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=== BOFs ===
 
=== BOFs ===
  
* Public Geodata BOF (submitted) by Jo
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* ''Binary Distribution Builders'' by FrankW (submitted)
* Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop proposed by Ari
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* ''Public Geodata BOF'' by Jo (submitted)
* GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
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* ''Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard'' by Schuyler
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* ''Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop'' proposed by Ari
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* ''GeoTools is 10 years old'', Birthday BOF
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* ''ka-map/openLayers merging discussions'' by Lorenzo Becchi
  
 
=== Keynotes ===
 
=== Keynotes ===

Revision as of 12:10, 14 August 2006

General

  • FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
  • See http://www.foss4g2006.org/

To Do

  • What is to be done?
  • Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
  • Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
  • Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
  • Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
  • Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
  • Theme, do we want to have a point?

OSGeo related talks and sessions

Workshops

BOFs

  • Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
  • Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
  • Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
  • Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop proposed by Ari
  • GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
  • ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi

Keynotes

  • ...

Talk Presentations

  • Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the Geodata Committee has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
  • Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?

Breakout session ideas

  • Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see Simple Catalog Interface
  • Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile

People planning to attend

  • most OSGeo folks