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) 2007 Organising Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for this year's conference, being held between September 24th and 27th 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 official workshops space on the first day of the conference, while the ninety minute labs will run concurrently with the presentations during the rest of the conference.
While we are absolutely open to a wide range of topics, we would like to see the following covered: Buzzword of the year (NeoGeography), Interoperability, Web Mapping, Stack in a Box (data store, editing, presentation), and an Introduction workshop. We would also like to see a wide range of technologies (Java, Python, PHP, ECMAScript, etc) covered; the more the merrier.
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, ...)