Revision as of 22:20, 24 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/

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?

When and where?

Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
Education committee BoF proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi
Perl BoF proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)

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?

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 === BOFs ===
+When and where?
 * ''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
+* ''Education committee BoF '' proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
 * ''GeoTools is 10 years old'', Birthday BOF
 * ''ka-map/openLayers merging discussions'' by Lorenzo Becchi
+* ''Perl BoF'' proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)
 === Keynotes ===