FOSS4G 2009 Call for Workshops

We are delighted to welcome you to Sydney for the FOSS4G 2009 Conference, which will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009. FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to solve business problems.

We are pleased to offer you the chance to showcase your skills by helping to teach eager attendees in the use of your favorite application, integration solution, technology or other topic in an interactive, hands-on environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held on the first day of the conference, October 20th.

All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics:

• Practical Introduction to Blah
• Interoperability
• Something Else (suggestions: spatial data accuracy, spatial data privacy, data migration, system implementation, data security)

Workshops are expected to be a hands-on experience with participants following along with the instructor, working directly with the software under discussion. All workshops will be equipped with computers (two students sharing one system) to support this vision. Workshops will be pre-installed with a basic image containing standard software packages running in a Windows XP environment. The use of LiveCD/DVD or other replacement operating system is possible but will be undertaken at the risk of the presenter.

Workshops are also expected to require considerable effort to create, with past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop. Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs etc.

Due to the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop, presenters will receive a single free registration to the conference for delivering a workshop.

Please visit our website to download the submission templates and instructions for submission.

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The deadline for workshop submissions is March 2, 2009.