FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather

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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)
13:00-13:30 Rust Meet other Rusteans doing geospatial things Volker Mische (@vmx), @PirminKalberer

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
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