FOSS4G2007 Workshops

FOSS4G 2007 Workshops

Committee Members

• Jeff McKenna (chair)
• Jason Birch
• Aaron Racicot
• Olivier Ertz
• Dave Patton

Call For Workshops Content

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The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2007 conference, being held between September 24-27 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a meeting place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion treatment in the latest soothing and trendy technologies.

This is your chance to showcase your favourite application, integrated solution, or other topic. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of students through your chosen topic in either a half-day or ninety minute lab format. Half-day labs will be delivered during the workshops day on Monday, September 24, while the ninety minute labs will run concurrently with the presentations during the remainder of the conference.

FOSS4G has a tradition of "hands on" workshops, where every participant is seated in front of a computer and able to follow along with the teacher in working directly with the software under discussion.

While we are absolutely open to a wide range of topics, we strongly encourage submissions on the following topics:

• Practical Introduction to ___________
• Interoperability
• NeoGeography and NovelGeography
• Using a Software Stack
• 3D Worlds

Submit early, submit often!

Submission requirements

Title (70 characters)

Short Description (50 words)

Long Description (400 words)

Format

• 3 hr lab (computers), or
• 3 hr class, or
• 1.5 hr lab (to run during conference)
• 1.5 hr class (to run during conference)

Technical Requirements

• Provided Windows XP workstations, or
• Provided CentOS (??) VMWare machine, or
• Instructor-provided LiveCD, or
• N/A

User Level

• Beginner
• Advanced
• Developer

User Prerequisites (platform, applications, development languages, etc...)

Presenter Name

Presenter Affiliation (if any)

Presenter Coordinates

Presenter Biography (200 words)

First Meeting

• date: 01/26/07
  
• time: 1PM PST
  
• IRC Channel: #foss4g2007 on irc.freenode.net (or via Web: http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi) (Log)
  

Workshop Duration and Scheduling

http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview.html

Hardware

• 40 computers in the rental budget
• another 20 slated as loaners from Nanaimo
• other options? (bring-your-own etc.)

Room Availability

?

Call for Abstracts

• by when?
• interface for abstract submission? (something similar to FOSS4G2006's Indico?)

Software Installation

• LiveCD for Linux
• MS4W installer for Windows
• other?
• attendees come with laptops and software installed?

Other

• local person to deal with venue's tech staff?

Questions for Organising Committee

- Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note)

• overcrowded workshops are bad
• registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
• LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
• grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)