FOSS4G2007
This is the main page for holding information for discussion on the FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria, BC, Cananda, September 24 to 27, 2007.
- Conference Web Site: http://www.foss4g2007.org
- Conference Mailing List: http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2007
- Workshop/Lab Mailing List: http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2007-workshops
- IRC Channel: irc://freenode.net/foss4g2007
- other FOSS4G2007 wiki pages
For the official conference schedule, please see the Program Overview page on the conference website.
Sunday, September 23
- 15:00-19:00 Early Registration Opens
Monday, September 24
- 07:30 Registration Opens
Workshops
- 09:00-12:00 Six Morning Workshops
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
- 13:00-16:00 Six Afternoon Workshops
OSGeo AGM
- 16:30-18:00 OSGeo Annual General Meeting
Reception
- 18:00-22:00 Welcome Reception @ Sticky Wicket
Tuesday, September 25
- 07:30 Registration Opens
Opening Plenary
- 09:00-09:15 Welcome from Chair
- Welcome
- Thank Sponsors
- Promote Evening Events
- Housekeeping
- 09:15-10:00 Sponsor Talks
- One 10 minute talk by Autodesk (TBD)
- One 10 minute talk by OSGeo (Tyler Mitchell)
- One 10 minute talk by (TBD)
- 10:00-10:40 Lightning Talks
- Howard Butler (hobu@hobu.net) will be coordinating the lightning talks. Some possible topics are provided below. Please add a topic and your name if you are interested in presenting a lightning talk. We will be selecting no more than 8 lightning talks for the plenary session. You will have the whole conference watching, and using dual 30' projection screens, so being brisk and entertaining and providing lots of colorful pictures is a good idea.
- The State of Mapguide
- Big Mapserver Deployments
- Desktop GIS: Conundrum?
- Incredible GRASS Analyses
- "Proprietary", "Open Source", "Commercial" and "Free" (User:Arnulf Christl)
- Spatial Databases are Fun
- 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
- Don't stray too far...
- 11:00-12:00 Keynote Address
- Damian Conway - A terrific speaker and with a particular talk on open source for suits that will fit our mixed suit/geek attendance.
Presentations and Labs
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
- 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
- 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
BOF sessions
- 17:00-18:30 Birds-of-a-Feather sessions
Wednesday, September 26
- 08:00 Registration opens
Presentations and Labs
- 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
Poster Session
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided, and Poster Session
Presentations and Labs
- 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
Reception
- 18:00-20:00 Reception @ Royal BC Museum
Thursday, September 27
- 08:00 Registration opens
Presentations and Labs
- 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided
Closing Plenary
- 13:00-13:05 Welcome from Chair
- Housekeeping
- 13:05-13:15 FOSS4G 2008
- 2008 hosts describe next year's event and venue
- 13:15-14:00 Panel Discussion
- Moderated by Adena Schutzberg (Directions Magazine)
- Three luminaries (now we need to find some, ideas are welcome):
- One from proprietary world
- One from open source world
- One from consumer spatial world
- 14:00-14:15 Sol Katz Award
- Award explained, Sol Katz memorialized
- Presented to...
- Remarks from recipient
- 14:15-14:45 FOSS4G 2007 in Review
- Adena Schutzberg shares her off-the-cuff observations of the event and how what she has seen relates to the larger field of geospatial.
- 14:45-15:00 Adjourn
- More thanks
Friday, September 28
Code Sprint
- 9:00-17:00 @ Harbour Towers Hotel, West Ballroom