AAG 2009

Association of American Geographers annual conference.

2009 Conference

Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009 Meeting Homepage

OSGeo Sessions

We'd like to try and organize 2 or 3 sessions on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in Geography Alex Mandel and Stacey Ellis from the University of California, Davis will be organizing please contact them if you plan to give a talk and would like to be part of the sessions.

Deadline to submit for talks is Oct 16, 2008(Extended until Nov 13, 2008), see the call for abstracts

The sessions are now being co-sponsored by the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group.

What's on the books:

Title: Free and Open Source solutions for Geographers I
Description:Case studies and general overviews of free software and data sources as applied to geography. 
Including neogeography tools, virtual globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics. 
This session aims to educate the general geography community about end user opportunities to implement cutting edge 
Free and Open Source solutions in your research.
Anticipated Attendance:	50

Title: Free and Open Source Software solutions for Geographers II
Description:Case studies and in depth technical discussions of free software and data sources as applied to geography. 
Including neogeography tools, virtual  globes, collaborative web portals, web mapping, GIS, remote sensing and statistics. 
This session aims to explore the complexities and specifics of using cutting edge 
Free and Open Source solutions in geographical research.
Anticipated Attendance:	50

Other Ideas:

• Plan A
  • Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
  • Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
  • Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.

• Plan B
  • Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
  • Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography

Talks

Proposed or Confirmed(+) General

• Alex Mandel - Overview of Open Source tools for Geography
• Michael Treichler - Using open source in the food distribution industry.
• +Stacey Ellis - A Wiki for every Geography
• Ron Buliung - R aspace package - descriptive analysis of spatial point patterns using centrographics and home range metrics

Techie

• Andrew Turner - OpenStreetMap
• Helena Mitasova - Advanced Open Source GIS
• Brian Hamlin - Intro to PostGIS

Ideas (Claim one and move it up above with your name, and submit your abstract ASAP)

• Open Source - Community websites (Content Management, Wiki etc)
• Open Street Map - Free Wiki Based Road Data
• Open Source Business Case (slides available from lisasoft)
• LiveDVD GIS

OSGeo Booth

It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.

Volunteers

• Alex Mandel
• Stacey Ellis
• Michael Treichler
• Michele Tobias

Schedule

Should we set this based on session times for talks so people can go to talks when not at the booth? Exhibit hall is only open 3 days out of the 7 day conference.

• Tuesday, March 24 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, March 25 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, March 26 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Proposed Budget

List of Items we need and proposed budget request from the Marketing team.

Item	Cost	Notes
Banner	$	Sent from?
Table Skirt	$	Sent from ?
Handouts	$500	How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference.
Booth	$1000 (non-profit price)	Includes tables, do we have an internet connection? Need to book by ASAP.
Live CD/DVD or Software	$200	In the works, Live GIS Disc, how many?
T-shirts/hats	$0	How many tablers
Demo Machines	Borrow or Rent?	For next time, the Gentoo liveCD or the GeoNetwork FOSS DVD.
Comp Fees for Staffing?	$500-1000	Fly Tyler or a Board Member, a Marketing Team member or ?
Banner/Skirt to next event		Send where?
Total	$3000/~TBD	Estimate/~Final(?)

Funding Sources

These are ideas for where to try and get funds for the booth.

• OSGEO - ?
• Universities - ?
• Open Source specialized companies - ? CloudMade?

OSGeo Social

Anyone want to schedule a social?

Time: TBD

Place: TBD

Who: Anyone interested in Open Source Geo

Why: To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer and bar food or maybe a buffet?

Directions:

To Do List

1. Get support from marketing team for a booth
   1. It's $1000 for a non-profit and there are 8 spots left
2. Get speakers for the sessions
   1. Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
3. Register the sessions

Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of osgeo related speakers

Ideas

1. Do we want to do a workshop, Deadline is Oct 1