[FOSS4G 2010 press release 5 - please promote]
Barcelona, Spain. 26 February 2010.
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference
is pleased to announce this year's Workshops panel.
Workshops are a unique experience to learn about open source software
from the experts in a hands-on environment. Workshops are 3 hour
courses presented in full computer labs, with two attendees per
computer, in the Barcelona School of Computer Science.
We are offering 14 workshops this year, in two sessions, on Monday
afernoon, September 6, and on Tuesday morning, September 7. When
registering, workshop attendees will be asked to choose one workshop
in each session.
Following is a breaf description for each workshop. For more detailed
information and registration, please visit FOSS4G 2010 web page:
http://2010.fos4g.org.
In the Conference web page you will also find the Tutorials panel, to
be held during the conference days, September 7-9, which are included
in the conference fee. And you can take the opportunity to book the
gala dinner tickets too.
Workshops have a high demand, and classroom capacity is limited.
Register soon, dont't miss them!
September 6 Workshops (Monday afternoon, 15-18h)
W-01: Web mapping with GeoServer
Attendees will learn how to load, publish, and share geospatial data
with GeoServer. Discussion will include navigating the GeoServer user
interface, loading and publishing data, OGC web services, and styling
data with SLD. Also showcased will be Styler, a browser-based
graphical style (SLD) editor.
W-02: gvSIG 1.9 user workshop
The main objective of the workshop is to show the new features
included in the last stable version of gvSIG desktop (1.9). Also a
brief introduction on gvsig.org, the main collaborative web portal of
the gvSIG project.
W-03: Setting up an OpenStreetMap rendering toolchain
This workshop will walk the participants through getting raw
OpenStreetMap data, rendering map tiles with Mapnik, and displaying
them with OpenLayers. They will learn how to install and configure a
mimic of the main OpenStreetMap toolchain, using the same
technologies, that can be later customised to render other datasets.
W-04: Introduction to PostGIS
PostGIS is an open source spatial extension to the PostgreSQL open
source enterprise relational database. Spatial databases such as
PostGIS, Oracle Spatial and DB Spatial are used for high-performance
multi-user access to large seamless data sets. If you are managing
large volumes of read/write spatial data, using a spatial database can
improve access speed, ease management overhead and guarantee data
integrity. Built as an object extension to PostgreSQL, PostGIS has
been certified as Simple Features for SQL compliant by the Open
Geospatial Consortium.
W-05: Introduction to the Mapbender geoportal framwework
This workshop gives an in-depth introduction to the software
Mapbender, a managed, web based geoportal framework. Mapbender is
implementing the publish / register, find, bind, execute paradigm for
geospatial data. The focus of the workshop lies on building web
mapping applications with distributed Spatial Data Infrastructure
components and how to manage user access. All this will be done by
using Mapbender's administration interfaces, without the need to
modify any source code.
W-06: Solid web mapping with Python
Covers the Shapely and GeoJSON libraries from the GIS Python Lab. It
shows how to use these libraries together with SQLAlchemy and its GIS
extension, GeoAlchemy, to create HTTP web services in an application
developed with the Pylons web development framework. The workshop then
teaches how to use MapFish to make the development of GIS web services
easier.
W-07: Practical introduction to ZOO, the powerful WPS platform
The ZOO-Project provides a WPS (Web Processing Service) compliant and
developer-friendly framework to easily create and connect OGC
Webservices. During this workshop, participants will install the
ZOO-Kernel and related material on their computers; upon installation
the users will be ready to use and implement WPS 1.1.0 services.
September 7 Workshops (Tuesday morning, 9-12h)
W-08: Getting started with MapServer
This hands-on workshop is intended as an introduction to Web mapping
with the University of Minnesota MapServer. The participants will go
through the process of setting up a MapServer environment which
includes configuring a Web server and creating a MapServer
application.
W-09: Quantum GIS and PostGIS: Solving spatial problems and creating
web-based analysis tools
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a powerful open source GIS desktop application.
It excels at viewing and manipulating a wide variety of GIS data and
services, performing geographic analysis and preparing data for
MapServer and GeoServer applications. QGIS has an extensible plug-in
architecture and now provides comprehensive support for using and
managing PostGIS databases. This workshop/tutorial will give students
