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Revision as of 22:23, 8 September 2011
Introduction
During the FOSS4G2011 conference in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).
Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.
Room allocation to be determined
Organising Contact
Timeslots Available
Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Room Assignments
Rooms Available
Proposed Topics
GeoMoose
- Proposed Topics
- Overview
- GeoMoose 2.6
- Ideas for CodeSprint
- Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
- Attending:
- Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
- Dan Little (GeoMoose)
- Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
- Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
- Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)
Tiling
- Proposed Topics
- standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
- TMS/WMTS evolutions:
- Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
- TMS multiple grids per tileset
- WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
- add yours...
- Attending:
GeoNode
- Proposed topics:
- Brief overview
- Get involved with the community!
- Meet developers and institutional partners
- Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
- Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
- Join us for drinks afterwards!
- Attending:
- Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
- David Winslow (OpenGeo)
- Robert Soden (World Bank)
- Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
- Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
- Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
- Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
- Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
- Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)
- Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
- Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
- Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
Python
- Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
- Proposed topics:
- High fives
- Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
- Python 3
- PyPy
- Packaging and distributions
- Attending:
- Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
- Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
- Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
- Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
- Dan Dye (WeoGeo)
- David Fawcett (MPCA)
- Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
- Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)
- Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale) MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
- Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
- Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
- Thomas Emge (Esri)
Opengeoportal
- Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
- Attending:
- Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
- Patrick Florance (Tufts)
- Chris Barnett (Tufts)
- David Siegel (Harvard)
- Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
- Garey Mills (Berkeley)
- John Ridener (Berkeley)
- Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
- Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)
Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI)
- Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
- Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
- Attending:
- Christine White (Esri)
- Andy Gup (Esri)
Mobile GIS
- Proposed Topics
- General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
- "OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
- add yours...
- Attending:
- Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)
- Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)
- Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
Education / Academic
- Separate sign up page: FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up
Spatial Databases
- Proposed Topics
- Do we need some more
- Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
- Do the processing within the database or outside?
- Add yours...
- Attending:
- Volker Mische (Couchbase)
SpatiaLite
- Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
- Proposed topics:
- Community organization strategies
- Meet and Greet
Add yours below
- Add yours below...