FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

Introduction

During the FOSS4G2011 conference in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

Room allocation to be determined

Timeslots Available

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Proposed Topics

GeoMoose

• Proposed Topics
  • Overview
  • GeoMoose 2.6
  • Ideas for CodeSprint
  • Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
• Attending:
  • Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
  • Dan Little (GeoMoose)
  • Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
  • Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
  • Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)

Tiling

• Proposed Topics
  • standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
  • TMS/WMTS evolutions:
    • Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
    • TMS multiple grids per tileset
    • WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
  • add yours...
• Attending:
  • User:Tbonfort
  • Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)
  • Steven M. Ottens
  • Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
  • Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)
  • Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)
  • Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)

GeoNode

• Proposed topics:
  • Brief overview
  • Get involved with the community!
  • Meet developers and institutional partners
    • Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
    • Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
  • Join us for drinks afterwards!
• Attending:
  • Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
  • David Winslow (OpenGeo)
  • Robert Soden (World Bank)
  • Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
  • Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
  • Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
  • Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
  • Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
  • Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)
  • Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
  • Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
  • Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
  • Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)

Python

• Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
• Proposed topics:
  • High fives
  • Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
  • Python 3
  • PyPy
  • Packaging and distributions
• Attending:
  • Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
  • Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
  • Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
  • Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
  • Dan Dye (WeoGeo)
  • David Fawcett (MPCA)
  • Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
  • Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)
  • Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale) MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
  • Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
  • Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
  • Thomas Emge (Esri)
  • Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)
  • Julia Harrell (NC DENR)
  • Jachym Cepicky

Opengeoportal

http://opengeoportal.org/

• Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
• Attending:
  • Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
  • Patrick Florance (Tufts)
  • Chris Barnett (Tufts)
  • David Siegel (Harvard)
  • Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
  • Garey Mills (Berkeley)
  • John Ridener (Berkeley)
  • Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
  • Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI)

• Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
• Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
• Attending:
  • Christine White (Esri)
  • Andy Gup (Esri)

Mobile GIS

• Proposed Topics
  • General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
  • "OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
  • add yours...
• Attending:
  • Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)
  • Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)
  • Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
  • Daniel Morissette (Mapgears)
  • Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)
  • Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)
  • Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)

Education / Academic

• Separate sign up page: FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up

Spatial Databases

• Proposed Topics
  • Do we need some more
  • Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
  • Do the processing within the database or outside?
  • Add yours...
• Attending:
  • Volker Mische (Couchbase)

SpatiaLite

• Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
• Proposed topics:
  • Community organization strategies
  • Meet and Greet

• Attending:
  • David Fawcett (MPCA)
  • Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)
  • Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
  • Doug Newcomb (USFWS) ( I will not be available for much of Wed. Evening)
  • Julia Harrell (NC DENR)

Web Processing Services (WPS)

• Scheduling: 5:30-6:30

• Proposed topics:
  • Web Processing Services Ideas exchange and get-together
  • WPS 2.0 status and community input
  • Meet and Greet

• Attending:
  • Bastian Schäffer (52North)
  • Benjamin Pross (52North)