[Workshops] FOSS4G 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals

[Chris Barnett]

Hello OSGeo community,

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: http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/ <http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/>

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 : http://2017.foss4g.org/ <http://2017.foss4g.org/>

In brief:
Workshop info:
Workshops will be held on August 14th and 15th at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in Cambridge, MA
Workshops are scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a limited number of full-day (8 hr.) workshops will be considered
Compensation for a 4 hour workshop is $650, which is the cost of an Early-Bird registration for FOSS4G
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.
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 :
QGIS/PyQGIS
PostGIS
GeoServer
MapServer
Web Mapping
GRASS GIS
GDAL/OGR CLI Tools
pgRouting
Using OSGeoLive
GeoPython
GvSig
Aerial Mapping and Point Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry
Using open source GIS in a cloud environment

Important Dates:
Call for Workshops Closed: March 13, 2017
Workshop Selections Announced: March 20, 2017
Detailed Workshop Program: April 3, 2017
Workshops Take Place at Harvard: August 14/15, 2017

Feel free to contact me at chrissbarnett at gmail.com with any questions that you may have, and stay tuned for the FOSS4G call for presentations, which will be opening shortly!

Thanks,
Chris Barnett
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Workshop subcommittee
FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC
 http://2017.foss4g.org/ <http://2017.foss4g.org/>
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Sr. Geospatial Analyst, Tufts University
Somerville, MA, USA

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