[FOSS4G2017] Another (possibly) fun idea

[Michael Terner]

We are *definitely* open minded to fun, novel, interesting and compelling
additions to the program. Please keep the ideas coming. A couple of notes:

   1. I'll take some credit for the "Iron Mapper" idea as I saw it at the
   Utah Geographic Information Council show this year (and last) where they
   call it "Iron Cartographer" and mentioned it to Guido. Very interesting for
   me to learn that Kristen from Cornell had independently seen it. I know UT
   has been doing it a long time, but not sure if it predates 2012? The FOSS4G
   twist would be running it on QGIS (as UT did it with ArcGIS).
   2. Love a format for "Point / Counterpoint" on topics of interest. At
   Bonn there were interesting back-to-back talks by Vlad Agofonkin and Ivan
   Sanchez on vector tiles and "what the trend means" that had the same
   effect: two bright minds with different perspectives (although there was no
   back-and-forth).
   3. One other idea that someone suggested to me in Bonn (and I'm
   forgetting the name of the person) was reviving performance benchmark
   challenges. I believe they said that MapServer and GeoServer used to be
   lined up next to one another to see relative performance in a formal
   setting. Would some of this nature still be relevant in todays ecosystem?
   What software tools would be tested? What performance metrics?

We will make sure these are brought into the program committee discussion...

Thanks again..

MT

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> There was a great unplanned debate at a FOSS4G Europe between Ivan and
> Peter Baumann on stage, on a thorny issue, but after they hugged, and it
> was fascinating to hear and see, the passion, the knowledge, it was exactly
> what the industry was wondering at the time, really on topic.  I can think
> of some great thorny issues, that would definitely be entertaining to
> hear.  Getting the 2 right people might be tricky though.  But I agree with
> you, as someone who's been sitting on the panel and also sitting in the
> audience for panels, as I'm sure Paul you too have done both, that normal
> panels are quite boring.  So I like your thinking!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2016-09-15 2:47 PM, Paul Wickman wrote:
>
>> In light of getting more “fun” events going, what do folks think about
>> the idea of a friendly debate between two folks on some particularly
>> thorny issue in GIS?  I’m thinking of something along the lines of the
>> NPR show, “intelligence squared
>> <http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/about-iq2>”   This could be set up
>> as a twist on the longer panel sessions.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Paul
>>
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