Open Geoscience and EGU activities
Currently planning activities for EGU 2016
- a short course,
- sessions and a Townhall event..
join our mailing list and stay tuned, volunteers are always welcome
| Topic | Point of contact | Remarks |
| Aster/LiDAR using QGIS Processing | Lene Fischer | tbd |
| isSOS / PostGIS | Maxi Cannata et al. | tbd |
Introductory course to OSGeo-Live:
| Topic | Point of contact | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Install on VM | Micha Silver | availability of DVD's or USB drives? |
| QGIS | Raffaele Albano | |
| GRASS | Micha Silver/Peter Löwe | |
| Geoserver | ||
| mbsystem | ||
| Cesium | ||
| R | (high potential: Edzer Pebesma ?) | |
| GMT | ||
| Python (iris,netcdf4,cartopy) | ||
| python notebook | ||
| gvSig | ||
| SAGA GIS | ||
| OSSIM | ||
| KOSMO | ||
| uDig |
Ideas collected for the introductionary short course at EGU 2016
- Introductory course to OSGeo-Live, duration 90 minutes, preferably during lunch break.
- Material that could be presented include gsoc work of Massimo Di Stefano (aka 'epifanio'), a series of educational material based on OSGeo-Live, featuring the main software included in the distro.
- epifanio made himself available to create ad-hoc material in collaboration with those who will be giving the course. In fact, at present the main issue remains that we don't have a lecturer.
OSGeo Townhall
Scope
(Source: EGU Page) "Townhall meetings are meetings open to all conference participants. At townhall meetings, new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience, followed by an open discussion on the matter raised.
Anyone may organize such a townhall meeting subject to approval by the programme committee chair. Townhall meetings will take place Monday–Tuesday, 18–19 April 2016, and Thursday–Friday, 21–22 April 2016, 19:00–20:00, in the lecture rooms of the congress centre. Applications need the prior approval by the programme committee chair. Upon acceptance, the respective meeting will appear in the townhall meetings programme as a regular session."
Timeline
- Application at EGU: 205-12: Registration is open. Reservation based on first come / first served basis.
- Funding request at OSGeo BOard: next board meeting (when ?)
- Catering: not later than early March 2016
- Event layoout / Speakers: "before the event" (preferably not last minute)
- Interfaces: Synchronisation with session conveners, training course hosts, etc needed
- Marketing activities (Poster/flyer production, invites, etc): before March 2016
- Content for official EGU poster (to be produced by Copernicus (conference organizers)): to be announced.
- Blog entries as requested by Board: tbd
Volunteers
- Planning & Preparation-Team:
- Peter Loewe
- [your name here]
Next steps
- update this page / outline of committee
- [ACHIEVED] create mailing list (ticket)
- [ACHIEVED] draft email request to send to the OSGeo Board to create a new committee (preferably before next Board meeting on 13 August)
- Schedule a telco regarding EGU 2016 planning