Ireland/Symposium2018

Welcome and Introduction

The Irish Local Chapter of OSGeo are delighted to announce the hosting of the Second National Symposium in Portlaoise, Ireland on Friday, 25th May 2018. We, the organisers, welcome all delegates to our second meeting as an OSGeo community in Ireland. Portlaoise is very centrally located in the midlands of Ireland. It is very well served by frequent public transportation.

The event is open to anyone. However it will be particular interest to individuals or groups such as: those with an interest in FOSS4G, users of open source software and FOSS4G, geographers and geoscientists, computer scientists, software developers and programmers, software companies, open data users, researchers, government agencies, SMEs, NGOs, students, citizens, etc.

The symposium will provide a relaxed and stimulating environment to learn about OSGeo, meet people with similar interest in OSGeo and FOSS4G, and learn new skills in the workshops. There are lots of people using OSGeo software and tools in Ireland and this symposium will allow them to meet and re-connect as a community.

The Symposium will feature a Keynote speech by a noted member of the OSGeo/FOSS4G community and a number of hands-on workshops in the afternoon.

Follow OSGeo IE on Twitter - we'll be using Twitter for the 2018 event. https://twitter.com/osgeoie

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - Lightning Talks

We are delighted to announce the official call for participation in this event.To accommodate as many presentations as possible whilst showcasing a wide and varied selection of FOSS4G and OSGeo usage and applications in Ireland presentation format will be structured as lightning talks. Lightning talks will be structured as follows. They are strictly limited to 7 minutes.

Ideally, presentations should focus on the use of FOSS4G and OSGeo applications and software by large companies, SMEs, individuals, national and local government, academia (students, researchers, academics), volunteer communities, citizen scientists, etc who are based in Ireland.

Submit the abstract of your proposed contribution here on this Google Form. Deadline for submission of your abstract is Tuesday 17th April 2018 at 23:59:59

EVENT REGISTRATION

Registration IS NOW OPEN. Registration (ticket purchase) is available on EventBrite on Twitter, on the OSGeo Ireland mailing list and on the OSGeo Events page. Early bird registration will be open until 30th April 2018 at the superb price of €45.00. After this the standard price registration of €60.00 will apply up to the day of the event.

PROGRAMME TIMETABLE

This is the current version of the programme timetable. While some of the timings might change very slightly during the day the symposium will start at 09:00 and conclude at 16:45. This will allow all delegates to plan their travel to and from the event.

Time Slot	Programme Item/Event
08:00 - 09:00	Registration in Hotel (Tea/Coffee served to arriving delegates)
09:00 - 09:15	Official Opening and Welcome
09:15 - 10:00	Keynote Speech (details to be announced soon)
10:00 - 10:15	Questions and Answers session for Keynote
10:15 - 11:10	Lightning Talks Session 1
11:10 - 11:40	Tea/Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:30	Lightning Talks Session 2
12:30 - 12:40	Workshop Planning/Introductions
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch for Delegates in the Hotel + Networking
14:00 - 15:15	Workshops (part 1) Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Heikki Vesanto (LexisNexis) Daniel McInerney (Coillte Teoranta) Seth Girvin (Compass Informatics) Data driven cartography in QGIS Processing Satellite Imagery using OSGeo Software An Introduction to Open Source Geospatial Python
15:15 - 16:30	Workshops (part 2) Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Heikki Vesanto (LexisNexis) Daniel McInerney (Coillte Teoranta) Seth Girvin (Compass Informatics) Data driven cartography in QGIS Processing Satellite Imagery using OSGeo Software An Introduction to Open Source Geospatial Python
16:30 - 16:45	Wrap up and Official Closing.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

All delegates will be provided with an OSGeo Live Bootable USB Key containing a fully operational OSGeo Live distribution. Delegates are required to bring their own laptops. The descriptions of the workshops are provided below.

WORKSHOP #1 TITLE	Data driven cartography in QGIS
Proposed software	QGIS 2.x
Workshop objectives	Learn to use your data to drive symbology in QGIS Learn to work with the atlas generator Learn how to create animated time series outputs
Proposed dataset(s) to be used (if applicable)	Open data, provided at the workshop
Level (Newbie/Intermediate/Advanced)	No previous QGIS experience required
Pre-requisites (if applicable)	None.

WORKSHOP #2 TITLE	Processing Satellite Imagery using OSGeo Software
Proposed software	GDAL/OGR, Orfeo Toolbox, pktools
Workshop objectives	Introduction to the CLI for processing satellite data Learn to pre-process data using GDAL Brief Introduction to Shell scripting.
Proposed dataset(s) to be used (if applicable)	Sentinel-2/Landsat-8
Level (Newbie/Intermediate/Advanced)	OrfeoToolbox experience required
Pre-requisites (if applicable)	None.