AAG 2009
Association of American Geographers annual conference.
2009 Conference
Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009 Meeting Homepage
OSGeo Sessions
We'd like to try and organize 2 or 3 sessions on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) in Geography Alex Mandel and Stacey Ellis from the University of California, Davis will be organizing please contact them if you plan to give a talk and would like to be part of the sessions.
Deadline to submit for talks is Oct 16, see the call for abstracts
Two ideas.
- Plan A
- Session 1:Introduction to FOSS in Geography
- Session 2:FOSS Case Studies - What you did, what you used and why.
- Session 3:Technical FOSS - talks that throw in the technical talk.
- Plan B
- Session 1:FOSS in Qualitative Geography
- Session 2:FOSS in Quantitative Geography
OSGeo Booth
It's about time we have booth at the US's largest geography conference. Also note it does attract a considerable foreign crowd.
Proposed Budget
List of Items we need and proposed budget request from the Marketing team.
| Item | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Banner | $ | Sent from? |
| Table Skirt | $ | Sent from ? |
| Handouts | $500 | How many - 1000? there will be 7000+ attendees at the conference. |
| Booth | $1000 (non-profit price) | Includes tables, do we have an internet connection? Need to book by ASAP. |
| Live CD/DVD or Software | $200 | In the works, Live GIS Disc, how many? |
| T-shirts/hats | $0 | How many tablers |
| Demo Machines | Borrowed | For next time, the Gentoo liveCD or the GeoNetwork FOSS DVD. |
| Comp Fees for Volunteers? | $500-1000 | Fly Tyler or other OSGeo bigwig in |
| Banner/Skirt to next event | Send where? | |
| Total | $3000/~TBD | Estimate/~Final(?) |
OSGeo Social
Anyone want to schedule a social?
Time: TBD
Place: TBD
Who: Anyone interested in Open Source Geo
Why: To get together to chat socially about stuff over some beer and bar food.
Directions:
To Do List
- Get support from marketing team for a booth
- It's $1000 for a non-profit and there are 8 spots left
- Get speakers for the sessions
- Ask the Edu group to talk about it at FOSS4G.
- Register the sessions
Last years AAG was in Boston, see the list of osgeo related speakers
Ideas
- Do we want to do a workshop, Deadline is Oct 1