FOSS4G 2017

FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• Go to the official FOSS4G 2017 Event Page

• Go to the official FOSS4G 2017 Schedule Page

2017 Presentation Slides and Information

FOSS4G 2017 Presentations

Birds Of A Feather (BoF)

BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in BoF rooms, the BoF lounge, or can be taken off site for lunch or dinner. FOSS4G will provide space, but the programming of events should be done informally through the community using the wiki and the on site BoF board.

BoF sessions rooms will be available through regular session times. There Are two rooms setup theater style without AV that are available. There will also be a lounge available on the trade floor to gather small groups. We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.

The community wiki page is: FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather

Languages Spoken

Please help us list what languages will be spoken at the conference. Add to the following list:

Language Abbreviation (3 letter)	Language Name
ENG	English
SPA	Spanish
KOR	Korean
GER	German
CAT	Catalan

Initial Proposal

Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf

Local Organizing Committee

LOC_Members

Name	Organization	Sector	Title	Location	Role
Andy Anderson	Amherst College; University of Massachusetts Amherst	Academic	Academic Technology Specialist; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation	Amherst, Massachusetts	Chair of Program Subcommittee
Giovanni Zambotti	Harvard University	Academic	GIS Specialist	Greater Boston
Patrick Florance	Tufts University	Academic	Associate Director of Geospatial Technology	Greater Boston
Chris Barnett	Tufts University	Academic	Geospatial Developer	Greater Boston
Guido Stein	AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc.	Community	Founder & GIS Analyst	Greater Boston	Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017
Mike Foster	Maptime Boston & MIT	Community	Community Organizer & GIS Specialist	Greater Boston	Chair of Workshop Subcommittee
Aleda Freeman	MassGIS/EOTSS/Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Government	Web Mapping Services Manager	Greater Boston	Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Outreach Committee, Member Program Subcommittee
Christian Jacqz	MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Government	Former Director of MassGIS	Greater Boston	Member Program Subcommittee
Carolyn Bennett	Boston Redevelopment Authority	Government	GIS Manager	Greater Boston
Michael Terner	Applied Geographics, Inc.	Private	Executive Vice President	Greater Boston	Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017
Will Mitchell	NBT Solutions, LLC	Private	Principal	Portland, Maine	On Sponsor Committee

Community Committee

Past Activities

Logo Contest

Academic Committee

FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track

Co-Chairs

Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Volunteered Geographic Information, Land Use/Cover, Commons-Based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education

Mohammed Zia, National Innovation & Research Center for Geographical Information Technologies, Turkey

GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology

Reviewers

Andy Anderson, Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, Web GIS, CyberGIS, Education

Maria Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

GIS, Web Mapping, Collaborative Mapping, Geo-crowdsourcing

Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Spatial Data Infrastructure, Address Data, Standardization, Open Principles, GISc Education, Geovisualization

Kim Durante, Stanford University, USA

Spatial Data Infrastructure, Metadata, Standardization, Preservation

Nimalika Fernando, Sri Lanka

Location-Based Services, Mobile GIS, Route Planning, Indoor Spatial Data Modelling, Indoor Navigation, Web GIS

Simone Lanucara, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council of Italy

Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic Harmonization, Data Harmonization, Big Data

Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mapserver, PHP

Peter Löwe, Germany

Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS

Jeff McKenna, OSGeo, Canada

Web Mapping, Databases, Standards

Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education

Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA

Terrain Modeling, Visualization, GRASS GIS

Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, USA

Natural Resources Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Modeling with GIS, FOSS4G

Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan

Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Geospatial Web Services

Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India

Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing, Disaster Management, Location-Based Services

Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal

Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Software development

Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, EU

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing

Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Scientific Research Development Institute of Technology Australia, Australia

Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying

Tuong-Thuy Vu, Malaysia

Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big Data

Processes

• 2017 Committee Member Selection
• 2017 Session Selection
• 2017 Keynote Selection
• 2017 Website Updates

Lessons Learned

• FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned

FOSS4GHappyHour

With 68 days left until the conference we, the LOC, are going to start trying to connect more directly with those attending and thinking about attending. We are going to have happy hours with members of the committee and sub-committees. These sessions will be run in the form of an AMA (Ask Me Anything).

Live Video Stream:

• youtube live channel

Live Chat:

• #FOSS4G IRC Channel

For each happy hour we will list who is going to be in the hot seat, but feel free to list yourself as participating if you are planning on attending (Hot Seat = NO):

6/13 17:00 EDT- Volunteer Committee now accepting applications

No	Name	Organization	Twitter Handle	Role	Location	Hot Seat
1	Guido Stein	Applied Geographics, Inc.	@guidos	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Co-Chair	Boston, MA	IN
2	Ashley Tardif	FOSS4G Boston 2017	@aerthrae	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Operations Coordinator	Boston, MA	IN
3	Kayla Patel	City of Boston	@paylakatel	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Volunteer Sub-Committee Chair	Boston, MA	IN