FOSS4G 2010 Workshops
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Introduction
Workshops are 3-hour sessions in a PC classroom, and Tutorials are 90-minute sessions in a conference room. The FOSS4G 2010 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Tutorials.
FOSS4G 2010 Workshop Commitee
We need people with experience organizing conference workshops at other GFOSS events. Local (Barcelona & Spain) members are welcome. If you are willing to help organizing FOSS4G Workshops and Tutorials, please add yourself to the members list below, and subscribe to the mail list.
Communication
- Discussion to be hold in conference-workshops mail list
- meetings via #foss4g IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net)
Workshop Committee Members
- Oscar Fonts, local contact
- Jeff McKenna IRC username: jmckenna
Workshop and Tutorial Selection Criteria
FOSS4G 2010 Organization Committee will evaluate workshop and tutorial proposals attending to these criteria:
- Meets conference mandate:
- Matches with the themes of the conference
- Makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"
- Submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities
- Demonstrates practical applications
- Expected level of attendee interest in the workshop topic
- A plus for proposals addressing the special interest topics stated in the Call
- Likelyhood of a quality workshop:
- Expertise of the workshop presenters in the workshop subject matter
- Presenters personal experience presenting workshops at other conferences
- Successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G/GFOSS conferences
Workshop Venue
Workshops will be hold in the Barcelona School of Computer Science (FIB), at Barcelona Campus Nord, buildings B5 and C6.
All classrooms have screen and projector for instructors.
Software installation is preferred on Windows XP native Operating System.
If linux is required, we have a vmware SUSE 11.1 image.
B5 building classrooms
Classroom | # Computers | PC hardware |
---|---|---|
B5.S101 | 21+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.1 Ghz. 4GB RAM. Monitor HP L1950g TFT 19". ASUS EAH3450 Series 1GB (512MB), compatible ATI Radeon HD 34xx. DVD-ROM. |
B5.S201 | 21+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.1 Ghz. 4GB RAM. Monitor HP L1950g TFT 19". ASUS EAH3450 Series 1GB (512MB), compatible ATI Radeon HD 34xx. DVD-ROM. |
B5.S202 | 21+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.1 Ghz. 4GB RAM. Monitor HP L1950g TFT 19". ASUS EAH3450 Series 1GB (512MB), compatible ATI Radeon HD 34xx. DVD-ROM. |
C6 building classrooms
Classroom | # Computers | PC hardware |
---|---|---|
C6.S302 | 24+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo 6320 1.86 Ghz. 2GB RAM. Monitor CRT 17". Nvidia Geforce 6200. DVD-ROM. |
C6.S306 | 20+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 Ghz. 2GB RAM. Monitor HP L1750 TFT 17". ATI Radeon X1300. DVD-ROM. |
C6.S308 | 20+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 Ghz. 2GB RAM. Monitor HP L1750 TFT 17". ATI Radeon X1300. DVD-ROM. |
C6.S309 | 20+1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.1 Ghz. 4GB RAM. Monitor HP L1950g TFT 19". ASUS EAH3450 Series 1GB (512MB), compatible ATI Radeon HD 34xx. DVD-ROM. |
Schedule
Workshops
Classroom | Capacity | Session 1 (Mon 6 Sep 15-18h) | Session 2 (Tue 7 Sep 9-12h) |
---|---|---|---|
B5.S101 | 42 | W1 - Web mapping with GeoServer | W8 - Getting started with Mapserver |
B5.S201 | 42 | W2 - gvSIG 1.9 user workshop | W9 - Quantum GIS and PostGIS: Solving spatial problems and creating web-based analysis tools |
B5.S202 | 42 | W3 - Setting up an OpenStreetMap rendering toolchain | W10 - FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools, OpenStreetMap road data and GeoExt |
C6.S302 | 48 | W4 - Introduction to PostGIS | W11 - Working with OpenLayers |
C6.S306 | 40 | W5 - Introduction to the Mapbender geoportal framewework | W12 - GeoNetwork for dummies, or how to setup an SDI in 3 hours |
C6.S308 | 40 | W6 - Solid web mapping with Python | W13 - Geospatial for Java |
C6.S309 | 40 | W7 - Practical introduction to ZOO, the powerful WPS platform | W14 - Practical introduction to GRASS |
Tutorials
Tutorials are 1.5 hour sessions simultaneous to conference talks, in the main conference venue.
The tutorials this year will be:
- gvSIG Mobile and Mini tutorial
- PyWPS
- Building web based GIS applications with GeoEXT
- Mastering advanced GeoNetwork
- Hands-on introduction to Mapguide Open Source
- First steps with MapFish
- A hands-on introduction to spatial ETL with Geokettle
- How to generate billions of tiles using distributed cloud-computing
- Implementation of open source software for the development of interactive social and environmental atlas
- SDI best practices with geonode
- Standardized geoprocessing with 52°North open source software
- Sensor Web Enablement - Integrating sensor data into Spatial Data Infrastructures
Timetable and rooms to be determined.
Calendar
- Jan 15, Opening Call for Workshops/Tutorials
- Jan 30, Closing Call for Workshops/Tutorials
- Feb 1-15, Workshop/Tutorial selection process
- Feb 16, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
- Feb 22, Registration for workshops and tutorials opens
- Sep 6-7, FOSS4G Workshops
- Sep 7-9, FOSS4G Tutorials