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    <p>Chris,</p>
    <p>I'm sharing your email with the OSGeo-Live email list and will
      start a separate thread, CC discuss and osgeo-live lists, asking
      if anyone has experience taking OSGeo to the cloud.<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/2/17 4:08 am, Chris Barnett wrote:<br>
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      Hi Cameron,
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            <p class="">I agree that we hopefully should be able to find
              people to help create workshop material and then help
              present. We can reach out to our OSGeo-Live community too.</p>
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      <div class="">We talked about this at our meeting last night and
        there was enthusiastic support for the idea. We’re excited to
        help in whatever way we can with an OSGeo-Live workshop!</div>
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            <p class="">With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in
              the cloud, I think that would be an excellent goal to work
              on. We did actually get OSGeo-Live working on one of the
              early cloud platforms (called click2try which is now out
              of business).<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35</a></p>
            <p class="">Would you like to share your ideas about setting
              up a remote desktop? How are you proposing to set this up
              technically? What options do we have to help debug? Is it
              something we can re-use beyond foss4g?</p>
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      <div class="">I’m really just at the phase of ascertaining
        feasibility. My attempt to import the OSGeo Live VM to AWS
        failed because the AWS import process didn’t support Lubuntu. I
        think that I probably can get it to work on other cloud hosts,
        but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. For remote access to the
        desktop I’ve been using xrdp and tigervnc. This also looks like
        an interesting option: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/" class="">http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/</a>,
        as it allows remote access via the browser.</div>
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      <div class="">I think it would be fantastic if a cloud version
        could be reused beyond FOSS4G. Something like a docker image
        could be a nice solution, as it would be portable across many
        cloud providers and could also be installed locally. </div>
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            <p class="">Is your foss4g committee meeting in person or
              virtual? If virtual, some of the OSGeo-Live team might be
              able to join. Alternatively, you might wish to join the
              OSGeo-Live weekly meeting, Monday 2:30pm in Boston:</p>
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          <p class="">I’ll try to make the meeting on Monday!</p>
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          <div class="">Thanks,</div>
          <div class="">Chris</div>
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            <div class="">On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Cameron Shorter
              <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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              wrote:</div>
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                <p class="">Hi Chris, Regina others,</p>
                <p class="">I agree that we hopefully should be able to
                  find people to help create workshop material and then
                  help present. We can reach out to our OSGeo-Live
                  community too.<br class="">
                </p>
                <p class="">With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working
                  in the cloud, I think that would be an excellent goal
                  to work on. We did actually get OSGeo-Live working on
                  one of the early cloud platforms (called click2try
                  which is now out of business). <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35</a></p>
                <p class="">Would you like to share your ideas about
                  setting up a remote desktop? How are you proposing to
                  set this up technically? What options do we have to
                  help debug? Is it something we can re-use beyond
                  foss4g?<br class="">
                </p>
                <p class="">Is your foss4g committee meeting in person
                  or virtual? If virtual, some of the OSGeo-Live team
                  might be able to join. Alternatively, you might wish
                  to join the OSGeo-Live weekly meeting, Monday 2:30pm
                  in Boston:</p>
                <p class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                    href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us</a></p>
                <p class="">Warm regards, Cameron<br class="">
                </p>
                <br class="">
                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/2/17 2:38 am, Chris
                  Barnett wrote:<br class="">
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                  Hi Cameron,
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                  <div class="">We’ll be sure to discuss this at our
                    workshop committee meeting this evening. My sense is
                    that it is perfectly in line with our vision for
                    workshops and that most likely we can find folks to
                    fill in the very few gaps that Regina (who is on our
                    committee) is not confident about.</div>
                  <div class=""><br class="">
                  </div>
                  <div class="">I’d also like to chat with someone from
                    the OSGeo-Live community about OSGeo-Live resources.
                    OSGeo-Live USB sticks will be available to workshop
                    participants, but we’d also like to make cloud-based
                    instances available via remote desktop. I’ve run
                    into a couple of technical issues with this and
                    think it would be very useful to draw on your
                    collective knowledge and experience. What would be
                    the best/most appropriate way to go about this?</div>
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                  <div class="">Thanks,</div>
                  <div class="">Chris</div>
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                        <div class="">On Jan 30, 2017, at 6:51 PM,
                          Regina Obe <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us" class="">lr@pcorp.us</a>>
                          wrote:</div>
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                                125);" class="">Cameron,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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                                125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
                            <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;
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                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
                                Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73,
                                125);" class="">I'd be happy to help out
                                with the PostGIS and free data sources,
                                and possibly QGIS and OpenLayers.  Rest
                                of the items I feel less confident
                                training on.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
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                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
                                Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73,
                                125);" class="">I do like the idea of a
                                splash workshop like this, especially
                                for would-be trainers who are interested
                                in using the OSGeo-Live as part of their
                                curriculum.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
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                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
                                Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73,
                                125);" class="">BTW<span
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                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://www.bostongis.com/"
                                style="color: purple; text-decoration:
                                underline;" class="">http://www.bostongis.com/</a><span
                                class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
                                Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73,
                                125);" class="">site was created by me. 
                                Sadly I've been too busy as of late to
                                keep it as up to date as I'd like.<o:p
                                  class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
                                Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73,
                                125);" class="">Thanks,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                125);" class="">Regina<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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                                      class="">From:</span></b><span
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                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cameron
                                    Shorter [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"
                                      style="color: purple;
                                      text-decoration: underline;"
                                      class="">mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>]<span
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                                    <b class="">Sent:</b><span
                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday,
                                    January 30, 2017 5:46 PM<br class="">
                                    <b class="">To:</b><span
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                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:conference-workshops@lists.osgeo.org"
                                      style="color: purple;
                                      text-decoration: underline;"
                                      class="">conference-workshops@lists.osgeo.org</a>;
                                    Regina Obe <<a
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us"
                                      style="color: purple;
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                                      class="">lr@pcorp.us</a>>;
                                    Chris Barnett <<a
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                                      href="mailto:chrissbarnett@gmail.com"
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                                      class="">chrissbarnett@gmail.com</a>><br
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                                    <b class="">Cc:</b><span
                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>live-demo
                                    <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org"
                                      style="color: purple;
                                      text-decoration: underline;"
                                      class="">Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br
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                                    <b class="">Subject:</b><span
                                      class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re:
                                    [Workshops] FOSS4G 2017 Call for
                                    Workshop Proposals - OSGeo-Live<o:p
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                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
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                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Hello
                              FOSS4G Boston team,<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
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                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">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.<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
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                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We'd
                              like to open a discussion with FOSS4G
                              organizers about the creation, content,
                              and presentation of this workshop.<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">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.<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
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                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">It has
                              been noticed that the BostonGIS community
                              have done an excellent job already in
                              creating OSGeo tutorial material,
                              available at:<span
                                class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://www.bostongis.com/"
                                style="color: purple; text-decoration:
                                underline;" class="">http://www.bostongis.com/</a><span
                                class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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?<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">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).<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">With
                              regards to the structure of the OSGeo-Live
                              workshop:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Target
                              Audience:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">* 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.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Content:<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">* 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:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">0:00 -
                              0:10 Introduction<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">0:10 -
                              0:20 Set up OSGeo-Live on everyone's
                              laptop. (Instructors walking around the
                              room helping, possibly spilling into next
                              presentation)<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">0:20 -
                              1:00 Overview of all 50 applications in
                              OSGeo-Live, based on OSGeo-Live
                              presentation:<span
                                class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html"
                                style="color: purple; text-decoration:
                                underline;" class="">http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html</a><o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">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:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">*
                              Database setup (PostGIS?)<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">* Web
                              Service setup (GeoServer? GeoNode?)<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">*
                              Desktop use case (QGIS?)<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">*
                              Browser application(s) (OpenLayers?
                              Cesium?)<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">*
                              Possibly also cover free data sources such
                              as Open Street Map<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">3:30 -
                              4:00 Buffer time for questions, delays,
                              coffee break.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">---<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">So
                              questions for the Boston team:<o:p
                                class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">a. Is
                              this concept in line with Boston's vision
                              for workshops?<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left:
                              0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">b. Is
                              there anyone interested in getting
                              involved in the above?<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in
                              12pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                              'Times New Roman', serif;">Warm regards,<br
                                class="">
                              Cameron<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
                            <div class="">
                              <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On
                                25/01/2017 9:15 AM, Chris Barnett wrote:<o:p
                                  class=""></o:p></div>
                            </div>
                            <blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt;
                              margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite">
                              <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                'Times New Roman', serif;" 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
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/"
                                  style="color: purple; text-decoration:
                                  underline;" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/</a><o:p
                                  class=""></o:p></div>
                              <div class="">
                                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                  0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                  'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p
                                    class=""> </o:p></div>
                                <div class="">
                                  <div class="">
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      0.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif;" 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/"
                                        style="color: purple;
                                        text-decoration: underline;"
                                        class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/</a><br
                                        class="">
                                      <br class="">
                                      <b class=""><u class="">In brief:</u></b><br
                                        class="">
                                      <b class="">Workshop info:</b><o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                      'Times New Roman', serif;
                                      text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span
                                        style="font-size: 10pt;
                                        font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span
                                          class="">·<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">        <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Workshops
                                      will be held on August 14th and
                                      15th at the Harvard Center for
                                      Geographic Analysis (CGA) in
                                      Cambridge, MA<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                      'Times New Roman', serif;
                                      text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span
                                        style="font-size: 10pt;
                                        font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span
                                          class="">·<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">        <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Workshops are
                                      scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a
                                      limited number of full-day (8 hr.)
                                      workshops will be considered<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                      'Times New Roman', serif;
                                      text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span
                                        style="font-size: 10pt;
                                        font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span
                                          class="">·<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">        <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Compensation
                                      for a 4 hour workshop is $650,
                                      which is the cost of an Early-Bird
                                      registration for FOSS4G<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                      'Times New Roman', serif;
                                      text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span
                                        style="font-size: 10pt;
                                        font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span
                                          class="">·<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">        <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>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.<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1in; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
                                      'Times New Roman', serif;
                                      text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span
                                        style="font-size: 10pt;
                                        font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span
                                          class="">·<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">        <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>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 :<span
                                        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>QGIS/PyQGIS<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>PostGIS<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>GeoServer<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>MapServer<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Web Mapping<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>GRASS GIS<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>GDAL/OGR CLI
                                      Tools<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
                                      1.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                      font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                      serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"
                                      class=""><span style="font-size:
                                        10pt; font-family: 'Courier
                                        New';" class=""><span class="">o<span
                                            style="font-style: normal;
                                            font-variant-caps: normal;
                                            font-weight: normal;
                                            font-size: 7pt; line-height:
                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>pgRouting<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt
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                                            style="font-style: normal;
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                                            normal; font-family: 'Times
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Using
                                      OSGeoLive<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                                            style="font-style: normal;
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>GeoPython<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
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                                            style="font-style: normal;
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>GvSig<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
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                                            style="font-style: normal;
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                                            New Roman';" class="">   <span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Aerial
                                      Mapping and Point
                                      Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>Using open
                                      source GIS in a cloud environment<o:p
                                        class=""></o:p></div>
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                                        <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<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></p>
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                                        serif;" class="">Feel free to
                                        contact me at <a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:chrissbarnett@gmail.com"
                                          style="color: purple;
                                          text-decoration: underline;"
                                          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!<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
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                                        serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
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                                        serif;" class="">Thanks,<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
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                                        serif;" class="">Chris Barnett<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
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                                        serif;" class="">---------------------------------<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
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                                        serif;" class="">Workshop
                                        subcommittee<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
                                    <div class="">
                                      <div style="margin: 0in 0in
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                                        font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                        serif;" class="">FOSS4G 2017
                                        Boston LOC<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
                                    <div class="">
                                      <div style="margin: 0in 0in
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                                        font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                        serif;" class=""> <a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="http://2017.foss4g.org/"
                                          style="color: purple;
                                          text-decoration: underline;"
                                          class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/</a><o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
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                                        font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                        serif;" class="">---------------------------------<o:p
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                                        font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                        serif;" class="">Sr. Geospatial
                                        Analyst, Tufts University<o:p
                                          class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
                                    <div class="">
                                      <div style="margin: 0in 0in
                                        0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt;
                                        font-family: 'Times New Roman',
                                        serif;" class="">Somerville, MA,
                                        USA<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    </div>
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M +61 419 142 254</pre>
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M +61 419 142 254</pre>
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