<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">OSGeo Community Leaders, Local Chapters,<br><br>May I remind you that Workshop and Tutorial call for the FOSS4G 2010<br>conference<br>is open until 30 january.<br><br>Please forward this notice to the community members that could be<br>interested in<br>submitting a proposal.<br><br>Many thanks for your help,<br><br>Oscar Fonts.<br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Barcelona, Spain. 15 January 2010.<br><br>The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference<br>is pleased to announce a Call for Workshops and Tutorials for the 2010<br>conference, being held September 6-9, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.<br><br>FOSS4G is the international
"gathering of tribes" for open source<br>geospatial communities. Users and developers are encouraged to present<br>their latest projects and software to demonstrate the power of Open<br>Source for system integration through a series of workshop sessions<br>and tutorial presentations. Session participants should expect to see<br>presentations on both geospatial open source and propriety software<br>integration along with pure open source solutions.<br><br><br>Workshops<br>----------------<br><br>Workshops are expected to be 3 hour hands-on experiences with<br>participants following along with the instructor, working directly<br>with the application under discussion. All workshop rooms will be<br>equipped with computers to support this vision. A projector will be<br>provided for each computer room for use within a workshop. Instructors<br>will need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the Conference<br>Organising Committee if
required.<br><br>Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with<br>past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of<br>presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop.<br>Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to<br>take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs, etc. Due to<br>the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop,<br>instructors will receive a single complementary registration to the<br>conference for delivering a workshop.<br><br>All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest<br>will be shown in:<br><br> * Practical Introduction to FOSS4G software<br> * Integrating Open Source<br> * Spatial Data Infrastructure<br><br><br>Tutorials<br>------------<br><br>Tutorials are 90 minute sessions during the regular presentations<br>portion of the conference. Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with<br>computers. However,
presenters may make use of delegate laptops and<br>the FOSS4G LiveDVD.<br><br>Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials.<br><br>Any hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the<br>presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description.<br>Presenters making use of the LiveDVD will be expected to contribute to<br>testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is properly<br>installed. To discuss your requirements for LiveDVD, please contact<br>the LiveDVD community:<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us</a>.<br><br>All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest<br>will be shown in the following topics:<br><br> * Practical Introductions<br> * Interoperability<br> * Integration<br> * Performance tuning<br> * SDI services<br> * Mobile/phone applications<br><br><br>Application
form<br>-----------------------<br><br>Follow this link to submit your proposals:<br><a href="http://intranet.pacifico-meetings.com:8081/abscoweb/Inicio.iface?id=14" target="_blank">http://intranet.pacifico-meetings.com:8081/abscoweb/Inicio.iface?id=14</a><br>Please add a 300 word abstract, in plain text format (pasting a text<br>with style markup could make the process fail).<br><br>The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is January 30.<br><br><br>FOSS4G 2010 Highlights<br>------------------------------------<br><br>Workshops and Tutorials: Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to<br>lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other<br>topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours)<br>will be held in computer rooms on September 6 (afternoon session) and<br>7 (morning session). Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard<br>presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations on
7-9<br>September.<br><br>Presentations: The meat of the conference are it's presentations.<br>Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international<br>experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics<br>in the industry today.<br><br>Academic Track: The academic sessions, with paper publications and<br>poster presentations, aims at bringing together researchers,<br>developers, users and practitioners carrying out research and<br>development in the geospatial and the free and open source fields and<br>willing to share original and recent research developments and<br>experiences. The academic track will act as an inventory of current<br>research topics, with the main objective of promoting cooperative<br>research between OSGeo developers and the academia.<br><br>FOSS4G Live DVD: LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and<br>including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all<br>delegates. Users can boot a
Live DVD on their computer and trial the<br>software without installing or effecting the existing system.<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br><br>Installfest: The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to<br>meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on<br>their laptops, netbooks or any other system they care to bring in.<br>Community members will assist with any troubles and provide help and<br>insight into the software.<br><br>Birds of a Feather: Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised<br>meetings between like minded groups. Some prominent community<br>initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.<br><br>Code Sprint: The day after the conference is reserved for the Hackers'<br>Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of<br>bandwidth, plugs and coffee. :)<br><br><br>Upcoming
milestones<br>-------------------------------<br><br>15 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens<br>30 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes<br>1 Feb 2010, Call for Abstracts opens<br>16 Feb 2010, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials<br>22 Feb 2010, Registration for workshop and tutorials opens<br>1 May 2010, Abstract submission deadline<br>1 Jun 2010, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks<br>15 Jun 2010, Author/Early registration deadline<br>Aug 2010, Completed program available<br>6-7 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Workshops<br>7-9 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials<br>10 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Code Sprint<br><br><br>Please visit our site to subscribe and find more information about<br>this conference:<br><a href="http://2010.foss4g.org" target="_blank">http://2010.foss4g.org</a><br><br>Or contact Conference Chair for details about this announcement:<br>Lorenzo Becchi E-mail: <a ymailto="mailto:lbecchi@osgeo.org"
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