OSGeo at FOSS4G2006
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General
- FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
- See http://www.foss4g2006.org/
To Do
- What is to be done?
- Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
- Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
- Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
- Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
- Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
- Theme, do we want to have a point?
Workshops
- Several workshops are running
BOFs
- Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
- Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
- Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
- Education committee/ BoF meeting/workshop proposed by Ari
- GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
- ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi
Keynotes
- ...
Talk Presentations
- Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the Geodata Committee has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
- Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?
Breakout session ideas
- Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see Simple Catalog Interface
- Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile
People planning to attend
- most OSGeo folks