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April 10-14, Grapevine, Texas

OSGeo will have a booth and its own Open Source track throughout this GITA event, mainly on April 11-13th.

http://www.gitaservices.org/websites/gita2011/index.php?p=1

Background

GITA is hired as the conference managers for FOSS4G 2011 and working with this GITA event gives OSGeo a chance to promote FOSS4G several months in advanced to a community that may be somewhat under-represented in OSGeo that is, the infrastructure/utility organisations.

Event Summary

It is estimated that 25-40 attendees per room, with space for up to 60.

Copy from the 2010 website:

See the most diverse program on the latest geospatial solutions being applied at the most cutting edge infrastructure organizations
Walk an exhibit floor that goes beyond technology to show true solutions and ways you can make the most of your existing systems
Meet some of the fathers of the geospatial industry who are now putting their pioneering spirit to work with a new generation of geospatial leaders

Booth

Exhibit floor schedule TBD

Presentations

Presentations coordinated by Tyler at OSGeo.

There will be presentations through the event in our own OSGeo track. Details of times are coming but are spread across the event timeline (April 11-13th).

Monday, April 11

Applicable notes below, items marked "Session #" are for our track only. Plenary panel: Geoff and Peter

Event	Time	Speaker/Topic
Plenary Panel	8:00 - 10:00am	Geoff and Peter on plenary panel
Session 1	10:30 - 11:00am
Session 2	11:10 - 11:40am
Exhibit hall & lunch	11:30 - 1:30
Session 3	1:30 - 2:00pm
Session 4	2:10 - 2:40pm
Break	2:40 - 3:15pm
Session 5	3:15 - 3:45pm
Session 6	3:55 - 4:25pm
Exhibit floor social	4:30 - 6:00pm

Tuesday, April 12

Event	Time	Speaker/Topic
Plenary "ITAG" meeting - no tracks	8:00 - Noon
Exhibit hall open	Noon - 6:00pm
Session 7	2:00 - 2:30pm
Session 8	2:40 - 3:15pm
Break	3:15 - 3:45pm
Session 9	3:45 - 4:15pm
Session 10	4:25 - 4:55pm
Exhibit floor social	5:00 - 6:00pm

Wednesday, April 13

Event	Time	Speaker/Topic
Plenaries	8:00 - 10:30am
Session 11	10:45 - 11:15am
Exhibit hall open	11:00 - 2:00pm
Session 12	12:30 - 1:00pm	Not sure if it falls under "late breaking" developments or we should treat as normal
Closing plenary	1:30 - 2:45pm
Closing social	2:45 - 3:45pm

OSGeo Attendees

If you are planning to be at this event and are able to lend a hand with the booth or interested in presenting in our track, please put your name and interest/availability here:

Tyler Mitchell: Coordinating the event from OSGeo's side
Peter Batty: already planning to be at show. Available for presentation if needed. My company will have a booth so limited ability to spend time on OSGeo booth, but maybe a little. Definitely up for spreading the word about FOSS4G!
Robert Hollingsworth: definitely will be there. Been there a number of times before. 4-hr drive from here. Interested in being Booth Presence. Will consider presentation possibilities. Would love to see FOSS4g crack the utilities/telecom market.
Geoff Zeiss: Add to our track: Open Source Geospatial Web Applications for Utilities
Karsten Vennemann: will be there in spirit, helping with demos but can't attend
Daniel Morissette: Add to our track: TBD: MapServer as an example of power of Open Standards. planning on going. Available to help with the booth (part time), and could be interested in presenting something, just need to find a topic of interest for this crowd.
Hurricane Coast: Add to our track: OSM, OpenData topic TBD
Carl Reed: Add to our track: OGC, Open Standards topic TBD

Others to Contact

Hit these guys up to speak in our stream? What project, community, consultants might do a good job addressing this utility style audience.

Past agenda here
OpenGeo - showing a stack is important
Gerrry at Texas A&M geo side
Check past exhibitor list
Email to service providers directory
geosparc, the overlords of Geomajas, have been contacted about possibility of somehow showing off existing Geomajas projects in the utilities space.

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 * Exhibit floor schedule TBD
-== Presentations ==
+== Presentations  ==
-Presentations coordinated by Tyler at OSGeo.
-There will be presentations through the event in our own OSGeo track.  Details of times are coming but are spread across the event timeline (April 11-13th).
+Presentations coordinated by Tyler at OSGeo.
-* Details TBD
+There will be presentations through the event in our own OSGeo track. Details of times are coming but are spread across the event timeline (April 11-13th).
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+|
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+! scope="row" | Exhibit hall open
+| 11:00 - 2:00pm
+|
+|-
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+| 12:30 - 1:00pm
+| Not sure if it falls under "late breaking" developments or we should treat as normal
+|-
+! scope="row" | Closing plenary
+| 1:30 - 2:45pm
+|
+|-
+! scope="row" | Closing social
+| 2:45 - 3:45pm
+|
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 == OSGeo Attendees ==