[mapserver-users] FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts
The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and nationalities. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong Open Geospatial theme to them. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical presentations. In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular interest are: * Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience? * Business Case: Have you had to sell the Open Source concept within your organisation? How did you present the concept to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case? What hurdles did you encounter and how did you surmount them? * Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners of the globe? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you could describe? * Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues. * Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year. For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/ The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney. [edit] FOSS4G 2009 Highlights The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP): FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world. FOSS4G Live DVD: LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc Installfest: The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EE PC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day. Workshops and Tutorials: Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days. Presentations: The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today. Demo Theatre: During lunch and coffee breaks the demonstration theatre will be showcasing live software. These short demonstrations from sponsors, open source projects and the user
[mapserver-users] FOSS4G Workshop and Tutorial Submission deadline extended until Mar 9
Sydney, Australia. 2 March 2009. In response to requests from presenters, the deadline for the FOSS4G 2009 workshop and tutorial abstract submissions has been extended by one week, to Monday 9 March 2009. If you are considering submitting a workshop, please notify your intent by emailing the Workshop/Tutorial coordinator, Mark Leslie m a r k . l e s l i e AT l i s a s o f t . c o m About FOSS4G FOSS4G, held 20-23 October 2009 in Sydney, Australia, is the international gathering of tribes for open source geospatial communities. The theme for the FOSS4G 2009 conference will be User Driven. Users and developers are encouraged present their latest projects and software to demonstrate the power of Open Source for system integration through a series of workshop sessions and tutorial presentations. Session participants should expect to see presentations on both geospatial open source and propriety software integration along with pure open source solutions. Workshops Workshops are expected to be a hands-on experience with participants following along with the instructor, working directly with the application under discussion. All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers (two students sharing one system) to support this vision. Workshop computers will pre-installed with a basic image containing standard packages running in a Windows XP environment. A projector will be provided for each computer room for use within a workshop. Instructors will need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the Conference Organising Committee if required. Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop. Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs etc. Due to the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop, instructors will receive a single complementary registration to the conference for delivering a workshop. All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics: * Practical Introduction to * Integrating Open Source * Spatial Data Privacy and Security Tutorials Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with computers, however presenters may optionally make use of delegate laptops and the FOSS4G LiveDVD. At least 80% of delegates are expected to be carrying a laptop and FOSS4G LiveDVDs will be given to all delegates. Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials. Any hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description. Presenters making use of the Live DVD or Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) will be expected to contribute to testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is properly installed. To discuss your requirements for LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/. All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics: * Practical introductions * Interoperability * Spatial data accuracy * Spatial data privacy * Spatial data security * System implementation * Data migration Submission instructions and templates are available at http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/and http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/. The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 9, 2009 ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
[mapserver-users] Re: [Foss4g2009] Integration Showcase Machine 1
I'm looking for some feedback on the requirements of our first machine for the FOSS4G 2009 integration showcase. We are planning on having this up and running early next month as a first kick at the cat. Can any comment on the proposed requirements below? Mark Leslie Geospatial Software Architect LISAsoft - Ph: +61 2 8570 5000 Fax: +61 2 8570 5099 Mob: +61 Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf 19-21 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 - LISAsoft is part of the A2end Group of Companies http://www.ardec.com.au http://www.lisasoft.com http://www.terrapages.com Jody Garnett wrote: Good Afternoon, Mark and myself are going to try and set up the first integration showcase machine; as I would like to have a sample server to point people to when the call for workshops goes out early next month. Sticking with what we are comfortable with this machine will be set up with MapServer/GeoServer/PostGIS and such sample data as people actually donate in time (I am hoping for a range of raster and vector data). So the question is How is this for machine specifications (based on this I am going to go and try and round up the hardware). - 512 G Disk RAID 0 - 4 gigs ram - 2 cpu (2 core each) We can go bounce this off the mapserver, geoserver, postgis developer lists but I though I would start here. Jody ___ Foss4g2009 mailing list foss4g2...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009 ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
