<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello OSGeo community,<br class=""><br class="">The workshop subcommittee of the FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC would like to announce that the call for workshop proposals is now officially open! We invite you to submit a proposal to teach a workshop. Here is a link to the workshop page of our website for the submission form and further details: <a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">For those of you who don’t yet know, FOSS4G 2017 will be held in Boston, MA, USA on August 14-19. Please visit the website for conference details : <a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/</a><br class=""><br class=""><u class=""><b class="">In brief:</b></u><br class=""><b class="">Workshop info:</b><br class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Workshops will be held on August 14th and 15th at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in Cambridge, MA</li><li class="">Workshops are scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a limited number of full-day (8 hr.) workshops will be considered</li><li class="">Compensation for a 4 hour workshop is $650, which is the cost of an Early-Bird registration for FOSS4G</li><li class="">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.</li><li class="">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 :<ul class=""><li class="">QGIS/PyQGIS</li><li class="">PostGIS</li><li class="">GeoServer</li><li class="">MapServer</li><li class="">Web Mapping</li><li class="">GRASS GIS</li><li class="">GDAL/OGR CLI Tools</li><li class="">pgRouting</li><li class="">Using OSGeoLive</li><li class="">GeoPython</li><li class="">GvSig</li><li class="">Aerial Mapping and Point Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry</li><li class="">Using open source GIS in a cloud environment</li></ul></li></ul><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Important Dates:<br class=""></b>Call for Workshops Closed: March 13, 2017<br class="">Workshop Selections Announced: March 20, 2017<br class="">Detailed Workshop Program: April 3, 2017<br class="">Workshops Take Place at Harvard: August 14/15, 2017<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:chrissbarnett@gmail.com" class="">chrissbarnett@gmail.com</a> with any questions that you may have, and stay tuned for the FOSS4G call for presentations, which will be opening shortly!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Chris Barnett</div><div class="">---------------------------------</div><div class="">Workshop subcommittee</div><div class="">FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC</div><div class=""> <a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/</a></div><div class="">---------------------------------</div><div class="">Sr. Geospatial Analyst, Tufts University</div><div class="">Somerville, MA, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>