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FOSS4G NA 2013

2012-05-15T18:20:13Z

Wiki-Davidfawcett:

Following on the success of [http://foss4g-na.org FOSS4G North America 2012], FOSS4G NA 2013 will be held Spring of 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

== Conference Committee ==
Please Join the [https://groups.google.com/group/foss4gna_2013_loc Local Organizing Committee Mailing List]
* David Bitner, Metropolitan Airports Commission
* Kari Geurts, Department of Natural Resources
* Blaine Hackett, Flat Rock Geographics
* Len Kne, University of Minnesota
* Brian Fischer, Houston Engineering
* Brian Huberty, USFWS
* Scott Wolfert, Houston Engineering

== Program Committee ==
Please Join the [https://groups.google.com/group/foss4gna_2013_program Program Committee Mailing List]
* David Bitner, Metropolitan Airports Commission
* Paul Wickman, Flat Rock Geographics
* Michael Terner, Applied Geographics
* Cameron Goodale, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* David Fawcett, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

== Useful Links ==

* [http://foss4g-na.org FOSS4G North America 2012 Site]
* [http://www.minneapolis.org/ Meet Minneapolis Official Convention and Visitors Association]
* [http://www.mplsmeetingplannersguide.com/ Mpls Convention Planners Guide]

== Planning Meetings ==
* Kickoff Meeting ([[kickoff_20120424|Agenda/Notes]]) April 24th, Noon Cap's Grille on 50th/Hiawatha Minneapolis

== Potential Plans ==
=== Possible Conference Venues ===
* [http://www.mac-events.org/rooms/index.html UMN Alumni Center]
* [http://www.mintahoe.com/venues/nicollet-island-pavilion/ Nicollet Island Pavillion]
* [http://www.ramadamoa.com/bloomington-meeting-and-event-space.htm Ramada MOA]
* [http://www.thedepotminneapolis.com/space-at-the-depot.php The Depot]
* [http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/min/ballpark/events/index.jsp?content=corporate_events Twins Stadium]

=== Possible Social Venues/Ideas ===
* [http://cocomsp.com CoCo Minneapolis]

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FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-09T02:25:26Z

Wiki-Davidfawcett: Added SpatiaLite

= Introduction =
During the [http://2011.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2011 conference] in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

== Organising Contact ==

== Timeslots Available ==

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

== Rooms Available ==

= Proposed Topics =

== GeoMoose ==

*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint
**Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]

== Tiling ==

*Proposed Topics
**standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
**TMS/WMTS evolutions:
***Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
***TMS multiple grids per tileset
***WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Tbonfort]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)]]
**[[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**[[User:Springmeyer|Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)]]

== GeoNode ==

*Proposed topics:
**Brief overview
**Get involved with the community!
**Meet developers and institutional partners
***Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
***Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
**[http://geonode.org/2011/08/geonode-at-foss4g/ Join us for drinks afterwards!]
*Attending:
**Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
**David Winslow (OpenGeo)
**Robert Soden (World Bank)
**Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
**Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
**Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
**Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
**Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
**[[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)]]
**Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Python ==

*Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
*Proposed topics:
**High fives
**Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
**Python 3
**PyPy
**Packaging and distributions
*Attending:
**Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
**Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
**[[User:Dandye|Dan Dye (WeoGeo)]]
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]
**[[User:Hobu|Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale)]] MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
**Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**Thomas Emge (Esri)

== Opengeoportal ==

http://opengeoportal.org/

*Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
*Attending:
**Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
**Patrick Florance (Tufts)
**Chris Barnett (Tufts)
**David Siegel (Harvard)
**Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
**Garey Mills (Berkeley)
**John Ridener (Berkeley)
**Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
**Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

== Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI) ==

*Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
*Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
*Attending:
**Christine White (Esri)
**Andy Gup (Esri)

== Mobile GIS ==

*Proposed Topics
**General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
**"OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)]]
**[[User:Hal sk|Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)]]
**Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)

== Education / Academic ==
* Separate sign up page: [[FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up]]

== Spatial Databases ==

*Proposed Topics
**Do we need some more
**Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
**Do the processing within the database or outside?
**Add yours...
*Attending:
**Volker Mische (Couchbase)

== SpatiaLite ==

*Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session?
*Proposed topics:
**Meet and Greet

*Attending:
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]

== Add yours below ==

*Add yours below...

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FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-08-23T19:33:38Z

Wiki-Davidfawcett: