FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

Introduction

During the FOSS4G2011 conference in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

Room allocation to be determined

Timeslots Available

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Proposed Topics

• Tiling
  • Proposed Topics
    • standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
    • TMS/WMTS evolutions:
      • Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
      • TMS multiple grids per tileset
      • WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
    • add yours...
  • Attending:
    • User:Tbonfort
    • Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)
    • Steven M. Ottens
    • Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
    • Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)

• GeoNode
  • Proposed topics:
    • Brief overview
    • Get involved with the community!
    • Meet developers and institutional partners
      • Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
      • Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
    • Join us for drinks afterwards!
  • Attending:
    • Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
    • David Winslow (OpenGeo)
    • Robert Soden (World Bank)
    • Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
    • Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
    • Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
    • Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
    • Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
    • Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)
    • Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
    • Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
    • Alex Mandel (UC Davis)

• Python
  • Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
  • Proposed topics:
    • High fives
    • Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
    • Python 3
    • PyPy
    • Packaging and distributions
  • Attending:
    • Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
    • Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)
    • Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
    • Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
    • Dan Dye (WeoGeo)
    • David Fawcett (MPCA)
    • Alex Mandel (UC Davis)
    • Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)
    • Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale) MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
    • Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
    • Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)
    • Thomas Emge (Esri)

• Opengeoportal

http://opengeoportal.org/

• • Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
  • Attending:
    • Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
    • Patrick Florance (Tufts)
    • Chris Barnett (Tufts)
    • David Siegel (Harvard)
    • Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
    • Garey Mills (Berkeley)
    • John Ridener (Berkeley)
    • Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
    • Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

• Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI)
  • Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
  • Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
  • Attending:
    • Christine White (Esri)
    • Andy Gup (Esri)

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