[Ottawa_users] SFD & GIS-Day. Deadlines for abstracts

[Fabien Ancelin]

@Christy *"Always aim for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the
stars.". *It doesn't hurt to try :).

I agree with you, GIS-Day is the top priority. If we have to ask people to
volunteer their time, energy and experience on only one event, it should be
GIS-Day. And the organization of this event seem to be pretty well engaged.

I still think SFD could be cool provided we have a good base of people
involved in it. I understand it requires an additional amount of time and
effort from the members of OSGeo Ottawa and in the end, it is our
motivation as a group that matters. If there isn't enough people
interested, then it is no longer really an event from the OSGeo Local
Chapter of Ottawa.

I will wait and see until tonight to have a clear view of the situation.
Javed has done a lot of work in terms of spreading the word, so we will see
if it leads somewhere.

Cheers




2013/8/7 Christy Nieman <cnieman at dmsolutions.ca>

>  Hi Fabien,
>
> This is why I tried to convince you guys were dreaming a little big :)
>
> It's all great to think about doing events like this in theory, but in
> practice it's a lot to expect from a little group like ours.  I would
> suggest we just try to have a presence at GIS day, and maybe do a little
> intro to FOSS/FOSS4G workshop in the GIS lab.
>
> I'm not sure what my availability is going to be like, but I'll help if I
> can.
>
> Christy
>
>
>
> On 08/07/2013 09:31 AM, Fabien Ancelin wrote:
>
>  Greetings Everyone.
>
>  This a friendly reminder that the deadline for the abstracts pertaining
> to SFD is tonight. We are running really low on presentations right now
> (only 2 abstracts for SFD) and we need presentations to make that event
> happen.
>
>  If anyone feels up to giving some time and energy for SFD, you have
> until today, 11:59 PM. Based on the number of people submitting abstracts,
> we will have an idea of how we will organize this event.
>
>  If we don't have more, maybe we will consider focusing on the GIS-Day
> instead. That will need to be a collective decision.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>
>
>
> 2013/7/28 Fabien Ancelin <fabien.ancelin at gmail.com>
>
>>  Hello folks,
>>
>>  Time is running fast, and the involvement of the OSGeo Local Chapter in
>> the Software Freedom Day and GIS Day is becoming more and more imminent. So
>> I think it is time to set deadlines for abstracts.
>>
>>    - SFD is in 1 month. In order to make sure we are all ready and
>>    engaged into that event, I would like to set the deadline for *Wednesday,
>>    August 7 at 11:59 PM*.
>>    - GIS-Day is further away in time, but Scott has a meeting related to
>>    the organization of this event on August 14. Having abstract will help him
>>    to get us a lab. So I would like to set the deadline to *Monday,
>>    August 12, 11:59 PM*.
>>
>> The abstract is something really simple, you will find below the
>> abstracts Javed sent to me as an example.
>>
>>
>>  *Javed's Abstract for Optiks :*
>>
>> *Ball Aerospace developed Opticks in December 2007 as a Free and Open
>> Source Software (FOSS) project that allows remote sensing TDW Data Analyst
>> to gain practical knowledge and develop image processing skills in many of
>> the digital image processing functions. Opticks provides capability in
>> areas such as: image enhancement, spectral signature processing,
>> multispectral, hyperspectral and Synthetic Aperture RADAR image analysis.
>> Optick is an extensible RSI analysis desktop application. The application
>> and extensions are written in C ++ and licensed under Lesser General Public
>> License (LGPL). **Opticks is free to use, distribute and modify. The
>> LGPL license ensures that once you download Opticks, that version always
>> stays free and open-source. Application of Opticks, as part of TDW FOSS
>> GeoStack, for Mineral Explorations will be discussed.*
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you have any issue, comment, or problem with the abstract.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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