FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather

Introduction

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

General Information

During the FOSS4G 2017 conference in Boston, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [2017.foss4g.org/program/ http://2017.foss4g.org/program/].

How to organize a BOF

BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in: BoF rooms, BoF lounge or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner!

While FOSS4G is provide space, but the setting up a bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki, twitter, or on site BoF board.

Capacities

The BoF sessions rooms are available through regular session times.

• Theater Room 1 - setup theater style (without AV)
• Theater Room 2 - setup theater style (without AV)
• Lounge - there is a lounge available on the trade floor to gather small groups.

We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.

FOSS4G Contact

Reach out to @foss4g https://twitter.com/foss4g on twitter, or foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org mailto:foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org via email.

Wednesday 16 August

PostGIS Day with a range of FOSS4G, Alternative Mapping, PostGIS, Government, Adoption, Image Processing, Javascript, Business, Cartography, SDI/Portals, Community, Utilitieis, OpenData, science, project status, Containers, Rasberry Pi, AI/Machine Learning, Python, Serverless, GeoNode and Node.js talks.

BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.

Theater Room 1

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
4:00-5:00	3D and WebGL	Talks about the use of 3D in Geospatial.	Tom Fili (tfili@agi.com)

Theater Room 2

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
07:30-8:30pm	MapServer BoF	Chat with MapServer devs & Power Users	Jeff McKenna

Lounge

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
07:45-8:15	FOSS4G	Meet, greet and sticker swap	Jody Garnett

Thursday 17 August

R Day with a mix of Google Earth, Drone/Satelite, Visualization, R, Big Data, QGIS ,3D ,Serverless, Data Serving, Cartography, Education, Government, Water Management, Standards, Projections and Education presentations.

BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.

Theater Room 1

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact

Theater Room 2

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
13:00-13:30	GeoServer Team	GeoServer Q&A with developers and power users, everyone welcome	Jody, Andrea, Kevin, Torben, David

Lounge

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact

Friday 17 August

QGIS Day with Project Status updates, Space, Big Data, GeoServer, Transportation/Routing, QGIS, Stories/Time, Health, 3D, Humanitarian, Analytics, Environment, Health, Agriculture, Vector Tiles and LiDAR talks.

BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.

Theater Room 1

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact

• 11am-12pm -- Golang for Geospatial -- discussions about geospatial libraries using Golang - open to all! -- contact: Michael P. Gerlek (mpg@flaxen.com)

Theater Room 2

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact

Lounge

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact