FOSS4G2006

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Workshop Sessions (Tuesday am/pm + Wednesday pm)

Rooms

UNIL : Placename	Number of Pcs
Amphipôle (Pol 204.2)	20+1
Amphipôle (Pol 342 / géolab)	24+1 (enough space for 48)
Amphipôle (Pol 189)	13+1 (enough space for 28)
Biophore (Bio 1928)	20+1
Amphipôle (Pol 189.1)	36+1 laptops (enough space for 48)
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EPFL: Placename	Number of Pcs
(GR B0 01)	38+1
(GR B0 02)	21+1
(LaSIG)	11+(1)(enough space for 18)

Each room will have a "local admin" to help workshop givers to prepare.

FOSS4G2006 LiveCD.

Some links.

• LiveCD GIS oriented : List
• List of GIS LiveCDs
• Mandriva based : FOSS4G Toolkit CD --> Hum, it's not a LiveCD !!
• Knoppix based : GIS Knoppix
• LiveCD for GRASS Workshops

Conference Sessions (Wednesday/Thursday/Friday)

Rooms

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Amphimax 350	498 seets
Amphimax 351	302 seets
Amphimax 410	180 seets
Genopode C	176 seets
Amphimax 415	96 seets
Cubotron I	96 seets
Cubotron II	48 seets
Cubotron III	36 seets
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Timetable

• A preliminary timetable will be available soon.
• We have 8 sessions with ~122 talks
• A talk is 30 min long (20min+10min questions and changing)

BOFs / DEMOs / Lightning Talks

BOFs

What is a BOF ?

• A meeting in which a topic of specific interest is discussed.

When are BOFs scheduled ?

• eh oui quand ça ? just after conferences ?

How to set up a BOF ?

• ask directly conference@foss4g2006.org (no more submission through InDiCo)
• what duration do you plan ?
• who are the chairs ?
• how many participants do you expect ?

Some BOFs :

Submitted through InDiCo :

1. Binary Distribution Builders Mr. WARMERDAM, Frank

2. Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard Mr. ERLE, Schuyler

3. Public Geodata: State Collected Geographic Information is Public Property Ms. WALSH, Jo

OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006 wiki :

4. GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF (Jody Garnett)

By mail :

5. ka-map/openLayers merging discussions (Lorenzo Becchi) -> same as 2 ?

DEMOs

What is a demo ?

• Large space available with table and seets to show a demo on your PC (wifi connexion available)

When ?

• Demo fest is scheduled on Wednesday afternoon in parallel of workshops.
• Nonetheless, space will be available during the whole conference for on-the-fly demos.

Some demos : Submitted through InDiCo :

• space for a couple GeoServer/GeoTools projects (cholmes@openplans.org)
• A web based GIS solution to capturing everyday "fuzzy" geography. Mr. WATERS, Tim
• Native, standalone Image Map Server project based on UMN Mapserver as possible ArcIMS replacement Mr. ALBARELLO, Andreas
• GeoTracing Mr. VAN DEN BROECKE, Just
• Geospatial Virtual Appliance - MapSnack Dr. SUMBERA, Stanislav
• The Application of MapServer/MapScript to Map and Depict Murals in the City of Winnipeg BRUCE, Bob
• EduCal 2 Mr. LEAHY, Michael Mr. NATHAN, Engler Dr. HALL, Brent
• Spatial Statistics in C# using Open Source Tools Mr. LEAHY, Michael
• EO1 GeoBliki - OGC Sensor Web Enabled Data Node Mr. CAPPELAERE, Patrice
• CampusMapper - a light-weight internet mapping tool using MySQL, Tomcat and SVG Mr. KöBBEN, Barend
• FIONA - SDI with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, UMN MapServer and Mapbender Ms. EMDE, Astrid
• Mapbender - an introduction to the Mapbender project Ms. EMDE, Astrid
• Native, standalone Image Map Server project based on UMN Mapserver as possible ArcIMS replacement Mr. ALBARELLO, Andreas
• Flash Mapping Applications Utilizing Open Source Web Services: Two Examples Mr. CRAWFORD, Stephen
• A web based GIS solution to capturing everyday "fuzzy" geography. Mr. WATERS, Tim
• Enabling Users to Produce personalized Geodata Mr. TURNER, Andrew
• uDig Demo Mr. GARNETT, Jody

Lightning Talks (LT)

What ?

• A Lightning Talk is a 5-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the FOSS4G communities.
• Lightning Talks will be presented back to back with strict enforcement of the 5-minute time limit.

When ?

• Scheduled for opening plenary.

Propositions :

• GIS and the Neogeographer, Mr. ERLE, Schuyler (submitted)
• GRASS : Mr. NETELER, Markus (title?)
• WEBGIS : Mr. LIME, Stephen (title?)
• GDB : Mr. RAMSEY, Paul (title?)
• JFOSS4G : Mr. GARNETT, Jody (title?)
• OSGeo's Public Geospatial Data Project, Ms. WALSH, Jo (submitted)

(synchronize with The Economic Case for Open Public Geodata Mr. ERLE, Schuyler)

Opening and Closing Plenary Activities

• Keynote: Gary Lang (topic?)
• Keynote: Frank Warmerdam (topic? OSGeo related, but to be non-conflicting with Gary)
• Sol Katz Award
• Lightening talks (discussed earlier) are scheduled for opening plenary.
• Developer round table? Other special events?

• Panel disussions :

Gather great speakers and innovaters (Westervelt, Schuyler, Warmerdam, Ramsey, Venka, Mcilhagga, Tiemann) + moderator Tyler Mitchell (ask him)

IRC chat and logs

Please join us :

• irc://irc.freenode.net/foss4g2006
• IRC Logs: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2006/

Agenda :

• Foss4g2006_irc_20060612#Meeting_July_12th

More documents

Here : conference Documents & files

• Local committe todo list Foss4g2006 ToDoList