FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather
Introduction
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.
General Information
During the FOSS4G 2017 conference in Boston, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.
For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [2017.foss4g.org/program/ http://2017.foss4g.org/program/].
How to organize a BOF
BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in: BoF rooms, BoF lounge or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
While FOSS4G is provide space, but the setting up a bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki, twitter, or on site BoF board.
Capacities
The BoF sessions rooms are available through regular session times.
- Theater Room 1 - setup theater style (without AV)
- Theater Room 2 - setup theater style (without AV)
- Lounge - there is a lounge available on the trade floor to gather small groups.
We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.
FOSS4G Contact
Reach out to @foss4g https://twitter.com/foss4g on twitter, or foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org mailto:foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org via email.
Wednesday 16 August
PostGIS Day with a range of FOSS4G, Alternative Mapping, PostGIS, Government, Adoption, Image Processing, Javascript, Business, Cartography, SDI/Portals, Community, Utilitieis, OpenData, science, project status, Containers, Rasberry Pi, AI/Machine Learning, Python, Serverless, GeoNode and Node.js talks.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
Theater Room 1
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00-5:00 | 3D and WebGL | Talks about the use of 3D in Geospatial. | Tom Fili (tfili@agi.com) |
Theater Room 2
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:30pm-8:30pm | MapServer BoF | Chat with MapServer devs & Power Users | Jeff McKenna |
Lounge
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:45-8:15 | FOSS4G | Meet, greet and sticker swap | Jody Garnett |
| 03:30-3:50 | #maptime BoF | Stickers. Meet. Greet. Maps. Community. | Emily Ashley (@maptimeHQ) |
Thursday 17 August
R Day with a mix of Google Earth, Drone/Satelite, Visualization, R, Big Data, QGIS ,3D ,Serverless, Data Serving, Cartography, Education, Government, Water Management, Standards, Projections and Education presentations.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
Theater Room 1
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00-13:30 | GeoTIFF.io | In-Browser (Client-Side) Raster Processing | Daniel J. Dufour (daniel.j.dufour@gmail.com) & Stephen Peyton (stephendpeyton@gmail.com) |
Theater Room 2
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00-13:30 | GeoServer Team | GeoServer Q&A with developers and power users, everyone welcome | Jody, Andrea, Kevin, Torben, David |
Lounge
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-13:30 | OGP, GeoBlacklight, GeoNetwork | Meetup to discuss Open Geoportal, GeoBlacklight, & GeoNetwork | Patrick Florance, Chris Barnett (Christopher.Barnett@tufts.edu) |
Friday 17 August
QGIS Day with Project Status updates, Space, Big Data, GeoServer, Transportation/Routing, QGIS, Stories/Time, Health, 3D, Humanitarian, Analytics, Environment, Health, Agriculture, Vector Tiles and LiDAR talks.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
Theater Room 1
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-12:00 | Golang for Geospatial | discussions about geospatial libraries using Golang - open to all! | Michael P. Gerlek (mpg@flaxen.com) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Maps for HTML community group / Map Markup Language | discussions about extending HTML to include maps and what MapML aka map semantics is / are - open to all! | Peter Rushforth (peter.rushforth@gmail.com / peter.rushforth@canada.ca) |
Theater Room 2
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-10:45 | Spark and Geo | Bring together all the ways we are doing Spark for Geo - would love to see SparkSQL for PostGIS | Steve Pousty (@TheSteve0) |
| 12:15-1 | Containers and Geo | Get together and look at all the work people are doing with Containers (Docker, RKT, CRI-O), Container Orchestration, and Geo | Steve Pousty (@TheSteve0) |
Lounge
| Timeslot | Topic/Group | Description | Contact |
|---|