I'm putting the finishing touches on my abstract right now and was
thinking about this topic again.
I think there's plenty of time to still organize a session as long as we
know of at least 4 papers to include in the session and someone wants to
volunteer to chair the session. All we need to do is email Oscar Larson
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] What he'll probably tell us to do is make sure that
everyone who is part of the session(s) puts something like "Open Source
Geospatial" in their keywords so it's easy to pick out and if we can
pull together all the authors on our end and give them a list it
probably wouldn't hurt.
The key is to make sure we get abstracts in. Note, you can still make
minor edits to your abstract after submission but the deadline is this
Wednesday, Oct 31.
On other conference planning items I suggest that someone who is
authorized to speak for OSGeo contact Oscar Larson and sign us up for a
booth. I'll be there to table and hopefully will bring some other new
converts to FOSS with me from my university.
What do you guys think about trying to organize a workshop on something
like: Introduction to QGIS, or Introduction to GIS using QGIS(How to
teach an intro course in GIS with QGIS) based on some of the course
materials being uploaded by various members?
Alex Mandel
Helena Mitasova wrote:
Allan,
I am planning to submit a paper (and I will check with others in the
growing OSGeo community here in Triangle who may be planning to go too)
- I think an organized session (or two) would be great if there is still
time to propose it and I can certainly help with the booth.
Also I am wondering about getting some of the Google SOC students there -
those who did not get a chance to be in Victoria - maybe Google could
support their travel?
We had two very nice projects that would fit very well with this
conference.
Helena
Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
Raleigh NC 27695
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/
On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:
Chris Schmidt is starting up OSGeo Boston, and this would be a great
project for us to do. We're having our first meeting tonight, we can
put it on the agenda!
Allan
On Oct 17, 2007, at 13:30 , Alex Mandel wrote:
I think this is a great opportunity for OSGeo to reach a wider
audience of general users.
As and organization I think we should consider having a 'vendor'
booth in the exhibit hall, running a workshop, and maybe an organized
session.
I'll volunteer to help with whatever we pick to do.
The meeting is April 15-19 2008 in Boston, but paper submission are
due by the end of this month. Note, they make you pay for the
conference before you submit because you are guaranteed to talk(as
far as I can tell).
Alex
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Call for Papers
2008 Annual Meeting of the AAG
The AAG Annual Meeting accepts all submitted abstracts for
presentation. If you have any questions about these guidelines
please direct them to Oscar Larson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abstracts must be submitted online at www.aag.org/annualmeeting
between August 1, 2007, and October 31, 2007.
* Presentations
* Abstracts
* Organized Sessions
* Program Committee Organized Sessions
* Requirements for Participation
* Enrichment Funds
* Workshops & Field Trips
* Disclaimer
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http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm
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