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Introduction

During the FOSS4G2007 conference in Victoria, BC, Canada, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

Timetable

This is the primary BOF time slot.

This is a 'backup' BOF time slot.

BOF sessions are scheduled from 16:45 to 17:45
the Dinner Reception at the Royal BC Museum starts at 18:00
Please only use this time slot if necessary. Many people will need to leave by 17:45 in order to be at the Dinner Reception on time.

This list of rooms is preliminary - please don't assign BOF sessions to rooms yet
The seating capacity that is listed is a maximum number, that may be reduced.
The rooms will be setup with chairs, but not tables.

You can use this page to organize your BOF session:

create a section below for your BOF
have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
once the BOF organizer(s) have a reasonable idea of how many people will be at their BOF, cut & paste one of the available rooms from the above list into your BOF's section (please choose a room with a size suitable for your group)

Trying to maintain continuity with the debate started in Lausanne 2006, It would be good to see what has been done during this year and what should be done next year. Which project already integrated OL, which pro/cons arised, ecc. ecc.
It would be important too to refine the targets of the FOSS4G2007_CodeSprint#OpenLayers Code Sprint.

Introductions of participants, including their interest in OSGeo edu, and what they are thinking about doing over the next year
Discussion on how to move toward a more cohesive effort for the development of educational material
Review of OSGeo edu wiki pages and discussion of possible improvements?
Short presentation of the OSGeo Moodle installation and brain storm on how to activate and use it's potential
Short discussion which licenses to best use for tutorial and curriculum documents
Please add any other ideas?

proposed: develop a library of functions in XSLT 2 for geographic data processing
support: GML, KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON etc.
implement standard functions, such as area, perimeter, length, centroid, centre-point etc.
experiment with more complex functionality: re-projection, clip, intersection, indexing
make maps with XSL-FO, SVG, PDF
useful for: small amounts of data in XML format, server side
have fun and learn