OSGeo at FOSS4G2006

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General

  • FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
  • See http://www.foss4g2006.org/

To Do

  • What is to be done?
  • Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
  • Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
  • Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
  • Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
  • Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
  • Theme, do we want to have a point?

OSGeo related talks and sessions

Workshops

Presenter: Paul Spencer, DM Solutions Group,Robert Bray, Autodesk; Zak James, DM Solutions Group Title of Presentation: MapGuide Open Source Users Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 09:00 – 12:30 Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Robert Bray, Autodesk Title of Presentation: Advanced MapGuide Open Source Development Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 17:30 Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Arnulf Christl, CCGIS Title of Presentation: Mapbender Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 18:15 Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

BOFs

When and where?

  • Binary Distribution Builders by FrankW (submitted)
  • Public Geodata BOF by Jo (submitted)
  • Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard by Schuyler
  • Education committee BoF proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
  • GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
  • ka-map/openLayers merging discussions by Lorenzo Becchi (will happen Wednesday, 18:00-20:00)(more [1])
  • Perl BoF proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)
  • Mobile GIS reloaded proposed by Silke Reimer, Tim Bowden and Mateusz Loskot

Keynotes

  • Frank Warmerdam
  • Gary Lang

Presenter: Gary Lang Title of Presentation: Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary Date/Time: Wednesday, 13 September, 10:45 – 11:30 Location: Amphimax Abstract:. Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary

Talk Presentations

  • Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the Geodata Committee has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
  • Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?

Breakout session ideas

  • Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see Simple Catalog Interface
  • Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile

People planning to attend

  • most OSGeo folks

IMPORTANT Need confirmation of specific OSGeo staff names that will be working in the booth. Questions, contact Arnulf Christl or Tina Mena, tina.mena@autodesk.com. Following is the proposed OSGeo booth staff schedule:

Arnulf Christl Monday, 11Sep:15:00 - 17:00 (assist with set-up)/ Tuesday, 12Sep: 07:30 - 12:00 & 16:30 - 19:00 / Wednesday, 13Sep: 07:30 - 12:00 / Thursday, 14Sep: 08:00 - 12:30 / Friday, 15Sep: 12:00 17:30 (assist with tear down)

OSGeo Staff TBD #1 Tuesday, 12Sep: 07:30 - 12:00 / Wednesday, 13Sep: 12:00 - 16:30 / Thursday, 14Sep: 07:30 - 12:00 / Friday, 15Sep: 07:30 - 12:00

OSGeo Staff TBD #2 Tuesday, 12Sep: 12:00 - 16:30 / Wednesday, 13Sep: 07:30 - 12:00 & 16:30 - 18:00 / Thursday, 14Sep: 12:00 - 16:30 / Friday, 15Sep: 07:30 - 12:00