As a member of the workshops committee for FOSS4G 2017, I encourage you to submit a proposal to teach a workshop. For those of you who don’t yet know, FOSS4G 2017 will be held in Boston, MA on August 14-19. Please visit the website for conference details : http://2017.foss4g.org/
Workshop info: • Workshops will be held on August 14th and 15th at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in Cambridge, MA • Workshops are scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a limited number of full-day (8 hr.) workshops will be considered • Compensation for a 4 hour workshop is $650, which is the cost of an Early-Bird registration for FOSS4G • Workshops will be BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for attendees. FOSS4G will provide bootable OSGeo Live USB sticks and remote desktop access to cloud-hosted machines. • In the past, workshops have included topics related to the following, but the committee is open to other topics that are relevant to the FOSS4G community and will generate interest : o QGIS/PyQGIS o PostGIS o GeoServer o MapServer o Web Mapping o GRASS GIS o GDAL/OGR CLI Tools o pgRouting o Using OSGeoLive o GeoPython o GvSig o Aerial Mapping and Point Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry o Using open source GIS in a cloud environment Important Dates: Call for Workshops Closed: March 13, 2017 Workshop Selections Announced: March 20, 2017 Detailed Workshop Program: April 3, 2017 Workshops Take Place at Harvard: August 14/15, 2017 Here is a link to the workshop page for the submission form and further details: http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/ Feel free to contact me for any questions that you may have, and stay tuned for the FOSS4G call for presentations, which will be opening shortly! Thanks, Regina Obe [email protected] PostGIS PSC member FOSS4G 2017 committee member _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
