[OSGeo-Discuss] Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

[Alex Mandel]

I'm putting the finishing touches on my abstract right now and was 
thinking about this topic again.

I think there's plenty of time to still organize a session as long as we 
know of at least 4 papers to include in the session and someone wants to 
volunteer to chair the session. All we need to do is email Oscar Larson 
at meeting at aag.org. What he'll probably tell us to do is make sure that 
everyone who is part of the session(s) puts something like "Open Source 
  Geospatial" in their keywords so it's easy to pick out and if we can 
pull together all the authors on our end and give them a list it 
probably wouldn't hurt.

The key is to make sure we get abstracts in. Note, you can still make 
minor edits to your abstract after submission but the deadline is this 
Wednesday, Oct 31.

On other conference planning items I suggest that someone who is 
authorized to speak for OSGeo contact Oscar Larson and sign us up for a 
booth. I'll be there to table and hopefully will bring some other new 
converts to FOSS with me from my university.

What do you guys think about trying to organize a workshop on something 
like: Introduction to QGIS, or Introduction to GIS using QGIS(How to 
teach an intro course in GIS with QGIS) based on some of the course 
materials being uploaded by various members?


Alex Mandel

Helena Mitasova wrote:
> Allan,
> 
> I am planning to submit a paper (and I will check with others in the 
> growing OSGeo community here in Triangle who may be planning to go too) 
> - I think an organized session (or two) would be great if there is still 
> time to propose it and I can certainly help with the booth.
> 
> Also I am wondering about getting some of the Google SOC students there -
> those who did not get a chance to be in Victoria - maybe Google could 
> support their travel?
> We had two very nice projects that would fit very well with this 
> conference.
> 
> Helena
> 
> Helena Mitasova
> Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
> 1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
> Raleigh NC 27695
> http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:
> 
>> Chris Schmidt is starting up OSGeo Boston, and this would be a great 
>> project for us to do. We're having our first meeting tonight, we can 
>> put it on the agenda!
>>
>>     Allan
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2007, at 13:30 , Alex Mandel wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is a great opportunity for OSGeo to reach a wider 
>>> audience of general users.
>>>
>>> As and organization I think we should consider having a 'vendor' 
>>> booth in the exhibit hall, running a workshop, and maybe an organized 
>>> session.
>>> I'll volunteer to help with whatever we pick to do.
>>>
>>> The meeting is April 15-19 2008 in Boston, but paper submission are 
>>> due by the end of this month. Note, they make you pay for the 
>>> conference before you submit because you are guaranteed to talk(as 
>>> far as I can tell).
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Call for Papers
>>> 2008 Annual Meeting of the AAG
>>>
>>> The AAG Annual Meeting accepts all submitted abstracts for 
>>> presentation.  If you have any questions about these guidelines 
>>> please direct them to Oscar Larson at meeting at aag.org.
>>>
>>> Abstracts must be submitted online at www.aag.org/annualmeeting 
>>> between August 1, 2007, and October 31, 2007.
>>>
>>>     * Presentations
>>>     * Abstracts
>>>     * Organized Sessions
>>>     * Program Committee Organized Sessions
>>>     * Requirements for Participation
>>>     * Enrichment Funds
>>>     * Workshops & Field Trips
>>>     * Disclaimer
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>> http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm
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>>
>> --Allan Doyle
>> Director of Technology
>> MIT Museum
>> +1.617.452.2111
>>
>>
>>
>>