FOSS4G 2015 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 2015 conference in Seoul, South Korea, 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 http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/.

Rooms

We have available 5 rooms, that includes the grand ballroom (also used for plenary talks). The rooms will be available during lunch(12:20~13:20) and directly after the end of the talks, for 1 hour, on Day1 (Wednesday) and Day 2 (Thursday).

Capacities

• Grand Ballroom B: 400
• Room 9: 150
• Room 10: 50
• Room 11: 50
• Room 12: 50

FOSS4G Contact

• foss4g2015(at)lists.osgeo.org

Wednesday(16th September)

GrandBallroom B

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:40-18:30	OSGeo Diversity		JM

Room 9

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20	Censorship in Korean maps	Not everything is what it seems like	Max Neupert
17:40-18:30	CrowdSourcing	Semantics, formats, interoperability	María Arias de Reyna

Room 10

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20	Geo4All		Venkatesh_Raghavan
17:40-18:30	GeoServer / GeoTools		Jody Garnett

Room 11

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:40-18:30

Room 12

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:40-18:30

OSGeo Diversity BOF

• Description: Discuss how to make sure that everyone in our community is safe and respected, and accepting to cultural differences.
• When/Where: Wednesday 17:40-18:30, GrandBallroom B.

Who is coming:

• Jeff McKenna
• Jachym Cepicky

Censorship in Korean Maps

• Description: A presentation / exchange about an artist's approach to censorship in maps. I will show examples of the inconsistent and strange ways Korean maps and aerial/orbital imagery is censored and compare it to uncensored data. I'll also present my art book with the title: Eighteen Secret Golf Courses. It features illustrations of golf courses you aren't allowed to see. It's based on OSM data.

• When/where: Thursday Lunchtime Room 10

Who is coming:

• Max Neupert
• add your name here, it is going to be entertaining. :)

Crowdsourcing BOF

• Description: How to adapt to VGI, crowdsourcing and citizen science data. Quality assurence & process chaining. Data conflation using semantic technologies. App & sensor kits development. Privacy. Interoperability Standards/Formats: OSM/Darwin Core/geojson/geopackage/SOS. Tools for visualising, analysing and managing. Serious gaming. Community mapping.
• When/Where: Wednesday 17:40-18:30, Room 9

Who is coming:

• María Arias de Reyna
• Maria Brovelli
• Panos Terzis
• Add your name

Geo4All BOF

• Description: BOF for anyone interested to be a part of Geo4All Initiative
• When/Where: Wednesday 12:20-13:20, Room 10

Who is coming:

• Venkatesh_Raghavan
• Jeff McKenna
• Anthony Robinson
• Nimalika Fernando
• Luca Delucchi
• Maria Brovelli
• Till Adams
• Add your name

GeoServer / GeoTools BOF

• Description: BOF for anyone interested OSGeo projects GeoServer and GeoTools
• When/Where: Wednesday 17:40-18:30, Room 10

Who is coming:

• Jody Garnett
• Andrea Aime

Thursday(17th September)

GrandBallroom B

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:10-18:00	OSGeo AGM	Annual General Meeting for OSGeo foundation	JM

Room 9

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20	GeoNode	GeoNode Users/Developers BoF	Jeffrey Johnson
17:10-18:00

Room 10

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:10-18:00

Room 11

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:10-18:00

Room 12

Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact
12:20-13:20
17:10-18:00

GeoNode Developers/Users BOF

• Description: BOF For all users and developers of GeoNode and related projects
• When/where: Thursday Lunch Room 8

Who is coming:

• Jeffrey Johnson

• See FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather for inspiration!