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Cameron,<br>
<br>
I few suggestions inline, I have shuffled the workshop and tutorial
details more towards the top and tried to group them together.<br>
Hope this helps?<br>
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<pre wrap="">---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [Foss4g2009] Draft Press Release, FOSS4G Call for workshops
From: "Cameron Shorter" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"><cameron.shorter@gmail.com></a>
Date: Sat, January 31, 2009 11:12 pm
To: "foss4g2009" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:foss4g2009@lists.osgeo.org"><foss4g2009@lists.osgeo.org></a>
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Finished my first cut at the "Call for Workshops" press release, which
also outlines the highlights for 2009's FOSS4G. I've covered a lot here.
I'm hoping to get some hefty reviewing on this, including what is being
proposed as well as how I'm saying it.
Please insert review comments into an email response.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_5">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_5</a>
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FOSS4G 2009 Call for Workshops and Tutorials
Sydney, Australia. 2 February 2009.
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is
pleased to announce a Call for Workshops and Tutorials for the 2009
conference, being held 20-23 October, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.
FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" for open source
geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest
software and projects. 2009's theme of "User Driven" highlights the
power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems. As such, expect
to see presentations about Proprietary products integrating with
Geospatial Open Source, as well as Pure Open Source presentations.
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FOSS4G 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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Workshop and Tutorial sessions 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.
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Workshop Information<br>
<br>
Workshop sessions provide a forum for presenters to lead attendees
through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an
interactive environment. These half-day (3 hour) sessions will be held
in computer rooms on the first day of the conference and are expected
to provide a practical hands-on experience for participants that follow
along with the instructor. <br>
<br>
<div align="justify">All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers
(two students sharing one system) to support this vision.<br>
Workshop computers will pre-installed with a basic image containing
standard packages running in a Windows XP environment. Instructors will
need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the Conference
Organising Committee if required. <u>A projector will be provided for
each computer room for use within a workshop.<br>
</u></div>
<br>
All workshop and tutorial submissions will be considered, but
particular interest will be shown in the following topics:<br>
<pre wrap=""> * Practical Introduction to ____
* Integrating Geospatial Open Source with ____
* Geospatial Data
* Spatial Data Privacy and Security</pre>
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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.
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<pre wrap="">
Tutorial Information</pre>
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<pre wrap="">Tutorials (90 minutes) will
be held in standard presentation rooms, running concurrently with
presentations during the third and fourth days.</pre>
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<pre wrap="">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 CCIP will be expected to
contribute to testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is
properly installed.
To discuss your needs for the workshop computer configuration or
LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee as per
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/">http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/</a>.</pre>
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<pre wrap="">Submission instructions and templates are available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/">http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/</a> and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/">http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/</a>.
The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 2, 2009.</pre>
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<pre wrap="">*The Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP)*: FOSS4G will launch the
OGC's Climate Change 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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome">http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome</a>
Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios
and onsite data from the Climate Change 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.
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<pre wrap="">*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. The DVD
will be a great marketing tool, and can be incorporated into Tutorials.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a>
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<br>
FOSS4G 2009 Highlights
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<pre wrap="">*Installfest*: After workshops on the first day, delegates will have the
opportunity to mingle with presenters, test their LiveDVD, and iron out
any laptop glitches before Tutorials in the following days.
*Presentations*:
*Birds of a Feather*: Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised
meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community
initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.
*Code Sprint*: The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers'
Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of
bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but
we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any
differently.)
Sweeteners
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. Presenters for tutorials will not
be provided complementary registration.
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Upcoming milestones
* 2 Feb 2009, *Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens*
* 2 Mar 2009, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes
* 9 Mar 2009, *Call for Abstracts opens*
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 13 Apr 2009, *Registration for conference and tutorials opens*
* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, *Author/Early registration deadline*
* 14 Sep 2009, *Completed program available on the wiki*
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint
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For information about this announcement, contact:
FOSS4G Organising Committee:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us</a>
or,
Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial
Systems Architect at LISAsoft
tel +61-8570-5050
c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m
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