FOSS4G, plans (So am I just out of the loop ...)

[Jody Garnett]

Hi,

I went on a little search spree to see what resources there were around 
to help get set up for a presence at FOSS4G. I did find an open office 
slide show template (which someone kindly ported to power point for me). 
We are starting to marshal some of the java projects together for BOF 
sessions and the like, but we have been doing this in IRC meetings and 
on the various developer lists.

Is there a need/wish to coordinate a bit, do we have any theme or point 
we are trying to make this year? Or are we still at the "here we are" 
stage?  I imagine this discussion should go to the viscom mailing list, 
but I figure that if I went there others in the same boat as me would 
remain out of the loop.

So here are some of the ideas I have picked up:
- A coordinate strike at demo-fest, showing interoperability through 
standards
- GeoTools is 10 years old, Birthday BOF
- OSGEO Template, providing common LnF for presentations by OSGEO Projects

And some that I am not sure will make it in time:
- Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile
- Countless breakout meetings about interesting topics
- Timed release of GeoTools 2.3 & GeoServer 1.4.1, and GeoServer+WCS

(It would be kind of fun to see a couple projects taking on the tiling 
WMS concept, maybe chat over beers and see which implementation we like)
It would be really nice to gather up some of the projects on a CD, while 
I do not think we are a sponsor (and cannot hand out a lot of stuff from 
a booth), we may
be able to get away with handing out a CD during presentations (perhaps 
to people brave enough to ask questions).

So here is the question: is their a loop I am missing, or should we keep 
muddling along with our own plans.
Jody