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User:Burnie

2008-09-18T13:32:20Z

Wiki-Burnie:

Burnie Nawn

GIS Manager - Infoquest Business Solutions

Acting GIS Manager - SARCC (on contract)

Member of the FOSS4G 2008 organising committee

GISSA Gauteng member

Contact e-mail:

jbnawn at hotmail dot com

FOSS4G2008 Workshops

2008-06-02T15:05:23Z

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== Introduction ==
The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G2008 Conference Committee.

== FOSS4G Workshop Committee Members ==
* [[User:burnie | Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)]]
* [Gavin Flemming]
* [Graeme McFerren]
* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton (chair)]]
* [[User:Jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]

== Next Committee Meeting ==
The date/time for the next meeting is tentative
* date: 2007/09/05<br>
* time: To be confirmed[]<br>
* meeting will be via [[]]
* Agenda:

== Previous Committee Meetings ==

== List of workshop submissions ==
[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_Workshop_Submissions#NOTE]]

== Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions ==
# meets conference mandate:
## matches with the themes of the conference
## makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"
# submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities
# likelyhood of a quality workshop:
## successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference
## expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter
## any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2006, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences
## demonstrates practical applications
# expected level of interest in the workshop topic

== Scoring ==
The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop.
Two ways to do the scoring:
# Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.
# Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

== Timetable for workshop submissions review process ==

== Workshops Notes ==

'''Note:''' Some of the information below is out of date.

=== Workshop Duration and Scheduling ===

http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/program

and

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2008_Programme

=== Hardware ===

=== Room Availability ===

=== Software Installation ===

=== Other ===

=== Questions for Organising Committee ===
* Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

=== Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note) ===
* overcrowded workshops are bad
* registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
* LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
* grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)
* foss4g2006 workshops wiki : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Foss4g2006_wks
* foss4g2006 workshops rooms : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2006#Rooms
* foss4g2006 number of attendees per workshop : http://www.foss4g2006.org/site/pdf/WksNbOfAttendees.pdf
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

User:Burnie

2008-06-02T15:04:40Z

Wiki-Burnie:

Burnie Nawn

GIS Manager - Infoquest Business Solutions

Acting GIS Manager - SARCC (on contract)

Member of the FOSS4G 200 organising committee

GISSA Gauteng member

Contact e-mail:

jbnawn at hotmail dot com

User:Burnie

2008-06-02T15:04:12Z

Wiki-Burnie: New page: Burnie Nawn GIS Manager - Infoquest Business Solutions Acting GIS Manager - SARCC (on contract) Member of the FOSS4G 200 organising committee GISSA Gauteng member Contact e-mail: jbnawn a...

Burnie Nawn
GIS Manager - Infoquest Business Solutions
Acting GIS Manager - SARCC (on contract)
Member of the FOSS4G 200 organising committee
GISSA Gauteng member

Contact e-mail:
jbnawn at hotmail dot com

FOSS4G2008 Workshops

2008-06-02T15:01:38Z

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FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluations

2008-06-02T15:00:37Z

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= Introduction =

The procedure followed in 2007 is listed below. This process will most likely be used in 2008, and therefore allow invited workshops and lab sessions to become familiar with the process.

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab had an evaluation form. The completed evaluation forms were collected after each Workshop/Lab, and were then scanned to PDF documents (one PDF per Workshop/Lab). You can see an [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The [[FOSS4G2007_Workshop/Lab_Evaluation_Tabulation|Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation]] page explains the process used to tabulate questions 1 through 9 on the evaluation forms.

In the following table, '''Webpage''' is a link to the description for the Workshop/Lab. '''Evaluations''' is a link to the PDF containing the scans of the evaluations. '''Results''' is a 1-page PDF with the tabulation of the results of the evaluations.

In the '''Evaluations''' PDF documents, the pages are in the following order:
* evaluations that contain a response to both questions 10 and 11
* evaluations that contain a response to either question 10 or 11
* evaluations that do not have a response to either question 10 or 11

<table border=1>
<tr>
<th colspan='5'>FOSS4G2007 Workshop/Lab Evaluations</th>
<tr>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Webpage</th>
<th>Evaluations</th>
<th>Results</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-01</td>
<td>GIS for Web Developers</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-01/ W-01 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop01.pdf W-01 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-01 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-02</td>
<td>Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source GIS Stack</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-02/ W-02 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop02.pdf W-02 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-02_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-02 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-03</td>
<td>Mapbender, Orchestrating the Geodata Concert</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-03/ W-03 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop03.pdf W-03 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-03_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-03 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-04</td>
<td>Introduction to PostGIS</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-04/ W-04 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop04.pdf W-04 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-04_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-04 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-05</td>
<td>MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-05/ W-05 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop05.pdf W-05 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-05_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-05 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-06</td>
<td>On-the-Fly Spatial Analysis With PostGIS and Google Earth</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-06/ W-06 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop06.pdf W-06 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-06_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-06 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-07</td>
<td>Introduction to Geospatial Collaboration using GeoServer</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-07/ W-07 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop07.pdf W-07 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-07_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-07 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-08</td>
<td>Developing MapGuide Applications with PHP</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-08/ W-08 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop08.pdf W-08 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-08_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-08 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-09</td>
<td>Getting Started with MapServer</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-09/ W-09 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop09.pdf W-09 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-09_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-09 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-10</td>
<td>A Practical Introduction to Ka-Map</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-10/ W-10 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop10.pdf W-10 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-10_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-10 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-11</td>
<td>GRASS GIS and RDBMS</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-11/ W-11 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop11.pdf W-11 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-11_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-11 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W-12</td>
<td>Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-12/ W-12 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Workshop12.pdf W-12 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshop-12_Evaluation_Results.pdf W-12 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TOTAL</td>
<td>Total for all Workshops</td>
<td> </td>
<td>478</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Workshops_Evaluation_Results_Totals.pdf Workshops Totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-01</td>
<td>Raster Processing and Preparation with GDAL</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-01/ L-01 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab01.pdf L-01 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-01_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-01 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-02</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapBuilder</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-02/ L-02 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab02.pdf L-02 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-02_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-02 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-03</td>
<td>Datums, Coordinate Systems, Map Projections & Datum Transformations</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-03/ L-03 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab03.pdf L-03 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-03_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-03 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-04</td>
<td>Rapid Visualization with the Virtual Terrain Project Software</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-04/ L-04 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab04.pdf L-04 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-04_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-04 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-05</td>
<td>Introduction to FDO and the FDO API</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-05/ L-05 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab05.pdf L-05 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-05_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-05 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-06</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapStorer</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-06/ L-06 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab06.pdf L-06 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-06_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-06 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-07</td>
<td>CartoWeb for Beginners</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-07/ L-07 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab07.pdf L-07 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-07_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-07 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-08</td>
<td>An Introduction to the uDig Open Source Desktop</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-08/ L-08 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab08.pdf L-08 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-08_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-08 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-09</td>
<td>Using the GeoNetwork open source Spatial Data Catalog</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-09/ L-09 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab09.pdf L-09 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-09_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-09 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-10</td>
<td>Defining and Using Custom Cartographic Symbols in MapGuide</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-10/ L-10 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab10.pdf L-10 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-10_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-10 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-11</td>
<td>Protecting OGC Web Services with the 52°North Security System</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-11/ L-11 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab11.pdf L-11 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-11_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-11 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-12</td>
<td>Introduction into OGC's Sensor Web Enablement</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-12/ L-12 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab12.pdf L-12 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-12_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-12 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-13</td>
<td>How to Cope with GeoSpatial – The Pragmatic Intro for the Java Developers</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-13/ L-13 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab13.pdf L-13 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-13_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-13 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-14</td>
<td>Leveraging PostgreSQL with ESRI's ArcGIS system</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-14/ L-14 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab14.pdf L-14 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-14_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-14 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-15</td>
<td>FME as a Two-Way Bridge between Proprietary Systems and Open Source Databases</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-15/ L-15 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab15.pdf L-15 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-15_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-15 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L-16</td>
<td>Deegree iGeoSecurity – Access Control for OGC Web Services</td>
<td>[http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-16/ L-16 page]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/Lab16.pdf L-16 PDF]</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Lab-16_Evaluation_Results.pdf L-16 totals]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TOTAL</td>
<td>Total for all Labs</td>
<td> </td>
<td>300</td>
<td>[http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/results/FOSS4G2007_Labs_Evaluation_Results_Totals.pdf Labs Totals]</td>
<table>

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[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshops

2008-06-02T14:54:05Z

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FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation

2008-06-02T14:52:32Z

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= Introduction =

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab will have an evaluation form. The forms wwill be collected after each Workshop/Lab, and will then scanned to PDF documents (one per Workshop/Lab). You can see 2007's example [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The goal is to tabulate the results for questions 1 through 9 on all the Workshop/Lab Evaluation Forms that will be scanned to PDFs.

This page outlines the steps that (were)and will be used by those involved with tabulating the results from the Workshop/Lab evaluations.

= Results Tabulation =
Follow these steps in order to help with the results tabulation.

1)

Edit the table below and add your name for the Workshop/Lab that you will tabulate (enter "in progress" for the status):
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Evaluations</td>
<td>Processed By</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
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<td>Workshop-01</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-13</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-14</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-15</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-16</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

Below is the process followed in 2007 that will most likely be repeated in 2008. Modifications to forms and processes most likely to take place closer to teh conference in 2008

2)

Download your preferred format (PDF, OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluations Tabulation Form'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/] and print a copy.

3)

Download your preferred format (OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/]

4)

Download the PDF for the Workshop/Lab you are going to tabulate from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/]

5)

* on the printed Tabulation Form, write the Workshop/Lab number for the Title, and the number of pages in the PDF as the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees)
* one PDF page at a time, use the Tabulation Form to record the attendee's evaluation of the Workshop/Lab
* when you have finished recording the evaluations in the PDF on the Tabulation Form, write the total for each cell next to the cell's heading
* check to make sure that for each question on the form, the total of the cells matches the total number of evaluations
* Rules for ambiguous answers:
** if the attendee circled/marked two adjacent options, count the option on the left (e.g. for question #1, if both ''Good'' and ''Fair'' were circled, count it as ''Good'')
** if the attendee wrote an answer in between two adjacent options, count the option on the left
** if the answer cannot be figured out, count it as ''No Answer''
* Tip: do the tabulation in an environment where you won't be interrupted, because losing track of where you are, part way through a page, means having to take time to figure out which questions, and parts of questions, you have tabulated for the current page
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Tabulation_Form_example.pdf|an example of a completed Tabulation Form]] (433KB PDF)

6)

* Once the printed Tabulation Form is completed and checked, make a copy of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' (see Step 3) and name it for the Workshop/Lab that was just tabulated (e.g. ''FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.doc'').
* Edit that document, replacing ''Workshop/Lab number & title'', and filling in the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees).
* Type in the numbers from the Tabulation Form that was completed in Step 5.
* Save the document.
* Edit the corresponding row in the above table (see Step 1) and change the status to "Done".
* Email the Evaluation Results document to the Workshop Committee chair, [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Evaluation_Results_example.pdf|an example of the completed Evaluation Results document]] (340KB PDF) for the Tabulation Form example from Step 6.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation

2008-06-02T14:52:14Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Results Tabulation */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

= Introduction =

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab will have an evaluation form. The forms wwill be collected after each Workshop/Lab, and will then scanned to PDF documents (one per Workshop/Lab). You can see 2007's example [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The goal is to tabulate the results for questions 1 through 9 on all the Workshop/Lab Evaluation Forms that will be scanned to PDFs.

This page outlines the steps that (were)and will be used by those involved with tabulating the results from the Workshop/Lab evaluations.

= Results Tabulation =
Follow these steps in order to help with the results tabulation.

1)

Edit the table below and add your name for the Workshop/Lab that you will tabulate (enter "in progress" for the status):
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Evaluations</td>
<td>Processed By</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-13</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-14</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-15</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-16</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

Below is the process followed in 2007 that will most likely be repeated in 2008. Modifications to forms and processes most likely to take place closer to teh conference in 2008

2)

Download your preferred format (PDF, OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluations Tabulation Form'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/] and print a copy.

3)

Download your preferred format (OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/]

4)

Download the PDF for the Workshop/Lab you are going to tabulate from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/]

5)

* on the printed Tabulation Form, write the Workshop/Lab number for the Title, and the number of pages in the PDF as the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees)
* one PDF page at a time, use the Tabulation Form to record the attendee's evaluation of the Workshop/Lab
* when you have finished recording the evaluations in the PDF on the Tabulation Form, write the total for each cell next to the cell's heading
* check to make sure that for each question on the form, the total of the cells matches the total number of evaluations
* Rules for ambiguous answers:
** if the attendee circled/marked two adjacent options, count the option on the left (e.g. for question #1, if both ''Good'' and ''Fair'' were circled, count it as ''Good'')
** if the attendee wrote an answer in between two adjacent options, count the option on the left
** if the answer cannot be figured out, count it as ''No Answer''
* Tip: do the tabulation in an environment where you won't be interrupted, because losing track of where you are, part way through a page, means having to take time to figure out which questions, and parts of questions, you have tabulated for the current page
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Tabulation_Form_example.pdf|an example of a completed Tabulation Form]] (433KB PDF)

6)

* Once the printed Tabulation Form is completed and checked, make a copy of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' (see Step 3) and name it for the Workshop/Lab that was just tabulated (e.g. ''FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.doc'').
* Edit that document, replacing ''Workshop/Lab number & title'', and filling in the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees).
* Type in the numbers from the Tabulation Form that was completed in Step 5.
* Save the document.
* Edit the corresponding row in the above table (see Step 1) and change the status to "Done".
* Email the Evaluation Results document to the Workshop Committee chair, [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Evaluation_Results_example.pdf|an example of the completed Evaluation Results document]] (340KB PDF) for the Tabulation Form example from Step 6.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation

2008-06-02T14:50:32Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Results Tabulation */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

= Introduction =

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab will have an evaluation form. The forms wwill be collected after each Workshop/Lab, and will then scanned to PDF documents (one per Workshop/Lab). You can see 2007's example [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The goal is to tabulate the results for questions 1 through 9 on all the Workshop/Lab Evaluation Forms that will be scanned to PDFs.

This page outlines the steps that (were)and will be used by those involved with tabulating the results from the Workshop/Lab evaluations.

= Results Tabulation =
Follow these steps in order to help with the results tabulation.

1)

Edit the table below and add your name for the Workshop/Lab that you will tabulate (enter "in progress" for the status):
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Evaluations</td>
<td>Processed By</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-13</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-14</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-15</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-16</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

2)

Download your preferred format (PDF, OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluations Tabulation Form'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/] and print a copy.

3)

Download your preferred format (OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/]

4)

Download the PDF for the Workshop/Lab you are going to tabulate from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/]

5)

* on the printed Tabulation Form, write the Workshop/Lab number for the Title, and the number of pages in the PDF as the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees)
* one PDF page at a time, use the Tabulation Form to record the attendee's evaluation of the Workshop/Lab
* when you have finished recording the evaluations in the PDF on the Tabulation Form, write the total for each cell next to the cell's heading
* check to make sure that for each question on the form, the total of the cells matches the total number of evaluations
* Rules for ambiguous answers:
** if the attendee circled/marked two adjacent options, count the option on the left (e.g. for question #1, if both ''Good'' and ''Fair'' were circled, count it as ''Good'')
** if the attendee wrote an answer in between two adjacent options, count the option on the left
** if the answer cannot be figured out, count it as ''No Answer''
* Tip: do the tabulation in an environment where you won't be interrupted, because losing track of where you are, part way through a page, means having to take time to figure out which questions, and parts of questions, you have tabulated for the current page
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Tabulation_Form_example.pdf|an example of a completed Tabulation Form]] (433KB PDF)

6)

* Once the printed Tabulation Form is completed and checked, make a copy of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' (see Step 3) and name it for the Workshop/Lab that was just tabulated (e.g. ''FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.doc'').
* Edit that document, replacing ''Workshop/Lab number & title'', and filling in the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees).
* Type in the numbers from the Tabulation Form that was completed in Step 5.
* Save the document.
* Edit the corresponding row in the above table (see Step 1) and change the status to "Done".
* Email the Evaluation Results document to the Workshop Committee chair, [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Evaluation_Results_example.pdf|an example of the completed Evaluation Results document]] (340KB PDF) for the Tabulation Form example from Step 6.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation

2008-06-02T14:49:59Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Results Tabulation */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

= Introduction =

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab will have an evaluation form. The forms wwill be collected after each Workshop/Lab, and will then scanned to PDF documents (one per Workshop/Lab). You can see 2007's example [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The goal is to tabulate the results for questions 1 through 9 on all the Workshop/Lab Evaluation Forms that will be scanned to PDFs.

This page outlines the steps that (were)and will be used by those involved with tabulating the results from the Workshop/Lab evaluations.

= Results Tabulation =
Follow these steps in order to help with the results tabulation.

1)

Edit the table below and add your name for the Workshop/Lab that you will tabulate (enter "in progress" for the status):
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Evaluations</td>
<td>Processed By</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-07</td>
<td>60</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-01</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-02</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-03</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-05</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-09</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-10</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-13</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-14</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-15</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-16</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

2)

Download your preferred format (PDF, OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluations Tabulation Form'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/] and print a copy.

3)

Download your preferred format (OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/]

4)

Download the PDF for the Workshop/Lab you are going to tabulate from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/]

5)

* on the printed Tabulation Form, write the Workshop/Lab number for the Title, and the number of pages in the PDF as the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees)
* one PDF page at a time, use the Tabulation Form to record the attendee's evaluation of the Workshop/Lab
* when you have finished recording the evaluations in the PDF on the Tabulation Form, write the total for each cell next to the cell's heading
* check to make sure that for each question on the form, the total of the cells matches the total number of evaluations
* Rules for ambiguous answers:
** if the attendee circled/marked two adjacent options, count the option on the left (e.g. for question #1, if both ''Good'' and ''Fair'' were circled, count it as ''Good'')
** if the attendee wrote an answer in between two adjacent options, count the option on the left
** if the answer cannot be figured out, count it as ''No Answer''
* Tip: do the tabulation in an environment where you won't be interrupted, because losing track of where you are, part way through a page, means having to take time to figure out which questions, and parts of questions, you have tabulated for the current page
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Tabulation_Form_example.pdf|an example of a completed Tabulation Form]] (433KB PDF)

6)

* Once the printed Tabulation Form is completed and checked, make a copy of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' (see Step 3) and name it for the Workshop/Lab that was just tabulated (e.g. ''FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.doc'').
* Edit that document, replacing ''Workshop/Lab number & title'', and filling in the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees).
* Type in the numbers from the Tabulation Form that was completed in Step 5.
* Save the document.
* Edit the corresponding row in the above table (see Step 1) and change the status to "Done".
* Email the Evaluation Results document to the Workshop Committee chair, [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Evaluation_Results_example.pdf|an example of the completed Evaluation Results document]] (340KB PDF) for the Tabulation Form example from Step 6.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop/Lab Evaluation Tabulation

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= Introduction =

In addition to the conference evaluation form received by all conference attendees, each Workshop and Lab will have an evaluation form. The forms wwill be collected after each Workshop/Lab, and will then scanned to PDF documents (one per Workshop/Lab). You can see 2007's example [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop-Lab_Evaluation_Form_example.pdf|example of the evaluation form]] (33KB PDF).

The goal is to tabulate the results for questions 1 through 9 on all the Workshop/Lab Evaluation Forms that will be scanned to PDFs.

This page outlines the steps that (were)and will be used by those involved with tabulating the results from the Workshop/Lab evaluations.

= Results Tabulation =
Follow these steps in order to help with the results tabulation.

1)

Edit the table below and add your name for the Workshop/Lab that you will tabulate (enter "in progress" for the status):
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Evaluations</td>
<td>Processed By</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-01</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-02</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-03</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-04</td>
<td>79</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-05</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-06</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-07</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-08</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-09</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-10</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-11</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workshop-12</td>
<td>27</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-01</td>
<td>34</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-02</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-03</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-04</td>
<td>17</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-05</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-06</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-07</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>Bob Bruce</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-08</td>
<td>34</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-09</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-10</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-11</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-12</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-13</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-14</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-15</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lab-16</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>Dave Patton</td>
<td>Done</td>
</tr>
</table>

2)

Download your preferred format (PDF, OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluations Tabulation Form'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_tabulation_forms/] and print a copy.

3)

Download your preferred format (OpenOffice document, MS Word document) of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/blank_results_forms/]

4)

Download the PDF for the Workshop/Lab you are going to tabulate from [http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/ http://hypersphere.telascience.org/Workshop-Files/evaluations/2007/PDF_scans/]

5)

* on the printed Tabulation Form, write the Workshop/Lab number for the Title, and the number of pages in the PDF as the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees)
* one PDF page at a time, use the Tabulation Form to record the attendee's evaluation of the Workshop/Lab
* when you have finished recording the evaluations in the PDF on the Tabulation Form, write the total for each cell next to the cell's heading
* check to make sure that for each question on the form, the total of the cells matches the total number of evaluations
* Rules for ambiguous answers:
** if the attendee circled/marked two adjacent options, count the option on the left (e.g. for question #1, if both ''Good'' and ''Fair'' were circled, count it as ''Good'')
** if the attendee wrote an answer in between two adjacent options, count the option on the left
** if the answer cannot be figured out, count it as ''No Answer''
* Tip: do the tabulation in an environment where you won't be interrupted, because losing track of where you are, part way through a page, means having to take time to figure out which questions, and parts of questions, you have tabulated for the current page
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Tabulation_Form_example.pdf|an example of a completed Tabulation Form]] (433KB PDF)

6)

* Once the printed Tabulation Form is completed and checked, make a copy of the ''Workshop/Lab Evaluation Results template'' (see Step 3) and name it for the Workshop/Lab that was just tabulated (e.g. ''FOSS4G2007_Workshop-01_Evaluation_Results.doc'').
* Edit that document, replacing ''Workshop/Lab number & title'', and filling in the number of Evaluations (you don't need to fill in Room, Capacity, or Attendees).
* Type in the numbers from the Tabulation Form that was completed in Step 5.
* Save the document.
* Edit the corresponding row in the above table (see Step 1) and change the status to "Done".
* Email the Evaluation Results document to the Workshop Committee chair, [[User:Dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[Media:FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Lab_Evaluation_Results_example.pdf|an example of the completed Evaluation Results document]] (340KB PDF) for the Tabulation Form example from Step 6.

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[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshops

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== Introduction ==
The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G2008 Conference Committee.

== FOSS4G Workshop Committee Members ==
* [[User:Racicot | Aaron Racicot]]
* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton (chair)]]
* [[User:percyd | David Percy]]
* [[User:Jasonbirch | Jason Birch]]
* [[User:Jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:jive | Jody Garnett ]]
* [[User:Pnaciona | Perry Nacionales]]

== Next Committee Meeting ==
The date/time for the next meeting is tentative
* date: 2007/09/05<br>
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=9&day=05&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 10:00AM PDT]<br>
* meeting will be via [[Conference_Call|Conference Call]]
* Agenda:

== Previous Committee Meetings ==
=== 2007/08/28 ===
* no IRC log, as the meeting was via conference call
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Confirm who will be at the conference, and when, and potential roles
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Status updates:
## Instructor updates to list of Application & Utility Software (deadline was 24th)
## Instructor uploads of README files with notes about software install/config (deadline was 24th)
## Instructor uploads of data (deadline was 27th)
## LiveCD/DVD images for testing (deadline is 31st)
## VMs for testing (deadline is 31st)
## master PCs
##* physical
##* software install/config
##* remote access by Workshop Committee
##* remote access by Instructors
# Evaluations
# PC setup checklist for volunteers
# review 'timetable' spreadsheet
# review Computer Information document

=== 2007/08/07 ===
* no IRC log, as the meeting was via conference call
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Instructor Data
#* status of delivery mechanism
#* (tentative) deadline for delivery is August 24th
# Instructor LiveCD/DVD
#* status of delivery mechanism
#* (tentative) deadline for delivery is August 31st
## LiveCD
##* unconfirmed(mentioned in submission):
##** Workshops 02 and 10
##** Labs 03(?) and 12
##* confirmed:
##** none
##** should we get confirmations?
## LiveDVD
##* deadline for letting us know was August 6th
##* confirmed: Workshop-11
# Instructor Virtual Machine
#* status of delivery mechanism
#* (tentative) deadline for delivery is August 24th
#* deadline for letting us know was August 6th
#* confirmed: Workshop-12 and Lab-16
#* Lab-14 is likely, depending on our answers to recent questions
# Instructor Printed Materials
#* status of delivery mechanism
#* deadline for delivery is Sept 7th
# Instructor-provided "backup server"
#* deadline for letting us know was August 6th
#* only one request: Workshop-03(2 notebooks)
# In-conference communications
#* walkie-talkies
#* how many do we need?
# Assignments for committee members
#* who will be able to help, when, and what tasks
# Committee members vacation schedule
# Workshop/Lab Evaluations
#* discuss prototype evaluation form emailed on Aug 3rd
# PCs
#* discuss "Computer Information" document emailed Aug 6th

=== 2007/07/31 ===
* no IRC log, as the meeting was via conference call
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Lab-08
#* Replace or not
#* the "top 120" presentations(i.e. their titles) don't mention Chameleon, but 5 of them mention uDig - should we therefore keep Lab-08?
#* If replace, with what
# Pre-conference setup at VCC
## Friday, September 21, Noon-4PM
##* this is when Vernon will deliver all their rental PCs
##* this is to be confirmed - this may take place Sunday morning instead
##* do we need to supervise this?
## Saturday, September 22
##* when/where/how are the Nanaimo PCs being delivered?
## Sunday, September 23, Noon-?
##* move the Vernon rental PCs from storage into the Workshop classrooms, and assemble/test them
##* who will be able to help with this?
##* how do we handle the Nanaimo PCs?
##* who will do the testing of the AV setup for Instructors, and how/when?
##* onsite Early Registration opens at 3PM
##* should we plan for a meeting with the "Room Monitors"(volunteers) to go over their duties?
# During the conference:
## Monday, September 24, after 4PM
##* at "the end of the day", the Vernon rental PCs not being used for Labs have to be dismantled/moved
##* who will be able to help with this?
##* when will we do this? AGM is 4:30PM-6PM, and then the Reception starts at the Pub
##* where do we put the dismantled Vernon rental PCs?
##* do we keep any extra rental PCs as spares for the Labs?
## Tuesday, September 25, 9AM-Noon
##* this is when Vernon will pickup their rental PCs that we are not keeping for Labs
##* do we need to supervise this?
##* this is also the timeslot for the Opening Plenary
## Tuesday, September 25, 1PM through Thursday, September 27, Noon
##* this is the time period for Labs (and Presentations, Posters, BOFs, Reception, etc.)
##* what things can we anticipate that we will have to do during this time?
##* should we schedule short (daily?) meetings to make sure everything is on track?
## Thursday, September 27, 3PM-5PM
##* who can help dismantle/move Vernon rental PCs from Lab classroom(s)?
##* one classroom will have the Nanaimo PCs - how will they be handled?
##* where do we put the dismantled Vernon rental PCs?
## Friday, September 28, 9AM-Noon
##* this is when Vernon will pickup their remaining rental PCs that were used for Labs
##* do we need to supervise this?
# Printed Materials for Workshops/Labs
#* deadline will be midnight on Friday September 7th
#* Refractions staff will handle making "master copies", and getting them duplicated
#* Refractions staff will deliver all the pre-printed material to the registration desk by 2PM Sep 23
# VCC Infrastructure
#* LAN drops for Instructors(e.g. need 2 for Arnulf's notebooks)
#* Sharps will supply Y cables to drive monitor+projector, so Instructor PCs can be the same as the classroom PCs
# PC Hardware
#* we can 'hold back' a few rental PCs that were used for the Workshops to act as 'spares' for the Labs
#* Vernon normally provides 'a few' extra rental PCs to act as spares(i.e for the Workshops) - is 5 enough?
#* do we need to see if there will be a mechanism on the rental PCs to 're-image' the hard drive during the conference?
# PC OS
## Windows XP comes with the PCs
## LiveCD
##* the rental PCs have CDROM drives, not DVD drives
##* [http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-11/ W-11] indicated they would use LiveDVD
##* how much time will be needed for Instructors to boot their room's PCs from the LiveCD?
## Virtual Machines
##* install VMWare Player on all PCs?
##* Instructors could supply VMs ahead of time, to be put onto "master PCs"
##* Instructors could load, and boot, their VM just before the Workshop/Lab, just like for a LiveCD
##* Instructor-supplied VM, with unpublished password, eases security concerns?
# PC Software
## we should 'poke' the Instructors to speak up re the list of Software, and version number
## how do we deal with the situation where software install is part of a Workshop/Lab?
## Servers (e.g. Integration Showcase, Canadian Geodata)
##* do we leave things like how to connect to conference servers as part of what the Instructor teaches?
##* do we try and setup the Windows Hosts file on the master PCs?
# Data for Workshops/Labs
#* need mechanism, dates, who
# Master PCs
## who is going to install & configure the Application & Utility software?
##* 2-3 "master PCs" from Vernon are to be delivered by August 24th
##* 2-3 "master PCs" from Vernon are to be returned to them by September 12th
## remote access to these master PCs?
# Instructor access to classrooms
## from [[FOSS4G2007_Information_for_Instructors]]
##* Workshop Instructors will have access to their classroom 30 minutes prior to the start of their Workshop. Attendees will be allowed into the classroom starting 15 minutes prior to the start of their Workshop.
##* Lab Instructors will have access to their classroom 20 minutes prior to the start of their Lab. Attendees will be allowed into the classroom starting 15 minutes prior to the start of their Lab.
##* do those timeframes seem adequate?
## should we try and plan "day before" classroom access?
##* Instructors could 'check the setup' on one or two PCs, to make sure prior classes haven't "mucked things up"

=== 2007/07/03 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-07-03.log IRC Log]
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Establish checklist and timetable for preparations for Workshops and Labs

=== 2007/03/26 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-03-26.log IRC Log]
* Agenda: this is an "informal meeting"

=== 2007/03/12 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-03-12.log IRC Log]
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Criteria selection
## Discuss the criteria to be used for the workshop submissions review process
## Vote on the suggested criteria, to establish the criteria list for use by the workshop committee
# Criteria importance
## Discuss whether all criteria should have equal 'weight', or whether some need a 'multiplier' to add/subtract their effect
## Vote on any suggestions for 'criteria weightings'
# Scoring
## How to 'score' a workshop submission based on the selected criteria
# Format of recommendations
## list of workshop submissions that are not recommended
## issue of limitations on the number of workshops
## ranked list of workshop submissions
# Timetable
## Half-day workshops
## 90-minute workshops

=== 2007/03/06 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-03-06.log IRC Log]
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Process for reviewing the workshop submissions
## How to do the review process
### private vs public
### who will be involved in the review
### collaboration methods (e.g. IRC, mailing list)
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User_talk:Dpatton A possible approach for the Workshop Committee to use when reviewing the workshop submissions]
## Plans for dealing with 'late submissions'
### will submissions not already received be considered for the review?
### workshop submissions for key topics that aren't covered ("filling in the holes")
## Dates
### deadline for finishing review process is March 20th (due to organizing committee meeting March 22nd)
### if clarification of a workshop submission's details is needed, how long to wait for a response - March 11th?
### timetable for review process
#### March 6 - March 11:
##### committee members review submissions
##### discussion amongst committee members about submissions
##### committee members assign 'scores'
#### March 12: 'scores' are tabulated
#### March 13:
##### committee meets to review/adjust 'ranked lists'
##### 'ranked lists' of the workshop submissions are made available to the public (e.g. locked wiki page)
#### March 14 - March 19: public can use mailing lists and IRC to comment on 'ranked lists'
#### March 20:
##### committee meets to review/adjust 'ranked lists'
##### committee forwards final 'ranked lists' to the conference organizing committee
## Results of review process
### separate recommendations for half-day vs 90-minute workshops?
### what does the review produce:
###* two lists - recommended & not recommended?
###* an explanation for each submission that wasn't recommended?
###* one list, with a 'ranking' or 'score' for each submission?
# Workshop review criteria
## Decisions
### workshop committee to make recommendations
### final decisions made by conference organizing committee
## Objective criteria
### does the submission clearly not fall within the conference mandate
### can submission's technical requirements be met by the conference facilities?
### has the same workshop been presented at prior FOSS4G conferences? (this could be a plus or a minus)
## Subjective criteria
### expected level of interest in the workshop topic
### expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter
### ability of the workshop presenter to present a 'good' workshop
### is there 'too much' overlap between multiple submissions
### geographical representation
### any relevant input from workshop evaluations collect by FOSS4G2006
### the "free" debate

=== 2007/03/02 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-03-02.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** action: dave to phone Paul re making workshop selection process public, and deadline for finishing workshop submission review process
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Committee membership
## invite David Percy to the committee
## status of Olivier?
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Review goals for number of workshops
## For "Workshops Day" (Monday September 24)
## Concurrent with presentations (Tuesday PM, Wednesday AM/PM, Thursday AM)
# Workshop Submissions - process summary
## have there been any comments on, or issues with, the submission process?
## are we aware of any submissions that are 'in the works', but which haven't been received?
## clarify "workshop" vs "lab" (e.g. half-day vs 90-minutes? Monday vs Tuesday-Thursday?)
## should 'workshops' that have no requirements for computers be considered "presentations"?
## Current status (as of 1:00PM Friday, 30 minutes before this meeting: total of 45 submissions)
### Number of submissions for half-day workshops = 28 (Beginner=9, Intermediate=2, Advanced=5, Developer=12)
### Number of submissions for 90-minute workshops = 17 (Beginner=7, Advanced=3, Developer=7)
### Number of half-day submissions that indicated they could be shortened to 90 minutes = 2
### Number of 90-minute submissions that indicated no need for computers = 5
### Technical Requirements:
#### Provided Windows XP workstations = 21
#### Multiple options, or ambiguous = 8
#### Participants bring their own Laptop = 5
#### Provided Linux VMWare machine = 5
#### Instructor-provided LiveCD = 4
#### None = 2
# Workshop selection process
## How to do the selection process - who, collaboration methods, etc.
## Plans re "filling in the holes" - how to get workshop submissions for key topics that aren't covered so far
## Dates
### Confirm current submission deadline(March 2), or select new deadline
### deadline for finishing review process
# Workshop selection criteria
## Decisions
### workshop committee to make recommendations
### final decisions made by conference organizing committee
## Objective criteria
### can submission's technical requirements be met by the conference facilities?
## Subjective criteria
### expected level of interest in the workshop topic
### expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter
### ability of the workshop presenter to present a 'good' workshop

=== 2007/02/23 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-02-23.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** action: dave - send out reminder later today about next week's meeting
** DONE: Dave to email Frank a reminder announcement for the workshop submission deadline
** action: dave to start wiki page re guidelines for workshops
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# review Action Items from 2007/02/09 meeting:
## ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
## OBSOLETE: Dave: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
## ACTION: Jason to follow up with Jody
## ACTION: Dave to start developing the list of local print shops
## DONE: Dave to make agenda for next meeting
# review committee membership
## Jeff McKenna resigned from the committee due to work commitments, but will hopefully be able to help 'later on'
## Olivier Ertz hasn't been on IRC for about 3 weeks - anyone know his status?
## do we need more committee members?
## nominate and confirm new committee chair
# video of conference - confirm that this has been ruled out?
# Workshops
## Status of workshop submissions
## workshop materials
### who pays, and for what
### guidelines for workshop presenters:
#### make a guideline based on the "top 5/10 rated workshops" from the prior conference( s )?
#### guidelines for what? Format of workshop handouts? Size/length of handouts? Type of presentation?
#### when accepting workshops, provide the presenters with the guidelines
#### where/when to indicate to workshop presenters (or for workshop proposals?) to check with project steering committees?
# New Business
## estimated maximum bandwidth demand for a single workshop
## review of workshop evaluations from FOSS4G2007

=== 2007/02/09 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-02-09.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
** ACTION: Dave: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
** ACTION: Jason to follow up with Jody
** ACTION: Dave to start developing the list of local print shops
** ACTION: Dave to make agenda for next meeting
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business
## review Action Items from 2007/02/02 meeting:
### DONE: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
### ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
### DONE: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
### ACTION: Dave: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
### DONE: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
### DONE: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
### DONE: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
## Status of help from Jody
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## possibility of some sort of "facility" at the conference where workshop presenters can arrive and get help (financially and technically) getting copies, CD's, etc
## video of conference - is there an 'external resource' that could be used to manage this?
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
# New Business
## nominate and confirm new committee chair
## review committee membership
## Status of workshop call, announcements, and feedback so far
## Policies & Procedures for workshop materials:
### who pays for workshop materials
### financial support by conference for workshop materials preparation
### guidelines for workshop materials (format, length, etc)
## Guidelines for types of workshop:<br>from #osgeo, 2007/02/06<br><pre>12:54:38 jgarnett: aside: #geoserver meeting trying to come up with workshop topics 12:54:59 jgarnett: how "advanced" should workshops go?</pre>
## Specs for rental computers
## Other New Business

=== 2007/02/02 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-02-02.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** ACTION: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
** ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
** ACTION: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
** ACTION: -----: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
** ACTION: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
** ACTION: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
** ACTION: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
* Agenda:
# Select Meeting chair
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business (based on [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log Log from 2007/01/26 meeting])
## Jason: did you get in contact with Jody (jgarnett)?
## who will send out meeting reminders, and when
## Aaron: did you get in contact with David Percy?
## do we have a "set of questions/needs for the full committee to answer"?
## theme rooms, and creating tracks after workshop submissions received
## in 2006, workshops were 3.5 hours, including 30 minute break
## What about podcast/video of the workshops and presentations
## workshop details needed before call for abstracts (room sizes, number of machines, etc.)
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## Olivier: did you contact the 2006 local committee re setting up an instance of INDICO for use for 2007 (for workshop submission tracking)?
## possibilities re adding more workshop time at the start/end of the conference?
# New Business
## for any "to do" items that come up in meetings, use "ACTION: name" on IRC to flag who is to take care of that item
## review Call For Workshops Content:
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Hyperbole Hyperbole]
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Submission_Requirements Submission Requirements]
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
## date when call for workshops will be ready for announcement
## rooms for workshops - establish minimum allocations [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000019.html Workshop Rooms]
## computer resources - current availability, and desired target [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000022.html Computers]

=== 2007/01/26 ===
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log IRC Log]
* Agenda: There was no set agenda

== List of workshop submissions ==
[[FOSS4G2007_Workshop_Submissions]]

== Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions ==
# meets conference mandate:
## matches with the themes of the conference
## makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"
# submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities
# likelyhood of a quality workshop:
## successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference
## expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter
## any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2006, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences
## demonstrates practical applications
# expected level of interest in the workshop topic

== Scoring ==
The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop.
Two ways to do the scoring:
# Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.
# Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

== Timetable for workshop submissions review process ==
A private mailing list ("the list") was setup March 7, 2007 for use by the workshop committee.
# March 7 to 11
#* on the list, discussions about the review process
#* all committee members review the documents and get familiar with the workshop submissions
# March 12
#* IRC meeting to finalize review criteria and the 'scoring' system
#* committee members start 'scoring' the workshops listed in the "FOSS4G2007 Workshop Submissions-Half Day" spreadsheet
# March 15, midnight PDT
#* deadline for committee members to provide their 'score' for each of the half-day workshops
# March 16
#* committee chair creates a summary spreadsheet of the half-day workshop submissions showing each committee member's score for each workshop, and a cumulative 'total score', with the worksheet sorted by 'total score', and make that spreadsheet available to the committee members via Google Docs
#* committee members start 'scoring' the workshops in the "FOSS4G2007 Workshop Submissions-90-Minute" spreadsheet
#* start discussions, if needed, to adjust the ranked list of half-day workshops
# March 18, midnight PDT
#* deadline for committee members to provide their 'score' for each of the 90-minute workshops
# March 19
#* committee chair creates a summary spreadsheet of the 90-minute workshop submissions showing each committee member's score for each workshop, and a cumulative 'total score', with the worksheet sorted by 'total score', and make that spreadsheet available to the committee members via Google Docs
#* start discussions, if needed, to adjust the ranked list of 90-minute workshops
# March 20, noon PDT
#* final deadline for any 'tweaking' of the ranked lists of the half-day and 90-minute workshop submissions
#* committee chair prepares the final versions of the relevant documents/spreadsheets, which will be forwarded to the conference organizing committee so they have time to review before their meeting on March 22nd

== Workshops Notes ==

'''Note:''' Some of the information below is out of date.

=== Workshop Duration and Scheduling ===

http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview.html

=== Hardware ===

* 40 computers in the rental budget
* another 20 slated as loaners from Nanaimo
* other options? (bring-your-own etc.)

=== Room Availability ===
?

=== Software Installation ===
* LiveCD for Linux
* MS4W installer for Windows
* other?
* attendees come with laptops and software installed?

=== Other ===
* local person to deal with venue's tech staff?

=== Questions for Organising Committee ===
* Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

=== Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note) ===
* overcrowded workshops are bad
* registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
* LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
* grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)
* foss4g2006 workshops wiki : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Foss4g2006_wks
* foss4g2006 workshops rooms : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2006#Rooms
* foss4g2006 number of attendees per workshop : http://www.foss4g2006.org/site/pdf/WksNbOfAttendees.pdf
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop Submissions

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= NOTE =
This page lists the submissions that were received as a result of the FOSS4G 2008 Call For Workshops.

It is '''not''' a list of workshops that have been selected for the conference.

The following lists are current as of [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=25&year=2008&hour=0&min=0&sec=0&p1=269 PDT]

If a submission appears in both lists, with the same ID, it is because it was submitted as a half-day workshop, with a notation by the presenter that it could be shortened to 90 minutes.

== Submissions for Half-Day Workshops ==
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Workshop Title</td>
<td>Level</td>
<td>Presenter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-001</td>
<td>MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop</td>
<td>Intermediate</td>
<td>Tom Kralidis and Yewondwossen Assefa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-002</td>
<td>Introduction to PostGIS</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Paul Ramsey</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-003</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to Ka-Map</td>
<td>Advanced to Developers</td>
<td>Paul Spencer, Lorenzo Becchi and Andrea Cappugi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-004</td>
<td>Developing graphical geo-apps with GTK and Perl</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Ari Jolma et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-005</td>
<td>On-the-fly Spatial Analysis with PostGIS and Google Earth</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Brian Timoney</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-006</td>
<td>Getting Started with MapServer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jeff McKenna, Tyler Mitchell and Perry Nacionales</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-008</td>
<td>Rapid Visualization with the Virtual Terrain Project Software</td>
<td>Beginner to Advanced</td>
<td>Ben Discoe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-010</td>
<td>Using the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jeroen Ticheler</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-012</td>
<td>Introduction to Geospatial Collaboration using GeoServer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Chris Holmes, The Open Planning Project</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-014</td>
<td>Deegree iGeoPortal</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Hans Plum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-015</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapBuilder</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Michael Adair, et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-016</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to Chameleon - Building an App from Scratch</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>William Bronsema Julien-Samuel Lacroix</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-017</td>
<td>Building Vertical Applications with Embedded QGIS</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Tim Sutton</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-019</td>
<td>Introduction to MapWindow GIS and writing Plug-ins</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Harold (Ted) Dunsford</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-020</td>
<td>VB.Net Programming for GIS using Map Window GIS Components</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Christopher Michaelis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-021</td>
<td>Using the GeoStack to enable Neogeography</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Andrew Turner</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-022</td>
<td>Pratical Introduction to PgRouting-Open Source routing solution for PostgreSQL/PostGIS</td>
<td>Advance</td>
<td>Sylvain Pasche and Claude Philipona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-024</td>
<td>Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source GIS Stack</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Gary Sherman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-026</td>
<td>Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Daniel Kastl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-027</td>
<td>Developers Introduction to GeoServer</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Justin Deoliveira</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-029</td>
<td>Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Andrea Antonello</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-030</td>
<td>Groovy, Grails and GoogleMaps: Mashups 101</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Scott Davis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-031</td>
<td>GIS for Web Developers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Scott Davis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-035</td>
<td>Developing MapGuide Applications with PHP</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Robert Bray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-037</td>
<td>A Friendly (Desktop) Introduction Geospatial Data Wrangling</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jesse Eichar and Jody
Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-041</td>
<td>Nunaliit Cybercartographic Framework for Community Atlases</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Amos Hayes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-043</td>
<td>GRASS GIS and RDBMS</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Paolo Zatelli, Marco Ciolli, Clara Tattoni</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-045</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapStorer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Sebastian Schmitz, (WhereGroup, Bonn)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-046</td>
<td>FME as a Two-Way Bridge between Proprietary Systems and Open Source Databases</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dale Lutz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-047</td>
<td>*Miner: An Open Source Remote Sensing Data Mining Framework</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Ranga Raju Vatsavai</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-049</td>
<td>MapGuide, PPDM, & PostGIS – Making it work for Oil & Gas</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Dean C. Mikkelsen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-050</td>
<td>Mapbender, Orchestrating the Geodata Concert</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Arnulf Christl, Sebastian Schmitz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-052</td>
<td>Power User Workshop: GRASS Lidar data processing</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Brovelli, M. Mitasova, H. Cannata, M. Neteler, M.</td>
</tr>
</table>

== Submissions for 90-Minute Workshops ==
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Workshop Title</td>
<td>Level</td>
<td>Presenter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-007</td>
<td>A practical introduction to Thematic Mapping by KIDS</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Ali Safarnejab</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-008</td>
<td>Rapid Visualization with the Virtual Terrain Project Software</td>
<td>Beginner to Advanced</td>
<td>Ben Discoe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-009</td>
<td>The placement of a prototype for the characterization of the forest inheritance</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Gacemi Mohamed El Amine</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-011</td>
<td>Raster Processing and Preparation with GDAL</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Frank Warmerdam and Mateusz Loskot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-013</td>
<td>Deegree iGeoSecurity</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Hans Plum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-015</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapBuilder</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Michael Adair, et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-018</td>
<td>Introduction into OGC's Sensor Web Enablement</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Ingo Simonis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-023</td>
<td>Carto Web for Beginners</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Claude Philipona and
Isabelle Kiener</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-025</td>
<td>Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Daniel Kastl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-028</td>
<td>Introduction to FDO and the FDO API</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Greg Boone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-032</td>
<td>Web 2.0 Mapping: Developing Spatial Web Editing Applications with MapGuide OS, FDO, and Oracle Locator/Spatial</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Haris Kurtagic, SL-King</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-033</td>
<td>A Friendly (Desktop) Introduction to Geospatial Everything</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jody Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-034</td>
<td>A Friendly Introduction to the Care and Feeding of GeoSpatial Information</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jesse Eichar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-036</td>
<td>Defining and Using Custom Cartographic Symbols in MapGuide</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Robert Bray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-038</td>
<td>Protecting OGC Web Services with the 52°North Security System</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Jan Drewnak</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-039</td>
<td>How to Cope with GeoSpatial – The Pragmatic Intro for the Java Developers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Jody Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-040</td>
<td>Developing GeoSpatial applications for Oracle XE (the free Express Edition of the Oracle database).</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>LJ Qian and Jayant Sharma</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-042</td>
<td>Getting Started with Mapscript, Java & Tomcat</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Stephen Jones</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-044</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapStorer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Sebastian Schmitz, (WhereGroup, Bonn)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-046</td>
<td>FME as a Two-Way Bridge between Proprietary Systems and Open Source Databases</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dale Lutz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-048</td>
<td>Datum’s, Coordinate Systems, Map Projections & Datum Transformations</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dean C. Mikkelsen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-051</td>
<td>Leveraging PostreSQL and Linux with ESRI's ArcGIS system</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Derek Law</td>
</tr>
</table>

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Workshop Submissions

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= NOTE =
This page lists the submissions that were received as a result of the FOSS4G 2008 Call For Workshops.

It is '''not''' a list of workshops that have been selected for the conference.

The following lists are current as of [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=5&day=25&hour=4&min=0&sec=0 March 11, 2007 9:00PM PDT]

If a submission appears in both lists, with the same ID, it is because it was submitted as a half-day workshop, with a notation by the presenter that it could be shortened to 90 minutes.

== Submissions for Half-Day Workshops ==
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Workshop Title</td>
<td>Level</td>
<td>Presenter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-001</td>
<td>MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop</td>
<td>Intermediate</td>
<td>Tom Kralidis and Yewondwossen Assefa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-002</td>
<td>Introduction to PostGIS</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Paul Ramsey</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-003</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to Ka-Map</td>
<td>Advanced to Developers</td>
<td>Paul Spencer, Lorenzo Becchi and Andrea Cappugi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-004</td>
<td>Developing graphical geo-apps with GTK and Perl</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Ari Jolma et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-005</td>
<td>On-the-fly Spatial Analysis with PostGIS and Google Earth</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Brian Timoney</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-006</td>
<td>Getting Started with MapServer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jeff McKenna, Tyler Mitchell and Perry Nacionales</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-008</td>
<td>Rapid Visualization with the Virtual Terrain Project Software</td>
<td>Beginner to Advanced</td>
<td>Ben Discoe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-010</td>
<td>Using the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jeroen Ticheler</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-012</td>
<td>Introduction to Geospatial Collaboration using GeoServer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Chris Holmes, The Open Planning Project</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-014</td>
<td>Deegree iGeoPortal</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Hans Plum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-015</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapBuilder</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Michael Adair, et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-016</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to Chameleon - Building an App from Scratch</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>William Bronsema Julien-Samuel Lacroix</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-017</td>
<td>Building Vertical Applications with Embedded QGIS</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Tim Sutton</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-019</td>
<td>Introduction to MapWindow GIS and writing Plug-ins</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Harold (Ted) Dunsford</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-020</td>
<td>VB.Net Programming for GIS using Map Window GIS Components</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Christopher Michaelis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-021</td>
<td>Using the GeoStack to enable Neogeography</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Andrew Turner</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-022</td>
<td>Pratical Introduction to PgRouting-Open Source routing solution for PostgreSQL/PostGIS</td>
<td>Advance</td>
<td>Sylvain Pasche and Claude Philipona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-024</td>
<td>Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source GIS Stack</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Gary Sherman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-026</td>
<td>Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Daniel Kastl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-027</td>
<td>Developers Introduction to GeoServer</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Justin Deoliveira</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-029</td>
<td>Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Andrea Antonello</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-030</td>
<td>Groovy, Grails and GoogleMaps: Mashups 101</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Scott Davis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-031</td>
<td>GIS for Web Developers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Scott Davis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-035</td>
<td>Developing MapGuide Applications with PHP</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Robert Bray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-037</td>
<td>A Friendly (Desktop) Introduction Geospatial Data Wrangling</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jesse Eichar and Jody
Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-041</td>
<td>Nunaliit Cybercartographic Framework for Community Atlases</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Amos Hayes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-043</td>
<td>GRASS GIS and RDBMS</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Paolo Zatelli, Marco Ciolli, Clara Tattoni</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-045</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapStorer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Sebastian Schmitz, (WhereGroup, Bonn)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-046</td>
<td>FME as a Two-Way Bridge between Proprietary Systems and Open Source Databases</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dale Lutz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-047</td>
<td>*Miner: An Open Source Remote Sensing Data Mining Framework</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Ranga Raju Vatsavai</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-049</td>
<td>MapGuide, PPDM, & PostGIS – Making it work for Oil & Gas</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Dean C. Mikkelsen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-050</td>
<td>Mapbender, Orchestrating the Geodata Concert</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Arnulf Christl, Sebastian Schmitz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-052</td>
<td>Power User Workshop: GRASS Lidar data processing</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Brovelli, M. Mitasova, H. Cannata, M. Neteler, M.</td>
</tr>
</table>

== Submissions for 90-Minute Workshops ==
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>Workshop Title</td>
<td>Level</td>
<td>Presenter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-007</td>
<td>A practical introduction to Thematic Mapping by KIDS</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Ali Safarnejab</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-008</td>
<td>Rapid Visualization with the Virtual Terrain Project Software</td>
<td>Beginner to Advanced</td>
<td>Ben Discoe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-009</td>
<td>The placement of a prototype for the characterization of the forest inheritance</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Gacemi Mohamed El Amine</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-011</td>
<td>Raster Processing and Preparation with GDAL</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Frank Warmerdam and Mateusz Loskot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-013</td>
<td>Deegree iGeoSecurity</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Hans Plum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-015</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapBuilder</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Michael Adair, et al</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-018</td>
<td>Introduction into OGC's Sensor Web Enablement</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Ingo Simonis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-023</td>
<td>Carto Web for Beginners</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Claude Philipona and
Isabelle Kiener</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-025</td>
<td>Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Daniel Kastl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-028</td>
<td>Introduction to FDO and the FDO API</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Greg Boone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-032</td>
<td>Web 2.0 Mapping: Developing Spatial Web Editing Applications with MapGuide OS, FDO, and Oracle Locator/Spatial</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Haris Kurtagic, SL-King</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-033</td>
<td>A Friendly (Desktop) Introduction to Geospatial Everything</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jody Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-034</td>
<td>A Friendly Introduction to the Care and Feeding of GeoSpatial Information</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Jesse Eichar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-036</td>
<td>Defining and Using Custom Cartographic Symbols in MapGuide</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Robert Bray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-038</td>
<td>Protecting OGC Web Services with the 52°North Security System</td>
<td>Advanced</td>
<td>Jan Drewnak</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-039</td>
<td>How to Cope with GeoSpatial – The Pragmatic Intro for the Java Developers</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Jody Garnett</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-040</td>
<td>Developing GeoSpatial applications for Oracle XE (the free Express Edition of the Oracle database).</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>LJ Qian and Jayant Sharma</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-042</td>
<td>Getting Started with Mapscript, Java & Tomcat</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Stephen Jones</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-044</td>
<td>Practical Introduction to MapStorer</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Sebastian Schmitz, (WhereGroup, Bonn)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-046</td>
<td>FME as a Two-Way Bridge between Proprietary Systems and Open Source Databases</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dale Lutz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-048</td>
<td>Datum’s, Coordinate Systems, Map Projections & Datum Transformations</td>
<td>Beginner</td>
<td>Dean C. Mikkelsen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WS-051</td>
<td>Leveraging PostreSQL and Linux with ESRI's ArcGIS system</td>
<td>Developer</td>
<td>Derek Law</td>
</tr>
</table>

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G_Workshops]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for workshops

2008-05-29T10:56:35Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Committee Review Criteria */

__FORCETOC__
'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

'''NEWS! The workshop submission deadline has been extended to 23 May'''. Continue reading below and see [[FOSS4G 2008 Announcements]] for more details.

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

'''The EXTENDED deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 23 May, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 6 June''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Submission Process===
----

This is the definitive process:

If you do not hold an account with the FOSS4G website, please acquire one at [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/user/account]. Make sure to tick the box '''Author: Able to submit items to this conference''' towards the bottom of the account setup page.

If you already hold an account, login and check if your profile includes the '''Author''' Role option. Do this by going to your '''User Home''' page and clicking on '''Edit my Profile'''.

Now, the first stage for submitting a workshop or lab proposal is to register it with the website. This is done from [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/presenter/submit/1], where you will be asked to tick a Submission Checklist and Copyright Notice. Choose the Workshops and Labs track and continue to Step 2. Here you will add secondary presenters/ authors, choose the submission type (leave default) and then provide an abstract or overview along with the title of the Workshop/ Lab.

This will quickly be reviewed for relevance and you will be asked to submit a full proposal in one of the formats available at [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/trackPolicies]. Authors can upload their proposal document and any supplementary materials that may be of interest to the Workshop Committee. This is achieved through accessing the Author role from the '''User Home''' web page and clicking on the link under '''Status'''. Before the user finalises the submission, there exists the opportunity to change or overwrite the submission documents. Once finalised however, changes will only be made in e-mail correspondence with the Workshop Committee.

A review process will take place and workshop proposers will be notified in due course if there proposal has been accepted.

Please familiarise yourself with the above procedure and also the requirements on the conference webpage ([http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/cfp])Please contact the workshop committee if you need any information.

===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Fleming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

Sumissions closed on 23 May 2008. Successful presenters should be notified by 6 June 2008.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-29T07:58:54Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Submission Template */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Submission Template===
----

'''WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION TEMPLATE'''

The Workshop and Labs Submission Template is available on the conference webpage. Please familiarise yourself with the above procedure and also the requirements on the conference webpage ([http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/cfp])Please contact the workshop committee if you need any information.

===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Papers Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. ''Abstracts will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.'' If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_comp.html South African Computer Journal].

===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
In order to keep things simple, for both you the Authors and us the Technical Programme Committee, we have decided to keep the Authors Guidelines for both the Presentations and the Academic Papers the same. You can download a pdf version of the Authors Guideline here. [[Media:FOSS4G2008_AuthorGuidelines.pdf]]

The Authors Guidelines for the Poster Presentations will be posted shortly.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-22T08:34:47Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Submission Template */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Submission Template===
----

'''WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION TEMPLATE'''

The Workshop and Labs Submission Template will be posted here shortly. Please familiarise yourself with the above procedure and also teh requirements on the conference webpage ([http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/cfp])Please contact the workshop committee if you need any information.

===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Papers Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. ''Abstracts will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.'' If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_comp.html South African Computer Journal].

===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
In order to keep things simple, for both you the Authors and us the Technical Programme Committee, we have decided to keep the Authors Guidelines for both the Presentations and the Academic Papers the same. You can download a pdf version of the Authors Guideline here. [[Media:FOSS4G2008_AuthorGuidelines.pdf]]

The Authors Guidelines for the Poster Presentations will be posted shortly.

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

File:FOSS4G2008 Workshop&Lab Submission Form v1.pdf

2008-04-21T13:26:45Z

Wiki-Burnie: Workshop and Lab Submission Template for FOSS4G 2008

Workshop and Lab Submission Template for FOSS4G 2008

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-08T13:46:18Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Proposal Template */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Submission Template===
----

'''WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION TEMPLATE'''

The Workshop and Labs Submission Template will be posted here shortly. Please contact the workshop committe if you need any information.

===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Papers Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the South African Computer Journal.

===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
====Normal Presentations====
====Academic Papers====
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-08T13:41:01Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Committee Review Criteria */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Proposal Template===
----

'''CALL FOR WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION'''

For your workshop to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2008 Conference, please follow the guidelines and fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Guidelines'''

• Please note that the current submission is not the complete workshop, but a convincing preview to get the committee convinced that this workshop/lab session is required at FOSS4G2008.

• Please note that a separate submission needs to completed for each workshop or lab session that you would like to present.

• You may submit more then one presentation for consideration by the Workshop Committee.

• You may submit the same presentation for both a workshop and a lab session.

• You may be requested by the Workshop Committee to provide more information if required to make a decision.

• The final workshop/lab session will be a result of ongoing discussions between presenters and the Workshop Committee towards ensuring the highest standards and experience for the participants.

• The decision made by the Workshop Committee is final.

• The conference webpage (and related links) will host the latest information at all times on workshops/lab sessions.

'''Personal details'''

Name: __________________________________
Surname: _________________________________
Country: __________________________________

I am registering for (Please select one):

Workshop:

Lab Session:

'''Presentation details'''

Workshop Title (70 characters):

Short Description (50 words):

Long Description (400 words):

Presenter Coordinates (Country):

Presenter Biography (200 words, include affiliations):

'''Technical Requirements :'''
Please provide us with your ideal requirements and or suggested solution(s) to provide the maximum exposure to attendees to your workshop/ lab session.

'''User Level (choose one):'''

The contents will be understandable and valuable to:

Beginners (0-2 year’s experience):

Intermediate (2-5 years experience):

Advanced (Hardcore Open Source Gurus):

Developers:

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:'''

This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

'''Other valuable information:'''

In an attempt to build a set of evaluations that may help illuminate any discussions about either specific Workshops/Lab sessions about general topics/themes or types of contents, especially for FOSS4G conferences we would like to obtain some more information.

Please list, if at all, this presentation has been delivered before, and or any substantially the same presentation. If this presentation has been presented before, please supply the committee with the following:
• Conference presented at

• Title

• Any co-instructors
===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Papers Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the South African Computer Journal.

===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
====Normal Presentations====
====Academic Papers====
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-04T13:16:26Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Committee Review Criteria */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Proposal Template===
----

'''CALL FOR WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION'''

For your workshop to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2008 Conference, please follow the guidelines and fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Guidelines'''

• Please note that the current submission is not the complete workshop, but a convincing preview to get the committee convinced that this workshop/lab session is required at FOSS4G2008.

• Please note that a separate submission needs to completed for each workshop or lab session that you would like to present.

• You may submit more then one presentation for consideration by the Workshop Committee.

• You may submit the same presentation for both a workshop and a lab session.

• You may be requested by the Workshop Committee to provide more information if required to make a decision.

• The final workshop/lab session will be a result of ongoing discussions between presenters and the Workshop Committee towards ensuring the highest standards and experience for the participants.

• The decision made by the Workshop Committee is final.

• The conference webpage (and related links) will host the latest information at all times on workshops/lab sessions.

'''Personal details'''

Name: __________________________________
Surname: _________________________________
Country: __________________________________

I am registering for (Please select one):

Workshop:

Lab Session:

'''Presentation details'''

Workshop Title (70 characters):

Short Description (50 words):

Long Description (400 words):

Presenter Coordinates (Country):

Presenter Biography (200 words, include affiliations):

'''Technical Requirements :'''
Please provide us with your ideal requirements and or suggested solution(s) to provide the maximum exposure to attendees to your workshop/ lab session.

'''User Level (choose one):'''

The contents will be understandable and valuable to:

Beginners (0-2 year’s experience):

Intermediate (2-5 years experience):

Advanced (Hardcore Open Source Gurus):

Developers:

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:'''

This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

'''Other valuable information:'''

In an attempt to build a set of evaluations that may help illuminate any discussions about either specific Workshops/Lab sessions about general topics/themes or types of contents, especially for FOSS4G conferences we would like to obtain some more information.

Please list, if at all, this presentation has been delivered before, and or any substantially the same presentation. If this presentation has been presented before, please supply the committee with the following:
• Conference presented at

• Title

• Any co-instructors
===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeoff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2008, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the South African Computer Journal.
===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
====Normal Presentations====
====Academic Papers====
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-04T13:09:37Z

Wiki-Burnie:

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Proposal Template===
----

'''CALL FOR WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION'''

For your workshop to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2008 Conference, please follow the guidelines and fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Guidelines'''

• Please note that the current submission is not the complete workshop, but a convincing preview to get the committee convinced that this workshop/lab session is required at FOSS4G2008.

• Please note that a separate submission needs to completed for each workshop or lab session that you would like to present.

• You may submit more then one presentation for consideration by the Workshop Committee.

• You may submit the same presentation for both a workshop and a lab session.

• You may be requested by the Workshop Committee to provide more information if required to make a decision.

• The final workshop/lab session will be a result of ongoing discussions between presenters and the Workshop Committee towards ensuring the highest standards and experience for the participants.

• The decision made by the Workshop Committee is final.

• The conference webpage (and related links) will host the latest information at all times on workshops/lab sessions.

'''Personal details'''

Name: __________________________________
Surname: _________________________________
Country: __________________________________

I am registering for (Please select one):

Workshop:

Lab Session:

'''Presentation details'''

Workshop Title (70 characters):

Short Description (50 words):

Long Description (400 words):

Presenter Coordinates (Country):

Presenter Biography (200 words, include affiliations):

'''Technical Requirements :'''
Please provide us with your ideal requirements and or suggested solution(s) to provide the maximum exposure to attendees to your workshop/ lab session.

'''User Level (choose one):'''

The contents will be understandable and valuable to:

Beginners (0-2 year’s experience):

Intermediate (2-5 years experience):

Advanced (Hardcore Open Source Gurus):

Developers:

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:'''

This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

'''Other valuable information:'''

In an attempt to build a set of evaluations that may help illuminate any discussions about either specific Workshops/Lab sessions about general topics/themes or types of contents, especially for FOSS4G conferences we would like to obtain some more information.

Please list, if at all, this presentation has been delivered before, and or any substantially the same presentation. If this presentation has been presented before, please supply the committee with the following:
• Conference presented at

• Title

• Any co-instructors
===Workshop Committee Review Criteria===
----
'''Introduction'''

The FOSS4G2008 Workshop Committee is responsible for the organization of both Workshops and Labs. Workshops are 3-hour hands-on classroom sessions, and Labs are 90-minute classes. The committee reports to the FOSS4G 2008 Conference Committee.

'''FOSS4G 2008 Workshop Committee Members'''

Burnie Nawn (Coordinator)

Gavin Flemming

Graeme McFerren

Dave Patton

Jeoff McKenna

'''Criteria used by the workshop committee to review workshop submissions'''

The criteria below are based on previous successful FOSS4G conferences. The criteria will be applied with the scoring system in place. Each reviewers score will be summarised to provide an indication of the workshops/lab sessions that will be the most suitable for the specific conference. The criteria that will be applied can be summarised as well:

1. meets conference mandate:

• matches with the themes of the conference

• makes use of software that is both "free" and "open source"

2. submission's technical requirements can be met by the conference facilities

3. likelyhood of a quality workshop:

• successful workshop presented at prior FOSS4G conference

• expertise of the workshop presenter in the workshop subject matter

• any relevant input from workshop evaluations collected by FOSS4G2006, or personal experience of workshops presented by the presenter(s) at other conferences

• demonstrates practical applications

4. expected level of interest in the workshop topic

'''Scoring'''

The range of scores to be used is 0 through 5:
0 = does not meet any of the criteria
1 = barely meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet some of the criteria
3 = average
5 = meets or exceeds all of the criteria
The goal is to end up with a score in the range of 0-5 for the workshop. Two ways to do the scoring:

1. Use the provided spreadsheet, which allows for a score for each criterion. Divide the "Total Score" by 4 to get the 'score for the workshop'. Doing it this way makes it easy to see any workshops that received a zero for any criterion. Despite the 'total score', workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

2. Use the provided spreadsheet, but just assign an overall score of 0-5 for the workshop. If, as part of doing this, you think a workshop would score zero on any criterion, make a note, and bring it up in the discussions, because workshops that have a zero score for any criterion deserve further examination as to their suitability for the conference.

'''Timetable for workshop submission review process'''

To be finalised and posted here.

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the South African Computer Journal.
===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
!
!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
|-
|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
|-
|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
|-
|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
|-
|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
====Normal Presentations====
====Academic Papers====
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G2008 Call for papers

2008-04-04T12:57:45Z

Wiki-Burnie: /* Workshop Proposal Template */

'''Back to [[FOSS4G_2008|FOSS4G2008]] ...'''

== Call for Workshops ==
The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2008 conference, which is being held September 29 - October 3 in Cape Town, South Africa.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This year’s FOSS4G conference is a bit different than prior FOSS4G conferences, because it incorporates GISSA 2008, the main GIS Conference on the South African calendar. GISSA is primarily attended by people who are not yet familiar with FOSS4G. However, the South African government has made a strategic commitment to FOSS. This has created a clamour for more information about FOSS4G. The FOSS4G Organising Committee believes that immersive workshops could play a crucial role in convincing people that FOSS4G is "An Option for Developing Nations". FOSS4G offers an opportunity to experience FOSS working alongside more well known proprietary software.

Come to Cape Town to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic, and get the excitement bubbling. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day Workshop or ninety minute Lab session.

No restrictions are placed on topics for workshops, but we expect interest to be high for workshops on:
* Practical Introduction to ________________
* Interoperability
* Exposure to a Software Stack
* Fitting FOSS4G into the enterprise
* Using FOSS4G to solve __________________

In addition, FOSS4G plays strongly in emerging spaces, so Workshops/Labs with NeoGeography-like themes, or on new directions, will be welcome and are likely to be fresh topics for many attendees.

Workshops and Labs are hands-on events, with participants seated in front of computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion. There will be two computer labs with close to 50 computers each, with two people per computer. So your audience will be close to 100. Depending on your input we are still flexible about operating systems and other choices, so whatever your idea, submit a proposal.

Workshops/Labs require considerable preparation. Past experience has shown that a high quality Workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of classroom time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a "workbook", CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, Workshop/Lab Instructors will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:
* Free registration for delivering a half-day Workshop
* Half price registration for delivering a 90-minute Lab

If your topic can be delivered in either a half-day or 90-minute format, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, because the number of Workshops and Labs is limited. It is unlikely that your topic will be selected for delivery in both formats. You are welcome to submit Workshop/Lab proposals for more than one topic. There are slots available for six half day workshops and twenty Labs

Please visit the Call for Papers page on our website to receive instructions for submitting a Workshops/Lab proposal:
[http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/shedConf/cfp]

'''The deadline for Workshop/Lab proposals submission is 30 April, 2008. You will hear whether your proposal has been accepted by 16 May''', after which you will be required to register for the conference to confirm your attendance, as well as subscribe to the conference workshops mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops]), which will be the forum for discussing your Workshop/Lab development, progress, and logistics with the Workshop Committee, members of the OSGeo community, and fellow Instructors.
===Workshop Proposal Template===
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'''CALL FOR WORKSHOPS SUBMISSION'''

For your workshop to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2008 Conference, please follow the guidelines and fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Guidelines'''

• Please note that the current submission is not the complete workshop, but a convincing preview to get the committee convinced that this workshop/lab session is required at FOSS4G2008.

• Please note that a separate submission needs to completed for each workshop or lab session that you would like to present.

• You may submit more then one presentation for consideration by the Workshop Committee.

• You may submit the same presentation for both a workshop and a lab session.

• You may be requested by the Workshop Committee to provide more information if required to make a decision.

• The final workshop/lab session will be a result of ongoing discussions between presenters and the Workshop Committee towards ensuring the highest standards and experience for the participants.

• The decision made by the Workshop Committee is final.

• The conference webpage (and related links) will host the latest information at all times on workshops/lab sessions.

'''Personal details'''

Name: __________________________________
Surname: _________________________________
Country: __________________________________

I am registering for (Please select one):

Workshop:

Lab Session:

'''Presentation details'''

Workshop Title (70 characters):

Short Description (50 words):

Long Description (400 words):

Presenter Coordinates (Country):

Presenter Biography (200 words, include affiliations):

'''Technical Requirements :'''
Please provide us with your ideal requirements and or suggested solution(s) to provide the maximum exposure to attendees to your workshop/ lab session.

'''User Level (choose one):'''

The contents will be understandable and valuable to:

Beginners (0-2 year’s experience):

Intermediate (2-5 years experience):

Advanced (Hardcore Open Source Gurus):

Developers:

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:'''

This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

'''Other valuable information:'''

In an attempt to build a set of evaluations that may help illuminate any discussions about either specific Workshops/Lab sessions about general topics/themes or types of contents, especially for FOSS4G conferences we would like to obtain some more information.

Please list, if at all, this presentation has been delivered before, and or any substantially the same presentation. If this presentation has been presented before, please supply the committee with the following:
• Conference presented at

• Title

• Any co-instructors

==Call for Papers==
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating 'GISSA 2008', being held from 29 September to 3 October, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the FOSS4G 2008 site: [http://www.foss4g2008.org]

This conference gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source, mixed and propriety geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The local host for FOSS4G2008 is the Geo-Information Society of South Africa, GISSA. FOSS4G 2008 incorporates 'GISSA 2008'. While Free and Open Source GIS is our focus, you are also welcome to submit papers for the 'applied' topics that use proprietary or mixed GIS. We want to encourage exposure, debate and understanding among FOSS and proprietary communities. Talks will be marked clearly on the programme as FOSS / Proprietary / Mixed / Peer Reviewed.
===Topics which must have a FOSS component or perspective are:===
*New FOSS GIS developments
*Interoperability and standards - OGC, GEOSS
*Web processing services, Sensor Web enablement and the like
*Using FOSS with proprietary software
*Making the transition to FOSS GIS
*FOSS GIS support and training
*FOSS GIS business models
*FOSS GIS implementation and deployment
*Open data, open content, open architectures, open everything!
*Case studies of open source implementations
*Improving FOSS GIS cartography and map production
*Use Case driven FOSS GIS development and improving the user experience
*FOSS GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
===Topics for applications, methodologies or theoretical geospatial work are not limited to a FOSS perspective:===
*Sustainable development and the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
*Disaster management
*Health
*Energy
*Water
*Climate change
*Weather
*Ecosystem management
*Agriculture
*Biodiversity
*Land reform
*Education
*Government
*Local economic development, poverty alleviation
*Participatory GIS
*Semantic Web and ontologies in GIS
*Location based services, logistics, routing
*2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
*NGOs, CBOs (Community-based organisations) and community development workers
*Mining, exploration, beneficiation
*Spatial economics
*Military
*Land information and administration (cadastre, address data, etc.)
===Academic Track===
This year we are thrilled to announce the first academic track for peer-reviewed papers. The date for submission of abstracts to the academic track is 12 May 2008. Abstracts have to be 500-600 words in length and will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the academic track of FOSS4G 2008. If your abstract is accepted for the academic track, you have to submit a full paper by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the proceedings. The Programme Committee will compile a short list of high quality papers addressing substantial research questions. Authors of these papers will be invited to submit a revised paper in response to reviewer comments and suggestions for inclusion in the South African Computer Journal.
===Presentation Track===
The date of submission for abstracts of 500-600 words to the presentation track is the 12 May 2008. The abstracts submitted to this track will be chosen by an open community process. If your abstract is accepted for the presentation track then you will be required to submit your presentation by 18 August 2008 for inclusion in the CD proceedings.
===Important Dates===
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!Presentations
!Peer reviewed papers for the academic track
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|Submission of abstracts
|12 May 2008
|12 May 2008
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|Notification of acceptance
|17 June 2008
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|Submission of presentations / papers
|18 August 2008
|18 August 2008
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|FOSS4G2008 Conference
|29 September – 3 October 2008
|-
|}

===General Information===
All FOSS4G 2008 papers/presentations take the form of 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Anyone can submit a presentation or paper and take part in the conference as a presenter.
Author guidelines for the formatting of the paper or presentation will be made available online on the conference website.
Please note that your paper or presentation will only be included in the proceedings once your registration to the conference has been received in full.
We are making use of an online submission facility. Please visit the website to submit your paper. Submit early, submit often!
For more information, see the FOSS4G 2008 site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
===Guidelines for Authors===
====Normal Presentations====
====Academic Papers====
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