FOSS4G2007 Workshops

FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Committee

Members

• Jeff McKenna (chair)
• Jason Birch
• Aaron Racicot
• Olivier Ertz
• Dave Patton

Next Committee Meeting

• date: 2007/02/02
  
• time: 1:30PM PST
  
• IRC Channel: #foss4g2007 on irc.freenode.net (or via Web: http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi)
• Agenda:
  • Select Meeting chair
  • Review log from last meeting
  • Set date/time for next meeting

Previous Committee Meetings

2007/01/26

• IRC Log
• Agenda: There was no set agenda

FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Notes

Call For Workshops Content

Hyperbole

The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2007 conference, being held between September 24-27 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a meeting place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion treatment in the latest soothing and trendy technologies.

This is your chance to showcase your favourite application, integrated solution, or other topic. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of students through your chosen topic in either a half-day or ninety minute lab format. Half-day labs will be delivered during the workshops day on Monday, September 24, while the ninety minute labs will run concurrently with the presentations during the remainder of the conference.

FOSS4G has a tradition of "hands on" workshops, where every participant is seated in front of a computer and able to follow along with the teacher in working directly with the software under discussion.

While we are absolutely open to a wide range of topics, we strongly encourage submissions on the following topics:

• Practical Introduction to ___________
• Interoperability
• NeoGeography and NovelGeography
• Using a Software Stack
• 3D Worlds

Submit early, submit often!

Submission Requirements

This is in-progress, and is not official. Once the submission requirements are finalized, they will be posted on the FOSS4G2007 website, along with instructions on how to make your workshop submission.

For your workshop submission to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2007 Conference, please fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

Workshop Title (70 characters):

Short Description (50 words):

Long Description (400 words):

Format (choose one):

• 3 hour lab (with computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
• 3 hour class (no computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
• 1.5 hour lab (with computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)
• 1.5 hour class (no computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)

Technical Requirements (choose one):

• Provided Windows XP workstations
• Provided Linux VMWare machine
• Instructor-provided LiveCD
• Participants bring their own Laptop
• None

User Level (choose one):

• Beginner
• Advanced
• Developer

User Prerequisites (platform, applications, development languages, etc.):

Presenter Name:

Presenter Affiliation (if any):

Presenter Coordinates (Country):

Presenter Biography (200 words):

Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:
This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

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Items for Discussion

Workshop Duration and Scheduling

http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview.html

Hardware

• 40 computers in the rental budget
• another 20 slated as loaners from Nanaimo
• other options? (bring-your-own etc.)

Room Availability

?

Call for Abstracts

• by when?
• interface for abstract submission? (something similar to FOSS4G2006's Indico?)

Software Installation

• LiveCD for Linux
• MS4W installer for Windows
• other?
• attendees come with laptops and software installed?

Other

• local person to deal with venue's tech staff?

Questions for Organising Committee

- Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note)

• overcrowded workshops are bad
• registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
• LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
• grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)