[fdo-users] FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts

Tue Mar 10 05:57:52 EDT 2009

FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts

The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants
to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software
for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October
20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share
your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals
representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and
nationalities.

Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute
slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions.
Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme
to them. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and
non-technical presentations.

In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular
interest are:

   - Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source
   geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were
   you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience?
   - Business Case: Have you had to sell the Open Source concept within your
   organisation? How did you present the concept to management? How did you
   present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case? What hurdles
   did you encounter and how did you surmount them?
   - Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between
   organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners
   of the globe? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your
   collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or
   the myriad of solutions that only you could describe?
   - Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those
   select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you
   successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues.
   - Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to
   change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much
   requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in
   your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what
   does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year.

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at
http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in
Sydney.
FOSS4G 2009 Highlights

*The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)*: FOSS4G will launch the
OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates
standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary
geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual
machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards
based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and
will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on
client computers.
http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and
on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is
especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is
expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the
outside world.

*FOSS4G Live DVD*: LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and
including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates.
Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without
installing or effecting the existing system.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

*Installfest*: The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet
in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their
laptops, EE PC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members
will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into
the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first
day.

*Workshops and Tutorials*: Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead
attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an
interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in
computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in
standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the
third and fourth days.

*Presentations*: The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing
on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will
discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

*Demo Theatre*: During lunch and coffee breaks the demonstration theatre
will be showcasing live software. These short demonstrations from sponsors,
open source projects and the user community show what is possible with open
source today.

*Birds of a Feather*: Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings
between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in
prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

*Code Sprint*: The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code
Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas
and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to
spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)
Upcoming milestones

   - 9 Mar 2009, *Call for Abstracts opens*
   - 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
   - 13 Apr 2009, *Registration for conference and workshops opens*
   - 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
   - 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
   - 31 Jul 2009, *Author/Early registration deadline*
   - 14 Sep 2009, *Completed program available on the wiki*
   - 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
   - 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
   - 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

Media Sponsors

   - Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au
   - Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/

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For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial
Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m
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