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<p>Hello FOSS4G Boston team,</p>
<p>In today's OSGeo-Live weekly meeting we discussed preparing an
OSGeo-Live workshop to be initially used for FOSS4G 2017, but
which would then be a useful resource for future OSGeo related
training.</p>
<p>We'd like to open a discussion with FOSS4G organizers about the
creation, content, and presentation of this workshop.</p>
<p>Our OSGeo-Live community live all around the world, and many of
us who are interested in helping with content creation might/will
not be able to make the conference in order to present. So we
would like to like to put feelers out to determine if we can find
some local people to help out with the presentation.</p>
<p>It has been noticed that the BostonGIS community have done an
excellent job already in creating OSGeo tutorial material,
available at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bostongis.com/">http://www.bostongis.com/</a> Who was involved in
creating this material? Would there be members of the BostonGIS or
Boston FOSS4G community interested in helping be part of an
OSGeo-Live workshop team?</p>
<p>In creating and presenting material, I'm hopeful that we can draw
upon an OSGeo community leader (or 2) from each project included.
This should increase the value of the presentation and spread the
effort of creation. (On the downside, it would increase the number
of presenters in the room).</p>
<p>With regards to the structure of the OSGeo-Live workshop:</p>
<p>Target Audience:</p>
<p>* We suggest that the target audience should be new users to
OSGeo. There would be no prior assumed knowledge or technical
expertise so could be attended by a non-GIS techie, or a manager,
or a sales person. The aim would be to introduce attendees to the
breadth of Open Source GIS available, and get some hands on
feeling for what these applications look like.</p>
<p>Content:<br>
</p>
<p>* 4 hours won't be sufficient time to cover all 50 OSGeo-Live
projects in depth, so we will need to be selective. I'd expect we
would base the workshop on something similar to:<br>
</p>
<p>0:00 - 0:10 Introduction<br>
</p>
<p>0:10 - 0:20 Set up OSGeo-Live on everyone's laptop. (Instructors
walking around the room helping, possibly spilling into next
presentation)<br>
</p>
<p>0:20 - 1:00 Overview of all 50 applications in OSGeo-Live, based
on OSGeo-Live presentation:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html</a></p>
<p>1:00 - 3:30 Look at a subset of main applications in depth. About
20 to 30 mins for 6 to 8 applications. Base on existing
Quickstarts. Covering:<br>
</p>
<p>* Database setup (PostGIS?)</p>
<p>* Web Service setup (GeoServer? GeoNode?)</p>
<p>* Desktop use case (QGIS?)</p>
<p>* Browser application(s) (OpenLayers? Cesium?)</p>
<p>* Possibly also cover free data sources such as Open Street Map<br>
</p>
<p>3:30 - 4:00 Buffer time for questions, delays, coffee break.<br>
</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>So questions for the Boston team:</p>
<p>a. Is this concept in line with Boston's vision for workshops?</p>
<p>b. Is there anyone interested in getting involved in the above?<br>
</p>
Warm regards,<br>
Cameron<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/01/2017 9:15 AM, Chris Barnett
wrote:<br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/</a>
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<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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<div class="">Workshop subcommittee</div>
<div class="">FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC</div>
<div class=""> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://2017.foss4g.org/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/</a></div>
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<div class="">Sr. Geospatial Analyst, Tufts University</div>
<div class="">Somerville, MA, USA</div>
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