[OpenLayers-Dev] FOSS4G 2009: One week extension to Workshops
and Tutorial abstract submissions
Tim Schaub
tschaub at opengeo.org
Mon Mar 2 14:51:01 EST 2009
Hey-
Roald de Wit wrote:
> Dear OL developers,
>
> In October this year the FOSS4G 2009 conference will be held in Sydney,
> Australia. An email has just been sent out to the OSGeo Discuss list
> about the deadline extension for the Workshops and Tutorial abstract
> submissions (see below).
>
> This week I'll be sending in a submission for both a workshop and a
> tutorial for OpenLayers to make sure we do get a presence. Is anyone
> else submitting?
I have submitted a proposal for an OpenLayers workshop that is a
complete rewrite of last year's workshop. I've got a styling tutorial
prepared as well that I'm planning on submitting later today.
Who will be at the conference and would like to help
> out by (co-)hosting a workshop/tutorial? It might be nice to have 2/3
> people. How was it set up in 2008 and how well did that work?
I'm hoping to be there (pending acceptance of a submission). It was
great to have help from many OpenLayers developers last year. In fact,
I think it was critical to the success of the workshop. My experience
has been that it is typically easier for one or two people to prepare
materials and for as many as possible to help in providing support.
Last year we coordinated the presentation between the folks who prepared
the material (Sebastian Benthall and me) and had help from a dozen or so
devs/users roaming around the room offering individual support. I think
this worked well.
>
> It would be great to use Tim Schaub's workshop from last year [1] and
> build upon that by including examples on how to use the new
> Protocol/Strategy classes in 2.7/2.8. Do the OpenGeo people have any
> plans themselves in this direction? Any other ideas?
>
Yeah, so my plan is to rewrite the exercises - highlighting new
functionality, improving the basics, and making use of nicer data (and
whatever is available as part of the CCIP). We've got a number of
outreach engineers here who will be helping test and improve the
exercises and docs.
I'd be happy to coordinate on co-presenting - and will discuss as much
here as is practical (though I prefer a higher bandwidth medium for this
type of thing).
Tim
> Kind regards,
>
> Roald
>
> [1] http://workshops.opengeo.org/openlayers/intro/doc/en/
>
> [Some minor changes that I made in the email below:
> * s/Climate Change/Climate Challenge/g
> * fixed a date: 'March 9' instead of 'March 2' for the submission deadline
> ]
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009: One week extension to Workshops
> and Tutorial abstract submissions
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:20:17 +1030
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
>
> Sydney, Australia. 2 March 2009.
>
> In response to requests from presenters, the deadline for the FOSS4G
> 2009 workshop and tutorial abstract submissions has been extended by one
> week, to Monday 9 March 2009. If you are considering submitting a
> workshop, please notify your intent by emailing the Workshop/Tutorial
> coordinator, Mark Leslie m a r k . l e s l i e AT l i s a s o f t . c o m
>
>
> About FOSS4G
>
> FOSS4G, held 20-23 October 2009 in Sydney, Australia, 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.
>
>
> Workshops
>
> Workshops are expected to be a hands-on experience with participants
> following along with the instructor, working directly with the
> application under discussion. 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. A projector will
> be provided for each computer room for use within a workshop.
> Instructors will need to discuss pre-installation requirements with the
> Conference Organising Committee if required.
>
> 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. 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.
>
> All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest
> will be shown in the following topics:
>
> * Practical Introduction to ____
> * Integrating Open Source
> * Spatial Data Privacy and Security
>
>
> Tutorials
>
> 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 Climate Challenge Integration
> Plugfest (CCIP) will be expected to contribute to testing pre-releases
> to ensure material and software is properly installed. To discuss your
> requirements for LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee:
> http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/.
>
> All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest
> will be shown in the following topics:
>
> * Practical introductions
> * Interoperability
> * Spatial data accuracy
> * Spatial data privacy
> * Spatial data security
> * System implementation
> * Data migration
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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 9, 2009.
>
>
> 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, EEPC 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.
>
> *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
>
> * 2 Feb 2009, *Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens*
> * 9 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
>
> Press Release at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_6
>
> --
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> Geospatial Systems Architect
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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> http://www.lisasoft.com
>
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> --
> Roald de Wit
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> roald.dewit at lisasoft.com
>
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