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

Organising Contact

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

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:

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
- Attending:
  - Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
  - David Winslow (OpenGeo)
  - Robert Soden (World Bank)
  - Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
  - Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
  - Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
  - Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
  - Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)
  - Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
  - Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
  - Alex Mandel (UC Davis)

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)