa
* http://www.africageo.org/
* presentation and paper based on OSGeo-Live (and distribution of ~550 OSGeo-Live DVDs in delegate bags)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], Tim Sutton

=== ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online) ===
* journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* June 2015
* journal: [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/anliegen36_1.htm ANLiegen Natur 36(1)]
* ''Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?''
* ''Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?''
* [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an36113kudrnovsky_2014_open_data.pdf article]
* Contact: [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]]

=== 17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop ===
* West Virginia, USA
* http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
* Contact: Doug Newcomb
* Presented OSGeo-Live presentation, handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs

=== 10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014 ===
* Helsinki, Finland
* http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
* Contact: [[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]]

=== 2-4 July 2014, AGIT26 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
* OSGeo Booth, OSGeo-Live Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
* Contact: Astrid Emde

=== 20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR ===
* Paris, France
* Contact: Vicent Picavet

=== 21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
* OSGeo-Live DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
* Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

=== 27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://www.egu2014.eu/
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out to participants
* Contact Peter Löwe
* Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeo-Live_DVDs

=== 26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G) ===
* 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeo-Live
** Introduction to QGIS
** Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
** Introduction to python for geospatial applications
** Introduction to MapProxy
** Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
** Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS ===
* 19. - 21. March 2014
* Berlin, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' '''maybe'''
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 204 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka ===
* Malabe, Sri Lanka
* OSGeo-Live Presentation including demo of OSGeo-Live
* Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
* Contact: Nimalika Fernando

=== 1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
* Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
* Contact: Anne Ghisla

=== 23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop ===
* Rajahmundry, India
* OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
* Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

== 2013 ==
=== 4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India ===
* Visakhapatnam, India
* OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

=== 14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013 ===
* Seoul, Korea
* http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
* OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
* Contact: [[User:sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]

=== 4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14 ===
* Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
* Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013 ===
* Essen, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
* slides about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013 ===
* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
* OSGEO-Live and ICA-OSGEO lab network [http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy presentation]
* Contact: [[TuongThuy Vu|Thuy Vu]]

=== 19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India ===
* Jodhpur, India
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
* Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
* Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

=== 17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://2013.foss4g.org
* Contact: Steven Feldman

=== 25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference ===
* Dresden, Germany
* http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Catalonia, Spain
* About 25 students running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 3-5 July 2013, AGIT25 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)===
* Paris, France
* http://osgeo.asso.fr
* Distribution to participants ?
* Contact : Vincent Picavet

=== 12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS ===
* 12.-14. June 2013
* Rapperswil, Switzerland
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' by [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live 6.5
** 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013 ===
* Bucharest, Romania
* OSGeo-Live 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
* Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeo-Live (call for workshops opens June 13th)
* A OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
* http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
* Contact: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu]

=== 21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference ===
* Washington DC, United States
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Amyonthemap|Amy Gao]]

=== 29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action ===
* April 29 to May 1, 2013,
* Portland, Oregon
* http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063948/http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action Archive.org site])
* The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
* The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
* On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
* Contact: [[User:EliL | EliL]]

=== 24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013 ===
* 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
* Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
* [http://jsanz.github.io/slides-201304-foss4gba/osgeo-live/#/title OSGeo Live presentation] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
* Contact: [[Mauricio Miranda]]

=== 10 April, 2013 EGU 2013 ===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
* DVD-distribution to journalists
* splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeo-Live
* Contact: Peter Löwe

=== 6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013) ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]]

=== 17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU ===
* Rome, Italy
* http://wherecamp.eu/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2012 ==

=== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ===
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

=== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ===
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* Contact: Maning Sambale

=== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ===
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Over 200 participants; OSGeo-Live DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

=== 14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012 ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within five workshops
* OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
* Title: OSGeo-Live: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeo-Live: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

=== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

=== 12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop ===
* Barcelona, Spain
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
* Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
* 21 OSGeo-Live handed to the participants and used for the exercises
* The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
* Contact: [[User:esllolo|Estela Llorente López]], Simon Jirka (52°North)

=== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ===
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

===25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ===
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to all participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
* Contact: K S Rajan

=== October 2012, LatinOSGIS ===
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

===17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ===
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

=== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ===
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

=== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ===
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

=== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ===
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeo-Live in [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ===
* Seoul, Korea
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012 ===
* Dehradun, India
* http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
* Nearly 80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
* Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
* Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

=== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Nearly 70~80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeo-Live project was given to participants
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ===
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ===
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== September 2012, Geocamp ===
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

=== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ===
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
* A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeo-Live was given in oral presentation session
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

=== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ===
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

=== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

=== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ===
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== July 2012, AGIT ===
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

===June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ===
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

=== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ===
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

=== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ===
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ===
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

=== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ===
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

=== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ===
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

=== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ===
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

=== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ===
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

=== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ===
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

=== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ===
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

=== April 2012, AGILE 2012===
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

=== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ===
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

=== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ===
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

=== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ===
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

=== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ===
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

=== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ===
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

=== February 2012, AAG 2012 ===
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

=== February 2012, GIS courses ===
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ===
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== 2011==

=== December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ===
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ===
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

=== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ===
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

=== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ===
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

=== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ===
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

=== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

=== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ===
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

=== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ===
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp_post.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

=== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ===
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

=== May 2011, CGS 2011 ===
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

=== April 2011, GITA 2011 ===
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

=== April 2011, AAG 2011 ===
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

=== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ===
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== 2010 ==
=== November 2010, GeoData Camp ===
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

=== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ===
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

=== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ===
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

=== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== 2009 ==

=== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

=== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ===
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== 2008 ==

=== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

===September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]===
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Edu current initiatives

2015-03-05T17:33:34Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/osgeolab The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
| cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.996707, 40.567811
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/ka/e?kid=5 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology]
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://batovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://www.agt.bme.hu/index_e.html Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, [http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki at agt.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| Birds Eye View GIS
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| [http://foss4geo.org/ FOSS4G Academy development]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source development of Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for establishing a local Lab and joining the "Geo for All" initiative ===

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software ,open data and open education in the future.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Live GIS Disc Press Release 37

2013-01-31T19:28:13Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Participants */

=OSGeo-Live Quickstart 48 hour Hackathon=

25 January 2013

We are organising an "OSGeo-Live Quickstart 48 hour hackathon", aimed squarely at bringing OSGeo-Live documentation quality up one notch, by putting the Quickstarts through the same comprehensive testing and review that we have provided for our Project Overviews. (Credit to Javi and the OSGeo-Live Spanish community for suggesting the initiative).

The Hackathon will kick off with a one hour IRC meeting with everyone, followed by a 48 hour round the clock hangout, with people dropping in where appropriate for their timezone and work/family schedules.

Pre Hackfest:
* Download our current stable OSGeo-Live release from: http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/latest/

Kickoff:
* Log onto: irc://irc.freenode.net#osgeolive
* Time: [http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2013&month=1&day=31&hour=19&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=224&p3=22&p4=240&p5=215 Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 19:30:00]
** New York, USA: 2:30PM EST, Th 31 Jan
** San Francisco USA: 11:30AM PST, Th 31 Jan
** Sydney Australia: 6:30AM Fr 1 Feb
** Rome Italy: 8:30:00PM CET, Th 31 Jan
** Spain: 8:30:00PM CET, Th 31 Jan

Review process:
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Quickstart_Review_Checklist

Please let me know if you would like to join us, and I'll make sure to look out for you. Depending on numbers, we might also set up a Google Hangout.

== Participants ==
# Cameron Shorter, cameron . shorter AT gmail . com
# Angelos Tzotsos, gcpp.kalxas gmail.com
# Hamish, hamish_b yahoo.com
# Brian Hamlin, maplabs light42.com
# Alex Mandel, tech wildintellect.com
# Javi Sanchez, jsgisdev gmail.com
# Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas, jsanz osgeo.org
# Sergio Baños Calvo, listas saig.es
# Alexander Muriy, amuriy gmail.com
# Micha Silver, micha arava co il

[[Category: Live-demo]]

Educational Content Inventory

2011-11-24T05:16:11Z

Wiki-Micha: /* 2011-2012 Initiatives */

Please provide information on '''your educational content''', use the searchable Educational Content Inventory Catalogue.

'''Important note:''' None of the content is considered "official" OSGeo material, and none of it has been peer-reviewed by anyone affiliated with OSGeo. At this juncture, we are simply trying to inventory educational material that is available through our participant community. Anything of interest to the OSGeo education community is welcome.

* To view the directory: http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
* To enter a new resource: https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content

== Training providers ==

* [[Open Source Training Providers]]

== 2011-2012 Initiatives ==

* EU - COST workshop, possibly March (add your name below if interested in participating in planning/proposal effort)
** Ari Jolma
** Massimiliano Cannata (Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana)
** Markus Neteler
** Maria Brovelli (Milan)
** Rafael Moreno (Dept of Geography and Environmental Studies, U of Colorado, Denver)
** Suchith Anand (University of Nottingham)
** Charlie Schweik (UMass Amherst)
** [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]] (SIGTE -GIS & Remote Sensing Service-, University of Girona)
** Helena Mitasova (North Carolina State University)
** Micha Silver (Arava Drainage Authority, Israel)
** others?

* US workshop (possibly May) (add your name below if interested in participating in planning/proposal effort)
** Tyler Mitchell
** Phil Davis (GeoTech Center)
** Charlie Schweik (UMass Amherst)
** Mike Krimmer (Northern Virginia Community College)
** Tom Mueller (California University of Pennsylvania
** Helena Mitasova (North Carolina State University)
** Ned Horning (American Museum of Natural History)
** Others?

* Virtual meeting topics for discussion

** COST proposal
*** (from Ari's email) The proposal needs a right scope and domain. Domain could be "Earth System Science and Environmental Management" (I could find one GIS related action) or "Information and Communication Technologies" (I could not find any actions directly related to FOSS - which may tell something or not). The proposal needs a main objective. The objective could be for example "enhance academic relevance/use/usability of existing free and open source geospatial (FOSS4G) software and develop methods and workflows for increasing the impact and exploitation of FOSS4G emerging from academia". That could perhaps have the right span.
*** There's "Jornades de SIG Lliure" in Girona March 21-23 and, although it is in Spanish and Catalan, perhaps we could use that for a workshop and meeting(?). http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/
** Content/scope of EU and US workshops

[[Category:Education]]

Live GIS History

2011-10-17T08:43:47Z

Wiki-Micha:

Where has the LiveDVD been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

== IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ==
* Burkina Faso, October 2011
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

== Intergeo 2011 ==
* September 2011, Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

== FOSS4G 2011 ==
September 2011, Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

== Open Source GIS Summer School ==
* June/July 2011
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

== [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ==
August 2011, Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

== FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ==
June 2011, David Brower Environmental Center
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

== [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ==
June 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightening presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* Expect to be handing out DVDs to all delegates (to be confirmed)

== CGS 2011 ==
* May 2011, Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

== GITA 2011 ==
* April 2011, Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

== AAG 2011 ==
* April 2011, Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

== FOSSGIS 2011 ==
* April 2011, Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== GeoData Camp ==
November 2010, Athens, Greece

* Presented OSGeo-Live lightening presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

== Intergeo 2010 ==
* October 2010, Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

== [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ==
September 2010, Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

== [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference==
April 2010, Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightening talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ==
October 2009, Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

== [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ==
June 2009, Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ==
November 2008, Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

==[http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]==
September 2008
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Journal Volume 9

2011-01-28T19:39:06Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Submissions */

Submit your articles or volunteer to edit/review by signing up at http://osgeo.org/ojs.
-----
= Publication Deadlines =
* '''Draft Articles Due:''' March 31, 2010
* '''Final Edits to Articles Due:''' April 22, 2010
* '''Publication:''' May 2, 2010

= Submissions =
You can submit an article for Volume 9 on the [http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal Open Journal System web site for the OSGeo Journal].
You can also send your article ideas to Landon Blake at [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com] or mention them on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter OSGeo Newsletter mailing list]. In addition, [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Journal_License_and_Guidelines here] are some guidelines for authors wishing to submit their work.

= Editorial and Publication Team =
The editorial and publication team for Volume 9, like all volumes of the journal, is comprised of volunteers. We thank them for their efforts in creating and publishing the journal.

* '''Editor:''' Tyler Mitchell
* '''Assistant Editor:''' Landon Blake
* '''Section Editor (Peer Review):''' Rafal Wawar
* '''Section Editor (Editorial):''' Landon Blake
* '''Section Editor (Project Spotlights and Case Studies):''' Micha Silver
* '''Section Editor (Annual Report Sections):''' Landon Blake
* '''Reviewer (Unassigned):''' Michael Gerlek
* '''Reviewer (Unassigned):''' Ezra Boyd

= SVN Repository =
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_9/en-us/

= Articles List =
* "Processing Large LIDAR Datasets With GRASS" Doug Newcomb
* "FOSS GIS Project Presentations at the 2011 NC GIS Conference" Julia Harrell
* "The United States National Grid" Bob Basques
* "Using Geotools to Work With GPX Data" Landon Blake

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Case Studies

2008-02-11T21:12:54Z

Wiki-Micha:

''This page lists Case Studies of projects that include Geospatial Open Source components.''

=Case Studies=
==Complete Infrastructure==
===[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2 Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php%3Fid%3Dgvpontis%26L%3D2 English translation] by Google)''

Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2 gvSIG]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, geoNetwork opensource).

===[http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir River, Spain]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F209.85.173.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3ACTDxwL0ZUqoJ%3Awww.orzancongres.com%2Fadministracion%2Fupload%2FimgPrograma%2FN-004.pdf%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dau%26client%3Dfirefox-a&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 English translation] by Google)''

A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, Geonetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree.

===NASA study ROI from Geospatial Open Standards===
''April 2005''

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geospatial Interoperability Office studied the Return On Investment from using Geospatial Open Standards. The study showed
"There is a significant improvement in functionality and mitigation of cost when using open as opposed to proprietary standards. The project that implemented geospatial interoperability standards had a risk-adjusted ROI, or "Savings to Investment" ratio, of 119.0 percent throughout the five-year project life cycle."

* [http://www.geospatial-solutions.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=303345&pageID=1&sk=&date= Summary of Findings]
* [http://www.galdosinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/NASA_GI_ROI.pdf Copy of Report] (Original URL has suffered link rot)

==Web Clients==

==Desktop Clients==

* Municipality of Trento ([http://www.comune.tn.it/ Comune di Trento]), Italy, migration (2005-today): especially improvements in [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] are financed: new digitizer tool and better high quality cartographic output.

==Web Services==

===[http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=101 Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Regulatory program]===
''25 September 2007. Powerpoint presentation from FOSS4G Conference''

The Army Corps successfully integrated a Proprietary Oracle Database, ARC SDE and Analysis tools, with Open Source WMS and WFS services, and free viewers like Google Earth and Google Maps.

==Databases==
===[http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/ PostGIS Case Studies]===
A collection of PostGIS Case Studies collected by Refractions.

=Why write a Case Study?=
A case study discusses how a specific situation was identified, which solutions were investigated and selected, and a summary of the results.

Solution architects use relevant case studies to support a solution they are building.

Writing a case study about your project gives others the confidence to follow your footsteps which in turn increases investment in your tools of choice. Publishing your experience gives '''positive feedback''' to those involved in your project, reinforcing your success, encouraging colleagues to take on additional challenges, and allowing the project to continue to grow.

We would like to see case studies which cover a range of use cases, especially from organizations with a low risk tolerance. Many organizations approach Open Source in little steps gradually integrating it with existing infrastructure and find targeted small case studies valuable.

=What to write?=

One to three pages is good, with a graphic per page.

The case study should cover:
* Problem
* Evaluations
* Implementation, including integration with other infrastructure
* Problems faced and how they were overcome
* Return on Investment
* Future plans
* Who else might benefit from your experience

More hints found by googling: [http://www.klariti.com/business-writing/How-To-Write-Case-Study.shtml How to write a Case Study]

=How to publish?=
Consider submitting an article to the [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal].
Here are the basic [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for authors.

Case Studies

2008-02-11T21:04:15Z

Wiki-Micha: /* What to write? */

Case Studies

2008-02-11T21:02:56Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Why write a Case Study? */

''This page lists Case Studies of projects that include Geospatial Open Source components.''

=Case Studies=
==Complete Infrastructure==
===[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2 Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php%3Fid%3Dgvpontis%26L%3D2 English translation] by Google)''

Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2 gvSIG]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, geoNetwork opensource).

===[http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir River, Spain]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F209.85.173.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3ACTDxwL0ZUqoJ%3Awww.orzancongres.com%2Fadministracion%2Fupload%2FimgPrograma%2FN-004.pdf%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dau%26client%3Dfirefox-a&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 English translation] by Google)''

A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, Geonetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree.

===NASA study ROI from Geospatial Open Standards===
''April 2005''

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geospatial Interoperability Office studied the Return On Investment from using Geospatial Open Standards. The study showed
"There is a significant improvement in functionality and mitigation of cost when using open as opposed to proprietary standards. The project that implemented geospatial interoperability standards had a risk-adjusted ROI, or "Savings to Investment" ratio, of 119.0 percent throughout the five-year project life cycle."

* [http://www.geospatial-solutions.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=303345&pageID=1&sk=&date= Summary of Findings]
* [http://www.galdosinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/NASA_GI_ROI.pdf Copy of Report] (Original URL has suffered link rot)

==Web Clients==

==Desktop Clients==

* Municipality of Trento ([http://www.comune.tn.it/ Comune di Trento]), Italy, migration (2005-today): especially improvements in [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] are financed: new digitizer tool and better high quality cartographic output.

==Web Services==

===[http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=101 Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Regulatory program]===
''25 September 2007. Powerpoint presentation from FOSS4G Conference''

The Army Corps successfully integrated a Proprietary Oracle Database, ARC SDE and Analysis tools, with Open Source WMS and WFS services, and free viewers like Google Earth and Google Maps.

==Databases==
===[http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/ PostGIS Case Studies]===
A collection of PostGIS Case Studies collected by Refractions.

=Why write a Case Study?=
A case study discusses how a specific situation was identified, which solutions were investigated and selected, and a summary of the results.

Solution architects use relevant case studies to support a solution they are building.

Writing a case study about your project gives others the confidence to follow your footsteps which in turn increases investment in your tools of choice. Publishing your experience gives '''positive feedback''' to those involved in your project, reinforcing your success, encouraging colleagues to take on additional challenges, and allowing the project to continue to grow.

We would like to see case studies which cover a range of use cases, especially from organizations with a low risk tolerance. Many organizations approach Open Source in little steps gradually integrating it with existing infrastructure and find targeted small case studies valuable.

=What to write?=

One to three pages is good, with a graphic per page.

The case study should cover:
* Problem
* Evaluations
* Implementation, including integration with other infrastructure
* Problems faced and how they were overcome
* Return on Investment
* Future plans

More hints found by googling: [http://www.klariti.com/business-writing/How-To-Write-Case-Study.shtml How to write a Case Study]

Journal Volume 4

2007-11-28T11:56:51Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo [[Journal]] - Volume 4 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

'''Please review the [[Journal License and Guidelines]] page before adding your article to either article list.'''

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== Deadlines ==
* Articles welcome: '''Now'''
* Articles requiring peer review, Submission Ends: '''???'''
* Article Submission Ends: '''???'''
* First Draft: '''???'''
* Final Publication: '''???'''

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== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor: Jason Fournier
# Author: Rafal Wawer; email: Rafal.Wawer@sadl.kuleuven.be '''A trans-national cascade training programme on Open Source GIS&RS Software for environmental applications - the CASCADOSS project'''
# ...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# ...

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# [http://email.me.at...jjorgenson@gmail.com Jason Jorgenson] '''LandUse Analyst''' ''This project aims to define a settlement's use of, and impact on, their surrounding landscape.''

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Peter Löwe: '''Wanderlust 2.0: The state and future of hiking trail management in Germany with FOSS GIS'''
# Peter Wilkins: '''An Image Request application using FOSS4G tools'''
#Chris West, Mark Gillis, Brian Low, and Alex Song. chwest@nrcan.gc.ca, '''Using Open Source to Analyze Canada's National Forest Inventory'''

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
#Aaron Peeke-Vout and Brian Low, Aaron.Peeke-Vout@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)-In-A-Box, a Footprint to Deliver Geospatial Data through Open Source Applications.
# ...

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Markus Neteler: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# ...

=== Interview(s) ===
# ...

=== Developer Announcements ===
# OSGeo project summaries
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
# deegree3: the shape of things to come. (Markus Lupp)
# ...

[[Category:Journal]]

Spotlights

2007-10-06T16:00:37Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Editors */

'''This document contains preliminary ideas on how to operate OSGeo spotlights, and is not yet operational/adopted.'''

== Objective ==

Produce fairly regular "Spotlight" interviews for the OSGeo web site giving a deeper view about an OSGeo related developer, user, project or sponsor.

It is hoped the spotlights would:

* Personalize the OSGeo community.
* Give a sense of ways that different people are involved.
* Give a sense of why people are involved.
* Give a sense of why sponsors are involved.
* Give brief introductory information on a variety of projects.

== Developer / User Spotlight ==

This is the traditional sort of spotlight that was done shortly after OSGeo's formation. See the following for examples:

http://www.osgeo.org/content/spotlights/developer/index.html

Originally these were known as "Developer Spotlights", but they can be taken more broadly to be "Personal Spotlights". They should include a picture of the person, and give a sense of what they do, why they are involved, and a bit of other background. An existing question template exists (implicit in past responses at least) though it may be appropriate to update it.

== Sponsor Spotlight ==

Sponsor spotlights are interviews with a person from a sponsoring organization discussing why the sponsor is involved in OSGeo. They serve two goals. One is to give the sponsor some profile within the community - to help folks understand who they are, what they do, and why they are involved. The other is to help other potential sponsors understand reasons for sponsoring better, in the words of other sponsors.

This is similar to (or perhaps could be repurposed from) the sponsor perspectives already in the journal - like: http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/v2/en-us/final_pdfs/OSGeoJournal_vol2_LizTec.pdf and http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/v2/en-us/final_pdfs/OSGeoJournal_vol2_1spatial.pdf.

Ideally, over time all sponsors should be spotlighted once, assuming they are willing.

== Project Spotlight ==

This might be very similar to the Project Spotlights in the Journal, such as http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/v2/en-us/final_pdfs/OSGeoJournal_vol2_MapWindow.pdf and http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/v2/en-us/final_pdfs/OSGeoJournal_vol2_GeoNetwork.pdf.

The spotlights should, again, be a fairly standardized interview with a person involved in a project. It should help folks to understand:
* the state of the project (mature, new, etc)
* how it compares to other projects in focus
* the role of the project - how it is used, etc.
* some human interest info about the project developers, origins, etc.
* pointers to additional resources.

The intention is that project spotlights could be produced for OSGeo projects ''and'' for non-OSGeo projects just trying to "get known" (aka [[OSGeo Labs]] sorts of projects). We will need to clearly differentiate between OSGeo projects, and non-OSGeo projects. Keep in mind we are providing user guidance as well as project promotion.

== Templates ==

As has been done for the developer spotlights, a standard template of interview questions should likely be prepared for each kind of spotlight. A fair degree of flexibility should be allowed though.

== Editors ==

Multiple spotlight editors (perhaps 2-4?) would be helpful to prepare the templates, select and solicit subjects, and publish the materials on the website.

Anyone interested in being a Spotlight editor should add themselves here.

* Frank Warmerdam
* Micha Silver

== Tempo ==

I would suggest aiming for at least two spotlights per months. Perhaps one personal spotlight, and one sponsor or project spotlight.

== Publish Where? ==

Spotlights should stay on the OSGeo "front page" for roughly a month. Spotlights should be archived
(something like http://www.osgeo.org/content/spotlights/developer/index.html). We should also consider publishing applicable content in the Journal. Should we also report them via announce@lists.osgeo.org? I'd like to see them make it into places like SlashGeo.

[[Category: WebCom]]

Journal Volume 3

2007-09-05T19:40:57Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo [[Journal]] - Volume 3 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

'''Please review the [[Journal License and Guidelines]] page before adding your article to either article list.'''

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== Deadlines ==
* Articles welcome: '''Now'''
* Articles requiring peer review, Submission Ends: '''September 30, 2007'''
* Article Submission Ends: '''October 10, 2007'''
* First Draft: '''October 25, 2007'''
* Final Publication: '''November 15, 2007'''

== Special Edition - FOSS4G Proceedings ==
This volume of the Journal will have a focus on the proceedings and papers presented at the [http://www.foss4g2007.org|FOSS4G Conference Event]. There will still be room for other articles, though it may be limited depending on how many articles come from the conference presenters. If there are many FOSS4G articles, then the 'normal' articles will be postponed to the next volume.

If you are interested in providing a paper for this purpose, please add yourself to the following section. Otherwise, add your normal article to the sections further below.
#Your FOSS4G paper goes here.... include your name, your email and the title of your article
#Hans Plum, Markus Lupp plum@lat-lon.de, Interoperabilty for 3D geodata: Experiences with CityGML and OGC Web Services
#Barde Julien, julien@mbari.org, A generic approach to manage metadata standards
#Peter Staub, peterstaub@ethz.ch, A Model-Driven Web Feature Service for Enhanced Semantic Interoperability
#Stefan Keller, sfkeller (at) hsr.ch, db4o2D - Object Database Extension for 2D Geospatial Types
#Martin Mergili, martin.mergili (at) uibk.ac.at, GRASS GIS and modelling of natural hazards: an integrated approach for debris flow simulation
#Nirut Chalaini, Junya Sano, and Toshimi Minoura, minoura@eecs.orst.edu, Automatic Generation of Web-Based GIS/Database Applications
#Hugo Conceição, Luís Damas, Michel Ferreira and João Barros, michel@dcc.fc.up.pt, The DIVERT Project: Development of Inter-Vehicular Reliable Telematics

== Normal Edition ==
=== Contributors / Topics ===
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor: Jason Fournier
# Additional contributors welcome...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# ...

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# ...

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Peter Löwe: '''Wanderlust 2.0: The state and future of hiking trail management in Germany with FOSS GIS'''
# Peter Wilkins: '''An Image Request application using FOSS4G tools'''

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# ...

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Markus Neteler: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])
# ...

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# ...

=== Interview(s) ===
# ...

=== Developer Announcements ===
# OSGeo project summaries
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
# deegree3: the shape of things to come. (Markus Lupp)
# ...

[[Category:Journal]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2007]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-08-23T19:32:36Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo [[Journal]] - Volume 2 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category. Please review the [[Journal License and Guidelines]] page first.

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== Deadlines ==
* Articles welcome: Now
* Article drafts: June 22, 2007
* Article Submission Ends: July 3, 2007 (~30 days to submit)
* First Draft: July 22, 2007
* Final Publication: August 1, 2007 (~30 days from article close)

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Also review our [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for contributors. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor:[[User:jfournier | Jason Fournier]]
# Jeff McKenna: '''FOSS4G 2008 Venue''': announcing conference committee event updates
# Additional contributors welcome...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
# Ravi Kumar: '''FOSS GIS in India''': A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
# Yves Jacolin: '''GeoEvenement 2007''': A [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoEvenement2007 summary] of OSGeo promotion at a french geomatics tradeshow

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
# <strike> Schuyler Erle: '''OpenLayers''' ('''confirmed''') </strike>
# <strike> Scott Emmons: '''Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST)''': a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)</strike>
# Daniel P. Ames: '''MapWindow''': Introducing the MapWindow GIS project ('''submitted''')
# Jeroen Ticheler: '''GeoNetwork OpenSource''': The FAO GeoNetwork ('''submitted''')

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Editor: [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver]
# <strike>Joel Schlagel: title TBD</strike>
# [mailto:shamimakhterATgmail.com Shamim Akhter] & [mailto:yann.cheminATgmail.com Yann Chemin]: '''Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing''' ('''submitted''')
# Rafael Sperb: '''Navigating in the Innovation''' (confirmed)
# David Enns: '''The West Alexander Neighborhood in Winnepeg'''; A MapServer case study ('''submitted''')
# Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: '''The role of FAO GeoNetwork in a multinational development programme: the case of the Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis''' ('''submitted''')
# Sina Ayanlade: Geospatial Data Acquisition Problems in Sub-Saharan Africa
# ...

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
Editor: [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:MarkusLupp | Dr. Markus Lupp]]
# Landon Blake: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology''' '''(submitted)'''
# Sanderson, Stickler and Ramage: '''Spatial Data Quality and the Open Source Community''' ('''submitted''')

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: Landon Blake
# Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

=== Interview(s) ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# Matthew Fleagle and Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech: '''Why We Use and Support Free and Open Source Software''' ('''submitted''')

=== Developer Announcements ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# OSGeo project summaries
# [[User:MarkusLupp | Dr. Markus Lupp]]: So simple to install: deegree releases 2.1 demos as WAR archives
# ...

=== Local Chapter Updates ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
## UK Chapter update (received)
## Taiwan Chapter update (received)
## [[Journal Volume 2 Spanish Local Chapter| Spanish Local Chapter]]
## [[Journal Volume 2 Ottawa Local Chapter| Ottawa Local Chapter]]
## [[Journal Volume 2 Francophone Local Chapter|Francophone Local Chapter]]

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-08-23T19:29:59Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo [[Journal]] - Volume 2 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category. Please review the [[Journal License and Guidelines]] page first.

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== Deadlines ==
* Articles welcome: Now
* Article drafts: June 22, 2007
* Article Submission Ends: July 3, 2007 (~30 days to submit)
* First Draft: July 22, 2007
* Final Publication: August 1, 2007 (~30 days from article close)

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Also review our [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for contributors. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor:[[User:jfournier | Jason Fournier]]
# Jeff McKenna: '''FOSS4G 2008 Venue''': announcing conference committee event updates
# Additional contributors welcome...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
# Ravi Kumar: '''FOSS GIS in India''': A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
# Yves Jacolin: '''GeoEvenement 2007''': A [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoEvenement2007 summary] of OSGeo promotion at a french geomatics tradeshow

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
# <strike> Schuyler Erle: '''OpenLayers''' ('''confirmed''') </strike>
# <strike> Scott Emmons: '''Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST)''': a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)</strike>
# Daniel P. Ames: '''MapWindow''': Introducing the MapWindow GIS project ('''submitted''')
# Jeroen Ticheler: '''GeoNetwork OpenSource''': The FAO GeoNetwork ('''submitted''')

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Editor: [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver]
# <strike>Joel Schlagel: title TBD</strike>
# [mailto:shamimakhterATgmail.com Shamim Akhter] & [mailto:yann.cheminATgmail.com Yann Chemin]: '''Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing''' ('''submitted''')
# Rafael Sperb: Fisheries Tracking System (title TBD)
# David Enns: '''The West Alexander Neighborhood in Winnepeg'''; A MapServer case study ('''submitted''')
# Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: '''The role of FAO GeoNetwork in a multinational development programme: the case of the Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis''' ('''submitted''')
# Sina Ayanlade: Geospatial Data Acquisition Problems in Sub-Saharan Africa
# ...

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
Editor: [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: [[User:MarkusLupp | Dr. Markus Lupp]]
# Landon Blake: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology''' '''(submitted)'''
# Sanderson, Stickler and Ramage: '''Spatial Data Quality and the Open Source Community''' ('''submitted''')

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Editor: Landon Blake
# Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

=== Interview(s) ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# Matthew Fleagle and Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech: '''Why We Use and Support Free and Open Source Software''' ('''submitted''')

=== Developer Announcements ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# OSGeo project summaries
# [[User:MarkusLupp | Dr. Markus Lupp]]: So simple to install: deegree releases 2.1 demos as WAR archives
# ...

=== Local Chapter Updates ===
# Acting Editor: [[User:tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
## UK Chapter update (received)
## Taiwan Chapter update (received)
## [[Journal Volume 2 Spanish Local Chapter| Spanish Local Chapter]]
## [[Journal Volume 2 Ottawa Local Chapter| Ottawa Local Chapter]]
## [[Journal Volume 2 Francophone Local Chapter|Francophone Local Chapter]]

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-05-26T19:16:26Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Contributors / Topics */

Journal License and Guidelines

2007-05-26T19:10:46Z

Wiki-Micha:

= Licensing =
All articles are copyrighted by the respective authors. Contact the author directly for questions about modifying or revising an article for another purpose. The OSGeo Journal is published under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ By Attribution - No Derivatives] license.

http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/3.0/88x31.png

This gives you the following rights (taken from the above link):
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'''You are free:'''
* to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
'''Under the following conditions:'''
*Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
*No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ this] web page.
* Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
* Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.
== Translations ==
Language translations are managed by the Journal editorial team. You are welcome to help with language translations but they must be coordinated with the Journal team so that content can be rolled back into the official publication. You may also contact the author of the work to obtain further permissions for using the work.

= Contributors =
These guidelines for those who are contributing or considering contributing articles or content to the Journal. Direct questions to the Journal management/editorial team if your article will not fit this guidelines.

== Content ==
Journal content covers several broad areas of geospatial interest, but is primarily for presenting articles about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as applied in the geospatial/geoinfomatics fields. Topical articles covering theoretical aspects of GIS are also welcome, but are encouraged to also point to specific FOSS implementations. Articles that are primarily focused on proprietary (non-FOSS) applications will not be accepted. Articles may contain information about proprietary products as long as they are presented in the context of integrating FOSS within traditionally non-FOSS environments or highlighting migration from non-FOSS to FOSS solutions.

This rationale is based on the fact that there are many other journals and magazines available for non-FOSS applications to promote their products. However, FOSS users are regularly concerned with how to work within a proprietary environment or move away from one, so articles that show a mixture of technology may still be relevant.

Contributors must agree with this sentiment when proposing or submitting content.

== Authorization ==
* Contributors retain copyright on their articles
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to reproduce and edit the content of their articles, including translating the content into other languages, at no cost and with no commitment to maintain the article in the future
* Contributors agree to license their articles under the same license as the OSGeo Journal (see '''Licensing''' below)
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to have copyright over the compilation, including the representation of their articles in the Journal format

== Timing ==
Contributors agree to timing deadlines for submitting material to the Journal editorial team and recognize that an article may be rejected or postponed to a future edition if submission deadlines are not met.

== Suggested length of articles ==
* Events or announcments: 500 - 1000 words
* FOSS Project reports: up to 1500 words
* Integration studies, technical articles: up to 2500 words

= Readers =
You are free to download, print, copy and redistribute the contents of the OSGeo Journal and its articles. If you post the document(s) online, you must also provide a reference back to the original Journal web site: http://www.osgeo.org/journal. If you cannot provide a link back to the original site, we ask that you identify the source in a manner that respects the original authors and OSGeo and the publisher, for example by adding this text to the web page:
This journal and its articles are published by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo),
the individual articles are copyright of their respective authors. The Journal is covered by the
Creative Commons By Attribution - No Derivatives license.
The OSGeo Journal web site is: http://www.osgeo.org/journal

[[Category:Journal]]

Journal

2007-05-26T19:00:17Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Submission of articles */

[http://www.osgeo.org/journal '''OSGeo Journal'''] is the OSGeo publication highlight open source projects, news, event and OSGeo Foundation updates. This is the summary page for the Journal project and its future editions.

For already release volumes see the official [http://www.osgeo.org/journal/ OSGeo Journal homepage]

''OSGeo Journal volumes'':

Please add yourself (incl. e-mail) to an open volume Wiki, if you like to submit an article; an editor will contact you.

* Volume 1 (closed): [[Journal Volume 1 ]]

* Volume 2 (open): [[Journal Volume 2 ]]

== Background ==
OSGeo Journal builds on top of the successful history of the [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php GRASS-News] production. [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf Volume 4] (5.8MB) of that production was a joint GRASS/OSGeo effort. The next edition is broader and branded as OSGeo Journal.

== Editions ==
* [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf GRASS/OSGeo-News Volume 4] (5.8MB)
* OSGeo Journal Volume 1 ([[Journal Volume 1]] - [http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1 released])
* OSGeo Journal Volume 2 ([[Journal Volume 2]] - in development)

== Content Outline ==
This is the typical outline for an edition:
# Editorials
# News
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
# Project Spotlight (Introductions) (1-2 articles)
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
# Programming Tutorials (2-3 tutorials)
# Interviews (1-2 people)
# Developer Announcements

=== Short description of content ===
Suggested max. length of articles in brackets. Page counts are based on output in newsletter format. Word counts assume several images, about 1.5 per page.

* Editorials: written by Edt. in Chief or/and well-known person - (1 page)
* News: past 6 months and next 3 months, just keywords/URL/date - (all short notes: 1 page)
* Event Reports: Brief article about meetings/conferences etc. - (1/2 page per report or 750 words)
* Project Introductions: General introduction to one software project or particular new features of a project - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Case Studies: Highlighting specific application of technologies to a certain problem, user community or developer needs - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Integration Studies: Articles showing how many projects can work together in an integrated fashion, e.g. the power of GRASS, QGIS and GDAL all working together - (5 pages, 2500 words)
* Topical Studies: Introductions to concepts and theories, e.g. what something means, how to work with certain types of things - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Programming Tutorials: Tutorials showing how to use a library or application at a programmatic level - (3 pages, 1500 words)
* Interviews: Introducing open source community members or organisations - (1-2 pages, 1000 words)
* Developer Announcements: Announcements about recent changes/improvements to projects - (0.5 - 1 page, 750 words)

== Production Team ==
Typical needs include volunteers to collect, edit, format articles and design/proof layout. Because layout is done using LaTeX, volunteers familiar with it are always appreciated. By having several editors and categories we spread the word out and reduce the overall load for each volunteer.

Each editor is in charge of:

* looking through submitted articles
* doing a brief review and perhaps fwd. them to another more experienced user/developer or other Reviewer
* asking certain projects to submit articles (for volumes covering one subject)
* check for layout errors, so that the final files can easily be merged with all other sections
* optionally converting content to LaTeX if needed

=== Team Positions ===

* '''Newsletter Chair''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
** Announcing new vol./call for articles; announce release dates
* '''Editor in Chief''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
** Merging all sections, check for final version, asking all editors to submit final versions, etc.
* '''Editor, News''': [[User:Jfournier | Jason Fournier]]
** Compiling general new items from past 6 months
* '''Editor, Project Spotlights''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
** Solicit, collect, edit and reformat content
* '''Editor, Case Studies''': [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver]
* '''Editor, Integration Studies''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
* '''Editor, Programming Tutorials''': Landon Blake
* '''Layout/Design''': Kevin Yam
** Designing and changing look and feel of publication

=== Open Positions ===
Interested in helping? This section lists current positions that need filling. If you have other interests, you are also welcome to add them for discussion.
* '''Editor, Event Reports''' - Compiling information about OSGeo-related events and to find summary reports that could be included as part of the newsletter
* '''Editor, Topical Studies'''
* '''Editor, Developer Announcements'''
* '''Spell/grammer-checker'''
* '''Reviewers''' - You have particular expertise and can review certain kinds of articles for content. Somewhat like a peer reviewer too, so logical questions can be turned back to authors if needed.
* '''Formating/Conversion''' - moving non-LaTeX content into LaTeX forms (each author/section Edt.has to check for latex errors etc.)
* '''Sponsor''' - interested in sponsoring the newsletter creation?

== Reviewers ==

Please list yourself below with name, e-mail and field of expertise to review certain articles - individual editors will contact you if necessary:

* [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] - Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, Surveying, Applications of GIS to Public Works and Parcel/Cadastral Records Management
* [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver] - Using GIS and GPS in agricultural pest control projects; watershed analysis
* [mailto:dan.putler@sauder.ubc.ca Dan Putler] - Application of GIS to marketing, retailing, and other business problems; geo-statistics.

== Submission of articles ==
Please start by reading our [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidlelines] for details about licensing and content.

Your article should be written in [http://www.latex-project.org/ Latex]. For instructions which format/style shall be used, please have a look at this working [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS Newsletter Latex] template. If you do not know Latex yet, don't be scared as it is quite easy. You might want to have a look at the [http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ Latex Cheat Sheet] to get to know a few commands, e.g. how to enumerate, make tables etc.
Please send your zipped document to the respective Editors (see below).

If Latex is a problem for you or your article, please discuss it with your editor. At their discretion, editors can choose to help you convert your content into a suitable format for publishing.

== Newsletter Software ==

Based on GRASS-News (which was based on R News) Latex is recommended, but other publishing packages might be considered for forthcoming issues. (For example, [http://www.scribus.net Scribus] has been recommended.)

Contributors ought to submit articles in Latex and images as pdf (high res jpg is fine as well, kim (inside kde) can convert them easily to pdf):

'''links to templates will go here'''
* template for article
** template for inserting images
** template for inserting tables

They can be copied from [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS-News LaTex template].

== Process ==
# Confirm editors/volunteers
# Set deadlines
# Solicit articles
# Collect/edit/review articles
# Format to LaTeX
# Produce draft
# Set deadline for review
# Revisions
# Final production
# Press Release and promotion

== Online Location ==
OSGeo Journal team uses a subversion code repository for managing content for the publication.
It can be accessed publicly [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal here].

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-05-21T08:54:56Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Project Introductions (1-2 articles) */

This is just a placeholder for future contributions to the OSGeo [[Journal]]. If you want to contribute a future article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor: Jason Fournier
# Additional contributors welcome...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Ravi Kumar: '''FOSS GIS in India''': A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
# ...

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# Schuyler Erle: '''OpenLayers''' (title TBD)
# Scott Emmons: '''Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST)''': a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)
# Daniel Ames: '''MapWindow''': Considering MapWindow as a tool for WPS (title TBD)
# Jeroen Ticheler: '''GeoNetwork OpenSource''': The FAO GeoNetwork

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Joel Schlagel: title TBD
# [mailto:shamimakhterATgmail.com Shamim Akhter] & [mailto:yann.cheminATgmail.com Yann Chemin]: Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing
# Rafael Sperb: Fisheries Tracking System (title TBD)
# David Enns: MapServer-related project example (title TBD)
# Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis and FAO GeoNetwork
# ...

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# ...

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Markus Neteler: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])
# Landon Blake: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology'''
# ...

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

=== Interview(s) ===
# ...

=== Developer Announcements ===
# OSGeo project summaries
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
# ...

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Newsletter Volume 2]]

[[Category:Journal]]
[[Category:Journal Volume 2]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-05-21T08:47:46Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is just a placeholder for future contributions to the OSGeo [[Journal]]. If you want to contribute a future article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

=== Editorials ===
# Tyler Mitchell: '''General updates'''

=== News ===
# Editor: Jason Fournier
# Additional contributors welcome...

=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Ravi Kumar: '''FOSS GIS in India''': A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
# ...

=== Project Introductions (1-2 articles) ===
# Schuyler Erle: '''OpenLayers''' (title TBD)
# Scott Emmons: '''Flexible Internet Spatial Template (FIST)''': a MapServer-based web mapping framework (title TBD)
# Daniel Ames: '''MapWindow''': Considering MapWindow as a tool for WPS (title TBD)

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Joel Schlagel: title TBD
# [mailto:shamimakhterATgmail.com Shamim Akhter] & [mailto:yann.cheminATgmail.com Yann Chemin]: Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing
# Rafael Sperb: Fisheries Tracking System (title TBD)
# David Enns: MapServer-related project example (title TBD)
# Giuliano Cecchi and Raffaele C. Mattioli: The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis and FAO GeoNetwork
# ...

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# ...

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Markus Neteler: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])
# Landon Blake: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology'''
# ...

=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Tim Sutton: Programming Using the QGIS API (title TBD)

=== Interview(s) ===
# ...

=== Developer Announcements ===
# OSGeo project summaries
# OSGeo Local Chapter updates
# ...

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Newsletter Volume 2]]

[[Category:Journal]]
[[Category:Journal Volume 2]]

Journal License and Guidelines

2007-05-19T14:37:12Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Licensing */

= Licensing =
The OSGeo Journal is published under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ By Attribution - No Derivatives] license. This gives you the following rights (taken from the above link):
------
'''You are free:'''
* to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
'''Under the following conditions:'''
*Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
*No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ this] web page.
* Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
* Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.
== Translations ==
Language translations are managed by the Journal editorial team. You are welcome to help with language translations but they must be coordinated with the Journal team so that content can be rolled back into the official publication. You may also contact the author of the work to obtain further permissions for using the work.

= Contributors =
These guidelines for those who are contributing or considering contributing articles or content to the Journal. Direct questions to the Journal management/editorial team if your article will not fit this guidelines.

== Content ==
Journal content covers several broad areas of geospatial interest, but is primarily for presenting articles about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as applied in the geospatial/geoinfomatics fields. Topical articles covering theoretical aspects of GIS are also welcome, but are encouraged to also point to specific FOSS implementations. Articles that are primarily focused on proprietary (non-FOSS) applications will not be accepted. Articles may contain information about proprietary products as long as they are presented in the context of integrating FOSS within traditionally non-FOSS environments or highlighting migration from non-FOSS to FOSS solutions.

This rationale is based on the fact that there are many other journals and magazines available for non-FOSS applications to promote their products. However, FOSS users are regularly concerned with how to work within a proprietary environment or move away from one, so articles that show a mixture of technology may still be relevant.

Contributors must agree with this sentiment when proposing or submitting content.

== Authorization ==
* Contributors retain copyright on their articles
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to reproduce and edit the content of their articles, including translating the content into other languages, at no cost and with no commitment to maintain the article in the future
* Contributors agree to license their articles under the same license as the OSGeo Journal (see '''Licensing''' below)
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to have copyright over the compilation, including the representation of their articles in the Journal format

== Timing ==
Contributors agree to timing deadlines for submitting material to the Journal editorial team and recognize that an article may be rejected or postponed to a future edition if submission deadlines are not met.

= Readers =
You are free to download, print, copy and redistribute the contents of the OSGeo Journal and its articles. If you post the document(s) online, you must also provide a reference back to the original Journal web site: http://www.osgeo.org/journal. If you cannot provide a link back to the original site, we ask that you identify the source in a manner that respects the original authors and OSGeo and the publisher, for example by adding this text to the web page:
This journal and its articles are published by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo),
the individual articles are copyright of their respective authors. The Journal is covered by the
Creative Commons By Attribution - No Derivatives license.
The OSGeo Journal web site is: http://www.osgeo.org/journal

[[Category:Journal]]

Journal License and Guidelines

2007-05-18T16:41:01Z

Wiki-Micha:

------
'''DRAFT'''
------
= Licensing =
The OSGeo Journal is published under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ By Attribution - No Derivatives] license. This gives you the following rights (taken from the above link):
------
'''You are free:'''
* to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
'''Under the following conditions:'''
*Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
*No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
* Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
* Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.
== Translations ==
Language translations are managed by the Journal editorial team. You are welcome to help with language translations but they must be coordinated with the Journal team so that content can be rolled back into the official publication. You may also contact the author of the work to obtain further permissions for using the work.

= Contributors =
These guidelines for those who are contributing or considering contributing articles or content to the Journal. Direct questions to the Journal management/editorial team if your article will not fit this guidelines.

== Content ==
Journal content covers several broad areas of geospatial interest, but is primarily for presenting articles about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as applied in the geospatial/geoinfomatics fields. Topical articles covering theoretical aspects of GIS should also point to FOSS implementations. Articles that are primarily focused on proprietary (non-FOSS) applications will not be accepted. Articles may contain information about proprietary products as long as they are presented in the context of integrating FOSS within traditionally non-FOSS environments or highlighting migration from non-FOSS to FOSS solutions.

This rationale is based on the fact that there are many other journals and magazines available for non-FOSS applications to promote their products. However, FOSS users are regularly concerned with how to work within a proprietary environment or move away from one, so articles that show a mixture of technology may still be relevant.

Contributors must agree with this sentiment when proposing or submitting content.

== Authorization ==
* Contributors retain copyright on their articles
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to reproduce and edit the content of their articles, including translating the content into other languages, at no cost and with no commitment to maintain the article in the future
* Contributors agree to license their articles under the same license as the OSGeo Journal (see '''Licensing''' below)
* Contributors authorize the OSGeo Journal to have copyright over the compilation, including the representation of their articles in the Journal format

== Timing ==
Contributors agree to timing deadlines for submitting material to the Journal editorial team and recognize that an article may be rejected or postponed to a future edition if submission deadlines are not met.

= Readers =
You are free to download, print, copy and redistribute the contents of the OSGeo Journal and its articles. If you post the document(s) online, you must also provide a reference back to the original Journal web site: http://www.osgeo.org/journal. If you cannot provide a link back to the original site, we ask that you identify the source in a manner that respects the original authors and OSGeo and the publisher, for example by adding this text to the web page:
This journal and its articles are published by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo),
the individual articles are copyright of their respective authors. The Journal is covered by the
Creative Commons By Attribution - No Derivatives license.
The OSGeo Journal web site is: http://www.osgeo.org/journal

[[Category:Journal]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-05-12T16:57:55Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Contributors / Topics */

This is just a placeholder for future contributions to the OSGeo [[Journal]]. If you want to contribute a future article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

# Editorials
## Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''General updates'''
# News
## ...
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
## Author:Ravi Kumar - '''FOSS GIS in India''': A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
## ...
# Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
## Author: Schuyler Erle - title TBD re: OpenLayers
## ...
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
## Author: Joel Schlagel - title TBD
## Author: Shamim Akhter & Yann Chemin - Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing (shamimakhter AT gmail.com, yann.chemin AT gmail.com)
## ...
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
## ...
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
## Author: Markus Neteler - title: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])
## Author: Landon Blake - title: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology'''
## ...
# Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
## ...
# Interview(s)
## ...
# Developer Announcements
## OSGeo project summaries
## ...

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Newsletter Volume 2]]

[[Category:Journal]]
[[Category:Journal Volume 2]]

Journal Volume 2

2007-05-12T16:57:04Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Contributors / Topics */

This is just a placeholder for future contributions to the OSGeo [[Journal]]. If you want to contribute a future article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

# Editorials
## Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''General updates'''
# News
## ...
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
## Author:Ravi Kumar - FOSS GIS in India; A Report from the first meeting of the India chapter of OSGeo
## ...
# Project Introductions (1-2 articles)
## Author: Schuyler Erle - title TBD re: OpenLayers
## ...
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
## Author: Joel Schlagel - title TBD
## Author: Shamim Akhter & Yann Chemin - Porting a GRASS raster module to distributed computing (shamimakhter AT gmail.com, yann.chemin AT gmail.com)
## ...
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
## ...
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
## Author: Markus Neteler - title: '''Open Source Quality Assessment System: The GRASS Case''' (about[http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#quality GRASS-QA])
## Author: Landon Blake - title: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction to Topology'''
## ...
# Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)
## ...
# Interview(s)
## ...
# Developer Announcements
## OSGeo project summaries
## ...

[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Newsletter Volume 2]]

[[Category:Journal]]
[[Category:Journal Volume 2]]

Journal Volume 1

2007-03-31T14:56:02Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo [[Journal]]
== Deadlines ==
These are draft deadlines currently open for discussion.
# Call for participation and papers - '''February 27, 2007'''
# Finalise production team - '''March 8, 2007'''
# Close formal call for papers - '''March 23, 2007'''
# Draft production - '''April 4, 2007'''
# Final production - '''April 16, 2007'''

== Status ==
# Starting up..
# Setting deadlines
# Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list (twice)
# Drafts for articles are coming in

== Todo ==
# Set up mailing list - done
# Confirm deadlines - in progress
# Public invite for more contributors in particular areas

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Journal]] page for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

Status:
* ? = not yet confirmed
* !? = confirmed/in contact
* ! = first version submitted
* !!! = final version ready

=== Editorials ===
# Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''General updates''' - !?
=== News ===
# Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''OSGeo 1st Anniversary''' - !?
# others...
=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: '''Map World Forum, India''' - !?
# Author: TBD - title: '''GRASS Meeting, Italy''' - ?
# Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: '''2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group''' - !?

=== Project Spotlights (1-2 articles) ===
# Author Marc Jansen and Astrid Emde - title: TBD ('''A short introduction to Mapbender''') -- !
# Author M. Mueller - title: TBD ('''deegree''') -- !
# Author Tim Sutton - title: '''Introducing openModeller''' - !
# Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD ('''QLandkarte''') -- !

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Authors: Alex Fordyce and Charlie Crocker - title: '''Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project''' - !
# Author: Roger Bivand - title: '''Using the R-GRASS Interface ''' !

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD - !? (confirmed)
# Author: Franck Martin - title: '''Tikiwiki a GeoCMS''' - !?
# Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: '''PyWPS and Embrio Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS''' - !
# Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: '''Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT''' - !

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Author: Landon Blake - title: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction''' - !?
# ...
=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Author: Tim Sutton - title: '''Building apps with QGIS API'''
# ...
=== Interview(s) ===
# ...
=== Developer Announcements ===
# Author: Luca Casagrande - title: '''LiveCD Developments''' - !?
# OSGeo project summaries:
## Author: MapGuide PSC - title: '''[[MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1]]''' - !?
## Author: Jody Garnett - title: '''GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1''' - !?
## Author: Steve Lime - topic: '''MapServer Project Update''' - !?
## Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: '''[http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction+-+March+2007 MapBuilder Project Update]''' - !?
## Author: Christoph Baudson - topic: '''[[Mapbender Project Update - 2007 Q1]]''' - !

[[Category:Newsletter Volume 1]]
[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal Volume 1]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Journal Volume 1

2007-03-13T06:08:17Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Case Studies (2-3 articles) */

This is a draft page for working on the OSGeo [[Newsletter]]
== Deadlines ==
These are draft deadlines currently open for discussion.
# Call for participation and papers - '''February 27, 2007'''
# Finalise production team - '''March 8, 2007'''
# Close formal call for papers - '''March 23, 2007'''
# Draft production - '''April 4, 2007'''
# Final production - '''April 16, 2007'''

== Status ==
# Starting up..
# Setting deadlines
# Volunteer invite sent to OSGeo discuss list

== Todo ==
# Set up mailing list - done
# Confirm deadlines - in progress
# Public invite for more contributors in particular areas

== Contributors / Topics ==
See [[Newsletter]] for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

Status:
* ? = not yet confirmed
* !? = confirmed/in contact
* ! = first version submitted
* !!! = final version ready

=== Editorials ===
# Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''General updates''' - !?
=== News ===
# Author: Tyler Mitchell - '''OSGeo 1st Anniversary''' - !?
# others...
=== Event Reports (2-3 articles) ===
# Author: Dr. K S Rajan - topic: '''Map World Forum, India''' - !?
# Author: TBD - title: '''GRASS Meeting, Italy''' - ?
# Author: Helena Mitasova/Julia Harrell - title: '''2007 NC GIS Conference and new OSGEO Affiliated NC FOSS4G User Group''' - !?

=== Project Spotlights (1-2 articles) ===
# Author Marc Jansen - title: TBD ('''Mapbender''') -- !?
# Author M. Mueller - title: TBD ('''deegree''') -- !
# Author Tim Sutton - title: '''Introducing openModeller''' - !?
# Author Oliver Eichler - title: TBD ('''QLandkarte''') -- !

=== Case Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Author Nathalie Mainland, Autodesk - title: '''Open Source Software in San Francisco's Urban Forest Project''' - !
# Author Dylan Beaudette - title: (''' The GRASS - R Interaction ''') ?
# Author R. Bivand - title: TBD ('''spgrass6''') ?

=== Integration Studies (2-3 articles) ===
# Author: Schyler Erle - title: TBD - ?
# Author: S. Gebbert - title: TBD ('''GRASS-VTK''') -!?
# Author: Franck Martin - title: '''Tikiwiki a GeoCMS''' - !?
# Authors: Jachym Cepicky and Lorenzo Becchi - title: [[Newsletter_Volume_1_PyWPS_and_Embrio| PyWPS and Embrio]] Using ka-Map & PyWPS to create a GRASS WEB GIS - !?
# Author: Dylan Beaudette - title: '''Producing Press-ready Maps with GRASS and GMT''' - !
# ...

=== Topical Studies (1-2 articles) ===
# Author: Landon Blake - title: '''Spatial Relationships - An Introduction''' - !?
# ...
=== Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles) ===
# Author: Tim Sutton - title: '''Building apps with QGIS API'''
# ...
=== Interview(s) ===
# ...
=== Developer Announcements ===
# Author: Luca Casagrande - title: '''LiveCD Developments''' - !?
# OSGeo project summaries:
## Author: MapGuide PSC - title: '''[[MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1]]''' - !?
## Author: Jody Garnett - title: '''GeoTools Project Update - 2007 Q1''' - !?
## Author: Steve Lime - topic: '''MapServer Project Update''' - !?
## Author: Cameron Shorter - topic: '''MapBuilder Project Update''' - !?
## Author: TBD - topic: '''Mapbender Project Update''' - !?

[[Category:Newsletter Volume 1]]
[[Category:Newsletter]]

Journal

2007-03-02T16:11:02Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Open Positions */

'''OSGeo News''' is the working title for the official OSGeo Newsletter. This is the summary page for the project and for developing future editions.

* Current version is under development: [[Newsletter Volume 1]]

== Background ==
OSGeo News builds on top of the successful history of the [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php GRASS-News] production. [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf Volume 4] of that production was a joint GRASS/OSGeo effort. The next edition is broader and branded as OSGeo News.

== Submission of articles ==

Your article should be written in [http://www.latex-project.org/ Latex]. For instructions which format/style shall be used, please have a look at this working [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS Newsletter Latex] template. If you do not know Latex yet, don't be scared as it is quite easy. You might want to have a look at the [http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ Latex Cheat Sheet] to get to know a few commands, e.g. how to enumerate, make tables etc.
Please send your zipped document to the respective Editors (see below).

== Editions ==
* [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf GRASS/OSGeo-News Volume 4] (5.8MB)
* OSGeo News Volume 1 ([[Newsletter_Volume_1]] - in development)

== Content Outline ==
This is the typical outline for an edition:
# Editorials
# News
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
# Project Spotlight (Introductions) (1-2 articles)
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
# Programming Tutorials (2-3 tutorials)
# Interviews (1-2 people)
# Developer Announcements

=== Short description of content ===

* Editorials: written by Edt. in Chief or/and well-known person
* News: past 6 months and next 3 months, just keywords/URL/date
* Event Reports: Brief article about meetings/conferences etc.
* Project Introductions: General introduction to one software project or particular new features of a project
* Case Studies: Highlighting specific application of technologies to a certain problem, user community or developer needs
* Integration Studies: Articles showing how many projects can work together in an intergrated fashion, e.g. the power of GRASS, QGIS and GDAL all working together
* Programming Tutorials: Tutorials showing how to use a library or application at a programmatic level
* Interviews: Introducing open source community members or organisations
* Developer Announcements: Announcements about recent changes/improvements to projects

== Positions ==
Typical needs include volunteers to collect, edit, format articles and design/proof layout. Because layout is done using LaTeX, volunteers familiar with it are always appreciated. By having several editors and categories we spread the word out and reduce the overall load for each volunteer.

Each editor is in charge of:

* looking through submitted articles
* doing a brief review and perhaps fwd. them to another more experienced user/developer or other Reviewer
* asking certain projects to submit articles (for volumes covering one subject)
* check for layout errors, so that the final files can easily be merged with all other sections

=== Open Positions ===

Name in brackets are proposals, please add somebody/you and/or remove your name. Positions can be flexible too and others are glad to help coach you in your duties, so don't be afraid! These positions can change from volume to volume, so if you want to just try it out for one volume, that is fine too.

Note crossed-out positions may still be available, add your name if you are interested in helping in any area.

* <s>'''Newsletter head''': announcing new vol./call for articles; announce release dates - '''Tyler'''</s>
* <s>''''Edt. in Chief''': merging all sections, check for final version, asking all Edt. so submit final version etc. - '''Tyler'''</s>
* '''News Editor''': to compile general new items from past 6 months for 1-2 pages in the newsletter.
* '''Event Editor''': to compile information about OSGeo-related events and to find summary reports that could be included as part of the newsletter
<s>* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': some contributors will have something already completely written. The editor would just help them get it into good form or would help ask more questions and gather more info - '''Martin''' </s>
* '''Editor for Case Studies''': same as above..[mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha Silver]
* '''Editor for Programming/Code Studies''' : same as above
<s>* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': same as above - '''Martin'''</s>

<s>* '''Layout Designer''' - familiar with graphic design and/or LaTeX (first layout can be taken from GRASS-News, only for forthcoming version/changes further skills are necessary). Help show your skills to develop a professional quality publication.</s>
* '''Spell-checker''': native-speaker to check all articles
* '''Reviewers''': You have particular expertise and can review certain kinds of articles for content. Somewhat like a peer reviewer too, so logical questions can be turned back to authors if needed.
* '''Formating/Conversion''' - moving non-LaTeX content into LaTeX forms (each author/section Edt.has to check for latex errors etc.)
* '''Sponsor''' - interested in sponsoring the newsletter creation?

=== Assigned Positions ===

* '''Newsletter head''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
* '''Edt. in Chief''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]

* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]

* '''Layout/Design''': Kevin Yam
* '''Programming Tutorial Editor''': Landon Blake

== Reviewers ==

Please list yourself below with name, e-mail and field of expertise to review certain articles - individual editors will contact you if necessary:

'''Reviewer Name''': Landon Blake

'''Reviewer E-Mail''': sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com

'''Reviewer Subjects''': Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, Surveying, Applications of GIS to Public Works and Parcel/Cadastral Records Management

'''Name''': Micha Silver, [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha]

'''Expertise''': Using GIS and GPS in agricultural pest control projects; watershed analysis

== Newsletter Software ==

Based on GRASS-News (which was based on R News) Latex is recommended, but other publishing packages might be considered for forthcoming issues. (For example, [http://www.scribus.net Scribus] has been recommended.)

Contributors ought to submit articles in Latex and images as pdf (high res jpg is fine as well, kim (inside kde) can convert them easily to pdf):

'''links to templates will go here'''
* template for article
** template for inserting images
** template for inserting tables

They can be copied from [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS-News LaTex template].

== Process ==
# Confirm editors/volunteers (in process)
# Set deadlines (in process)
# Solicit articles (in process)
# Collect/edit/review articles
# Format to LaTeX
# Produce draft
# Set deadline for review
# Revisions
# Final production
# Press Release and promotion

Journal

2007-03-02T16:09:12Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Reviewers */

'''OSGeo News''' is the working title for the official OSGeo Newsletter. This is the summary page for the project and for developing future editions.

* Current version is under development: [[Newsletter Volume 1]]

== Background ==
OSGeo News builds on top of the successful history of the [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php GRASS-News] production. [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf Volume 4] of that production was a joint GRASS/OSGeo effort. The next edition is broader and branded as OSGeo News.

== Submission of articles ==

Your article should be written in [http://www.latex-project.org/ Latex]. For instructions which format/style shall be used, please have a look at this working [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS Newsletter Latex] template. If you do not know Latex yet, don't be scared as it is quite easy. You might want to have a look at the [http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ Latex Cheat Sheet] to get to know a few commands, e.g. how to enumerate, make tables etc.
Please send your zipped document to the respective Editors (see below).

== Editions ==
* [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf GRASS/OSGeo-News Volume 4] (5.8MB)
* OSGeo News Volume 1 ([[Newsletter_Volume_1]] - in development)

== Content Outline ==
This is the typical outline for an edition:
# Editorials
# News
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
# Project Spotlight (Introductions) (1-2 articles)
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
# Programming Tutorials (2-3 tutorials)
# Interviews (1-2 people)
# Developer Announcements

=== Short description of content ===

* Editorials: written by Edt. in Chief or/and well-known person
* News: past 6 months and next 3 months, just keywords/URL/date
* Event Reports: Brief article about meetings/conferences etc.
* Project Introductions: General introduction to one software project or particular new features of a project
* Case Studies: Highlighting specific application of technologies to a certain problem, user community or developer needs
* Integration Studies: Articles showing how many projects can work together in an intergrated fashion, e.g. the power of GRASS, QGIS and GDAL all working together
* Programming Tutorials: Tutorials showing how to use a library or application at a programmatic level
* Interviews: Introducing open source community members or organisations
* Developer Announcements: Announcements about recent changes/improvements to projects

== Positions ==
Typical needs include volunteers to collect, edit, format articles and design/proof layout. Because layout is done using LaTeX, volunteers familiar with it are always appreciated. By having several editors and categories we spread the word out and reduce the overall load for each volunteer.

Each editor is in charge of:

* looking through submitted articles
* doing a brief review and perhaps fwd. them to another more experienced user/developer or other Reviewer
* asking certain projects to submit articles (for volumes covering one subject)
* check for layout errors, so that the final files can easily be merged with all other sections

=== Open Positions ===

Name in brackets are proposals, please add somebody/you and/or remove your name. Positions can be flexible too and others are glad to help coach you in your duties, so don't be afraid! These positions can change from volume to volume, so if you want to just try it out for one volume, that is fine too.

Note crossed-out positions may still be available, add your name if you are interested in helping in any area.

* <s>'''Newsletter head''': announcing new vol./call for articles; announce release dates - '''Tyler'''</s>
* <s>''''Edt. in Chief''': merging all sections, check for final version, asking all Edt. so submit final version etc. - '''Tyler'''</s>
* '''News Editor''': to compile general new items from past 6 months for 1-2 pages in the newsletter.
* '''Event Editor''': to compile information about OSGeo-related events and to find summary reports that could be included as part of the newsletter
<s>* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': some contributors will have something already completely written. The editor would just help them get it into good form or would help ask more questions and gather more info - '''Martin''' </s>
* '''Editor for Case Studies''': same as above..[Micha Silver]
* '''Editor for Programming/Code Studies''' : same as above
<s>* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': same as above - '''Martin'''</s>

<s>* '''Layout Designer''' - familiar with graphic design and/or LaTeX (first layout can be taken from GRASS-News, only for forthcoming version/changes further skills are necessary). Help show your skills to develop a professional quality publication.</s>
* '''Spell-checker''': native-speaker to check all articles
* '''Reviewers''': You have particular expertise and can review certain kinds of articles for content. Somewhat like a peer reviewer too, so logical questions can be turned back to authors if needed.
* '''Formating/Conversion''' - moving non-LaTeX content into LaTeX forms (each author/section Edt.has to check for latex errors etc.)
* '''Sponsor''' - interested in sponsoring the newsletter creation?

=== Assigned Positions ===

* '''Newsletter head''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
* '''Edt. in Chief''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]

* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]

* '''Layout/Design''': Kevin Yam
* '''Programming Tutorial Editor''': Landon Blake

== Reviewers ==

Please list yourself below with name, e-mail and field of expertise to review certain articles - individual editors will contact you if necessary:

'''Reviewer Name''': Landon Blake

'''Reviewer E-Mail''': sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com

'''Reviewer Subjects''': Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, Surveying, Applications of GIS to Public Works and Parcel/Cadastral Records Management

'''Name''': Micha Silver, [mailto:micha@arava.co.il Micha]

'''Expertise''': Using GIS and GPS in agricultural pest control projects; watershed analysis

== Newsletter Software ==

Based on GRASS-News (which was based on R News) Latex is recommended, but other publishing packages might be considered for forthcoming issues. (For example, [http://www.scribus.net Scribus] has been recommended.)

Contributors ought to submit articles in Latex and images as pdf (high res jpg is fine as well, kim (inside kde) can convert them easily to pdf):

'''links to templates will go here'''
* template for article
** template for inserting images
** template for inserting tables

They can be copied from [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS-News LaTex template].

== Process ==
# Confirm editors/volunteers (in process)
# Set deadlines (in process)
# Solicit articles (in process)
# Collect/edit/review articles
# Format to LaTeX
# Produce draft
# Set deadline for review
# Revisions
# Final production
# Press Release and promotion

Journal

2007-03-02T15:32:43Z

Wiki-Micha: /* Open Positions */

'''OSGeo News''' is the working title for the official OSGeo Newsletter. This is the summary page for the project and for developing future editions.

* Current version is under development: [[Newsletter Volume 1]]

== Background ==
OSGeo News builds on top of the successful history of the [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php GRASS-News] production. [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf Volume 4] of that production was a joint GRASS/OSGeo effort. The next edition is broader and branded as OSGeo News.

== Submission of articles ==

Your article should be written in [http://www.latex-project.org/ Latex]. For instructions which format/style shall be used, please have a look at this working [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS Newsletter Latex] template. If you do not know Latex yet, don't be scared as it is quite easy. You might want to have a look at the [http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ Latex Cheat Sheet] to get to know a few commands, e.g. how to enumerate, make tables etc.
Please send your zipped document to the respective Editors (see below).

== Editions ==
* [http://osgeo.org/files/news/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf GRASS/OSGeo-News Volume 4] (5.8MB)
* OSGeo News Volume 1 ([[Newsletter_Volume_1]] - in development)

== Content Outline ==
This is the typical outline for an edition:
# Editorials
# News
# Event Reports (2-3 articles)
# Project Spotlight (Introductions) (1-2 articles)
# Case Studies (2-3 articles)
# Integration Studies (2-3 articles)
# Topical Studies (1-2 articles)
# Programming Tutorials (2-3 tutorials)
# Interviews (1-2 people)
# Developer Announcements

=== Short description of content ===

* Editorials: written by Edt. in Chief or/and well-known person
* News: past 6 months and next 3 months, just keywords/URL/date
* Event Reports: Brief article about meetings/conferences etc.
* Project Introductions: General introduction to one software project or particular new features of a project
* Case Studies: Highlighting specific application of technologies to a certain problem, user community or developer needs
* Integration Studies: Articles showing how many projects can work together in an intergrated fashion, e.g. the power of GRASS, QGIS and GDAL all working together
* Programming Tutorials: Tutorials showing how to use a library or application at a programmatic level
* Interviews: Introducing open source community members or organisations
* Developer Announcements: Announcements about recent changes/improvements to projects

== Positions ==
Typical needs include volunteers to collect, edit, format articles and design/proof layout. Because layout is done using LaTeX, volunteers familiar with it are always appreciated. By having several editors and categories we spread the word out and reduce the overall load for each volunteer.

Each editor is in charge of:

* looking through submitted articles
* doing a brief review and perhaps fwd. them to another more experienced user/developer or other Reviewer
* asking certain projects to submit articles (for volumes covering one subject)
* check for layout errors, so that the final files can easily be merged with all other sections

=== Open Positions ===

Name in brackets are proposals, please add somebody/you and/or remove your name. Positions can be flexible too and others are glad to help coach you in your duties, so don't be afraid! These positions can change from volume to volume, so if you want to just try it out for one volume, that is fine too.

Note crossed-out positions may still be available, add your name if you are interested in helping in any area.

* <s>'''Newsletter head''': announcing new vol./call for articles; announce release dates - '''Tyler'''</s>
* <s>''''Edt. in Chief''': merging all sections, check for final version, asking all Edt. so submit final version etc. - '''Tyler'''</s>
* '''News Editor''': to compile general new items from past 6 months for 1-2 pages in the newsletter.
* '''Event Editor''': to compile information about OSGeo-related events and to find summary reports that could be included as part of the newsletter
<s>* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': some contributors will have something already completely written. The editor would just help them get it into good form or would help ask more questions and gather more info - '''Martin''' </s>
* '''Editor for Case Studies''': same as above..[Micha Silver]
* '''Editor for Programming/Code Studies''' : same as above
<s>* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': same as above - '''Martin'''</s>

<s>* '''Layout Designer''' - familiar with graphic design and/or LaTeX (first layout can be taken from GRASS-News, only for forthcoming version/changes further skills are necessary). Help show your skills to develop a professional quality publication.</s>
* '''Spell-checker''': native-speaker to check all articles
* '''Reviewers''': You have particular expertise and can review certain kinds of articles for content. Somewhat like a peer reviewer too, so logical questions can be turned back to authors if needed.
* '''Formating/Conversion''' - moving non-LaTeX content into LaTeX forms (each author/section Edt.has to check for latex errors etc.)
* '''Sponsor''' - interested in sponsoring the newsletter creation?

=== Assigned Positions ===

* '''Newsletter head''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
* '''Edt. in Chief''': [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]

* '''Project Spotlight editor(s)''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]
* '''Editor for Integration Studies''': [[User:Wegmann | Martin Wegmann]]

* '''Layout/Design''': Kevin Yam
* '''Programming Tutorial Editor''': Landon Blake

== Reviewers ==

Please list yourself below with name, e-mail and field of expertise to review certain articles - individual editors will contact you if necessary:

'''Reviewer Name''': Landon Blake

'''Reviewer E-Mail''': sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com

'''Reviewer Subjects''': Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, Surveying, Applications of GIS to Public Works and Parcel/Cadastral Records Management

== Newsletter Software ==

Based on GRASS-News (which was based on R News) Latex is recommended, but other publishing packages might be considered for forthcoming issues. (For example, [http://www.scribus.net Scribus] has been recommended.)

Contributors ought to submit articles in Latex and images as pdf (high res jpg is fine as well, kim (inside kde) can convert them easily to pdf):

'''links to templates will go here'''
* template for article
** template for inserting images
** template for inserting tables

They can be copied from [http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/GRASSnewsletter_template.tar.gz GRASS-News LaTex template].

== Process ==
# Confirm editors/volunteers (in process)
# Set deadlines (in process)
# Solicit articles (in process)
# Collect/edit/review articles
# Format to LaTeX
# Produce draft
# Set deadline for review
# Revisions
# Final production
# Press Release and promotion