OSGeo at FOSS4G2006

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?

OSGeo related talks and sessions

Workshops

• Several workshops are running

BOFs

When and where?

• Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
• Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
• Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
• Education committee BoF proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
• GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
• ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi (will happen Wednesday, 18:00-20:00)
• Perl BoF proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)

Keynotes

• Frank Warmerdam
• Gary Lang

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