[Fwd: [Foss4g2009] Draft Press Release, FOSS4G Call for workshops]

[Doug White]

Cameron,

I few suggestions inline, I have shuffled the workshop and tutorial 
details more towards the top and tried to group them together.
Hope this helps?

> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: [Foss4g2009] Draft Press Release, FOSS4G Call for workshops
> From:    "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Date:    Sat, January 31, 2009 11:12 pm
> To:      "foss4g2009" <foss4g2009 at lists.osgeo.org>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Finished my first cut at the "Call for Workshops" press release, which
> also outlines the highlights for 2009's FOSS4G. I've covered a lot here.
> I'm hoping to get some hefty reviewing on this, including what is being
> proposed as well as how I'm saying it.
>
> Please insert review comments into an email response.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_5
>
> ----
>
>
>   FOSS4G 2009 Call for Workshops and Tutorials
>
> Sydney, Australia. 2 February 2009.
>
> The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is
> pleased to announce a Call for Workshops and Tutorials for the 2009
> conference, being held 20-23 October, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.
>
> FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" for open source
> geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest
> software and projects. 2009's theme of "User Driven" highlights the
> power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems. As such, expect
> to see presentations about Proprietary products integrating with
> Geospatial Open Source, as well as Pure Open Source presentations.
>
>   
FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" for open source 
geospatial communities. The theme for the FOSS4G 2009 conference will be 
"User Driven".  Users and developers are encouraged present their latest 
projects and software to demonstrate the power of Open Source for system 
integration through a series of workshop sessions and tutorial 
presentations.  Session participants should expect to see presentations 
on both geospatial open source and propriety software integration along 
with pure open source solutions.

-- Moved the following paragraphs around a bit...

> Workshop and Tutorial sessions 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. 
>
>   
Workshop Information

Workshop sessions provide a forum for presenters to lead attendees 
through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an 
interactive environment. These half-day (3 hour) sessions will be held 
in computer rooms on the first day of the conference and are expected to 
provide a practical hands-on experience for participants that follow 
along with the instructor. 

All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers (two students sharing 
one system) to support this vision.
Workshop computers will pre-installed with a basic image containing 
standard packages running in a Windows XP environment. Instructors will 
need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the Conference 
Organising Committee if required. _A projector will be provided for each 
computer room for use within a workshop.
_

All workshop and tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular 
interest will be shown in the following topics:

    * Practical Introduction to ____
    * Integrating Geospatial Open Source with ____
    * Geospatial Data
    * Spatial Data Privacy and Security

> Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with
> past experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of
> presentation are required to produce a high quality workshop.
> Additionally you will be expected to develop material for attendees to
> take home with them, such as handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs etc.
>   
Tutorial Information

> Tutorials (90 minutes) will
> be held in standard presentation rooms, running concurrently with
> presentations during the third and fourth days.
> Tutorial rooms *will not* be equipped with computers, however presenters
> may optionally make use of delegate laptops and the FOSS4G LiveDVD.
>
> At least 80% of delegates are expected to be carrying a laptop and
> FOSS4G LiveDVDs will be given to all delegates.
>
> Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials.
>
> Any hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the
> presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description.
> Presenters making use of the Live DVD or CCIP will be expected to
> contribute to testing pre-releases to ensure material and software is
> properly installed.
>
> To discuss your needs for the workshop computer configuration or
> LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee as per
> http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/.
Submission instructions and templates are available at
http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/ and http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/.

The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 2, 2009.

> *The Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP)*: FOSS4G will launch the
> OGC's Climate Change 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 onsite data from the Climate Change 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. The DVD
> will be a great marketing tool, and can be incorporated into Tutorials.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>   

FOSS4G 2009 Highlights
> *Installfest*: After workshops on the first day, delegates will have the
> opportunity to mingle with presenters, test their LiveDVD, and iron out
> any laptop glitches before Tutorials in the following days.
>
> *Presentations*:
>
> *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.)
>
> Sweeteners
>
> Due to the effort involved in producing and presenting a workshop,
> instructors will receive a single complementary registration to the
> conference for delivering a workshop. Presenters for tutorials will not
> be provided complementary registration.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     Upcoming milestones
>
>     * 2 Feb 2009, *Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens*
>     * 2 Mar 2009, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes
>     * 9 Mar 2009, *Call for Abstracts opens*
>     * 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
>     * 13 Apr 2009, *Registration for conference and tutorials 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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